Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

Nor will I say that.
Just as it's heavily implied that you want the next game in Andromeda with Ryder and anything else is wrong.
Don't know. Time will tell if a canon ending is chosen.

Honestly I hope they do make a sequel to MEA as I also want to see where the story is going to go. Just ending it the way it is is kind of asinine. Yes the game maybe didnt do as well as they had hoped, but that is to be expected given the game was CLEARLY rushed (not unlike ME3). Just make the next game in Andromeda and put the effort in to it that used to do with games like DAO for instance. Fans are fickle. If you make a great ME game set in Andromeda, many of the fans will forget about the first one.

I still gripe about ME3 but I would like a good Andromeda sequel. I gripe about ME2 as well. Obviously I don't represent everyone but I think if you make a good game in the ME series, enough people will like it regardless of the previous games.



And a lot of the hatred for Andromeda is over-exaggerated. The game still did fairly well and still has a good score on most review sites. A lot of the glitches and bad  animations and whatnot have since been fixed. Yeah the plot still sucks but so does ME2's and ME3's. 

When people say the plot sucks, do they mean it's too simple? A plot doesn't suck if it's just do this and defeat the big bad. Hell there are a whole lot of setups that are just that. It's all in how it's told.

Though I always thought the plot twist in 3 would be that the controller of the Reapers was Benezias bosom, now in ghost form.

NO.
NO NO NO.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

If there is one thing that is wrong with gaming today, it is trying to please the masses.


Actually it does. Every plot starts out simple, but it's the fleshing out of the plot that determines if it's a good plot or not. A plot is basically a cause and effect sequence. The main plot is the shortest version possible. For ME2 as an example;
Shepard died due to an attack from an unknown vessel
Cerberus revives Shepard so he can help fight this vessel
Getting help from a bunch of people, ultimately Shepard beats the ones that killed him.

ME1:
Shepard is sent to investigate an attack on a human colony by a synthetic machine race.
Shepard finds the attack was for a device called the Prothean beacon, which has information he doesn't understand
Through his quest and help from others he understands the information from the beacon and gets a message which tells of a much larger threat than the Geth
He works to stop this threat and succeeds

Already more fleshed out than ME2, isn't it? Feel free to try and make it any shorter without removing important details. There's also another one that can be argued to be the plot...

Shepard is a common human soldier trying to get approval of other species for the whole of humanity.
He fails to get approval due to his most important mission going horribly wrong.
After multiple efforts and help from humans and aliens alike, he succeeds in getting the respect he deserves.
Humanity gets a seat on the council (or the council becomes fully human)

Can ME2 a second plot be thought of for ME2? I can't think of one... Or can I...?


In any case... ME1 has a great plot. ME2 has a mediocre plot. ME3 has an ok plot.

OTOH, this forum isn't a representative sample of potential ME5 buyers.

due to my dark sense of humor, it would be funny within mass effect to have an dialogue option to threaten an enemy to inject them with thresher maw acid in their veins

Some cures kill the patient.

Sorry, but the Trilogy endings are not a disease.  They are merely a selection of ENDINGS to a fictional game story... and that's the key... they were always intended to be ENDINGS to that story.  Shepard's story was always intended to END with Mass Effect 3.  The story was a Trilogy and the Trilogy ENDED.  Diseases affect the living not the ENDED.

So you honestly believe that if Destroy was the only ending, that that would somehow magically fix the ME3 ending? 

That makes even less sense.

Just removing synthesis would be a improvement to the ME3 endings.  MY issues always more revolved around the writing design that led to a magic wand to solve your problems so it wouldn't fix it for me, but just having destroy would have been a large improvement.

For you maybe. For others like myself it would have made things much worse.