What should Mass Effect 4 Be?

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Ninjafire72

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Please stop saying they should make another Mass Effect. You're just encoruaging Bioware to start beating the dead horse and before you know it, you'll have Mass Effect wars, Mass Effect Reach and Mass Effect ODST (Aka Halo series being smacked around for more money).
They said it was going to be a trilogy, and they should leave it at just that: a trilogy.
 

RedDeadFred

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Nothing. Even if Bioware fixes the shit ending they have still stated all along that this is a trilogy. They will expand the universe through different games but they will not be titled Mass Effect 4 because Mass Effect 3 was the end of Commander Shepard's trilogy.
 

Sean Steele

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ThePS1Fan said:
Let's assume for a moment that Bioware does fix the ME3 ending fiasco and manages to regain some PR, how should they continue this franchise?

Of course there are way too many hypotheticals for how Bioware could fix ME3's ending so lets go off the assumption that the Indoctrination Theory is correct and Shepard wakes up on Earth and stops the Reapers for real however your Shepard would, Heroic Sacrifice, Pistol and butter knife, doesn't matter, Shepard wins, Reapers are stopped. I just want to know within this lore (I've never read any of the books) what could really happen to keep things interesting after the Reapers were stopped? Or should 3 be the final instalment in the franchise altogether?

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Is it telling me to head for my flame bunker after mentioning the possibility for ME4 right now?
Fuck that, I want to play a story in the Mass Effect setting with out the fucking Reapers weighing everything down.

Honestly why cant we have the setting without it constantly being time to save the galaxy? What about an intimate story about I dunno your a C-Sec detective (Any council race because why the fuck not.) And take the whole thing and make it a noir detective story all throughout a fully made Citadel.
 

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Best move would be for Bioware to call their next sci-fi CRPG something other than Mass Effect. Then they can change everything to their hearts content.

The original setting is pretty much destroyed already with such crazy scenarios as no more organic life only synthetic cyborgs, or no more technology. In all scenerios the mass relays are gone, so space travel is very limited.

A fresh clean start is best.
 

guitarsniper

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The Epic Tale of Conrad Verner. That is all. Told entirely through Conrad's self-important stylizations of himself (kinda like Varric did for DA2) but all the ridiculous things he does are only actually possible because he's telling a story.
 

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I love the Mass Effect universe and adored Mass Effect 3, but I really think they need to leave it at that. I can't think of anything that would be as personal as this trilogy unless they set it way into the future. Playing through the Contact War would be neat, but we already know how that ends (although I guess Halo: Reach pulled off the prequel handily...).

veloper said:
Best move would be for Bioware to call their next sci-fi CRPG something other than Mass Effect. Then they can change everything to their hearts content.

The original setting is pretty much destroyed already with such crazy scenarios as no more organic life only synthetic cyborgs, or no more technology. In all scenerios the mass relays are gone, so space travel is very limited.

A fresh clean start is best.
That would actually be pretty awesome if they did it outside the ME universe and did a game about humanity's first foray into long term space travel.
 

Goofguy

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The Mass Effect series ended with Shepard. If Bioware intends to make new games set in the ME universe then they should be called something else. Obviously, they would have to adopt an aggressive marketing campaign so that it's very clear that Game X is a spin-off of the ME series.
 

Scarim Coral

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I think it should be a prequel as in the Prothean era. Thank to Javik providing as much lores he can, it sounded interesting.
Yes ironically this would be the Halo: Reach to Mass Effect espeically if they decided to base the prequel to when they are at war with the Reapers.
 

RN7

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I don't see how they could fix the ending. Even if they did change it to make it seem like your actions over the course of the 2 or 3 games you played make more of a difference than a choice you can make in a few minutes, the series would still probably be cut to a close. They could always go to the Star Wars route and make a Mass Effect MMO.
 

Adam Jensen_v1legacy

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I don't want a Mass Effect 4. If they truly fix the ending I would want a detective buddy game set on the free roaming Citadel about 2 C-sec detectives. Imagine the possibilities.
 

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If they fix ME3's ending then we can go from there. Perhaps a galactic civil war over the reaper tech (whoever gets it is dominant species for years to come) or over the foundation of a new galactic government. Prequel to ME would be cool, something like the first contact war or even before humans came into the galactic community. A game based on people you meet/interact with would be cool as well. The only way I'd by another BW game is if they fix the current one.
 

fatmrbunko

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well if they did continue shepard... it would bea prequel about either his war hero, survivor or renegade past.

alternatively something about being a spectre (choose own race) trying to say bring down cerberus pre or post reapers if post maybe under new management or perhaps trying to save the citadel from a terroist group/army/corrupt figure/corporation. but whichever way something about a spectre as well they are good guys with infinite juristictian, only others with that power are justicars and they have to be asari (no race freedom).
 

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It starts by asking if you believe that the ending in Mass Effect 3 was "indoctrination", and if you select "yes", it immediately shuts off your power, locks your doors, and tells you to wait for the men in white coats because you are CERTIFIABLY INSANE.

Really, stop kidding yourself. Now. It makes us all look bad.
 

Jake0fTrades

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Don't do to Mass Effect what George Lucas did to Star Wars.

We don't need to ruin an otherwise great series by falling into the "sequel-trap."

Yeah, ME3's ending was pure and utter sh*t, but the other 99.9% of the series was wonderful! I want to remember Mass Effect at it's best.