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[corporal doody]

Shepard's descendents became moisture farmers on some far off desert planet.

[HuldraDancer]

But wait...What if it was a Cerberus plot. Since Cerberus does so many nasty experiments in the game, maybe they figured out a way to produce and stimulate alien genes in Shepard, thinking his offspring would be valuable to Galactic Protection, thus making Shepard able to reproduce with aliens... AWESOME PLOT TWIST ACHIEVED!

 

If a clone of Shepard was not good enough for Cerberus why would children who only share half of Shepard's genes be? I highly doubt that wanting Shep to have kids was even remotely on TIM's list of priorities when bringing Shepard back from the dead.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Sadly true, I would love in hopefully a future ME game to play something other than human though part of me would be worried that they would restrict some of the species to certain genders like, wanna play Krogan, well you have to play as a male too then.

 

Fingers crossed for being able to play as something other than a human for the next game though.

Chances are MEA is the first in a series of games, so we'd have to wait several more years for this to even possibly be an option. 

 

But who knows. They may find themselves having enough resources available to surprise us. It could happen. It won't, but it could. 

[Legendary Hero]

Well then, maybe make it easy, make all the "Unlockable" races playable but still make them Descendants of Shepard.

 

 

Anyway, I said it would be good as a choice, to be able to be a descendant of Shepard, or be a totally new person not even related to commander Shepard in the video game.

[Stakrin]

Very much dislike. No offense. Hybrids just don't make sense in the story, and if they don't want to talk about what happened after me3, they wouldn't do well to have people related to Shepard.
Also, the game may take place before the reaper war ended. Or sort of.

We could have left for andromeda before the tuchunka missions so no big choice happened, so bioware doesn't have to worry about it. It may take place in the future because cyrogenics. That way the ship can check out planets while we sleep to preserve energy.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Another problem is when the people who go to Andromeda leave. If they leave during the events of the trilogy, Shepard's descendants being among them is impossible. 

[HuldraDancer]

Chances are MEA is the first in a series of games, so we'd have to wait several more years for this to even possibly be an option. 

 

But who knows. They may find themselves having enough resources available to surprise us. It could happen. It won't, but it could. 

 

Another shame but part of me is still hopeful that we'll get to play as something other than Humans in an ME game eventually.

[Legendary Hero]

I'm still hoping the Idea of this Thread might work, but if not...

 

Maybe make the Descendants of different Squad Members playable (Another cool idea) and make only Descendants of Shepard from humans and Asari playable? Kind of a downgrade though.

[dreamgazer]

MEA is a brand new story, which is 100% good, because ME3's ending was pretty awful and there is no reasonable way for Bioware to climb out of that hole, other than running away and start digging somewhere else.

 

Quality of the ending doesn't really have anything to do with it. Could've been the greatest piece of fiction ever written, but if it had any significant divergence, BioWare would be in the same boat. 

[The Night Haunter]

Well then, maybe make it easy, make all the "Unlockable" races playable but still make them Descendants of Shepard.

 

 

Anyway, I said it would be good as a choice, to be able to be a descendant of Shepard, or be a totally new person not even related to commander Shepard in the video game.

I'm afraid the chances of being able to play as Shepard's descendant is extremely unlikely, and it would be a bad idea in general. It limits the plot (Shepard had to be straight, had to have romanced a genetically compatible, fertile individual, etc...). Descendant stories are rarely as good as their parents, there are too many tropes to fall into along the way.

[Legendary Hero]

Another problem is when the people who go to Andromeda leave. If they leave during the events of the trilogy, Shepard's descendants being among them is impossible. 

Spoiler in Blue: Shepard can survive in Mass Effect 3, and so can his crew and Squad members, so if one of the Squad members was pregnant, then it is highly possible that they could make it to Andromeda with the rest of the travelers.

[The Night Haunter]

Quality of the ending doesn't really have anything to do with it. Could've been the greatest piece of fiction ever written, but if it had any significant divergence, BioWare would be in the same boat. 

Quality of the ending makes it more exciting that they are moving away and starting fresh, If the ME3 ending had been great I'd'a been disappointed they were changing the game like this, as it is I am excited to get away from all the nonsense in the Milky Way.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Spoiler in Blue: Shepard can survive in Mass Effect 3, and so can his crew and Squad members, so if one of the Squad members was pregnant, then it is highly possible that they could make it to Andromeda with the rest of the travelers.

That doesn't solve the problem my post stated. If the travelers leave before the end of the Shepard Trilogy, then Shepard's descendents being aboard is impossible because they haven't been born yet. 

[themikefest]

Everyone could be dead in a playthrough. No off spring for Andromeda

[dreamgazer]

Spoiler in Blue: Shepard can survive in Mass Effect 3, and so can his crew and Squad members, so if one of the Squad members was pregnant, then it is highly possible that they could make it to Andromeda with the rest of the travelers.

 
Shepard can also not survive in Mass Effect 3. In two-thirds of the canon endings, three-fourths if you count the refusal path.

Quality of the ending makes it more exciting that they are moving away and starting fresh, If the ME3 ending had been great I'd'a been disappointed they were changing the game like this, as it is I am excited to get away from all the nonsense in the Milky Way.

Doesn't matter. Divergence is divergence, something every ending in Mass Effect had and struggled with from game to game.

[Legendary Hero]

Does anyone support the idea of this thread?

 

If they had a Geth Squad member, and wearable Collector armor, I'm pretty sure they might be able to add "Descendants of Shepard" To Mass Effect: Andromeda. "Just my opinion though...No need to go spreading it around. (Joke)"

[The Night Haunter]

 

Doesn't matter. Divergence is divergence, something every ending in Mass Effect had and struggled with from game to game.

There are solutions to divergence. KotOR 2 for example just went with ignore everything/pretend nothing changed.

 

Other games (whose name's are on the tip of my tongue, but aren't quite materializing) just cannonize a specific ending, and go from there.

 

The quality and thus reception of an ending impact whether or not a developer wishes to come up with a reason to continue the same story or branch into a new one. They could have made a ME4 that was a continuation of the trilogy (or a follow-up), but because the ending was rather despised by many fans they elected to go Tabula Rasa.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

This is the only possibility:

 

[The Night Haunter]

Does anyone support the idea of this thread?

 

If they had a Geth Squad member, and wearable Collector armor, I'm pretty sure they might be able to add "Descendants of Shepard" To Mass Effect: Andromeda. "Just my opinion though...No need to go spreading it around. (Joke)"

Nope. Shepard is done, his story is over. MEA should be a brand new story and stand on its own rights, rather than relying on crutches like 'Descendants of Shepard'. It adds nothing to the story and takes away so much. Sorry, but Bioware is done with Shepard (unless there is a surprise reveal that the N7 is actually Shepard, just to ****** off tons of fans lol).

[Legendary Hero]

 
Shepard can also not survive in Mass Effect 3. In two-thirds of the canon endings, three-fourths if you count the refusal path.


Doesn't matter. Divergence is divergence, something every ending in Mass Effect had and struggled with from game to game.

Shepard can survive in Mass Effect 3, I'm going to get the "Shepard Survives" ending, and (Spoiler in Blue) I heard somewhere that the directors cut ending Shows a Squad member refusing to have Shepard's name put on a wall because the squad member believes that Shepard survives (I'm not sure if this is true), the "Shepard Survives" ending shows Shepard breathing among some wreckage (And I'm pretty sure he pushes some wreckage off of himself in the game. I'm also not sure if this is true.)

[dreamgazer]

There are solutions to divergence. KotOR 2 for example just went with ignore everything/pretend nothing changed.
 
Other games (whose name's are on the tip of my tongue, but aren't quite materializing) just cannonize a specific ending, and go from there.
 
The quality and thus reception of an ending impact whether or not a developer wishes to come up with a reason to continue the same story or branch into a new one. They could have made a ME4 that was a continuation of the trilogy (or a follow-up), but because the ending was rather despised by many fans they elected to go Tabula Rasa.

Oh, they could've canonized an ending if they wanted to. Easy-peasy. They could've done any number of other things to stay in the MW.

Instead they're respecting player choice, which would've been the case whether the ending was terrible or a collective orgasmic experience among the player-base.

Divergence is divergence.

[Legendary Hero]

If this thread has no support, or is not a good idea, then maybe it would just be cool if a player could hear about Shepard's son/daughter or descendant during gameplay in Mass Effect: Andromeda.

 

 

I'll miss Shepard in the new Mass Effect video games. 

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Oh, they could've canonized an ending if they wanted to. Easy-peasy. They could've done any number of other things to stay in the MW.

Instead they're respecting player choice, which would've been the case whether the ending was terrible or a collective orgasmic experience among the player-base.

Divergence is divergence.

I wouldn't call throwing everything away "respecting player choice". 

[dreamgazer]

If this thread has no support, or is not a good idea, then maybe it would just be cool if a player could hear about Shepard's son/daughter or descendant during gameplay in Mass Effect: Andromeda.
 
 
I'll miss Shepard in the new Mass Effect video games. 

How do you feel about all the other conditions we've listed that keep many Shepards from having "descendants"?

[Feybrad]

If this thread has no support, or is not a good idea, then maybe it would just be cool if a player could hear about Shepard's son/daughter or descendant during gameplay in Mass Effect: Andromeda.

 

 

I'll miss Shepard in the new Mass Effect video games.