Thoughts and ideas for something new in the next Mass Effect

I can agree with a lot of this, but there is a serious underlying problem.

Despite bringing back some cool things from ME1, like exploration, MEA went the SWTFA route and basically just put the Andromedans in a situation very similar to the Milky Way, just with really generic enemies and horrible level design. It is not something new unfortunately, but an attempt as you noticed of escaping their horrible writing decisions by reinventing the wheel.

To heal the galaxies, Liara has to come to Andromeda and bring some damned gravitas to the game with her.

If Liam wants to pull any more shenanigans on my ship, it is court-martial/bullet to head/airlock. Period, end of story, or the game is a failure on premise. Do not remove any more agency from the protagonist or I will take my ball and go home :clown:

How does this modded version go exactly? You don't see the starchild at all, just go choose from three options?

Less Is More Ending, or LIME, is my preferred ending mod. Also perfect with a G&T.

Liam would most likely be the same age or a few years older at most when Liara arrived, if Liara jumped on an Ark after the worst ending in video games. If the game takes place, I hope Ryder's crew are relegated to NPC cameos. Give Cora a job where she can tell Asari stories, put Liam in prison, put Peebee in recovery (she was definitely on something), etc etc.

Ryder can be the protag, but will possibly get the Hawke DAI treatment in favor of a new protagonist.

MEA fans can hate this all they want, but they aren't the only fans this game NEEDS to cater to. It has to hit most of the buttons for most of the fans. This necessitates inclusion of both galaxies.

If you cannot see this, I think your glasses are dirty, or you need to get them.

Huh. It really works so well here and now the "choices" seem completely unnecessary. 

At the very least I would have him removed from the roster before he's able to do anymore of his stupid crap

There's 3 names I don't give a crap about. All three can't be trusted. I would prefer the peepee and traitor not return if there's a sequel with Ryder returning. Then again, I also prefer Ryder not to return. 

 Why not have both? Get rid of t'soni, the tempest crew and squad. excellent.

Why two decades? I would give the Kosta guy, the rest of tempest characters the Emily Wong treatment. They all died via twitter. Simple. Or better yet, have the peepee kill them all. At the beginning of the game, the tempest comes under fire. It takes damage causing it not to FTL. The evacuation signal is given. The peepee wanting to show she's become a team player, launches the new escape pod without anyone in it. Just as they're about to chew her out, the tempest is destroy killing everyone. Moments later, the character creation pops up to customize the new main character. 

You're also right about t'soni. Don't need her.

hulluliini
With the mod you can't choose an ending, it will always be the high war asset red ending. The amount of war assets still changes the original cutscenes during the last mission but has no influence on the happy ending as far as I know.

@gaben7
It's interesting that you bring the "Does this unit have a soul?" question into the discussion. I've given it some thought and while it's most likely that this exact wording was chosen for having a maximum tear jerker moment it again raises more questions than answers. "Soul" is a term which was used throughout history mostly in regard to spiritual matters. In common parlance, the soul is in general synonymous with the term "personality". Like many sayings, this is not entirely correct when looking at the terms in detail:

Personality is something which can be scientificly linked to the human frontal lobe. And it goes so far that if you would apply hard definitions even animals as fellow organic beings don't have a personality in a human sense. The word "soul" is much more abstract and is not provable in a physilogical sense. Note that in fact, in common language a lot of inanimate objects get atrributed to have a soul. Probably this was already the case when our ancestors crafted their first hand axes and fire stones. While the exact evolutionary advantages of this are indeed a mystery, anthropomorphisation is a simple and often satisfying way to explain the world especially before modern science was a thing. Note that it is satisfying in the sense of preventing cognitive dissonance. And what easier way to prevent this phenomenon than to humanise everything, making it like yourself? It rains and thunders because a man up in the sky is angry. Your computer crashed a lot yesterday so it had a bad day since everyone has one from time to time. It's more beautiful to think that a lioness adopts an antelope calf because it felt pity and not due to hormonal effects making it go "full mom mode" since it's having her own offsprings at that given time. BUT that doesn't make it true. Also take notice that this way of thinking often is preferred even today since it is easier on your brain so to speak. It doesn't require any deeper thoughts and mostly happens on it's own which is one of the reason many people even like making decisions on a gut level.

Long story short, you could also apply this to the Geth: They show some behaviour which can easily make you humanise them. Maybe they even do so just to get the extra pity. Just like that, you're quick to see them as a species of living beings. Despite the fact they are still obviously machines and fulfill zero criteria for being defined as animate beings.

As someone who studied Epistemology at University and graduated summa, I feel confident in how I define AI, and how I define sapience.

If it is conscious, it has a soul. The antelope, the lion, your cat, the rat in your garbage - these creatures experience things and react to them individually not as a rigid result of genetic programming. Personality is an aspect of this.

Humanizing things doesn't make me feel warmer about them; quite the opposite actually. Humans are a trash species, a galactic embarrassment or as a Batarian might say, a blight.

So, thanks for those thoughts and I am glad you are thinking about this. I disagree entirely.

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To the thread - do you think Liara is not in the game?

How have you come to this interesting conclusion?

She may not be necessary or what any of you want, but she is in the game. Back your bags now if this is a big deal.

MET is the way to get new fans into the ME universe by not forcing them to play a game that has no dlc, read books to understand all the plots, characters, backstory's, and so on for an ME set in Andromeda. Going for nostalgia is a good thing. The remaster proved that. The smaller crowd would be the MEA crowd. Look at the twitter thread. There's very little stuff related to MEA while there's a lot related to the trilogy even after ME3 released 10 years ago

You anthropocentric bag of dicks.