Mass Effect 5: Story Ideas
Hey all, I'm sure many of you may have heard that a new Mass Effect game is in "Very early development." I'm not sure about you guys but that got me excited and I immediately started to think about w...
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That black hole idea is pretty good. Maybe have the Andromeda Initiative show up right at the end of ME3 with an armada of Remnant dreadnoughts in tow to defeat the Reapers. They could get some help from the Angara and Kett forces as well to prevent the crucible from having to be fired. I would still like Shepard to take a back seat in all of this. I think it would be good to have him be gravely wounded but not dead to the point where he has to retiree in peace with his love interest but the Pathfinders are the ones running the show now. It's probably the best way to open up Milky Way to us and fix those endings in a way that makes sense.
I agree, that would be a perfect idea, have the Ryder Twins talk to Shepard about the Reapers, since he knows a lot about them, then have the twins talk to Dr. T'soni about the Protheans. her knowledge spans 50 yrs this way they can get a better understanding of what they will face.
I don't want to go back to the original trilogy and I think so many's desire to go back to it is one of the reasons MEA failed: people won't let it go. I loved Shepard and crew too, but the story is done, let's move on and create something else grand. Andromeda has so much untapped potential with the remnant, kett, scourge and colonization that weren't available in the Milky Way. Yet at every turn its "how can we get back to shepard, the milky way and reapers?" Even from those that loved andromeda. How can a new series work if people wont let go of the old one? It cant, and this mindset will cause any future ME games to fail. Let it go everyone. I cant understand people wanting more of the same and not something new.
As for Reaper vs Architect? Reaper, easy. And architect can be taken down by a soldier with small arms and a reaper cant. They had to call in orbital bombardment in ME3 to kill one because small arms were useless. If small arms hurts an architect, a reaper beam will tear it up easy.
I don't think they should be able to go back that far. Going back to the point that you can eliminate the Reapers with Remnant dreadnoughts before the crucible fires is enough. I don't even want to see Shepard or anyone else from the OT when this happens. A quick sweep of the Milky Way with the Remnant ships is all thats needed and then have them return to Andromeda just as mysteriously as they arrived through the blackhole. Obviously the story would need some tinkering to make it sound believable but it's a start.
Hopefully, if the next ME game is Andromeda 2 they address a lot of the plot lines they left unfinshed in the first one. (ie where are the Jardaan, Quarian Ark and who is the benfactor). Most importantly though they need to address the Milky Way I think. If not then there will always be that elephant in the room of what happened to the Milky Way. From a story stand point it makes absolutely no sense that the Initiative would all of sudden just stop trying to contact the Milky Way. I would think that they would want to know what happened to it.
I agree, It took 634 yrs to get to Andromeda, the question is what happened to Earth , did it survive or was it destroyed , what happened to Shepard and his crew, were they all killed or did they all survive,or did the Reaper's win or were they destroyed and that's the problem, there's no information on what happened. There's a big hole in the history, and not one of them wondered what happened to Earth.
@freault wrote:I agree, It took 634 yrs to get to Andromeda, the question is what happened to Earth , did it survive or was it destroyed , what happened to Shepard and his crew, were they all killed or did they all survive,or did the Reaper's win or were they destroyed and that's the problem, there's no information on what happened. There's a big hole in the history, and not one of them wondered what happened to Earth.
They left before the reapers invaded so they wouldnt even know to ask, and almost no one in the initiative knows about the reapers. Even then they didnt seem sure if the reapers were real. They cant even get word to or from earth. The hole in the history doesnt need to be filled, in fact you already know it. Its whatever you chose to do throughout the trilogy, which is what was intended all along
Go back in time to the milky way? That's about as terrible an idea as I've heard. You completely negate just about everything from the trilogy and ruin the sheer build up and desperate fight with the reapers just because you want to throw in a deus ex machina as a desperate attempt to get the milky way as the storyline again. It also ruins the whole point of Andromeda since, you know, its exploration of a new galaxy... so basically, you ruin the original trilogy and the new one.
And why do people want a canonical ending so much? Its like reading a choose your own adventure book then asking the author for a sequel that gives the definitive story. It completely ruins the point.
As long as people keep wanting to incorporate the milky way beyond the initiative unable to contact them, no Andromeda title, or any non directly related trilogy title can succeed. Period. MEA 2 is already doomed to fail because of this, just like it doomed the original to.
I loved the trilogy and wasn't happy with the ending like so many others. But the desperate clinging to it just doesn't make sense to me. Let it be.
@r_debene91 wrote:
I don't think they should be able to go back that far. Going back to the point that you can eliminate the Reapers with Remnant dreadnoughts before the crucible fires is enough. I don't even want to see Shepard or anyone else from the OT when this happens. A quick sweep of the Milky Way with the Remnant ships is all thats needed and then have them return to Andromeda just as mysteriously as they arrived through the blackhole. Obviously the story would need some tinkering to make it sound believable but it's a start.
Changing the end of the Trilogy with a game unrelated to Shepard's story?
I thought we had enough shit storms in the ME universe. 😉
BioWare made it abundantly clear that Shepard's story is over.
I very much doubt that they will not stand to that decision and I think that is a good thing.
There are plenty of other opportunity's the could explore, and imho all are better then to rewarm a done storyline.I agree. Outside of satisfying curiosity, all exploring the MW would do is water down andromeda.
