New Mass Effect Teaser Trailer

Oh hell.

The Chinese are going to colonize the moon before we get a gameplay trailer aren’t they?

Now that I think about, we can use DA4 as a way to determine, more or less, NME’s possible release.
Both games were around preproduction when they were revealed at TGA 2018 and 2020. We can argue which one was more deep into it, by judging the kind of initial tease we got and the fact that DA might’ve re-used previous ideas and plots of Joplin, but I think the two teams weren’t more then a few months different in their respective timelines.

We do know that DA4 was supposed to be released early 2022. That’s about 3 years from the initial teaser. Now, between the pandemic and problems with development that could/can happen, I wouldn’t bet on a release before late 2022 or
the start of 2023. From the initial teaser, that’d be around 4 years, a few months more, a few months less, depending on the when the release will happen.

I’d say that considering the pandemic (although I’m not sure if it’d hit pre-production as hard as it’d a full development year), the LE going on and other Problems BioWare could have, I think a late 2024/early 2025 release is possible, if NME would follow the same path that DA4 would’ve had, prior to the pandemic.  DA4’s release could give us a clearer view for NME, whenever that will be.

Just a slight clarification. From the original conference call, we had heard DA4 was originally supposed to launch sometime after April 2022. But BW likes to launch their games in either the first or the last quarter of the (calendar) year. Since we knew it wasn't going to launch in the first quarter, that meant Fall 2022.

But... that was pre-Covid.

They will adjust scope, of course, but I think getting pushed into Q1 of 2023 is a pretty real possibility. But probably not further than that as their FY ends at the end of March.

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Well - I can only say one thing....

If they dare to resurrect Shepard for the n-th time AGAIN I am out of here. I bloody do NOT want to play that stupid Shepard AGAIN. I think its soooo cheap to capitalize on that same old story again. After 3 games I have enough of that cheap superhero stuff and frankly am tired of it. If we do not get any connection with Andromeda and go for an rehearsal of the same grey old Milky way-boring stuff again, I am not going to play it, and not going to give a single cent for it.

So - Unless the come with something surprising in stead of a re-rehearsal of the same old stuff again, the series is dead for me. Harsh, but I want something fresh and new in stead of a old cellar filled with cobwebs.

Maybe Dragon Age will save Bioware for me, but seeing the Anthem mark all written over it does not fill me with confidence.

Yeah. I loved my Shepards (all 8 of them) but their story is done. If they're alive have them be mentioned in broadcasts etc. I don't want to play as Shepard again.

I don't mind Shepard's story being over. 3 games of Shepard is okay to let him/her rest. However, They absolutely need to address the god awful plot destroying endings of ME3. So long as they do that, and open up the ME franchise to continue in the Milky Way Galaxy... In whatever format. I am a happy colonist.

I don’t think it’d have generated  that high of an interest.
Besides, I think their/EA plan is to find a way to go forward, so that the IP can continue. So either by continuing Andromeda, or going back to the MW...or a mixture of those, whatever the result will be. A prequel would’ve only postponed the inevitable decision of what path they’ll have to take.

I think the most important thing, however, is to release a polished, complete game. Regardless of the problems that one can/might found with Andromeda in regards of his plot and characters, the main reason for its fall was the mess that it was at release. Anthem went a step forward, as the game wasn’t even complete. 

While it’s positive that many devs from the trilogy appears to be back, my concern on the development problems that BioWare had in recent years will remain until they’ll release a game in a normal state (hopefully with no leaks or inside sources of crunch). 

A theory of some is that the LE would serve as a bridge for many new players to a NME game set as a sequel to the trilogy.
I wouldn’t say there are high chances for the exact same crew to be back...if anything, with Liara being clearly older, only a few have chances to be back, with Grunt being the most likely one in any Liara-timeline scenario.

I can’t see the picture, can you explain it?