7 Things We NEED in Mass Effect 4

In todays Mass Effect theory video, let's dive into the top things that the Next Mass Effect (or Mass Effect 4) NEEDS to succeed. This is sort of my own wishlist but it's also based on what the community has been asking for.
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[@vladboch]

First of all, the story needs to be good, compelling and respect the lore of the ME universe. I plead the writers not to trap themselves in familiar tropes and corners, like they did in the ending for ME3. Take your time, polish the game and make the story that actually makes sense.

[@MrHulthen]

Very true!

[@Shadow__133]

And none of that Andromeda Kett vs JarJarBinks s***t. Earth is what matters.

[@jasepaul91]

What were you expecting for the end of ME3? It had to come to an end at somepoint. I always see complaint after complaint but never a suggestion

[@vladboch]

@@jasepaul91 actually there's a lot of suggestions, that are better than what we ended up having. Drew Karpishin's concept and Indoctrination Theory, for example. Outside of that up until the Kronos station everything in the game felt good.

[@jasepaul91]

@@vladboch What would your preferred ending have been?

[@vlover15OO]

For me personally is one of two ways. 1) sheapard needs to be alive with their romantic partner to give us closure and give us an actual epilogue for our squad mates. 2) give us an origins system like they did in dragon age origins and let us be multiple races. Let me play as a quarian that learns that Tali finally built her home on Rannock

[@ieguras3425]

Imagine a side quest that ends up with you going to a tropical planet to find shep and garrus in beachfront mansion raising a krogan.

[@MrNax360]

@@ieguras3425 Grunt? That would be petfect 😂

[@ieguras3425]

@@MrNax360 I just feel like that wouldn't happen because he'd be busy with krogan, and have the same kind of role as wrex in me2

[@MrNax360]

@@ieguras3425 It was a joke lol

[@ThatGuyKazz]

I doubt very much that Shepard will still be alive. I'd expect the next game to be after the events of Andromeda and that they will some how work in a super mass relay that connect Andromeda to the Milky Way. So that'd be at least 600 years after ME3. Shepard would be dead even if the cannon ending is that Shepard survived. I wouldn't be opposed to a semi-hidden Easter egg or side quest that mentions Shepard's ultimate fate or heck even if they did the classic Bioware/KotOR move of having it come up in conversation and having the dialog options the player choses "decide" the outcome something like "My history professor told me that Commander Shepard survived the reaper invasion and retired on Rannoch but the official reports said the commander was missing in action to keep the reporters away." That is basically how they handled events of the first KotOR in KotOR 2 and If I'm not mistaken they do something similar in Dragon Age 2 when referencing the events of Dragon Age Origins.

[@MightyGalvatron]

For the sake of immersion, I hope they can finally get ALL the cutscenes to match up with whatever our characters are wearing and carrying in-engine.

[@TheHeroRobertELee]

For real. Sick of Liara switching outfits in mass effect 3 and characters only using a pistol in cutscenes.

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

And the faces (in the CC also in the NPCs), this has been a lack on their part since the first one.

[@RubidiumMoon]

When Ashley takes off armor and puts on another set of armor 🤣 OR when Geth memory tells you that Legion was definitely not paying attention to what you were wearing when you met him.

[@darksteelmenace595]

Concerning romance, I think quality definatly goes over quantity. I don't want 20 half assed romances in the next mass effect. 5-8 will do fine, instead they should be longer and have more interactions.

[@saqwana25]

i would got for 6 two straight male and female, two gay male and female, and two bi male and female that could cover most things.

[@Muumin-H]

And not something that HAS to be for the ending. I want to be able to see the scene's like it's a casual thing not THE last thing we do before a suicide mission😅 Literally

[@Muumin-H]

@@saqwana25 in that case, two straight male and female. And 4 Bi. That gives MORE options🤪🤪🤪

[@saqwana25]

@@Muumin-H i'll take that deal

[@RandomWandrer]

Just make everyone romancable by everyone. Then everyone can have their fantasy. There's no reason not to.

[@ScottishScrub]

At the end of 3, the kid asks for another story about Shepherd and the man replies with "okay, one last story". I know it probably isn't a hint to the 4th game but I really hope it is

[@RandomWandrer]

Of course it is! It wasnt in the original trilogy, because they weren't planning then on a sequel. They added this in Legendary Edition because they were by then decided to bring back Shepard.

[@The_Vile_Frog]

Would be pretty cool if we had a multi-race option, I feel it would make such interesting dialog changes and effects on your values. I also just want to be a krogan tbh 😅

[@MrHulthen]

It would be! Biggest problem is probably the budget for including it xD

[@notzay3261]

obviously if we play as shepard or ryder again, changing the race would definitely be strange. but i hope that the next game with a new protagonist allows us to play as at LEAST the more humanoid races (Turian, Quarian, Salarian, Asari)

[@The_Vile_Frog]

@@notzay3261 yeah not sure if they'll bring back shepherd this time lol

[@DokturProfesur]

Shepard's story is done, I'd like to play as someone else in the ME universe. Ideally a Turian or Krogan.

[@davidmarsh8852]

Andromeda was such a confused game... Even from a story perspective. Are we focusing on colonizing a new galaxy or are we trying to save that small, small, small segment of the Andromeda Galaxy from a cosmic threat? The trilogy had a very conrete and direct story line and had sub plots but it always came back to the reapers.

[@MrHulthen]

Yeah, it really was

[@armorfrogentertainment]

With how the story is framed, the story is primarily about establishing colonies for the Milky Way species. However, the main plot is traditional space opera shit, IE: stopping a cosmic threat.

[@Colouh]

Also big problem with Andromeda was the premise of us being "pathfinders" to discover new worlds and races, and then when we arrived everyone was already settled in worlds, there were factions controlling colonies and they all knew about the races and the problems from a new galaxy...

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

That's what happens when you leave the writing to a bunch of inexperienced people.

[@rmeddy]

I think it had a good conceit and premise which they simply didn't flesh out properly, we needed to learn more Jardaan and "The opposition", because the implication about the Heleus Cluster and the true nature of the Angara is quite fascinating and has a lot of potential but that's all it was potential.

[@KlMOCHI]

Would also love to see a competant Character creator. Andromeda's was decent but would be nice to see it more in line with DA: Inquisition

[@MrHulthen]

True, that aswell!

[@AbdefFable1]

The character creator needs to top those of the ME Games and DA:I (not including Andromeda for obvs reasons)

[@MightyGalvatron]

DA:I's weapons and armor customization was good too.

[@josepharmstrong6502]

one of the best things about the inquisition character creation was that the different species had enough differences in conversations that it felt like the species of the player was taken into consideration, but there was nothing that changed the game in its entirety so you could still have the same story but they each felt unique enough that it was more replayable

[@josepharmstrong6502]

@@Vthd7604 I haven't actually played origins so I didn't mention it

[@sircovant8983]

I want to see Shepard keep his promise to Tali and help her build a home I know it's a long shot but it'll be such a wholesome scene

[@scarletpsychowolf3578]

Yeah even if the next mass effect takes place centuries later, at bare minimum, I want to see let's say we go through Liara's computer and she's got a photo of Tali and Shepard just laying back on their outdoor recliners in front of their beach house on Rannoch

[@GSWoof]

I would love to see a game set around 20 years later. New character as a protagonist. Shepard somewhere as an old hero who people remember as their saviour. Liara maybe as a squad mate to connect her with us but not romancable. Tali maybe as a Quarian counciler on the new citadel. Garrus maybe as a lead of c-sec. Stuff like that. Ofc if they survived.

[@MrNax360]

Garrus needs to be in the next game!

[@volrogue]

No. We need another game as Shepard. How tf you gonna do another protagonist with Shepard still alive and with the endings of ME3? Would be garbage af

[@Zapata1994]

Wait dont humans in mass effect have a 150 year life span

[@MrNax360]

@@Zapata1994 Roughly yeah

[@GSWoof]

@@Zapata1994 yeah but remember that shepard took quite a beating in me3 at the end. And he already died once so we cant exacly compare him to other humans... :/ and tbh i wouldnt mind if shepard even was crippled in one way or another. Like a robotic leg or something like that. I mean his left hand looked like it was completly out of comission at the end.

[@spaceghostohio7989]

Great list. Agree about needing a strong tie to the original. If it is set 600 + years in the future Liara and Grunt would be around. Wrex would be ancient by then. Unfortunately I think there is going to be an Andromeda tie in somehow. That would give them a chance to bring back characters from Andromeda ( hopefully with much much better animations). I say skip the 600 + year idea ( believe the trailer created that) and put it somewhere beyond ME3 but just far enough to have things put back together.

[@hunterjohnson6849]

I liked Andromeda but Honestly I hope the tie in is just some dialog about the initiative leaving and the specs of the arks and stuff, but don't involve any of the characters, and just set it like 10-12 years after the ending of 3. (Also if the destroy ending is Canon, just say that starbrat was lying and bring let the Geth and EDI still be around)

[@ThatGuyKazz]

@@hunterjohnson6849 I doubt that will happen. If you're expecting anyone other than Liara and Grunt to still be around I think you'll be disappointed.

[@hunterjohnson6849]

@@ThatGuyKazz i know.... but I'll hold out hope I guess. But as long as the game is good it'll be fine i guess

[@Dhurl421]

How far in the future was Andromeda placed? I didn't play it and don't care for what I know of it. BUT those who did like it would be disappointed if it just throws out the Ryder character with the 600 year timejump.

[@hunterjohnson6849]

@@Dhurl421 imo Bioware could/should continue the andromeda story with 2/3 more games and have it not connect to the milky way, just let it exist as a spin off story and allow the Milky Way to do a new trilogy to give Shepard an actually satisfying ending at least. But that is incredibly unlikely I fear......

[@Vesp3r1987]

Well id like more missions like Citadel DLC where you can actually see all your squadmates taking action (and have awesome comedy moments). Actually there are some awesome mods out there that lets you call support or issue orders to squadmates that arent with you atm Also i think its time for us to get a bangable krogan! Seriously, even DA got ahead with it and gave us Iron Bull

[@The_Ragequit_Cannon]

While I agree that the species roster of possible romances could use a little more variety, think about this from a practical perspective. ME, despite the obvious liberties it takes with established science, has always been a fairly practical series as far as certain things like who you romanced. Consider the lines of dialogue that Mordin has with you if you romance Tali or Garrus. Now imagine what that might be like if you wanted to romance a Krogan. Femshep or Maleshep, there's very little you could do sexually with a Krogan. Do you recall how Shepard rubs their neck after headbutting Uvenk, despite having an armored head, neck, and shoulders? Remember how easily Grunt pushed you against a wall, then in ME 3 gave you that shoulder slap during the Rachni mission? Remember how easily Wrex dispatched those CAT6 guys who were shooting at us? Medically I'm not aware of any problems that might occur between Krogan and Humans, but there are plenty of other problems that such a pairing would present. Which I'm pretty sure explains why Grunt laughs after his loyalty mission when EDI explains that killing the thresher maw has caused several breeding requests for Grunt and one for us

[@khoseftadros2775]

I actually think it's best that the next ME avoids galaxy-ending level plots. Maybe something like a proxy or cold war style. say an Asari matriarch trying to uplift the Asari after it's complete downfall due to their exposure of their Prothean AI and the Goddess being fake (alongside the Reapers destroying Thessia), but her methods can harm others, maybe even involve the Quarians and the Geth depending on how you handled it

[@MrHulthen]

Agreed!

[@technocore1591]

If it’s a series it can build towards a galaxy level threat but yeah shouldn’t start out that way.

[@MrHulthen]

@@technocore1591 True!

[@eefer5416]

Please change the andromeda dialogue wheel back to the one they had for LITERALLY all 3 games that was virtually untouched because of its simplicity and effectiveness.

[@MrHulthen]

This!

[@RandomWandrer]

I really wanted to be an a$$hole in Andromeda :( Denied.

[@volrogue]

I'm gonna keep saying it. We need ONE more game where we play as Shepard and we get an ending for Shepard that we can have some closure with. No more having our squad mates think of us dead. No having our romances be left alone. Give us a better ending for our Shepard, then do literally anything you want

[@Amy_T85]

Exactly. And not an ending where Shepard dies. Retirement or promoted to an Admiral or Vice-Admiral of the Alliance Fleet would be awesome.

[@JimmyThree-Balls]

I personally chose to sacrifice myself at the end, mainly due to my wounds and the state Shepard was in. I felt like the control ending only needed me to sacrifice myself for a better galaxy and save as many lives as possible.

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

Yes, I'm also dream with peace in the middle east.

[@jv3198]

@@JimmyThree-Balls soldiers get injured all the time and tbh shepard wasn’t THAT injured in the me3 ending. Also control and synthesis don’t sit right as illusive man wanted control and saren wanted synthesis. Hackett, anderson and even javik said the only option is to DESTROY the reapers. Who would you believe out of these guys?

[@JimmyThree-Balls]

@@jv3198 I believe I am allowed to interpret my own playthrough. And as the the injury's shepard had, a single bullet to the leg can kill a soldier over a similar timeframe Shepard is alone unconscious. Shepard took a glancing blow from a beam of super heated metal (ie reaper main gun) clearly destroying his armours integrity. Shepard gets shot with a krogan killing carnifex to the right lower quadrant of his torso, which could have ruptured multiple internal organs. Guns of high caliber cause internal implosion in the body cavity. Not to mention the complete destruction of the crucible and the citadel in the case for your destroy ending.

[@tailgate8840]

I personally enjoyed the combat in Andromeda it was fun and fast paced and it felt satisfying to kill enemies so i would love to see a more fleshed out version of Andromedas combat i would also like to see a race selector in the next Mass Effect it would be so cool to play as a Turian or a Quarian , other characters in the story could react diffrentley to what species your character is. It would really ad to the imersion in my opinion i would also like to see more options to armour set customization both for the player character and Squad Mates. A customization system that is easy to understand and is not to complicated but if the player chooses to put alot of time into it They can make their Armours look really cool and unique to them last minute adition also i dont ammo types to be consumables in the next game just have them br abilitites on a cool down like the in Me2 and Me3 Cool video man keep up the good work

[@Urzart]

Yeah, a customization menu like Dragon Age: Inquisition (character and armour)

[@Diva2011Girl]

I want the option to be able to pick your species like be able to play as an asari or krogan

[@Doginthesleep]

The BIGGEST thing I want to see in the new mass effect is compelling antagonists 😁

[@icecreamorc]

Something I loved about Dragon age inquisition was the varied romance there was someone for everyone. You had straight options, Strictly gay, strictly lesbian, a few bi and pansexual options, some characters even went as far as taking your fantasy race into account with weather you could romance them. It made the characters feel a lot more real than DA where everyone was Bi other than the church boy in the dlc.

[@Keriga]

You make very good points here. What I would like to add is that if we do not play as Shepard, I would like to at least hear what happened to him/her after the war. That is, if the plot of the new game isn't at least in part "let's find Shepard". I wanna know if my Shepard made it back to Garrus in the end and lived the rest of her life happily with him and their krogan kids, dang it!

[@dalamar5502]

I decided to try Andromeda again now that theres a Deluxe Addition and with a few mods I am actually enjoying it and now wish there was some DLCs I prefer the upgrade system from ME2 over all of them

[@scarletpsychowolf3578]

For romances, quality over quantity is a must. The number of romance options was never really an issue but a bunch of romances weren't really given as much care as others in the 3rd game without the Citadel dlc. Maybe 3 each for male and female with additional 2 for bisexual choices. They could go for 4 and 3 respectively if they really want to

[@xxxCrackerJack501xxx]

I would hate if Destroy was canon, Legion's sacrifice and making peace between the Geth and the Quarians was the highlight of my playthroughs and to genocide them all (and EDI) is wrong

[@lsq7833]

If it's canonized, they will probably do a cop-out retcon like "the quarians decided to reactivate the Geth" or something

[@xxxCrackerJack501xxx]

@@lsq7833 I can believe that, even though I'd appreciate that because I don't like the Destroy ending I can already see how retconning the Geth's survival is going to piss off some of the people who did enjoy that ending/had a crueler attitude towards synthetic life than I took

[@Phoenixoflife56]

The thing that I believe might be the case for mass effect 4 is that you might play as a descendant of shepherd

[@EccentricTalks]

“Give us strong ties to the trilogy, please, which is something that was sorely lacking in Andromeda.” It’s almost as if Andromeda was meant to be it’s own story and not having to rely on the trilogy… maybe it’s just me.

[@charazord1]

What we need is an excellently written story set in the mass effect universe. I would recommend that we don't have the reapers be in ME4 more than references. The story has to be the driving force of the game. Good enough game play and mechanics to get the story to tell it self. I would like to have a codex that you are taking time to read it and there are hidden answers for why things are the way they are.

[@saqwana25]

i would like a game with no big bad more dealing with the day to day of rebuilding after a galactic war. the kett are what killed andromenda for me they weren't needed. andromenda would have been much better if it was about exploration and mystery of the scourge.

[@matt121202]

I really like the idea of being able to choose your race when you start the game. The only problem I can see with this is how many voice actors bioware would have to pay, because every race with the exception of asari, would have to have 2 voices actors. It sounds like it would beworth it though for people who like to go through these games multiple times. We have quite a lot of replayability with one main character. Imagine if you could choose between 5 or 6 races as well! Maybe I'm asking for too much, but it sounds cool to me.

[@12LoLproductions]

I want to know what happened to my friend Vakarian, as we know there's no Shepard without Vakarian

[@marcmichaud1643]

What they need to also do: Look at the ME3 Multiplayer Characters. All those abilities should be available in single player like Biotic Slash, Lash and Phase Disruptor and all the others. Same with the Omni tool Crossbow on the mercenary character, add that back in along with the other melee weapons. Those were all fantastic abilities, those classes were really fun in multiplayer. Same with the different armor types like Nightmare, Defender etc.

[@Spider_cholo]

This might be offensive but I hate how people get mad that jack was not pan like not everyone is gay or bi or pan also I think that adds a realism to the game

[@Noschool100]

I mean as a game you don't really lose much by making it more inclusive with the romances, and up to me2 you basically had only Kelly (and kind of Liara? tho that was more of a species thing) that wasn't just strait. I barley noticed that me3 now had diana, kelly, and kaiden being open to both sexes, and Steve and Traynor being gay but it opened up options that didn't exist before.

[@waltblackadar4690]

Good list. A successful ME is this (probably in this order): 1. Tight, compelling story and the appropriate level design to accommodate that. Fuck fetch quests, open worlds and any MMO-ization of the game. Keep things moving forward (unlike Dragon Age Inquisition which is 20 hours of story and 80 hours of filler). 2. Great NPC interactions. Create very developed, interesting characters to pal around with and explore their back stories. Banging is optional but preferred. 3. Meaningful choices. This was something Bioware used to do really well in games like ME and Dragon Age Origins. Make us want to play it again with different moral choices. 4. Top notch voice acting. Meer and Hale knocked Shep out of the ballpark. Whoever voiced Andromeda didn't do so well. 5. Passable combat. We're going to be in combat quite a bit so don't make us hate it. 6. Passable animations and graphics. Andromeda's graphics were fine. The animations were shit.

[@insomnia3454]

I actually really enjoyed riding the nomad and even looked forward to it. The banter between the squadmates and even Ryder was pure gold while riding the nomad, i hope the keep that banter style in ME4 its better than any previous bioware game

[@635574]

I remember how saints row 4 on the spaceship had the press x to bang a character for literally anyone regardless who you played as. Its a funny game with no complexity but it was an effective satire on how restrictive bioware games are.

[@Bateluer]

Ah, good times. Saints Row 4 had so much tongue in cheek fan service, its hard not to love it.

[@keith6706]

Ah yes, the deep romance system. It was a wonder to behold. The Boss: Hey, Kinzie, wanna fuck? Kinzie: Let's do this.

[@lsthero5863]

I had a LOT of fun exploring the worlds. They put a lot of love in making incredible landscapes. The problem was that they made empty worlds, but I supose this can be the rushing of the game. (They wanted to do a different game with a lot of new àlien species, worlds, mechanics…)

[@slimanMatt10]

Honestly. They should return to the Milky Way and follow up on the trilogy. It seems like the best route, even if we don’t play as Shepard, let other original characters like Garrus, Ashley, Tali, and Wrex have appearances/roles in the game if that’s the case.

[@slimanMatt10]

It’s already confirmed that Liara is back, she shouldn’t be the only one returning.

[@imogensullivan2210]

For me, we need a good story in the milky way, being able to play as other races (or not), and i wanna have another quarian romance

[@0MujaKina0]

(Garrus x Female Shepard) They should finally adopt a child in Mass Effect 4!😭 That is so sad! Garrus want to make a family with Shepard!😭 That stupid goodbye scene in Mass Effect 3!😭 Hearing Jennifer Hale crying breaks me!😭

[@undyne1]

Please, it's my biggest wish for Mass Effect

[@0MujaKina0]

@@undyne1 Me too!

[@arthurblake535]

One of the things I want to see in the next a MS that I can choose a race! I REALLY WANT TO BE A BIG BAD KROGAN WARRIOR!!! :)

[@The_Ragequit_Cannon]

It also, provided Bioware goes with Perfect Destroy as the canon ending, provide closure for the players concerning Shepard and their love interest. In the form of messages or something that you can find. I know for myself that it was really a tug on the heart strings listening to Tali try to resist leaving you in the Citadel Rush. Now, I know that headcanon is a thing and that it could reasonably be assumed that Shepard was recovered and nursed back to health then reunited with their love interest, but we really can't say that that's for sure what happened until we see what the next game brings

[@williamferguson8071]

The sequel should use Shepard offspring, considering romance options, Cerberus abilities, and the Shepard clone...Does give opportunity to play other races..i.e you romance Liara,you have the option of starting story with Ansari female,who later finds out she is Shepard's daughter..that kinda thing..

[@leecullen759]

Replayed Andromeda recently and would be happy for ME4 to take the combat system from MEA but add a cohesive storyline, immersive decisioning and fleshed out characters.

[@emper0r14]

I just wanna be able to play if any species and have them have different stats depending on the race chosen

[@aldodafino2586]

When you talked about Rebellion story, what's come in my mind is Yahg rebellion

[@DarkLordDiablos]

For me the destroy ending makes no sense especially if you spend time ending the war between the Quarians and the Geth. What's the point in doing that if you are just going to kill them at the end? The perfect continuation of the original trilogy would be for you to be able to play as either Shepard's son or daughter with your parent either being your father or mother with the latter being the love interest you chose during your playthrough with your choice of ending being part of it. Or better yet just retcon it so that Shepard somehow survived all three endings so at the start screen you can choice to play the new game with the ending you chose at the end of ME3 in a similar way to how the recent Legendary Edition had a start screen that let you chose one of the three games but replacing them with one of the three choices you made i.e. Control, Destroy of Synthesis. Why should those players who chose either Synthesis or Control have to play a version of the game which won't allow you to see the Quarians and the Geth co-existing on Rannoch? Hell adding Shepard surviving when choosing the Destroy ending just made the whole point of bringing peace between the two groups pointless and seems more geared towards those who jumped straight into ME3 when it came out and didn't bother with the recent LE trilogy. It also begs the question of what was the point in spending all the money on redoing the trilogy if the follow up game was going to lock you into the one choice? If you are going to spend time and money updating the trilogy, you may as well spend the same time and money in making a follow up game that will please all of the fans and take their final choice into account. Speaking of choices, are the crucial ones you made in the original trilogy going to be carried over such as Ashley or Kaiden, talking down or killing Wrex, whether or not you choice to sabotage the cure for the Genophage and those are just three of the many choices you were forced to make which will have to be taken into account if you want the game to be well received by the fans. Hell with all that to think about its little wonder why its taken the so long to get around to making a genuine sequel and why they made Andromeda instead since they'll never truly be able to satisfy the fan base if the points I raised aren't addressed.

[@rhetiq9989]

The core theme of the story should be about rebuilding what’s destroyed. Picking up after the galaxy wide reaper invasion and we as the players go through a series of events involving the reconstruction of various things around the galaxy, which can also be a fundemental foundation of the gameplay. We spent so much time on waging war and repelling against enemies, it’s time to loosen up a bit and start helping each other towards reunification

[@M0b1us_118]

Here’s my list, and it should be stated that most of my wants are based off the things introduced in Andromeda because I found that a lot of the new things introduced in Andromeda outshined the negative aspects of that game. 1.) Keep Andromeda’s combat system. I completely agree on MrHulthen’s points. 2.) Keep Andromeda’s weapon and armor crafting system. I fucking loved that you were able to craft your own custom weapons based on the mods you have; for example, I took that Kett laser mini gun and turned that into a machine grenade launcher. 3.) Keep the dialogue system that was present in the original trilogy. 4.) Have a mixture of both planets that have open worlds and planets that are mission specific. 5.) Keep the planet mining mini game from ME2; I found that to be surprisingly satisfying. 6.) And, have the same number of companions that was in ME2.

[@malditodesgraciado6182]

I would like to see the rachni getting involved as allies. They didn't have a good chance in ME3.

[@BB-pb3hv]

1. Shepard 2. Commander Shepard 3. Shepard Commander 4. C. Shepard 5. Shepard Shepard 6. The commander Shepard 7. SHEPARD That is all i need xD xD

[@BB-pb3hv]

And also what i want from mass effect 4 is you making lots of videos of it xD i love your videos you are very awesome

[@SWNJim]

All very good points. I really want the profile system from Andromeda. As flawed as that game was, the combat and exploration were fantastic. The only thing I would change is either dropping the squad commands altogether or changing them to somewhere else and grafting the profile switch to the d-pad.

[@Brody_Austin]

I personally think there should be elements from all the previous games in ME5. Everything from exploration, gun customization/upgrades, impactful choices, diverse locations, and Andromeda's movement. I also want to have the option to make a stealth/hacking build. I always thought stealth would be a nice addition to Mass Effect. We did get a suppressed pistol in ME3

[@kentomarek6823]

Lets nominate the best parts of the whole Series: ME1 : Choices ME2 : Cast ME3 : Looks MEA : Combat This List is my opinion. Since many of the old Team at BioWare has left, im a bit sceptical. As for the Story, i want Drew back in. He created major parts of the Triology.

[@crestonchi5427]

8. Using my Save Data from ME legendary and Andromeda. - You may be very well correct that full perfect asset destroy however remember that in that ending the citadel is rebuilt in orbit over earth. Everyone's cherry picking things from the teaser. - One can also assume 600 years later the New Threat comes along and wrecks perfect control Reaper Shepard Jesus/The citadel and Liara is trying to find a way to contact "the shepard" and any new mass effect relays in concept art are just new ones and not replacements.

[@andresouza7759]

I would like to see Shepard in the next mass efect

[@NotaVampyre111]

I am replaying the trilogy with the Legendary version and I'm loving it. Currently I'm in about the first third of ME2. I still have to recruit 3 more members before I start seriously following the story line. I'm really looking forward to ME4.

[@arx3516]

The first thing we need in ME4 is naval combat, the ability to use the Normandy (or its replacement) to fight other spaceships and fighters in space. Assassin's Creed Black Flag managed to give us both naval and on foot combat, so i don't see why ME4 couldn't do that. Maybe even have the ship being a destroyer or even a dreadnought rather than a frigate, and be capable to hold up to 3 fighters that the player and their teammates can use.

[@_Caedwyn]

in regards to vehicles i loved driving around and doing things with the NOMAD , project firewalker is also nice if its refined a bit more (the hovering vehicle). nomad was awesome i just wish i could have interior view as well but still it was great, i speacially loved the 4 wheel x 6wheel options

[@soulstalker4624]

I can actually confirm the whole complexity decision point. In ME1, I was going to go for a Femshep Liara romance, but before rescuing Liara, I chatted a lot with Kaidan without realizing I opened the romance with him. So I had to play the trilogy with that Romance because why not? Afterall L2 boi deserves sum

[@undyne1]

After Andromeda i'm honestly scared for Mass Effect 4.

[@waynejacobs5092]

Hopefully they keep the crafting component of andromeda as well. That stuff was DOPE!

[@janeshepard9549]

What the next Mass Effect really needs - 1. Consistent characters & squadmates who might rage quit or turn hostile & try kill you if you go way too much against their morality & worldviews based on well established faction relations, opportunities to harden them / unharden them to avoid above outcomes. 2. Evolving squad dynamics & relationships based on your actions, some squadmates might get it on or challenge each other to a duel. 3. Absolutely no SJW mary sue self-inserts. Make consistent characters dammit, you stuck-up diversity hires !! Nobody will hate your character if it's well written with both strengths & weaknesses + undergoes a coherent character arc. Mass Effect is everybody's power fantasy, so when you make an unstoppable self-insert character who is brash + condescending towards the player & other authority figures just to make a statement about real world issues - you're ruining an escapist fantasy & outing yourself coz players WILL react negatively to that - giving you the much needed publicity to label them as bigots & to reinforce your victimhood. Instead e.g write a close minded SJW character who faces oppression but takes the high road & uses their wits instead of their victim card to overcome challenges and grows to become more open minded as a result & accepts that not everyone is a bigot & some people might simply be disagreeing with them for their own reasons. Isn't that what 'diversity' & 'inclusivity' all about? Equity & Equality?

[@cristiancojocaru9821]

I think having some characters who are attracted to only one gender is still ok to have today, some are exclusively gay, others are super straight, others will bang anything. It is how people in real life are, not everyone is into everything.

[@ThatGuyKazz]

1. Write a focused story both in terms of building a consistent narrative and on the scope of that narrative. Andromeda struggled because it had no focus and the scope was not personal enough. It was jumping between building out posts, to general exploration and discovery, to fighting off space nazis, to uncovering secrets of an extinct civilization, to a murder mystery to uncover alterior motives of the initiative. It had it's fingers in too many pies. It also did a poor job of making you care about any of those because you don't see the personal effects of them. The only time it give you any real personal motivation is with Jaal and how the space nazis are turning his people into them. None of the other plotlines have much person significance to the characters. The one thing they absolutely need to avoid is trying to one up the reapers and try to make the threat bigger in the hopes that we'll care more. If you ask anyone what is more emotionally impactful between the reapers showing on on earth in the opening sequence of ME3 or Tali jumping off a cliff as the Quarian fleet is destroyed by the geth I guarantee you that 99% of people will pick the later because the story gave us a whole lot more reason to care about Tali than it did about the horde of no-name extras that get obliterated in the first hour. 2. As you said the open world elements need to go or at the very least need to be more like the hammerhead than the mako or the nomad. it just throws off the pacing way too much. 3. I'd personally like to see the "priority"/main storyline missions include more of your squad mates. It has always seemed a bit odd to me that you're assembling this large team of very competent individuals only to leave the majority on the ship to sit on their hands the whole time. Why do we have Liam on the pay role if he just lives on the ship? Not only that but only ever having 2 squad mates with you often means that for the majority of your play through you only have the 2 squad mates that have the best synergy with your build as Shepard/Ryder. If I am playing an adept I'm probably not bringing Liara, Jack, or Samara with me because I all ready got biotics covered and I need to bring someone that can deal with armor with me. This means that on any given playthrough there are going to be some characters that get almost zero screen time. So I'd like to see at the very least the main storyline missions set up more like the suicide mission in ME2 where you assign you squad members into different strike teams or specialist roles and designate leaders of the teams you're not leading. This make it seem more like everyone has a reason to be part of the crew.

[@alexbrookes6226]

Would love to be able to play as other races, see how characters react differently to you

[@Skarfar90]

1. A great story. Good doesn't qualify, it needs to strike gold. 2. Smooth animations, especially facial animations. Motion capture perhaps? 3. A really good character creator, maybe even with some body elements thrown in (physique: buff/lean, height and so on). 4. Children? Where are all the little ones at? 5. Picking an origin for your protagonist (human, asari, turian, quarian etc.) - This is a very requested feature, which can be inspired by Dragon Age Inquisition 6. Ties to the Trilogy, with a proper closure for Shepard and their crew. 7. Choices that DOES matter, and they need to have some impact on the story as a whole

[@dangreggs]

No jet packs for god sake. Keep the movement yes but the jet packing around just feels daft to me from a realism perspective

[@Jburneyjr]

Adding on to more characters to bang. Can they also give as much care to the sex scenes similar to Peebee and Cora levels. I mean romancing anyone else just seems to be tame in comparison.

[@blaize2638]

I don't necessarily want a bigger romance roster but I want more flushed out romances. Romances in mass effect boil down to like 4 conversations with a character throughout a game then a sex scene. I want the system to be even more in depth with more conversations, more cutscenes, side quests, ect. And breaking up with a character should have more of an affect than 1 conversation. Like if you broke up with a character you'd loose their loyalty cause emotionally they wouldn't be ready for whatever you gotta do. So they'd have a greater chance of dieing or something.

[@largegroupofmales]

My main gripe with Andromeda's combat wasn't the pacing but how weak the abilities felt compared to 3. 3 was ability spam power fantasy and I loved every second of it, but Andromeda took almost a destiny type philosophy to abilities giving you only a few with long cooldowns.

[@ARGHouse504]

Also ship piloting would be good with a build dedicated more towards piloting, limited to small arms to proficient at blowing shit up with huge ass hardpoints.

[@kirashepard5942]

I can't choose Destroy ending with EDI and the Geth alive...

[@MrHulthen]

I feel ya 😭

[@Charolette21]

Hense the reason I go destroy, least amount of causalities, technology isn’t trashed, and that cycle could continue.

[@BrahdaCodez]

Just give me the freedom to be a space ninja like kai leng or be a space cowboy. And have in cut scenes show whatever weapons we have equipped instead of substituting for the basic avenger assault rifle. Have the teammates bond while equipping them on missions. More customization options adding height or body figure and give us the freedom to equip or not equip helmet on special armor

[@michaeldiaz6006]

Low key wanna see Matriach Liara and Warlord Grunt in the future.

[@MikefromTexas1]

The one thing I hated about Andromedas combat was that you could only use 3 Powers at a time, unless you wanted to pause and reallocate them. In the Original Trilogy you could just use any Power you had whenever you wanted.

[@bloodwolf7765]

I think in regards to romance options, it would be nice if the next game offered more variety in the romance relationships, like still keep the current romance types, such as the bi, hetero and gay options but include relationships that dont result in a sexual relationship that you normally see in some of the current romance options. Like a romance option that would fall under the grey sexual banner that didn’t end up sexual but stayed in a more almost platonic fashion (I am unable to think of the correct word to describe what I’m trying to say, but I think some will understand what I am meaning).

[@paulogeracao683]

Agree with everything but the changing builds, i think the build should be a major choice. I don't like to be able to change builds to be optimized on every situation, the fact that some builds are better on some parts and harder on others makes you have to maximize the knowledge and skills of that build. That's only my opinion though :P

[@MrHulthen]

Eh, difference in opinion is what we need! Maybe we'll get both! :D

[@kilianlindlbauer8277]

I would like to see somewhat customizable player classes. As example, i have chosen the sentinel class, meaning i have a signature power (tech armor) and a base set of powers (warp and overload). Then i can chose 2 tech or biotic powers or a combination of the two (no signature powers like cloak, biotic charge or singularity). The sixth power can be chosen, meaning an adept can have overload against shields. The 7th and last power will be unlocked as the story progresses. That system enables custom classes without loosing the basic characteristics of each class

[@The482075]

I would like some non-crew-mates to romance in future games. There is an iffy power imbalance when you are in a relationship with subordinates. This is more of a moral grey area for me personally. It isn't morally wrong, it is just right on the line. Sure keep dating subordinates, however, have a few options that are not part of your crew. Maybe you go to a hub world and find a really amazing NPC. Maybe you hit it off with them. Something like that. At least one non-crew-mate love interest. The other 6-8 romance options could be crewmates, but just having one non-crew mate love interest would be grand for someone who wants the romance without the moral grey areas.

[@marcomongke3116]

Remember the default Shepard is a earthborn sole survivor. If anyone can survive the ME3 ending its Shepard. But that doesnt men i am hell bent on seeing him again. However i wouldnt mind hear from him or her and accepting the Destroy ending as the default one.

[@e.777.r2]

Maybe it will be about investigating who sent the arks to Andromeda. My question, what engine are they gonna use ? I hope its not the same as Andromeda..

[@MrHulthen]

Oh the Frostbite? Hopefully not lmao

[@SKB.16]

The most important point for me is : We Play as Shepard !

[@FeiXenogears]

1. No censorship 2. Great story 3. Make sure that no major face and body bugs/glitches appear at launch like with Mass Effect A 4. I'm a Christen Conservative and can confirm things are not like the 70s and early 2000s with most people are more relaxed with s-e-x scenes. 5. No current day politics and agendas, that divides people and would cause the game to have less sales. 6. If there is anyway to bring back Tali, Wrex, Shepard and even other squad members do it, but not in a stupid way. 7. Let people have many options for romance. 8. Great gameplay. 9. If Tali can not come back give is another great Quarian and give us a great Jack and Liara replacement for romance, unless Liara can be romanced. 10. Great script/banter for the characters and great chemistry like the first three games. MEA had a horrible script.

[@Kanerudo]

I really hope there will be a loophole so that EDI and the Geth are able to survive the perfect destroy ending

[@micheleosullivan4430]

Thanks for the great wishlist. Funny thing about Andromeda. I am 100% all about the story and characters. Since that was so poorly done in ME: A, I paid more attention to the combat and actually had fun. I realized how much more fluid and dynamic it was over the Trilogy. I agree, keep it!

[@MrHulthen]

Thank you for watching :D Yeah, the combat is absolutely a blast in Mass Effect Andromeda

[@dancasipit]

I want open world exploration like in Andromeda scanning things and discovering new alien lifeforms

[@epiccarrot88]

There is some aspects of Andromeda's combat system I'd rather see gone. Being able to use any power, aka removing classes, kinda kills replayability, and the kind of synergy you got with classes in the OT is much harder to find. Also, remove the extra movement options you have in Andromeda. It can really kill any sense of strategy and variation of the different enemy types. For example, why care about enemies designed to rush you down if you can just fly to a ledge where they can't get you? Finally, the level design needs to be like the OT to make the gameplay work. Large, open spaces are both too easy to cheese a lot of the time, and the OT's level design really helped with telling a story in the levels. That's my take on it at least. There is some lessons that can be learned from Andromeda's combat system, but imo it isn't nearly as good as the OT's. Andromeda has more instant gratification, but it comes at the cost of memorability. I can't think of anything in Andromeda that is nearly as memorable as a lot of the combat encounters in the OT.

[@barrybend7189]

Keep the movement system but instead refine combat to allow the movement options to make combat interesting.

[@epiccarrot88]

@@barrybend7189 That's kinda a huge task. Keeping the tactics of the OT with the new movement system, while also making the game accessible to all, could be challenging. If they can pull it off I'd be happy.

[@barrybend7189]

@@epiccarrot88 the simple fix would be allow the maps to facilitate it and give the enemies the same movement as priority. Basically the Halo 4 approach to Prometheans.

[@635574]

Not everything needs to be a copy. Imagine the specialized skills of me 3 were configurable to loadouts. Thats a decent in between. Im not a fan of having a dozen different 7 dot upgrades just to buff some overly specific thing like a weapon class. Why do games folllow this trend of just shoving as much upgrades into one points system with no regard of splitting powers, weapon buffs and defense progression into parallel trees? On that note the 2 mods and weapon mk progression was just simple and efficient enough to do its job and adoided tedious weapon progression in me 3. The weight limit is garbage tho. Wtf is the point.

[@nunya_bizniz]

@@635574 the weight limit was a tradeoff. When I run Vanguard I always go with cool down reduction and light weapons allow that. I almost never fire my weapon as a Vanguard. When I run soldier I use weapons obviously and not so many powers so heavy weapons are okay.

[@esscee2520]

A great story, great characters, more tie in to the trilogy and yes, I agree, the good romances. And you are right: I did love the fighting system in ME: Andrometa: would love to see that in ME4. I did enjoy zooming around in ME1 and MEA and just exploring in the Mako/Mako II so I am up for more of that.

[@someguy2347]

As long as it has Tali, I'll play this shit

[@st0ox]

If Shepard is dead in ME4 and they don't want to create a new character for the sequel they could still do a "Mass Effect: Archangel" or "Mass Effect: Vas Normandy". If they hadn't dropped the teaser already, I would have actually bet on an Archangel midquel with Garrus as protagonist set between ME1 and ME2 (post intro), because it would circumvent the "what do you consider as canon ME3 end" problem. You could easily add a pre ME1 Garrus prologue so that new people to the IP could learn to love Garrus in his pre renegade Archangel phase. However I am one of the few people that doesn't have a problem with the end of ME3 in general, except the revealed reaper motivation doesn't add up, but it could just have been an indoctrination attempt by the reapers and the real motivation by the reapers is far more sinister than ME3 wanted us to believe (I am ignoring the slide show they added later. because I am ignorant), but in contrast to some of the indoctrination theories out there I believe that Shepard really destroyed the repears in the end, if he chooses the destruction ending and in all other cases the cycle just continues. I think the real motivation by the reapers was hinted by Drew Karpyshyn in some of his work and is best summed up with the following quote by the Film annihilation "It's not like us... it's unlike us. I don't know what it wants, or if it wants". If I was one of the authors, I wouldn't have answered the question of motivation, because it destroys cosmic horror in its essence to create something truly alien. Of course the author should answer the question of motivation partially, otherwise it is a bit lazy, but he should only answer these questions, if he creates new questions at the same time. I would also have scrapped the leviathan. Because this degrades the reapers to something like the Geth with some Borg esthetic (because they are partially organic, but it doesn't change much regarding the creation myth).

[@CrimePaint]

4 games with no Geth romance. It's practically a crime. oh and Krogan too.

[@MrHulthen]

gibe dat robo D

[@Rencol666]

We are pround to announce that we are turning into activision bioware. Our new director said it will be most proffitable if we use combat and inventory management from ME1, romance sterility of ME2, linearness and endings like ME3 and animations and mission system like ME:A. We all happily agreed with our new director. Anyone who didn't was thrown into cubicle and... well there is a reason we are all standing at this meeting.

[@calvinebbert5575]

I wouldn’t mind if they salvaged Andromeda‘s map system to where when you exit out of the map when parking your ship somewhere you can see wherever you are outside the windows of the ship I think that was my favorite thing about the Andromeda game

[@Amy_T85]

I hated ME3's map system. Sure, it kept you on your toes but you literally couldn't do anything in any galaxy with Reapers coming after you after a couple of seconds. It was annoying.

[@raymondlee546]

I agree with most of your points except 1 - I would prefer distinct classes, like in ME 2-3. I really enjoyed the specialization of each character classes, and as a result, I wanted to play multiple playthrus (in addition to male/female, different romance options, etc.) to discover all the possibilities, such as shotgun infiltrator, CQC Sentinel, etc. And while I wouldn't mind some mentions/association with ME 1-3 (Shepherd, Liara, Grunt, etc.), don't mention Andromeda at all. Please let me pretend that Andromeda was just someone's nightmare and never happened. :-)

[@zairewilliams9564]

I guess I’m exploring they should add more flora and fauna add more life into those areas

[@phongvu-ju5rm]

No open world. Seriously bioware you suck at it. Linear levels/mission is the way to go.

[@brianloomis1206]

No paragon or renegade. Let me just say what I want. Human have more than one way of behaving given the situation.

[@John.S92]

ME andromeda wasn't "lazily" put together, but was done so over a time-span from "lets make a new game" to "gone golden" (industry term for "finished!"), ehum, a time-span of 18 months. Not even TWO years was afforded to the developers to not only think up a new story, design and implement thousands new designs and functions, but they was forced by EA directives to use DICE's in-house developed game engine 'frostbite', a game engine that they weren't familiar with or even used before, that is where a LOT of issues arose, that, and having to come up with a new triple-A game in less than 2 years. So hopefully BioWare was at least afforded more time on this next game, and they thankfully didn't have to use 'Frostbite' for this game, as EA eventually relented.

[@Shadowband72]

I did the ending where all the organics and synthetics joined into one group and Shepard lived , and that's just 1 of 3 possible endings . The next game might have a bit of trouble making all 3 endings work for the game starting , with such major differences in how the 3rd game could end .

[@v5k456jh3]

Can we PLEASE get more battles with our ship?? In the whole ME1 the Normandy fired once, in the whole of ME2 - twice, why? Can we at least get a few missions where our ship flat out destroys something in the orbit or eliminates a big target from orbit? Why is it so hard.

[@Amy_T85]

First thing first: Destroy ending MUST be canon & Shepard MUST be the playable character. And do NOT kill Shepard or anyone of the Squad off at the end. Give us a happy ending (Shepard becoming an Admiral of the Alliance Fleet & retaining control of the Normandy). As for a war? Maybe a war with the rachni (with peace being impossible if you killed the queen during ME2). I don't care as long as it's not lackluster like the Andromeda war against the Kett. Also ... don't blow up the Normandy again. My god.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

ME style explosive ammo, and power recharging (allows for tactical depth by adding resource management and by making power use more flexible) ME2 style sentinel tech armor More weird guns like they added with ME3, but make sure they are actually viable. Also make weird weapon mods and armor pieces to go along with them. The less normal the gear feels the more personality it brings to the table. This also allows for more niche build options.

[@Charolette21]

This sequel really shouldn’t be married to only one ending, give the others who chose the other options to keep their story going.