PLOT | Next game, what will that be?
Just to see what you people are expecting in a next game, if one is ever done.
I think MEA is a sort of a stand alone project. Making grounds (probably making experiments as it goes) and room for ...
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I have to agree that I would want my Ryder in the next game. I'd even like my romance and other options carried over and expanded upon. But, I'm not holding my breath.
Unless the DLC is pretty in-depth and expansive (if there is DLC at all), then I would have a hard time believing they would wrap up the major arcs not yet addressed in just the DLC: 1) the Archon's second in command and his response/viewpoint towards you and the Heleus cluster, 2) the Scourge's history, purpose, makeup, possible way to use or destroy, 3) the Benefactor's identity and true motives, 4) the Jardaan, the nature of the vaults and Remnant tech, finding/meeting them, are they hostile, neutral or good, etc., 5) the growth of the colonies and expansion into other areas in the cluster.
I believe the Kett and the Benefactor could be wrapped up in DLC content (unless exaltation has a much more expanded purpose than MA:E gives as a first impression). But the Scourge and the Jardaan really need to be in a new game. I could make up so many potential plot points on just those two, I wouldn't know where to begin. As a Pathfinder, they could continue our current Ryder by tasking us with discovering out more about the Scourge and how to use or remove it. They could also task us with finding out more about the Jardaan, taking us to a new galaxy even. Just so much that could be expanded.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more my head hurts to be honest. They have more than enough material to make a second game and continue with our current Ryder.
Actually there are plenty of potential plots that bioware have opened up but yet to exploit to the fullest potential, which is kind of disappointing think they may go oops and drop a few a long the way just like they did the dark energy theory about haestrom's sun(ME2 mission where you find Tali).
1) The independent nation of Advent
2) The Quarian Ark
3) The Benefactor, is he good, evil, good intentions but ruthless like a spectre, will he be like TIM in ME2 or TIM in ME3? Is he backing the collective/Reyes.
4) The Kett: The Archon claims to be the genetic inheritor of 1000 species. So technically there could be 2 branches or avenues Bioware could progress this:
a) Kett is evil, you go to their home world find a bunch of new aliens yet to be enslaved or exalted...
b) Kett is like the reapers, truly believing that in order to save their worlds, they need to merge into one strong race in order to repel the darkness that will follow. A little like the protheans who subjugate other species into the prothean empire, but this is a little more literal.
5) The Jaadaan, are they organic? AI based? What are their intentions? To create life seems to be the theme here, but is there something darker? Creating unnatural lives and an army to go up against real organics?
6) Scourge, all we know so far is that they are not natural and that they target remnant technology. Are the creators of the scourge good/bad/order/chaos? If Bioware chooses bad then it is the easy and obvious route, same theme of evil beings giving hell to everyone else... What if they are actually good, trying to survive the Jaadan and in their desperation they created the scourge to counter the remnant threat? What if they are like the protheans sending a sun to supernova just to kill off the machines during the metacon war? Perhaps they are like the leviathans, numbered and dying as well cause their creation, the scourge, affected them.
7) Will SAM carry on riding with Ryder... Will it become like the Zha and Zha'til where the AI controls their host? Will Ryder eventually be controlled becomes like TIM, indoctrinated evil version cum secondary antagonist? Or will he somehow be ousted and then reside within the Sibling and later all out sibling rivalry and war?
Well one possible plot line I could think of is that Ryder goes to the background as the celebrated Pathfinder that made settling in the Andromeda Galaxy possible.
But then the Kett attacks keep happening and there's talk of a massive invasion. As we don't have the resources to defend against the full might of the Kett Empire, we take the fight to them.
So a new hero stands up that is part of the attack and when the attack fails, he/she is left with a single small ship and crew to go inside the Kett main base to try a final suicidal mission that will at least cripple and halt the Kett.
While we do this, we find out some more about the dreaded Scourge which turns everything we knew upside down.
End of that chapter. More to follow.
Now if the new hero gets sequels, I could be ok with this being a one-off but I really don't want to go from one one-off to another like DA.
Reapers again?! They´ve been around for "nearly a billion years", it took the Andromeda Initiative -just- 600years to cross from Milky Way to Andromeda without MErelays just using their FTL-drives....I mean, Reapers are pretty useless if they just haunt the Milky Way galaxy knowing there´s the Jardaan in Andromeda and satan knows what else...and then there´s like, like 26 other galaxies in the universe.
I totally expected Andromeda to have atleast some kind of Reaper-monitoring presence, 1/13 or so. of the age of the universe seems enough time to spread alittle further than 1 galaxy, especially if you want to -> “We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.”
Suppressing 1 galaxy hardly seems enough to bring down the net entropy of the universe that much.
So, there will be a plot-reveal-event which will state the secret history of ME-universe, that the Reapers are spread thru (a large part of) the (visible) universe and nowhere is safe.
Also a DLC dealing with the Quarian Ark and out pops Tali or something + more Kett with High-Archon or Archon Council or something similar
I agree about the hero being switched out each game is not fun, like in DA. Although I really disliked Hawke, felt no emotional attachment at all. I left Hawke to fight the demon and felt no guilt/sadness. To me Hawke was a doormat.
I am kind of hoping that mom being alive means that the twins will have families at some point. Who better to babysit than mom when your out pathfinding? Since mom was hooked up to SAM does this mean mom can use remnant tech?
@chrissyce1123 wrote:
I agree about the hero being switched out each game is not fun, like in DA. Although I really disliked Hawke, felt no emotional attachment at all. I left Hawke to fight the demon and felt no guilt/sadness. To me Hawke was a doormat.
I am kind of hoping that mom being alive means that the twins will have families at some point. Who better to babysit than mom when your out pathfinding? Since mom was hooked up to SAM does this mean mom can use remnant tech?
Yup was many years ago, I vaguely remembered liking Dragon Age the first one... Especially really liking Morigan... Man that voice... Love Claudia black(didnt know it was her at that time)... I didnt remember DA2 that much, didnt have much connection, just played the game, think I enjoyed it but nothing earth shattering. DAI was ok as well, no biggie... Didnt connect with the inquisitor as well... Actually the name turns me off a little, some negativity at the back of my head linking it to the Spanish inquisition and the pain they inflicted in the name of religion. Just like if there's another game and my title is Führer, the entire game could be about something else killing dragons, slaying demons, but at the back of my mind it reminds me of Hit*ler(why is his name censored by this board? It's not a vulgarity lol... It's history...), same title and all... Maybe I am just weird, wiring's a little crossed...lol...
