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[Commander Joshua]

 Ideas on where Mass Effect 3 would start? 

My story idea:

Mass Effect would start off with a 20 - 45 minute epilogue explaining the whereabouts of the Normandy crew and  what has happened during the elapsed time between events of Me3 and Me4. That would depend on your decisions made in previous games. A prime example would be the ending choice of ME 3.

After the conclusion of the epilogue you get to a complete character customization that will boggle the mind. Mass Effect ha always been about choices right ? When you customize your character it is completely up to you. You will get to modify your character background and chose your own race. Turian Comander, Krogan Clanmaster, Asari Justicar, Quarian Engineer, Geth Infiltrator , Drell Assasin, etc. The way you will meet up with your Normandy squad is entirely up to your character. 
Example::::An  war hero and veteran that was at the Battle of Earth that is helping the struggling planet is now reassigned to a crew of the Alliance ship "The Lusitania" to recover the missing Normandy crew. As a respectable Major, you will train your crew to get ready for this journey. Alliance intel has a lead on where the location and now it's your job to get them back in one piece.

This may sound stupid I never wrote a sort like that before so bare  with me.
Another customizable option that will be cool will be the ship and armor. 

[feliciano2040]

Galactic civilization is probably dead.

However EA chooses to make Mass Effect 4, it certainly will be sad and amusing in equal measure.

[DTKT]

Casey Hudson stated that he had no desire to make a game taking place after ME3. If they do anything, it's going to be taking place before or during ME3.

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Modifié par DTKT, 26 avril 2012 - 04:04 .

[FBI-Azzurri]

DTKT wrote...

Casey Hudson stated that he had no desire to make a game taking place after ME3. If they do anything, it's going to be taking place before or during ME3.

Casey Hudson said a lot of things....Are you really going to believe what this assshole has to say after lying directly to your face in countless interviews?

Bahahaha and an FPS shooter? Damn, RIP Mass Effect, you were already dying a slow and painful death anyways.

Modifié par FBI-Azzurri, 26 avril 2012 - 04:07 .

[Nuchy]

I wouldnt buy a mass effect 4.

[FBI-Azzurri]

Nuchy wrote...

I wouldnt buy a mass effect 4.

[Unholyknight800]

I'm done with Mass Effect.

[Commander Joshua]

It was just a quick idea that came to mind , with the way Mass Effect ended , this whole saving the galaxy seemed pointless. It was a lose - lose. Die or have no more civilization with basic need for futuristic survival . But like I said it was just an idea that came to mind when I was bored

[Sesshomaru47]

Nuchy wrote...

I wouldnt buy a mass effect 4.

Nor I. I'm done, don't care. They can thank themselves for that. But I won't be wasting my money on anything ME related in the future. Not a new game nor DLC for ME3.

[lx_theo]

The idea that Bioware would write out the possibility of the Galaxy rebuilding is astounding to me, in that so many people actually think the idea has merit.

Its like benefit of the doubt has never crossed these people's minds. Not even a little. Because it doesn't take much to assume they wouldn't do that.

[KingKhan03]

lx_theo wrote...

The idea that Bioware would write out the possibility of the Galaxy rebuilding is astounding to me, in that so many people actually think the idea has merit.

Its like benefit of the doubt has never crossed these people's minds. Not even a little. Because it doesn't take much to assume they wouldn't do that.

I think it has crossed people's minds but the way they ended a TRILOGY with an oh the galaxy can rebuild just seems like a cop out, It's a weak way to end The Mass Effect Trilogy especially when they said it would be satisfying conclusion not a Oh hey maybe they will rebuild.

[DarkWyccan]

DTKT wrote...

Casey Hudson stated that he had no desire to make a game taking place after ME3. If they do anything, it's going to be taking place before or during ME3.

here

Casey has said a lot of things, not all of them true.

[spacepope42]

Nuchy wrote...

I wouldnt buy a mass effect 4.

Sadly, I agree with this. With all the Build-Up they had for ME3 then the GIANT let down that it turned out to be, if they did release it Id more then likely wait till its on sale or just wont buy it at all.

[TheBlackRose]

Honestly, I would not link too much of it to this past trilogy. I wouldn't even call it Mass Effect 4. Maybe something like Mass Effect: Contact, or something like that. It would pick up in 2999, with all new mass relays built (with a completely new design and new variation of Eezo).

You would be (insert first name) Carter. Character customization would move past the face, and allow the entire body to be customized (with special sliders depending on gender, men=package, women=breasts) and also with the ability to get tattoos aboard the ship or at hub worlds.

In the prologue of the game, we witness a terrorist attack on a star system. It destroys absolutely everything, putting a giant hole right in the middle of the Milky Way. At the same time, a human planet is being attacked, and you are there. It's an intense battle, with no other objective than to survive until help arrives. Once your ship arrives, you board, and you learn you are an undercover alliance agent trying to bring down a band of mercenaries. You also learn that this group is affiliated with the group of terrorists who destroyed the star system on the other side of the galaxy.

You can determine whose side you end up on, a la Splinter Cell Double Agent. The path the game takes would depend on what level of trust you have with each group. If you gain the trust of one, you will lose the trust of another - you can't have it both ways. This will take the place of the Paragon/Renegade system.

So as for the more trivial things... I would bring in the armor customization from ME3 but give it WAY more options like ME1 had. ME1's inventory system and skills upgrade system would return. Love interests are possible, but few and far between. It will be a lot more similar to ME1, with one straight male, a straight female, and a bisexual squad mate (you are given the option to recruit one soldier or another, with each giving you special skills, but you cannot take both and they both end up being bisexual).

A "renegade" female main character will be given seduction options, using her body to get what she wants. And yes, there will be nudity, because as ridiculous as I think the concept of being ashamed of the human body is in 2012, I think it'll be a non-issue by 2999.

At some point in the story, you learn of a prophecy this group is trying to prevent - something to do with the upcoming year 3000. This is another major choice, and one that will heavily affect trust ratings. Either you decide to openly try to stop this group, which means you lose their trust completely and end up spending the rest of the game fighting alongside the alliance on a completely new ship with new squad mates, or you decide to stick it out and learn a little more before you do anything, resulting in another attack. This will mean you are an enemy of the Alliance and they will stop at nothing to hunt you down and bring you in, or even kill you.

The only real references to the last ME trilogy I would include would maybe be a derelict Reaper (Harbinger maybe?) and Liara's time capsule. Maybe Carter is related to Shepard somehow?

The species the game includes would vary depending on what happened in your original trilogy play through. The only species that will appear regardless of your decisions in the original trilogy will be Humans, Asari, Krogan, Turians, Volus, Hanar, and Salarians. Everyone else may or may not appear, and will be replaced with a brand new species. If you get an old species, you'll never see the new one - they were never uplifted if the old one retained power.

What else?

This would probably be a one shot story given all the twists and turns. No way you could do a trilogy around this one.

But yeah. That's my idea. Been planning that out for weeks now. There's more, but I'm not giving it all away. Not yet.

[Utopianus]

Mass Effect 4 will be a MMO, and will probably be called The World of Mass Effect, or WoME (read, Woe-Mee, or more correctly, "woe-is-me").

Seriously though, if they do make a ME4, it better be 20 minutes into the future, instead of decades and centuries. Or better yet, as galactic civilisation has been knocked back a few millenia, maybe ME4 can be a RTS-Empire-building game instead of RPG, that way they can introduce completely new characters without some of us feeling we just cannot let go of Commander Shepard and be completely cynical about newcomers, whilst the game will be a Space-Opera-like explore the galaxy, find resources, and rebuild civilisation and technology.

[feliciano2040]

FBI-Azzurri wrote...

Nuchy wrote...

I wouldnt buy a mass effect 4.

No legitimacy to this comments until the game is out in stores.

[lx_theo]

KingKhan03 wrote...

lx_theo wrote...

The idea that Bioware would write out the possibility of the Galaxy rebuilding is astounding to me, in that so many people actually think the idea has merit.

Its like benefit of the doubt has never crossed these people's minds. Not even a little. Because it doesn't take much to assume they wouldn't do that.

I think it has crossed people's minds but the way they ended a TRILOGY with an oh the galaxy can rebuild just seems like a cop out, It's a weak way to end The Mass Effect Trilogy especially when they said it would be satisfying conclusion not a Oh hey maybe they will rebuild.

That doesn't seem like a cop out.

The galaxy was already hit very hard by the Reaper invasion. They were going to have to rebuild anyways. The Relays simply seemed like going for broke on that subject.

[SeedyKiwi]

ME 4 - witht the endings as they are right now (in my head), takes place immediately after the breath scene.
Im no writer but my idea is that, shepard is recovered by Normandy crew, but is hunted as he is seen as key to securing galactic power, as everything of course is a mess. Liara's shadow broker contacts are hinting at a major plot to capture Shep and convinces the Normandy crew to go rogue in order to protect shepard who is not fully recovered. Mission's revolve mostly around building the shadow brokers contact network and foiling unsavoury plots to utilise galactic turmoil to secure power. You could undertake missions as Garrus or Liara or other crew members until Shep recovers and starts working towards rebuilding a galaxy in ruin etc etc.
Im thinking Aria unites the Merc bands you gave her control over and she is using the mercs to achieve her goal of controlling a hell of a lot more than just Omega.

2 cents

[Thiagobsbr]

Although the 'direct sequel' ideas are great, ME4 will hardly be like that...

For one, BW have already stated that ME3 is the end of Shepard's story, so ME4 won't be related to it at all... Even if the protagonist is different, having the new story to happen just before ME3 is still connected to Shepard's story.

ME4 will, however, mention Shepard even if just a big *** statue somewhere...

Choosing your race will be unlikely, just the sheer amount of voiceovers to compensate that will be unthinkable, so most definitely the next protagonist will be human only.

ME4 will be likely to happen between 20 to 100 years after ME3, the Mass Relays will be rebuilt and there will be a new galactic threat...
You can count on all those reconciliation that Shepard secured to be undone or near that... Geth and Quarians will be at each others throat, same for Krogan and Turians/Salarians...
Maybe even a new Krogan Rebellion...
Cerberus will be back, either as Cerberus itself or some other name but same ideals..

Also, the further in time the game takes place, bigger is the probability that some things estabilished in the series will have crumbled...  e.g. the Spectres are not all that powerfull anymore and there are fewer (they may even rebel -- but not be the antagonists -- or be dismantled, with a few here and there still trying to uphold the law), they may replace the council with other species or eliminate the council at all..

[Hogge87]

The idea to get another adventure with the characters we know and love is appealing to me.
Although I understand that the guys at BW probably have a trilion different ideas for new games.

[Ukomba]

Ending 4, a Place holder.

*spoilers*

...preamble...

Anyone who’s played the extended cut ending likely, on purpose or accident. Triggered the new 4th ending. This, as a matter of fact, isn’t exactly a new ending. It was possible to trigger this before (with a simple game over screen being the result). All you had to do is wait long enough (more than an hour I believe) or, after starting down one of the 3 paths, turn back. Expanding on the 4th ending makes it seem more like a place holder now. With Multi Player DLC continuing to come out, and Single Player DLC on the way, this raises an interesting possibility. Victory in the 4th ending.

After the initial ending of Mass Effect 3, my interest in playing the multiplayer really took a hit. What was the point after all? I could bust my ass to hold Firebase White, but since the reapers would all be scourged, controlled, or fused regardless of my actions there, why bother? Any war assets above the minimum required to get the best ending was unnecessary thanks to the crucible. Ending 4 rekindled my interest. It was the one I ended up choosing in my story too. Now my fight had purpose. Shepard never pushed the button so the enemy wasn’t going to be wiped away at any moment.

Now, you have a way for the story to continue. Which I honestly expect will eventually become the canonical ending. Sure as things stand now the collision can’t win, but what if there were more war assets out there to get? Say, a DLC patch gave you new ships and troops? Or say, one particularly special ship *coughleviathancough*, or just new weaponry/information for your fleet? Maybe it’s not enough to shift the balance, but what about the next DLC, or the one after that? If Bioware continues to make dlc that increases war assets, wouldn’t it be ridiculous to think that, at some point, the coalition of forces isn’t strong enough to win.

...Enough preamble...

So, on to my idea for ME4. For starters, they HAVE to make a canonical ending for the original trilogy. You simply can’t continue the branching, it becomes logistically impossible. You could have them import me3 files, but it would just be for Shepard gender and face (Maybe class too). The cannon ending should be the new 4th ending, Krogan Cured, Rachni Saved (twice), Geth and Quarians saved, ext.

I’d start off as one of Andersons Earth resistance fighters. Something has gone terribly wrong. The crucible, which was supposed to have fired by now, hasn’t gone off. Shepard and Anderson are MIA presumed dead, including a large number of Hammer was wiped out by Harbinger. The allied forces are struggling to hold under brutal Reaper attacks. Shield Fleet is being forced back, and Sword Fleet can’t keep enough ships off them. You and two of your remaining squad mates decide to fight though the city and attempt to suicide run to the beam. Perhaps, it is reasoned, a small squad could sneak in where the army failed. This would be a tutorial mission much like ME1. Successfully reaching the beam, the player would now move through familiar territory to find a dead (or dying) Anderson, and a critically wounded Shepard. It is now up to the player to escape with Shepard (maybe Anderson as well). The keeper tunnels seem like the best option here as well as some very nostalgic areas exportable here.

The citadel wasn’t evacuated before it’s capture so there will certainly bee millions of civilians still alive, CSEC officers, ext. The citadel hadn’t been captured for very long at this point, so most should still be alive, though the reapers would be doing their best to transform them as fast as possible. There’s some great areas to get party members, here, CSEC resistance fighters, Spectors, ext. It would also be a great place to encounter new reaper creations. I recommend DuneChampion’s designs here http://dunechampion.deviantart.com/. I could easily write a book about what could go on here, imagine activating the Citadels defenses to help the allies. Shield fleet helping evacuate the Citadel, ext. After that I’d have things slow down. It’s been said before that the Prothean extinction took centuries and they had the advantage of surprise then. That allows for a rich universe of stories to resist the Reapers in. The story, now rather than the operative of a powerful controlling government, is about a desperate shadow force performing special operations and raids, searching for aid, and dealing with a post apocalyptic landscape. It doesn’t even have to all be about the reapers. I would recommend it isn’t. While the home worlds are under siege, Most worlds have got to be untouched so far.

Shepards fate could be decided here too. He/She could certainly die, but more interesting is if he/she survives. Given his/her injuries Shepard would likely be out of commission for most or all the game. Even if Shepard comes back, his/her physical condition might put him/her out of the fight, putting him/her in Andersons position. Or he could even become a party member. They did said ME3 was the end of Sheppard’s story, but, um, Halo... that is all.

Modifié par Ukomba, 17 juillet 2012 - 08:11 .

[DrDino]

My idea: Don't.

[Baa Baa]

No. ME4 would be bad. And so would a prequel (this is debatable; but I despise most prequels) The franchise will be finished once the DLC's and more "meh" comics are released.

Modifié par Baa Baa, 17 juillet 2012 - 08:15 .

[Ukomba]

Baa Baa wrote...

No. ME4 would be bad. And so would a prequel (this is debatable; but I despise most prequels) The franchise will be finished once the DLC's and more "meh" comics are released.

When has a company ever let a cash cow IP die?  Microsoft certainly didn't give up Halo.  Can you really see EA letting go?  Even Sonic keeps getting new games.

[babymoon]

I'm done with any new Mass Effect. Only way to perk my interest again would be Shepard and that's clearly never happening.