Mass Effect Andromeda Single Player Story DLC
https://www.change.org/p/bioware-dlc-for-mass-effect-andromeda close to 11,000 signatures and growing. Still hoping for a big story DLC.
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EA is a publicly traded company, so I doubt they'll respond to petitions. If those 11k people were shareholders, that would be a different matter.
Right now BioWare are working on Anthem and Dragon Age 4. I think Dragon Age 4 will most likely be a big success. I'm curious what they'll do with Anthem because it seems like they intended to rely on loot boxes, which is a mistake I doubt they'll repeat after Battlefront II. I still expect there will be a new Mass Effect game after Dragon Age 4.
They officially cancelled the DLC for this game so I think petitions aren't going to help much.
I still have hopes that Mass Effect will return one day but I think by that time an Andromeda 2 might not be the way to go. I think it has too much of a negative connotation for most people.
Maybe by then a reboot would be more to the point but I'm not sure if continuing with Ryder is a good idea. The character concept is so weak that I don't see it support a trilogy or even a second part.
The whole Pathfinder idea just doesn't really work. A superhuman explorer because you have a dangerous AI implant with an otherwise forgettable character personality means that the only thing that makes you special is an AI that talks too much and revives you from the dead as a virtual jesus.
I put it very crudely but it's how I see the concept. Working for a company that goes exploring but actually is going colonising without a proper military approach is also just not realistic. "Yeah but it looked peaceful 600 years ago" is just a really naive approach. I could go on but you get my point. It was just a weak concept and it cannot carry a series in the future because of it in my view.
If they want to continue in Andromeda they need to find a different protagonist with a much stronger concept or reboot this one in a much improved way.
For me Andromeda is a one off game that doesn't need to be continued, in spite of it missing various story lines that it started. DLC would've been very welcome for that (the family secret, the kett, the remnant, the quarian ark). At this point I just don't really care about that and I guess at least the quarian ark will be dealt with in a book. So that's kind of a way to kill the DLC as well.
I think it's just best to let it go as BioWare did.
Bioware should bring Andromeda and Milky-way together in the next game. Make it 100/700 years in the future, with some flashbacks into the missing story from Andromeda game.
Build a giant mass-relay around a black hole to travel between galaxies??
@Ultimate-Dima wrote:Bioware should bring Andromeda and Milky-way together in the next game. Make it 100/700 years in the future, with some flashbacks into the missing story from Andromeda game.
Build a giant mass-relay around a black hole to travel between galaxies??
Just one slight issue. You may remember that Mass Effect 3 had multiple endings, so which version of the Milky Way should they connect to? I'm pretty sure that no matter which one they pick, there will be a crapstorm of complaints. I mean it does kinda make a difference if the races still exist individually or whether they got that shared DNA which is basically biotech in nature.
@EgoMania wrote:
@Ultimate-Dima wrote:
Bioware should bring Andromeda and Milky-way together in the next game. Make it 100/700 years in the future, with some flashbacks into the missing story from Andromeda game.
Build a giant mass-relay around a black hole to travel between galaxies??
Just one slight issue. You may remember that Mass Effect 3 had multiple endings, so which version of the Milky Way should they connect to? I'm pretty sure that no matter which one they pick, there will be a crapstorm of complaints. I mean it does kinda make a difference if the races still exist individually or whether they got that shared DNA which is basically biotech in nature.
I've thought about this and I believe the three endings (not counting the one where everybody dies) can be railroaded.
Destroy - The Reapers are gone. The galactic civilizations work together to rebuild what was lost.
Control - The Reapers make repairs, then fly into a sun.
Synthesis - The Reapers make repairs, then fly into a sun. Synthesis causes complications in all lifeforms, whose bodies reject synthesis, causing everyone and everything to revert to normal.
A theory I had while playing Mass Effect Andromeda was that the species in Andromeda originate from the Milky Way since they are humanoid and use technology similar to ours. While this turned out not to be the case, I still think a similar idea could be used. One way to bridge the games is if ark ships left after the Andromeda Initiative but arrived sooner due to technological advancements.
I hereby give BioWare and EA permission to use these ideas. 😉
