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[1483749283]

Choose two out of the following three:

 

1) The next Mass effect is not a prequel

2) There will be no preferred 'canon' ending for ME3

3) We will mainly be dealing with the same epoch galaxy as before, with many of the same races

[SwobyJ]

Choose two out of the following three:

 

1) The next Mass effect is not a prequel

2) There will be no preferred 'canon' ending for ME3

3) We will mainly be dealing with the same epoch galaxy as before, with many of the same races

 

-Except for #2, Destroy will be for legacy players, but Control will be default canon/baseline story. Synthesis for variety.

-Except for #3, it'll be a transition into a whole 'new' galaxy.

 

My prediction.

[KotorEffect3]

No prequels or no alternative timeline crap please.  Make it post ME 3,  I don't care if it is years, decades, or even centuries after the events of ME 3 but  I want to see what is in store for the galaxy in the future not rehash it's past or do something completely unrelated to the ME universe I have grown to care about over the course of three games.  Prequels and reboots have become way too common in both movies and gaming.

[Das Rouse]

If it is a prequel, my interest will drop immensely. I've pretty much read all the novels(including the one book that shall not be mentioned) and most of the comics. Now I want to see what happened after the Reaper War.

[Tython]

Everyone hates prequels. Especially considering we know where the story will end up, in a room with a child version of Hudson and Walters, aka the Starchild, telling us how their artistic integrity matters and what we want doesn't.

 

Here's hoping ME4 crashes and burns and they make a true sequel with Shepard and the crew of the Normandy. I'd even buy a series with a new group of characters if the old ones had cameos or something. I feel Bioware killed the franchise yet I'm still posting on these forums so I'm mildly curious what they come up with.

[fchopin]

Is my idea a horrible one?

If by prequel you mean in another multi universe without shepard and reapers so we could have a different plot then i would be fine with a first contact game but not to a prequel to the shepard story.

[kipac]

I believe they said it won't be a prequel, so no contact war shenanigans.

It's wise for Bioware to not feature the era before Shepard. If they were to make a game on Contact War, Turians and humans are probably the only races you will get to see throughout the game. Plus, Dark Horse comics already featured enough stories about contact war and pre-Shepard times.

I'd rather see what happens to the universe after Shepard trilogy.

[ifyoureallyknew]

I hope it's a prequel about the Protheans.  It'd be interesting to see what other races existed during that time, as well.  

[Glockwheeler]

Personally, I hope it isn't a prequel. I'm hoping they move forward and don't go down a similar path that the Star Wars prequels did. If for some reason it is a prequel, the only thing I would be even remotely interested in would be events detailing the Prothean cycle.

[Bizantura]

I would be very sad if it is a prequel.

[Remix-General Aetius]

Oh I know it was with the Turians. I meant to present the war with the Batarians as a different idea. There is a time when the Batarians had a skirmish with the Alliance, fighting over territory and thought it to be a semi-interesting story as I imagine it being more about the criminal underworld. I do not like the First Contact War being the setting of ME4.
 

 

dedicating an entire game on a boring story.......do you want Bioware to go out of business or something?

[tehturian]

I'm not sure if a flagship prequel Mass Effect game could really work in the Mass Effect verse, seeing as humans had only been part of the galactic community for 30 years at the start of Mass Effect 1. And we know EA won't allow something as unmarketable as an alien protagonist in a AAA game. Yes they could do a smaller scale conflict, involving a hidden council conspiracy or whatnot but shaking off the feeling of inherent pointlessness would be difficult. 

 

If Bioware or another company were to try and reinvent the wheel by making a Mass Effect spin off stealth or horror game for instance, a prequel or midquel could work. But for major Mass Effect games the timeline should go forth and beyond. 

[SolNebula]

If ME4 is a prequel.......I simply would not buy it. While i really love the universe I'm tired of Reapers, Cerberus and indoctrination and knowing how the original trilogy is about; your actions would not even matter on the big picture. I don't play games to be Mr.None, i want my actions to have an effect on the universe and with prequels this is impossible. Let's move forward.

[Jon The Wizard]

How about a game following the Salarian assassin The Silent Step.  Recall Cpt., er, I mean Maj. Kirrahe's speech, specifically when he mentions the Silent Step, "who defeated a nation with a single shot."  That sounds like a Sniper Elite v2-style game to me.

[DarthLaxian]

then there is only one - good way - to finish that sentence:

 

If ME4 is a prequel - I wont buy it (I hate games you more or less know the end of - even if the personal story of your PC might be something we don't know yet!)

 

greetings LAX

[DDK]

If ME4 is a prequel then it will be the only ME that I won't buy or play.

[American_Nightmare]

Having read the ME books, I think it would be amazing if we got to play as David Anderson during his time in the First Contact War and up until ME1. Anderson was such a great father figure to Shepard and I think it would do him justice to experience what made him into what he was. He also fought Saren many times so we would get to see him again as well! Also we would get to see Sarens fall from grace too.

[CaIIisto]

No interest in a prequel.

No interest in a side-quel.

[Lunch Box1912]

I would throw up

[kold213]

My biggest problem with a prequel is the fact that we already know how it will end.

 

You can't have a game about the Krogan uplifting. Desperately searching a Rachni infested galaxy for a solution when you already know the Salarians are going to pull in the Krogan for a quick fix.

 

It would need to be a low key side story versus one of great wars from ME's history, which wouldn't be all that exciting for a game. 

[GenRtin]

Personally, I would be interested in a prequel, so long as it's not about human history.  The First Contact War, while one of the most memorable moments for humans, was nothing more than an incident to the galaxy.  It would be interesting as an expansion perhaps, but not the next Mass Effect game.  The same goes with the Batarians.  It would make a nice DLC, especially since one of Shepard's backstories involves holding off Batarians in Elysium.

 

The Rachni Wars followed by the Krogan Rebellion.  Next to the Reaper War, these were some of the most influencial events in history.  A vicious alien race terrorizing the galaxy.  A war that seemed impossible to win until the Krogan were called.  And just when the war was thought to be won, the Krogan decide to start their own war against the galaxy.  Imagine being a Salarian scientist responsible for creating the genophage, or even a Krogan who survived the war yet was watching his people's numbers dwindle so steadily.

 

Another idea is to play as a Spectre candidate, like Shepard in Mass Effect 1.  You could choose from the Turians, Salarians or Asari.  You start off with a mission on you alien's home planet.  This is so you get to visit more thoroughly the aliens' home planets (we never even got to visit Palaven).  We can get our own ship and explore the galaxy once again, like we did in ME1.  We get to meet and maybe even do missions with Spectres such as Nihilus and Saren, having a chance to get to know them better.  The companions that we get could be based on the race that we choose.  For instance, it would be hard to see a Krogan put his trust in a Salarian (while this did happen, it was incredibly rare).

 

These are just a couple of ideas.  But I just want to illustrate that focusing on the humans, in such a deep and rich galaxy, would not be interesting at all for a prequel.

[kold213]

Personally, I would be interested in a prequel, so long as it's not about human history.  The First Contact War, while one of the most memorable moments for humans, was nothing more than an incident to the galaxy.  It would be interesting as an expansion perhaps, but not the next Mass Effect game.  The same goes with the Batarians.  It would make a nice DLC, especially since one of Shepard's backstories involves holding off Batarians in Elysium.

 

The Rachni Wars followed by the Krogan Rebellion.  Next to the Reaper War, these were some of the most influencial events in history.  A vicious alien race terrorizing the galaxy.  A war that seemed impossible to win until the Krogan were called.  And just when the war was thought to be won, the Krogan decide to start their own war against the galaxy.  Imagine being a Salarian scientist responsible for creating the genophage, or even a Krogan who survived the war yet was watching his people's numbers dwindle so steadily.

 

Another idea is to play as a Spectre candidate, like Shepard in Mass Effect 1.  You could choose from the Turians, Salarians or Asari.  You start off with a mission on you alien's home planet.  This is so you get to visit more thoroughly the aliens' home planets (we never even got to visit Palaven).  We can get our own ship and explore the galaxy once again, like we did in ME1.  We get to meet and maybe even do missions with Spectres such as Nihilus and Saren, having a chance to get to know them better.  The companions that we get could be based on the race that we choose.  For instance, it would be hard to see a Krogan put his trust in a Salarian (while this did happen, it was incredibly rare).

 

These are just a couple of ideas.  But I just want to illustrate that focusing on the humans, in such a deep and rich galaxy, would not be interesting at all for a prequel.

Most of those stories would make great comics or books. I do like the the crossed out idea. I really hope I don't wait 2-4 years to play through a story I that already know the ending.

[wolfstanus]

I hope not. We already know the ending of that war. We already know what happened to the Protheans. We already know what happened to the previous races. There wont be much of an ending to those games. They are neat ideas but we already know what the endings are going to be. You die horribly and there is nothing you can do to stop it (reaper related) or The contact war end with unicorn farts and rainbows and you know what happens next. Better to be a continuation and be an unknown ending than a prequel.

[HARBINGER SR-1]

I really don't want it to be set during the first contact war, because wouldn't that mean we would pretty much only see Humans and Turians until the very end of the war?

[kold213]

Maybe start with the end of the war? Be one of the first humans to experience intelligent life that isn't trying to blast you from orbit.