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 really have to stress going back to the Milky Way can't work. Because the player got to choose the end, going back would mean player choice doesn't matter and there is a canonical ending. I don't think they could pull off creating the Milky Way including every player choice. Also remember the Initiative changed from exploration to a last ditch survival effort if the Reapers won.
I would like to see the Ryder story continue, but I think it needs to stay in Andromeda. There's still plenty of story there. The Remnant, the Angara, the Scourge and the fact the Archon may have been operating independently sets up a lot for the Kett. They left plenty of mystery for a purpose, might as well go with it.
I'm in agreement with @AeromusPrime22, no MEA game should center around returning back to the Milky Way. It's just the fact the EA/Bioware don't want to give a canonical ending (which I think has more to do with the fact that a lot of players who've been with ME since the first and second game hated the RBG endings of the third).
The Initiative's technology has basically been frozen for over 600 years, and the Angarans and Kett are at around the same technological level, so I doubt there's any faster way to travel back to the Milky Way other than creating a specialized mass relay to help them travel back to the Milky Way, which would take a ton of resources and time to build one capable enough to do it.
No, if the game is to continue, it's obvious that the rest of this new trilogy (I assume they were looking at making this a trilogy) should revolve around exploration, meeting new Andromeda races and the war with the Kett. So the possible ME:A2 game would revolve around the Pathfinders traveling outside of Heleus, looking for new planets to settle, resources to gather, and allies to fight the Kett. With a possible ME:A3 game revolving around a full blown war between the Kett and the Initiative's coalition.
Yeah, exploration and the Kett should be the focus of MEA2. It was hinted at that the Archon may have been a splinter faction, but even then I wouldnt expect the other Kett to be friendly. I can definitely see the third being an all out war and end with the final settlement of Helios cluster.
Theres still plenty of untapped potential in Andromeda and the MW is completely uneccessary.
Milky Way ME is DONE....please people, let it go, and let the decisions made in those game stand. While I personally hate the endings, they were the choices given, and the choices I made. I know what happens in the Milky Way Galaxy, and I personally don't need a rehash of them in ME:A#. There is SO MUCH lore to be found/created in the new galaxy, that I would hate for Bioware to waste their time in a rehash of known items, instead of building a more diverse and enjoyable new Galaxy.
As far as 600 years being a long time...well to humans and Salarians maybe, but Liara and Grunt actually have the possibility of still being alive in the Milky Way....So for certain races, 600 years isn't that long. I personally understand the desire to see something familiar in the ME games, but that can't be done in a good manner that wouldn't make the endings even worse....if the differences are so slight(and yeah, Red/Blue/Green), that after a relatively few years you can't tell them apart, what is the point in the first place??
I hope Bioware looks around and figures out that the first series took 3 games to fully develop their characters and don't try to rush them again, I hope they enlarge the lore pool, I hope they NEVER say anything definitive about the Milky Way Galaxy, and I hope they release an awesome game. I also hope that people get over the Shepard trilogy, understand it and the Milky Way are done in Mass Effect and we can all move on to new and better Mass Effect games.
Now, will any of my hopes come true?? No clue, but I can hope. I also have to wait and see how they handle Dragon Age in the next installment to get a good idea if all the magic of the company has flown, or if they still have some to make new games with.
Good Luck, Bioware....I kinda think you are going to need it.
