I think a 5+ year Break for MEA2 is a good thing

I think this game just needs people that can actually deliver a good Mass Effect game.

I've thought a good bit about whether or not I'm happy about Mass Effect being supposedly put on ice. It's obviously not official but it's easy to believe.

I honestly think it is a good thing and I hope whatever team picks it up continues the MEA story. Considering Mass Effect especially MEA is at its core about space exploration with an engaging story/plot, I think it would benefit the series to wait until the technology is better to provide a true space game that takes the training wheels off. By training wheels I mean the limitations of exploration and semi on rails experience.

I want the next game to fully allow me to control my space ship and fly between planets. I want to be able seemlessly travel between vast open alien wilderness to sprawling metropolises similar to how we can seemlessly do that in games like the Witcher 3 or Skyrim.

I also want the technology to evolve enough to allow for more quantity with the same pedigree of quality that people came to expect after ME2. So basically, I am ok with waiting until the generation of hardware is released before we get another Mass Effect.

And I think we'll get there in 5 or 6 years easily. I could be wrong but I think putting the series on ice is a goood thing

Yeah I don't like being left hanging.  I want to know what the deal is with the Quarian ark, I want to know what will become of Ellen Ryder, and in the long run I want to know how things will turn out in Helius.   Will our ourposts that we establish turn into bustling propserous cities or will they flounder and struggle?   Will the Angara and the MW species get along or will their be tension?  Will there be exploration outside of Helius or will everyone stay close in and work on building up Helius?  Just so much more I want to know.  Don't know if we will ever know now.

Yeah I don't like being left hanging.  I want to know what the deal is with the Quarian ark, I want to know what will become of Ellen Ryder, and in the long run I want to know how things will turn out in Helius.   Will our ourposts that we establish turn into bustling propserous cities or will they flounder and struggle?   Will the Angara and the MW species get along or will their be tension?  Will there be exploration outside of Helius or will everyone stay close in and work on building up Helius?  Just so much more I want to know.  Don't know if we will ever know now.

Noooo! Shepard disapproves -100.

Um, honestly, in my very humble opinion, I think they need to grab this horse by the mane, clamor back on and Ride! for all they're worth. heheh. But yeah. While it's fresh.

Annd, well, I'm just gonna say it -- I think we need to go Home. Back to the Milky Way. I feel like that's where the story really is. Post Reaper invasion MW. I mean, I was down with trying out Andromeda, and I thought it was fun bit of romping, but I strongly feel like the Story that is screaming out comes from the MW.

There were some interesting threads left dangling from MEA, but I feel like the post Reaper invasion MW would provide a more intense and interesting setting. I mean, it's a hot mess there right now..post ME3 ending and pre EC..it's anarchy. The societal infrastructure has been demolished. Vacuum of power. Which species fall? Which species rise? Which gangs, or criminal bosses, are making their moves. Going to Palaven. Going to Thessia, properly. Seeing places like these struggling in this post Reaper invasion setting. What we experienced of the MW was pretty glam, pretty clean...overall. Let's see it dirty, because I know it is now. It's a;ways like that when civilization breaks down. You don;t come out of something like that unscathed.

It will never be the same, and that difference is interesting. A brand new PC working to navigate this new MW. this decidely very different, very dangerous MW.

I know, I know Ending choices and all that, but they could bottleneck some stuff like Asimov said put together some "plausible gobbledygook", and get on with it already. That's what creative writers do, no? They find the angle and they make it work. Get us back into the setting, but the rest would stand on its own.

Again, imho, that's where the story was, and still is. We need to go home. And it needs to be done in 3-3.5 years. Let people know within a year, and promote it in a reasonable way. Not hype-y marketing, but not gross negligent marketing, either. It just seems so obvious to me. It's a perfect setting for a game. All the conflict and whatnot baked right in already.

so, yeah.

edit: and for that matter, let's see earth, too, in this ME futuristic way..after the invasion no less.  going to these places and dealing with this reality would be an awesome pseudo open world.