Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

I wouldn’t mind if they made a smaller indie type game instead of a full fledged ME5, at least while they “figure it out”.

I've mentioned before how I would love to fly around on a small ship ala the Normandy with a small independent group of intergalactic species helping people without the politics of the council or the "humans are the best" Udina-type of person dictating what outcome is preferred.


A prequel featuring a young Shepard could also possible work. They must have done stuff to be even considered a potential Spectre. It doesn't even have to be anything grandiose. You can also easily include new romances, since it’s set in the past.

Maybe we could experience what happened on Akuze (yeah, not everyone chose that reputation, but if it’s a small game not every ME fan has to buy/like it for it to be a success).

Alternatively, you could play as a person who would have been chosen to become Spectre if Shepard hadn't been better.

No matter what, I just want them to make the story different than what we already have. I felt like the story of MEA reused different aspects of MET and it never really got to become it's own thing.

An idea for the start of ME4

game starts during the war for earth, you play as a rookie soldier/marine or whatever, bumbling through the battle as the game takes you through a basic controls tutorial, in the distance you see much of what happened in ME3s battle for earth taking place in real time, your character sees Shepard beamed up to the pillar/citadel was it? (sorry its been a while) you continue battling low level geth, banshees or whatever at the bottom of the beam as flashing lights and clear engagement can be seen happening at the top, the game flashes white and your character enters a cut scene where we see people running clear and for cover as the citadel falls, you see Shepard fall to his apparent death, cut scene finished and you’re in play again as your character, amongst others head back towards what is now rubble (another chance for the game to introduce control tutorials like whatever climbing, jumping, jetpack etc methods they go for in ME4), your character with or without a small rescue finds a close to death Shepard and calls for help, back to cut scene of short bursts of Shepard being air lifting from the rubble, taken to a earth based science/ medical facility, love interest pacing outside as doctors working on him and ultimately failing as his heart machine stops beeping or whatever and the doctor calls time of death, we then see his funeral (military style) take place as all our old favourite characters appear on screen accompanied by some sort of montage of ME1,2,3 highlights of Shepard (for nostalgia reasons and for those new to the game)

The main game then starts something like 5/6 years later as your once rookie character is being promoted to whatever position and given his own star ship etc, not too dissimilar to start of ME1

Throughout the game you tackle your own tasks and story’s and what not (whatever Bioware decide the story should be) but there’s also an underlying throw back to the past as you encounter the odd ME1,2,3 character with maybe even the option to recruit one or two of them and whatever fall out from end of ME3

Oh and in terms of the which option did you choose at the end of ME3 debate, just let Bioware work out what was the most popular choice and go with that, sure it might not please the minority but it will the majority (plus Shepard both survives and then dies so that pleases all both sides of the he dies/he survives fans, alternatively, whatever ending you chose, you can select before the game starts and then it can be explained that during the 5/6 years between sheps death and you getting a starship they can just tell a quick story of what happened and now its all solved, so bioware would come up with three versions of this story dependant on your choice but how the galaxy ultimately stands at the start of your story (so after 5/6 years) is the same regardless.

Eh, there have been a few times where people have expressed that, like “Shepard goes into stasis” things.

Yes. I've even mentioned that. I don't believe Bioware would do that. Don't know what the plot would be if Shepard were to wake up 600 years later. Of course to deal with the reapers face-to-face, I would have Shepard wake up about 50.000 years later.

Why would Shep go into stasis in the first place? The Robot Squids are dead!

The ME franchise has a weird fanbase....

Well With my Cerberus Agent idea, Roleplaying purposes he would be pro human but how he views aliens will be up to the Player. And more Paragon leaning players will like the options to save people while completing missions. Renegade Leaning Players will have more guns blazing racist and overall douchbaggary options. Basicly It is scalpel vs hammer debates with Paragon vs Renegade, Paragon are your scalpel type of players and Renegades will be your hammer.

Lore wise: He would have the gene that would bond with eezro that common with human biotics. So while he working for Cerberus, he can able to learn Biotic abilities regardless of his class. Due to it will be a infiltrator theme game, he would have a Tactical Cloak as one of his starting abilities. due to his history, he can use Sword, Hammer and Shield. Personally I would have him as a Phantom with Core abilities of Tactical Cloak, Biotic Shield/Bubble, Palm Blaster and Sword as starting abilities. Infiltrator class would get Decoy and Tactical Scan as options. Soldier would have Smoke Grenade as an option.

I do need to develop a Volus Player Character. I would write him as a capitalist with a keen understanding of Galactic economy. I would borrow ideas from ME3mp volus characters to a work up on the classes for him.


For a smaller scale, I would like to see A C-Sec Hero of any species and how they save people and take down criminals, terrorists and other bad people.

I suppose one option would be to go with Refuse and start the game with the allied races all going into stasis like Javik did, so that they could return once the Reaper War was finished and plot their revenge. It wouldn't invalidate any of the other endings, and instead lets us play as part of a new cycle and find a more plausible (enjoyable) way to save the galaxy when the Reapers return.

It wouldn't be a rehash at all. They'd wake up to a new cycle, who knows what that cycle might be like and what the cryogenically frozen war machine would have to do to secure themselves in this unknown future.

A bunch of people from the various races freeze themselves and awake centuries later to find themselves having to start over in a completely different galaxy than they left. So...Mass Effect: Andromeda. 

Yes I pick destroy, but I don't tell everyone to choose it.  So, how about you showing a post where I said for everyone to give up everything?