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[Barquiel]

Necanor wrote...

Barquiel wrote...

I guess if they ever make some kind of sequel to this games all the low EMS and refusal endings will be non canonical in the same way as the "shepard dies ending" of ME2 was also non canonical; which means that only Quarians (according to the codex some quarian ships even escaped if you side with the Geth...and there are some Quarians on pilgrimage who refused the call back), Geth and Rachni can go extinct in ME3.

Yeah, BW could easily pull that card. Of course not all Quarians live aboard the Flotilla, there's escape pods and ships that made it etc.

The Krogan aren't so lucky, they can pretty much go extinct. As can the Hanar and Drell(Reaper invasion, no defences whatsoever) and the Elcor(more or less).

The genophage is supposed to keep krogan population growth at pre-industrial levels. Sabotaging the cure does not equal the extinction of the Krogan (at least it wouldn't make any sense).

As for the Hanar, Drell and Elcor...You're right, their worlds fell quickly...but it takes a long time to systematically harvest an entire planet (the codex states that it would take about a decade for the reapers to harvest earth entirely, and it had the highest reaper presence). There should be still billions of Batarians, Elcor, Hanar and Drell alive. 

[adayaday]

Barquiel wrote...

I guess if they ever make some kind of sequel to this games all the low EMS and refusal endings will be non canonical in the same way as the "shepard dies ending" of ME2 was also non canonical; which means that only Quarians (according to the codex some quarian ships even escaped if you side with the Geth...and there are some Quarians on pilgrimage who refused the call back), Geth and Rachni can go extinct in ME3.

So you are down to a few hundreds of quarian in the galaxy,this is pretty much on the brink of exiction,and chances are the that quarians will never recover with their already limited physical health.

Modifié par adayaday, 07 septembre 2013 - 05:57 .

[Sir DeLoria]

Barquiel wrote...

Necanor wrote...
Yeah, BW could easily pull that card. Of course not all Quarians live aboard the Flotilla, there's escape pods and ships that made it etc.

The Krogan aren't so lucky, they can pretty much go extinct. As can the Hanar and Drell(Reaper invasion, no defences whatsoever) and the Elcor(more or less).

The genophage is supposed to keep krogan population growth at pre-industrial levels. Sabotaging the cure does not equal the extinction of the Krogan (at least it wouldn't make any sense).

As for the Hanar, Drell and Elcor...You're right, their worlds fell quickly...but it takes a long time to systematically harvest an entire planet (the codex states that it would take about a decade for the reapers to harvest earth entirely, and it had the highest reaper presence). There should be still billions of Batarians, Elcor, Hanar and Drell alive. 

Well, we don't know that. Harbinger says, that the Drell aren't even worth harvesting. The Krogan race would not recover from the enormous losses they took during the invasion. If the Rachni are left alive, the ending slide shows Rachni invading a desolate Tuchanka.

[Iakus]

Barquiel wrote...

I guess if they ever make some kind of sequel to this games all the low EMS and refusal endings will be non canonical in the same way as the "shepard dies ending" of ME2 was also non canonical; which means that only Quarians (according to the codex some quarian ships even escaped if you side with the Geth...and there are some Quarians on pilgrimage who refused the call back), Geth and Rachni can go extinct in ME3.

I hope any further Mass Effect games ignore the Reaper War and all it's variables entirely.  

If that means we can never see Liara, Garrus, Shepard, Ashley, etc again, then, as the Catalyst would say

SO BE IT!

[Linkenski]

No one. ME4 has to be a fresh beginning for the series. If they shoehorn a fan-favorite character into it it's gonna overshadow the new faces and distract them from their time to shine. There's nothing i'd rather avoid than having a scene where Garrus comes out of nowhere and aids your squad and all the dumb fans go "Woooh, yeah, garrus" and Garrus is just way better than everyone else because he's a fan-favorite.

Alright that example was very specific. They could shoehorn a fan-favorite character into it, but it HAS to make sense or be a cameo. But I don't feel like I want to see something that's gonna break my immersion.

[chessplayer209]

Maybe a more likely scenario to a game taking place after ME3 is a game that takes place before the ME trilogy. If Bioware makes a game that occurs before the ME trilogy, they don't have to worry about any of these problems you guys are talking about (concerning what ending is canon, whether the Geth/Quarians survive, etc.

Maybe they'll go way back to the time just prior to humanity discovering Prothean tech and Mass Relays, and the theme will involve a player who has to help humanity find a place in the Mass Effect galaxy. Going back into the past would be an easy way to bring some cameo appearances into the game if they thought it would please the audience. You'd get to meet some of the characters you encountered in the Mass Effect trilogy... maybe a few decades younger, depending on how far back Bioware decides to turn back the clock.

Another possibility to consider is that Bioware will solve the problem of people's expectations... by waiting for those expectations to die before they make the next Mass Effect game. That is to say, maybe Bioware's attention will shift to a new project that will distract people from this Mass Effect universe until passage of time has rendered the community numb to the shock of finding that the canon choices Bioware rolled with in ME4 weren't theirs. Many in the community, after the long wait, might just be happy to see a new Mass Effect title released at that point.

Modifié par chessplayer209, 08 septembre 2013 - 05:04 .

[ruggly]

I'm not sure I'd want any previous characters to come back. Though I'm pretty sure it won't happen, I'd like a clean slate with all new characters. If they do come back, they'd probably have small cameos.