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[Balsam Beige]

I do as well, but I think it also partly depends on Andromeda's reception. If the fans end up being disappointed with Andromeda I could see Bioware weighing a return to the Milky Way, just for the hype factor.
 
But if Andromeda has a big release and fans are mostly pleased, I'd be surprised if the next ME game wasn't also set there.

If ME:A is not successful then I expect the ip is finished.

A sequel in the Milky Way would be a writers nightmare if no canon. Gamble also said "We take player choices very seriously." I just don't see it happening unless they hand wave or reboot.

[Draining Dragon]

Thanix cannon is best cannon.

[Seboist]

If ME:A is not successful then I expect the ip is finished.

A sequel in the Milky Way would be a writers nightmare if no canon. Gamble also said "We take player choices very seriously." I just don't see it happening unless they hand wave or reboot.

 

Bioware taking player choices "seriously"...

 

 

Anderson councilor choice would like to say "hello".

[Killroy]

Again, explain how making your choice matter a little is worse than making it not matter at all or saying your choice was the wrong one? 

 

Your argument is fundamentally flawed. It presupposes that your choice in ME3 only counts if it impacts the next game. That's silly. And it also presupposes that it's better to be butchered than stepped over. Firing the Crucible and choosing the galaxy's fate was supposed to be a monumental decision with repercussions that lasted forever. What you want them to do is reduce that to an irreverent occurrence with no impact on anyone. 

[ACika011]

Whichever ending managed to kill Liara is most welcome canon ending for me.

How can you be such a monster?

[AlanC9]

Again, explain how making your choice matter a little is worse than making it not matter at all or saying your choice was the wrong one?

Because that isn't the choice we actually had.

If you're going to retcon the choices away, at least be honest about the retcon rather than lying about it being a retcon. Your proposed solution pays all the cost of a retcon and adds dishonesty on top of that. I don't see the payoff.

[Larry-3]

If I had to choose a canon ending, I would choose... the blue ending. All our synthetic buddies stay alive, everyone stays the same, Shepard enters the matrix, and the Reapers help repair the Mass Relay's.

[AlanC9]

That could work. Picture the Sheplyst working behind the scenes, sort of like Asimov's Second Foundation. (Who, come to think of it, had something like Indoctrination at their disposal.) We could be working for it the whole game without knowing it for most of the time.

Or working against it. That would be interesting too.

[9TailsFox]

Bioware run 2.5 million light-years from ME3 ending for a reason. Expect minimal reference to events of original ME trilogy, if any at all.

[kylovader]

If there was ever to be a canon ending, I'm guessing that it would be destroy, it takes care of all the loose ends without leaving an immortal army of machine gods floating around without any real purpose or direction.

 

As for the ending that works best with ME:A, it mostly depends on when the "Ark" left.

If they left before the end, than it will remain a mystery.

 

However, it could also work with a refuse ending, the Ark initiative being a one last desperate plan due to the failure of the crucible.

I am hoping if this is the cannon ending, then somehow harbinger survive the blast because let's be real they hyped him so much in the second game and talked about him a little bit in the third game with that dying reaper scene. When we saw him he did not say anything, so hopefully he survived and becomes the baddy in the next series because I felt they did not resolve anything with him. He was just having no one go up to the crucible and just leaves for no apparent reason. 

[Scarlett]

Personally I believe Andromeda will start during the 2 years Shepard was "dead". That way the ending hasn't happened yet, and can be ignored and Shepard is Dead and can be simply put in a codex entry as "Humanity's first Spectre, killed in an attack on her ship".

 

I support this, I also think the new crew will leave the milky way before the end of Shepard's story.

 

Also I have a question, MEA will be only 1 game or a new trilogy ? I can't find the answer anywhere... maybe nobody knows. I thought it was just 1 game but many people talk about it as a new trilogy so... well maybe, if it's a good game and if people like it, they will do a trilogy~

[kylovader]

Thanix cannon is best cannon.

Love those cannons a lot. 

[kylovader]

Bioware run 2.5 million light-years from ME3 ending for a reason. Expect minimal reference to events of original ME trilogy, if any at all.

I hope they don't do that. I hope they prove us wrong, but I think you are right. I want this game to be good and hopefully they add more dialogue to this next game because in Mass Effect 3 we did not have the same freedom of dialogue than we did in the previous games. 

[rocklikeafool]

If BW didn't mean that way...then what was the purpose of the video?To me is very clearly:Shepard talks to the next protagonist,just before the final Reaper War.The next protagonist reach the Andromeda wouldn't know what happen in MW.And there so,there will not be a cannon ending,and everbody will be happy.

This seems the most sensible to me.

[AlanC9]

I am hoping if this is the cannon ending, then somehow harbinger survive the blast because let's be real they hyped him so much in the second game and talked about him a little bit in the third game with that dying reaper scene. When we saw him he did not say anything, so hopefully he survived and becomes the baddy in the next series because I felt they did not resolve anything with him. He was just having no one go up to the crucible and just leaves for no apparent reason.

The absolute last thing the next game needs is more Reapers.

[kylovader]

The absolute last thing the next game needs is more Reapers.

Don't you agree though that they did nothing with harbinger though? It just irks me that they did not resolve his character ark. 

[kylovader]

Yes synthesis was pretty stupid. Didn't think anybody thought that as well.

I thought the same thing as well. 

[Killroy]

Don't you agree though that they did nothing with harbinger though? It just irks me that they did not resolve his character ark. 

 

What arc?

[kylovader]

What arc?

What I mean by arc was his storyline they just did nothing with it. It's like someone is hyping a movie villain because he is going to be in the next movie, but he shows up and does not say a word, Then he leaves. That's what I mean. 

[Killroy]

What I mean by arc was his storyline they just did nothing with it. It's like someone is hyping a movie villain because he is going to be in the next movie, but he shows up and does not say a word, Then he leaves. That's what I mean. 

 

That's not a character arc. A character arc is a specific thing. Harbinger was ME2's villain. He had no arc and no unresolved conflicts. 

[kylovader]

That's not a character arc. A character arc is a specific thing. Harbinger was ME2's villain. He had no arc and no unresolved conflicts. 

I can agree with that in that respect. So you did not want to see Harbinger as the villain in the third game even though they hyped him up in 2 and arrival? We can look at unresolved conflict point because there was unresolved conflict because they hated each other and it seemed that they were going to face off with one another. I do see where you are coming from though. Hopefully you see where I cam coming from as well. 

[The Real Pearl #2]

"Cannon" ending? Yeah...

 

A headcannon:

[Killroy]

I can agree with that in that respect. So you did not want to see Harbinger as the villain in the third game even though they hyped him up in 2 and arrival? We can look at unresolved conflict point because there was unresolved conflict because they hated each other and it seemed that they were going to face off with one another. I do see where you are coming from though. Hopefully you see where I cam coming from as well.

I didn't want him to be the villain of ME3 because he was already the villain of ME2. I felt no attachment to him as the villain nor did I detect any hype for future villainy. He was exactly like Sovereign, just chattier.

[kylovader]

I didn't want him to be the villain of ME3 because he was already the villain of ME2. I felt no attachment to him as the villain nor did I detect any hype for future villainy. He was exactly like Sovereign, just chattier.

When Shepard was talking to Harbinger in arrival, they did hype him up. That's what I thought and felt. It seems you did not feel the same way. 

[Killroy]

When Shepard was talking to Harbinger in arrival, they did hype him up. That's what I thought and felt. It seems you did not feel the same way.

Reapers aren't individuals. Harbinger is just a drone in the collective. It had no distinct personality or will. Anything Shepard says to Sovereign or Harbinger s/he's saying to all Reapers, not an individual enemy.