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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.


They can keep their money then.  I don't do prequels or side stories.

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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 :P

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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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They could makeany game and the choices from mass effect 1, 2 and 3 could affect the entire game.

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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.


I approve

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King Minos wrote...

They could makeany game and the choices from mass effect 1, 2 and 3 could affect the entire game.


Which is why canon will be declared in some form or fashion.

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I hate going to the past. Let's move on to new and better things.

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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.

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. 

Casey has said "In #ME1 you faced the sacrifice of a few individuals. In #ME2, your whole team. In #ME3 the scale is entire civilizations[/i]." This, to me, seems to suggest that the different potential outcomes are vastly different from one another.

Also, if anything is ever going to take place after ME3, a canon will have to be established to some degree either way. Some Shepard's stories do, after all, end in ME2.

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I agree, a new threat needs to be brought in after the reapers.

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 Anything other than a retarded MMO and I am happy.

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Galaxy of Fantasy MMORPG. Possibly a Grim Terminus Alliance IP.

If not that, then video adaptations of Elcor reenacting Shakesperean plays.

I'd like to see a live film adaptation of Fleet and Flotilla.

If they get desperate, Asari-Hanar vids for "mature" audiences.

OTOH, if they can successfully continue using the save transfer system they've developed so far, I think they can do some amazing things as long as they are willing to commit their writers to the amount of work it would take to maintain player continuity. I suspect that there'd be even more variables to mine through if they did this. Probably would take several years a pop.

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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.

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Rekkampum wrote...
Galaxy of Fantasy MMORPG. 


An ME MMO of you playing a salarian playing a turian in a fantasy mmo. Perfect.

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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.


They could make it like S5 of Babylon 5. After the Reapers are defeated, we still have their technology floating around and many dark organizations who will exploit it.

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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 :P


That's deafult start with NO ME1 import its NOT canon,
 
Anyway if they set a game after the events of the main trilogy it should be like 400-500 by then most of the major charcter's would have died by then allow for a new adventure with a new charcter

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Well i hope its sorta like Dragon Age Origins where we get to choose the race we wanna be and make post-Reaper-War. The Galaxy after the Reapers are defeated is going to be a dark one because Races would be reaping the wreckage to improve on their Technology. I can see the council becoming powerless to prevent anything from happening like wars and not being able to keep the Galaxy at peace. The minor races I can see banning together in some effect to salvage the Reaper Wreckage. Basically even if we defeat the Reapers, they will still have a major influence over us with their advance tech still laying around and their corpse floating in space. Its going to be a Galactic Dark Age that will go upon the Galaxy after ME3, either way the Reapers win from a certain point of view.

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Personally I hope the video game stuff ends after ME3, the words flogging, horse and dead come to mind.

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I think a FPS type Game is possible using bits of Jacob's past in ME2. You find out in ME2 that Jacob worked for the Alliance as a Corsair. Basically a civilian gun for hire protecting Alliance interests. Unofficially.

So we get Mass Effect:Corsair. You play a Corsair and you are killing all sorts of stuff all over the Galaxy. You can make this a Online Co-op game as well. Seeing how the fan base opens up to a possible MMO. The results of ME1 through ME3 can be imported to shape your specific Galaxy in Single player mode, but in Multi player, you have a set Canon.

Lots and lots of possibilities runnign around in a ship gunning for hire.

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I don't know which way they will go, I just know I would hate to see "The Halo Effect" Meaning doing games before or around that same time period. Progress please, Thank You.

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If it is not an RPG, preferably one in which you get to choose your race, then I hope it finishes after ME3. I wouldn't like to see Mass Effect going MMO, FPS, deathmatced based MP or anything else that isn't an RPG.

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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.

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.

If there is ever a sequel after Mass Effect 3 then it will  either need to do the interactive comic deal, or ignore some of the more major choices. Such as whether humans led the Council or not.

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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

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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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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? 

True. Though our choice with the genophage and the quarian/geth conflict could be solved through another interactive comic.

We choose which side Shepard chose, whether the krogan were ever cured, if the humans ever took the lead role of the council, etc.

The problem is that once Mass Effect 3 is out the choices might not be as simple anymore. Entire species might have been wiped out and the endings might be dramatically different.

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Something like DAO would be cool.