No matter which way you cut it, you're not going to please your entire audience. With an RPG and its key aspects being the player's CHOICES, everyone's are going to differ in one way or another.

 

I'm personally against an ME movie that focuses on the game timeline. Why would I want to sit through something that's a) going to have a white male Shepard with a little bit of stubble because heaven forbid we have a man of colour or a woman get the lead in a sci fi action movie, and that I've already played through numerous times.  I mean, when has a video game to movie adaptation ever been actually successful in the terms of quality? Sure, they might have made money (Because we'll all want to see it at some point), but quality? (Looking at you, Resident Evil.). 

 

As someone who's read 3/4 novels, I think portraying Anderson and Kahlee's story in dealing with Saren would be a great way to introduce the Mass Effect universe to the big screen. You get our loveable father figure and actual badass Kahlee Sanders with a decent enough plot to keep it interesting. It would also give those players who have not read the novel to finally understand the relationship between Anderson and Saren and how that all started. 

 

Seriously though, by putting yet another male protagonist (In a genre created by a woman), you're not only making it pretty boring, but also you're leaving gaps for young women growing up. I mean, I'm just another twenty something gamer, but if I was a mother and Mass Effect came out with a female lead, and my daughter came home and said "I want to be Commander Shepard!', do you realise how positive that is, having a role model like that? (...renegade actions aside, of course). 

 

Seriously, I think if they do make a movie (groan) taking into consideration of having a whole bunch of unique and capable women on screen would be fantastic, in addition to having Shepard as female.

 

And seriously, if given the first one makes it, you have to get Yvonne Strahovski for Miranda. Seriously.

I love this post a lot. Female Shepard means a lot to me and it's disappointing constantly seeing her marginalized.

I save Ashley because I like the relationship between her and Femshep. I find her more interesting than Kaidan, and I like having more girls on my squad anyway (the first time I played ME, I always chose the female squad members and called my team #GIRLSQUAD). 

I've saved Kaidan twice just for some variety, and to see what the rest of his story is like. Still don't find him that interesting.

The only time I think about score is comparing it to my previous runs. It's a way for me to tell if I'm improving. Otherwise I don't really care. If I'm having fun and everyone's working together well then that's all that matters to me.

it depends on who is making it and how. If there are the correct actors chosen, if there are the correct writers who actually are familiar with the source subject and if there is enough budget to actually make it on the scale it requires. A lot of video game movies fail because they try to cash in on the gamers with the familiarity with not the best of casts or budget. Plus there needs to be someone who actually understands that its impossible to include everything and stick to the stronger portions of what movies can offer. 

This is true, but it's a lot of Ifs. And considering the general pattern of video game movies, I'm not too hopeful. If it does turn out good, it'll be a pleasant surprise.

It really is an issue of how far into the future the game would be set, the only ones with lifespans past 100 years are Liara and Grunt, maybe Wrex and Samara. others have lifespans that would not last them past 2300. 

Excactly, those would be the most likely candidates, and out of them, most likely Liara, as she can't die in the first trilogy. She essentially acts as a living time capsule for the crew and the war, and I think it'd be really cool and emotionally powerful to meet her while playing as a new character and see how she's lived after the war. Maybe even a character born -after- the war, having had no personal experience with that struggle, meeting someone so personally involved in the fight against the Reapers.

I'll always miss the Normandy crew, Tali, Wrex, and Grunt have a special place in my memory. The crew really did feel like a family.

That said, I'm excited to see what new characters and squadmates there will be. Maybe there will be a small cameo or two, that'd be nice. Better to have fond memories of these characters than to see them dragged out and grow resentful of them. 

I honestly hope the movie is canceled. Has there ever been a good movie based on a video game? Not only will it disregard people's choices in a game purportedly based around choices, but it'll probably just be an embarrassing mess.

I'd get it digital if I were you. You're gonna need Origin anyway, so no real point in having the discs lying around.

Then again, I also got the trilogy for PS3, and I play that way more, so.

Unless they involve other galaxies besides the Milky Way, any sequel story is going to be smaller-scale than the Reapers. And I'm fine with that, and I'd honestly be fine if a canon ending were picked. Perhaps pick the one that most people chose, and go from there, see what happens to the galaxy, how the races deal with the damage and rebuild, etc. 

I'd just hate a prequel or side story because as interesting as they might be, I don't think they'd be able to carry a whole AAA-scale trilogy by themselves, especially considering we know the outcome already and they wouldn't involve humans. Those would be more apt to an smaller, episodic series similar to Telltale's The Walking Dead.

I'd be a little weird hearing Hale's voice again after having her so heavily associated with Shepard in my head, but she's one of my favourite VAs so I wouldn't mind too much.

I think I could only take Meer in minor roles. He's a talented voice actor, but I never wanna hear him do the monotone he did for Shepard ever again. 

I think it'd be better anyway to try and find different people for the next trilogy. ME 1-3 comes with a lot of baggage (especially with Shepard), so moving away from it would be wiser.