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What do you want the next Mass Effect game to be about?


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#151
Bruce M. Shepard

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If we are to do without shepard. I would much rather have it set in the next cycle, rather than an absurd AU.

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A teen adult male/female going to space for the first time. Ends up getting lost from her squad and has to survive the harsh nature of the planets she gets to in her journey. (assuming it's the female one here)

And of course the narrative should be completely chronological. No David Cage bull**** here :-P

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I would like to see a new trilogy of games set either after the original trilogy, Before it or set after Mass Effect 1 in the timeline. I would like to see a new main character (someone like a C-sec detective or someone who is like Garrus) I would like a more personal story which revolves around you and your squad instead of the fate of the galaxy and I would like Shepard and his squad to make a return even if its just 1 brief scene. Of course what I would really like is one more Shepard game which deals with the aftermath of ME3 but that's probably never going to happen sadly
I bet that if bioware would consider doing ME4 with Shepard then all of the fans would support them

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I don't care much because I'll not going to buy it. I will never get invested in this series ever again. Sorry but Bioware does not get my money for ME4.

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MysticBinary82 wrote...

I don't care much because I'll not going to buy it. I will never get invested in this series ever again. Sorry but Bioware does not get my money for ME4.


Don't pass on a death sentence over the new Mass Effect game yet, it still might turn out to be something great.

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MysticBinary82 wrote...

I don't care much because I'll not going to buy it. I will never get invested in this series ever again. Sorry but Bioware does not get my money for ME4.

Yet you've played all other games, and apparently you're an active member of this forum. Tell me you're "not" invested again ;-D

You will buy it, and I think you're just lying to yourself.

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Linkenski wrote...

You will buy it, and I think you're just lying to yourself.


Maybe he'll rent it instead.

That's what I plan on doing with Inquisition. I'd rather wait a couple days for Gamefly to arrive than pay $60 after DA2.

Modifié par RogueBot, 07 novembre 2013 - 04:22 .


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Linkenski wrote...

MysticBinary82 wrote...

I don't care much because I'll not going to buy it. I will never get invested in this series ever again. Sorry but Bioware does not get my money for ME4.

Yet you've played all other games, and apparently you're an active member of this forum. Tell me you're "not" invested again ;-D

You will buy it, and I think you're just lying to yourself.


id only buy it after i rented it twice.

buy it? maybe.
rent it? absolutely.

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Matches T. Malone wrote...

If we are to do without shepard. I would much rather have it set in the next cycle, rather than an absurd AU.


Technically, the events that occur in both ME2 and 3 take place after the last cycle should have ended. There won't be any more cycles.

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Unless you went with refuse, but they're obviously not going that route anyway, unfortunately.

After looking at some of casey's quotes on the possibilities of the next game, i'm starting to think that we'll be playing and exploring the ME universe as members of our crew...possibly during the time Shepard was out of commission. So, we get to play as a krogan, asari, turian, etc. Not sure how I feel about that.

Kind of wanted to start anew. far into the future. where shepard and/or aliens might be considered more of a myth...until humanity is once again technologically advanced enough to venture far enough to find a dormant mass relay to activate and rediscover and explore the ME galaxy. or something to that effect.

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Meaningful heroism?

Tbh, I'll go with Matches and say that I want something a little further down the line. All I know for sure is that I want much more time to stretch out my legs in the world. More Citadel, more Thessia, more Earth, more Omega, more Tuchanka, Palaven, the whole works. They've told us so much about the world, I actually want to see more than a few brief renders.

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That might be interesting to play as your crew members during Shepherds "dead time", but it seems like it might get old pretty quick. I kind of want to play through the Morning War or maybe the First Contact War.

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spirosz wrote...

Consistent writing.



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No super evil that will destroy the whole universe or Galaxy, been there done that, I expect we will be going there in DAI aswell... It would be ncie to try sometihng esle for a change, maybe something mroe Citadel DLC like, but with action and other elements.

If there is a universe annihilating evil then let the main protagonist stumble onto it while in a drunk stupor and ccidental foil it's plans by tripping or puking up on some delicate piece of Equipment..

Then the main protagonist remembers Little or nothign about it, have it explained in cut scenes, just to make it funny,

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Apologies in advance this is a little scatterbrained concept that was rattling around for some time.

What I would like the Next Mass Effect game to be: "Mass Effect Dark Era"

Background:  
1. the ending to ME3 would be a vague indeterminate possibility of destroy or control
2. shortly after the end of ME3 the Mass Effect Relays would start failing and then shut down all together
3.the galaxy would enter a dark age and sentient beings would be stuck with FTL drives as the only option.
4 governments and the council fall apart, systems become isolated
5 in about 50,000 years a better than FTL type of space travel would be invented but it still is inferior to the Mass Relays.
6 at about 100,000 years the galaxy would be comprised of a variety of small communities, factions, etc, but no big governments or militaries.
7 technology would be inferior to the tech in the Mass Effect Trilogy

Info-Legends in Myth:
1.established common knowledge in the Mass Effect Trilogy has been nearly forgotten and these people, places, and things are only known as legend or myth: Shepard, Earth, the Citadel, the Alliance, the Council, Reapers, Protheans/Collectors, N7's, Specters, Geth, etc.

Population has decreased drastically:
 -Surviving sentient species:
   Asari, Turian, Krogan, Quarian, Vorcha, Human
 -Extinct sentient species:
   Salarian, Hanar, Drell, Elcor, Volus, Batarian
 -2 new sentient species as well
   ???
   ???
 - also maybe Leviathan?

Main Character and crew "i'm not a soldier"
1. Main character is an human only captain of a "rusty bucket" ship which is sizeable and  really old
 1A. Main character is a type of space prirate, space cowboy, bounty hunter, etc. (not a soldier)
2. there is a  small "main crew" of about 4-6 characters
3. there are also 4-6 "support crew" characters
4. main and support crew will have "away missions"

the Ship is Large and Old:
1. the ship is always under repair and fully exporable
2. ship repair side quest missions help to turn closed areas into open ones
3. the ship has a internal hangar/ shuttle bay that can fit 2 Normany SR2 sized ships
4. Elevator like Mass Effect 1

Plot
1. Captain and crew start off on a retrieval mission that turns out that they unwitting were comitting a robbery on desert train
2. the Cargo turns out to be a near death ancient Asari Matriarch in a stasis pod, In her last moments of life she gives the Captain embrace eternity muddled message with only one thing trutly clear which is the location of the Normandy SR2
3. the mission was a set up the captain and crew are now on the run, the only bread crumb leads to the old and lost Normany SR2 which captain and crew seek out and find
4. they find the Normandy SR2 and bring it into the ship's hanger, they explore the lost vessel and find some N7 Avengers, N7 armor, and the Normandy's star chart.
5. this intel leads the crew to the long lost Earth and Citadel. The crew investigates the Citadel and inadvertently cause the Mass Effect Relays to engage.
6. The next moment a enormous unknown ship appears out of the Mass Effect relay heading straight for the Citadel. the crew panics and makes a mad dash off the citadel and out of  the system
7. major and minor conflicts: Major being the unkown ship which would later be revealed as Awakened-Evolved/Devolved Collectors/Protheans which will seek to enslave or destroy all sentient beings. Minor conflict would be generated by the syndicate that set up the captain and crew at the beginning of the story

Exploration First Theme
1. Major abandoned locations to find- Citadel/Earth,  Cerberus Headquarters, Prothean Homeworld, Salarian Homeworld, Hanar homeworld, Elcor Homeworld, etc
2. Major inhabited locations to explore- Asari Homeworld, Turian Homeworld, Krogan Hw, Quarian Hw, Vorcha Hw, Human colonies
3. return of the Mako, Hammerhead and Kodiak. on foot exporation as well

Game Play
1. 3rd person cover shooter
2. resource mining for ship repair, weapon advancement/mods, costumes options
3. expanded romance- player has more options, multiple relation ships possible, also player can be a "player"
4. no "time" based mission requirements only sequential missions
5. the Codex with original series narrator if possible

Other ideas
1. other than Awakened Collectors and the syndicate as adversaries there will be typical standard enemy groups scattered thought out the universe who will assault the crew
2. the Citadel will be completely barren except for the occasional keeper
3. Earth is a desolated husk, ruined and semi toxic
4. no cameos from any characters from the Mass Effect Trilogy
5. the game takes place in a multitude of different and unique locations which will reflect morning, day, evening, and night. the locations will also reflect all types of natural and unnatural environments
6. characters will be moving around the ship in a more natural manner than the Mass Effect trilogy. conversations can be started while on the move throughout the entire ship, like a more natural walking conversation style
8. there will be no knowledge of the events in the Mass Effect Trilogy, it is lost and forgotten history
9. possible foreshadowing to a return of the Reapers in some form or another
10. only a small and simple level of VI,AI, and robots
11. use of the Crucible is cause of the mass effect relay failures
12. there are no remains of Edi in the Normandy SR2
13. the power wheel and weapon wheel will be merged and sprint, cover, use/reload all have their own buttons
14. Guns of this era will use actual ammo, any legendary N7 weapons found will work like the Lancer, PPR, CSR, CSMG in the Mass Effect 1 style
15. occasional contextual nudity, human and alien
16. The game would be in Firefly, Crusade, Andromeda, StarHunter/Starhunter 2300 style while taking place in the Mass Effect universe in the distant yet declining future.

#167
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The OP question is too broad and BW will write what they want it would be easier for us the players to give some guidelines that aren't too detailed.

Like set the game 10,000 - 50,000 years into the future now there is no need to worry about BW messing up any past squadmates like they do with reboot Spocks and no need if set at 50K to say this ending is canon because your green glow will fade, the reapers will be destroyed or off harvesting someone else, or you just flat out killed them, or the galaxy already reset itself by that point in time either way no reapers are there and you have all new people not connected to the ending's events. It doesn't matter if you loved Ash and killed Garrus no one this far out even knows who Shepard is or what the last cycle was all about. Similar to Fable stuff happened but its of little concern to your new hero in Fable 2.

Keep the whole choose your sex

Work on the script so all scenarios and dialogue work for male and female so fem hero no longer has butch moments.

Respect your female players make sure your fem lead and her  male and female sqauad are dressed for the games mission of war no inverse armor, no high heels in combat, bra strap shirts, no stupid ass rebreathers and cat suits if you want those sexy things for DLC day one outfit change ups fine but if we're suppose to be battling crap then make them ready for it like you did in ME casual and battle were both fine and respectable with a touch of cool. Basically keep the strippers in the club not on the ship.

The only thing that should carry over is did you save the species you could like if you killed off the hanar they aren't going to reshow in ME4 however we may still get the geth because the geth existed before our cycle thanks to the protheans then the Quarians remade them so I don't see why even if we chose destroy the geth aren't going to reshow again they may just be called something other then geth maybe call them destructoids or something and they were made by the Salarins so they look alittle more like them then Quarians.

Keep varying the unique male or female only cutscenes that occur so you can experience the galaxy differently depending on which sex and or species you may be.

I think the Asari should be the new Quarian as far as space rats are concerned and the Quarians now get to be the new Salarians or Asari as far as high tech and prestige go in other words the galaxy just loaths Asari and think Quarians are super geniuses that can't do anything wrong after all they fixed all the mass relays and were the only civilization unmarred by the reapers.

I'd love to be able to pick and customize our own species I'm specifically calling out the Quarians here as they're humaniod so can share many of the same hair, skin, and eye shapes humans do we then just get to add even more options to them as their skin tones could be anything from albino white, black, grey, purple, lavender, green, basically running the entire color spectrum since we only saw Tali and so can still go wild with skin tones and give us unique hair styles only to them like some of the hair styles from EVE Online.

More hair, skin, scare, and other customizing options for all races and either sex the more realistic we can make our heros I think many would approve of this.

Keep the whole galaxy in peril thing I don't think it should be scaled back to only your colony or solar system is in danger of X

Go back to large inventories and thriving economy like ME just condense the inventory like instead of seeing 3 pulse rifles represented like:

pulse rifle
pulse rifle
pulse rifle

show them like this:

pulse rifle x 3

Do sex scenes right and classy like you did in ME show the connection and a bit of skin don't go fade to black like ME2 or kiss and done like ME3 the later two sucked. You're a mature game get a spine M is for adults not teens stop acting like it.

Make the LI alignment stand for all the games if they only sleep with hero of sex A then don't make them switch later in series. If they never liked hero in game one but then in two like hero sex B do then make sure that carries over to three no switches. And don't do everyone is bi you can have a bi one or two but don't just be lazy and go for everyone.

Pre plan both or all your games ahead of time no more of this stupid we'll think of a plot on the next game when we get there!

Keep your facts straight if you tell us in game cookies are bad for the galaxy and show us how they're bad by making those who eat cookies go insane and want to murder everybody then don't then let our hero eat a jar full of them at the end of the entire series and tell us because its the hero and our bad guys like him its magically ok cuz that just trashed your lore and established facts.

If you do anymore drama kill your hero then bring him back be damn ready to explain that space magic from start to finish if you think that's a cute gimmick it aint. If you can't explain it then don't kill him and bring him back.

Modifié par thehomeworld, 09 novembre 2013 - 05:31 .


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I don't want it jumping too far into the future. I want to see the effects of my decision in ME3 first-hand, not told by some Codex/Journal entry.

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LisuPL wrote...

Don't pass on a death sentence over the new Mass Effect game yet, it still might turn out to be something great.


Maybe but then I get invested in 3 Games and the third will not meet my wishes and hopes. I know that you can't please everyone but at least don't promise choice when there is none. So maybe they learn and let someone write the script who does do a good job.
Please don't let the writers from ME2/3 and DA:2 get their hands on it. Image IPB

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Slashice wrote...

spirosz wrote...

Consistent writing.

In your dreams brahs.

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To not be about Mass Effect, just let the series go. I just keep getting the feeling that Mass Effect is going to turn into FIFA in space.

But since a new Mass Effect game is upon us, I guess I want the next Mass Effect game to be about whatever the writers come up with, with no corporate overhead. I want it to be a story that is told because someone wants to tell us a story. That's what showed in the first game, that's what showed through the bits and cracks in the second game, and that's what was lacking in the third game.

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I am not sure, but I believe that it should not be a reboot and should be set after the events of ME3 with a canon ending in place.

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A smaller scale story.
Like a Donnie Brasco kind of story maybe.
Undercover agent infiltrating a merc gang. Develop friendship with the mercs and eventually betraying them (or not).
No connection to Shepard's story necessary and could still be a fun ride.

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MysticBinary82 wrote...

LisuPL wrote...

Don't pass on a death sentence over the new Mass Effect game yet, it still might turn out to be something great.


Maybe but then I get invested in 3 Games and the third will not meet my wishes and hopes. I know that you can't please everyone but at least don't promise choice when there is none. So maybe they learn and let someone write the script who does do a good job.
Please don't let the writers from ME2/3 and DA:2 get their hands on it. Image IPB


Too late?

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I want that old Bioware story-telling magic interwoven through every second of ME4.
Along with the Frostbite perks...

Story is my first love.
Customization is my second love.