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[Raltar]

 Regardless of how much you liked or disliked the endings, none of them really leave it open for continuation because of the whole "mass relays done blowed up" thing that is shared across the endings(though we don't outright see them blow up in one of the endings, pieces are flying off and they likely won't be repairable for a long time and even if they are, repairing one won't do a whole lot unless others are repaired as well).  So, the only choice is a prequel(booooo) or a game set in the distant future.  But would that really be a Mass Effect game then?  Honestly, I'm fine with the endings.  I don't want to see a prequel and I'd rather them not even continue the series post ME3.

[IronHam]

I'd say a direct continuation of Shepard's storyline is implausible since s/he only lives in one ending but...kinda ominous that they showed him/her alive? Eitherway, they could go for a prequel (would really suck for me) or they could move forward a couple hundred years to allow some progress in tying the galaxy together again.

[KillSlash45]

It will take place in a distant future when tech has reached the mass relay stage, or close to it. Or it could even take place within a given system where mass relays aren't needed to travel in

[AlexMBrennan]

Well, all endings take out the Mass Relays so that's the sequel setting in the bag. All endings have the random kid, so you've got a protagonist. Just make up some Bad Science explanation for why the synthesis/control/destroy choice leads to the same outcome (or just retcon it like they did with Revan/The Exile) and you're done. Simples.

[IanPolaris]

They can't. That's the bottom line.

-Polaris

[Vikali]

Time skip.

[IanPolaris]

KitePolaris wrote...

Time skip.

Won't work with all endings. 

-Polaris

[Teddie Sage]

Time skip or make one of the endings canon, where he lives and a new menace happens. Something far worse than the reapers.

[Vikali]

IanPolaris wrote...

KitePolaris wrote...

Time skip.

Won't work with all endings. 

-Polaris

lolokay.

Coming from the guy arguing for two hours how the citadel is destroyed in all three endings and lacks basic skiils of observation and logic. You must be the correct one.

[Zenoctilles]

I sense a prequel trilogy about the First Contact War or the Rachni Wars or something like that.

[Shinannigan]

I'd love to learn more about the Beginning of the Circle. I'd be happy with a Mass Effect game set in the very, very, very distant past that ends up with the first creation of the Reapers.

[Vikali]

Zenoctilles wrote...

I sense a prequel trilogy about the First Contact War or the Rachni Wars or something like that.

Yes! I was hoping the movies would be about the FCW or the Rachni Wars. But they chose to canonize the trilogy instead. But I wouldn't mind following Anderson/TIM in a game!

[Dragoni89]

Bottom line: Bioware killed Mass Effect

[Zeppex]

Hell they could do one about Anderson, in his younger days. Or even Shepard before ME 1. A lot of possibilities. Or hell even one with Liara as MC, she is 120, and Asari live over 1000.

[legionaireshen]

it's just impossible to merge 3 ending to one,

blue leave everying intact, just shep become reaper
green destroy relay, leaves other intact but everyone is half machine
red destory reaper, tech, relay

you can merge blue and red by saying 100 years later shep gone mad so another hero repeat what shep did and choose red ending
you can also merge blue and green by saying that hero choose green
but green and red just cant

Modifié par Legionaire-Shen, 08 mars 2012 - 10:51 .

[Zanallen]

They aren't. The "fans" don't deserve it.

[Aren19]

If they continue the series, I'd rather have it a couple hundred years after the war or not at all.

[packardbell]

Why does it have to feature humans? Could be be multiple campaigns on what each council race did before coming onto the citadel, like the unification wars, the old dead Asari relgion, League of One.

[Aratarien]

*Conspiracy Hat On*

The end of ME 3 was designed to allow Bioware to consolidate all their resources into one dev team. The planet at the very end was really Thedas. Dragon Age isn't really a fantasy setting, but a super future after Shep sends all tech back to the stone age. We will find out that the Maker was really the retold and eventually warped 'the Shepard' story. Dragons were really evolved from Garrus and Tali mating and their children mutating or something crazy. In the end, ME 4 and DA 3 will be the same game.

*conspiracy hat off*

[lookingglassmind]

I think sequel would be more exciting than prequel. Although a bunch of things would have to be headcannoned and mighty amounts of suspension of disbelief would have to be engaged in, I am rather curious to see how the galaxy is going to attempt to move forward. Even if just restricted to one area due to the loss of the Relays, it would be interesting to see how the events of ME3 shape the universe to come. I would love to see a return to the deep RPG concepts invoked in ME1, with a focus on politics. How would the races come together again? Could they?

[Phydeaux314]

Lawl, Ara, that reads like something from the TVTropes WMG page.

Also, to answer your question: The series is done, or, at least, Shepard's story is. That was announced heading in. My guess is that anything else they add is going to be fleshing out the stuff that's already there - side characters like anderson and the like.

[raeting]

Time skip, maybe thousands of years. At that point the only difference between the endings is whether or not the Reapers still exist, and whether or not organics and synthetics are combined. Both of those questions can be downplayed in a story that doesn't focus on organics vs synthetics.

Say, a race from another galaxy invades. Or, tone down the level of epic a bit and chase down a crime lord, more like ME1.

Or, just have a RPG set on a planet. Or a system. You could make a pretty good sequel, I think, set just 100 years after ME3 that has to do with Earth trying to re-establish connections with their colonies & so on.

I suspect they will choose a canon ending, though. Which I'm good with, at some point you need to streamline it a little to keep a game from getting too complex.

Modifié par raeting, 08 mars 2012 - 11:15 .

[archvonbaron]

They make one ending cannon and then have the kid at the end being the new Sheppard who goes to explore the galaxy after reinventing the Mass Relay or more effective FTL drives.

They won't kill the Mass Effect IP yet because if they manage to placate everyone who hate the current endings it will still be a very, very lucrative IP and as such EA is unlikely to leave it alone.

[mysticforce42]

1) Select a canon ending - it won't be the first time they did this. Then time skip.

2) Prequel - although this is usually a bad idea - there is no suspense when people already know what happens.

3) Time travel - usually a lame plot device, but who's to argue if someone decided to change how things turned out.

4) ME4: The Dark Matter Menace - although I'd cry foul if it turned out to be an invasion by Dark Matter Entities from Andromeda.

5) Fast forward 50,000 years.  The Yahg controls a vast intersteller Empire and worships a short, lizard-like people as Gods, and Colonel Drapehs gets sent on a mission to Nede Emirp on behalf of the Imperial Guard to investigate a distress signal...

Modifié par mysticforce42, 08 mars 2012 - 11:23 .