Mass Effect 4 Will Not Feature Shepard or "Shepard 2"

[Metalrocks]

ok, sounds interesting but as some already stated, bioware said that part 3 will be the last ME title. ME2 is still the best ME in my opinion. i have played it more then part 1 and i still love the DLCs they added in to it.
but now, im not even sure i want to play part 4. im pretty much done with it. especially after part 3, im really skeptical. even when they fixed the ending that i can play it again but i still hate this annoying brad that shoulndt be in this game at all.
well, im still looking forward to the omega DLC. the last one was pretty good.

 

[Cybylt]

I doubt they can be vague with the three endings, one had everyone becoming a synthetic organic hybrid, another has a giant army of space cthulhus running around and the last one has an entire race wiped off the map.

Actually if you choose Destroy then that would be nearly 3 races wiped off the map.

Geth, because all technology was destroyed

Quarian, because their suits will fail and they would have no protection

And drum roll...

And the Volus! Because they also use suits with rebreathers and most of their population lives off the homeworld.

I thought destroy ending's shockwave thing only applied to artificial intelligence with reaper code in it, which means that Quarians could go back to the systems they used before the integration and could probably go about that rather quickly at that. And that's only assuming you got the quarian and geth to cooperate. Volus don't even have that problem so I'm not sure how they're affected.

Anyway, regardless out it turns out I'd probably be sold as long as I'm not forced to play a human again. Turian would be preferable.

 

[zoharknight]

Sounds intresting. Hopefully itll feature a non military hero. It would be cool to see the mass effect world from the eyes of someone not connected to the major players in goverment like a explorer or smuggler. Also the ablity to create a non human hero would be cool to.

 

[luckshot]

The departure of Shepard will mark a shift in tone for the series

so that will be the second major shift in tone for the series

i just cant get excited for this series anymore

 

[Spitfire]

I'm getting Dragon Age 2 vibes from this. I don't like it.

 

[Bifford]

I honestly will not miss a character as shallow as Commander Shepard.

 

[Ix Rebound]

don't forget that it will feature a tacked-on lackluster multiplayer that your pretty much forced to play if you want a "good" ending

 

[00slash00]

But who would buy it at this point, after so much fail on 3?

uh, me. right here. i enjoyed playing the games. a bad ending doesnt ruin that for me. in fact the mass effect series is the only bioware series since baldurs gate that i can really say i enjoyed

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Well considering how Casey Hudson said that 3 would be the last Shepard game, but certainly not the last Mass Effect game about the same time Mass Effect 2 came out, I'm surprisingly not all that surprised. I'll definitely by looking into this in hope. I know Bioware can still make good games, they just have to get out of the money-grubbing hands of EA.

But who would buy it at this point, after so much fail on 3?

Oh look, another person still complaining about Mass Effect 3's ending. Did you not enjoy the other 20 hours of the game? Did you not think the other 99% of it was above normal? I liked the ending, it was a means for each player to interpret it their own way rather than to have a story told to us. In retrospect, it was probably the best way they could end the series. Especially considering how Talimancers would have nothing less than you helping repopulate Rannoch with Tali, the Ashley haters wanting her to be crucified, and the other twats who spent way too much time complaining about the game wanting their exact, specific, different endings.

EDIT: I've been saying this for the past few years, but I really do wish the next Mass Effect game is about the First Contact War. Then again, because they said the main character wouldn't be a soldier, it could be about how Aria rose to power in Omega.

 

[Olas]

How about a game where I get to fly the Normandy for once as Joker? The fact that I never got to do that in the first three games is incredible considering the main enemies of the series are basically big sentient spaceships.

Besides Joker deserves to get some attention, he's one of the best pilots in the galaxy and sticks with Shepperd literally throughout the entire story. He was key to some of the most important battles in the series yet the only time we get to play as him is when he's limping around Normandy helplessly during one scene in ME2. What a waste.

 

[beniki]

Well... I'd like to be optimistic about it.

Something less military inclined would be good for the mass effect series. I remember in Mass Effect 1 completely missing the scope of the Citadel. I literally thought it was mostly corridors with the Presidium being the only open area... and only recently discovered that the actual living areas were represented by a single sky box.

Would be nice to delve into the underworld a bit. Show some human infiltration of the Black Market. But on the other hand, that does seem a bit too reactionary. A simple story of an independent trader trying to earn a decent living would be nice. Firefly but with Geth basically.

But yeah, time to back away from Shepard. Now the big threat is done with, we can take our time and look around, and build up some personal stories. Bring in some mechanics from the X series, and such.

 

[Ashannon Blackthorn]

Personally as a total surprise, I'd love ot see them take the forth ending... you know... the one with Liara's recording saying the Reapers won? Start the game off 500,000 years in the future with the new main charceter finding it and starting the whole series off again.

Mostly to see if they could come up with something original and not a 100% plot copy with Grazbians and Fertunians and Blarg as opposed to the Asari, Salarians and Turians.

One big thing could be that the relays were still somehow destroyed or rendered inoperable, so the Reapers tactic of "let them find it and come to the Citadel" might not work.

 

[Animyr]

Planet Scanning: the game.

But really, going off on a different tangent from the main trilogy was the only route open to them. The main storyline would have played itself out even if starchild had never been written into the story. And a sequel wouldn't be possible without a huge retcon or an Invisible War-style conglomeration of endings.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Set the game several million years after Mass Effect, that way the decision made at the end can be as damn vague as they want

 

[Atlas13]

Well considering how Casey Hudson said that 3 would be the last Shepard game, but certainly not the last Mass Effect game about the same time Mass Effect 2 came out, I'm surprisingly not all that surprised. I'll definitely by looking into this in hope. I know Bioware can still make good games, they just have to get out of the money-grubbing hands of EA.

But who would buy it at this point, after so much fail on 3?

Oh look, another person still complaining about Mass Effect 3's ending. Did you not enjoy the other 20 hours of the game? Did you not think the other 99% of it was above normal? I liked the ending, it was a means for each player to interpret it their own way rather than to have a story told to us. In retrospect, it was probably the best way they could end the series. Especially considering how Talimancers would have nothing less than you helping repopulate Rannoch with Tali, the Ashley haters wanting her to be crucified, and the other twats who spent way too much time complaining about the game wanting their exact, specific, different endings.

EDIT: I've been saying this for the past few years, but I really do wish the next Mass Effect game is about the First Contact War. Then again, because they said the main character wouldn't be a soldier, it could be about how Aria rose to power in Omega.

You should notice how he never mentioned the ending in particular. I for one thought the entire game was a gigantic downgrade compared to 2, which was also a downgrade compared to 1.

Oh, and the best way they could have ended the series, was to not balls up the plot to lead it into the direction it did.


My prediction for Mass Effect 4 is something along the lines of a "super secret" mass relay sending a ship of crew members of different races (character race selectioooon) to a different galaxy, where they encounter a new races, and a new threat.
Then it's probably going to be reapers again.

 

[ExtraDebit]

After the way ME3 ended the only way I'm going to buy another mass effect game is if EA went bankrup and bioware is independent again.

 

[GildaTheGriffin]

But who would buy it at this point, after so much fail on 3?

Please don't start that...

 

[Sampsa]

Commander Shepard has gone beyond the call of duty so let him / her rest in peace. Really if they allow me to import my ME3 shepard into fourth one I'll call that a glowing space kid sized plothole right there.

 

[GameMaNiAC]

Can they please say there won't be Shepard in the future Mass Effect games one more time?

Because we don't seem to have gotten the message the first 50 times.