Remaster port begging will take over tho.
But I do find the idea of being essentially a space frontiersman interesting if not surprising.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda announced (Holiday 2016)
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But I do find the idea of being essentially a space frontiersman interesting if not surprising.
wolfhowwl
Banned
Not a chance.
Night Hunter
Banned
SoulUnison
Banned
So what's the canonical ending to Mass Effect 3, then?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
It's essentially a reboot that by the time it releases will have been at some stage of conceptualisation and development for four and a half years.
They'll have had plenty of time.
There is none. Ark theory is probable.
I think they'll keep it unaddressed. Best we'll ever know is if Synthesis is canon.
The Power Of Snap
Member
So far away!
Face it Tiger..
Banned
Holiday 2016?
UGH. you hurt me deeply EA.
UGH. you hurt me deeply EA.
Frostbite 3 destruction + Vanguard Charge =
Bleh. Frostibe 3 destruction and Pull + Warp combo.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Seriously, ark theory: voyage to Andromeda commences before the trilogy ends, game technically set after the Reaper war, inhabitants of Andromeda so far away and cut off from the Milky Way they'll never know of the war's outcome. A sequel that never has to address the trilogy.
Florida_Man_5000
Member
So what's the deal with a Mass Effect remaster? I missed the EA conference.
Edit: since this thread isn't moving a hundred mph I went thru it...no remaster announced.
. The holiday 2016 release, so there's definitely a chance for a remaster, that's a long time. 4 years in the making, this has got to be good!
Also, what else is Bioware working on? Where's Jade Empire 2? New IP?
Edit: since this thread isn't moving a hundred mph I went thru it...no remaster announced.
. The holiday 2016 release, so there's definitely a chance for a remaster, that's a long time. 4 years in the making, this has got to be good!Also, what else is Bioware working on? Where's Jade Empire 2? New IP?
Pretty much the entire reason we're going to Andromeda is to avoid dealing with the consequences of the highly divergent ME3 endings. It's for this reason that pretty much everyone who read the leak assumed that however we got to Andromeda, it happened before the end of ME3.
Perfect, makes a lot of sense too.
Bleh. I liked the Milky Way. I live there!
J
Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Oh man, this is very early footage isn't it?
Still, I'm all in for a new setting and cast of characters as long as the story is as memorable as ME1.
Still, I'm all in for a new setting and cast of characters as long as the story is as memorable as ME1.
You have no idea how badly I want this to be the case.
Am I one of the only people who really dislikes the fact they are ignoring the ending to ME3 and sailing off to a whole new galaxy like it never even happened? There are so many possibilities and ways they could handle depicting the fallout of that conflict.
There were zero unless they canonized one of the endings.
That's not really a big deal. Plenty of games have had sequels where they had to pick an ending from the prior game. Plus the only good option would be Destruction anyways so it's not that hard.
Yabberwocky
Member
This would be the only outcome of them hand-waving/ignoring ME3's ending that I would be happy with. (Ha, now I'm going to be disappointed if that's not the case!)
I am reminiscing about Stargate Atlantis' first season.
Ohhh...nice idea. Bunch different species unite to create an ark, put in cold sleep and sail off and later woke up god knows how many decades later in a new galaxy.
exmachina64
Banned
And they'll keep the series in Andromeda until they reboot it.
SteveWinwood
Member
when is 3 coming to steam
wolfhowwl
Banned
When they make a Krogan romance.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Really shows what kind of mess they've left the canon in that they've exiled an entire galaxy from ever getting another game. Lots of speculation.
exmachina64
Banned
That's the whole plot from the speculation thread.
The Artisan
Member
gah, fuck. I'm still gonna call & refer to it as Me4 
Ganzlinger
Member
I wish the game was set at Milky Way after Reaper invasion.
They are kinda avoiding everything related to previous trilogy with this.
They are kinda avoiding everything related to previous trilogy with this.
That's the best part. The reaper-war was a colossal clusterfuck.
exmachina64
Banned
The Mass Effect timeline is a clusterfuck.
Neverforget
Member
I really needs to get around finishing ME trilogy, it's gonna help me wait until 2016, I suppose.
Sure the ending was a bit of a shit show the overall original conclusion opened up a lot of possibilities and chances for interesting power shifts and galactic shakeups. Not the least of which was developing serious FTL to replace the Mass Relays.
The EC kind of screwed that up by all but saying the Mass Relays were fixed or at least fixable and not tally destroyed, but that could be massaged to still be rather ruinous.
Set ME4 a few decades or more after ME3 Destruction ending. Make it so while the relays weren't fully destroyed most were put out of commission and needed to be repaired at the least the get them going again. Most systems simply didn't have the resources or manpower to do so after the Reaper War leaving most stranded and on their own. Certain pockets were able to restart their relays, rebuild and survive on the own, but effectively the whole galaxy was cut off from one another.
The games premise could be using some newly developed FTL/Warp drive type system that allows for near instant traversal over thousands of lightyears without the use of a Mass Relay. And your job is to go out there and reconnect with some of those lost systems and to scout out new systems in the Milky Way that were never accessible before with the Mass Relays, since that only gave access to a very small sections of the galaxy. Who knows what civilizations lay in all those uncharted areas of the galaxy. Alien races who developed space flight and possibly their own mini galactic empires totally free from Protheon/Reaper technology.
We don't need to go to a totally new Galaxy. The Mass Relays only allowed access to barely 1% of our current one.
We need to go to a new galaxy because 75% of their original endings and majority of the plot of ME3 didn't leave any room for a followup.
That's a really weak reason. In no way are they required to honor everyone's ending choice and let them continue from where they left off. It's a new trilogy, no save imports required. Your ending will always be your ending, that's how your Shepard's story ended, but for the series to continue there is only one possible ending they could choose. Destruction. They wouldn't even need to fully explain it. Just the Reapers were gone and the galaxy was broken. It's not that hard.
BioWare broke their franchise, it's not too much to ask that they put it back together, not sweep it under the rug and say "here look at this other new shiny ball."
You don't get it do you? You can't fix their broken plot, they can't fix their broken plot even if they decided to retcon 30% of the entire lore and story. Even if they focused on destruction, it would still be worse than their current trajectory of leaving the milky way and consequently the baggage of the races behind including the question of who Shepard fucking exterminated.
It absolutely is too much to ask them to try to fix things now, in fact, going to a different galaxy should have been planned in the series from the start.
You're the one who doesn't seem to get it. There's nothing to fix, only the need to move forward and not shy away from the change. They chose to write an ending(s) that resulted in completely altering and nearly destroying everything we knew about the ME galaxy. I for one would like to see what it would take and how things would change when that galaxy tries to pick up the pieces and recover from such a near cataclysmic event.
Nothing is stopping them from picking up one of those threads and choosing to explore the repercussions of their actions, but the fear of backlash that will come from fans who willy cry their ending choice was not honored.
Sure the Reaper lore is totally f'd thanks to start child, but that doesn't matter anymore they're gone. What's done is done. There is still a literal galaxy's worth of material out there that they can work with without literally running away to an entire new one.
The Sum of Zero
Member
i just realized they never announced a remaster ;_;
Well there is the backwards compatibility coming to the One. Guess they figured that was enough.