Should bioware do one final shepard game?

Maybe. Maybe not


That was budget and time constraints.


That's fine.


There was a survey posted online someplace or other where it showed that the fanbase overwhelmingly chose Destroy, but didn't disclose EMS.


It would certainly miss on a large dynamic. I don't know if it would be outright ridiculed. I can give you a sure fire ticket for at least a couple hundred thousand sales in Maggie Baird (Samara) and getting her irl daughter to perhaps make a small cameo role appearance in the game. I hear that Billie Eilish is all the rage with the young kids today. That will attract those 12 year olds. Boy, do I feel dirty just saying that. Ideally, though, if you return to the Milky Way, you want to also tap into the full potential of the franchise with Shepard and co. to ensure the best marketable result for your game. You can most definitely not do it, but it most likely won't bring an advantage.

It's not exactly like what is being proposed here is a sort of unfathomable stretch. This is a very logical train of thought that anyone can follow and reach the same conclusion. Even if you don't like it from a story telling standpoint, at least from a commercially successful one. And Bioware needs that win.


Ugh, wouldn't that be the dream. I expect them to be outstaged from new characters, because you know, best place to start the trilogy, no cameo or even a reference from them, even if they were previously your LIs and ditched for Tali and Liara again. Which don't even share any chemistry between them.

That is up to Bioware to decide going forward, but I would really like to seem them do another Andromeda and Shepard used scarcely, especially for cases like Bioware find themselves now. Just leave that Shepard window open, just a little, just in case.

I honestly don't know why anyone would want Shepard to come back, he/she was kinda boring.

Where as Ryder is just a Boy/Girl Scout wannabe.

Most people didn't upgrade the Normandy, so for most players going into ME3, she was dead. And because Bioware had 18 months to make ME3, she was royally reduced to a cameo in a side mission, just like Samara and we got Tali as a squadmate, 2/3 of the game in, because Weekes interjected that you can't have a Mass Effect game without Tali. Jack was supposed to be a full squadmate in ME3, hence the complete makeover.


Jack and Miranda in their interactions practically write themselves. I want elevator rides back, just so I can get stuck in one with Jack and Miranda.



Yes, it would. And as I said last time, after the Citadel blowing up, Kelly can decide that the safest place in the galaxy is right next to Shepard and she can be on board, too. But no Diana Allers, please. Why couldn't we get Emily Wong on board? She was a good girl and Bioware killed her off in a tweet.


Because he will sell copies.

And how many copies? Because, more people left the ME franchise than have stayed.

Hell, the original BSN had more members in it before ME3 came out.

Well, I guess Bioware fucked up somewhere around there, then. If only there was a large event that happened with the release of ME3 to reflect that. I just ... I don't know, what could it be?

She kinda was, in Citadel. Like I've already said, the best reason to get Samara back is Maggie Baird herself and the fact that her daughter is a bona fide teenage pop star, most notably at the peek of her popularity right now. A lot of little zoomers would buy Billie's game, if Bioware could leverage Maggie to use Billie, even as a side character. Won't cost them more than Natalie Dormamu did and it most definitely will attract a bigger audience.


I have no objection for Kelly, she may be a significantly minor character, compared to others, but she is pleasant, if not a little floozy. We've got enough of the crew and side characters dead to sneak her in, budget wise, I mean. And yeah, since she can do the psychological stuff, she has a real use on the ship, especially in a post Reaper setting, a shrink would be quite helpful on the team. Might even help with Shepard's PTSD dreams. Especially a romanced Kelly would have proven invaluable to a PTSD suffering Shepard, don't you guys think?

Depends on where you want to draw the line. I'd count Samara since the relationship is portrayed as serious, unlike the Allers, Javik, and Vega one-night-stands.

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Bringing Shepard back won't save the franchise, it's true, but it will go a long way for disgruntled Bioware fans. If they manage to make a good game out of him, rather than just a decent one, that will be nailing it. Which may solidify the notion that you can't have Mass Effect, without Shepard for some, but I don't think that's true. If people believe in Bioware again, they will be up for another Andromeda, I believe.

But what if we got mildly entertaining games again? Who did you romance, Pounce de León?

The next iteration should come with a hip grind emote;)