For future Mass Effect, what are deal breakers for you

The only deal breaker for me would be the game not being made. That said they can't make the same mistakes they made with MEA. Mainly unfinished quest lines and lack of single player support.

Expectation can be our enemy.

They can't satisfy everyone so they should make the story they want to tell as competently as they can.

They have an experienced team on it, so as much as possible I'm going to run with and enjoy what they make, or I set myself up to fail.

A first person only perspective that is an automatic "go fuck yourself" for me. I hate first person perspective. If it has both third and first perspectives that can be switched like Fallout 4 and Skyrim that is an acceptable comprise and one I can live with. I've tried to like first person perspective and while some people say it makes the game for immersive for them for me it does the exact opposite especially with RPGs I might have given games like Bloodlines 2 a chance but when it with only a first person perspective they don't get my money.

That was a major as to why I didn't support Anthem that first person perspective mode sucked.

My biggest breaker would be the Andromeda charterer creation unlike unreal well? what can I say they look like cartoon charterers.

My biggest breaker would be a resurrection of Shepard. That zombie rising again would be a HUGE deal breaker for me, because I hate zombie games.

Seriously, If they play that completely deteriorated moldy and rotten flesh flavored card again I will not buy the game. Even if it's a Mass Effect game.

I rather see the Ryders again than a lifeless resurrected zombie. I think raising Shepard again from the grave is a move completely without inspiration and simply a cash-grab. Please do something new, something inspiring, something that really surprise us in a good way. Please do something fresh and new, and not something that smells like eon-old dust. Please do not copy and paste that old theme and character again, because it would bore me to death. As said - I rather have the Ryders again than playing a zombie game.

Well - There is still hope. But I have to admit the future looks bleak...

Deal breakers: NFTs, surprise mechanics, internet connection required, game as a service, and microtransactions. I understand that EA wants to make money, but they can do that by making a great game, with a great story and great characters. Then the game sells well without the need of that silly monetizing.

Assuming the teaser actually has anything of substance in it, and isn't just hype, then yeah they canonized Liara being alive. OTOH, that doesn't necessarily mean Red is canon. They could have created a "new canon" that has FA to do with that ME3 garbage, and created a completely original end state which just happens to have Liara alive at the end.

Aside from "SAM can turn people into super-soldiers by reconfiguring an implant?"

Sure you could stick to one profile. But that meant leveling beyond your upper teens was pointless, except to make enemies tougher. You're still stuck with having only three active skills. So just pick a primer, detonator, and defensive power and level them up until you run out of points (and whatever passives are useful to you).

The profiles, otoh worse than useless, as they put all your powers on cooldown and dismissed your summons. Might as well just keep shooting.

Nah, leveling beyond upper teens refined your profile, i.e. you got higher bonuses for your class - each has six ranks depending on how many points you put into the respective skills. Also leveling the passives of other classes improves your character overall. Three active powers - which are enough due to the combo mechanism - have nothing to do with SAM or your class choice. You can switch 'favorites' i.e. different skills/powers in the same class. Favorites aren't equal to profiles/classes, so I don't see that part of your point.

If you want to focus on one class, you can do that and you can easily level up in a way that makes sense around level 30 (which is in line with the other ME games).

The combat system was a strong point of MEA in my opinion - lots of fun due to mobility and mix and match - the only downside I saw was that even if you are like me and like to play with just three powers, Insanity became way too easy without a level cap. But that has nothing to do with the mix and match possibilities.

The combat in MEA was ok. The worst part is not having control over squadmates. They were there more as a decoration than anything else.

I thought about this: Its not a deal breaker but ...

- Having a/to pause to launch powers again or to use henchmen powers.

The thing is how do you do this with a gamepad, those are quite limited compared to keyboard.

Procedural generation might be a deal breaker for me, though I find it really hard to see anything as a real deal breaker. I would still play it and be miserable afterwards if there was some really big design flaw.