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[GhostWare]

I was reading an article that was just published over the past two days, and apparently there's a rumor that Mass Effect 4's protagonist is going to be Shepard's child? Personally, I think this is awesome!

 

The article: http://moviepilot.co...external,manual

 

The whole concept to where the character you create is the child of your Shepard and whoever you romanced in the original trilogy is just gold. Like in the final romance scene in Mass Effect 3 could be where this child is conceived? I personally think that's an intelligent direction to take. 

 

Granted, however, if you played as FemShep, and she died at the end of ME3's events, then there could be no way that a child could be born, could it? However, maybe the said child was born in between games, or some cloning concept that brought the child to life maybe similar to how Miranda was birthed.

 

What do you guys think?

[Iakus]

Biology may have something to say for Garrus and Tali romances...

[Arcian]

As if I wanted to play as a human again.

[Linkenski]

Sorry, but I have to be completely honest here: That would be a really cheesy idea for a ME4 protagonist. I wanna be able to play as both Asari, Turian or whatever but if the backgrounds I can choose from all have to do with Shepard and his LI it's anti-immersive, fanservice and just plain cheesy. I wouldn't want that.

 

One thing they did with ME2 and ME3 that I didn't like so much was keep faces from ME1 reappearing conveniently in different missions, like Nassana being in Thane's recruit mission, Harkin being back in Garrus' loyalty mission to ME2 squadmates being conveniently set on the same site Shepard lands on in the ME3 side-quests and stuff like that. The reason why I dislike that is because ME1 made the universe feel grand and incredibly big in scope, even reinforced by the somewhat empty terrains of random planets where you drove around in your Mako. It gave me moments where I could just sink in how alone and little my character was compared to how large the universe was, but in ME2 and ME3, by constantly shoehorning in returning characters at every junction they make the galaxy seem small.

 

I don't want that. They say ME4 is gonna be more about freedom and exploring the galaxy as you wish to, sort of like DA:I's focus on exploration and open-ended areas. If they truly want to focus on that, stop intersecting the characters all the time. I don't even want to see Liara, unless Bioware realistically puts her in a position that makes her growth seem believable, like if she's somehow recognized as one of the main heroes who beat the Reapers but is now 300+ years older than before and resides at some... IDK, publically known as a representative for something... I don't know, maybe a war museum? (thank god I'm not a writer). 

 

Intertwining stuff to characters we knew in ME3? No. Making us play as the direct offspring of Shepard in ME4? No way. Just no friggin way. It would cheapen the expansiveness of MEU.

[ImaginaryMatter]

I sure hope not.

[Cobwebmaster]

This is an obvious and easily avoidable option save for a romance with Liara who is bi-something (not sure sex is relevant to Asari.) I tend to agree if there is an ME4 that it should be about something completely different than a dependency on topical events during ME3 which is a bit like the outcome of the suicide mission in ME2. Did your Shep romance anyone? Did you genuinely cure the genophage? Are you a merged synthetic/organic, or even worse are you Jacob/Bryn's baby and so forth


Actually I'm not even sure how Asari gestate. Do they sort of "think" pregnancy following a meld with another organic? Oh no! please don't tell me that LIara thinks herself a 1000 year term Shepard based on some cloned DNA she stole from Dr Chakwas and went funky with! 

[irgendeindreck]

My LI was Steve. See the problem?

[Valmar]

This would be a terrible idea, not to mention impossible for many, many player's Shepard.

 

Unrelated but I wonder how the character creation will handle. What if you can make the the protagonist look exactly like your Shepard?

[CthuluCalling]

No. Just no.

[BronzTrooper]

Won't work because BW would have to make one of the endings of ME3 canon, which would result in a fairly large PR hit.  They already took a big enough PR hit from ME3's endings alone, trying to make one of the endings canon would only make things worse.

 

Besides, Liara, Jack, and Ash are the only 3 romances that could actually result in a child being born, so that would highly alienate the LGBT community as well as the Talimancers, Garrusmancers, Mirandamancers, Kaidanmancers, Thanemancers, Traynormancers, and Cortezmancers.  Not to mention that it would also alienate those who don't romance anyone.

 

So, yeah, not a smart move at all.

[von uber]

Excellent, always wanted to play as an asari.

[Reorte]

Awful idea.

ME4 doesn't need implausible and unlikely connections to existing characters.

[Mordokai]

Well, there was that whole talk about little blue babies...

[SporkFu]

After the Lazarus Project, I guess anything is possible, but, please Bio.... Do. Not. Want. 

[Kurt M.]

Makes no sense, and I've also heard that ME4 will be set in the same timeline as Shepard's.

 

So unless he's a toddler prodigy of some sorts, I kinda doubt it....although having in mind his/her father/mother, I'd half expect to be born with a Mattock in his hands.

[Kenshen]

Cerberus did more than rebuild shep and clone her it seems.  Those guys have no limits.

[ImaginaryMatter]

My LI was Steve. See the problem?

 

I doubt that would stop BioWare. The Illusive Man ordered Miranda to take Shepard's sperm or eggs, for some back up plan. Then because Cerberus is an idea, the remnants of Cerberus find the samples, do some space magic, and poof! A new psuedo-Shepard!

[SporkFu]

I doubt that would stop BioWare. The Illusive Man ordered Miranda to take Shepard's sperm or eggs, for some back up plan. Then because Cerberus is an idea, the remnants of Cerberus find the samples, do some space magic, and poof! A new psuedo-Shepard!

I admit, I started thinking of a scenario where it could work. It involved Wilson stealing some of shep's sperm/eggs during the Lazarus project, and Kelly Chambers stealing some of shep's LI's genetic material from Mordin's lab, or the medbay, and TIM giving it all to Henry Lawson, who's a test-tube-baby-making-genius.

 

But I stopped there after realizing it would only take into account some of shep's possible romances.

[LisuPL]

Shepard is on his retirement.

 

There won't be anything than a slight reference to his deeds, but playing as his son/daughter would be more than his a nod to him...

 

So no - surely we won't be playing as ANY of his relatives.

[Han Shot First]

There is no way this is true.

 

The protagonist of the next game is confirmed to be human, so that rules out a child with Liara. A child with Garrus or Tali would have been ruled out before that just on the basis that they can't reproduce with humans. And some Shepards are gay or lesbian, so they obviously can't have children (at least with their partners) either. Miranda is infertile, so anyone who romanced her can't have children. Control and Synthesis Shepards die before having children. And then there are the forever alone Shepards.

 

If you combine all of those together you probably get an overwhelming majority of players who shouldn't have a Shepardspawn in a sequel.

 

It would also be a terrible idea even if it didn't potentially ignore your LI choices in the previous series. The Mass Effect universe is a big place, inhabited by trillions of people on perhaps hundreds of inhabited planets. It would make that universe seem incredibly small if every hero it produced was from the same family line. The galaxy is a big place, with plenty of room for heroes not related to Shepard.

[Kenshen]

So that leaves Kaiden, Ashley, Jacob, and Jack (Kelly maybe too) if it was suppose to be the offspring of a LI.  The only way, and it is still cheesy, is to use the Cerberus angle which won't sit well with many.

[themikefest]

No 

 

Depending on the playthrough, all LI can be dead.

[DeinonSlayer]

Ever notice how the Liaramancers are the only people who ever like this idea when it comes up? I sure as heck don't want it.

[Daemul]

I'm all for this, just to see the salty tears that would be shed with it's announcement. The new protag is Human anyway, so if Bioware go down this route Liara haters/lovers can breath a sign of relief/cry into their pillows. 

[DeinonSlayer]

I'm all for this, just to see the salty tears that would be shed with it's announcement. The new protag is Human anyway, so if Bioware go down this route Liara haters/lovers can breath a sign of relief/cry into their pillows.

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