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Post by Son of Dorn on May 29, 2018 13:55:09 GMT
In this scenario, I'd like to see other races under siege by the kett and combining forces with the AI. This would give us new forms of kett (from the attacked races) as well as new aliens that could help create the beginnings of a new galactic society. And it would be even better if the asari discovered they could not "embrace eternity" with Andromeda races - at least not in a way that leads to procreation. That would make them more dependent on MW races, especially since they would avoid mating with other asari to prevent the rise of new Ardat-Yakshi. Interesting you bring up the asari embracing eternity or as I like to call it, embrace Javik. What if in a reboot the turians and salarians release the genophage on the asari to prevent them from mating with other species? Yes! That would be sooooo good.
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Post by Iakus on May 29, 2018 14:48:47 GMT
well thank you. Keep it mind regardless of factions or galaxy, Bioware needs more thought within Future Mass Effect games to make them better. For Example, to make Andromeda more attractive with more believable character development like Ryder becoming a better leader compare how he was in ME:Andromeda 1. there is nothing wrong with humor and a good part of character development is a good sense of improving sense of humor. Bugs and Animation testing the entire development will be a must, less we make memes out of them. Only thing imo that they need to address is bugs. Character growth happens over time. Over time, yeah, but there should be growth within the game. Especially one as big as a Mass Effect game.
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Post by KaiserShep on May 29, 2018 15:14:41 GMT
I'd like them to continue the MEA story. The setting is interesting. Introduce an alien race or two, ramp up the Scourge/Remnant, etc... I would love to have seen what the Jaardan would be like, as well as the "opposition" that detonated the weapon that led to the scourge, and why. At their respective peaks, they would probably have been far more formidable than the kett could ever hope to be.
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Post by KaiserShep on May 29, 2018 15:17:16 GMT
I'd like them to continue the MEA story. The setting is interesting. Introduce an alien race or two, ramp up the Scourge/Remnant, etc... In this scenario, I'd like to see other races under siege by the kett and combining forces with the AI. This would give us new forms of kett (from the attacked races) as well as new aliens that could help create the beginnings of a new galactic society. And it would be even better if the asari discovered they could not "embrace eternity" with Andromeda races - at least not in a way that leads to procreation. That would make them more dependent on MW races, especially since they would avoid mating with other asari to prevent the rise of new Ardat-Yakshi. Speaking of which, I'd love to have a serious Ardat-Yakshi threat in Heleus. Like, either one snuck along with the Initiative to escape the Justicars, or simply a new generation produces one. Such a thing would probably freak the Angara out.
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Post by Pounce de León on May 29, 2018 15:32:58 GMT
Wossa BDSG?
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Post by griffith82 on May 29, 2018 16:21:19 GMT
Only thing imo that they need to address is bugs. Character growth happens over time. Over time, yeah, but there should be growth within the game. Especially one as big as a Mass Effect game. Well imo there was.
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Post by Phantom on May 30, 2018 0:27:37 GMT
Just curious, regardless of faction, time, or galaxy, How would you feel about Shelby. She is a former Human Slave that had training as gladiator and fought in the Slave Pits for Warden(a very nasty Batarian that owns a slave prison within Batarian space and works with Batarian to get slaves thru out the galaxy) and having her on your team. she has a pair of batarian enforcer gaunlets that she borrowed from a batarian Enforcer. Accidently of course.
She is a sweetheart normally but she has several berserker buttons of slavers, batarians, batarian slavers, rapists and abusers.
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Post by KaiserShep on May 30, 2018 0:30:27 GMT
Just curious, regardless of faction, time, or galaxy, How would you feel about Shelby. She is a former Human Slave that had training as gladiator and fought in the Slave Pits for Warden(a very nasty Batarian that owns a slave prison within Batarian space and works with Batarian to get slaves thru out the galaxy) and having her on your team. she has a pair of batarian enforcer gaunlets that she borrowed from a batarian Enforcer. Accidently of course. She is a sweetheart normally but she has several berserker buttons of slavers, batarians, batarian slavers, rapists and abusers. Too many Batarians. Can we kill most of them?
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Post by Phantom on May 30, 2018 0:52:38 GMT
Just curious, regardless of faction, time, or galaxy, How would you feel about Shelby. She is a former Human Slave that had training as gladiator and fought in the Slave Pits for Warden(a very nasty Batarian that owns a slave prison within Batarian space and works with Batarian to get slaves thru out the galaxy) and having her on your team. she has a pair of batarian enforcer gaunlets that she borrowed from a batarian Enforcer. Accidently of course. She is a sweetheart normally but she has several berserker buttons of slavers, batarians, batarian slavers, rapists and abusers. Too many Batarians. Can we kill most of them? Well the sidequest for her has you fighting and killing many batarians while shutting his slaving operations. I would tie it back into the Mindor and other colonies that were raided by Batarian Slavers that he was the mastermind and Shelby was one of the unfortuate victims of his campaign. Among the Batarian people, the Batarian Warden is the type of batarian that other batarians are ashamed of. In short, you with Shelby will be doing the galaxy a favor by killing him and destroying His slaving operation.
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Post by mannyray on May 30, 2018 3:14:05 GMT
Good question, but Mass Effect already had the feel of the rebooted BSG, which is my all time favorite genre show.
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Post by Phantom on Jun 15, 2018 1:12:56 GMT
if tastefully done, would you guys like to see bioware team use, "Another way to Die" and "Down with the Sickness" by Disturbed?
Another Way to Die Mass Effect Trailer will introduce the New villains like Batarian Warden, Turian SpecOps Leader and Asari Engineer causing havok on various planets thru out the galaxy
Down With the Sickness Mass Effect Trailer will introduce the New Mass effect Anti Hero Squad of DOOM. Shelby, the Cerberus Nemesis fighting and hunting Batarian Raiders and Slavers tied to the Batarian Warden. Scotty, The Cerberus Engineer would be fighting Asari Engineer and her Eezro Mechs. Cerberus Phantom will be facing several Reaper Husks.
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Post by disi on Jun 26, 2018 15:28:49 GMT
How about you play as a reaper, who sneaked onboard one of the arks? Now awaken it starts to collect humans and other species to create the perfect machine as a mix of organic and mechanic life.
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Post by Phantom on Jun 26, 2018 18:34:57 GMT
How about you play as a reaper, who sneaked onboard one of the arks? Now awaken it starts to collect humans and other species to create the perfect machine as a mix of organic and mechanic life. A Reaper Avatar would be a good character to use for your idea. Paul Greyson when he was upgraded with Reaper Nanite and he was became a Reaper avatar before he was killed by Kai Leng. A Difference between a Reaper Avatar and a Reaper Husk is that a Reaper avatar do keep their intelligence while being enslaved by the Reapers. so you as a Reaper Avatar, will indoctrinated others to recruit others. and kill others that oppose you. Roleplaying why your Reaper avatar is indoctrinating others ranging from unity to order to believing the Reapers are correct or a power rush.
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Post by cloud9 on Aug 9, 2018 10:38:01 GMT
Lol with taste. I think I have the answer: I think we should all admit if they made ME4, it stars Shepard, they give him a beard and a son or daughter, then it'd just win everything. Last of Us, Logan, God if War. Mass Effect 4: Shepdad. Female Shepard too just give her a beard and a kid. You have a better idea?
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Post by Serza on Aug 9, 2018 11:21:21 GMT
How 'bout not trying to tack on another chapter to a story that is complete?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2018 11:31:34 GMT
How 'bout not trying to tack on another chapter to a story that is complete? Let's face it, no matter how they continued the story, or rewound the story, people would be pissed. Now having a parallel story with someone who meets Shep or Anderson, perhaps a character who causes a problem Shep fixes in ME2 or 3, or the other way round...that would be cool. You could have occasional hints of the original crew whilst you do something separate.
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Post by griffith82 on Aug 9, 2018 12:17:22 GMT
Anything that doesn't involve going backwards. Shepard's story is done.
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Post by Serza on Aug 9, 2018 12:24:46 GMT
How 'bout not trying to tack on another chapter to a story that is complete? Let's face it, no matter how they continued the story, or rewound the story, people would be pissed. Now having a parallel story with someone who meets Shep or Anderson, perhaps a character who causes a problem Shep fixes in ME2 or 3, or the other way round...that would be cool. You could have occasional hints of the original crew whilst you do something separate.
'Fraid so, Katniss.
Now, something along the lines of Paragon Lost, hmm...
For those who didn't see the movie: Basically it's about James Vega during 2185/Collector crisis and takes place sometimes before the end of ME2. The colony where Vega is stationed is attacked, and he ends up getting intel on the Collectors that could be used to destroy them. Unfortunately, he has to sacrifice the entire colony population to get the intel - and Shepard destroys the Collectors without it. A rather tragic story that gives a bit more backstory to Vega's almost suicidal tendencies at some points in ME3.
The First Contact War is an obvious choice. So are the Krogan Rebellions or the Rachni Wars. Heck, slightly horror vibed stories in Andromeda - Site 1 Promise and Site 2 Resilience, the Exiles between their, well, exile and Ryder's arrival, the other three Arks... (You could probably create a Dead Space-esque game out of any of the Arks that aren't Hyperion, including the Keelah Si'yah). An exploration game set on Mars where you just explore, but that could be boring...
The possibilities are infinite!
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Post by themikefest on Aug 9, 2018 12:29:34 GMT
How about you play as a reaper, who sneaked onboard one of the arks? Now awaken it starts to collect humans and other species to create the perfect machine as a mix of organic and mechanic life. I wouldn't mind playing as a reaper. Or how about playing as Harbinger, ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL? At least in a dlc. Here's a thread I created having the player play as one of the uglies, a destroyer and finally as Harbinger.
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Post by Pounce de León on Aug 9, 2018 12:31:46 GMT
Let's face it, no matter how they continued the story, or rewound the story, people would be pissed. Now having a parallel story with someone who meets Shep or Anderson, perhaps a character who causes a problem Shep fixes in ME2 or 3, or the other way round...that would be cool. You could have occasional hints of the original crew whilst you do something separate.
'Fraid so, Katniss.
Now, something along the lines of Paragon Lost, hmm...
For those who didn't see the movie: Basically it's about James Vega during 2185/Collector crisis and takes place sometimes before the end of ME2. The colony where Vega is stationed is attacked, and he ends up getting intel on the Collectors that could be used to destroy them. Unfortunately, he has to sacrifice the entire colony population to get the intel - and Shepard destroys the Collectors without it. A rather tragic story that gives a bit more backstory to Vega's almost suicidal tendencies at some points in ME3.
The First Contact War is an obvious choice. So are the Krogan Rebellions or the Rachni Wars. Heck, slightly horror vibed stories in Andromeda - Site 1 Promise and Site 2 Resilience, the Exiles between their, well, exile and Ryder's arrival, the other three Arks... (You could probably create a Dead Space-esque game out of any of the Arks that aren't Hyperion, including the Keelah Si'yah). An exploration game set on Mars where you just explore, but that could be boring...
The possibilities are infinite!
A catastrophic event shoves the Quarian Ark off course. The vast ship finally arrives in an uncharted, unknown galaxy and its passengers just slowly begin to realise that this is not the place they set out to get to.
Yea, why not.
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Post by Sanunes on Aug 9, 2018 12:43:39 GMT
How 'bout not trying to tack on another chapter to a story that is complete? Let's face it, no matter how they continued the story, or rewound the story, people would be pissed. Now having a parallel story with someone who meets Shep or Anderson, perhaps a character who causes a problem Shep fixes in ME2 or 3, or the other way round...that would be cool. You could have occasional hints of the original crew whilst you do something separate. Sounds like watching a reboot of something I already enjoy. There is an outcome we as players already know and that makes a boring narrative, to make a decent story that doesn't have so many restrictions on it there shouldn't be a connection to anything that has happened in the prior games. If they get one thing wrong there are people that are going to make a narrative about the laziness of BioWare or maybe how they don't care. Its not about making people pissed for in this modern age anything is going to piss off players. Its about the narrative they spin and how it might impact other consumers and if it might convince them on their purchasing habits. If BioWare makes a game where the narrative is just "not enough good stuff" versus "they bungled their story telling again" which might have the least negative opinion on others.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2018 13:16:35 GMT
Let's face it, no matter how they continued the story, or rewound the story, people would be pissed. Now having a parallel story with someone who meets Shep or Anderson, perhaps a character who causes a problem Shep fixes in ME2 or 3, or the other way round...that would be cool. You could have occasional hints of the original crew whilst you do something separate.
'Fraid so, Katniss.
Now, something along the lines of Paragon Lost, hmm...
For those who didn't see the movie: Basically it's about James Vega during 2185/Collector crisis and takes place sometimes before the end of ME2. The colony where Vega is stationed is attacked, and he ends up getting intel on the Collectors that could be used to destroy them. Unfortunately, he has to sacrifice the entire colony population to get the intel - and Shepard destroys the Collectors without it. A rather tragic story that gives a bit more backstory to Vega's almost suicidal tendencies at some points in ME3.
The First Contact War is an obvious choice. So are the Krogan Rebellions or the Rachni Wars. Heck, slightly horror vibed stories in Andromeda - Site 1 Promise and Site 2 Resilience, the Exiles between their, well, exile and Ryder's arrival, the other three Arks... (You could probably create a Dead Space-esque game out of any of the Arks that aren't Hyperion, including the Keelah Si'yah). An exploration game set on Mars where you just explore, but that could be boring...
The possibilities are infinite!
Exactly, I enjoyed the backstory for Vega even more when I realised he was working in tandem with, but unknown to, Shepard. It wouldn't even need to be Reaper related. You could be in charge of a black ops crew who are trying to take down a dangerous operative, adventuring throughout the galaxy to catch him and every now and then edging towards Shep's timeline for little Easter Eggs. All those unexplained things in the trilogy? A few could in fact be the result of the new protagonist's actions. What if things go bad and you're accused of treason. You become a fugitive, playing the bad guy determined to prove your innocence or, if you chose to, be guilty and get away with the crime. You land on whatever planet it was Zaeed had his mission on to do a deal with the Blue Sun's leader. As you land the whole facility explodes and a shuttle can be seen in the distance rendezvousing with the Normandy. This sets you back so you try to find Zaeed only to get hacked by Cerberus, curious as to why you want to find him. They put up a wall and refuse to divulge his location, so you have to find a new avenue to investgate. So something like that could be a whole new story on a sister timeline. Sanunes So in this scenario you don't know the outcome as it's not Reaper related at all.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 9, 2018 13:37:15 GMT
I would change the combat mechanics of ME1 to the new modern standard and nothing else. I would personally reboot the franchise from ME2 onward. As much as that pains me due how much I love ME2, the fact is, the main plot of that game is absolutely horrible and does basically nothing to advance the main Reaper plot. I would leave as much of the game untouched as possible, but would have to remake aspects to address the new main plot, which would revolve around the idea that Andromeda tried and failed horribly at attempting. Space Exploration. The main plot would resume exactly where ME1 ended, with Shepard and company following vague stories about machine gods and Reapers as the crew of the Normandy explores new, totally uncharted worlds that resemble Havaarl and other such exotic looking planets in search of ancient ruins and texts that leads you down a path to discover the key to defeating the Reapers, which would be an ancient computer virus that disables the mass effect barriers of the Reaper capital ships, making them vulnerable to conventional weapons, this virus would be delivered via the Crucible, due to the Reapers mastery of computers and hacking, thus the Crucible would act as a brute force override that implants the virus without having to hack each Reaper individually, because that's impossible. The Terminus Systems would of course still be included as well as Omega, because of course it would.
The Normandy would still be upgraded, because it would be totally renovated by the Alliance and the Council in response to the Reaper threat, because in this version, the Council races would not be pants on head retarded, and would logically follow their attitude at the end of ME1 where they take the threat seriously, and the Council races are basically using this time as an arms build up period, similar to the Human Council variant of ME2. Shepard and crew must go Zero Dark Thirty in terms of communication with the Council races, only breaking "radio silence" when new revelations are discovered, which are delivered to the Council in person, to avoid possibly hacked comms. At the same time, TIM and Cerberus are still involved since Martin Sheen's performance was just too good to remove. TIM basically serves the same function he did originally, providing secret intel in regards to the mission, including the same "setting you up without telling you to test theories" moments. The Suicide Mission would function with the same mechanics as before because it was perfectly executed the first time. The Collectors would still be useful for the plot, because they would try to get to these ancients sites before you, trying to destroy all traces of the Crucible and Virus before you can find them. The trojan that leads the Collectors to the Normandy would be the Virus Weapon, heavily corrupted. the crew still gets kidnapped, and thus the suicide mission can play out almost exactly the same, minus the Terminator Reaper fetus. Needless to say, this would be a VERY long game. I would still include Lair of the Shadow Broker, totally untouched, as it was perfect the first time. Arrival would be heavily altered, and would result in Shepard failing in their mission to delay the arrival, and thus the Reapers arrive just as Shepard and the Normandy barely escape the system, and instantly send out a message to TIM, the Council, Omega, Earth, everyone. "I'm sorry, I failed. The Reapers are here." The game fades to black with ominous music.
That would be ME2, ME3 would involve a time skip, as we are jumped into the middle of the conflict, the invasion already ongoing. ME3 would require much more remaking imo to make it where I would want it. Tuchanka would remain untouched, Rannoch would remain untouched, the opening of the game would be changed to the Emily Wong thing they did, instead fully animated as the intro cutscene. "You wanna see how humans die? At ramming speed!" Que the Title Scroll, "Mass Effect 3" with deliberate No Music. During the time skip, the Crucible construction had already begun, and the races of the MW were waiting for the Virus to be scrubbed, decoded and added to the Crucible. This is what you are waiting for during ME3, as you go around and gathering all the allies for the final attack, doing more or less exactly what we did but with much, much less Cerberus crap, aka no limitless Cerberus zombie armies and giant fleets of ships. Because Cerberus was utterly ridiculous in ME3. Thessia would have to be basically entirely overhauled, as I felt the entire section was heavily rushed and greatly underutilized, no detailed thoughts about how to do that at this time. the game would also actually mention in news reports how the Andromeda Initiative managed to leave just before the Reapers arrival, because the reason for the Initiative was, duh, The Reapers.
Priority Earth would have to receive the most work obviously, and this is where your choices would finally come into effect. Priority Earth would be The Suicide Mission cranked to 100. The difference would be scale, as instead of companions getting orders, you give orders to entire wings of soldiers. Krogan Battalions, Salaraian STG units, Asari Commandos, Rachni swarms if spared, etc etc. These would be used in the final showdown with Harbinger, because you cannot build up a Reaper for 2 games and do absolutely nothing with him. This is where your choices would determine the fate of Shepard and all of your companions, The more forces you have, and the way you deploy them during this massive encounter would determine who lives or dies during the final battle. The goal of course is to hold Harbinger's attention while Sword Fleet mops up the Reapers in orbit, if you have very little forces, game over Reapers win, if you have moderate forces, the MW wins, but at HEAVY cost, and Shepard and all the companions die. if you have the "max" threshold of troops and execute their deployment perfectly, you win, and Shepard and his friends survive long enough for Sword fleet to close in on Harbinger, and right before blowing him away, Shepard throws it back into Harbingers face about they were destroyed by insignificant bacteria. The game would then have a playable Epilogue segment, The Citadel DLC party, as they celebrate achieving the impossible, and mourning all their lost friends along the way. The game would then go into a DAO style second epilogue, giving a paragraph at least of text talking about what happens to everyone you met across the series, The Feros colony, Novaria and Gianna, Aria and Omega etc etc, all describing what happens to every character that had a name within the trilogy, this would go on for however long, as I would let the writers go absolutely wild with this, because this is the conclusion to a Series, not just one game, and Mass Effect deserves it. I would also never reveal the motivations of the Reapers. They would die remaining unknown and alien to us, because the given reason is just dumb, and because when something is truly Alien, it is far more intimidating. It is my belief that you should never "Explain the Magic".
I would then, for a time, put the MW aside as it needs to rebuild from the war, and make Andromeda, which would be entirely different from what it was. But this post is long enough already and no one is going to reach this part of the post anyway, as you all gave up several paragraphs ago. Regardless, I would also expand the franchise into new genres, like a ME 4x game, spin off prequel games like First Contact which would be more shooter focused with a multiplayer focus, but still a deep campaign mode, because ME is story intensive. Eventually after a decent time skip, games taking place in the MW would return in perhaps a more DA style, with new characters and new protagonists showing up when appropriate. The Andromeda series would continue in parallel, eventually regaining contact with the MW after however long would feel believable.
This is a basic outline of what I would them to do with ME. I'm sure no one else would like it and that is fine, but this is the ME I ultimately wanted, and thus is what I would do if given the chance to make it happen. if anyone, by some miracle reaches this point of this post, thank you for your time and patience, and I hope you have a pleasant day.
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Post by Sanunes on Aug 9, 2018 14:07:56 GMT
'Fraid so, Katniss.
Now, something along the lines of Paragon Lost, hmm...
For those who didn't see the movie: Basically it's about James Vega during 2185/Collector crisis and takes place sometimes before the end of ME2. The colony where Vega is stationed is attacked, and he ends up getting intel on the Collectors that could be used to destroy them. Unfortunately, he has to sacrifice the entire colony population to get the intel - and Shepard destroys the Collectors without it. A rather tragic story that gives a bit more backstory to Vega's almost suicidal tendencies at some points in ME3.
The First Contact War is an obvious choice. So are the Krogan Rebellions or the Rachni Wars. Heck, slightly horror vibed stories in Andromeda - Site 1 Promise and Site 2 Resilience, the Exiles between their, well, exile and Ryder's arrival, the other three Arks... (You could probably create a Dead Space-esque game out of any of the Arks that aren't Hyperion, including the Keelah Si'yah). An exploration game set on Mars where you just explore, but that could be boring...
The possibilities are infinite!
Exactly, I enjoyed the backstory for Vega even more when I realised he was working in tandem with, but unknown to, Shepard. It wouldn't even need to be Reaper related. You could be in charge of a black ops crew who are trying to take down a dangerous operative, adventuring throughout the galaxy to catch him and every now and then edging towards Shep's timeline for little Easter Eggs. All those unexplained things in the trilogy? A few could in fact be the result of the new protagonist's actions. What if things go bad and you're accused of treason. You become a fugitive, playing the bad guy determined to prove your innocence or, if you chose to, be guilty and get away with the crime. You land on whatever planet it was Zaeed had his mission on to do a deal with the Blue Sun's leader. As you land the whole facility explodes and a shuttle can be seen in the distance rendezvousing with the Normandy. This sets you back so you try to find Zaeed only to get hacked by Cerberus, curious as to why you want to find him. They put up a wall and refuse to divulge his location, so you have to find a new avenue to investgate. So something like that could be a whole new story on a sister timeline. Sanunes So in this scenario you don't know the outcome as it's not Reaper related at all. The problem for me is that it still involves what Shepard and crew have already done so you are still going down that path so there is very little room for doing something on your own. Just like the problem I have with The First Contact War you are stuck playing in a sandbox that has already been established you might be going down a different path, but at lot of the final outcomes have already been done. Using Cerberus means we know the final outcome of Cerberus so we wouldn't be taking them down in this story, we know that Zaeed isn't the bad guy or someone that we have a conflict with because he joins Shepards's crew. Its just not the Reapers themselves, but the Quarian/Geth conflict or the Genophage, Rachni, Council Fate, Citadel Fate, or any number of other things that we might have conflict in are already in a set state for the final choices Shepard makes in the other games.
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Post by Phantom on Aug 9, 2018 19:34:15 GMT
if there is going to be a con current games to Shepard trilogy, that within them would have to retcon ME3 to make any sense. Keep In mind that you can use the Stargazer scene that the grandfather did say that Details have change over time.
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