The answer to your first qestion is here.
For your second qestion, the new Mass Effect game is only announced, there is practically no info available about this game, that includes if it will use character import or not.
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.
My hope is for it to be an ME3 sequel and and Andromeda prequel. My fan theory has always been that the Andromeda races are not alien enough and that they may also originate from the Milky Way but got to Andromeda sooner.
@SofaJockeyUK wrote:
Mass Effect Andromeda = Mass Effect 4
Mass Effect 5 is the next game
I will be a contrarian and call this Mass Effect 7! 😉
Seriously, though, if it's a direct sequel to Mass Effect 3, I'm fine with people calling it Mass Effect 4, just because I see Andromeda as a spinoff in the same way the Jacob game was (though not on the same scale).
I'm virtually certain it will get a subtitle not a number.
@SofaJockeyUK wrote:I'm virtually certain it will get a subtitle not a number.
We can hope! I've always felt that a lot of the shade thrown on DA2 could have been prevented if they had named it, Dragon Age: Champion of Kirkwall (or something like that) instead of using a title that made (some) people expect a direct sequel to the previous one.
As long as Shepard is back they can call it whatever they want 😃
All joking aside, I don't know why Andromeda got such a bad reputation (as a game), if they didn't drop the ball and gotten all the bugs fixed and continued the series it is a great game as a spin-off.
Saying that, they can not continue ME4 as part of Andromeda as 600 years apart would probably mean all the original characters are already dead.
Yes Liara was about 21 in ME1 which would make her 621 if they continued the storyline of ME:A , Wrex was around 1400 already in ME3 and the rest can't live that long anyway.
I would rather they continue the ME game as part of the original series (we still have the creators of the reapers to deal with) and leave ME:A alone.
If they can continue ME:A and make ME:A2 I would love that, as there is so much to learn there and another ark to look for.
So my own opinion would be, leave ME:A make ME4 the continuation of ME3 (with a few years past, as they had to search for Shepard I bet).
