Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

Or they'll just use their telemetry data, see what the most popular choices are and follow those over as canon.
Which means I can't wait to see Liara as everyone's LI regardless and half the ME2 crew and Wrex dead.
That last line is sarcasm. But also not.

It does need to be updated. One of the choices is romancing, or not, Allers, but doesn't have the option that she was never brought on the SR2.  

The irony in that is that they can still give us the choice of Shepard’s gender, as in Andromeda, and keep a canon...since Liara can be romanced by both.
I’m going to steel myself for a canon trilogy in ME5, but with how they already used the Keep for DAI, it’s not that difficult, I think, to do an online save export. It’s just about wanting to do it, or go for a canon.

True, but it’s been years, and they know how popular the Keep is for DA...as well as how much people care about their own choices, even for something as romances.
That doesn’t mean they won’t do a canon. The major advantage for doing one is to fix the issue of the different endings. If they’d go for a single ending as canon they can very well go for fulll canon choices in every plots, as well as romances. All I’m saying is that it’s not a matter of difficulty in terms of implementing an online export, and if they’d go for that, a romance choice isn’t that hard to place in.

If they follow telemetry data, I don't think there'd' be a LI at all, as I believe the majority of players don't romance anyone.

The know this isn’t the case.
Look, I think preparing for the worst is quite fine, and maybe the best given the compete (intentional) uncertainty left by the teaser and devs, but I also understand *why* they decided to use Liara to hype up at least a vast part of the ME fanbase. She’s popular and one of the few characters that can live long enough to be present in a centuries forward game. The other one in Shep’s companions isn’t nearly as popular as her.

That doesn’t mean they’d be necessarily go into canonizing every choice made in the trilogy. It’s possible, but not inevitable.

If the centuries-long timeskip theory is true (and it is supported by the few hints we got in the teaser), then Garrus is infeasible as a hype-builder.

And I'm inclined to say it worked. I've seen more ME fans hyped for a potential return to the Milky Way than displeased at Liara's inclusion in the teaser.

I suspect most of them will be open to the idea of a brand new character, nonetheless.

Most comments I've seen care more about the Milky Way than Shepard themselves. If anything, they're split between being averse to returning to Andromeda, being cool with either setting, or (to a lesser extent) disappointment that Andromeda's plot threads are being seemingly abandoned.

I've seen plenty of comments noting Liara looking older and wanting a new character, even on YouTube (which is where the majority of the pro-Shepard comments are for me). And outside of it, in forums and other websites, it is noted as a very real possibility.

So I'll have to disagree.



I personally don't care much about Liara, but I don't see why that's a problem.

Again, only on this forum have I seen people this displeased at Liara's presence in the teaser to such an extent. Given the MW setting, she'd have to be here one way or another, and even those who acknowledge the possibility of a timeskip - even those who'd rather see Shepard & co. again - are, for the most part, happy to see an OT character again.

Only on BSN will you find such amazing takes.

I see it in other communities and especially the big gaming media sites, where usually most normies get their info and it's all about the trilogy characters. All my friends are talking about it, as well.
We'll see.


The problem is the favoritism. I'm glad she's back, but she's the only one back. Again. Would be nice to see some characters other than Liara, but we're not getting that. And it's not just that, it's the obvious way in which she is going to be used. They're going to bring her back, to endorse the new characters. Which is a good way to pass the torch and one I would normally endorse, but a lot of people have been left with a sour taste from ME3 and I get that it's been almost nine years and we are still talking about it, but it is still a problem for the setting. If it weren't a problem, Bioware wouldn't be going back to Liara for yet another game. And the worst part is this will be make or break for ME. Either way, there is no plan to fix ME3, regardless of ME5's performance.

I think it is. And we'll see that when the reveal for when ME5 takes place and who it involves really comes around. Maybe Liara alone will be enough.


That's the point. They realize they have a problem and the answer to that problem, is rolling out more Liara, compared to the previous title. They're placing it ... if Bioware intended to bring the others back, they would make a game set the day after the Crucible fired. They're not doing that, so that they will have an excuse for not bringing the others back, only Liara. They're trying to fix ME3 with Liara and the very vocal minority that wants more Andromeda with this title and it is guaranteed to satisfy neither camp. They honeydicked the public for a second time and now they're going to blueball them again. It's a repeat. This has bad idea written all over it. Personally, I'd cancel it.