Bang for you Buck
You know after all the P_ssing, and Moaning about this game, in the beginning.. And I did my fair share. I have to say this is a Huge game, with and UN-godly amount of things to find, and explore...
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problem is, I dont think bioware has any say in anything anymore.. ME:A did great setup for future development, if they ever do another ME, continue the current story..
New one would only be reasonable if its done in Milky Way after Reaper war. Lore is rich so you can go ether way.
I don't think a Milky Way one would work well AFTER ME3, simply because of the various ways it could end. Unless they want to Cannon an ending, which would totally PO a bunch of people, then you would have to figure out how to work the worlds to basically make the ME3 ending mean nothing. The best thing for this would be the indoctrination theory of the ending, and everything you see after the beam is all in Shepard's head. Then you would have to continue with Shepard which would be popular, but I don't know if the higher ups after fighting for "Artistic Integrity" about the ending would like to go back now 6-8 years later and say, "Yup, we were wrong and our "vision" stank..." So that would mostly cut out all Post ME3 Milky Way content.
Now I have heard rumors of a Pre-ME1 or Pre-ME2 game, in which you play a non-Shepard character doing something else in the time leading up to the Reaper war. With one rumor of it being the first contact war, but that shoehorns a set ending into the game or basically limits the scope you can have for the endings. If you went there, I would almost rather have a game set during the Krogan rebellions and let you play either Asari, Turian, or Salarian, and skip out on Humans all the way around.
My personal opinion on what they should do is to either continue with Pathfinder Ryder or pick up with the story moving forward with the Sibling Ryder. So you can expand on the worlds they have created and the blank slate of Andromeda, and maybe answer some of the questions they left...Quarians, Benefactor(Geth I believe), Kett, and Angara(creator race). I would really like to see where they could take a Galaxy that has no constraints on it and a wide open set of possibilities.
I assumed destroy ending was "most canon" of the 4.. So continuing the story would be easy with new character with all the old ones being there like npcs or followers.. Its Dragon Age formula and it clearly works. Story can go literally anywhere, for example races of the galaxy being pissed off at asari for reasons you find out in that mission on thessia in me3.. Maybe other races learned about that because STG stole the info from humans.. So they want matriarch to answer, while quarians point out bigger problems with what they learned about mass effect fields and their effect on universe in that Tali mission in me2 etc. You could chose different starting races (human, turian or asari).. Again, worked in Dragon age, didnt it?
Im not fan of prequels myself (although krogan rebellion sounds badass), but would play anything in ME universe simply because of rich lore.
I agree continuing the Andromeda story is the most reasonable choice, all that setup, entire Kett Empire to fight etc. It could be fun!
But wait, you think Geth are benefactors? :D
