Things working against a possible Ryder series sequel as of right now

ME2 felt much different from ME1 and that seemed to work itself out OK. I’m fine with a change in art direction overall. In some ways, especially if that would result in a redesign of Angaran ships, because they’re kinda ugly.

Even if Ryder returns as the protagonist, his or her companions probably won't return. I can see Kallo or Lexi returning but your squad? Doubtful. PeeBee is a remnant researcher on the nexus, Drack retired. Liam became a pro volleyball player. Cora is pregnant if romanced and you have fetch quests for chocolate or hamburgers, if not romanced she works in security on Eos to be near her garden. Jaal is on a secret mission and can't be reached. Vetra? I could see her returning just because. Or maybe she assists Kandros with security or strike missions instead.

I really don't see how this is really a problem.  The problems with Andromeda seem to be well documented outside EA and BioWare so if they want to fix those problems its well known already.  The problems with working with Frostbite again I don't think is that big of an issue now since BioWare decide to pretty much learn the engine from the ground up while developing two massive games at the same time, now that they have finished products using the engine I doubt it is going to need as much of a learning curve.

Besides if they think it will be a problem the majority of the people that worked on the game still work at EA they have just been moved to other studios and projects for I didn't hear about massive layoffs just that they closed buildings.

Characters have had their writers change in past Bioware games and it worked out so I don't see why that would be an issue. Plus while the Montreal team is gone, the people from Edmonton and Austin are all still there so they have a large chunk of the same staff. Also it's not like they wouldn't have the notes from the Montreal people to work with, or even call them for insight.

I don't think it has to be this dramatic. If they made MEA2 and it was an amazing game then it wouldn't matter that MEA bombed, people would be willing to give the series a second chance.

The biggest thing working against MEA2 is Bioware's other IPs. Until Anthem and DA4 release, the series is stuck in limbo.

Heh. Only one?

Wow. Dude.  It amazes me that we played the same game.

EA have already come out and said that any future hypothetical Mass Effect game will be a fresh take on the franchise and thank goodness for that. The writing was universally reviled, the characters and environments were flat and uninteresting as the gameplay which was a gimmicky regression for the most part due to the unfortunate engine and middleware changes which crippped it’s development under understandly difficult circumstances and constant restructuring and rescoping. Tear it all up and start over with people who know what they are doing and have a clear focused vision that isn’t terrible from the get go.

I am pretty sure if Dragon Age 2 was released in the same climate as Mass Effect: Andromeda it would have been treated the same if not worse.

Oh lol! That doesn't surprise me.

I never created an account but I lurked on the old BSN starting around the release of Origin until it was shut down. The consistent pattern was:

- new IP (first Mass Effect/Dragon Age Origins) is released, picked apart but, generally well received.

- Time passes with no new games released, more "expert" analysis is done, amateur authors come out with long screed, I mean, err, post about how the game would have been so much better if it just followed their ideas

- some one posts about "all the retcons!"...wothout really understanding what a retcon is

- someone comes up with a theory as to why something is in the game that's "wrong", that something is talked about until posters are whipped into an appropriate froth, post is lost in time but is referenced in another thread later, that something is erroneous attributed devs, it now becomes true that devs said that something

- "Sequel" is announced, much hype ensues

- postings appear on why it will suck and why it will be disappointing based on 2 minute trailer with no in-game footage

- more details are released, including characters and potential romances...people start planning their playthroughs on the amount of romance options that night be in there

- dev says a variation of certain feature will be in game, poster imagine their variation of the feature is THE variation that will appear in the game...game is released with dev-intended variation of feature...dev are liars, F the devs

- sequel is released with different features...why did they take the old features out...these new features suck

- post war ensues between the "haters" and the "biodrones/fanboys/etc"

- feelings are hurt, devs are threatened, someone is accused of being birthed by a hound

- more of what happened before happens again

- new sequel is announced, more fretting is done, more romances are planned, more "experts" write long posts about how shitty game lore is without ever writing any of their own lore...ever

- new game details emerge...game has new features different from the previous game whose features were previously shit on...new game features are shitty because they are different from the previously shitty features

- rinse and repeat

I saw it happen when Mass Effect 2 was released. Oh the kvetching. Then DA2, then ME3...as it shall always be.

To be fair, DA2 had it's issues but where it distinguished itself from MEA was its superior character writing. Despite some problems with the third acts, it had some great story beats and the Arishok might be the best antagonist BioWare has ever done.

First, I want to just talk about creating it so I can see comments about how bad it will be from people who have no intention of ever playing.

Then, I want to create it so I can see comments from people that never played it saying how bad it is due to what they saw from YouTubers who made a video about bad it is though they never played it thenselves.