I really hope they don't involve cloning again and make Shepard be cloned.

Maybe the helmet is used for a similar reason as the beginning of Mass Effect 2 since you didn't choose your character design yet.

Honestly I think I would be happy to play a new character but still have Shepard be a part of the story, would be nice to actually choose more about your character including species, similar to what Jedi Academy did.

It would have to continue from the improved destroy ending.

It's not like a life support suit or something.

It’s Liara all along🎶

The ship we see in the trailer with the presumed relay on it is more than likely a ship sent to andromeda to link the two galaxies. Maybe after the war, they Milky Way under goes a Technological boom as they have very advanced reaper tech just lying about. I remember the ME3 reaper info card saying that the Reaper FTL is approximately 2x faster than what the alliance ships are capable of. And with these Technological leaps leads to reversed engineering the mass relays. So combining that fact with what I said earlier maybe the ship we see is that very ship Liara or some other organization with the goal of linking the Andromeda Galaxy with our own.

Couple more months

I definitely want the next game to finally giev us a satisfying ending for Shepard but i would love for them yo have a role similar to Hawks in DA:I

There are only a few ways I can think of that would make this new protagonist be shepherd. First and least likely is that the synthesis ending becomes canon and somehow being mixed with synthetic life extends the natural life span of all organic species. But that's very unlikely because even when mixed with machinery I doubt human organic components could last more than 150-200 years at max unless there has been some kind of massive advancement in medical science that slows down the aging process, so even in that case a synthetic shepherd would be too old to be able to continue to do field work. Second would be if this is a descendent of shepherd, like a grandchild. Also kind of unlikely because even though shepherd had romantic interests in the game making one of them a canon partner would kind of destroy player choice in the previous 3 games and the only way it would be a human descendent would be if shepherd got with one of the human romantic interests like ashley or miranda and they survived and happened to find out they were pregnant after the events of the 3rd game. Third would be if it's a shepherd clone. When cerberus got ahold of shepherd the first time and tried to resurrect them it's also possible they may have experimented with cloning them in case the project didn't work as planned, which I wouldn't put past them, and it's possible this clone was just in stasis for a long time and finally released at some point prior to the new story time period starting. But I doubt they would have all of shepherds memories and attachments unless they had a memory implanting process like in that movie the 6th day. Other than that I can't really think of many other ways that they could bring the original shepherd into the new game with the timeline being so far ahead of the 3rd game.

Why is everyone calling it mass effect 5? If its a direct sequel of the original trilogy it will be ME4. If its a continuation of andromeda it would be Andromeda 2. If its neither, it will be its own thing.

May I offer a small rebuttal I think is an interesting perspective. If I’m remembering right Humans we’re being submitted for specter training soon after Shepherd had achieved the rank once he set a president. The specter’s are the black hand of the Council. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the cream of the crop are from spec ops and renowned military units like the N7. That said after the reaper war Shepherd would be considered dead. Ceremony and funerals would be held all across the Galaxy for those that couldn’t make it. Anderson, Shepherd, Mordin and the like. So aside from reclaiming a life in the human military where else would someone like Shepherd go after they are discovered alive by a reclamation team? Well if I were a politician I’d dip his file in black ink and then pretend like he’s an entirely new person. No need for ceremony or induction since he already was a specter. Military service to Military Intelligence. Who better than the man who led multiple small squad insertions against the will of gods.

If Bioware wants the Mass Effect series to truly move on and get the backing of the fans, they NEED to make this next game a closure of Shepard's story. Shepard needs to be the playable protagonist with VERY satisfying ending, A very HAPPY ENDING!

man, I really wish this is Shepard, He gotta come back and get his happy ending with Kaiden. I really hope it is, even though I think it definitely isn't ;-;

How is it that every female Shepard looks the same as my creation 🤔

Too bad my Shepard now hang out with Reaper now for 50k years😂

So, what i am thinking in ME5 will happen. We all know the citadel is one bigass relay, that has huge ranges (enough to bring reapers from darkspace), i`m thinking they link the two galaxies (andromeda and milky way) through it, there also are a bunch more huge range relays as well (ALPHA relay i think it was called.

I am getting a detective or assassin vibe from this new look

In my personal opinion, i want shepherd back. I wouldn't mind if they changed it to a new character. I'll still play if it's good.

i wish they would let my bother rest. but these ppl just keep dragging his name through everything trying to make him the only sole character in which we can play. Andromeda was good for trying to branch the story further by showing us that all the species in the milky way had other plans to keep their ppl alive (sending colony ships to a different galaxy escaping the Reaper threat that they didn't know if they could win) & Ryder & other pathfinders mission is to make sure that their efforts were not in vain. then all of a sudden these so called fans just trashed the game.. why? because it wasn't shepherd & wasn't the aftermath story & or anything they thought it was so they throw a childish tantrum review bombing without giving the story a fair chance to even tell the story they tried to show acting like graphics are a necessity to tell a story. & now the new mass effect is going to have the same problem if they want to tell a new characters story. tantrums, review bombing & nothing but hate if shepherd isn't in it. at this point i am just disappointed to even consider myself a huge fan die hard even. this game was the reason i fell in love with story driven games with great characters be they random npc or companions in 1 amazing universe. it's to a point i don't even call myself a fan because of those types of ppl. you are not a fan if you don't give it a fair & unbiased chance to be what it can. A story of a character can only go so fair so stop dragging Shepherd around like a dam dog & let him rest something he needs & deserves. if anything i would have loved to yes meet them in the new game & if not maybe his children & spouse (whoever you chose). maybe even be one of his child's squad mate & or relative... something like that. but let shepherd's story be complete like dam he had 3 full amazing games which told his story.

Would prefer Shepard to either not be present in the next game or appear as an older human who is a mentor/advisor or an Alliance Admiral/General or something. I wouldn't mind the new game being set hundreds of years in the future either, and meet a matron or matriarch Liara and hear her stories about Shepard. That distance in time would also let the civilizations in the galaxy plausibly reverse-engineer some reaper tech and rebuild the mass relay network and it could introduce new alien species that joined the galactic community after the reapers were defeated.

Just watched this movie for the first time today, and I really enjoyed it! I watch anime, so the art style didn’t put me off. However, I do agree with you about the data; I think the reveal should have been left as a Shepherd crew discovery only. Definitely appreciate James’ character more after seeing it and plan to use him more my next ME3 run ✨Also I need to check the comics out.

This and Mass Effect: Retribution are my favourite two Novels from the trilogy, and Mass Effect Andromeda: Annihilation is just Great! and Tom Taylorson who voices Ryder does an amazing job on the Audiobook which i hope you also Cover.

If shepherd isn't coming back then I'm not either

Maybe it’s shepherds daughter or son who’s an asari

curious on if anyone else has picked up on the fact none of mass effect 3's endings are now cannon, due to the fact ending 1 has you control the reapers, ending 2 has you combining organic and synthetic life together and ending 3 has you wipe all synthetic and ai based forms, there fore having geth in mass effect 5 wouldn't make sense as if you chose ending 3 you wiped them out along side the reapers, and you can't have ending 1 or ending 2 because the next mass effect game shows dead reapers. there-fore as much as it will break peoples hearts, Commander John shepard will not make a return as mass effect 5 would not be following any of the set timelines

I would be cool with Shepard coming back as the character you play but they need to expand it in the sense that you make your own character and choice in race with that alien race having its own backstory depending on what you choose. Like the original Dragon Age or like how Mass Effect 1 allowed you to choose your background story with the choice of picking a different alien Race too.

The Batman Who Flies.

Shepard and Liara's blue child?

the person in mass effect 5's teaser trailer looks a lot slimmer and sleeker almost a little bit like a female body, there can be structures for other beings such as males that can also be quite slim as well but it Extinction looks feminine to me. (sorry for my bad spelling mistakes)

Honestly, i could see them making Shepard and Liara a conan couple and that the new N7 is their child. And they're both looking for Shepard.

Honestly I love the idea of being a new character Shepard's story is finished just give them a good ending and let them be an advisor or a character that pops up once or twice on Shepard focused missions

Sheperd gets downloaded into an Edi-like body? Or his body is replaced by a cybernetic body, leaner, meaner, faster with the SAM Upgrades and jump jets, that has been my theory after seeing this.

As much I want to be hype for this I won’t as long as EA is evolve.

Shepard IS the "Mass Effect". He/She influenced the galaxy as much as the relays. I believe they will be back to lead a crew in the new game, can't wait.

There is no ending where Shepard is fit to fight anyway. In Control, Refusal, and Synthesis, Shepard straight up dies even in the best-case scenario. For Destroy, they survive just barely, likely with all of their cybernetics ruined, and are dying in the wreckage of the Crucible and Citadel. If they do survive past this scene (Which, imo, they should, otherwise the scene would be worthless) it makes no sense for them to continue serving. Given that Destroy is the most likely "canon" ending for this upcoming game, I think it makes far more sense for Shepard to be in a political position or entirely retired in the next game. As for the N7, they are likely either the new PC or a squadmate. Assuming that they learned from Alec, it can't be anything else. Personally I want them to be a squadmate. Why? I want flexibility with the new PC. Dragon Age Style. Lemme be a different species in a meaningful way.

It's Conrad Verner.

Companies need to quit starting over in tge first place. So many people invested on the trilogy they would buy #4 even if its bad. Like Saints Row even if the gameplay was bad if it continued with the same characters people would have forgave the bad things

I love Shepard as much as next Mass Effect fan, but OG trilogy was Shepard's story, there is no need to mess with it and potentially antagonize a lot of people. I hope than not only we get new MC, but can chose from different races (at least humanoid one's). It was one of my biggest letdowns in Andromeda, we literally go to another galaxy in ships full of people of different races, yet are forced to play good old boring human.

It’s Kai Leng and we play as him In all seriousness though I think it’d be interesting if this was a story of Shepard but it was Shepard post alliance in a sort of retirement broken by whatever ends up happening. It’d explain why military grade gear isn’t available/being worn plus Shepard would have the contacts (Liara, Tali and EDI) to acquire new advanced equipment to handle whatever is going on. There could also be a restructuring of the actual military command like N7’s being integrated into Spectre duties/resources in the wake of Reaper losses and whatnot so they get the super slick fancy new equipment that allows for casual look while infiltrating and so on. Idk just spitballing there but you get the point there are routes they could go to explain the aesthetic change while still going down that path. Hell a two thousand years ago military’s wore togas, leather and maybe some bronze if you could manage it. Things change with tech advancement

Something id like is where you can choose the Heritage of your character like for example because of how many different romance options like your predominant ancestors is shepard but you can choose your other ancestor

If shepard still alive in the next game, it will be the stupidest decision ever made. Make his sacrifice an epic, to then make a mockery of it is beyond idiotic.

Great video. I’m a big ME fan but never knew about QECs.

Shepherd = Dracula = Way Maker = Path Finder 🧛🏼‍♂️

It’s Liara it would be cool if the first 1/6 of the game you play as her making her the cannon love interest and she brings back shepherd for 2/3’s of a game where shepherd relearns his skills due to being deaf for say 10 years and in new body. Then in the last mission they mention a side objective of saving a hostage and other than it being Asari nothing is truly said. Then at the end you find out that hostage was your kid you had with Liara. Then you can build the next game from the players choice with hostage was. Although i suggest no cliffhanger as it takes BioWare 10 years to make a sequel these days. Well if Dragon Age launches this November. So it would be like 2045 until they finish the trilogy.. real talk that’s nonsense

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Could also be Liara and Shepard's asari daughter. That N7's body language dont seam human to me, like powerful and confident imo asari. And asari dont have the "male and female" definitions humans have and use. They described that in ME 1. And Andromeda takes place 600+ years ago after Me 2 i belive. 648 years if im not mistaken? Only real way to continue Shapards jurney is Asari. I think human Shepard is done and overused and dont make sense to keep using that character. While Asari arent like humand and take traits from both parent races. So a Liara/Shepard Asari whould be really cool.

Shephards Daughter from Liara

I think it’s best if BioWare come up with a new protagonist and jump 200 years forward after the Reaper War and combine the classic trilogy with Andromeda. Liara, Wrex and Grunt are still around to bring nostalgia and reference the past, helping the new character with their establishment. New characters bring new life into the Mass Effect and can be used for the future games. Over focusing on Shepard means living in the past. The franchise should move forward.

Did this just come out? Never hear of it?