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

I would replace asari with salarian

Since we are in Andromeda, I think the ideal option would be asari, human, quarian, salarian, and turian.

Since Volus is a option i am in for the corrected list.

And Yondu, he's Mary Poppins y'all!

Both of them are lesser than BLAZEEEE "420" HYYYDRRAAAAA! *STOMP STOMP STOMP* "oh shi.. ok I'm dead"

A direct sequel to MEA featuring Ryder will be a sure disaster. If there is another ME game, it needs to be closely aligned more with the MET and less with Andromeda.

They could pull MEA2 off fine if they, again, put the emphasis on quality characters and story. They did as recently as late-2014/2015 with DAI and it's subsequent SP DLCs, they could do it again.

Not sure why people say ME3 ending "screwed things up". On one hand people wanted diverge, meaningful endings impacted by your choices, and on the other they want a game set after those endings? Yeah that's never gona happen, can't have the cake and eat it too.

Whether you think ME3 endings were good or bad doesn't matter for a sequal, the fact that it was an ending based on choices already puts a dent in the idea.

To the bolded part, I think that was because of how they envisioned the Reapers.  They were made to be pretty much indestructible and with such a big ego that nothing else would really work aside from a maguffin search which is what ME3 felt like to me.  All the other lore they presented in the prior games and even the start of ME3 made the Reapers pretty much a TPK designed enemy which is bad design/planning.

Personally I wouldn't say they are afraid, but smart enough to know where it would go.  Everything that remotely comes out of BioWare becomes a "us versus them" and I don't think they want that.

Heck, forget even the ending. The problem starts developing the moment you decide what to do with the genophage. 

I honestly don't get that idea. Yeah dead specific person if still dead, but all the main decisions can be written around IMO.  I never cure the genophage, but if in ME OG trilogy 4 its cured all it takes is like a single line.   Despite Commander Shepards betrayal War Chief Smarty Pants created a cure, we didn't need the Salarians to fix it.  They had like 2-3 Krogan who were on the path to creating a cure, multiple Salarians who think its the right thing to do and probably could if they wanted to.  If they make it the default world setting one line of dialogue explains why even tough you chose otherwise. If you cured it, one line of dialogue explaining how the slarains invented a new genophage after a raid by upset krogan.  Geth/Quarians enough escaping to rebuild if one was killed is plausible and again a single line of dialogue explains it.  At most it makes traveling to Quarain home world a off limits planet.

Edit to add, they basically did this in ME3 and yet your decision were kept.  Killed the rachni, they made clones, convinced Mordin to destroy the cure, he changed his mind.  You making a decision doesn't make your character all powerful so it lasts for eternity.

See that's the thing I don't get.  How is the universe acting on its own watering anything down or a quasi-retcon.  Shepard isn't a god, unless you picked control  maybe.  In theory people are doing things while Shepard isn't around.


I honestly don't have a issue with them picking a fixed canon, I just don't get the idea that if other characters do things to change the effects of Shepards decisions at a later date it is a quasi retcon.