Mass Effect 4 Continued from where?

Mass Effect Andromeda = Mass Effect 4

Mass Effect 5 is the next game (both the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy were shown in the recent teaser which BioWare have explicitly said was totally intentional).

Now we get into guesswork.

I don't expect there will be any form of game 'upload' - games sit on multiple platforms, it's just too difficult.

It's possible that some form of prologue with choices being indicated may set the scene of what's happened in the past.

Or it could be that so many years have passed that the past is effectively irrelevant - I'm expecting ME5 to be set some hundreds of years beyond ME3.

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@SofaJockeyUK wrote:

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... I'm expecting ME5 to be set some hundreds of years beyond ME34.

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Fixed that for ya'.  🙌

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@ThandalNLyman wrote:

Fixed that for ya'.  🙌

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Interesting. I had expected ME5 to fall within the lifetime of MEA characters but perhaps it will be even later.

It's all guesswork for now... 🤔

@SofaJockeyUK 

I agree with you, it must be in the lifetime of the longer living ME3 characters, we saw Liara, so it should be in the lifetime of the MEA characters.

@ThandalNLyman Why do you think it will be hundreds of years after Andromeda? 🤔

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@holger1405 wrote:

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@ThandalNLymanWhy do you think it will be hundreds of years after Andromeda? 🤔

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'Cuz I'm like Peebee; always looking for the "new", not the "been there/done that".

And (based on the ME3 Epilogue slides and depending on your exact decision at the end) the post-Reaper Milky Way (even after the 600 years of the MEA voyage) looks like it would be pretty much the same as the pre-Reaper one.

Far more interested in learning more about the Scourge, the Kett, the Jardaan, and Ryder-1. 🤓

@ThandalNLyman 

I don't know about that, 600 years + is a long time. 😉

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@holger1405 wrote:

I don't know about that, 600 years + is a long time. 😉

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For Humans, maybe, (and Salarians!)  But one definitely gets the impression that Asari and Krogan cultures don't really change much over a century-or-two.

And as I said, I'd be more interested in the Jardaan than what Matriarch Liara is up to.  🙌

@ThandalNLyman 

I would like to see both. 😁

I really love the ME Trilogy characters, but I have to agree with @ThandalNLyman with this, I MUCH prefer they continue into Andromeda and all the interesting story lines they have there.  We have done the Milky Way, and to me trying to top the big bad of the Reapers would be not so good of an idea, a smaller scale ME doesn't really seem to fit the series, and if you just make every ending of ME3 turn into the same setup it lessens the impact of ME3 endings.  Who cares if you destroyed the Reapers, now control them, or if everyone is part machine....you are all in this XXXX staring space in the new Milky Way ME5!!!!....yeah, no.

Also as Thandal said, 600 years is like 40 or so years in human scale for them....while things would have changed a bit, it wouldn't be enough to overhaul individual ME3 endings.  I think if they put the effort into a really good game, a sequel to MEA could do well, as long as they don't make tired faces and don't try to cram too much stuff into the game, let it build over multiple games.