New Mass Effect Teaser Trailer

Might be in the minority here but I really hope that any sort of potential crossover will NOT be tied to an antagonist that will somehow be a threat to both galaxies.

That's Dragonball Z/Star Wars sequel levels of exponential threat generation (aka poor writing) and I don't really want to see the Mass Effect franchise go down the same route. I mean if this new game/trilogy is going to be about a threat to both Andromeda and the Milky Way then whats next? Do we fight a universe-threatening antagoinist in games 8-10? What about in ME 11? Do we have to travel the multiverse now and find away to punch out god?

The Milky Way was less then one percent explored by the time of ME 3 and Andromeda didn't even take us out of a single star cluster. The narrative doesn't need a "bigger and badder" villain.

And just like that, you lost me.

Uh... a group of close minded but brilliant shadow operatives sliding in on a galaxy healing from a war isn’t some uber villain. It’s political machinations of a competent group. It’s actually how extreme sects can rise to power.

Maybe humanity in Andromeda (along with the other races) found a way to harness the tech of the Jardaan in order to create an intergalactic relay. This Andromeda sect aids in bringing resources to the Milky Way in order to help them rebuild, but the process is slowed due to Kett Incursions, so your crew jumps back forth between galaxies to lead the fight against them. Hell, maybe the Kett find a way to cross into our Milky Way and we have to fight them off. For that to even work, the Milky Way species would need to have built there own relay that is directly linked to another in Andromeda. While we've seen concept art of one being made, this doesnt mean theres necessarily one ready in the Andromeda by the time this next game starts. Idk, I'm just spitballing.

I can totally believe that too. There's no better way to gauge the current mood on more Andromeda vs. more Milky Way (and Shepard) than making a trailer that could mean anything really.

On the other hand,the game is so far in the future that I wonder how many people who played the trilogy will even still be interested. People have jobs and families. I was in college at the time...

Ultimately they'll have to make a game for young adults in 2025 or whenever that game will be released. A game that appeals to a largely new audience. The world has changed a lot since 2012, society has changed. I already didn't feel like the target audience anymore in 2017 with MEA. So what I want, what the old fanbase wants, might not be what kids in the future will like.

I definitely see the idea you are going with. However, the fact that we have two dead/inactive Reapers on the planet Liara is on kind of disproves that theory. Unless there were secret dead Reapers on Alchera during ME2 that we did not know about ...

So, basically just a "Yes, we haven't forgotten about Mass Effect" rather than confirmation that a new game is being made?

I could believe that.

In an isolated system, one cut off from the rest of the galaxy due to supply lines or post-war troubles that an opportunistic despot can take advantage of, sure.

But a Cerberus 2.0 faction that can somehow threaten the major races in the Milky Way doesn't make any sense. Unless of course the narrative gives them 'miles thick' levels of plot armor and/or beats the Citadel races near to death with the idiot ball. 

Even with taking the brunt of the Reaper invasion there is no way the Turian navy (for example) would be unable to do anything about some hostile group that somehow starts trying to take over the galaxy. Unless of course said hostile faction somehow could produce mass fleets of Reaper-strength dreadnoughts; which would of course lead right back to the whole poor writing issue I hope the new game avoids.

I mean, aside the Dead Reapers and Liara being older, which are enough evidence...the teaser on YouTube and Twitter is described as ‘The Next Mass Effect’ teaser trailer, and the devs are referring to it as the next game, not the remaster...with the blog also making the distinction between the two.

What clip? The pic isn't visible btw.

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The Milky Way part of the Andromeda Initiative has 600 years to research how Relays work. They "just" have to reconnect via QEC to send the blueprints over to Andromeda. At least that should've been the plan, because an Andromeda Initiative only makes sense if it was initially planned for scientific reasons with the goal to report key findings back to the Milky Way. If the goal is not to explore Andromeda to probably find answers and solutions for the Milky Way, why travel 600 years in cryo pods? The question "what do we even want in Andromeda" should be retroactively answered in ME5 to put the AI on a more solid premise and not the "Utopian horseshit" mentioned in MEA by Addison. If they just wanted to create an independent society, they could have just searched for a planet in the Milky Way.