EA, let me help you, here is how you save the Mass Effect franchise.

Some interesting debating here, without doubt.

I'm new to this forum, but not to ME and I am somewhat saddened to see MEA in the bargain basket already, but is is not completely undeserved. I do not believe the critics were fair with the game and ultimately that was its marketing end, but the game itself (I will be kind) was a missed opportunity on the part of Bioware.

To get to the point of soul, not sure that is the right word to describe a game, but it is accurate that despite the technology that went into MEA, something in the story and the delivery impacted the level of the PLAYER's engagement and immersion into the narrative. Though the writers did make Ryder a little more human than Shep, they went a little to far, as many have pointed out. But this is an easy fix, if you want to write a follow-up.

The real issue here is, does EA and by extension Bioware, still have any interest in moving the story forward? OR is MEA the death of our beloved Mass Effect? To that I would say, we the fans have allot to say about that. EA works for money ... our money ... and if they believe that a new and better ME can be profitable, that will be the incentive. As for Bioware, I think they are still very much believers, but they now have EA masters.

To produce a new ME (not a remix, because that is the easy way out) that addresses the current shortcomings (this could be along debate so will keep it short); (1) move the timeline forward to the next generation to change the characters (and don't mess it up this time), and (2) ensure the narrative respects the writing quality of our traditional ME (Bioware actually) standards.

Bioware does have the professionals to get this done and the fan base to support it. This is a question of will, not capacity. Do we care enough to push and do they care enough to create it? My 2 cents Canadian ..... lol

SofNascimento...a man on a mission to save EA from themselves.



The look of CEO's face when he reads this.

I don't see the point of a remaster. I got a few but only because they gave it to me for free since I already had the original. For me with the MET on PS3 and on PC a remaster would serve no purpose at all. As much as I really believe in moving the graphical part of games forward and find the looks important I have never even bothered with modding my ME1 up anyway. But I guess I may be in minority there? I don't know, I think ME1 is great anyway.

Onwards and upwards is the way to go. Establish the MW presence in Heleus.

Andromeda would have been much better off having you come into the outskirts of the new galaxy and run into races from an already established galactic community who were also expanding into the Helius Cluster. Then you would have had to engage in politics, learn about new races and their customs, strike alliances, make enemies, and still find a place to start your colonies, on the undiscovered planets.  Would have been awesome.

One thing that we never got in the OT was seeing how it was when humans first went through the relay, and discovered the vast galaxy. Had first contact with the Turians, met the council races and became the upstarts of the galaxy. We came in after all of that.  We could have gotten that kind experience here, and the game was set up for it.

This would have also given back that feeling of discovery you had in ME1. You met all the new races, saw the Citadel for the first time, learned about all of the history like the rachni war, the krogan uprising, the genophage, the morning war, etc. You took in a lot it during the first game, and it was all new and exciting. Andromeda in comparison for it to have been a blank slate to give any story and history they wanted came across pretty shallow on that front.

A taste of what could be?

CENTER STORY – Context behind Inferno within the Andromeda trilogy

For context, INFERNO takes place 25-years after ANDROMEDA. The story premise is that there are a number of races known as the Titans throughout the universe, to which the Jardaan are one. These Titans are civilization builders with the capacity to genetically create life and master build planets and star systems, like children play with blocks and clay, to meet their own agendas.

Though we will not get the sense of how many Titan races exist in the universe or the real extent of their domains until later in the series, there are two that will become central to INFERNO, the Jardaan who create seed worlds so that life will flourish for the same reason that humans breed cattle, and the ISHANNY Collective who see the planets that they seed as a form of “mad science” to create the perfect gene pool to add to their own perception of perfection and ultimately protect their own continued viability as a species
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Both the Jardaan and the ISHANNY are mortal enemies and compete for control within their known space for seed planets to meet their own objectives. We have already seen the impact of this conflict in Andromeda with the retreat of the Jardaan from the Heleus Cluster once the ISHANNY launched its most destructive but flawed weapon that we now know as the scourge.

The scourge had two intended objectives, the first being the direct disruption of Jardaan technology to halt their viability progress on the planets of Heleus. The second objective was to act as an area denial weapon, similar to a mine field, to disrupt Jardaan travel in Heleus space. The introduction of scourge energy impedes Jardaan technology, as it directly disrupts flow to their quantum star drives.

You might not like remasters, but they are certainly economically viable. Otherwise we wouldn't see so many of them.

Moreover, Andromeda didn't move the series foward. It dug a grave. And a direct sequel to it would just make the hole deeper.

Im not sure why they dont redo ME trilogy in HD. THere are millions of ME fans, alot of them asked for it. New generation of gamers would appreciate more modern version. Yeah, it will be hard work, but there is huge interest in ME trilogy redux. So why keep ignoring it?

Also I dont think redux of trilogy would "save" series. It will just be a great return to epic adventure. But old adventure. For the future they need to make a new game and I think franchise is just begging to become an MMO. Not some stupid quest grind like SWToR. But a game with heavy focus on exploration

You compare it to shitty MMOs. Think of Mass Effect that has everything what made trilogy good, but more massive and with real people to team up with for exploring

Thanks, I am gonna have nightmares now after reading that.
Fucking MMOs...

Eww real people. 

EA made it pretty damn clear that they don't care about any single player titles. They plan is to push this games as service bullshit, thus a bunch of multiplayer games that they can milk fans with tons of microtransaction.

A remaster would certainly be in the same engine. Changing the engine would be closer to a Remake which although awesome in theory, I don't see the possibility of that happening. And it's possible that the fact the trilogy is more linear than Andromeda (even ME1), might make it easier to work with Frostbyte, which is powerful engine, regardless of how difficulty it is to work with it.