Hello everyone,
I've been very excited about the premise of a new ME game, as everyone else. I've seen many concerns about when should it take place as another action-RPG game. I got some ideas I haven't seen posted much, so I wanted to share them here.
First, in my opinion no ME games should take place after the events of ME3, as it would require to set one of the endings as canon, or even worse, make a totally different experience depending on your ME3 choice! However, there are endless possibilities on times before ME3. These are my favourites (again, for an action-RPG like the current trilogy). Sure, you know how their main events end, but there are many secondary/top secret events that happen along them.
1.- Rachni Wars: it allows to expand a lot on the Rachni faction, as well as having no human characters. The player could be from one of the Citadel Council species -Turian, Salarian or Asari- and fight against the Rachni as either a regular soldier, a fleet commander, an Spectre... The player could even be a Krogan soldier, eager to fight, but eventually being genophage'd. This could allow some serious emotional conflicts: the reveal of having been a tool, the excessively war-like attitude of your warlords (willing to rebel against your allies), the doom of the genophage. Even Wrex could appear, or at least as a newborn baby (I'm not sure about the timeline here, but Wrex was already a millenium old in ME1 if I recall correctly).
2.- First Contact War: allows the player to be a human, and experience times quite close to those of ME1. The aesthetics could be similar to those ME1, which could be a very welcome service to the original ME1 fans. Also, the end of the war is a quite peaceful one, which could set a more soft mood after all those years of war.
3.- Between ME1 and ME2 (or since the entry of humans in Citadel space): there are many possible stories that were happening while Shepard was investigating Saren, and even before he was assigned to the Normandy SR1. Spectres from the Council species solving things across the galaxy, Justicars fighting injustice, mercenary gangs messing around... Why not take one of these still-only-hinted subuniverses and make a story out of it? We could even play as Zaeed and experience his pre-Shepard adventures from his point of view.
4.- Prothean Cycle: this one has also been proposed. It could be quite interesting to know more about their empire, the other species that existed with them, their own war against the Reapers... We could even see some primitives! (Salarians licking their own eyes...)
Those are my favourite ideas for an action-RPG. However, there are many types of games that could look very interesting if set on the ME universe. For example, I would love to see an RTS (or a turn-based one) focused on the spacefleet combat of ME. There are a lot of entries about spaceships on the Codex which explain how they work and fight. Wouldn't it be awesome to command one of the Alliance fleets against the Turian ones or the Batarian's?
I hope this proves useful for the devs to take ideas from. Please share your opinions!
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IF the antagonist isn't something of Reaper level threat again it will feel redundant for a ME game as we are used to the galaxy being put at risk and fighting to save it while uniting all races alongside some awesome companions, so to give us any less you would not be giving us a ME game hence I think the title will change completely.
