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[Wuashabooi]

I currently have two theories for what the next ME games story is. I know the first contact war is the most common theory, but I honestly don't want that, because, we pretty much know the majority of what happens there.Humans meet Turians. Turians and Humans don't get along. Boom goes Shanxi. Anyway, here are mine and it'd  be great to here yours.

 

1. The start of the Blue Suns, Eclipse, and/or Blood Pack groups. This would be before Shepard like Bioware wants and it's a part of the lore we only know a tiny little bit about. Being a merc would give us plenty of reason to travel around the galaxy doing jobs around different systems and have our own squads being other mercs. And if bioware actually is planning on letting us play any race (DRELL! DRELL! I WANNA PLAY A DRELL!) it would be the perfect opportunity.

 

2. Start out playing as an indoctrinated reaper agent trying to get Saren on your side. Again it would be easy to play any race just being some guy (DRELL!) and we could be following his trail around the Galaxy, system to system, planet to planet. Our squad could be other indoctrinated people and it would be an opportunity for us to be captain of a Reaper, probably Sovereign or a smaller sized reaper.

[Excella Gionne]

It's been confirmed that it will not have anything to do with the Shepard universe, which means any of the aliens in the Shepard universe may not exist at all in the "New" Mass Effect game. I'd love it if we can choose our own alien race and if they kept the old aliens as well. 

[N0rke]

I've been thinking it would be kind of neat if they took the 'F you' ending as canon and set the next ME game well into the next cycle. The story wouldn't necessarily have to be reaper related, but it would give Bioware the chance to play around with the story without the need to tip toe around the established canon. Obviously it'll never happen because all media needs to shove humans down our throats in some way to make it marketable, but it'd be cool in my opinion.

[Excella Gionne]

ME3's ending doesn't cannon anything. It's simply just "that"! But if it did canon, some of the endings would not have mattered. I'm kinda glad nothing was cannon'd

[shodiswe]

Alliance human N7 marine, post-reaperera, fussy reaperera history records, lack of interest to discuss or dig into those "bad times" of the Reaper era this is afterall something new and exciting!

 

The new protagonist serves under admiral Johnson, who answers to admiral Harper. Both will give you missions and feedback from time to time.

 

The new enemy is kind of a mixture of the Collectors and the Leviathans but they are humanoid in size to make them more interesting and personble when you fight them. They had been hiding from the Reapers and Leviathans for a few hundredmillion years, but now they see their chance, it's now or never if they want to rule the galaxy and they feel they got a manifest destiny to do so, they have already waited and been stockpiling resources for far too long.

 

Their fachism and hybris has been breed to their bones for millions of years and you can no longer reason with them. They are unredemable, unrelenting, and everythign that's extreme and wrong. It's your time to save the galaxy from the "redacted", be a hero as the spiritual sucessor to Shepard, but remember, you are not Shepard.

 

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This is pretty much what I'm starting to expect, but it's not what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping for something new from bioware rather than the all consuming forces of evil that you have to fight.

[von uber]

It's been confirmed that it will not have anything to do with the Shepard universe, which means any of the aliens in the Shepard universe may not exist at all in the "New" Mass Effect game. I'd love it if we can choose our own alien race and if they kept the old aliens as well.

I thought it was just the shepard story that it had nothing to do with, not the universe itself.
I can't see their being no asari or turians for example.

[shodiswe]

I don't think they will do an alternate universe thing.

[TurianRebel212]

Guys and gals;

 

 

The new game will be about Cerberus. Super Mac luuvvvvs him some Cerberus cheeze.

 

Cerberus. It will happen. You'll play a Cerberus operative in some way. Cerberus.

 

Prepare yourselves....

 

 

 

 

For it's arrival.

[Rosstoration]

Would love for it to take place during the Prothean Empire, maybe play as some random tribal human that is kidnapped and tested on, becomes intelligent and begins a rebellion against the Protheans. Getting to see all the Mass Effect races in their infancy would be awesome.

[Bob from Accounting]

There is zero chance of either of those two things happening. And Thank God.

[Kingthlayer]

It's been confirmed that it will not have anything to do with the Shepard universe, which means any of the aliens in the Shepard universe may not exist at all in the "New" Mass Effect game. I'd love it if we can choose our own alien race and if they kept the old aliens as well. 

 

If that's the case, then the game shouldn't be called Mass Effect. because it isn't.

 

As for ideas of what I hope the next game is, they should canonize the Mass Effect 3 ending(destroy - so Geth dead, Quarians alive, Krogans cured, Rachni alive - IMO that would make for the best sequel) and have us play as either Turian, Salarian, Asari or Human where we spend the prologue helping out our home planet in the aftermath of the Reaper war, before eventually going to the Citadel and becoming a Spectre.

 

As a Spectre we travel around, seeing the full scale damage of what the Reapers caused while at the same time bringing down new threats that pop up(Krogan clans who broke away from Wrex and wants to conquer the galaxy, gangs like the Blue Suns, Eclipse etc that think that now is the time for them to expand etc etc)

 

I'm not to sure on how to make that into a trilogy or multiple series game though, unless they introduce some new big threat to the galaxy.

 

Another idea would be to reboot the Mass Effect trilogy(Shepard + Reapers) but tell the story in a completely different way.  Instead of Saren/Sovereign/Geth in the first game, make it so the Batarians are all indoctrinated from studying the Reaper corpse and they attack the galaxy.

[marcelo caldas]

I don't think they will do an alternate universe thing.

 

If they do that, they can count one less sale in their forecast revenue.

[AlexMBrennan]

1. The start of the Blue Suns, Eclipse

GTA: ME?

And if bioware actually is planning on letting us play any race (DRELL! DRELL! I WANNA PLAY A DRELL!) it would be the perfect opportunity.

Except that the history of the Blue Suns is already established.

2. Start out playing as an indoctrinated reaper agent trying to get Saren on your side. Again it would be easy to play any race just being some guy (DRELL!) and we could be following his trail around the Galaxy, system to system, planet to planet. Our squad could be other indoctrinated people and it would be an opportunity for us to be captain of a Reaper, probably Sovereign or a smaller sized reaper.

Again, how Saren got indoctrinated has already been established in canon (ME: Revelation iirc) so again, your argument is "We could have X because we can retcon everything!"

[FlyingSquirrel]

It's been confirmed that it will not have anything to do with the Shepard universe, which means any of the aliens in the Shepard universe may not exist at all in the "New" Mass Effect game. I'd love it if we can choose our own alien race and if they kept the old aliens as well. 

 

I know I've said this before, but if you have to sideline that much of what has defined the series, there's barely any point to calling it "Mass Effect" instead of just creating a new science fiction series. I mean, what would be left if some or all of the alien races and their history get sidelined? The Citadel and the mass relays? That's hardly the stuff of a durable franchise - the Citadel is a cool design but I'm sure they could design a new space station with a new name. As for the mass relays, they're just another fictional way to achieve faster-than-light travel. Call it whatever you want - mass relays, warp speed (Star Trek), hyperspace (Star Wars), the slipstream (Andromeda), "jumping" (Battlestar Galactica) - it boils down to the same thing: sci-fi writers making up ways for us to do things that we don't yet know how to do IRL.

[Farangbaa]

Sooo...

 

everytime somebody has a brain fart about ME4, there's a new topic?

[FlyingSquirrel]

Anyway, I'd like to see a story set 10-20 years before the Shepard trilogy, post-First Contact War, with human/batarian conflicts in the Traverse being the entry point for a plot that touches on other aspects of galactic exploration and politics. We might come across breakaway factions such as humans who are just being imperialists or batarians who don't support the Hegemony government, and elements within the more established species might turn out to be manipulating events for their own purposes or trying to intervene to cool things down. The geth would have to be left out, I suppose, since their reappearance is a huge surprise in ME1, but most of the other species could be involved: the quarians do their share of wandering, someone might try to enlist multispecies merc bands, and the three Council races would obviously be concerned about what's happening.

[Han Shot First]

Assuming the stuff about the Pax fan panel is legit (a big assumption), my bet would be on the next game going the Star Trek: Voyager route. The protagonist plays a similar role as Jon Grissom, and takes his or her ship through a previously inactive relay to parts unknown. After jumping through the relay into either uncharted parts of the Milky Way (only 1% of it is explored according to the lore) or to another galaxy like Andromeda, the player's ship gets stranded on the other side.

 

More speculation...

 

At this supposed fan panel it was asked, "What does N7 mean to you?" What if they are going to roll with the multiplayer version of N7, where during the Reaper War the Alliance assembles special operations teams consisting of all the galaxy's races to help combat the Reapers? Maybe the game is set either during the Reaper War or after, and the protagonist is a member of one of those teams. It would allow for multiple playable species in that case. In addition to human, the protagonist could be a Turian or Asari or Quarian N7 for example, and the crew of the warship might be mixed species as well. You might have a Quarian engineering chief, an Asari pilot, a human comm specialist, a Turian gunnery officer, a Salarian doctor, ect, ect.

 

Or maybe none of that is in the next game. 

 

In either case I'm looking forward to some information being released on it.

[JeffZero]

Had the vanilla endings continued to be canon, I dare say it would have been more of a BSG route.

[justafan]

I doubt they are going to just leave the Shepard universe behind. I can see them setting it far in the future, far enough to retcon out the most unsavory aspects of the ending, and I'd be OK with that.  While I don't want them to try to top the reaper threat, I think anything in a prequel era is just too small in scale for a new series of Mass Effect.  

 

The FCW was basically on a single planet, and there is no room for human interaction with aliens because humans didn't know about them until after the war.  Also, the Batarians have always been the ME analogue to North Korea, sure they're a bit of a pain, but never a very serious threat, so much so that they have become something of a joke.  The Mass Effect universe is huge, plenty of potential for conflict, but in my opinion it needs to be a sequel to be interesting.

[marcelo caldas]

I hope for an immediate sequel, something about 10-20 years after the reaper war, so Whex, Aria, Liara, Miranda, Grunt, and almost everyone would be alive.

Also, play as Shepard’s son would be great.

 

5 things I want to see:

Lots of RPG elements and customization (maybe attributes like str, dex, cons, etc, armor setups and bonuses like a power armor should have)

Lots of Hubs and exploring

Mystery/terror/sci-fi elements

Meaningful stealth and lots of different enemies (not 3 factions with 6 units each)

More batarians/batarians history/batarian squadie

 

5 things I don't want to see:

prequel or parallel universe

BW pretending the first trilogy doesn't exist

MMO

auto dialog (my character says only what I choose him to say)

Cerberus as main protagonist/antagonist (I don't mind a side quest or something minor)

[marcelo caldas]

 While I don't want them to try to top the reaper threat, I think anything in a prequel era is just too small in scale for a new series of Mass Effect.  

 

I think the rachni wars could do, but as I said before a prequel is the best way to go

[justafan]

I think the rachni wars could do, but as I said before a prequel is the best way to go

 

Very few successful games lack humans, which is why I don't think this will happen.  It could be cool, but Bioware will want to keep humans, and the only way I see for a compelling large scale continuation of the series is if they do a sequel.

[marcelo caldas]

Very few successful games lack humans, which is why I don't think this will happen.  It could be cool, but Bioware will want to keep humans, and the only way I see for a compelling large scale continuation of the series is if they do a sequel.

 

agreed

[FlyingSquirrel]

Also, given the generally positive response to Shepard, they'll probably want a voiced protagonist. Could you, for example, record a single male human voice and then use post-production tinkering to make it a little deeper for a krogan, a little higher for a salarian, and a little scratchier for a drell? If not, budget concerns might preclude making too many non-human species available. Recording all of Shepard's dialogue with Meer and Hale is one thing, but doing, say, 10 or 12 versions of the character with the most dialogue and hiring and paying the necessary talent may be farther than they're willing to go.

[SporkFu]

What if synthesis causes interspecies co-existence to become more difficult to maintain over time? A sort of groupthink mentality where it becomes tougher to relate to other species.

 

The unity that Shep forged to fight the reapers fades into the background, tensions rise, diplomacy breaks down. Alliances rise and fall. Security is established around the mass relays to prevent unauthorized entry into systems.  

 

Maybe war breaks out, but it's not some galaxy wide threat like the reapers or the leviathan, just the different species fighting amongst themselves.