Mass Effect Andromeda books & comics (Nexus Uprising 'soon')

Good, this gives me hope that it is not required reading & it won't be bugging me throughout the game, some nice little filler for after my first playthrough.

Just my opinion.

They just don't want the Cerberus haters to know they are behind the entire project until after they purchase the game.

Considering that the book will talk about the Andromeda Initiative this is most likely true.

None of the books and comics are required to understand the games but they did help expand the universe and give some better insight in a few matters (like the way quarians live in the Migrant Fleet or how Liara came to hunt the Shadow Broker).

For Mass Effect, true, but after what the DAge team pulled with Inquisition I was concerned that the ME were going to try something similar.

Anyhoo, that's all I've got to say on this.

That is very true.

I have a copy of Dragon Age: The Masked Empire and I still haven't gotten around to reading it and I understood what was going on during The Winter Palace quest.

I would say some of the Mass Effect comic book mini-series, most notably Redemption and Invasion, would probably come closer to "required reading" than any of the novels. 

Hello everyone,

     This is my first thread on the forum, so please, bear with me. All pleasantries aside I'd like to know what you all would think about BioWare contracting or petitioning potential authors to write more novels about canon events from the ME universe? I've read all there is to read in terms of novels/comics related to ME (enjoyed Karpyshyn's work, didn't care for Dietz) and find myself wanting more. I would love to see books about The Morning/Geth War and the Rachni Wars/Krogan Rebellions etc. Hell, my #1 and #2 plot lines would be the Prothean's war with the Reapers as well as a story based around humanity's discovery of the Prothean Observation Post on Mars and the resulting discovery of Pluto's mass relay. What canon history from the series would you all like to see brought to the page and who would you like to see BioWare approach to get it done? I do hope this starts a decent conversation.
            

Definitely think Mac should have given it a go over that mess Dietz threw together. Karpyshyn is back with BioWare that last time I looked into it (isn't working on MEA though) so I think he'd be a good choice when he's not working on his own stories (fat chance, obviously). I second the idea that the literature is pretty impressionable. The novels allow you to view the series through a different lens that you really can't get by just playing the games.

Drew Karpyshyn of course!

Well the guy who's writing ME:A Uprising, he's written some pretty good books in his own sci fi universe. Ill def. give him a chance since I liked those:

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WTIMZHW/ref=series_rw_dp_sw

The dire earth cycle was pretty fun for me. I hope he does well with the ME book.

Yeah, that was a nice fail right out of the gate haha. Fan fiction is alright in doses, but I can't help but want the real thing. In terms of a reboot, if that ever happened i'd hope that BioWare would include some of these events in with DLC. On another note i've always wondered why such story lines weren't taken advantage of in ME3's multiplayer? Playing through those events with other gamers would have been amazing despite the fact we'd know the outcome ahead of time. Could you imagine, for example, playing as the Protheans during their final battles/moments against the Reapers, or as the Krogan when they joined the Rachni Wars? I would have gladly donated to a crowdfund to see these events added to MP.

People already tied to ME/ME:A and BioWare in some way would definitely be my first choice being that they're already involved. Karpyshyn's work just left me with this nagging
feeling that he and other writers for ME were sitting on a gold mine of information and ideas that we don't and probably never will know about.
I've actually been meaning to give Hough's novels a read, but the list they're on is a little backed up at the moment.