BioWare Asks Gamers if They Want a Mass Effect Prequel

[bandman232]

I'm good with either or. I still find the Mass Effect lore more interesting than Star Wars at least.

 

[jpoon]

How about NO MORE MASS EFFECT GAMES AT ALL! Make a new IP you fucking lame-asses!

 

[The Forces of Chaos]

I would like them to remake 3, as I feel it failed on most levels (not including the ending). But since they are not going to do this I have lost interest in the series. I feel that whether it is a sequel or a prequel, You will still get more of the same, auto dialog, retconned choices, retarded plot devices.

This is starting to get depressing. I guess when writers of dragon age and Mass Effect left things started to take a downward slide ( or when EA bought Bioware).

 

[Nikolaz72]

BioWare Asks Gamers if They Want a Mass Effect Prequel

BioWare's epic space opera will continue, but whether it will move forward or backward remains undecided.

In an interesting bit of fan crowdsourcing, BioWare's Executive Producer, Casey Hudson, polled his sizable Twitter following [https://twitter.com/CaseyDHudson/status/270668914273443840] as to what they want out of the next Mass Effect title. More specifically, Hudson asked whether or not gamers would be interested in a prequel to the original Mass Effect trilogy, or if an adventure taking place after the current games is preferable.

His tweet reads: "Parsing through your thoughts on the next #ME game. Would you be more interested in a game that takes place before the trilogy, or after?"

BioWare has already revealed [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/120596-BioWare-Montreal-Takes-Over-Mass-Effect] that work on a new Mass Effect title is underway. It remains unclear whether the upcoming title is early enough in development that a concrete storyline isn't decided upon yet, or if Hudson is referencing a future Mass Effect title not yet conceived.

Responses to Hudson's impromptu poll were predictably varied, with vocal proponents of both theoretical timeframes. Those wanting a prequel claim they don't want to tarnish Mass Effect 3's ending with an additional adventure, while others demand that the series move on, letting history remain history. Where do you stand?

Source: GameSpot [http://www.gamespot.com/news/bioware-asks-if-fans-want-mass-effect-prequel-6400376]

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Bioware: "We basically have no clue what we're doing anymore. You guys got any ideas?"

Illogical Hater Bioware ^

Logical Bioware: We are split and want the fans to decide.
EA: It costs nothing to 'say' we are listening. And its good PR.

Haters gonna h8

 

[mechalynx]

Like I twittered back to Mr CaseyDHudson, we already know all we need to about the past.

I'd love to see Mass Effect go to another galaxy.

Captcha: mortal aid

 

[Smeggs]

Considering that a prequel is a total fallback, no.

Make them work for it, and give us a new story that doesn't end like a log in the toilet.

Honestly, though, what're they going to do? The "endings" tied everything up in a nice brown bow of Galactic Peave-Loviness.

 

[Julius Ketonen]

I'd like to play a Mass Effect game where you are part of Cerberus from the very beginning to the eventual end. In fact it is completely possible that several Cerberus cells survived independently and your character could be part of one of them.

 

[Smeggs]

If it's set before Mass Effect, I'm in. If it's a sequel, I'm out. I'm doing OK pretending that ending isn't real. A follow-up to that would just wreck it. Besides I actively hate Synthesis for how silly it is, and Control is only slightly less bad.

These guys really need a fresh start. Going with a game set before Mass Effect gets rid of the baggage created by the trilogy's choices. You can begin again with new choices (and they should know what they are getting into this time, so derped up resolutions to things like the Collector Base shouldn't happen again).

Someone interjects: "But if it's a prequel, we know how it will have to end".

Wrong. For one, notice I didn't use the word "prequel" in my first two paragraphs. They can set a game before Mass Effect without having it lead directly into the events of the trilogy. It can be its own self-contained story (or series) set in the same universe. It doesn't have to be some big epic war. It can be one individual's highly personal story, so personal that it might not even matter to the rest of the galaxy. Stories on that smaller scale can be just as compelling - if not more compelling - than an epic story.

But see, the thing is they already have the lore so planned out. This isn't like Halo: Reach, where we know they all die, but they're simply soldiers in a slightly above average FPS.

These are going to be extremely fleshed out characters with hours upon hours of dialogue. It seems pretty stupid when you think about it that way.
"Gee, I sure like you, Fellow-Prothean, too bad I know we all get buttpounded by the Reapers in a bit."
"Wow, Fellow-soldier-in-the-Schillion-Blitz, you are about fifty times improved over the other generic soldier partners, too bad you play no important role after this, never show up in the first three games, and will most likely get killed."

 

[verdant monkai]

I blasted hate Twitter and I am pissed off with Hudson for always using it to do important shit with the series. Just make a poll on the bioware site you nobhead. Anyway I just tried to warn them about prequels being the least creative next step and I reminded them about the fan hate for the Star Wars prequels. I can only pray they listen as I doubt I could deal with a shitty prequel after the end of 3.

 

[Vault101]

[quote/]Those wanting a prequel claim they don't want to tarnish Mass Effect 3's ending with an additional adventure[/quote]
ha.....WHAT?

I say RETCON! bring back shepard..bring back everyone...let us try again

and I dont like prequels as a concept anyway

 

[Seneschal]

NONONONONO. NO. Science fiction and wallowing in pre-established boredom do NOT mix. You have to look forward, y'know, "to the stars... and beyond!" Set it a thousand, ten thousand, a million years after ME3! Give us a quarian expedition into the Andromeda galaxy or something. There is nothing in the current ME lore that demands a full game except maybe the Rachni Wars - that might provide a change of scenery, but the plot is bound to be "Starship Troopers except you're a krogan."

The First Contact War is a boring 10-minute misunderstanding that cannot house any decent stories, and they'd just be hamstringing themselves with it. Anderson and Saren get one mission together, not enough for a whole game, let alone a new trilogy. Besides, that was covered already in the ancillary material.

 

[Von Strimmer]

If they did a prequel I would like to play as saren arterius. The quest to win over the geth and find the reapers would be so much fun.

 

[hermes]

I would be more interested in a sequel, although I understand the different endings in 3 leave humankind in entirely different places, so exporting it could be a hassle.

But humans in Mass Effect are mostly boring. The alien races are where the best stuff is, so a prequel where we fight the Turians and don't interact with most of the other races would not be that interesting...

 

[Setrus]

I want an xcom-ish game with choice of multiple factions maybe 20 years before the introduction of Shepard into the Specters. Have Humans duke it out with Batarians in border disputes, have Quarians scout and skirmish with Geth, have Krogan warlords wage defiant war on Council races...multiple factions and interesting tactical gameplay involving tech, biotics and all manner of gadgets.

Buuuut...since we won't get that...I want the Rachni war, from beginning to end, see your Krogan and Council races work together, only to slowly tear each other apart as the war begins to turn into a Rebellion with you trying to keep your people together.

 

[Captainanorach]

i wouldn't mind a prequel which is set around the inception of the reapers. how bad had the galaxy got that the creators of the reapera thought 'fuckit, let's build giant death robots of death that'll probably kill us but what choice do we have.'

either that or a garrus fanfap adventure where he tries to reestablish some semblance of order by going all bounty hunter on people's asses.

 

[RESURRECTION21]

Well I feel as though it would have to be a prequel, since based on Shepard's choice either the Geth are dead, Reapers are floating around the galaxy acting as Space Police, or everything sentient has synthetic/organic bits.

Also, why even bother giving us ALL that Andersen backstory if we aren't going to see him in the leading role?
We've got him as the First True Human Spectre, fought with Kai Leng, has a romance interest already set up in Doctor what's-her-face, and saw Saren's asshatishness firsthand.

they did that in one of the books so much so that there is no where more to go with it but do read it it is great i think it mass effect revelation but know that i think a game based on that book wouid be kinda cool oh crap i think i miss read your post if so i am sorry do not shoot me

 

[goose4291]

Although I wouldn't want to play it, a prequel, or setting the game prior to ME3's ending is the only logical way to do this, because as everyone has righty said, there are too many variables to handle if they were to set it after Mass Effect 3.

 

[Space commando 75]

After the ending fiasco i doubt anyone would want a prequel knowing where it ends up.