Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

Speaking of Mac walters anyone know what hes up to? his twitter is dead and has been for sometime

What was the dark energy plot going to be like? How was it dumb? I just remember what was in-game.

Speaking of Mac walters anyone know what hes up to? his twitter is dead and has been for sometime

There's half a whiff of a hint about future Mass Effect in this video.

But be warned, it's pretty painful viewing if you stick it out to the end of the video...

There's half a whiff of a hint about future Mass Effect in this video.

But be warned, it's pretty painful viewing if you stick it out to the end of the video...

At this point I don't see anything killing a future ME game's chances other than BioWare themselves going under, and even then the IP could just as well pass on to someone else (though I find this scenario seriously not ideal). Only question is where and when they'll set it.

It was encouraging to hear though that ME is still an important franchise for them.

But the loss of the Montreal studio, and their numbers are down about 1/3 in the Edmonton studio (though they are hiring again, I haven't seen huge numbers in job postings), trying to juggle 3 big franchises (on top of SW in Austin)... it feels like something has to give. Unless BW grow their numbers in a big way, or they're outsourcing tons of work.

Mike Gamble said they haven't sat down to decide what to do with the ME franchise yet. So it's really just wait-and-see at the moment. 

Timeline-wise, Dragon Age will be their next focus, but according the Mark they're still deciding what that game will look like. So it's still in Pre-Production, with just a small team on it. I expect they'll shift the bulk of their focus from Anthem over to DA for probably 2-3+ years, while they start Pre-Prod on the next ME, and continue creating live service content for Anthem. An important thing to remember is that the bar for what people expect from a AAA RPG is very high, and keeps getting higher. So let's say DA4 takes 2.5 years of Full Prod. after Anthem wraps up. That puts us in around Fall 2021.

Add another 2.5 years for the next ME, and that put us around Spring 2024. And then there's still whatever they decide to do with Anthem...

My preference is to have

- sequel to ME3 with Shepard returning
- sequel to ME3 with new characters
- trilogy remaster
- remake ME3 the way Bioware wanted it to be had they been given enough time. 
- reboot the trilogy
- sequel to MEA with new characters

No matter what I like to have happen, Bioware will do what they want to do to tell the story they want to tell. 

If the next da game is released late 2020, its possible the next ME game could be released spring 2022. Time will tell.