Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

Thank you for the compliment.  Honestly, it will be up to Bioware to decide what they want to do to go forward and how they might want to flesh out the details.  Part of the fun of such a game could even be the investigating to find out whether or not Bioware ultimately decided to declare a canon ending and, if they did, what canon ending they chose.  Depending on how fun they make finding out such a thing, it could, in and of itself, soften the blow if one's preferred canon ending was not the one chosen by Bioware to go forward.

I have to disagree on that. There is nothing fun in spending money and dozens of hours only to discover they disregarded your previous choices. It would make the blow harder not softer.

Perhaps you're right.  As you know, I don't favor Bioware declaring a canon ending.  I'd hate to see you hurt and honestly would like to see everyone accommodated in some way.  My point is more that they are still the ones writing the story and, as a part of that, they are the ones deciding what "risks" they'll take with their audience and what ones they won't.  Nothing is impossible here.  The good news is that Casey has stated outright that they are not abandoning the franchise.  It has a future.  It's not a bad thing to not know where they might take us next... part of the fun of exploration is not knowing what you might discover.  For myself, despite my being against a canon ending, if they did that and still managed to make a fun game with a great story, I'd probably forgive them for ignoring me or my various choices.

You all assume that making a game that happens after some ending makes it canon. That's untrue, you can make a game that simply tells one version of the story. See NieR: Automata.

If Bioware decides to tell one version, setting the state of the galaxy in a particular way and this whole site refrains from suggesting that state of the galaxy becomes the canon... Well, I'll believe when I see it... not holding my breath on that one.

I'm only missing one ending, which is Refuse. Once on Synthesis and one Control. It's hard to watch the galaxy go down in flames, which is also why I can't do low EMS.

Id love to see ME3 with Joker. Just for shits and giggles.

Did you not play ME3? Joker was the pilot. He wanted to bake a cake for the hologram turned platform.

There was a period during ME3's development where they planned to allow people with dead Shepards to play as a new character. A shame it got dropped but understandable.

Not what I meant. I meant as main protagonist if Shep died in ME2.

Jumping to conclusions isn't dumb? Sounds like we differ on how "dumb" is defined.

But I'm not particularly concerned about the term. If you want to describe ME fans' collective cognitive deficiency with some other term, go ahead and propose one.