If Mass Effect gets another game, what would you want?

A return to the original trilogy. Or a reboot. If Andromeda or Ryder and company are returning i'm out.

Yeah, I'd say bring back Ryder and the Tempest crew but in a shorter game, more akin to the style of the Shepard trilogy. Open worlds in Mass Effect are better in small doses - if we had the world design of ME:A combined with the volume of content of ME1's planetary exploration, that would be ideal. I don't mind having a more loosely structured plot as ME:A did. If anything, it cuts down on the dissonance between the OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! tone of many video games and the fact that you can usually take your time in completing a mission without any consequences. But *too* loose a structure and you lose the sense of narrative momentum, and the planetary side missions got repetitive after a while. In fact, you probably could have made a good 40-50 hour game out of Andromeda by keeping the main quest and all the other scripted side missions, while reducing the amount of time spent driving around and fighting cookie-cutter battles with Kett, Outlaws, and Remnants.

I'm pretty sure squadmates all live. The ME3 devs got too badly burned by ME2 to want to go there again.

That only matters if they plan to bring back any characters.

Frankly I think there's too much of that.  With untold billions of people in the galaxy, why do we have to keep meeting the same twenty or thirty people?

That's where "planning" and "outlines" come in real handy...

Probably the 4th option.

Can't believe I'm saying this but I'm not sure if I even want another Mass Effect game in the nearby future. Anyway, if I have to choose, I would like to see a game set in the Miljy Way, not Andromeda. MEA had completely failed to captivate my interest and I therefore couldn't really care less how it ends. This is, of course purely personal. I understand that other people want answers and thus a sequel to MEA, but my interest in such a game is simply too low to buy it.

Andromeda 2 done like Mass Effect 2. Return to Ryder and his/her crew, but make it more about character development. Also, don't fuck around trying to No Man's Sky it. Build a solid foundation and don't flounder about with unrealistic ideas.

Honestly, all I want at this point is more Mass Effect regardless.

Let's see if BioWare can survive Anthem...

Umm, in ME2, Shepard was killed off and resurrected in the opening minutes to become a relentless undead cyborg working for a terrorist organization.  And Shep had to make do with an almost entirely new crew because the old crew either had better things to do or thought Shep was a traitor.

Just saying.  

Everybody in the AI is already working for Cerberus so we're half way there already.

An ME:A 2? Hell yeah, I'm all in. I'll play the crap out of it, just like I did with ME:A.

In light of Heer's rambling, seems that ME: Contact would be most likely option. Andromeda has way too much stiffburn associated with it.

Would be interesting, if it took place over longer period of time, show humanity go through shock of discovering Mars Prothean archives, develop technology, find relays, etc. Sort of Star Trek with Archer.

Anderson seems the most likely protagonist for it.