We can accept now that Andromda was a failure. But do you consider it canon?

I think it is canon to the franchise. Having issues with its writing doesn't make it less canon.

However I can see a few different approaches, if the series continues:

1)Continue on with Andromeda full steam, though hopefully with a better vision and implementation. It'd be nice to release in 2020-2021 then, so its still fresh enough in memories.

2)Continue on with Andromeda (named such or not), but minimize the importance of MEA (make it like a particularly epic pre-service history) as it takes a different direction. This is most likely imo, but only among many possibilities.

3)'Retreat' to the Milky Way and treat MEA as an optional path that may or may not be recognized or followed up on in the future, but not denied.



Of course I can see more approaches instead, like a MP or MMO shooter, or whatever, but these just make me shudder, as I'd want the SP on a strong footing before going anywhere else.


I don't see Bioware, in a next ME game, to be completely ignoring anything of any part of MEA (effective non-canon). It happened, it mattered, it is more a matter of how much MEA is recognized and continued from.

I do not accept that Andromeda was a 'failure', and it's canon whether you like it or not.

Nothing about Andromeda was a retcon or a reboot; yes the plot jumped through some hoops to justify it's setting, but nothing about how we get to Andromeda breaks the lore of the original trilogy or impacts the experience of playing through it again.

If knowing Andromeda is canon spoils your enjoyment of games you claim to love so much that are 5-10 years old, I don't know what to tell you.

I agree and I consider it canon yes

I'd like to think that the only canon for me was that Shepard was not fighting against reapers alone and plans for the future of the Milky Way races were made.

I can not make any canon of a story what have not been completed. It always ends with the questions on my part. What happened to Jien Garson? Who are the Jaardans?

Really, the game was so unlogical too me that it feels like a Shepard's bad dream.

Forgot canon.
Maybe this whole cluster with AI will be utterly destroyed by Jaardan, Scourge, Kett or someone else and and that end it will not really matter it is canon or not. Some books are still one the way, maybe there is a plan. Maybe it will be even better for ME series if AI will fail at some point.

I am sure that people responsible spend xx hours discussing what will be better for ME future. It seems Andromeda is not the way. In my opinion it is even better, as not many people would like to continue that story in, let's guess, 5-6 years from now.
Some new opening/restart will suit ME much better.
But dissapointed with lack of MEA DLC, as Ryder's story deserves some closure.

We can all agree on lots of things as long as we ignore all the people that don't.

I never cared enough about the idea of extending the trilogy to be invested in the idea. So it wasn't a failure from my perspective, but I didn't expect much from it in the first place.

It wasn't a financial failure, albeit it wasn't as successful as they would have liked.

I suppose there was a failure in storytelling, but it's awfully selective to start holding video game writing to standards we typically don't expect from the industry in any other genre.

My personal canon includes ME1 and ME2(no arrival dlc).

Of course the game is canon. I accept it as that next game int he Mass Effect line that, unfortunately, wasn't able to get more support in the form of DLC.

And you have yet to state how anything you do in the OT would change or be different if you consider Andromeda to be canon. So it doesn't matter if it's canon or not.

The arks have left by the time you make those decisions.