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[shadowkinz]

If you, and i hope you do, make an ME-MMO, DLC, or any future mass effect games...

DO NOT MAKE THEM PREQUELS.  

Also make sure the MMO stays third person shooter and stays true to form =)

I just really wanted to get that out, bc of the new prequel trend in games.

for the love of all that is science.. please don't make it a prequel..  It would have bothered me if i didn't voice that, sorry!


EDITS:

Please guys watch the spoilers, as we're still in the section of the forums where it is not allowed. So anyone who hasn't finished the game, please steer clear, thanks.

Modifié par shadowkinz, 19 juin 2012 - 01:31 .

[Angelo2027]

BUMP!

[shadowkinz]

woot glad someone agrees!

[Volus Warlord]

They've shown the desire to make an ME MMO... but I doubt it will be a prequel. They've already said the next entry will be centuries past the time in question.

[tehturian]

You act as if a prequel or two has already been released.

[Pkxm]

Volus Warlord wrote...

They've shown the desire to make an ME MMO... but I doubt it will be a prequel. They've already said the next entry will be centuries past the time in question.

"they've already said the next entry will be centuries past the time in question"

where did they say that?

[Thomas Andresen]

Jsxdf wrote...

Volus Warlord wrote...

They've shown the desire to make an ME MMO... but I doubt it will be a prequel. They've already said the next entry will be centuries past the time in question.

"they've already said the next entry will be centuries past the time in question"

where did they say that?

I'm curious as well, because in the Final Hours piece, Hudson said that potential future content in the franchise would be either during(as in DLC for existing games) or before the events in the trilogy.

[ramnozack]

NO. No more damn MMO's. I am sick and tired of every company jumping on the MMO bandwagon and ruining whatever good IP they made the crappy MMO with. Besides MMO's are a dying business now. Seriously bioware dont ruin this IP with a MMO. It will never have the same Mass Effect feel to it. Never.

[Chris Priestly]

Mmm... "no more" prequels certainly implies that there have been prequels in the past, which would be why you would not want more in the future. We have not made a prequel to a game (I will admit you can argue that KotOR was a prequel to the MMO, but that was not the intention at the time of making it) for any of our games. Are there prequl games in particular that you dislike that, maybe, you are confusing with our games?

Fans in the past have said they would actually WANT a game that takes place prior to the story of Mass Effect , possibly  centered around teh First Contact War between humand and turians. Would that NOT be something you would want? Or do you mean, you do not want a prequel game if it featured Commander Shepard specifically (like the recent film reboot of Star Trek for example).

Details?

Oh, and we have not confirmed ANY post Mass Effect 3 games, whether they are prequels or not. This is all just speculation at this point.

[CrystalCircuit]

Mass Effect: First Contact.

From the beginning, you know the end.

[Mr.BlazenGlazen]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Mmm... "no more" prequels certainly implies that there have been prequels in the past, which would be why you would not want more in the future. We have not made a prequel to a game (I will admit you can argue that KotOR was a prequel to the MMO, but that was not the intention at the time of making it) for any of our games. Are there prequl games in particular that you dislike that, maybe, you are confusing with our games?

Fans in the past have said they would actually WANT a game that takes place prior to the story of Mass Effect , possibly  centered around teh First Contact War between humand and turians. Would that NOT be something you would want? Or do you mean, you do not want a prequel game if it featured Commander Shepard specifically (like the recent film reboot of Star Trek for example).

Details?

Oh, and we have not confirmed ANY post Mass Effect 3 games, whether they are prequels or not. This is all just speculation at this point.

I think what he means is that he does not want you guys to focus primarily on prequels in the Mass Effect universe. And I agree. Most of us already knows what will ultimately happen in the end, we want something farther into the Galaxy's future with new problems and sulotions. Does that clear things up?

[David7204]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Mmm... "no more" prequels certainly implies that there have been prequels in the past, which would be why you would not want more in the future. We have not made a prequel to a game (I will admit you can argue that KotOR was a prequel to the MMO, but that was not the intention at the time of making it) for any of our games. Are there prequl games in particular that you dislike that, maybe, you are confusing with our games?

Fans in the past have said they would actually WANT a game that takes place prior to the story of Mass Effect , possibly  centered around teh First Contact War between humand and turians. Would that NOT be something you would want? Or do you mean, you do not want a prequel game if it featured Commander Shepard specifically (like the recent film reboot of Star Trek for example).

Details?

Oh, and we have not confirmed ANY post Mass Effect 3 games, whether they are prequels or not. This is all just speculation at this point.

If there was a prequel with a new protagonist anywhere close to as good as Shepard, there would have to be reasons why nobody had ever heard of him in Shepard's time. Which might as well be impossible to do well. That leaves BioWare between a rock and a hard place. If the protagonist is the same or better, it raises uncomfortable questions. If s/he's weaker, then the game probably wouldn't be as fun or on the same scale.

Prequels tie the story down - the writers are forced to shoehorn the story into what must happen, instead of being free to develop characters and plot threads in the directions they want. There's less meaningful conflict because everyone knows how the story turns out.

It's also much, much easier to make mistakes with lore in prequels. Every single time the story introduces something the player hasn't seen before, there needs to be a reason why we never saw it in the original story.

Modifié par David7204, 18 juin 2012 - 07:58 .

[ramnozack]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Mmm... "no more" prequels certainly implies that there have been prequels in the past, which would be why you would not want more in the future. We have not made a prequel to a game (I will admit you can argue that KotOR was a prequel to the MMO, but that was not the intention at the time of making it) for any of our games. Are there prequl games in particular that you dislike that, maybe, you are confusing with our games?

Fans in the past have said they would actually WANT a game that takes place prior to the story of Mass Effect , possibly  centered around teh First Contact War between humand and turians. Would that NOT be something you would want? Or do you mean, you do not want a prequel game if it featured Commander Shepard specifically (like the recent film reboot of Star Trek for example).

Details?

Oh, and we have not confirmed ANY post Mass Effect 3 games, whether they are prequels or not. This is all just speculation at this point.

Just promise me you guys wont make a MMO out of Mass Effect.  You have to know that they are very high risk games and if the game fails then the whole IP may die. I dont want that to happen with ME. That and MMO's never really capture the feel of their predecessors. I mean I dont want to sit around all day waiting to my 'raid' to start and then going to do the same daily quests again and again and again.

[MindSweeper14]

So long as the story is good, I don't really care when it's set! Prequel, sequel, alternative timeline, parallel dimension all fine! Just not FPS. Thanks.

[Fredvdp]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Fans in the past have said they would actually WANT a game that takes place prior to the story of Mass Effect , possibly  centered around teh First Contact War between humand and turians. Would that NOT be something you would want?

The problem is we already know how that ends.

What I like about the Mass Effect trilogy is the mystery. I want questions that need to be resolved, like what is the Conduit? Why are the collectors abducting humans? What does the Crucible do? I think this would be more interesting in a sequel than in a prequel because if it's a sequel there are no limits to what you can expect. You know that generic doomdsday device in a prequel would not blow up the entire galaxy, for instance.

[fchopin]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Fans in the past have said they would actually WANT a game that takes place prior to the story of Mass Effect , possibly  centered around teh First Contact War between humand and turians. Would that NOT be something you would want?

No, i would like a Mass Effect game just after ME3 or a few hundred years after with a new character and not Shepard.
 
It would be good to rebuild the galaxy after the reaper wars.

[DaBigDragon]

I would definitely prefer a fresh story that takes place a long time after the current trilogy, but takes into account your choice in the ending of ME3 along with the other major ones, (genophage cured or not, geth/quarian conflict resolution).

I'm very interested to see how all that played out in the long-term.

[Torrential]

Thoughts on what i'd like to see next, in order of preference.

1, Tales from the perspectives of other characters in the ME universe - DLC to see if it works and sells, if it does you have unlimited potential to take this where you want it. Could use flags from ME saved games or not, could use major events and expand them into separate storylines.

2, The next game set after the events of Mass Effect 3 - a fair distance after with relics of the period and really major events scattered around the landscape as ruins. You'd need a clever writer who could hook in a great idea as to how most of the endings match up, even a millennia later to give you a base to work from. I like this as it gives you a clean slate, how will you match the awe of the series gameworld though and the suspense of what is coming next .

3, Prequels - Hmm as we know what is going to happen in near prequels as a general rule, I think that would be an even greater challenge to create a suspenseful narrative, but it might be a fun challenge all the same.

Modifié par Torrential, 18 juin 2012 - 08:18 .

[CDRSkyShepard]

Oh man, PLEASE do not do any kind of reboot... (Chris's mention of the ST reboot spurred this comment.) No MMO or FPS would also be kindly appreciated. I want more great ME single-player story. Another great story game would be a great balm on current wounds and remind us why we love ME again.

[Angelo2027]

I really would not want a first contact war game because mass effect is famous because of the decisions having effect in the next game and we already know what happened.

[Rrezz]

they should make a Prequel. and the main character should be Javik. I think its time to tell Javiks story, now that Shepard's has been told

[Naughty Bear]

Why a prequel? Any prequel would have to be the first contact war as that is the only known event in current galactic history that Humanity has taken part in.

Anything else can not have Humans involved. Bioware did not allow the timeline to extended further for Mass Effect.

Think of Star Wars. With so much events such as wars, battles and timelines, you could create any plot and fit it into the timeline but Mass Effect has a very limited timeline.

[Pkxm]

how would they go about making something that takes place after the events of mass effect 3? the reapers, geth, cerberus, collectors are no longer a threat. i can see why they would want to do something before/during the events of mass effect 3. and look at what happened to the universe in the end of mass effect 3..feels pretty much done.

im sure having to take account for so many different choices and outcomes, characters dead in some peoples saves, etc. im willing to bet they want to do something that doesnt have to take all that mess into account. i bet it would be a nightmare

[AngryFrozenWater]

I am not sure about a prequel. Maybe when set around a really cool event. Directly after looks more like a post-apocalyptic game. There are too many of those. What I like was ME's 'classic' space opera style. That made it unique. A little criticism here. BW's strong points are certainly not continuity. So, maybe a jump in the future of 5000 years would be better. Everything in the past is then supposed to be a vague memory anyway and the writers can start with something fresh.

[cyrslash1974]

Keeping Prometheus in mind, I would personnaly be very interested by a game, novel, comics, or movie (why not ?) telling the first appearance (or the "birth") of the first reaper, and thereafter the first cycle.