If you were obscenely rich and had obtained the rights to the Mass Effect franchise what would you d

Riiight. Because the industry hasn't grown exponentially and doesn't now rival and exceed other media forms at all. It totally went to shit. You sound like some old timer talking about "back in my day everything was better." That, or talking out of your ass is just second nature.

Grown? As in following trends and doing nothing unique? Sure. You've completely ignored my "it doesn't need to be a hit" point with that response too. I don't care about the industry.

I would keep the game in Andromeda, because I think ME3 ending is definitive. But I would ditch Ryder and his companions. I would make an independent group acting and discovering new alien species and new clusters in Andromeda Galaxy, maybe even rebelling against the Initiative. Maybe the players could choose to cooperate with them or rebel against them, with real consequences about that. I would completely ignore the kett and the angara, they are absolutely uninteresting and boring.

I would make a "quest contest", where players could send their ideas of quests and the top 5 or 10 would be put into the game. That not only would make better quests than just "fetch quests", but would add some nice interaction with the fans, something really important to media dissemination nowadays.
I'd also hire some good writers to write deep characters, that really judge you by your choices and talk to you about your choices when you make one.
I would add space battles and shuttles for exploration. No more stupid ground vehicles!

And most of all, I would make the game have choices with actual consequences. And you will be able to choose if you're going to play an asshole, a good guy, or "grey". And finally, a final mission based on ME2's suicide mission, but better

Old school like what, Unity engine?

Older...


You enter the Normandy hangar, and walk to Wrex. Wrex says "Shepard". Do you:
1. Wrex
2. Wrex
3. Wrex

I should go
ENTER

I don't understand that!

If/when Bioware picks up Mass Effect again, I'm pretty certain this is what they will do. After all before the game released Mac Walters talked about how the plan was that as the games go on we expand more and more into Andromeda. So I can see maybe the Heleus Cluster being more like how clusters in the Shepard Trilogy were where only a few systems are available, in this case the golden worlds since they'd probably like to show how they progressed, and then we have access to a couple more clusters with all new worlds/species/etc. 

I hope they keep the Ryders too. 

That's old even by my standards!

The Mass Effect ending was so bad partly due to it being insanely rushed. Think of it this way, the only way you can beat a fleet of virtual Gods in any semi-satisfying manner would involve a long drawn out process, something that would probably take an entire game to resolve. Instead the resolution was tacked on right at the end ("and Shepard resolved it all, the end.") So it was partly their insistence on keeping the game to a trilogy that stuffed them and partly their useless ME2 plot where Shepard went around recruiting people instead of advancing the plot in any meaningful way. ME2 wasted an entire game, time which could have been much better spent advancing the overarching plot.

Rule of thumb is that scenes should advance the plot, not "let's recruit Garrus, and Tali, and Kasumi, and Thane, and Mordin ..."

If they scrapped the entirety of ME2, dedicated the first half of that game to setting up the premise of a galaxy which doesn't take the threat seriously and Shepard running around trying to get everyone ready, and the second half of ME2 to the arrival of the reapers and the introduction of war (the devastating first onslaught of the reapers) Bioware could have had the entire ME3 deal with the solution and how everyone was going to defeat the reapers. There could have been a time skip between ME2 and ME3, so the intro of ME3 could have been on the backdrop of destroyed cities and the Reaper forces coming in for the kill skipping months and months worth of boring destruction, then they could have gone from there. Instead what we got was ME1 setting up the threat, ME2 diddling around and doing sweet fuck all, and ME3 having to suddenly cram the entrance of the reapers, the devastating first onslaught, months of devastation and loss of hope, and the inevitable victory by Shepard and it was just too much. Far too much. ME3 was hamstrung by ME2.

Bioware lacked story direction in the ME series and it showed. The ending was just the inevitable result of years of (story wise) seemingly directionless development.

Thank Satan billionaires are both rare and disinterested in Mass Effect.

I'd probably continue Ryder's story but try to do a better job of it. Because personally I enjoy MEA but I would just try to make improvements in all areas and not get it turned into some gif show to be made fun of.

Phil Fish mark 2

Phil Fish was a game developer who famously abandoned the sequel to Fez after getting into a twitter argument, which later caused a meltdown, a meltdown which led to him raging against abusive gamers and how he hates the industry and that he was taking his bat and ball and leaving. Your comment reminded me of him

"to be clear, im not cancelling FEZ II because some boorish fuck said something stupid, im doing it to get out of games. and im getting out of games because i choose not to put up with this abuse anymore."

Before you feel sorry for him it should be noted that Fish isn't really a sympathetic figure, and is actually a bit of an arsehole.