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[Shaftell]

It's just a hunch, but I feel like they will be doing what Dragon Age is doing with the new mass effect franchise. Dragon Age isn't really considered a trilogy, but the central arching plot tie in throughout the three games. Each game, having a new PC. I just heard that Andromeda will showcase a younger and greener cast. I also feel like we'll see these characters in following games all matured. This is a good thing if I'm right because we'll see a lot of the characters come full circle and properly developed through many years. Does anyone else feel like that's the angle they'll take?

[Killroy]

It's just a hunch, but I feel like they will be doing what Dragon Age is doing with the new mass effect franchise. Dragon Age isn't really considered a trilogy, but the central arching plot tie in throughout the three games. Each game, having a new PC. I just heard that Andromeda will showcase a younger and greener cast. I also feel like we'll see these characters in following games all matured. This is a good thing if I'm right because we'll see a lot of the characters come full circle and properly developed through many years. Does anyone else feel like that's the angle they'll take?

 

Well, first of all, the Dragon Age games don't have a central plot, arching or otherwise. The first was about the Blight, the second was about a refugee becoming a hero, and the third was about stopping rips in the sky. No central plot. 

Second, the cast of MEA has been described as 'greener,' not younger. They could be in their 90's and still be green in the ways of exploration and combat. 

[Shaftell]

Well, first of all, the Dragon Age games don't have a central plot, arching or otherwise. The first was about the Blight, the second was about a refugee becoming a hero, and the third was about stopping rips in the sky. No central plot. 

Second, the cast of MEA has been described as 'greener,' not younger. They could be in their 90's and still be green in the ways of exploration and combat. 

Mage and templar war was kind of a big deal. Plus there were returning characters throughout the series. But I don't want to make this about dragon age. How do you think they'll continue the Mass effect franchise? 

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I hope not. I hate Dragon Age's stupid "new protagonist every game" rule Bioware has set for themselves. 

[Killroy]

Mage and templar war was kind of a big deal.

No it wasn't. It ended before Inquisition began and it started after DA2 ended. Important events don't happen off-screen.
 

Plus there were returning characters throughout the series.

Since when are characters plots?
 

But I don't want to make this about dragon age. How do you think they'll continue the Mass effect franchise?

However they want?

[Spooch]

I hope not. I prefer Mass Effect's approach way more. I think one of my main draws to the series is that it was like one big story, rather than just individual games.

[AzWarp]

It's just a hunch, but I feel like they will be doing what Dragon Age is doing with the new mass effect franchise. Dragon Age isn't really considered a trilogy, but the central arching plot tie in throughout the three games. Each game, having a new PC. I just heard that Andromeda will showcase a younger and greener cast. I also feel like we'll see these characters in following games all matured. This is a good thing if I'm right because we'll see a lot of the characters come full circle and properly developed through many years. Does anyone else feel like that's the angle they'll take?

 

The Mass Effect trilogy is 1 story. The Dragon Age games were 3 stories. People can argue all they want for or against but that is the bottom line. The ME story was planed as a trilogy from the start. Casey Hudson himself has mentioned that he'd be surprised if a game series like the ME trilogy would ever see the light of day again. Too many variables to make it worth making. With him gone... I am curious but also scared to see what MEA will be. Will our decisions move from game 1 to game 2 (let's face it people... it wouldn't be ME without it)! Will the scale be the same? The only way they can recapture the essence of the trilogy is to plan ahead (beyond the Andromeda game). Did they do that? Only time will tell...

[In Exile]

The Mass Effect trilogy is 1 story. The Dragon Age games were 3 stories. People can argue all they want for or against but that is the bottom line. The ME story was planed as a trilogy from the start. Casey Hudson himself has mentioned that he'd be surprised if a game series like the ME trilogy would ever see the light of day again. Too many variables to make it worth making. With him gone... I am curious but also scared to see what MEA will be. Will our decisions move from game 1 to game 2 (let's face it people... it wouldn't be ME without it)! Will the scale be the same? The only way they can recapture the essence of the trilogy is to plan ahead (beyond the Andromeda game). Did they do that? Only time will tell...

 

Actually, ME trilogy has three separate stories, kind of like Star Wars. And kind of like Star Wars, they basically made it up as they went along, including the fact that the first one was both written like it could be the only one if it flopped, but the door was kept open to sequels. 

[Stakrin]

I vastly prefer trilogy style to new cast every time, I also don't like that Dragon Age Inquisition was so hard to navigate, blocked by Power System, and fetch quests.
It made it really hard for me to replay to find alternative endings, even though for the previous games I had several files, and for mass effect I do way too many playthroughs.

It also sucked for me because my dad liked to play bioware games and we'd compare and talk about choices and characters, but this one got too hard for him to finish (because of fetch quests and navigation), so he stopped halfway through.

But, That may be what bioware does now. DAI was game of the year, maybe I'm stuck in the past and will have to read about alternatives online if I don't like the way bioware makes their games anymore.

[The Dystopian Hound]

It's just a hunch, but I feel like they will be doing what Dragon Age is doing with the new mass effect franchise. Dragon Age isn't really considered a trilogy, but the central arching plot tie in throughout the three games. Each game, having a new PC. I just heard that Andromeda will showcase a younger and greener cast. I also feel like we'll see these characters in following games all matured. This is a good thing if I'm right because we'll see a lot of the characters come full circle and properly developed through many years. Does anyone else feel like that's the angle they'll take?

Nope. I sure as hell hope not. Play a game.only to get a new protagonist. Not with Mass Effect.

[RepHope]

I don't know if they're going to be switching protagonists every new game, but I do think that this next Mass Effect phase isn't intended to be "just" a trilogy.

[Arcian]

Actually, ME trilogy has three separate stories, kind of like Star Wars.

But this is blatantly false. Mass Effect only had one story - stopping the Reapers. Star Wars only had one story - stopping the Empire.

[Onuris22]

I'd rather see groupings of trilogies or so, with the same character per series then moving onto a new one with the next new series.

 

This way we get a good story package and get to know the characters well over time instead of always restarting with a new PC. The latter isn't horrible by any stretch of the imagination, but I enjoy the way Mass Effect does it currently and it works well for it. Dragon Age having a new protagonist works fine enough depending on what's going on.

[ZipZap2000]

I'd rather see groupings of trilogies or so, with the same character per series then moving onto a new one with the next new series.

This way we get a good story package and get to know the characters well over time instead of always restarting with a new PC. The latter isn't horrible by any stretch of the imagination, but I enjoy the way Mass Effect does it currently and it works well for it. Dragon Age having a new protagonist works fine enough depending on what's going on.

So do I.

But I'm also 32 this year and don't want to wait till I'm 40 to finish the game.

[Apollexander]

You know, when Dragon Age 2 was announced I felt like they were going the Mass Effect route, with only human protagonist.

[AlanC9]

But this is blatantly false. Mass Effect only had one story - stopping the Reapers. Star Wars only had one story - stopping the Empire.

Deoends on what counts as a "story". "Stopping the Empire" is a bit vague and general.

[Paul E Dangerously]

I'd rather have a series of games with the possibility of at least one of them having a good ending (say, DAO) over a trilogy that wets the bed at the very end (Hi, ME3)

[KotorEffect3]

Hard to say,  I do feel like Andromeda is in many ways a new formula and they are not going to following the patterns of the Shepard trilogy.   

[Killroy]

You know, when Dragon Age 2 was announced I felt like they were going the Mass Effect route, with only human protagonist.

It was definitely intended to ape Mass Effect. And it was more than the race of the PC. They also gave the PC a voice, gave him/her much more personality, made the companions more over the top and sexualized, adopted the dialog wheel and defacto morality system, and completely copied the romance structure/system.

[Statare]

the name Ryder kind of indicates to me that it will be a Shepard style carry over protag if ME:A spawns sequels. Hawke in DA2 was originally going to be the main character of DA:I as well. So, in hindsight, having an established family name with established relationships with NPCs make me think the design is probably to have a Shepard style character that continues on, instead of the new protag every time (which I am really okay with if the setting is supposed to be the main source of narrative instead of a contained series of events).

 

But who knows. We don't even know if ME:A is going to be a serial like ME3 or a serial that spans hundreds of years. Or if it will be a trilogy that has a set end or if it will be set up to never really end.

[Big I]

Well, first of all, the Dragon Age games don't have a central plot, arching or otherwise. The first was about the Blight, the second was about a refugee becoming a hero, and the third was about stopping rips in the sky. No central plot. 

 

They wrote all the ancient elf stuff (i.e. who and what the elven gods are) before DA:O, so they've been planning Solas's story for a while. And while never confirmed, it's speculated that Hawke was originally intended to be the Inquisitor with DA2 being his origin story, a plan that was dropped following DA2.

[Bacus]

They wrote all the ancient elf stuff (i.e. who and what the elven gods are) before DA:O, so they've been planning Solas's story for a while. And while never confirmed, it's speculated that Hawke was originally intended to be the Inquisitor with DA2 being his origin story, a plan that was dropped following DA2.

That would make total sense. Because you DALISH inquisitor has NO CLUE about thr DALISH PANTHEON or DALISH language....
Made the mistake of playing DAI with a dalish, the ending made no sense to me

[Killroy]

They wrote all the ancient elf stuff (i.e. who and what the elven gods are) before DA:O, so they've been planning Solas's story for a while.

I don't buy that for a second. Dragon Age has always been just as aimless, with lore just as fluid as Mass Effect. Hell, even more so. The lore of the entire Dragon Age world changes from game to game. BioWare also said they had the story of the Mass Effect trilogy planned out when ME1 was released.

And while never confirmed, it's speculated that Hawke was originally intended to be the Inquisitor with DA2 being his origin story, a plan that was dropped following DA2.

I also don't buy that that was ever the plan from the inception of DA2. DA2 set up the Mage/Templar conflict as the coming world-shaking issue but Inquisition ended the entire conflict in it's prologue. They're obviously making it up as they go, just like the Mass Effect team/s.

[Sarayne]

I hope not. I hate Dragon Age's stupid "new protagonist every game" rule Bioware has set for themselves. 

I really hate this stupid rule so much.

[Indomito]

Well some people like new protagonist every time, and some prefer a triology. Bioware launches a game and see how it works. There is probably some writing of the complete story. But i think they change the story every time. It´s too early to know anyways.