ME3 sequel

Cupcakes are usually meant to celebrate something. In ME3's case, they weren't used in this manner. They were used to bribe Bioware to give you a new ending, because you believe the endings were all the same aside from a color difference. The cupcakes look and taste the same, aside from the letter on them and the different food coloring used.

That is over the line if you ask me.

They aren't that stupid and they never once said a sequel was out of the question.

Why go back to the Milky Way? I thought this chapter was done It's not like I wouldn't want to (and believe me, Shep is my favorite) but I think they should simply continue the story in Andromeda. I don't want them to turn it into another Resident Evil with the writing (Essentially a story that goes nowhere ).

Just put more effort next time into the writing and release the game as bug-free as possible. Problem solved!

Edgy post, but also hard to argue with.

The theory that I have towards the whole ME3 sequel rather than an ME:A sequel is due to the fact that, whether people liked the endings or not, the endings were quite controversial, often regarded by a lot of people as one of the worst endings in video game history. Andromeda was made to sidestep this by taking place in another galaxy, but it was considered a disappointment by a fair amount of people. I mean I liked ME:A, but they played it waaaaay to safe. I also can't shake this feeling that Bioware Edmonton sort of treated ME:A like an afterthought, Bioware Montreal's last major outing into the singleplayer department received mixed reception, but they gave them control of ME:A. I hate to sound like I'm saying double standards, it's just a sneaking suspicion that I had.

Pretty much. Yeah. I want to go forward not backwards.

they should have cribbed more off of Saberhagen 

But at any rate, his is why I think it was a mistake to reveal the Reapers' motives at all.  Let us be puzzled by whatever alien rationalization they have.  be they operating on a level or morality we don't understand, or they're just broken machines, or they're just bat-sh*t crazy.  they are aliens, after all.  Revealing their motive removes their mystique.

I was just at the Edmonton Expo booth asking them that very question. I was told that in the opinion of a dev (this is NOT official by any means) that at this point because of the Montreal studio being dismantled to not expect another Mass Effect, let alone an Andromeda sequel. 

The focus right now is Anthem and depending on how well it does, THEN Bioware will take another look at Mass Effect. But the original idea was ot have the Montreal studio helm Mass Effect with it's DLCs and sequels. That's not happening. 

So we have to hope Edmonton wants to make more, and Casey Hudson has that one tweet stating he DOES want to go there again. But it's not going to be any day soon, IF it happens. 

My main thing with going back to the Milky Way again, is that you'll be back with Shepard, his crew, the Reapers (or the aftermath), etc in some way. Would be my guess. I wouldn't say I'm sick of it, but those things were already wrapped up. It would be doing the same thing again that I did for 3 games with the same people (more or less, maybe some new ones, but if it was a direct sequel, then yes, it would be the same). Not sure why they would go back there though.

Unless the game isn't related to the trilogy, but set in the Milky Way. However, it seems I've read prequels aren't very popular. People wanted a sequel to ME3.



They could have always waited until after making Anthem to make Andromeda. Oh well.


I don't see how it is one of the worst endings in video game history, but to each their own.

Andromeda wasn't made to sidestep a sequel to ME3. It was to preserve the Milky Way, in case Shepard failed to destroy them at the end of ME3. A plan B of sorts. 

I don't really see the point of a ME3 sequel. It would essentially be dealing with the aftermath of the Reaper war. A whole game dedicated to closure, and doesn't really fit into a plot diagram very well. Closure is supposed to come at the end of something, not devoting an entire game sequel to it. The Extended Cut was effectively that closure.

I've already discussed this type of thing in the ME3 section, about a ME4 sequel. I don't think the problem is the Milky Way or anything like that.
In fact, I would love to see the state of the Milky Way after the war with the reapers.

There's one thing a lot of fans still don't realize even to this day: ME has a cannon story.
Sure, we love to talk about our decisions and our relationships with other NPCs throughout the games and we should in fact, because this is a strength of the ME frenchise, not a weakness.
But since Bioware never addressed this and always hammered the "it's the player's story" motto, when we talk about default decisions some people become offended or think is a sacrilege.

Like for example the fact that liking it or not, Wrex is dead in the ME universe. As well the rachini queen also.
Both of them killed by Shepard, our great hero/heroine btw.
And I recommend playing those games without a save game import because there's a lot of dialog and situation changes and some of them are very good, sometimes even better than when importing a save game.

I have a very clear picture of the default decisions in ME4. Shepard is dead and regarded by some as a true hero/heroine, while for others a bastard/bitch; the Crucible was used to destroy the reapers; Shepard probably sabotaged the Genophage, so the krogans hate us humans now too along with the turians and salarians; the quarians commited genocide killed the geth; the asari fate are unknown, but you have endless possibilities with them.
The rest are the writer's decision.

The question: is there a problem with this? The default decisions? Or the fact the game has a cannon story with cannon decisions?
We can do better than what was presented in MEA.
MEA is not a bad game per se. It's engaging, has a somewhat weak story and a lot of railroading, has good, decent and awful characters like every story in the world and some very cool moments.
But as a ME's universe game, it's weak.

As for the problems with prequels, it's not they are bad, it's they've always end being a reboot or a bastardization of the original material. Do you hear me Alien Convenant?
Take STTNG for example. You can see similarities with the original series and you can relate some characters to their original counterparts, but for the most part they are original and have their own story and strenght.
Or Voyager, which happens to work more or less like MEA happens, following the same timeline, with the same related material but in a different direction.
Voyager took a different approach to the frenchise, but regardless personal opinion about it, it doesn't play safe with the ST universe and at the same time don't subvert or alter the timeline it belongs.
And Voyager is TON ahead of his time.




Of course not, Cora is nothing like Kaidan. Like for example playing the "good pal" all the time.
Hey, her mentor only passed her promotion to Pathfinder to his son or daughter, but it's ok, let's all be friends, "we're the world", "let's give peace a chance".
It's totally believable.

I would liked more if Cora behave like a human being and questioned Ryder's decisions actually.

The master writers here keep forgetting obvious plot points like Ryder was going do die within minutes, which is the reason Alec sacrificed himself. But hey the game triggered so let's make up more "alternative facts." Beyond that I do agree there should have been more real conflict over direction between Ryder and Cora. This was another missed opportunity to force Ryder to grow out of the "preciously awkward social gimp" that some fans think is realistic.

That doesn't really make any sense. There's as much to do as the writers/devs feel fit to include. So let's say that there was another game set in the Milky Way. They could either write the entire setting to be restored to its former glory, or they could confine the entire story to an isolated corner of the galaxy, cut off because the mass relay network is kaput, seemingly for good.