Should bioware do one final shepard game?

If they'd gone on a hiring binge, we'd know it. That can't be done in secret, and there are people who go through all the dev recruiting channels to try abd see what's happening.

But that, in turn, doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the Bioware name, for the public. Why should I, they buyer, trust Bioware when their employer doesn't?

From what was reported, the DA4 announcement happened without the consent of EA higher ups and it angered a lot of people, but Bioware, seeing how Anthem was going to release, announced it so as to have a "future" project announced and not have it cancelled under wraps by EA and the studio closed down. So this was more of a Bioware forced EA's hand situation, which also doesn't inspire me with a lot of confidence.


Their method of operation certainly doesn't inspire me to do so.



Honestly, what are the chances of that happening? When getting an Andromeda level of quality game can be considered a vast improvement, to the quality of their latest title? It might be better, but I don't expect much. And what is publicly know about DA4 doesn't inspire much confidence, either.

EA has been kind to Bioware. Only 1 out of their last 5 games hasn't had some kind of controversy associated with it.

I think too much time has passed anyway. I just don't think the characters would feel right at this point, and whatever time gap they establish between ME3 and the hypothetical game should see them become more than just groundside combatants. I mean, after defeating the reapers, would it just be Shepard & Friends on some low-key adventure? Can I choose to have Shepard constantly complain about her back aching after being on the Citadel when it blew up?

More than that though, Mass Effect as a trilogy was ultimately the resolution of Shepard’s exposure to a much bigger world and bigger threat. Even if it didn’t exactly stick the landing, it still landed and ended that thread. I feel like with that sort of thing, a character’s chapter should rightly close when they reach that resolution, and either they die doing what they had to do, or they live their life and do things not really interesting enough to warrant a game focused on them specifically. The prospect of seeing our old beloved characters finding themselves in better places than they were before, no longer answering to people like they did in the past and being able to reap the benefits of the world they fought for just sounds more appealing to me. Like, I loved seeing Wrex as the leader of his clan on Tuchanka. Sure, it would’ve been nice to have him be a squad mate again, but I was thoroughly satisfied that a character I liked found new purpose, and was happy with my new son  krogan squad member. Let the newbies suffer instead lol

I know it would not be hard. There's just a vocal minority who believe that this company can still keep it up with Andromeda despite how woeful reception was. Shepard trilogy was by far the peak of the franchise and likely the peak of Bioware as well.

Anthem and Andromeda back to back does not inspire confidence. It would be nice to have all the same writers, but we all saw Drew not even part of ME3 despite being largely responsible for the most popular game in the series (ME2). Outside of Rannoch and Tuchanka, the rest of ME3 felt very dejected compared to the first two games tones. But that's also a gripe for myself after getting used to more dialogue and character interaction.

I have no had a playthrough of the series in years. Could not even complete Andromeda when it came out. Got maybe halfway through and did not end up finishing the game until much later. The remaster news has me slightly hopeful, but I also have a level of personal hope that they somehow go back and fix some glaring flaws in the original releases that are not related to bugs or graphics.

The great thing about fictional characters is that you can age them as much as you want. Or de-age them, if you want.

Now this information is before BioWare Edmonton moved to their new building.  We know they have two teams in Edmonton and a support team in Texas (they are the ones that are working on The Old Republic and Anthem now).  BioWare did have a third team for Mass Effect: Andromeda, but they were merged into Motive Studios which was working on Star Wars: Squadron.  Generally from older comments from developers is they normally have one game in full blown production (best guess right now is Dragon Age 4) and another in the concept/prototype stage (my guess a new Mass Effect game).

Since then BioWare Edmonton has moved into a new building with more room, but no idea on how they are staffed for they might be the same or they might have more from new hires or transfers from other areas of EA.