Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

I get attached to the hero of the story. For example - I liked DA1 and 2 but I disliked the idea of changing the leader until DAI happened - Inky is my very fav DA hero and her/his team is the best (well, I wish I could have my very fav Morrigan too but I can deal with it). But it created another problem - DA4 will have a different leader so I already dislike the idea again.
Especially with Solas issue being left completely open and with the promise to be the one to deal with him... If I can't put an end to this egghead while playing Inky then I already know I won't be satisfied with the majority of the story. 


I also like continuation and consistency. I don't really feel it without the same character, it simply doesn't speak to me. Shepard has plenty of ways and reasons to come back again and Ryder has plenty of things to solve and consequences of the decisions made in MEA1 to face. So yeah, Milky Way is Shep and Andromeda is Ryder in my case and I can't see it any other way

I'd feel like Presley complaining about hunting Geth as Shep in ME. My only complaint with Ryder 2 is he was a putz.

If they went back to the MW, I'd prefer a new character in a more serialized adventure series.  No saving the galaxy, more low level individual stories with the only connection being the characters. Books do this all the time, from the Dresden files(too much power growth imo), Sue Graftons alphabet series, robert asprins myth series. Create a character who has a reason for continuing adventures like a mercenary, detective or smuggler.  The series can go on forever.  But once you create a epic story, once its done it feels weird to me to go back at least for the protagonist.  No issue with him/her being a character in the story as a contact or something. But as the main character, it just feels weird it snot like you are going to one up the Reapers.  I guess if your epic was small scale, the next story can be bigger.  But the kind of ended too big for the story to go on for me.

I'd still play it i'm sure, just not my ideal.

Not that I care if Shepard returns or not, but what you and a couple of your crew wants with what the majority wants, i'm sorry to say but you and your crew will have to bend the knee on that one, that's how things work.

That's one way to put it, that's for sure.

Just a few ideas i've had bouncing around my head about what I would want in a NEW Mass Effect game. I'm also going with the assumption that as a game, Andromeda is dead. As flawed as it was, I actually really enjoyed MEA, but if there is to be any continuation to that series,it will only be in novel or comic form. I'd love to be wrong about this.

But anyways, fully expecting Bioware to go back to the well that is the Milky Way as well as sticking to their guns and not canonizing any one ending, a prequel or "sidequel" is the only option.

I would have the game begin a few years before ME1 and have the game span the entire timeline of the trilogy right up to the ending.

Perhaps your protagonist could be the captain of a relatively small freighter, something akin to the Falcon or Serenity and you could follow the lives of you and your ragtag crew as you deal with the various events of the trilogy while also obviously influencing your own storyline, independent of the trilogy.

You could have tension with aliens because of hard feelings over the first contact war, family killed at Eden Prime, encounters with Geth and Collectors, and even deal with how a simple freighter crew deals with the Reaper war.

You could even end with an epilogue based on which ever choice your Commander Shepard made and finally show us all what life was like in the Milky Way after picking up the pieces of the war.

There is something I just like about seeing the world from "the other side". If you think about it, in all 4 games you play as a character with a military backround with a fully functional, pretty much brand new ship.

You are well funded and have the backing of either a galactic government or a powerfull organization.

Now just imagine being on the other side of that. You work only for yourself and your crew, just trying to get buy. Your home port isn't the shiny and bright Citadel but the dark and dirty Omega. Your ship isn't some top of the line Military Frigate or Scout ship, but instead some well lived in, barely holding together, converted freighter. You're not a criminal mastermind, just a man or a women trying to make his way in a galaxy that doesn't give a damn you exsist.

Maybe I'm too much of a fan of Firefly or something, but this appeals to me.

Anyways, just an idea I've had kicking around my head for awhile.

Nope, MEA is not dead since there's way too much to bring the closure to and way too many consequences to face. There should be at least 1 more MEA game.


ME3 ending will always haunt them (and us) and rightfully so. If they ever remaster MET, I want a different kind of ending. I really want to see those little blue children...


It's impossible to canonize one MET ending for MEA IMO. But if they really want to earn money from this frenchise again, if they want to make people interested again, they'll either make a remaster or bring Shepard back somehow. And of course, they really should port the whole trilogy with all DLCs to Nintendo Switch. 15m switch players (and growing) is not a bad market. Not to mention, there're people who'd gladly buy the switch if MET ever end up there so it's a win-win for both companies. 

Within the scope of an Andromeda game, I think canonizing anything is kind of pointless anyway, since we won’t get to really enjoy whatever setting that entails, unless, of course, they intend to expand the franchise to have concurrent tales between both settings. 

Unless the writers want to establish a proper canon, they'd just speculate on what ultimately happened. In any case, I don't think it's really worthwhile unless they intend to actually give us a post-war Milky Way to see the results for ourselves. 

Glad to find this post here. but I'd like to stick to the Milky Way, thanks Andromeda, but you were too cliché for me.

That being said, I'd like to see a new hero, through multiple playthroughs, but beginning in a small story and then moving forward. Bioware's writing is usually spot on, and I believe regardless of the setting that the 5th installment will be great.

If it ever gets done.

They have 600 unexplained years in the Milky Way which could tie in to a lot of peoples DLC fantasies given your Ryder never found out what happened back home and now he can as an old man, so you do get to continue Andromeda at the end of whatever asspull they'd have to hatch to get out of (and I cant believe I'm saying this.) The Mass Effect 3 ending and the Andromeda 1 beginning.

I seem to recall Shepard being in the vacuum of space with a punctured suit and plummeting several miles through the atmosphere of Alchera before slamming into the ground.  Aside from brain death from lack of oxygen, Shepard would also have burned up in the atmosphere and if there was anything that made it to the ground it would be little more than a puddle.  Given that, this piddling issue of low EMS death is not even worth discussing.  The damage done there doesn't come close to what happened when the SR1 was destroyed.

I absolutely want closure for Andromeda and more Reyes, but I'm biased as hell

However, if we were going back to the Milky Way, I want a more grounded experience. Horizon: Zero Dawn and The Last of Us, type of experience. I don't need an open world- semi open or a return to the old trilogy "open-is world" would do the trick- with a personal narrative intertwined with a very monumental storyline happening. For instance- a covert action type game where you investigate the citadel's elite for people with ties to Cerberus a la Gianna(??) from Noveria- until a bigger plot is uncovered that forces you to work with what very little allies you have- I honestly wanted to be more ground level on the Citadel or Omega- especially getting out of the gorgeous and futuristic Wakanda in Black Panther... I want something like that.

This might be controversial- but it might be... helpful.. for them to do an episodic very low key "Tales of The Milky Way" series with little vignettes in the Mass Effect universe that are all tied together by a similar event. If they take inspiration from Life is Strange and Telltale's Batman and do something really personal with strong characters and excellent voice over work, they'd make a fucking killing and hype people up for a higher budget ME game in the future.