Re: Random Thoughts
10/29/13 7:02 pm | #17999
Prequel series like Star Wars I-III and Star Trek Enterprise really soured me to that idea. We know what happened in the lore, I'd rather move forward. Much rather see Harrison Ford back on screen as an older Han Solo, than see C-3PO have his 1st argument with R2D2. SW Old Republic did things well, but that was a completely new branch. The way games are going "always online" like The Division and Destiny, I think Dragon Age Inquisition will be the last of these kind of Bioware model games, & they will use the Mass Effect franchise as a hook to enter similar next-gen engagements like those games are doing, The Crew as well. Thousands of years in the future, I bet all the Mass Effect races will be at war with each other, the Council disbanded- basically all out chaos, like the Reapers envisioned. If you can create a character of any race, and background, MMO style- keep a single player element with core story companions trying to find a place in the world, but also a "side-by-side" multiplayer where you can switch on the fly with your main character- enter a Division-like crew fighting for scraps of the universe & trying to make a name for yourself. Familiar character classes, but full customization- buy ships & outfit them to fight others, as well as the usual land battles. Choices in how to deal with problems giving Paragon/Renegade multiplayer social standings, like MMO faction rep.
If you set it thousands of years in the future, there's an easy solution for a ME3 canon ending... you just have a story option on NEW GAME (like what they're doing with Dragon Age Inquisition, to keep your choices from DA2)... the game starts with a brief explanation of ME1-3, and the death of the Reapers. You choose what Shepard did. Game begins with a more-or-less funnel into one shared outcome: either genetics over thousands of years of reproduction made the machine-humans more or less humans, or (in the absence of machines), species just made more Geth, VI etc, because they lost the teachings of why they were bad in the 1st place. Didn't cure the genophase? Well over thousands of years with a cure so close to finished, surely it would've been done by then. I'm all for choices, but we need a new "normal" foundation to begin from.