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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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.
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.
