New Mass Effect Teaser Trailer

We really know absolutely nothing. Maybe it's in an entirely new galaxy altogether. Neither Milky Way nor Andromeda.

Again, I am going to go with perception. What is good, what is bad, what would get more people on board, etc. One thing that companies usually do, after establishing a franchise with a cast that is well liked and then decide to retire it, they try it with a new cast and it either goes well or it doesn't. If the new title falls short of expectations, or worse bombs, then the studio brings back the established crew to promote the new one, or backpedal to the old one. Studios do that for a lot of reasons, but fan favourites are always a plus. It doesn't mean that Bioware needs to go down that route, they are free to go about it however they want.

However, Bioware has not been doing that well for a while now. Criticisms have started, largely, since DA2. Then ToR wasn't that well received and only became profitable in, what was it, 2018? 7 years after launch? Embarrassing. Especially for a Star Wars title. ME3 was largely divisive, DA:I was met with mixed reception from the audiences while Andromeda and Anthem got slammed, regardless of personal opinions. Interest in Bioware and its IPs from the public have been waning and while you could follow up Andromeda with Andromeda 2, it would go about as well as one would expect Terminator: Dark Fate 2 to go. Its studio has categorically denied it will make a sequel to that movie.

So what should Bioware do? Go back to Shepard and attract some good will? Double down on a very difficult endeavor to Andromeda 2? Apparently, Bioware decided to do neither. They're going back to the Milky Way, hundreds of years in the future, with a new protagonist and crew and, of course, Liara, who I thoroughly expect to see in every ME now, to the heat death of the universe. It's an unusual tactic. It might work. But I can't bring myself to care for it and, unless ME is Liara to you, I don't know if you'll care, either. I don't expect ME5 to be a great game. It will border on meh with some good ideas, terrible execution and the best gameplay of the series. It's a bargain bin title.

I played TOR at release (for 6 months) and it was well received by people playing it.

The ToRtanic shit was from the people who wanted it to "beat WoW" without China and Korea, which was retarded.

SirSourpuss : Isn’t Samara in the Matriach stage, and stated to be nearly a thousand year old? I never saw a reference or mention that she’s 300-400 years old. Wrex is also around that age.
Granted, I don’t think Liara will be the PC regardless if she’s 300 or 700 years old, and regardless the age Samara was active.

We really know absolutely nothing. Maybe it's in an entirely new galaxy altogether. Neither Milky Way nor Andromeda.

For those who want a transcript of what was said in the trailer (minus some distorted voices that will take audio file manipulation to extract). Here is what I got so far:

0:08 - We know now that in the early years of the 20th century, this world was being watched. (No idea about this)
0:16 - Roger Copy. Eagle Houston, you are go for landing. (Apollo landings)
0:21 - Arcturus Station, unknown vessels approaching. Initiate first contact protocols (First Contact War)
0:27 - Humanity now stands as partners of the galaxy (Humanity meets Citadel Races)
0:32 - Ark 6 is away. Godspeed (Quarian Ark from the Andromeda Initiative)
0:39 - We've got to take down the Dreadnaught
0:42 - Engines are going crazy. Abandon ship (image of a Mass relay in the background)
0:47 - Is anyone receiving this? We've lost contact.
0:52 - You're not leaving us all behind (sounds like Liara's goodbye from the beam run in ME3)
0:54 - (Some whispers I cannot decipher)

We really know absolutely nothing. Maybe it's in an entirely new galaxy altogether. Neither Milky Way nor Andromeda.

The easiest reason is people are seeing more age than is supposed to be there. I have more crows feet on my ryder and hes like 24. Its art in a trailer, the artist very easily may not have been trying to represent age at all from those lines. That is peoples interpretations form a 2 second bit.