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[Lost Mercenary]

If it is indeed a prequel I'd hope for something along the lines a game that can focus on the backstories of everyone's various Shepards. And by backstories I of course mean The Skylian Blitz, Akuze and Torfan. Honestly I wish we could have explored and learned more about these events and how each unique Shepard brought something to them.

Say for example the Blitz. Shepard is described as being the only reason Elysium is left standing. How and why? What battles and strategies did he think up? What civilians did he save or fail to save? Gameplay wise it could be something along the lines of the ME2 suicide mission. Tactical choices that affect everyone around you.
The backstories are something I have whole heartedly wished we could have seen more of. ME1 gave us quite a bit of content regarding them including some side missions that show some of the fallout. But after that not so much. It was like 3 sentences in ME3 

Come on Bioware. Shepard's tale maybe over but his history sure isn't 

Modifié par lostmercenary99, 19 septembre 2012 - 08:34 .

[Momiji.mii]

So happy about all the annoucements that's been coming these last few days. I don't mind waiting, as long as I know there's more stuff coming from the ME-universe. I'm personally hoping for a prequel, though I'm sure most people want a sequel.

[Koffeegirl]

Hmmm new IP...I really hope its a new RPG......if its steampunk I will gladly give Bioware all of my hard-earned money.

[L0rdKinb0te]

bayofangels wrote...

Any future Mass Effect should be a sequel set a few hundred years later, where the universe has been rebuilt to the extent that the ending choices no longer matter.

I agree.

[Trauma3x]

All roads for the new game (ME4) starts with Omega

[shepskisaac]

bayofangels wrote...

Any future Mass Effect should be a sequel set a few hundred years later, where the universe has been rebuilt to the extent that the ending choices no longer matter.

You can't bypass the endings even if you jump few hundres years later. With everything rebuilt, there are still HUGE differences. In control, Reapers are still alive and roam around the galaxy controlled by AI Shep. In Synthesis, all life in the galaxy is changed.

[Grizzly46]

IsaacShep wrote...

bayofangels wrote...

Any future Mass Effect should be a sequel set a few hundred years later, where the universe has been rebuilt to the extent that the ending choices no longer matter.

You can't bypass the endings even if you jump few hundres years later. With everything rebuilt, there are still HUGE differences. In control, Reapers are still alive and roam around the galaxy controlled by AI Shep. In Synthesis, all life in the galaxy is changed.

Which is why a sequel is not a good option - not without a lot of retconning and canoning things the player might not want. Judging from the manure storm that was whipped up from ME3, how much manure would be in the air with this?

[Simotech]

No Shep no ME4

[wright1978]

Grizzly46 wrote...

IsaacShep wrote...

bayofangels wrote...

Any future Mass Effect should be a sequel set a few hundred years later, where the universe has been rebuilt to the extent that the ending choices no longer matter.

You can't bypass the endings even if you jump few hundres years later. With everything rebuilt, there are still HUGE differences. In control, Reapers are still alive and roam around the galaxy controlled by AI Shep. In Synthesis, all life in the galaxy is changed.

Which is why a sequel is not a good option - not without a lot of retconning and canoning things the player might not want. Judging from the manure storm that was whipped up from ME3, how much manure would be in the air with this?

I have no problem with them choosing a default setting(no player universe import) for a future game. That wouldn't be canon for my universe, just a parrallel version where things played out differently. No different to the default settings ME & ME3 for new players. Now trying to invalidate several of the ending choices in order to try and force the universe into a railroaded singular place would have me up in arms.

[GriM_AoD]

Simotech wrote...

No Shep no ME4

[panamakira]

This is really good news. I wonder if they'll keep Shepard around or move on to something new? Although to me (which is vastly different from Dragon Age) I don't see Mass Effect without my Shep.

[BluRay]

i really hope this new ip won't be awesome like mass effect,because if it is,mass effect is done

[LilyasAvalon]

Hm, I actually expected Omega to come out much later. Oh well, not complaining. SP DLC is always nice.

Can't say I'm over the moon about the idea of more ME games. I mean, before ME3 and the endings, I would've been over the moon with the idea of an MMO, but now, it just seems too hard to establish a canon... Will wait and see what they do though I guess..

[Arppis]

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Hm, I actually expected Omega to come out much later. Oh well, not complaining. SP DLC is always nice.

Can't say I'm over the moon about the idea of more ME games. I mean, before ME3 and the endings, I would've been over the moon with the idea of an MMO, but now, it just seems too hard to establish a canon... Will wait and see what they do though I guess..

Argh, no MMO please.

They have a habit of being too... Static. I kinda like the multiplayer on ME3 thou, so I wish they would add on that somehow in the new game. Heck, maybe a game built around multiplayer? that'd be sweet.

[Oransel]

I won't buy Omega and I won't buy ME4 until ending of ME3 wiould be changed.

[Constipator369]

Get over the endings already. So we have a superweapon. What do weapons do? They shoot bullets. What do superweapons do? They shhot beams. So don't complain about the ending consisting of firing a beam, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN FROM THE VERY BEGGINING! And endings being all the same except for the beam having a different colour? BE HAPPY! We could easily get 3 same endings, with the same beam, the only difference being the aftermath, which would only be implied. That's it with the ant-anti-endings rage.

As for the topic of the thread itself, I can't wait to take Omega back. And hopefully kick some Collector... abdomens? They're insectoid, so it isn't exactly a butt, is it? After all, they don't even have a digestive system.

[RenegadeXV]

I already have the Microsoft Points loaded.

[dead_goon]

IsaacShep wrote...

bayofangels wrote...

Any future Mass Effect should be a sequel set a few hundred years later, where the universe has been rebuilt to the extent that the ending choices no longer matter.

You can't bypass the endings even if you jump few hundres years later. With everything rebuilt, there are still HUGE differences. In control, Reapers are still alive and roam around the galaxy controlled by AI Shep. In Synthesis, all life in the galaxy is changed.

Whos bypassing, all you need to do is take the endings into account & write accordingly.

ME4 set 300 yrs ( an arbitary number, just for the sake of argument ) in the future.

Control: After 100 years Machine god Shep realises his presence is no longer needed, & indeed wanted, as he's a constant reminder of the holocaust that so nearly overwhelmed the galaxy, so he takes the Reapers en masse, thru the Omega 4 relay, never to be seen or heard from ever again.

Synthesis: After 100 years, the forced Synthesis of the Synthetic/Biologic life starts to unravel, Shepard might well've been ready for Synthesis, but clearly the rest of the galaxy wasn't, the finest minds of the Salarians, the Asari, etc come together to try & halt the process, but ultimatley, Synthesis fails.

Destroy: Blank slate time, pretty much the galaxy is your oyster, have at it!...

Refuse: Thats a tough one, refuse as it stands leads to annihilation, as sitting there with your thumb up your ass whilst being threatened by the most powerfull enemy in existence is clearly not a good stratergy, more DLC would help to clear up Refuse, & make the transition to ME4 easier.

[Snypy]

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Hm, I actually expected Omega to come out much later. Oh well, not complaining. SP DLC is always nice.

Can't say I'm over the moon about the idea of more ME games. I mean, before ME3 and the endings, I would've been over the moon with the idea of an MMO, but now, it just seems too hard to establish a canon... Will wait and see what they do though I guess..

Well, I don't suppose the Retake Omega  DLC will come out until November. It was announced so soon to reassure fans that BioWare can and will continue even after the founders left.

Given the endings, it's fairly obvious that ME4 will be a prequel. I don't think that BioWare ever intended to make the sequel to ME3.


PS, I hope the next DLC will feature fully voiced squadmates, like the Leviathan.

Modifié par Snypy, 20 septembre 2012 - 07:40 .

[N7 Shadow 90]

Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, sticky! 

[Shepard108278]

ok people here are excited yet on gamespot nothing but ***ching. Did I enter twilight zone bsn?

Modifié par Shepard108278, 21 septembre 2012 - 01:11 .

[Andrew Waples]

Snypy wrote...

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Hm, I actually expected Omega to come out much later. Oh well, not complaining. SP DLC is always nice.

Can't say I'm over the moon about the idea of more ME games. I mean, before ME3 and the endings, I would've been over the moon with the idea of an MMO, but now, it just seems too hard to establish a canon... Will wait and see what they do though I guess..

Well, I don't suppose the Retake Omega  DLC will come out until November. It was announced so soon to reassure fans that BioWare can and will continue even after the founders left.

Given the endings, it's fairly obvious that ME4 will be a prequel. I don't think that BioWare ever intended to make the sequel to ME3.


PS, I hope the next DLC will feature fully voiced squadmates, like the Leviathan.

on gamble's twitter page he said he played omega so maybe now it'd just detail i guess. when levithan was offically annouced it took about a couple weeks  to release after the annoucement. I could see a annocument release day at ny comic con

[Athlov]

Maybe the new ME game will be a prequel. We only ever hear about Shepard's past endeavors. Though, I guess that would be difficult with there being three choices for Shepard's past. But anythings possible at this point.

[Vroehn]

dead_goon wrote...

IsaacShep wrote...

bayofangels wrote...

Any future Mass Effect should be a sequel set a few hundred years later, where the universe has been rebuilt to the extent that the ending choices no longer matter.

You can't bypass the endings even if you jump few hundres years later. With everything rebuilt, there are still HUGE differences. In control, Reapers are still alive and roam around the galaxy controlled by AI Shep. In Synthesis, all life in the galaxy is changed.

Whos bypassing, all you need to do is take the endings into account & write accordingly.

ME4 set 300 yrs ( an arbitary number, just for the sake of argument ) in the future.

Control: After 100 years Machine god Shep realises his presence is no longer needed, & indeed wanted, as he's a constant reminder of the holocaust that so nearly overwhelmed the galaxy, so he takes the Reapers en masse, thru the Omega 4 relay, never to be seen or heard from ever again.

Synthesis: After 100 years, the forced Synthesis of the Synthetic/Biologic life starts to unravel, Shepard might well've been ready for Synthesis, but clearly the rest of the galaxy wasn't, the finest minds of the Salarians, the Asari, etc come together to try & halt the process, but ultimatley, Synthesis fails.

Destroy: Blank slate time, pretty much the galaxy is your oyster, have at it!...

Refuse: Thats a tough one, refuse as it stands leads to annihilation, as sitting there with your thumb up your ass whilst being threatened by the most powerfull enemy in existence is clearly not a good stratergy, more DLC would help to clear up Refuse, & make the transition to ME4 easier.

This, 100x's this.  Id really like to see the Galaxy rebuilding in the aftermath of the Reaper War.

[MutoidMan]

AlanC9 wrote...

MutoidMan wrote...

AlanC9 wrote...

MutoidMan wrote...

If the hidden purpose of all of the SP story DLC put together is to provide Shep with the resources to achieve a conventional victory - and really, there's no point in any SP DLC otherwise

Besides being fun to play, you mean?

Nope; I said what I meant.

OK, but by that standard there's no point to BtdS, Overlord, LotSB, Kasumi, Warden's Keep, Return to Ostagar..... I'm not even sure Arrival counts, since either Shep goes there or someone else does.

Not having played the DA series I cannot speak to its DLC; however, I disagree with you about the SP DLC for ME and ME 2.

Because ME and ME 2 were only the first two parts of a trilogy, their DLC didn't need to alter their respective endings. What their DLC did was help to flesh out the ME universe and set up threads - however major or minor - that paid off in their sequels.

ME 3 is the final part of the trilogy and gives us a definite ending, so there's no real point in introducing races, collecting resources, fleshing out backstories, or setting up new threads if none of it affects the ending. The only way I can rationalize ME 3 having SP DLC is by figuring that BioWare means to surprise us by enabling a conventional victory / happy ending if all of the SP DLC is played, and if that's the case then I'd be very happy indeed to pay for a several more SP DLCs.

Frankly, I'll buy them all anyway, but I'm really hoping that there's a surprise benefit to playing them all.

Modifié par MutoidMan, 21 septembre 2012 - 05:00 .