With the voiceovers suggesting Humanity's first contact and the character at the end picking up an N7 badge, it gives me the impression they're abandoning Andromeda and going back to the Milky Way, possibly even a prequel. Just speculation but definitely not what I would want (though plenty of the fanboys would).
Given that the Andromeda galaxy is shown in the teaser and one the Arks is referenced (Ark 6) I would say smart money is on a game that does reference Andromeda and that is set a good while (perhaps centuries) after Mass Effect 3.
The finest analysis I've seen so far is Ashe's video.
@AeromusPrime22 wrote:
With the voiceovers suggesting Humanity's first contact and the character at the end picking up an N7 badge, it gives me the impression they're abandoning Andromeda and going back to the Milky Way, possibly even a prequel. Just speculation but definitely not what I would want (though plenty of the fanboys would).
The teaser shows destroyed mass relays and an older looking Liara, so a prequel seems very unlikely.
Agreed.
AeromusPrime22 wrote:
With the voiceovers suggesting Humanity's first contact and the character at the end picking up an N7 badge, it gives me the impression they're abandoning Andromeda and going back to the Milky Way, possibly even a prequel. Just speculation but definitely not what I would want (though plenty of the fanboys would).
The "character at the end picking up an N7 badge" is without a doubt Liara.
And that they showed both galaxies at the beginning, and as Fred mentioned destroyed Mass relays, basically rules out a prequel.
While Liara was my first thought, and it's highly likely, I wouldn't say beyond a doubt. Even not being a prequel, it sure seems like it's going back to the Milky Way. Guessing all those choices we made are going to be erased for a canon ending.
Well, it is pretty obvious, don't you think? They need a link between the games, and Liara always was that link, starting in the Trilogy. 🙂
Also Michael Gamble called the first shot of the trailer with both, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies visible, "intentional!". So it might be that we will be in both galaxies.
I kind of took it as Andromeda being in the background and Milky Way at the forefront as they're moving back from Andromeda to the Milky Way. I hope I'm wrong because I want the Andromeda storyline to continue.
It could be a sequel to the trilogy while also explaining a few mysteries about Andromeda in the form of a prequel (so a midquel, I guess). I always thought the alien races in Andromeda were too human. You could explain that the milky way species look alike because of Reapers guiding evolution, but it made no sense for there to be bipedal gunslingers in Andromeda, so my theory was always that the precursor race of the angara and kett (the jardaan) originated from the milky way.
I know what you mean even though Shepard is long gone. He may have had offspring, they could take up the mantle, who knows.
@AeromusPrime22 wrote:
While Liara was my first thought, and it's highly likely, I wouldn't say beyond a doubt. Even not being a prequel, it sure seems like it's going back to the Milky Way. Guessing all those choices we made are going to be erased for a canon ending.
Personally I think it being Liara is utterly beyond doubt.
I'm not convinced that any ending will be canonised, but we'll know in a few years. 🙂
@SofaJockeyUK wrote:
I'm not convinced that any ending will be canonised,
I also don't think that they have to make an ending canon. There are literally dozens of ways to avoid that, especially if Liara really aged about 600 years as I asume.
I also believe that. I got happy and upset at the same time when I recognized Liara, but then was told that they showed andromeda and an ark, and I was like "Wow, it's gonna be the sequel to ANDROMEDA but with a cameo of the Milky Way".
Doesn't matter what choices you make in the trilogy, Liara always lives. So here are my fan theories about how this could be possible:
- Destroy ending: Liara obviously lived, and a hundred years later the people of Andromeda manage to contact her. Doesn't matter whether Shepard lived or died (depending on EMS).
- Refuse ending: Everyone was doomed. We got to see Liara's message in Andromeda, but that doesn't necessarily means everyone died in the MW. Even Javik said he was born when the reapers had already attacked in his cycle, yet some protheans got to escape and preserve theirselves in pods. Liara always becomes the shadowbroker with great resources, I struggle to believe she wouldn't have thought of a plan to preserve someone or even herself to have better chances to warn the next cycle.
- Synthesis: She's still alive for obvious reasons. Maybe the weird green glow disappears eventually?
Also, I'm hopeful that just the same way we (hilariously) got to play joker on ME2 without seeing it coming, another excuse of Liara's presence is that we could play as her
It could also be that the trailer is for a game that is between Me:A 1 and Me:A 2, like it happened with Captain Spirit (It wasn't Life is Strange 2, just a game in the same Universe that happens between Life is Strange 1 and Life is Strange 2).
Personally I'll still solemnly believe the trailer is for Andromeda 2 until Bioware directly and officially denies it. They still have so much to work with, Andromeda is as good and as filled with mystery as Mass Effect 1 was in its day, and hell, I'm still waiting for them to discover the kett are actually evolved prothean (another personal theory and wish of mine)
I just thought of something when i was reading this that the benefactor could be the shadowbroker with all it's resources could have built the Ark's mind you i could be wrong but again who knows.
