Why i think Shepard's story isn't finished.

If you watch the trilogy trailer it pretty much points out what the whole Shepard story is supposed to be about.

But seeing the galaxy being rebuilt can be part of a new game, not the whole game.

What you see in the cut is the galaxy already rebuilt. I like to see the galaxy in the rebuilding stages and all the heartaches they face while doing that.

Would be kind of hard to do in story format. Since it's a big long epilogue, and resolutions come at the end of a game.

I understand that the Extended Cut was short, and brief into what actually happened, but if you read any books or watch any movies, the epilogue doesn't take up a large chunk of the story. It's a short section included at the end of the story. The Extended Cut kind of works like that.

Though my Shepard survived, I assume everyone that was there prior to Shepard's arrival died.  Hopefully, that included the Council, particularly that douchebag Sparatus.  He was such a dick, ignoring anything Shepard had to say because of his hatred of humans.

I have a hard time believing the bunkers would make any difference.  The Reapers - and the keepers - know that place better than anyone who has ever lived there.  I'm curious, though.  What LI is on the Citadel?  I'm looking and everyone is either a squadmate, fighting elsewhere on Earth or on the Normandy.

Kelly Chambers.

It's a resolution to a conflict (the Reaper war), which usually comes at the end, which it did.

It would be even longer than the epilogue which happened in Lord of the Rings, Return of the King. The average Mass Effect game is what, 20-30 hours long? Full playthrough roughly. Is that essentially what you're asking for?

I get it though, they didn't tie off every single loose end and go into immense detail into what will happen afterwards.

They did state in the PAX San Diego conference video that it took around 500 years or so to do it.

They didn't show it already rebuilt, they showed it being rebuilt in phases with the slideshow from a few weeks after the Reapers are dealt with to centuries afterwards.

👆What this guy said, no thank you. No way in hell I'm gonna put up with a Preston v2.0!

I think there's a lot of things that could be interesting in a game set in the Milky Way after the Reaper War. Regardless of your choice to cure or sabotage the genophage you'll likely see factions of krogan intent on conquering the galaxy, while other species are barely recovering. Due to the destruction of Thessia there'll be a gap in power that the asari used to occupy; it would be interesting to see which species try to occupy that.

The biggest issues I think is how Bioware would handle ME3's ending. I also wouldn't be interested personally if Shepard was still the protagonist in such a story.