Should bioware do one final shepard game?

Sounds reasonable. I think it would be better if they flip the stories a bit. Start with ME2, then ME1, then ME3. Obviously a few things would need to change, but I think the story would work out more logical this way.

You start like ME1, but rather than having the Geth and Saren, you find Eden Prime empty for example. There, after taking off trying to go back to the Citadel to report, you are attacked and the Normandy is destroyed, but you manage to escape (no revival nonsense). After the distress call, no one comes for you and your surviving crew. You later find out that the council and Alliance deemed it to risky to send anyone to disappear. Cerberus shows up, saves you all, and then practically everything can go on like ME2. The reapers should still remain a myth at the end of this game.


Then you get ME1, with Saren going rogue and working with the Geth. Sovereign arriving etc. This is where you should get the cypher and the first information regarding the reapers. Near the end of the previous game, the Terminator was still a huge unknown to everyone. And preparations against the reapers should start here, rather than the last game.

And then ME3, which can remain largely the same.

That's actually not bad...

Beyond the point of the final decision, ME3 isn’t really in dire need of major fixes. Any quibbles over treatment of certain NPC’s isn’t as much a concern over the primary issue that ultimately affects the franchise going forward. 

The endings toMass Effect 3 are what they are and no amount or remastering/remaking is going to change that.

People really to get over it.

Learn from the past.
Respect the past.
Honor the past
Revisit the past.
BUT DON'T STAY IN THE PAST, BECAUSE THAT LEADS TO STAGNATION AND DEATH!


MEA2 is the future and the best path forward and I would rather see ME go forward into the future than run backwards, stagnate, and die because people are butthurt over because a game didn't give them the endings that they wanted.

Given how they threw MEA under the bus, I'm not sure even Bioware believes that.

I never said that it didn’t. Heck, if it wasn’t for the companion content, the various failings of the plot throughout the entire trilogy would have lost me, especially ME2. And I’m sure other people consider the character content we got to be a major problem as well. The question is whether or not enough fans are largely satisfied with the roster that it actually isn’t as major a problem as you might think. Any ideas of having every companion in the official roster get an equal amount of content at this point, like, say, Jack becoming a shipmate in ME3, is just a pipe dream that’ll never come true. There’s just too many of them, and it’d be more likely that some simply get cut to put more focus on the more substantial character content.  I’d say it’s better to fix the most egregious issues, then from there tweak other things if development allows. If we were going over things to really fix, I don’t think it’s unfair to say that there are bigger fish to fry than some deficiencies in the content for certain characters. 

Well Unforturely what i talk about is not Bullshit due to the lack of ME:A support thru lack of news and Quarian DLC becoming a Novel.  Some might say No News is good news yet their silence is deafening where ME:A is concern.  It is the norm to have DLC news within a year within the gaming companies and  having a sequel news within 2 to 4 years is also the norm.  Their silences on ME:A 2 is fueling the remaster rumors. Going backwards is always a good thing with the fans.   

We already had that. It’s called Mass Effect 3.

LOL! ya got me there (wait??? I'm Sure I had my pants up)

You have that backwards. The ending was singularly the driving force behind the fan backlash toward the game, and it wasn’t because X subplot was weak or X character got neglected. Those amount to mere nitpicks by comparison. Whether you want to believe that or not won’t change that. Every single Mass Effect game is littered with sloppily assembled subplots that are full of nonsensical things and NPC’s that get the short end of the stick, even the one considered by most fans to be the best one. Like, anyone who romanced the VS got thoroughly shafted in ME2. If ME3 had nailed just about everything else, but still pulled the exact same ending prior to the Extended Cut, the hatred from the fandom would be just as strong. I’d even go so far to say that if everything up to that point was that much better, the effect of the abrupt conclusion they sold us might have even been worse, squandering what could have been the nigh perfect Mass Effect game. Look at Game of Thrones. It doesn’t even matter how good (or passable) the previous seasons were. Those two hacks thoroughly destroyed it, assassinating as many characters as they could before closing it out, and it’s not even worth a revisit, knowing where it all leads. 

A pipe dream, by its very definition, isn’t something you just make real. Whether or not BioWare or any developer can reasonably implement an idea that approximates to that pipe dream is anyone’s guess, but of course, with no clear idea of what that pipe dream even entails and how to implement it kind of makes that impossible. You don’t really know to what extent disposable characters can reasonably be used in an ongoing plot when that plot must also function without them. The Citadel DLC might look like a rebuttal on its face, until you realize that even the campaign in that extra (paid) expansion is still unaffected by whether or not these characters survive, and there are no extra missions that include them. Even when an NPC gets “5 times” their base content, what’s the difference when that content functions identically to what they got in the base game, other than simply being more of it? The impression I got was that you wanted all of the surviving characters to be incorporated into the main roster throughout the game, to have some impact on the plot or have missions that involve them or simply can’t happen if they aren’t around, not just having more side encounters on the hub. To that end, the Citadel DLC doesn’t actually provide a solution to that problem. 

It doesn’t matter whether or not Jack was influential to the fans. She was still a secondary, disposable character by design, unfortunately caught in what was ultimately a glut of more disposable followers with varying levels of relevance to the main story and Shepard’s overall history with the game so far. However popular or unpopular Cora and Peebee were won’t change that. All things considered though, I’d say that Jack got a far far better resolution than that plank Jacob. 

My expectations for whatever a trilogy remaster offers are fairly low, particularly when it comes to any story edits to such old content. I simply speak simply in the hypothetical scenario in which they even bothered to make those edits and where their priorities would likely be. Beyond your own reservations about this [possible] remaster release, I don’t see where “everyone” is expecting a trash fire. That’s not even the consensus I see on this forum, let alone the gaming community at large. 



 

I think what happens with Liara in Mass Effect 3 is s a good example of what can happen when there are too many characters that might or might not be present.  Liara was one of the few characters that would return so she got stuck with the majority of dialogue that needed to be said for BioWare didn't or could have multiple character recite the exact same dialogue just in case that character dies.  Not to mention they would have to animate two characters for the same content if there was something important happening, unless of course you have faith that people wouldn't get upset that they are losing content in a game based on choices they made in a prior game.  Then I could see a second of people that only play the game once being upset that they aren't "getting the same experience because of choices in an older game" or something else along those lines.

I have zero faith in the online community that something will be done wrong or not to its standards and its going to be another Mass Effect 3 ending debacle with BioWare going back for any kind of remaster.  Now if they do decide to do it I am pretty sure they would have weighed the pros and cons of doing it, but I probably would avoid the dumpster fires that I would expect from people not getting what they want shortly after release.