Well personally I don't imagine it'll be a prequel. There's still plenty of issues to solve in the ME universe and besides it'll be refreshing if this BioWare studio actually decides NOT to focus their game on saving mankind from some potential extinction event. Oh and does learning about anything that happened after or before the real life Cold War make something less interesting for you because the stakes weren't as high as they could possibly of been for humanity? There are more stories (and more interesting stories) to tell then simply what happened in Mass Effect trilogy.INeedAName said:Unless it *somehow* changes the last game's ending, I probably won't be interested. I've never had a great interest in prequels or midquels (especially not when the main conflict of the universe has already been resolved in another game).
I think it has alot of potential especially considering what a void Star Wars has left in Scifi fandom after the critical failure of the prequels. I mean they went through so much trouble in the Mass Effect series to establish the politics, governments, and relations between the ME races for this reason I think. I never assumed they did all that just to build the world for just three games, it always felt like they were trying to establish a longer term franchise with an indepth world like Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Star Wars. They wanted a universe from the beginning with which they could tell a bunch more stories from. So I don't really see it as them cashing in on some surprise hit they didn't see coming. For Bioware and the ME franchise, it's all going according to plan. ^_^