Do you still believe we'll get a Sequel to Andromeda? Or a Reboot like Tomb Raider/Mirror's Edge?

I think we'll get a glorious sequel

Sequel to Andromeda. 2020-2022 after Anthem (2018) and Dragon Age '4' (2019-2020), unless something else comes up after DA4. 2-4 full years of nothing explicit in Mass Effect game content besides possible side games (console or mobile design). A longer gap then might have happened otherwise - at least a few years instead of a couple.

But sequel now could be anything from 'MEA2' to ME...Something Else that carries on from MEA stories, even in a rather indirect way.

I think there may be a time of discussions of how much of a sequel they'd want it to be. Hawke didn't get to be standard-bearer for DA for a reason, and it isn't "We always wanted different protagonist anyway", IMO.

I don't think Bioware would 'retreat' back to a total focus on the Milky Way galaxy and 'old' storylines. But I also think they might very much reconsider any previously intended focus on Andromeda and 'new' storylines.

I wouldn't put it past them to try to link the two galaxies (now that MEA 'fresh (NOT NECESSARILY TOTALLY NEW) start' has happened) in more of a way than they might otherwise, in an attempt to appeal much harder to fans that have been loud and clear for months.

Considering how MEA was designed and written, I think it was purposeful that 'anything could happen'. This is the case in previous games too - ME1 left open anything about dealing with the Reapers, ME2 left open anything about stopping the Reapers, ME3 left open the situation of the world after Reapers, for example - but MEA I think intentionally leaves almost everything about almost everything open, to mine the audiences' responses to, well, everything. And with the response to MEA, I think Bioware may figure that it might be, say, better to work on polishing what they have (Helius and surrounding space) and assuaging trilogy fans that they haven't forgotten what was before, than taking some, I dunno, ST:Voyager-eqsue approach of plopping our ship on the other end of the galaxy alone, or whatever.

MEA tried to bring hope to people and so far I'd say it failed on that on the wider scale, but it still presented a hope and as the script even suggests, a foundation for a better future. I just think it was a shaky enough project that Bioware may decide to improve that foundation and revisit the older blueprint in the desire to make less mistakes, instead of piling so much more on top.

But I do think that whatever we get may be considered to be even somewhat of a sequel. Technically I consider DAI more of a sequel to DA2 (compared to DA'2' to DAO), or DA2 to be more of a prologue to DAI, even if both games are still rather separate in most ways. I think the same might happen with MEA.


Personally? I might even love to hear if a next game has us take on Pathfinder again (perhaps with a newer title/name over the course of the game), in a bigger Pathfinder organization after years have passed, and we're allowed to be Ryder as Human but also up to a few other species selections too, with their own backgrounds given some support. This could be narratively possible because the Ryder Family drama may still be largely wrapped up (at least in focus) in a big DLC, letting it just become more of the texture of the setting in the next game story. And I think that approach might be great to apply to a next game overall: "We left the trilogy but recognize you haven't left it, we need to follow up on MEA but recognize that it wasn't received very well, and we want to show you that we can still be ambitious in design and storytelling, responding to our audience, while providing a working product."

But that last paragraph is largely me fantasizing. It just reflects the notion of the series still having to go to new places as that's the damn (proactive, at least) point of going to the Andromeda galaxy, and having to follow up on a MEA that is the platform for all of these new things, while having the developers sit down and reflect on how MEA didn't ignite everyone's love for Mass Effect like it was hoped. Its not that I think they should turtle up and stay stuck in the past, but I can see it as very possible that they do significant learning (especially any newer designers) on what people expect from the series and even what storylines they still love and might enjoy much more of, albeit in a new light of Andromeda.

I don't think, so far, that we're (only, at least) going back to the Milky Way or going to some other new galaxy or larger region of space.

Handwaving and canonization typically have different constituencies, which is part of the problem. Have you a preference?

There's also the massive retcon option. Even less respectful of our choices than the other two, but it has a constituency among p,ayers who hated those choices.

And I get that ME:LMC is a joke, but it does raise the question of what problem we think we're trying to solve.

I keep hearing this idea, and, again, I've never understood what problem this is supposed to solve. It's a better version of the trilogy, yeah, but who do we need to sell a better version of the trilogy to? Gamers who aren't already committed to Mass Effect won't have any particular love for the trilogy, will they?

Who, exactly, is the constituency for a reboot? Who are these people, and why would they want a reboot?

Like I said in earlier post, there can be a separate game with some of a 'Ryder' story happening, without us necessarily needing to be a Ryder, because, well, there can just be a different focus in another game. We could be a 'Pathfinder' of whatever sort.

Not expecting it, mind you, but I don't think 'Ryder' or Ryder alone is absolutely necessary in a next game. Especially if we indeed do get MEA DLC that can be considered to largely wrap up the focus on Ryders (as a family arc) that started on Habitat 7. Sure we could even play Ryder after that, but Bioware can transform context as they prefer. Less Ryder family, more whatever else.

Yeah my concerns isn't story happening in BiowarEA, its whether the story is good enough and whether I can actively influence it, and hopefully substantially customize it.

No Anthem, running around a map with a few other IRL friends isn't the 'story'.

I don't think the series needs a reboot since the original trilogy can still stand on it's own and it's visuals are still solid to this day. I think a sequel to Andromeda is what will be required to jumpstart the series from a strong foundation again.

I still think Bioware missed the opportunity by going sooo far into the future as if to forget about the Reaper threat, when everybody is going to want some type of absolution to that story arc and Bioware should have picked a canon ending and ran with it...maybe "Destroy" (the most logical one) and started the story from there.

I think in the sequel they will have to at least answer that question or if we somehow go back to the MW they can answer that question. Ultimately they need to get the team that is working on Anthem to do the sequel and hire some writers that are up to the task of implementing, executing and creating interesting characters and storylines.

I think folks will be ready for the next Mass Effect game once the Anthem hype dies down a bit after it's release....I think Anthem will be a fun experience, but it will be a bit bare bones when it comes to story regardless of how dev's say there will be a story there for the single player experience.....and i don't feel that will ever be able to replace what the Mass Effect franchise has created and sustained over the years in terms of depth in story and character development.

Direct sequel to ME:A in 4/5 years...after 3 solid SP DLCs.

It doesn't make sense to do anything other than that...they need to finish the story thry started.

If this was some isometric thing made way back when or a PS1 or 2 game, then sure. It'd be so crude and game-y by modern standards that the door would be wide open for a reboot. But that's just not the case with Mass Effect. In the end, the main motivation for a reboot at all is the opportunity to redo the ending, but that's a lot of time and expense just to fix a trilogy's conclusion. Any reboot they'd attempt would be doomed. 

sequel to andromeda, no more reboots

Well whether or not this continues is all up in the air, but I'd say that it's doubtful that the time gap would do any serious harm to the interest in any future title(s) that may continue in this setting, especially if the critical consensus is largely positive. 

It could go either way, but the time jump would probably not be a meaningful factor. They could go forward a decade and still use Ryder if they wanted. 
I dunno. Given progress made within just a year and a half with things going to shit, 5 years after having control over Meridian would probably see very rapid progress, vaults be damned. The tens of thousands of people in cryo would no doubt be awake, and the Nexus would probably be completed and have a much larger integrated angaran population. 

No to Andromeda sequel - Yes to Reboot in about 8 years.