Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

The fan in me hopes this will be a reality within the next 6 years but the realist in me sees BioWare's track record for the last decade and I don't like where its going. Anthem is make it or break it for BioWare and I'm not very confident in it. I hope it does well and is a return to form but I doubt it. FFXV gets well deserved criticism but you know what Tabata and his team are doing? Giving the fans what they want while filling in gaps, expanding the game and keeping contact with the fans and continually getting their feedback (I'm actually not going to knock him for making some of it paid dlc, get that money bruh). They're not hiding in some bunker for months at a time and bragging about things on tw@tter that we don't see.


Here's to hoping we get characters and not charicatures. I'd love to have another Thane or an Ash or Wrex and less PB's and Vetra's. I'd like a squad who has more to their character than their obvious gimmicks and would love to hear some of the cast of The Expanse and Dark Matter do some voicework. Bring a more serious tone, actual dynamic weather conditions and more variation in planets rather than just 'snow planet' 'desert planet' 'jungle planet.' At this point I don't think I'd mind a total reboot or a revisit to the Milky Way post reapers. Just something that brings back the feeling of mystery, danger, and wonder of ME 1 & 2.

I'd prefer MEA2 set 3-5 years down the road so the settlements are more established and some of the characters have matured just a bit (I'm looking at you, Liam ). There are a few loose ends I'd like to tie off, plus I really want Fryda and Tom back.

I do not really expect to ever get an ME 5....but Bowie?

As much as I'd love to see a return to the MW, I think we just need to move forward. MEA2 could work, but it would have to be extremely well done. Make a tighter storyline. If we absolutely must have an openish world, make sure it's pretty full. Now that I have played TW3, I understand what people were talking about. Don't have an open world just to make it bigger. Fill the damn thing up! That said, I preferred the more linear worlds we had in the OT.

I honestly didn't hate the cast of MEA. I loved the Ryder Twins and would like to see their return. Maybe if it's set a few years later we could have more mature, confident Ryders. Also, bring back Paragon/Renegade choices. While I did generally like their personalities that's not a playstyle that suits everyone. Make them be capable of being badasses and people will like them more. Also, don't let the squadmates get away with murder. I think that's partly why some people were so down on Liam and Peebee. Had there been more in the way of consequences, I think people would have been happier. Finally, this is a frontier. Do not let asshole politicians continue to fuck things up. Outright threaten them. There's no one coming to back them up. Failure should not be tolerated. And at this point, if Ryder has played his/her cards right, there's a whole lot of krogan at his/her back to make sure Tann doesn't continue with his idiocy.

Now, we're kind of stuck with the Kett. Play up their religious conversion some more and, dammit, make sure we see more ALIEN alien races, maybe those who the Kett conquered. (Yeah, this conversion stuff is nothing more than dressed up indoctrination but there we are.) Finally, solve the mystery of the Jardaan. Either they're dead, they devolved and became the Angara, or they're out there fighting the Kett on another front. In some ways, I'd love tie the Jardaan back to the MW, not as originating there but instead them being the real reason why the AI decided to go to Andromeda rather than explore the mostly unexplored MW. They could be the Mysterious Benefactor(s). I don't want them linked to Reapers, Protheans or anyone else, just a legitimate cause for why a race who's been on the galactic scene for 30 years deciding to leave the galaxy.

So, yeah, that's my thoughts on how we can move forward rather than backward and not disregard what's come before.

Oh, and I damn well better get my human m/m squadmate romance or BioWare can go fuck themselves.

Yeah its a nice, hopeful thing... i wish i could believe it.

If you wanna know what i really think: Its a pipe dream... I think EA will close Bioware down inside couple of years, after they fail with Anthem.

Oh boy. Will there be a BioWare around to make a new ME game? I know what I think should happen. Andromeda 2 set 25 to 30 years later with a new protagonist and crew. Ryder twins and mom are npcs. This way decisions made by those who played or played a lot can be seen and those who want to skip the first can.

Is it good or bad they've been scaled down and focus mostly on one game? We will see. It will take longer for games this way. All I know is I imagine I'll be too close to 40 for comfort when anything ME comes around again. Ugh...

Obsidian? Microsoft studios? One of those two I imagine.

Definitely ME:A2, there are just so many things we dont know and there is just so much potential with a new galaxy.

Though i guess we will learn a lot of their intentions once the book mass effect book anihilation is released since i heard it ll try to give us some answers for Andromeda.

I doubt they would do a direct sequel to the first game, it would be way too risky.

If they bring Mass Effect back I'm pretty sure it will be either another reboot.

Personally, I think they should just make a game way into the future in Andromeda. After the planets are terraformed, and the milky way species have established themselves. Kett don't have a super fast means of travel, they use a version of arks themselves, so reinforcements from the central empire could conceivably take some time to reach Andromeda. Then you could totally re-write the Kett, and pass the Archon and his crew off as some rogue element, or anything you want.

The Initiative could have reached the nearest surrounding clusters and perhaps discovered one or more races/allies.

Bottom line, there are a lot of things you can do/fix if you advance time.

Naughty dog would be good. Neither them or Microsoft Studios or Guerilla will though, it'd be limited to just one console then. Doesnt mean it couldn't happen. The most likely answer is EA sitting on it and never doing anything with it.

Casey does seem willing to work on it again. He's probably behind that out-of-nowhere Blastohs commercial, which was made after the end of MEA updates. But there is so many ifs and whens, that it'd be almost a miracle to see in foreseeable future.
Anyway, OT story was finished, MEA's was not, so for me it's easy enough choice. Don't want to repeat myself too much on details I'd like to see, but the fact that Heleus region and factions were barely fleshed out gives more than enough space to make things right next time.
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