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[SimonTheFrog]

What is scary to me is that the people who came up with stuff like the conduit and all (ME1) are all gone now. What we are left with  is the supposed talent that made the endings to ME3.  I'll just say that a lot of ties have been cut.

 

We don't know much about the writing team, do we?

Apart from Schlerf being at the helm (who is an unknown entity in terms of Mass Effect). And we can pretty savely bet that neither Drew, nor John Dombrow nor Chris L'Etoile are there, so that's bad already.

 

Anyway, a lot of the former writers that got pulled to SWTOR or DA:I may be returning, no? Like Patrick Weekes?

[Tonymac]

We don't know much about the writing team, do we?

Apart from Schlerf being at the helm (who is an unknown entity in terms of Mass Effect). And we can pretty savely bet that neither Drew, nor John Dombrow nor Chris L'Etoile are there, so that's bad already.

 

Anyway, a lot of the former writers that got pulled to SWTOR or DA:I may be returning, no? Like Patrick Weekes?

 

To be honest with you I'm not sure, other than what BioWare has already stated in its blog "Introducing Some Dev Team Leads for the Next Mass Effect".

 

 http://blog.bioware.com/page/3/

 

 

 What worries me most is the fact that Mac is still around.

[SimonTheFrog]

Well, one could start a thorough investigation via linkedin

 

Mac is a tricky subject. Lets not got there as there is a thread for that already here

[Tonymac]

Well, one could start a thorough investigation via linkedin

 

Mac is a tricky subject. Lets not got there as there is a thread for that already here

 

I know - just showing you what info I had, and stating the obvious.  

 

We have some new talent on the BioWare team, so we will have to see.  

[Mcfly616]

Weekes is gone, unfortunately.

[Ithurael]

Weekes is gone, unfortunately.

WAAAT!!

 

When did THIS happen!?!

 

Where did he go to?

[Farangbaa]

'The Citadel is part of me' & 'The Citadel is my home' --> My CPU is it's case. The case is a part of it, and it is home, but it has no control over it whatsoever.

'I control the Reapers' --> It made the Reapers, and they are perfect in their design, i.e. they do exactly as intended. No real time joystick like control necessary. I see that statement as grandstanding, pretty much, or using 'control' in it's broadest possible sense (it controlled the situation that led to the 'birth' of the first Reaper, and henceforth the 'birth' of every Reaper thereafter)

Now, continue bickering.

[Mcfly616]

WAAAT!!

 

When did THIS happen!?!

 

Where did he go to?

 Not sure. But he's not on the next Mass Effect (unless something came up that I'm not aware of)

[Ithurael]

*Tear...

[SimonTheFrog]

 Not sure. But he's not on the next Mass Effect (unless something came up that I'm not aware of)

 

Do you have additional info?

 

As far as i'm aware he was happily working on DA:I. Not sure if he's one of the 150 guys that moved from DA:I to ME:N after DA:I's release but i can't see a reason why not (other than him and Mac maybe not wanting to sit in the same room *cough*).

[Vazgen]

There is almost no information on the team behind the Next Mass Effect. Weekes worked on Dragon Age Inquisition and is currently listed as a writer at EA Bioware in his Twitter account. There was also a statement about DA:I devs working on the Next Mass Effect...

[Mcfly616]

Yeah, he wasn't working on it up until DA:I's release. No news if that's changed.

 

 

Personally, I always hoped he'd be lead writer for the next game. Unfortunately we got the Halo 4 guy. Yay

[JeffZero]

The Lead Writer position has always been more about coordinating the team than penning more than anyone else. They're the glue, that's all. That's been clarified a few times. I wouldn't necessarily want Patrick back if it were in that position. I'd want him back as a "regular" writer... and that's definitely still possible.

[Mcfly616]

I'm aware of what being the Lead Writer entails. And while he'd be taken out of a hands-on role, he clearly is capable of great ideas and concepts which I would like to see attributed to the games narrative as a whole. I'd like to see his talent influence the rest of the writing team, instead of just being to designated to an individual character or two.

[SimonTheFrog]

Also: don't forget that a good story in games, especially in the BioWare type with lots of deep characters, is a team effort. We shouldn't single out specific writers too much as long as we don't have a very clear picture.

[JeffZero]

I'm aware of what being the Lead Writer entails. And while he'd be taken out of a hands-on role, he clearly is capable of great ideas and concepts which I would like to see attributed to the games narrative as a whole. I'd like to see his talent influence the rest of the writing team, instead of just being to designated to an individual character or two.

 

I respectfully disagree. I love Patrick, but personally I've never been given reason to believe he'd be better off in such a position.

[Undead Han]

It's not going to happen...but I wish John Dombrow was still on the team. I liked most of the stuff he was involved in writing for ME3.

[Duval49]

Hey guy's! Just a little mind boggle here. So I got a question for you?

Do you think the timeline of Mass Effect should take place after shepard's story?

Wouldn't you like to see what civilization is like 50yr's later?

What is the universe like after all of shepard's achievement's?

 

 

-The Future-

 

I think the new story should take place 50yr's after shepard's story,

simple because this open's a whole new idea of storyline for any future mass effect game.

 

Could you fathom? Playing as the great decendant of the legendary hero of the galaxy? - I Could!

Could you think about all the possibility's of what the galaxy is like after this timespan?

What did the krogan do after the reapers? What did the saleraian's do after the reapers?

What did the Asari do after the reapers? and so on with all the specie's?

 

Did they travel to distant galaxy's and found new specie's of life? - Could be in next game?

Did they all become cybernetically advanced? I's there a massive statue of shepard in the presidium?

They imagination is never ending. What is the alliance doing now? Do we ever get to see our old friends

have kids? Did there kids become the next chapter in mass effect? What happen to the normandy?

Did it get decomed? (I doubt it) Who is the leader of the alliance now? What secret's did the illusive man have in store as a back up plan during the reapers we havent found out about? Was there a person in charge of cerberus above him? Who was the one calling all the shots? Did the baterians grow there population back after the mass effect field exploded wiping there whole star system out? There's a million possibility's where the story can go.

But the one that make's the most sense is to start years after shepard. This will allow closer and allow

Bioware to move away from shepard and start a new story of life after the great hero of the galaxy.

 

The ultimate question still remains mass effect fans!! -Edited-

What dark secret out there is more deadlier then the reapers, that the leviathan didn't tell us about?

You tell me. Tell Bioware what you really think is happening here. My mind is blown!

 

Now this is intense thinking!

 

I was just thinking the same, having ME:next go too far into the future would just be plain stupid and irrelevant.. and i would love to have me:next follow up after the reapers. theres still story there we dont need to step into a different time frame or universe. also another thought even if they did go in the future a couple hundred years.. liara is only 109 in me3, and since asari can live up to 1000 years, and bioware did say we would see familiar faces well you know where im going  

[CylonHybrid]

For the next mass effect game, one question which seems odd is, if they are introducing new races, why were these races not discovered before? There are a few options:

 

1. The next mass effect story is set hundreds of years in the future when Shepards story is legend and the galaxy is rebuilt. These races only recently discovered space flight and so were not harvested by the reapers because at the time of ME3, they were deemed too primitive.

 

2. They are from another galaxy.

 

3. They were a highly advanced alliance of races from a previous cycle. They discovered about the reapers and knowing also that they could not win by conventional means hid from the reaper invasion the same way the Leviathan did or the protheans on IIlos before they died. If this is the case, they may have developed technology to hide from the reapers. 

 

For example the cloaking technology in Stargate to hide from the Ori like in this utube video 

 

or they may have hidden entire star systems such as this star trek game 

 

Thoughts?

[Duval49]

For the next mass effect game, one question which seems odd is, if they are introducing new races, why were these races not discovered before? There are a few options:

 

1. The next mass effect story is set hundreds of years in the future when Shepards story is legend and the galaxy is rebuilt. These races only recently discovered space flight and so were not harvested by the reapers because at the time of ME3, they were deemed too primitive.

 

2. They are from another galaxy.

 

3. They were a highly advanced alliance of races from a previous cycle. They discovered about the reapers and knowing also that they could not win by conventional means hid from the reaper invasion the same way the Leviathan did or the protheans on IIlos before they died. If this is the case, they may have developed technology to hide from the reapers. 

 

Thoughts?

in the codex i think.. it sais that there were alot of inactive mass effect relays that were kept locked by the reapers, these could lead to new systems now that the reapers are gone 

[CylonHybrid]

But Duvel, even if that were true, it still doesn't answer the question of why didn't the reapers destroy these civilisations like they did every other civilisation?

[Mcfly616]

But Duvel, even if that were true, it still doesn't answer the question of why didn't the reapers destroy these civilisations like they did every other civilisation?

The Reapers only harvest space-faring civilizations.

[-273]

Perhaps they were in the middle of harvesting those species when they're blindsided by a giant red wave of reaper death? Then years later while we're mining reaper archives from the tech they left behind we discover this was just the western front while in another area of the milkyway the war of the pacific was raging on. Council subsequently sends out a first contact team, then for the sake of convenience later in the game or even at the end we discover the two areas are linked via dormant mass relays.

 

Hello BSW, I've been going through ME withdraw lately and intend for this community to temporarily sate that craving. A pleasure to make your acquaintance. 

[God]

OP, your mind is blown easily.

[wright1978]

I definitely don't want the game to pick up 50 years after ME3. There's  the huge issue of doing justice to the varied world states or railroading one version. Then there's the fact breath Shep could still be alive in that time frame. Think immediate future should be left to people's headcanons at this stage as no benefit is going to come from poking that half healed wound. Future game set thousands of years after Shep's time when all the people that knew him/her are dead would appeal to me more. Given the new species element it may very well be some offshoot settlement or exploration force setting which could work i suppose.

 

I'm not particularly keen on the notion of future protagonists being descendents either since that railroads sheps into wanting to and being able to have kids with their lover.