What should Mass Effect 4 Be?

[Pb Zeppelin]

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...).

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]

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.

 

[lordlillen]

the adventure of garrus: space batman.

 

[Scarim Coral]

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]

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]

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.

 

[ARCTIC_EAGLE]

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]

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).

 

[AbstractStream]

Another one should not be made. Please.

 

[flames09]

Don't you people read before posting?

It was a trilogy, there will be no 4.

That is all

 

[subtlefuge]

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]

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.

 

[RagTagBand]

There should not be another Mass effect in the "numbered" series unless it follows the exploits of Commander Shepard.

But in terms of a AAA game in the universe? I don't know. Nothing after the ending makes sense, the universe is effectively ruined, and Nothing interesting happens before. Sure you have the First Contact war but that has not only already been delved into in other media, it is a frankly boring story and I don't want to shoot at Turians.

 

[Aarowbeatsdragon]

oh my god will people stop bashing the ending for mass effect 3, we get it, you didnt like it. But stop acting like everyone hated it! i loved the ending, im not runing around every post saying i love it so will people stop going on about the ending. I mean if ONE ending ruined an entire series for you, you wernt real fans in the first place.

As for mass effect 4, id love to see what it would be like with every race being stuck in the sol system as well...most of the sol systems planets have been mined to death and all the different alien races stuck in the same system would make for a brilliant plot device for the next games story. Itd obviously have to be a different style of gameplay from 1 2 and 3, still an rpg but not about huge battles more about survival and trying to find a way past the relays.

 

[putowtin]

It starts by saying: "Sorry for the MAKO and the inventory system in ME1. We're also sorry for the dumb story and scanning in ME2 along with the bullshit ending in ME3. We've left some chocolate and a lesbian porno in the box." And then it ends.

Captcha: "I'm not dead yet", yes you are, Shepard.

but I don't like chocolate!

 

[SilentVirus]

It starts by clearing up what the fuck happened at the end of ME3

This! This! Oh god, a thousand times, this!

 

[AngryBritishAce]

I'd like more of a Mass Effect Origins type game. Bioware said we're done with Shepard, so we should be.

This. Something like 20 years after ME3 (providing that the Mass Relays didnt' explode and BioWare change the ending... please BioWare?), where you play as another Spectre like Shepard, but you can be any race, have many different backgrounds. Also, this may sound a pansy-ish, but maybe something not soo... "epic." I mean I want what they give us to feel amazing just like the original Mass Effects, but the Reapers were, without a doubt, the biggest threat to ever exist. Making something like "The Reaper 2 dun-dun-dun" will just feel stale and weak. Make a "realistic" enemy, something threatening, but also not "over-the-top all worlds will bow to them" enemies. Make each game after that either a new enemy but with the same character each time or completely new stories un-related to each other aside from lore-relevant links, like The Elder Scrolls or Fable.

 

[Ironman126]

Bioware Victory is not Bioware and should not be treated as such by the fanbase. That's just EA marketing at work.

Personally, I think they should do a civilian focused game. Maybe make the game revolve around a colony in the Skillian Verge that prospers or suffers in response to your actions. Part of the game could be colony management combined with defense against Batarian raids, while another part would be travelling the Verge and Terminus systems and gathering resources(through narative gameplay, not minigames) and dealing with mercs and pirates. Basically, make the game about something other than The Fate of the Galaxy.

While the colony itself might start out as a human colony, part of the colony's growth would include how to deal with other races, including the possibility of integration within the colony. The player could be any race(within reason), starting out as possibly just a freelancer contracted by the colony, but growing in influence as the game progresses.

Additionally, this would be an interesting set up to include the possibility of full campaign co-op multiplayer. Bioware has proven they can make the concept work. Integrating it into the game proper is just the next logical step. Naturally, the ability to play single player with NPCs should remain intact.

Bioware Victory should get at least one chance to prove themselves worthy of being called "Bioware." But only one.

As for your idea, I think it is magnificent. I would gladly play that game.

I myself had something in the vein of Homeworld in mind, but your idea is at least on par, if not better than mine.

 

[BelmontWolf]

what should mass effect 4 be?

never released. or if released never purchased till EA and Bioware learn a very harsh lesson about dicking with the gaming community.

What's there to learn? The gaming community is one of the simultaneously most fickle, most fanboyish, and most easily enraged communities in existence short of some religious extremists. They release the product, and everyone buys it, and no amount of rage has changed that.

If anything, the gaming community needs some harsh lessons in coordination, level-headedness and anti-fanboyism. It's a complete wreck as is.

I agree that the gaming community can be easy to anger. Although in this case its clear there are issues on both sides.

Though this isnt the biggest middle finger to gamers. The biggest i still think is the cancellation of megaman legends 3 especially after the community gave alot of time and input to get the game created in majority the way fans wanted it to be.

But as long as big game companies like EA want to play business rather than community friends then as customers not fans we are in our total right to rage against what is essentially a product at fault to what was promised in design specifications.

 

[lowkey_jotunn]

The first and most important thing for the Mass Effect franchise will be when it's.... taken away from EA.

I'm giving BioWare the benefit of the doubt here, and will assume their bosses at EA ordered them to create a shitty game so that DLC could be sold to un-shitty it.


That being said, if another game does take place in the ME universe, I'd like to play some of the side stories that we're told about. Garrus's time on Omega in ME2, Anderson's guerrilla warfare in ME3. Miranda's story either before we met her in ME2, or her effort to track down her father in ME3. There's a ton of potential storylines floating around this universe they've created.


But really, the correct answer is: no. Just no.