Would you like a Soft Reboot for Mass Effect Milk Way Galaxy

Multiverse theory.

Create each game or trilogy taking place in an alternate universe based on very specific choices.

I’ll be honest, I don’t understand what the fascination with the Milky Way is. I get that people were disappointed with Andromeda the game but did anyone really have a problem with Andromeda the location? Outside of minor differences, any story that can be told in the Milky Way can be told in Andromeda as well.

Easy fix. MEA2, ability to travel outside the cluster. Clearly not all of Andromeda but neighboring clusters should be doable.

Very interesting results of the poll so far.

I had an interesting thought about the explorers who went to Andromeda. I'm not sure how they could really have been immune to the outcome of ME3. Why, you say? Well, the trip took 600 years. That means a lot that time was spent in the MW. So if, say, Synthesis ending happened, the AI should have arrived in Andromeda as this kind of techno-organic beings. If Refusal occurred, I can't see the Reapers ignoring them. I could, therefore, conclude that in the MEA-verse, Destroy or Control are the only possible outcomes. Thoughts? Holes to poke in my theory?

The Arks used Mass Relays to get to the edge of the Milky Way to launch a year before ME3 started. The trip took 634 years, and the distance between the two galaxies is 2,537,000 light years. That means they were about 4,002 light years away from the edge of the Milky Way by the time the Crucible fired, easily outside of its effective range as we see in the cutscene. 

Yes, but then the events of Mass Effect 3 span over a few months thus putting the end of Mass Effect 3 just over a year after the Andromeda Initiative launches. 

Ah, I see. I was just rounding and thinking of the year date as I wrote that part. 

Since you brought it up, around the time the beginning of Mass Effect 3 occurs the Andromeda Initiative is around 3,335 light years from the edge of the Milky Way.

I don't really want to see an alternate version of Shepard. A trilogy was sufficient. We already know BioWare isn't producing games that meet the expectations we have. Why does anyone think a reboot would improve the Shepard/Reaper Trilogy?

First of all, I want to say: Those are some great options for the poll. Well done OP. Personally, I clicked "I do wonder what type of shitstorm it will bring." Technically, "I am KROGAN" is the coolest answer but since I am clearly a(n) dromedary, it was clear to me I wouldn't fool anyone.

*cough* Back on topic:
Even after giving it some thought, I cannot come up with an idea for a soft reboot that I would find completely satisfying, so unless BW would come up with something absolutely spectacular, I'd have to be against it. Besides, we already had a soft reboot. It's called Andromeda. Yes, the first Andromeda was a bit of a disappointment, especially when it comes to the aspect of ... well, logic. Still, that's done and I would think that a "reverse jump the shark" might be possible if we leave the origin story of the Andromeda expedition behind us and focus on the future.

That said, there would have to be some drastic changes in an Andromeda 2. Ryder might be back but we'd need way more control over what the character says in dialogue, not just how they say it. Further, we'd need Andromeda to feel like a truely new and wondeous, yet believable place with it's own character, not like Angara-land/MW 2.0.

I think the Kett and the Jardaan/Remnant have a lot of potential for the future and there'd be a lot we could learn and discover about them, so that's there already.
So there is your reboot.

If one were to prefer staying in the MW, I don't really see what benefits a reboot would provide over just continuing from any of the endings? In both cases, you effectively say "F U" to the trilogy, so you might as well keep the good and just throw out what can't be used selectively. That IMO was the one master stroke in going to Andromeda. It allowed a reboot without sacrificing the trilogy for it (much, the ODSY drive still makes for a lot of contradictions but I digress).

So in principle, MW reboot: No, unless they find a decent way to do it but IMO, we already had our reboot, so if they don't want to continue after the trilogy, just continue with that ... or just make a battle royal style MMO out of the franchise, than I really wouldn't care anymore.