LGTX wrote...
Prequels, or side-stories set during the original trilogy. The First Contact War, the RachniWars/Krogan Rebellions, peripheral war stories during the Reaper War, or something. The universe is huge, anything can work without hurting the canon.
Meshaber wrote...
Agreeing with the OP, anything set after ME3 will probably be difficult to create without establishing a canon. Anything set before the first contact war will be basically human-less, which is incredibly rare for games of this type (and has problems of it own, we usually need something relatable in the game to make a little more sense of it), or have very little to do with ME if set on say, earth. Establishing a canon would be regrettable, but acceptable if necessary due to the high potential of the universe.
I suppose one option would make future games take place in alternative futures like "We're not saying this is what happened, but IF Shepard eradicated all the Rachni and sacrificed earth + Palaven to stop the reapers, this is what would've happened 400 years later". Would get confusing and weird after a couple of titles though.
CrazyCatDude wrote...
Honestly, I'd like them to do another trilogy of single player RPG's with another huge storyline. Then drop the nearly inevitable MMO. I don't see them handing the IP off to another studio though. I think that's pretty much crazy talk.
King Minos wrote...
They could makeany game and the choices from mass effect 1, 2 and 3 could affect the entire game.
I think you're right about this. If they do, I'm hoping that they establish a canon, I'd rather have that than a ME3 where all the outcomes are functionally identical.jamesp81 wrote...
Meshaber wrote...
Agreeing with the OP, anything set after ME3 will probably be difficult to create without establishing a canon. Anything set before the first contact war will be basically human-less, which is incredibly rare for games of this type (and has problems of it own, we usually need something relatable in the game to make a little more sense of it), or have very little to do with ME if set on say, earth. Establishing a canon would be regrettable, but acceptable if necessary due to the high potential of the universe.
I suppose one option would make future games take place in alternative futures like "We're not saying this is what happened, but IF Shepard eradicated all the Rachni and sacrificed earth + Palaven to stop the reapers, this is what would've happened 400 years later". Would get confusing and weird after a couple of titles though.
They will either establish canon, or the state of the galaxy post-reaper war will be written in stone (ie, it comes out that way no matter what you choose in ME3). I'm guessing the latter, actually. Your choices will affect what happens to your crew; but things like which races, if any, go extinct, which worlds are lost, etc, will be the same no matter what happens to your crew. They can build on that as a stable backdrop and avoid retconning player decisions by avoiding mention of Shepard and his crew.
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King Minos wrote...
I agree, a new threat needs to be brought in after the reapers.
Rekkampum wrote...
Galaxy of Fantasy MMORPG.
Meshaber wrote...
King Minos wrote...
I agree, a new threat needs to be brought in after the reapers.
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. NOOOOOOO!!!!!
The reapers are the big bad buddybirds. No huge and all-encompassing threat after the reapers. Politics, wars, fine whatever...but no huge superthreatening hyperrace after the reapers.
Though I wouldn't mind if a few reapers survive the war and keep messing things up. Defeated but not gone.
thatguyhasgone wrote...
There already seems to be a canon storyline, if you do not import your save file from ME1 to ME2. The game assumes you killed the council, killed the rachni queen, killed Wrex, Sacrificed the opposite gender on Virimire & made Udina a council leader.
As for extra games, it's been stated ME3 will not be the last game of the ME universe merely the closing chapter to Shepard & presumably the reapers storyline. There are still a ton of things that can be made much like how KOTOR have star wars games & LOTR had various other games not based around the trilogy. Some have already been mentioned such as the rachni wars/first contact war/morning war/prothean timeline potentially. Heck they don't even have to stick to this timeline but could jump back to millions of years ago & let you play as an ancient spacefaring race, The Keepers even have a decent amount of interest to make a game from albeit running around as an insect bug wouldn't interest me
The thing is that this default story only exists for Xbox. Mass Effect 3 will have no default story. You are not allowed to just pick a default. You have to decide if the council lived, if the Collector Base was saved, etc. Adding the fact that Mass Effect will have more than one ending is going to make things complex.thatguyhasgone wrote...
There already seems to be a canon storyline, if you do not import your save file from ME1 to ME2. The game assumes you killed the council, killed the rachni queen, killed Wrex, Sacrificed the opposite gender on Virimire & made Udina a council leader.
EternalPink wrote...
If they decided to go one asari life time into the future the majority of what's done in ME1 & 2 would have been forgotten so they wouldn't need to make much of either game canon, well other than we won
True. Though our choice with the genophage and the quarian/geth conflict could be solved through another interactive comic.Meshaber wrote...
EternalPink wrote...
If they decided to go one asari life time into the future the majority of what's done in ME1 & 2 would have been forgotten so they wouldn't need to make much of either game canon, well other than we won
Assuming every major species survives every possible ending. Krogan genophage decisions? Quarian/Geth war?
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