Here is a Question,
do you think we should have a mass effect keep like the dragon age series as the DA Keep to keep track of the choices we do throughout the original set of games and this game if this is the start of a new triology/series?
~Herkles~
It doesn't look like there'll be any need for a Keep for ME. I suspect they'll set it up in such a way so they're not impacted by any decision you made in the ME series...
eg. Have it set early on or right before ME3.
No. The very reason for the change of space is exactly in order to avoid any repercussions for the ending and all the previous choices. They want to start fresh.
So no. There should be no anchors pulling the game to the old trilogy. If they could simply allow you to define the settings for all decisions in the first 3 games, they should have done it in the milky way instead, since there was still plenty of places to explore and new races to discover.
They could call it The Citadel.
Oh, wait...
They could call it The Citadel.
Oh, wait...
well the keep isn't an In world thing, it is an out of story thing, to keep track of changes you made throughout your games.
Yes, but only for the new game series going forward, if it is not going to be standalone.
No, there could be an entire trilogy or even more than 3 games set entirely in andromeda.
It´s possible that the new ship has a number of frozen members of each known species of the galaxy preserved.
So nothing has been lost, really. Well, aside from Javik and the chance to have a prothean.
I hope they actually allow us to have batarian and hanar squad-members. Or a volus.
When Star Trek Voyager was produced taking place in the Delta Quadrant it was easier to watch than TNG and DS9. And yet, the fact that they were without communication (well, for the most part, this later was reversed) did not mean a denial of the tng series, or the movies, or the DS9 episodes. It simply meant that the new series focused on a isolated group in a very distant part of the universe.
A waste of resources. Focus on the new games instead of trying to figure out how to keep the mess of all those ultimately pointless decisions in check.
If MEA does have any tie in to the ME Trilogy then it would be obligated to tie into the failure of ME3's ending structure and then that would ruin any hope for MEA.
Yes, I made a thread about it a couple months ago.
They should call it:
Mass Effect HQ
or
Mass Effect Vault
Personally, I favor 'the Citadel Archives.'
But I'm about 94% positive that they're going to do this for the future Mass Effect titles. With regards to this, I'm inclined to think that either they offer a brief questionnaire of some kind, either online or at startup, that will allow for basics - gender, a few major decisions, ending decision, possibly romance - for Shepard's story. We're not going to get questions like 'did Shepard save Kate Bowman and company on Asteroid X-57?' but we could probably get 'did Shepard save the rachni queen?'
IMO this is not going to happen, let's be realistic they wanted to go to Andromeda because they wrote themselves in a corner and are trying to rebuild the franchise on new basis. For this game we are not going to see a ME:Keep of any sort maybe for the next game after ME:Andromeda.
Not necessary for ME:A as it can be addressed in one cutscene question:
'what colour was the cloud as you sped away from the Milky Way?'
For 2018 in preparation for ME:A2, yes.
Its gonna be N7 Something Or Other.
Even if the protagonist isn't literally N7 right away or anything, there seems to be enough emphasis on N7 for this game + the N7 website stuff for ME3 MP, that it seems to be a given.
Bioware seems to want to make N7 into the highest constant symbol of this series, just with redefinitions of its meaning.
Probably no need. For all we know at the end of the game we find the orb of rebooting and cut to some person named Shepard waking up saying 'I had the strangest dream...'
Sure. Why not? ME:A is going to be far apart from Shepard's story, so things like "renegade or paragon" or "did Kelly give you a lap dance" aren't going to really matter. But there are still some large decisions that should come up somewhere, even if only in dialogue.
I'm thinking of things like curing the genophage, for example.
And it's Mass Effect. I would just feel weird starting it up without importing some sort of world state.
But how do you know that the game takes place (from the characters perspective) after the cure (or the faking of it) ? Maybe they left the galaxy during the beginning of the war. Maybe they were setting everything in motion soon after saren attacked the citadel. This gives them about 3 years to prepare.
Forget shepard, people. His or her story is done.
I´m sure that the people in the new ship are more concerned about finding sources of food, water, minerals, weapons and diplomatic allies instead of being all day talking about shepard´s past achievements.
I guess they would want to move forward.
And so should you.
NO mass effect keep! Pu-leeeease.
What would be the point?
From a narrative perspective, it does not even make much sense. What´s the point in knowing if Shepard gave tali the geth data or not? Or if Wrex was killed by shepard or ashley williams? Move on, please.
Should they someday decide to merge the original trilogy and the new one in a crossover of sorts they can easily add a keep by then.
But at the very beginning of the new series? Bad. Bad move. it would serve no purpose right now.
Andromeda should be starting fresh but if there are gonna be games following it THEN I'd like the Mass Effect version of the Dragon Age Keep.
Deoends on how they want to handle choices in the new games. The trilogy decisions were becoming unmanageable even before the ending happened.
This is true.
Plus Andromeda is specifically to run away from start fresh without worrying about these choices, especially the endings.
a "Mass Effect Keep" would totally defeat the purpose of the new setting.
As others have said, the purpose of moving to Andromeda is to create distance from the events of the trilogy. If the choices made there appear at all, it will likely just be tiny references, not worth the construction of a "Keep"-like site (Though for what its worth, I support "Mass Effect Database")
Maybe they could throw in a few bullet points you can define somehow, but it will be small.
If anything you could import actually affected ME:A more than a little background noise, it would be really forced.
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