IF we get another Mass Effect game....

Keep in mind though that the rankings for ME:A are much better in the 2017 Xbox list and significantly better in the 2017 PC list.

They're not significantly better for PC - the rankings are identical as I previously told you. They're better for Xbox, but Xbox has the least amount of reviews and the least amount of games released so statistically it's the most likely to have a higher ranking. It'd most likely deviate to the norm all things being equal between itself and PS4/PC.

There's less PC games - statistically based on where it ranks vs how many games were released for PC, it's ranking is identical to what it is on PS4.

You don't know anything about other people's standards.

Make it like 30 or 40 years later. This way we can get the original cast back to tie up some of their loose story ends. But also enough time to evolve the world and give them a real foothold in the new galaxy.

Also I think we should play the Pathfinder again. But this time let us choose which one. So you could be the Turian, Asari, Human, Salarian, and maybe Quarian? It would be easy to just say that since human ark SAM was such a success that the others were upgraded to allow for profiles again.

I would say 5-10 years would be better, it allows enough time for the AI and the angara to get their shit together then have the antagonists tear it apart. Plus I would love to see a duel protagonist game (the only story based game that I've know that did is Legacy of Kain: Defiance) where you have to play as BOTH Ryder twins. They should make the Ryder twin that you didn't play the Governor of Meridian (or something to that effect) and have him/her gather a crew of new characters (and maybe some from the Tempest) and they chase down the benefactor/Garson's murder, deal with a major political scandal that can shatter the alliance with the angara that could lead to a civil war between some of the colonies and the Nexus and they have to deal with the "dark side" of Alex Ryder's legacy.

While Pathfinder Ryder (the one you play in ME:A) is looking for more worlds to colonize, info on the Jardaan and the kett, the quarian ark and a cure for Ellen Ryder, dealing with the romantic relationship problems, various problems the crew of the Tempest are having, plus having to deal with whatever the new threat is.

Both storylines MUST come together and the Ryder twins and their respective teams have to fight each other and you the player can decide which team dies. With the final decision being that you can stop a civil war before it begins or start a civil war that threatens to tear the AI in half.

They need to kick the ball down the road a century at least to where they're really established. Intergalactic travel, established cities not fledgling colonies, government, etc.

The population is what about 150K total for all the races, limited ships, limited everything. They just need to fast forward, you can walk into a museum to learn about the great deeds and contributions Pathfinders made towards establishing Andromeda.

they should wait for maybe a thousand years, then have the races in Andromeda getting utterly wiped out by the reapers.

I really hope we get to play as Ryder again, so ~10 year gap is good enough for me.

So I know she was kind of polarizing but I hope it is like a 30 40 year gap just to see the relationship with PeeBee if you romanced her. We hear allot about how long lived Asari are. But it would be neat to see an older Ryder still with a young and virtually unchanged PeeBee.

Actually, it's a just an opinion. Calling people apologists is hanging a derogatory label on them because they happen to like something that you dislike.  The very notion that something needs to be defended suggests that there is something wrong with it.

Example: Some people really dislike the taste (and smell) of liver, while others enjoy it. People who like liver are not liver apologists; they simply like something that others do not.


By setting yourself up as an individual with "higher" standards, you are proclaiming that those whose tastes do not align with yours necessarily have lower standards than yours. This declares you as having superior tastes, thus anyone who does not share them must have inferior tastes.

You really don't get it, do you?

I can get behind that.

6-12 months is plenty of time for the dust to settle, the Nexus to be fully built, the other colonists to come out of cryo, the vaults to completely shift the climate of the outpost worlds, etc.  With an influx of people from cryo pods, the Eos outpost could grow to annex the initial failed outposts.  I'd like to see some permanent structures built, too, along with the modular buildings.

If it's set too far into the future, it will feel like Ryder dropped the ball with some of the threads left from MEA.  They'd need to invent a good reason why she hasn't pursued those things until now.

As for race selection - I could see playing each of the other Pathfinders (or some other specific character) for a specific mission, but would not ever want ME to support multiple races as the primary PC.  Doing so would pretty much guarantee watered down characters, minimalist CC and armor choices, a much shorter game with fewer animations and fewer cutscenes where you see much emotional reaction on the PC's face.  It simply would not be worth the cost.