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[cisco0623]

Everyone forgets that since this is sci-fi/fantasy they can do whatever they want.

Whats stopping ME4: Andromeda? LOL oh wow, not ALL reapers entered the galaxy and in fact theres a new relay no one knew about that was never active that jumped to Andromeda, and bingo you doubled the universe and countless more origins, more reapers, stories etc.

Personally I agree a prequel would be dull because we know how ME3 ends. A sequel makes sense and I would bet they could make it with shepherd. I don't think it would do nearly as well if he was not the main man. As for multiplayer I have never touched it. There are enough multiplayer shoot em ups out there. ME was always about the single player experience. MMO is technologically a long ways off especially for this rich franchise if you ask me.

[Heather Cline]

No thanks a sequel would just be poor taste and any games coming before the main trilogy would just be horrible because we know how badly the series ends. Fact is they destroyed their own universe with the Hudson/Walters ending.

[Dannycni]

I don't feel ready to leave the Mass Effect universe yet and I would buy a future game, personally I'd love it to feature Shepard but just can't see it.

[fchopin]

AbiShepard wrote...

Maybe ME4 could be a prequel

If it's a prequel then i am not interested.
 
If it continues just after ME3 or a few hundred years after then i am ready to buy.

[Han Shot First]

I hope we see a Mass Efffevt IV as well, but I think they should jump forward in the timeline rather than backwards. The problem with prequels is that the players already know how the story ends, leaving little room for the writers to pull off any suprises. That, and since the lore establishes that humanity is a galactic noob, many of the prequel settings would not include humanity. In fact if you go back far enough (Rachni Wars) the Turians wouldn't be in the game either.

If a Mass Effect IV is ever made it should be set about 500 years or so after the events of ME3.

[Esmeraldita95]

I want a spin-off of Anderson defending the Earth with the resistance.

So yes, I want more Mass Effect.

[Han Shot First]

Esmeraldita95 wrote...

I want a spin-off of Anderson defending the Earth with the resistance.

So yes, I want more Mass Effect.

That would make an awesome DLC or expansion.

[Legion64]

The way they left off ME3 as a cliffhanger, I can see it happening.

[accessd]

Whole Particle wrote...

Mass Effect 4 will still feature Shepard, only this time will awaken from a stasis pod 50,000 years in the future (as the last human alive) to help the Yahg, Pyjaks, and Space Cows fight the Reapers in the next cycle.

That was brilliant!

[AlanC9]

Naughty Bear wrote...
Without mass relays, travel would still be slow.

It would be like Dragon Age 2. 10 years of their lives just spent on the Normandy and thats just to do a simple mission.

It would be a terribly short game.

Why would any mission take you that far away?

Seriously, what's the logic there? Sure, in ME4 we couldn't go to every single system in the galaxy. But all that means is that Thessia and Palaven won't be in the game. So what? There's still plenty of galaxy that could be reached.

[FERMi27]

AbiShepard wrote...

excellence

AbiShepard wrote...

ME3

AbiShepard wrote...

graphics

Ceased reading at this point. Throw your console out of the window, please, and watch some Crysis 2/Battlefield 3 PC gameplay video.
Can't believe you're a PC user. ME3 graphics are just like in HL2, which came out in 2004. Excluding the faces. The fire and water shaders, however, are far worse.

Modifié par FERMi27, 21 avril 2012 - 06:20 .

[Cadence of the Planes]

I hope there is a ME4

[MetalHeadDev]

I believe Javik mentioned that the Prothean's War with the reapers lasted for over 100 years. In which case, why not make a new trilogy set in the cycle of the protheans? Would be a lot of fun, also be pretty cool to see the other races in their primitive stages - especially the asari given the amount of prothean influence

[Whole Particle]

accessd wrote...

Whole Particle wrote...

Mass Effect 4 will still feature Shepard, only this time will awaken from a stasis pod 50,000 years in the future (as the last human alive) to help the Yahg, Pyjaks, and Space Cows fight the Reapers in the next cycle.

That was brilliant!

Thanks, appreciate it!

[Dan Dark]

miracleofsound wrote...

ME4 means they have to pick one of the 3 endings as canon, so it probably won't happen.

Just throwing this out here... No they don't. In fact, they could give us the 16 dramatically different endings we were promised, and still be able to do a Mass Effect 4. The only caveat is that it can't be set immediately after ME3... I'd see it taking place anywhere from 20 to 50 years later. You'd import your ME3 save to help determine the state of the galaxy (in particular the fates of the Krogan, Quarians, and Geth), but ultimately these would end up being just background details. Further, no matter what, the Reapers are no longer a threat to the galaxy - it doesn't matter if you destroyed them, joined them to control them, reprogrammed them, negotiated with them, pushed a giant red self-destruct button, fought them off conventionally and destroyed them all, or just fought back hard enough to push them back into dark space... all of those would be valid options for the end of ME3, as the result leading into ME4 would be the same - the Reapers are not a threat. Further, by setting it a bit into the future, there's enough time for the galaxy to recover and rebuild, for the paths from those different branches to eventually converge more or less back into one main point, where the state of the galaxy is largely the same, save for the small details.

They could even allow Shepard to survive, too... so long as you're not playing AS Shepard; they would get, at most, maybe a cameo. You would be playing an entirely new character... which opens up all sorts of exciting possibilities.

[alikilar]

well look at what heppened to Halo, Halo 3 was supposed to be the end of master Chiefs Story and now theres a Halo 4 with him in it so i could see a Mass Effect 4 espically after tht special ending

[Oldbones2]

colonelshepard wrote...

The problem with a prequel is that one of the greatest things about mass effect is that choice matter (until that... ending). If ME4 takes place before the others how can it have meaningful, large scale choices?
If it is a prequel, most choices will either have to be character related and not have a large effect on the ME universe (which doesn't sound that bad, but its still abandoning one of the core attractions of ME); or no choices at all, in which case ME will have to work very hard to get my money
In regards to a sequel, well... that destruction ending where Shepard breathes seems a awfully reminiscent of halo 3's (anyone remember "Finish the Fight"?)

They could have a very small scale story, limited in scope or self contained.

Or establish the game as non canon.

OR they could just make a game with no choice element.  Bioware makes great stories, not just great RPGs. 


Pre ending I would have bought a story based shooter with 0 RPG elements from Bioware.  Just to have some more time in the ME universe.

[Wizminkey]

As has been said, ME1-3 was the entirety of Shepard's story.

We'll definitely be seeing more games in the universe, though. I'd be glad to see some prequel action during the first contact wars or something.

I wonder if they'll stick to the basic gameplay formula, or pull a Halo Wars and do an RTS or some other genre. I'll probably eagerly pick any of them up. I love the universe they've built, and continue to respect Bioware even if they made mistakes in the past.

As far as the timeline, I'd rather see a prequel or something significantly further forward in time. Look at the Dune books, set 20,000 years or so after current era. I don't see a reason that, given enough time, the species of the universe couldn't pull together enough knowledge and resources to recreate the Mass Effect relay, or some other form of fast travel.

It'd be hard to scale back our expectations to a single planet or system after three games of such sweeping galactic drama, but I suppose it's feasible.

Edit: The reason we're getting Halo 4 with Master Chief is because Bungie isn't at the helm anymore, so their desire to end MC's story was overridden once it became someone else's story to play with.

Modifié par Wizminkey, 21 avril 2012 - 09:19 .

[Seifer006]

AbiShepard wrote...

I hope that Mass Effect will not stop on the 3rd part.

A whole universe (literally and figuratively) has been created in Mass Effect games and it is beginning to reach the excellence in ME2, but even more in  ME3 (and at many different levels including graphics). It would be a shame to end there wile the decor just start to be painted and that Mass Effect is far from having explored its possibilities. There is so much to tell, so much to explore, and Commander Sheppard (the female one, for me) must not die.

Maybe ME4 could be a prequel, and we could then again be the Commander Sheppard in a prior period or in a period between ME1 and ME2 or between ME2 and ME3, but it is still possible to develop many stories with Sheppard who are not in a prequel. Sheppard has a strong personality that I like, and a voice, facial expressions, an attitude that go with it. Another character would necessarily be different, and the main interest of the game (which is the continuity in the next game) would be lost. The end of the 3 is fine, but personally I would not wish the death of Sheppard (which is also not clearly known but is widely suggested.

By the way, can someone tell me how to make screenshots of the game? I wish I had images of my character, Abi Sheppard. When I do a capture of the game, the image is black. Thanks by advance.

some suggestions

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/10587109

[Raven Kesrar]

I would like to see a mass effect 4 if it could complete what was left open.

[AlanC9]

Dan Dark wrote...
 In fact, they could give us the 16 dramatically different endings we were promised,

Could someone please tell me where this 16 figure came from? I've never seen it sourced from anywhere except an IGN page, and that's been retracted.

[Il Divo]

AlanC9 wrote...

Dan Dark wrote...
 In fact, they could give us the 16 dramatically different endings we were promised,

Could someone please tell me where this 16 figure came from? I've never seen it sourced from anywhere except an IGN page, and that's been retracted.

I've yet to see a source for it too, which bothers me since I just assumed it to be true, having seen everyone quote it at me every few seconds. That's what I get for trusting the internet.

[MetalHeadDev]

alikilar wrote...

well look at what heppened to Halo, Halo 3 was supposed to be the end of master Chiefs Story and now theres a Halo 4 with him in it so i could see a Mass Effect 4 espically after tht special ending

thats what happens when the demand is that high.

[Ana Eli]

Shepard has still been killed once. Then she has been alive again (thanx Cerberus !). But now, Cerberus is dead... No... I try again : The Illusive Man is dead, but before dying he maybe has given a clue when he told something like "Cerberus is not only an organisation with its bases, Cerberus is an ideology and it is very hard to destroy it" (sorry I've got the french version of the game, so I can't tell exactly, word for word, tell what the Illusive Man has told). So, we can understand that even if the Illusive Man has died, Cerberus may be not dead, and then, maybe it'll try once more to get Sheppard back to life. Who knows ? So, if there is a Mass Effect 4, Sheppard could reappear, she may be not completly dead... Mass Effect may be not dead, Cerberus may be not dead, so Sheppard may be not dead too. Actually, we can make a loop like that ;o) : At the end of ME3, the explosion has thrown Sheppard in the space, and she's about to die, exactly like in the start of ME2, and then, she wake up in a Cerberus laboratory

Modifié par AbiShepard, 21 avril 2012 - 11:18 .

[Ana Eli]

fchopin wrote...

AbiShepard wrote...

Maybe ME4 could be a prequel

If it's a prequel then i am not interested.
 
If it continues just after ME3 or a few hundred years after then i am ready to buy.

I prefer it not to be a prequel but new adventures of Sheppard, taking place after ME3 !!!

But I am saying that a prequel is also a possibility (even if this is not my favourite one).

Modifié par AbiShepard, 21 avril 2012 - 11:36 .