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[HiddenInWar]

Provided bioware does this, I'm skimming the ME wiki timeline to see what would be a better idea for a prequel and I think that Pre-Council Era - Council Expansion sets up the best requisites imo. What about you guys?

Modifié par HiddenInWar, 28 juillet 2013 - 02:51 .

[MichaelFinnegan]

What would be the plot, though? Also I think a prequel as far back as the Council Expansion would necessarily exclude humanity - which I don't think will happen. If ME4 is indeed going to be a prequel, which I don't think it'll be, it'll be sometime when humanity first makes the discovery of the Mass Effect technology, or it'll be sometime during the First Contact War. Both of these don't necessarily strike me as setting up anything for a new series.

Although, come to think of it, there might not be an overarching story anymore - something towards which there is a gradual progression - like say the way DA seems to be set up...

[grey_wind]

If it follows humanity and the devs don't want to stick to any of the major events mentioned in the codex, they could set the story in the Terminus. Considering how cut off it is from Council space, you could have a big story set up there with a reasonable explanation why none of it is mentioned in the main trilogy.

[ShepnTali]

They could play it safe and go a few years before ME1. Everything is essentially familiar, no canonizing endings, no reapers, and maintaining general continuity without having to alternate universe it. All new characters, and general fun in an open world ME universe with no galactic doom on the table. Esentially, limitless stories can be told on a smaller scale.

Modifié par ShepnTali, 28 juillet 2013 - 04:40 .

[SilJeff]

If the game were a prequel, I'd LIKE to see the Rachni Wars and Krogan Rebellions, but I know they wouldn't do a pre-space humanity game like that

[Todd23]

Who says it has to be a prequel? There are 2 years unaccounted for with Shepard's death.

[Mcfly616]

For a prequel? Well, if it were to end up being a prequel, I'd want it to be somewhere in the time period between the First Contact War and the Shepard Trilogy (preferably 15 years prior to ME1)

Whether its a prequel or alternate universe or whatever, hopefully it has no connections whatsoever to the Shepard Trilogy(character-wise or story-wise).

Modifié par Mcfly616, 28 juillet 2013 - 06:38 .

[KaiserShep]

I would prefer a prequel to take place between the 2 year span that Shepard is MIA. This way, there's never any mention of Shepard's actions, only MAYBE brief mentions of his/her presumed death. As for plot, I'd prefer if it was just a small, isolated story that matters more to the protagonist on a personal level than it does to the public at large. It doesn't have to be saving a whole planet, or even a whole city. Mass Effect 2 had a lot of examples of such stories, where you got to fight various scumbags and the corrupt and have it be little more than a blurb in the news somewhere in the end, gaining you no official notoriety.

[KaiserShep]

Morocco Mole wrote...

something boring probably

But would it really be "the best"? 

[TsaiMeLemoni]

Eh, please no prequel. I guess the Turian/Human kerfluffle good make for an interesting game though.

[KaiserShep]

I actually agree. I tend to hate prequels, and I doubt this would be any different.

[daaaav]

Sorry to inject a poor tone to the thread but it just wouldn't matter... It would necessarily require humans (i know, i know this is short sighted and bland) so it must be in the current cycle and after or during the first contact war.

No doubt they could find something interesting to base it on but I just couldn't put the fact out of my mind that every single character I meet has a 99% chance of being dead in a few years and that all their little problems are entirely irrelevant in the shadow of the events of ME3.

Must be a sequal / reboot

[RukiaKuchki]

I guess that you can't have a pre-ME story for the same reason you can't have a post-ME story. Anything that happens before Shepard's time has to fit to the codex - nothing we can do is going to have any significant impact on the current ME world - so if you already know the end to the story. Of course, a simple post-ending game also requires some kind of defined canon, which seems to upset people, so that seems unlikley. I think the only way to go is to go to a part of the galaxy that essentially has no known history, or perhaps go to another galaxy entirely and tell a story that may intertwine with the current sequel, but it must have a unique story, hero, antagonist etc. I don't envy Bioware's task of coming up with something that both honors the ME universe and satisfies the fans.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

none. no prequel. no sequel. no reaper plot. a fresh slate.

Modifié par sH0tgUn jUliA, 28 juillet 2013 - 09:38 .

[Redbelle]

The best plot for a prequel would be the release of the round table development discussion amoungst the writers as they decide not to mine out a young franchises history and instead choose to push ahead into a future era of Mass Effect.

MGS3 is thus far the only sequel that actively springs to mind as being a game that was good because it was a sequel.

Devil May Cry's prequel treatment is so utterly Meh. The story doesn't need to be actively set in the past or future. It's all about smashing up bad guys.

The only other prequel I can think of is Star Trek Enterprise....... And that only started to get good in it's final season when Manny Coto took over as lead writer and started respecting the lore of Star Trek to develop narrative's that didn't break the mold.

As for SW ep1?

Midichlorians.

....

The fights were good though.

Nuff said.

Modifié par Redbelle, 28 juillet 2013 - 10:49 .

[Dubozz]

Prequel? No thanks.

[AlexMBrennan]

Bug war fits the GoW mold perfectly, so I'd say Rachni as well.

[agentN7]

No thanks to a prequel. It's too reaper associated. Even just trying to avoid them has me throwing up phrases like pre-reaper conflict.

[JamesFaith]

RukiaKuchki wrote...

I guess that you can't have a pre-ME story for the same reason you can't have a post-ME story. Anything that happens before Shepard's time has to fit to the codex - nothing we can do is going to have any significant impact on the current ME world - so if you already know the end to the story.  

Main problem with this reasoning is assumption that Codex is full history galaxy - no, it is just excerpt and you can add new events just be carefull about contradiction. Same as they did with Drells, Vorchas, Omega, Blue Suns, Eclipse, Blood Pack and so on.

You can make big decisions in prequel just their impact would be selfcontained for this new series with no connection to old Reapers / Shepard plot. As example of such decision - what about involment of your mercenary group in military coup in Batarian Hegemony? Batarians would still hate human, their goverment still would be killed by Reapers during invasions, but new hero in prequels should get some unofficial help  or be target of retribution in next game.

Not mentioned in Codex =/= not happened.

Modifié par JamesFaith, 28 juillet 2013 - 12:21 .

[emaughan]

A program called skynet is introduced and pumps out terminators!

[Mcfly616]

Whether its a prequel or not, doesn't mean it needs to be "Reaper associated".


Nor do our decisions in the next game have to have an "impact" on the game world. Preferably we won't be playing as the savior of the galaxy who combats an ominous juggernaut of a force. So as long as our choices have an effect on a self-contained story, it's all good.

[Battlebloodmage]

Please no Prequel, especially not with Garrus.

I hope they move on with the sequel, and unless they're letting other team develops it, the main game needs to be a sequel. As for where the prequel should take place if it did happen, I would prefer for it to be the first contact war, although we already know the outcome, so it wouldn't be very exciting and save imports would be for naught.