Mass Effect 5

[Neon Ignition]

https://kotaku.com/sources-bioware-plans-a-complete-overhaul-for-anthem-1839892415

Naturally nothing is really known beyond the news buried in the Anthem update that Mass Effect 5 is now in very early development.

[Cassius_Smoke]

GaaS with wall to wall MTX no doubt.

[fishbowlhead]

Mass Effect is done. There was no need whatsoever going beyond the trilogy.

[Neon Ignition]

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[MartyG]

There's plenty of scope in the Mass Effect universe for further adventures, it's just Andromeda was a bad game with nothing much to say.

Having a game based around the discovery of the original artifacts on Mars and the subsequent meeting of alien species after they worked out how to use the mass accelerators would have legs. All it needs is to be well written and thought out, rather than it being a lazy cash grab using an established name.

Will see how this one plays out when we know some concrete details.

[fishbowlhead]

All it needs is to be well written and thought out, rather than it being a lazy cash grab using an established name.

I’m seeing a slight flaw in your thinking there 😁

[MartyG]

That wouldn't be my flaw, but I can't image BioWare wanting to be burnt twice by releasing another half-baked Mass Effect game.

[briareos_kerensky]

Bioware surely not. EA on the other hand would do everything they can to screw up developers and franchises by rushing production and imposing pointless features.

[Brad]

Hot Mess Effect 5

[MartyG]

Do people on this forum even like games anymore?

You've all become too cynical. I blame the parents.

[Brad]

Do people on this forum even like games anymore?

No. I just have nowhere else to go.

Plenty of good games out there. The disappointment, for me, is that the teams with a big enough budget to make a game both really great, and a graphical and audio spectacle, are usually under the umbrella of someone like EA or Ubi where there are people above them who don't actually care about games who will make them do things to spoil it. Usually.

[Neon Ignition]

I'm definitely interested and I hope they nail it. When I eventually finish the DE versions of ME2 and ME3 I'm going to try Andromeda again too. My main concern lies with Bioware themselves, I don't feel ME3 was anywhere near as disappointing as was made out but even with that line taken it still leaves them with a decade of firing blanks.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-mass-effect-4-collectable-might-have-revealed-a-big-returning-character/

Potential spoiler thanks to a hurriedly changed detail of the game

[Cassius_Smoke]

Could be interesting due to two points...
1: Pretty sure ... died at the end of 3?
2: isn't ME5 Set much further into the future?

[Neon Ignition]

Next Mass Effect will ditch open world and return to series' "classic format", insider teases | Eurogamer.net