New Shepard Story
Hello, dear Mass Effect players and Devs!
Firstly I’d like to thank everyone who worked/is working on wonderful ME Universe, both Devs and players, and made it what it is. An incredible adventure filled with action, romance and adrenaline. Even thou the game had some ups and downs, it is, in my honest opinion, one hell of a trilogy and universe, one of the best I ever played. And I would love for Mass Effect to continue with a new story and even a new trilogy. I’d like to share some of my ideas that I have for new story and opinion on ME3 Ending as well as read your thoughts about my ideas. Please note that English is not my first language and I apologize for any grammar mistakes. And sorry for long post, I can’t put all that I feel and think about this game/universe in few sentences.
I believe that most of us would want new Mass Effect, this time set in Milky Way Galaxy right after the ending of ME3. So, speaking of ending, there were multiple choices at the end and Bioware should choose one and stick with it as canon. And it should be “Red” ending or Shepard destroying the Reapers and surviving in the end (Just my opinion). I support the theory of ‘Shepard indoctrination’ and I think that Shepard managed to resist it and destroy the Reapers in the end. New game would be, in my opinion, open world with ability to land on every/most planets and moons and explore them as we try to uncover points of interest, side quests, minerals, resources etc. We can upgrade our ship with better weapons, more shield/armor, all depending on how we want our ship to look. There would also be more, ‘relaxed’ parts of the game, such as throwing party’s for crew, hanging out etc. Just like you could do it on ME3 in the Anderson’s apartment. It would be nice to have a chat with friends and laugh while preparing for new missions. Love Interest option should be “upgradable” to marriage if one chooses so. In my opinion it adds depth to the game and you get more attached to characters and you care about them even more. It should be single player game, no co-op, as that is what made original ME games so popular because of all decisions that you make and the impact it has on whole story through all three games, also no multiplayer is needed for any sort of progress, just original Mass Effect experience that we all love. That way we can have unique relationship with characters during the game, some friendly some not.
New game would start right after Shepard takes a breath. We wake up somewhere among the rubbles in London and try to crawl our way out of that, barely alive we get out of there and one of Alliance soldiers/patrols spots Shepard and comes to aid. They report that they have found Commander Shepard and is in need of immediate medical support. Shuttle arrives with help and they take him to hospital and begin multiple surgeries to help him (Similar to ME2 intro, just without implants and Cerberus). Shepard survives in the end and is resting in hospital. Soon the news about him reach Normandy and it’s crew and they rush to see and meet with Shepard. We wake up in hospital after months of coma and surgeries and see all of our crew from previous game and our Love Interest (Ashley for me) around the bed happily looking and cheering that Shepard is alive. We talk about what happened and do some catching up on what’s going on and then spend some time with romantic choice about all that’s been going on and maybe Shepard can choose to propose to his/her Love Interest to marry them since they think that war is finally over, but something new is coming. After that, we go through rehabilitation process and also learn new game mechanics etc. (‘Rehabilitation process’ would be some sort of tutorial on combat, movement and such things). Finally Shepard is fully healed and back in action. That would be the intro/prologue to the game.
Basically Bioware explain what ending is canon and what happened to Shepard in the end and how he was saved. We know that Stargazer in the end told the child that there is one more story to tell him, hinting at another ME game/story (Not Andromeda, another story about Shepard).
One of the ideas that I have for new games would be that after Reapers were destroyed and races started to rebuild and get their strength back some old hostilities would rise. Like several Krogan clans would want a revenge on Salarians and Turians. Since Quarians now have their homeworld back and got rid of Geth (Remember, red ending killed all synthetics) they would start to build massive armies and fleets which would worry Council about their rising strength as they did not allowed them to land on any planet and thus they lived on ships. And in major plot, a single Rachni queen could’ve survived somehow and since Reapers are dead and other species weakened, it could start laying down whole armies and even fleets to invade everyone. Add to that Aria T'loak and her clans which would raid other systems for resources. Shepard and his/her crew would need to deal with all of that.
War with the Reapers might have ended, but war, greed…it never changes. There will always be someone who will want to rule the Galaxy no matter the cost, either seeking revenge or conquest and that could be some plot for new games. Maybe even new synthetics that would be created by someone (as that child VI said, your children will build synthetics and basically history would repeat itself, just without Reapers this time) and they would want to turn against their creators and start an all - out war (thou that plotline would seem to similar to ME3).
We could also have remaster of original Mass Effect trilogy, it would be all combined into one single game. With updated graphics, gameplay mechanics, more missions and events and one canon ending. I know that EA is not for remaster of their studios games, but if they do this it should be more then just graphics and gameplay mechanics update. We would need new missions, places to explore and different choices to make, all leading to that one ‘real’ ending. And then new game would come out that would continue story. Just my opinion on what is all possible with this awesome universe of Mass Effect.
I’d love to hear what do you, fellow fans, think about what I wrote. I’m no expert writer or anything but those are some ideas and hopes that I have for this franchise. It might not be the best ideas, but that’s what I’d like to hear from you. Your ideas about new story etc. If this was interesting at all, I’d love to write much more detailed information about story and similar things. I might be a big dreamer about things that I’ve written but what are we if don’t dream and hope?
Stay awesome and stay strong everyone, Maxsam out!
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Life is a broken – winged bird, that cannot fly.” - Langston Hughes
