Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

Key word is sane.

It seems to be. I loved and love MEA and liked ME3. There. Sue me.

Same! I always seem to have an ME play through of some description on the go. Whilst Andromeda could have done with a bit more direction, I still get a lot of entertainment out of it, so I’m definitely in the satisfied camp!

There are plenty of RPGs out there like Mass Effect format wise. Different story and characters, but they still allow you to make choices and have outcomes later on.

There really aren't. Not in a format remotely similar to Bioware RPGs, anyway.

I always wanted Shepard to just take the Normandy and start an independent interspecies spec ops team. They would fly around, keeping peace and solving peoples problems outside of the Alliance/Council political bureaucracy.

I’d still like a game like that. It would most likely be without Shepard, but by the time it gets released, I’m most likely over my Shepard infatuation.

At any rate, I do hope they give us a more mature main character again. I liked that Shepard already was a competent leader who wasn’t thrown into a “I don’t want to lead, but I have to” situation. Then again, I startet MET right after DA, all of which features reluctant/unprepared heroes.

Never said there was anything wrong with them, just that I personally liked (which actually surprised me) to play something else.

If the Ryder twins star in an MEA2, they’ll be more mature and competent by default after the end of MEA1. I would presume that they’ll have an ME1 Spectre Shepard-like following at minimum after defeating the Archon and activating Meridian.

Their personality changed throughout the original game as they accomplished stuff. Even if it’s not a direct “the next day” sequel, I’m sure the personality of the twins will start where they left off. At the end of MEA, they were far more of badass than at the beginning.

You didn't answer the question. But why do I even bother?

So, the goal then is to make MEA2 more like the OT? Are we going for a Disney Wars-style retconboot?

Fuck Ryder. Fuck Shepard. Give me literally anybody of any race in the Mass Effect Cinematic Universe, give me a real reason and a compelling task, and set me loose.

Again, who wouldn't buy that?

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I want a Prothean protagonist game, during the peak of their cycle, to visit the various primitive worlds and *relate* with them. Dominate some, destroy others. Elevate the sexy ones.