Marauder Shields saved ME4.
Exactly. If they don't do the save import, I'm wondering why they're even calling it Mass Effect 4 at all. If it's not a sequel, then it either took place before Shepard or during Shepard before the war as a different person, but I don't see how they will relate as to the Mass effect series.
Why? What could possibly be mined from that universe post- 3? What was left of it anyway.
It's the same universe, with the same races and some of the same politics. It'd still be Mass Effect.
If they kept doing save importing, it leads to the problem where there are simply too many potential outcomes and they have neither the time, manpower, or resources to properly compensate for all the permutations.
They need to just pick one starting point for everybody and go from there.
Marauder Shields saved ME4.
If that's the case of picking one starting point for everybody, then why call it Mass Effect 4. That's my logic.
Why not call it Mass Effect: Tales of -insert new MC name here- instead of ME4, making it look like a sequel.
It would be a lot of work to import the saves from the 3rd game and work from there, but if it's just starting point, there's no point in making it look like a sequel.
Not even Liara? ;_;
C'mon there's got to be some familiarity.
A number doesn't signify a direct sequel. And apparently they are not calling it ME4 anyway.
If that's the case of picking one starting point for everybody, then why call it Mass Effect 4. That's my logic.
Why not call it Mass Effect: Tales of -insert new MC name here- instead of ME4, making it look like a sequel.
It would be a lot of work to import the saves from the 3rd game and work from there, but if it's just starting point, there's no point in making it look like a sequel.
Please let this be set before ME1.
Nah. It's the main appeal of the series for me.For the love of God I hope not.
Save importing and direct continuity between these games is a cancer.
Oh well, I still hope for more Shepard & Crew content. I won't forget the original ME cast - ever. That trilogy is very special to me. So, maybe in the next-next-gen of consoles... Shep... :/
Well, they're not calling it Mass Effect 4. They've gone out of their way to say they don't see it as Mass Effect 4, for the reasons that it implies a direct continuation of the Shepard trilogy. It can be set pre, during, or post trilogy, but whatever it is it will be a new narrative.
Okay, then. Parallel to 1? Go much further than that and you start painting yourself into a corner.
Didn't know that they're not calling it that.
At the same time, they also said in the quote that they don't want it to be a spin off. I thought the core of the Mass Effect series was the fact that shepard had a "mass effect", in that his influence changed basically the entire universe. So I'm not exactly sure what Bioware is planning to do
In the year 2148, explorers on Mars discovered the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization. In the decades that followed, these mysterious artifacts revealed startling new technologies, enabling travel to the furthest stars. The basis for this incredible technology was a force that controlled the very fabric of space and time.
They called it the greatest discovery in human history.
The civilizations of the galaxy call it... MASS EFFECT.
God I hope not. That is such a short time space it'll be really limited in what they can do.
Again, it's merely that the press and internally they're calling it Mass Effect 4, and that's imply because of a lack of anything to call it except "the new Mass Effect game" which is a little wordy.
It's highly, highly, highly unlikely that when it releases it'll be named Mass Effect 4.
Oh God, please don't be a prequel!
Howso? I'd argue that by jumping an extra couple hundred years you open up more possibility. More of the galaxy to explore, possibly more races to encounter, probalby a changed political situation, and everything will have been rebuilt. It's be the same but also different.
Oh well, I still hope for more Shepard & Crew content. I won't forget the original ME cast - ever. That trilogy is very special to me. So, maybe in the next-next-gen of consoles... Shep... :/
Didn't know that they're not calling it that.
At the same time, they also said in the quote that they don't want it to be a spin off. I thought the core of the Mass Effect series was the fact that shepard had a "mass effect", in that his influence changed basically the entire universe. So I'm not exactly sure what Bioware is planning to do
It's over, man. Done. Finished. Unless you like comics.
But yes, I can't imagine ending importing being anything less of a disaster. Either pick a canon, make a new one, or set it so far in the future that ending choice is made irrelevant.
"Mass Effect" is the term used in the universe to describe the technology of the relays, left behind by the Reapers (or, as far as most are/were concerned, the Protheans), among other discovered technology, and effects the physics and properties of mass. It's unrelated to Shepard.
Didn't know that they're not calling it that.
At the same time, they also said in the quote that they don't want it to be a spin off. I thought the core of the Mass Effect series was the fact that shepard had a "mass effect", in that his influence changed basically the entire universe. So I'm not exactly sure what Bioware is planning to do
SO, I never replayed ME3 after launch and never paid much attention to the new ending.
Are we past the statute of limitations on spoilers?
So the mass relays are now NOT destroyed? See, I was going off the assumption that they were all destroyed, wiping out pretty much all life in local systems... making sequels weird/pointless.
That changes things, I guess.
Let me play as a Krogan... and let me 'romance' a Volus too!
I'd like to see how that'd work out.
Well, they're not calling it Mass Effect 4. They've gone out of their way to say they don't see it as Mass Effect 4, for the reasons that it implies a direct continuation of the Shepard trilogy. It can be set pre, during, or post trilogy, but whatever it is it will be a new narrative.