Poll: Poll: Should Mass Effect end?

[Atmos Duality]

Wait, you mean it didn't end???
If it didn't end, why did I have to endure over a year of stupid threads bitching about the ME3 ending? Last I heard (and I heard a LOT) those endings were absolute in their conclusion; no room for sequels.

Definitely not without invalidating the other endings.

Well, so much for closure.

 

[Agayek]

It should end, full stop. The trilogy is done and over with, and any continued milking of the franchise will just cheapen it. EA and Bioware both need to take a step back and have some goddamn respect for themselves and their own creation and let it die with the small handfuls of its own dignity it managed to salvage from everything they've done to it already.

The only, and I do mean only, other game I can see in the franchise is an MMO type game set during the Krogan Rebellions, where the Krogan, Batarians, and Vorcha are facing off against the Salarians, Turians, and Asari in an all out war. That's the only way I can see the franchise continuing and not becoming a complete mockery of itself.

 

[00slash00]

The Mass effect universe has a lot of interesting lore and I don't want to just see that die. I wouldn't mind learning more about the Illusive man. I feel like I never learned much about him. I remember them saying the Yahg people were untouched by the reapers. I know they said it was probably so they could rebuild or whatever after the reapers left, but maybe there could be something more than that. And of course just having a smaller more personal story is also a perfectly viable option (though that is one of the many complaints people had about Dragon Age 2)

 

[Snowblindblitz]

First off, they handicapped themselves in terms of sequels with the ME3 ending business. They can't make a sequel without declaring one of the endings official or mashing them altogether. They're too different (funnily enough) to make a sequel that could fit all of them at once.

IT really does smack of the question: where do you go from here?

As far as a smaller, personal story, would fans accept a Bioware game without constant fellatio from people who think you're the chosen one of some shade?

I'm glad I saw this because I can answer this question right now: NO.

One of the biggest criticisms people gave DA2 was because it was a smaller story than what you were used to dealing with, what happens in it? You move from one area to another, you get involved in a get rich quick scheme, you defend a city from another race, and you help solve a conflict that had been building for a long time not due to anything you did (there's a lot more but those are the main points).

That's one of the reasons I liked the game so much, you weren't the chosen one, you were an influential civilian, there wasn't any world or country to save, and neither side in the endgame was completely in the right, yet people hated all of these points judging from the feedback they received in terms of its plot.

Gotta agree, I loved the story in DA2, it was the rest of the game I didn't like. I honestly cared about the characters in it.

They should push more of this, but, alas, gamers are terrible and running off the writers to placate their need for "SAVE THE WORLD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? STOPPING ACTING LIKE A REAL PERSON DAMNIT!" despite the countless games that already give us that.

 

[The Enquirer]

How did they handicap themselves at the end of Mass Effect 3 exactly?

In two of the endings the Reapers survive and one they are destroyed. That is a pretty huge difference.

In one of the endings the Reapers have become a galactic police force under Shepard's control and in another they are a member of the new green glow galactic community.

These are huge differences in the galaxy and they can't just be hand-waved away.

True... Like I did say they would need really good writers. I mean it'd be possible to get around it, just it would be such a watered down story at that point, it would probably have nothing to do with pre-existing storylines. Like I said in my first post it'd be best to go the prequel route.