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Post by fredvdp on Oct 14, 2017 21:26:27 GMT
I'd like to see Shepard return in a cameo, similar to Hannah Shepard in ME1 or Carth and Bastila in KotOR II.
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Post by anarchy65 on Oct 14, 2017 22:58:00 GMT
Not as a main character, but we could have a cameo or a participation like Hawke in DA:I. But only if ME3's endings are respected (that means Shepard will only appear if Reapers were destroyed) I'd really like for Bioware to just drop Andromeda's galaxy because there is absolutely zero potential for it, but since they won't, in this galaxy I won't want Shepard to return because it would be completely nonsense and Andromeda already has too many of them. But I really hope they bring us a new likeable protagonist with new characters (hopefully not tied to the Initiative) I think there's great potential for Andromeda to be a galaxy of creation (in narrative tone) after the Milky Way's galaxy of destruction. A faltering start doesn't necessarily end this potential, even if it weakens, slows, and might end it. The kett and angara are absurdely uninteresting and boring (damn, even characters in the game regard the lack of creativity from the developers). The Initiave is an even more absurd stupid idea (as Gaming Sins pointed, it just looks like it was a plan for removing the most stupid people from The Milky Way). So unless they completely abandon these races, create a new idea for the Initiative (not to mention a bunch of new actually interesting characters), and create tons of actually interesting races, it would be really an impossible challenge.
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Post by vallixas on Oct 15, 2017 13:33:09 GMT
Hell no, Shepard is done and over. Time for something different. Just like all the Dragon Age whiners still going on about the Grey Warden.... It's over, move forward and not backwards. Let's be honest here for a moment, that's a bad comparison. None of the DA protagonist had the impact that Shepard did, and all were forgettable. They didn't even so much as have a signature character trait such as Shepard's dancing lol. None had the mass appeal that Shep did. Not the Warden, not the Inquisitor and definately not Hawke. That said, I say no. Shepard is remembered for being a badass mofo. Lets not allow current Bioware's writers to destroy him.
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Post by simit on Oct 15, 2017 15:04:11 GMT
If im brutally honest with myself even though i never found ME:A to be a bad game it certainly did manage to put the franchise into a place where for me my interest now is rock bottom.
Build a game in milkyway? or a game in Andromeda with the exact same races with the exact same differences doing the exact same shit
Shepard shouldnt be in another ME game unless as a data record, statue etc, if wee go back to milkyway way it either be destroy ending where enough time passed that most, if not all, chars are dead, or its a online experience where i guess cameo's are possible but doubtful for shepard atleast, but well look at revan so never say never
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Post by Qui-Gon GlenN7 on Oct 15, 2017 15:24:39 GMT
Honestly all this whining about wanting Shepard back is very pathetic. Shepards story is done and dusted, and opening it up will just cause it to become convoluted and dragged on. I've voted and given my answer but the op is bullshit. I've seen almost nobody asking for Shepard's return, just a return to the MW. And both are a reaction to the failure of ME:A. I too am a little shocked that everyone has given the OP a pass on this one. The post is trying to start a fight where there isn't one.... Zeratul, your post is crap.
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Post by mmoblitz on Oct 15, 2017 18:22:15 GMT
AS much as I loved Shepard and crew, I have to vote no. Their story is done and I don't trust Bioware anymore not to butcher the legacy so leave it be. the ME series is dead anyway. Let it RIP.
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Post by thelonelypoet on Oct 15, 2017 20:38:10 GMT
I bravely answered yes. I know it's insane. But even a glimpse of her, sitting in her glorious space throne like TIM used to do would make my day... ehrm... lyfe
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Post by Son of Dorn on Oct 16, 2017 0:35:43 GMT
Hell no. That's all to say on the matter.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 3:11:28 GMT
I think the question is not "should Shepard return", but why? The story was tied up, so what's the point?
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Post by blueasari on Oct 16, 2017 3:29:12 GMT
Hell yes
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Post by mannyray on Oct 16, 2017 8:01:00 GMT
I think the question is not "should Shepard return", but why? The story was tied up, so what's the point? They are so angry about ME:A because they can't let go of Shepard and will gladly suck up any idea no matter poorly written or hamfisted and bad to get the protagonist of the original trilogy back. Like baby goats running up to a bottle. I say let 'em have it and watch the crying when the game they so dearly wanted comes out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 8:09:40 GMT
My shepard picked destroy with full EMS so obliterated the reapers, survived and awoke in the rubble, so yes.
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Post by Guts on Oct 16, 2017 8:24:19 GMT
I totally get why people want Shep back, but her arc is done, and it ended well (red/green/blue notwithstanding). She was one of my all time favourite protags but I don't need more of her. A good end is much better than a desperate attempt to revive a character. I feel that bringing back Shepard would be just as much of a cash-grab, if not moreso, than ME:A.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 15:03:54 GMT
My shepard picked destroy with full EMS so obliterated the reapers, survived and awoke in the rubble, so yes. The thing with the destroy ending is... where does the game go from there? The only real threat the entire galaxy has had to contend with for the last several millennia has been destroyed... so ME4 watches Shep in retirement drinking alternately with Jacob in Rio (if he/she lived) or drinking with Garrus at a bar in afterlife (if died). There's nothing left... no threat that's going to suddenly rise out of nowhere within Shep's lifetime for him/her to deal with in a sequel game. It's actually the same issue with any of the endings. The long, long history they gave to the Reapers and their omnipotence for so long is what works against them for writing the story further. Going to Andromeda... and then perhaps returning to the Milky Way... followed by, likely, the Jardaan or whoever attacked the Jardaan at Meridian introduces a new galactic-scale threat worthy of someone like Shepard to deal with (could even be Shepard... thrown into stasis for 1200 or so years after being found on the Citadel).
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Post by kino on Oct 16, 2017 17:42:39 GMT
I'm definitely in the "No" camp on this one. A big, fat no...but not quite a hell no. Just no.
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Post by N7Valentine on Oct 16, 2017 18:27:24 GMT
I love Shepard and his story but I wouldn't want Bioware to drag on his story for eternity. See, games like Resident Evil do this, which is why I've grown distant of the series (Adding to the fact my favorite character got booted out for no particular reason lol)! Shepard's story ended with ME3, it's time to move on. Ryder has opened new stories I'd like to explore.
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Post by Phantom on Oct 16, 2017 19:16:39 GMT
as much as I like Shepard, If we go back to MW, We need a new PC and not with the alliance. Shepard is the poster boy of Alliance. Well As for Faction, it should be for the entire trilogy and the PC should be from Cerberus, Merc(like Blue Sun, Ecplise, blood pack or other), Pirate, or other faction within the Milk Way, also Yes I would love to have Non Shepard Milk Way Mass Effect trilogy.
Bioware should balance in listening to their fans while not listening to them.
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Post by Upggrade on Oct 16, 2017 19:36:31 GMT
Hell no. If they brought him back it'd be nowhere near the post-war head canon I've cooked up so I don't want to see him again.
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Post by wright1978 on Oct 16, 2017 19:38:00 GMT
While part of me would love to have shep return because i loved shaping him over 3 games.
There's a large part of me that wouldn't trust them to reflect my character & his preferences nor can see how you could set another game in the milky way without invalidating a number or all of the endings.
So i voted maybe.
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Post by glockwheeler on Oct 16, 2017 20:30:43 GMT
My shepard picked destroy with full EMS so obliterated the reapers, survived and awoke in the rubble, so yes. The thing with the destroy ending is... where does the game go from there? The only real threat the entire galaxy has had to contend with for the last several millennia has been destroyed... so ME4 watches Shep in retirement drinking alternately with Jacob in Rio (if he/she lived) or drinking with Garrus at a bar in afterlife (if died). There's nothing left... no threat that's going to suddenly rise out of nowhere within Shep's lifetime for him/her to deal with in a sequel game. It's actually the same issue with any of the endings. The long, long history they gave to the Reapers and their omnipotence for so long is what works against them for writing the story further. Going to Andromeda... and then perhaps returning to the Milky Way... followed by, likely, the Jardaan or whoever attacked the Jardaan at Meridian introduces a new galactic-scale threat worthy of someone like Shepard to deal with (could even be Shepard... thrown into stasis for 1200 or so years after being found on the Citadel). The only real existing threat I could see post destroy ending would be the Leviathan. After all, they were the Apex race prior to the creation of their own AI.
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Post by wright1978 on Oct 16, 2017 22:07:33 GMT
My shepard picked destroy with full EMS so obliterated the reapers, survived and awoke in the rubble, so yes. The thing with the destroy ending is... where does the game go from there? The only real threat the entire galaxy has had to contend with for the last several millennia has been destroyed... so ME4 watches Shep in retirement drinking alternately with Jacob in Rio (if he/she lived) or drinking with Garrus at a bar in afterlife (if died). There's nothing left... no threat that's going to suddenly rise out of nowhere within Shep's lifetime for him/her to deal with in a sequel game. It's actually the same issue with any of the endings. The long, long history they gave to the Reapers and their omnipotence for so long is what works against them for writing the story further. Going to Andromeda... and then perhaps returning to the Milky Way... followed by, likely, the Jardaan or whoever attacked the Jardaan at Meridian introduces a new galactic-scale threat worthy of someone like Shepard to deal with (could even be Shepard... thrown into stasis for 1200 or so years after being found on the Citadel). I'd disagree. Galaxy is in a right state in destroy which certainly would provide storytelling potential & given that state the chance that anyone is going to have a quiet comfortable retirement in the near future let alone shep seems fanciful. Trying to top the reaper omnipotence in a sequel would be a hiding onto nothing. If there were to be a post destroy sequel(unlikely given it would require canonising an ending) you'd need a much more mundane threat.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 22:21:05 GMT
The thing with the destroy ending is... where does the game go from there? The only real threat the entire galaxy has had to contend with for the last several millennia has been destroyed... so ME4 watches Shep in retirement drinking alternately with Jacob in Rio (if he/she lived) or drinking with Garrus at a bar in afterlife (if died). There's nothing left... no threat that's going to suddenly rise out of nowhere within Shep's lifetime for him/her to deal with in a sequel game. It's actually the same issue with any of the endings. The long, long history they gave to the Reapers and their omnipotence for so long is what works against them for writing the story further. Going to Andromeda... and then perhaps returning to the Milky Way... followed by, likely, the Jardaan or whoever attacked the Jardaan at Meridian introduces a new galactic-scale threat worthy of someone like Shepard to deal with (could even be Shepard... thrown into stasis for 1200 or so years after being found on the Citadel). I'd disagree. Galaxy is in a right state in destroy which certainly would provide storytelling potential & given that state the chance that anyone is going to have a quiet comfortable retirement in the near future let alone shep seems fanciful. Trying to top the reaper omnipotence in a sequel would be a hiding onto nothing. If there were to be a post destroy sequel(unlikely given it would require canonising an ending) you'd need a much more mundane threat. ... and a much more mundane threat would make a satisfying Shepard story/... that would satisfy the types who are absolutely into adoration mode of Shepard... their personal bad ass who to took down the greatest threat in the universe of the last untold millennia? I don't think so... it would literally be like watching him bring his/her groceries every week in comparison. That's how even Shepard is going to feel about doing it. Regardless of which ending you pick and how they resurrect the guy/gal, we'd still be talking about someone who survived a laser blast to the face from Harbinger himself. Shepard is just not going to feel the least bit intimidated or challenged by any more mundane threat you might put in front of him/her.
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Post by Melcara on Oct 16, 2017 22:27:14 GMT
Yes, but only as a cameo. I was so disappointed that Shep didn't make any appearance in Andromeda. It makes me wonder why they even made us choose Shep's gender in CC.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 22:42:24 GMT
Yes, but only as a cameo. I was so disappointed that Shep didn't make any appearance in Andromeda. It makes me wonder why they even made us choose Shep's gender in CC. Setting up for an eventual return to the Milky Way in the sequel game or the game after the sequel game was my guess. Mac Walters did say in some interviews before release that a return to the Milky Way might eventually happen. If the return is set far enough into the future... the impacts of whatever choice made in ME3 could be negated by a subsequent tragedy that occurs before the AI gets back to the MW. Shepard, however, could still be referenced in any number of different way there... having been put in stasis (as I mentioned), through descendants of people who knew him/her, etc.
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Post by wright1978 on Oct 16, 2017 22:42:57 GMT
I'd disagree. Galaxy is in a right state in destroy which certainly would provide storytelling potential & given that state the chance that anyone is going to have a quiet comfortable retirement in the near future let alone shep seems fanciful. Trying to top the reaper omnipotence in a sequel would be a hiding onto nothing. If there were to be a post destroy sequel(unlikely given it would require canonising an ending) you'd need a much more mundane threat. ... and a much more mundane threat would make a satisfying Shepard story/... that would satisfy the types who are absolutely into adoration mode of Shepard... their personal bad ass who to took down the greatest threat in the universe of the last untold millennia? I don't think so... it would literally be like watching him bring his groceries every week in comparison. Me2 is very satisfying. It's a much smaller scale issue in reality, colonist abductions with reaper trappings.
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