Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

I think Liara is older but it doesn't necessarily mean anything in regard to timeline. That could be a prologue of sorts in which she's out on one of her digs, finds the piece of N7 helmet which triggers a flashback and start to new game.

I don't think the Alderson disk has anything to do with the Geth...simply because of the order in which it appears in the montage and the fact that the Geth haven't been around long enough to build something on that scale.

Stuff certainly means something...but it's all guesswork at this point.

Oh, and Shepard most certainly could be back. Yes, definitely yes.

Only if we can become like king leopold. A man too brutal even during colonial times. Just kidding about that but if you mean the exploration and such of new planets then sure.

So, what about the future of the Mass Effect, I ask? Will there be hints to it in the Legendary Edition, even just the odd note left lying around pointing to a future plotline? No, is the short answer. "I think it's easier for the future of the franchise to look back and take from that," Walters concludes, "than for us to try to set a course for something that needs time to ideate, and flourish on its own."
www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-02-02-mass-effect-returns-bioware-talks-trilogy-tweaks-and-franchise-revival

Not sure what to make of this. But it puts the whole "MELE setting up ME5" thing to bed.

Not really. Considering everyone thinks ME5 will take place long after. It's not like World War 2 was being set up in the 1500s. 

I'm more worried about the whole "We're looking back, not forward, for what to do with the franchise" thing that Mac is seemingly saying. Unless I'm misreading that. 

Well, it just seemed like for example that quote fits the whole bringing Shepard back theory instead of moving forward with the stuff they started or even newer things.

Explain why bringing back Shepard, if that happens, wouldn't be moving forward? 

Oh. I just took it to mean an evaluation of what people liked/disliked.

From the trailer,I only see Destroy ending,the Citadel been destroyed by red beam,and Normandy followed by the red beam,even Shepard is Renegade in Tali's scene.Why not,green or blue?