ME3 sequel

You know, I could totally be down with something like that. I love DA2, and would love to get another game where we’re primarily in a city and our companions are largely autonomous when they’re not participating on a mission. It gets all that funky chain of command stuff out of the way. Instead of a ship, we get a flying sportscar! 

I do agree the AI isn't a mere job, btw, and I think the paycheck argument doesn't fly.

But then, I personally am of the opinion that the whole going to Andromeda business created more problems for this franchise than it solved...

I don't really see the issue with the mindset of the people joining the Andromeda Initiative. We see the same thing here on Earth, like for example all the people who would want to join in a trip to colonize Mars or another star system despite there being no reason to do that yet.

Mars is practically next door to us.  And we have technology NOW that could get people there in, at most, a couple of years.  The trick would be keeping life support going for the trip.


In addition we have been able to examine Mars pretty closely with telescopes, probes, and rovers.  And such a voyage could be tracked from Earth.  Communication would even be possible, albeit with significant lag. 

Prior to MEA, we had never heard of engines which could run for more than a couple of days without exploding, let alone over 600 years with zero maintenance.  And the distances involved means leaving absolutely EVERYTHING behind.  This is less about travel to Mars and more akin to Elon Musk suddenly cracking ftl technology (never mind how, details are pesky) and asking for volunteers to travel to Kepler-22b , bypassing our entire solar system (because BORING!) and every star between here and there.

There are star systems, and then there are star systems.  Keep in mind in Mass Effect, humanity is still a newcomer to the Milky Way.  There are still a hundred billion stars to explore.  There were still people (like Alec) who still remembered when humans were still restricted to the Sol System, and the relay network was unknown to them.

The QECs would have been connected to people born 600 years after they left.  Only the asari could genuinely hope their loved ones were still around.

And as far as we know, no one aside from Alec and Jien in the AI had even heard of the Reapers, let alone had any of their tech to play with.  Listening to Kallo, it sounded like these drives were invented years before Shepard set foot on Eden Prime.

Why doesn't it? I was referring to the people who built the ships; didn't mean to suggest that anyone's travelling on them for the pay. And again, whether the AI pays off for backers isn't a problem for anyone but the backers.

Am I right that this topic only appears in the marketing videos in the first place?

My bad then...

I liked how it explained the Reaper threat...even listening to those messages, there was a cause for concern for the folks in the Milky Way. The situation seemed incredibly grim, but why would there be interest in going back or at least investigating the situation? I understand the writers want an "out" for the ending of ME3 and i guess with how MEA was set up, there is no way to actually go back...unless it's through another cryo sleep process.

Like someone else mentioned, they cannot fast-forward this story another 100 years and because of how it seems EA is not supporting anything Andromeda related, MEA has crash landed before it even took off and it kinda wrote itself into another wall, because there really is no true way to re-discover or find out what truly happened in the Milky Way because they stretched out the timeline too far....600 years......and there is no technology that can have you travel across galaxies within a reasonable amount of time.


It will be hard to see what direction the next game goes in because "space magic" can only get you so far but you don't want to start jumping the shark and doing stuff like "time travel" and things of that nature. The only logical route to take is make a sequel, but it has to have the interesting components and writing capabilities that was seen in the trilogy...Andromeda looked incredible, but was lacking in many key areas.

:srs:

The Normandy never landed on a volcano, you filthy fibber. 

The Normandy never lands in the entirety of the Shepard Trilogy. They hovered close to the surface, but never actually touched down. Even when if they could have they would have like the STG base on Virmire. 

Well, if the writers actually wanted MW information from a new QEC to arrive in Andromeda, a ship can arrive carrying one from the MW at just about any time. Even a slight improvement in drive technology gets the ship to Andromeda soon after the Arks arrive even though it left decades later. (Improve the drive too much and the later ship arrives before the Arks; that can work too, if it hit the Scourge and was disabled.) Similarly, a new game could be set in the MW without any regard for Andromeda.

ME:A didn't create any problems for using the MW setting. It already had problems, which is why ME:A exists.

Why are you using two different Normandies as a single ship for the purpose of the comparison?

SR-2 can't land. Anywhere. Anyhow.