New Mass Effect Teaser Trailer

Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley
Ten years ago @caseydhudson and I worked together to reveal Mass Effect 3 at the Spike VGAs.

This year, it was fun to work with him @gamblemike and the @bioware team on this new Mass Effect reveal moment.

Good luck with what's next Casey!

This trailer is a great example of a great collaboration between the show and the studio -- it went through a number of revision and tweaks based on what would play best at TGA.

When is the last time we got actual, real sales numbers, in units sold, for any of it? Best launch is a possibly heavily slanted PR term to mean something other than "massively huge box office hit"

Any idea what writers are or could be involved?

Just lurk around Gamble's twitter. He was naming people involved with the new Mass Effect.

The Scourge doesn't really have a reason to exist in the Milky Way. We've seen it targets Remnant technology exclusively. It could be introduced to the Milky Way if maybe the AI used Remnant tech to build the Mass Relay to the MW but, once it got there, the Scourge wouldn't have a reason to expand.

There are messages you can find on Khi Tasira that SAM translates (I think it's based on how much Remnant vocabulary you manage to gather along the way) which explain that the Scourge was a weapon detonated there by someone who wasn't agreeing with what the Jardaan were doing. Sure, it could exist outside the cluster, seeing as how the Jardaan fled maybe the Scourge followed them for a while, but there's no reason for it to exist outside Andromeda (unless the Jardaan fled the galaxy altogether). The game also makes it clear the Scourge attacks Remnant tech exclusively.

Also I don't think it happened around the time the Crucible was used. The Remnant buildings on Habitat 7 are around 200-300 years old. The Crucible fired over 600 years prior. Whenever the Scourge appeared, it was a few centuries after the Crucible. You could say that's how long it too for it to reach Andromeda because it was shot through the Mass Relays but then it would have had to appear after the AI reached Andromeda, because they left the MW through a Mass Relay before ME started. The Kett had been around Heleus for 60 or 80 years already, and they showed up long after the Scourge hit, if the Angara don't remember the Jardaan.

I don't think it's ever stated that the scourge hit centuries after the crucible, but will look out for it on my current playthrough. Mass Effect history is only a 'what people think at that time'-history though and not set in stone. But I'm sure the writers have other ideas with the scourge if that mystery is ever solved in a later installment.

As I wrote: it's just a wild thought, not a theory I truly believe nor want anyone else to convince of. I'm just having a little fun with new speculation.

Hopefully Mudskipper is as nimble as Nomad and has shields and armor of Mako... one can hope eh!?

also Shepards story is over

While I agree on MEA's reception, don't forget that Bioware always tries to please everyone. They can't just leave Andromeda's story hanging. It makes them look bad and they can't have that. I would bet money on them trying to combine both narrative strands. Get people excited again about a trilogy sequel and old faces while still trying to salvage the Ryder storyline. You CAN continue Andromeda without Ryder or even any of their crew. Or age them and make them look less naive and stupid. You can send the Milky Way to save Andromeda or something. Technically, the other way round makes more sense, provided colonisation is well on its way in the meantime... Andromeda could be a safe haven for the Milky Way refugees plagued by famine and whatnot as a result of the reaper carnage (if we forget that large parts of the Milky Way is unexplored too, that is).

The biggest issue with MEA to people, I think, was the characters and the tone. The cringy jokes and whining at the first sign of trouble that made them look super unprofessional.

In theory, Bioware can very well make a game that starts in the good old Milky Way and moves to Androemda at the end to deal with the kett in a more gritty way that fits the tone of the trilogy better.

I wouldn't be surprised if players suddenly went from "Andromeda was a joke" to "Andromeda is awesome now that it's not run by clueless kids".
The setting is just a framework. It's about what you fill it with.

Mind you, I personally don't want any such crossover but I can very well see it as Bioware's solution to this huge gulf in popularity between these two galaxies.

"Make Andromeda great again!"

...or great for the first time. In theory it sounds good enough. I doubt they can pull it off. But on paper I admit it sounds like a clever step forward.

I'm listening.

But Bioware already has left Andromeda hanging.
There's no reason to be in Andromeda at all now that the war in the Milky Way was won. The whole point of the AI was to save the species of the Milky Way in case the Reapers won.

I can see the MW species pulling out of Andromeda, because why bother fight the kett for planets when the Milky Way is still vastly unexplored and what is explored needs repairing after the war?

But yes, you are so right.