Mass Effect 5: Everything We Know So Far

[@Shelbzz]

I think they hinted to a more mature story line to further distance ME5 from DAV. This was brought up in an interview mainly about DAV.

[@ChrissieBear]

My ideal ME5 starts with Shepard reduced to nothing more than a torso and a head and being too injured to save with the current state of the galaxy, due to a lack of infrastructure and cities being destroyed. So they put Shepard in cryo until they can have a second lazarus project rebuild them. But due to politics and issues on whether or not it's moral to resurrect Shepard the project never happens, until centuries later when Liara funds it in secret and steals Shepard's body. Now centuries later space travel speeds are much faster, and even though it's been 3-4 centuries since ME3, people can now reach Andromeda not much later than the arks did. And the second act of the game involves leaving the Milky Way behind to reach Andromeda, build a relay there, and link the two galaxies. And choices you made in the MW in act 1 affect how the Milky Way changed in the intervening centuries, similar to what Exodus RPG plans to do with their time dilation space travel.

[@shawnjackson3764]

They could also go the "simulacrum" way of Titanfall/Apex Legends; where some people have their minds uploaded to a robot, like GitS.

[@elderdragonborn2200]

you know what? I like your story way more than what these current " writers "are going to write .... bioware is dead andrmeda was a corpse walking anthem was a soul departing the world DAV ...... Complete destruction

[@hannahtavana]

One thing has gone mostly unnoticed here is that veilguards’s mass effect armor is called “Shephard” directly hinting at who it belongs to, maybe not the original Shepard like some clone or cybernetic but Shepard nonetheless, as long as it’s an epic game I can wait for it, long awaited games like bg3 and cyberpunk have paid off, but then again veilguard also took a long time and we saw how that went, hopefully they’ve put some thoughts behind this project and will perform like a mass effect game should 🤞🏻

[@notbrett3643]

I kinda wanna see a reverse human story. Where humans are apart of the established galactic community and an upstart new species is trying to take away power from humans and etc. a nice contrast to see

[@gamesadergaming1321]

To me if BioWare doesn't give us more information on ME5 soon they are going to get stomped on by Archetype with Exodus. We are getting more and more information on Exodus every week.

[@martinbernath]

I dont think that Exodus is going to compete with Mass Effect. Exodus is pretty clearly made for Mass Effect fans, but it cant be too similar to the point it could replace Mass Effect, because it doesnt have the same lore, characters or worlds. What im trying to get at is that both games would probably share an audience, Mass Effect fans wont completely ditch the franchise for Exodus, and Exodus might attract more people to Mass Effect.

[@hannahtavana]

They would be different in sub genre, though if it’s not just cinematic trailers they might already be ahead, it’s better if they don’t come out in a short time, for sales at least

[@gamesadergaming1321]

@ I get what you're saying, but for me my excitement is dwindling as the months turn into years and we get no new information just tid bits & cryptic messages from BioWare while Archetype is showing more & more of Exodus's lore, races, time dilation & more, so my excitement is shifting more towards Exodus. I still want to play ME5 and when I see something truly "revealing" like gameplay or more info on the story and the protagonist, antagonist then my excitement will shift again. I hope both games do really well and have their own fans, and I hope the veilguard team don't interfere with the ME5 development.

[@hannahtavana]

@ me too, I hope their buildings are miles apart, I’m excited for Exodus even though I don’t know much about it but revealed lore feels well written and their designs and production quality feels decent, ME5 on the other hand I want it to come soon without much reveal probably because I don’t want to find something disappointing in it, however me3 didn’t have much reveal either, whatever happens I just hope for an epic game, nothing less than our highest expectations.

[@ivanhunter6492]

I want to see a Ryder again. Their story can't be over already

[@andrewellisonlee]

It was before the game was made, they are the worst made character in the series.

[@ivanhunter6492]

@@andrewellisonlee That's your opinion. I liked them

[@lifemattersnot]

​@@ivanhunter6492 they really should have done more with the siblings idea instead of just having it be for gender

[@martinbernath]

Ryder could make a decent protagonist. They are similar age at the end of andromeda as Shepard when the trilogy starts, so they have room to mature and grow. I think the main issue with Ryder is that they somehow dont evolve throughout the story. You can see that Shepard gets hardened by all the events throughout the trilogy, and Ryder has accomplished a lot as well, but it doesnt reflect on them. I would also rather get Ryder again than risk having someone new and even more uninspiring. Shepard is hard to top, maybe they shouldnt even try.

[@warriornorman4026]

I'm on board with bringing Shepherd back for at least one more at least to tie up some loose ends

[@CODENAMEVIDEOS]

4:04 is not a relay?

[@elnoralavelian9320]

Maybe the citadel is what it looks like to me

[@ChrissieBear]

Mike Gamble confirmed it's not.

[@galaksina]

Somehow notifications were turned off but here we are within 2 minutes of it being posted. At some point we all grow a mass effect or dragon age detector. I think veilguard having a lot of companion convos that weren't just us listening in was a lot of fun and the fact we got to interact with the world and them in smaller scenes added a lot onto it. ME3 had that a little bit and especially in the citadel DLC, but it would be fun to see that. Ofc I do hope to see my shepard again, be it in the shape of that stupid V.I that got created, someone who's inspired by their story or that but I don't think bringing them fully back is gonna be the right course of action - maybe they can hint at shepard surviving the relay exsplosion but the 3 games was about "the hero who became a legend". Shepard being around those supposed 600 years after (most) of who they loved being gone would kinda ruin that - they are better represented via the longlived companions like wrex, grunt etc.

[@bezirochepolska1295]

I want that protagonist of Mass Effect 5 to be Shepard's child with our romance during Mass Effect original trilogy or their descendant, if they need to make big time skip. Shepard frozen in some kind of criogenesis is also good idea.

[@kylosnow2146]

What I liked about DATV The state of the game. You could play it on the first day without a patch and with 60 FPS on console which is really unusual for an EA game. What I dislike about DATV The tone, for 1 moment it seems like for adults and the next it seems like it its made for 6 years old. Yeah I know that Bioware always had silly moments but in DATV it was just weird. Its the end of the world in Ferelden but hey lets go camping. What I want is to play as a badass, to be cruel or evil .... like let me roleplay because you know it is a RPG ...

[@e.m.345]

Hi, Jack! I know it would never happen, but I would love to see Mass Effect and Dragon Age in the Decima game engine. 🤯

[@lordofgingers]

I’ve recently been playing the KOTOR games and Jade Empire. Makes me realize the stark contrast in writing. And I realized the difference. They used to be willing to take risks. Risks in topics explored, risks in offending people, and so on. That’s what the sanitation is. And in so doing, they made a game where it’s like “yea I wanted to know where the story goes next and I did learn that” but beyond that…idk

[@Fantasygirl2001]

Uh Jackdaw I just looked at the picture it doesn't look anything like the Normandy it is shaped more like the tempest from Andromeda the Normandy is of sleeker design also the tempest is smaller than the Normandy the Normandy is large and can thus house a gun in it hull but the tempest is smaller and thus any attempt to arm it would mean the entire crew would be vaporized inside.

[@tmastroni]

I have no faith in the current BioWare to do justice to Mass Effect. At this stage, I would prefer they’d let the sleeping dog lie.

[@Peachy_crow]

Sadly, I honestly agree. Let mass effect end on a good note than a fizzle :/ but who knows, I guess the chance is above zero that a new mass effect could be done well

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

If the *Destroy Ending* is made canon then I have no reason to play ME5. I've never played the trilogy that way and ME5 would be an alternate universe with no ties to my Shepard.

[@Hothrus]

I will never understand why they seem so adverse in allowing the player to pick a different species to play as. I’m not even asking for anything crazy like Krogan. Maybe just add the option to be Asari or Turians. They showed they can do it with 3 and Andromeda’s Multiplayer modes. That would be a good way to get out of the Shepard comparisons that people did with Ryder in Andromeda. I know that’s never going to happen so I just hope that this new protag will have better dialogue than the cringe fest Ryder and Rook had.

[@Xenomorphine]

Not every Shepard had a relationship with Liara, man. Some of our Shepards didn't have any relationship, whatsoever, because the only characters they had plausible chemistry with were gender-locked away from them.

[@sonnenblumefrau2048]

My Shepard always romanced Garrus.

[@Xenomorphine]

@ Aside from it not making sense how human/turian body mechanics or even kissing would happen… 🙂 He honestly just came across as too emotionally hot-headed for my Shepard. She was a ruthlessly pragmatic military type and him getting hot for breaking rules annoyed her. Was a great friend, however.

[@ryanelliott71698]

I have 0 faith in a mass effect 5 after DA4

[@bluetwinkiesaregood]

It wasn’t a bad game. Good. But not as great as dragon age origins.

[@lordofgingers]

@@bluetwinkiesaregoodperhaps, but BioWare is known for something else historically. Play their older games and you will see. Those times are gone though. Studio should just rebrand under a different name at this point.

[@tyronnguyen5274]

@@bluetwinkiesaregoodthe game itself was catered to new players who never played a dragon age game and it completely neglected anyone who played the entire franchise I have no faith in BioWare as they can’t seem to understand what made them popular in the first place

[@CBonduMiel]

​​​yeah ea will close bioware anyway. Their last 3 games flopped and didn't made profit. Mass effect 5 is guaranteed to not interest most people and to flop even harder than da4. All because bioware are cattering to less than 10% of the general gaming audience. They did it to themselves. This content creator is just delusionnal about them still having a chance. They lost people's trust for good. Da4 was their last chance

[@Hothrus]

@@CBonduMiel I’m not totally sure they’ll close before then. Obviously Veilguard wasent received well by a majority of people but I think it probably sold well enough to delay the studio closure. It’s similar to Andromeda. Andromeda was received very poorly but it did sell relatively well. I think Veilguard’s sales were enough to convince them to wait until Mass Effect 5 is done but they will likely have a rough time with pre order sales since you’ll see more people waiting for reviews first. Personally, like a lot of people now, I have absolutely no faith in the next mass effect. Veilguard was an opportunity to show that they knew the mistakes Andromeda and Inquisition made (I like DAI but it did have issues) and fix them but they didn’t and actually exasperated some of them too.

[@emeraldsky2823]

I just wanna romance Garrus again

[@cyphi474]

Have we skipped ME4? Idk, but i wasnt informed about ME4. I thought we blew up gates ing RGB glory and story ended....

[@achilles9448]

There are two games that I was waiting for both games of the franchises or my top five free for games of all time now one of them was dragon age the Veilguard, no I was excited to play this game but when I did I was disappointed because it doesn't even feel like a dragon age game it's the worst game not only in the franchise but this past year, no we know that Bioware said that they're not going to even do any DLCs for the new dragon age game that the next focus is the next game I'm looking forward to play which is The next Mass effect game, I have no faith that they're going to make Mass effect a really good game, it's the same people that worked on the latest dragon age game, I thought of to myself whatever happened to bioware?? They made really good games in the past like the original trilogy of Mass effect and the original dragon age game origins who is a classic game but then I found out that Bioware doesn't have the same people All the people that made the old games that we love left... But we find out that some of the developers actually started their own company and I think one of them is called Archetype Entertainment, for which their game Exodus is coming out I think this year but if you watch the trailer and the gameplay of Exodus you get the Mass effect vibe it's a game that's going to give you choices companions romance options and it seems like a good story,

[@Endy467]

I hope that the writing is more on the "show" not "tell" side unlike Veilguard which felt a bit like it was written by Basil Exposition.

[@minashepard1255]

I would love to see Shepard and Ryder teaming up.

[@andrewellisonlee]

Ryder was boring, no thanks.

[@minashepard1255]

@@andrewellisonlee To each their own.

[@CastroJr92]

After how they Disney Pixar'd Dragon Age I have little to no faith left in BioWare.

[@sonnenblumefrau2048]

1. Dead bodies throughout Minrathous strung up and bodies in carts surrounded by flies. 2. Johanna Hezenkoss having her hand cut off to help the Venatori. 3. Blood flowing out of wrists in one of Neve's missions. 4. Dead bodies impaled or wrapped in blight at Archon's palace. 5. A Halla getting its bones crushed while screaming. 6. A dead Halla being consumed by a Darkspawn. 7. A whole town sacrificed all because the Mayor wanted gold. Sure it's "Disneyfied" and "Pixarfied", sure. Sarcasm.

[@maru-zee]

Hoping for a new protagonist. A big time skip to change tech and galactic politics is surely the best way forward. Also if they have to include andromeda I hope they introduce more interesting aliens/threats from there. The existing ones were pretty dull.

[@arkuspendragon]

I have only fear…Fear they will bury another IP I love like they did with dragon age

[@Fantasygirl2001]

The thought that crossed my mind 8s if they wanted to combine the mass effect trilogy and Andromeda the best way I could see that happening would be to have the character that we see a protagonist but maybe not the main one and have the antagonist be something we encountered in the Andromeda galaxy either the kett or the roakaar though the kett would be the better idea because that would be more upsetting to the citadel counsel because they are just now recovering from the life and death struggle against the reapers and now comes a race that wants to assimilated them turning all the races into the villain's race which would be upsetting for anyone and so the team from Andromeda and the protagonist from that trailer have to join forces with liara and a whole new team and fight and destroy that antagonist once and for all

[@ShadowStoryteller]

I would *love* a return to a *real* ME style story...but I'm not expecting them to give me hope.

[@deohere7647]

Please hire outside proven writers and plot out the future of the serires while you're at it. Alexis Kennedy is my choice, I'd love a return to the eldritch horror of ME 1. And please, please, please, don't cut queer and no binary stuff due to the backlash of 5. Taash was great. Harding was great. The party was great, even if their tone didn't always match events happening in veilguard. Also for the love of all the gods above and below please do a few script possess with a thesarus I'm begging you. Please. And please make each game self contained narratives like da 4 (or bg3 or 2077), its clear extended stories across multiple games do not work. That said there was a lot of fun combat in da4 (and Andromeda) it just lacked depth. We need more weapons, upgrades to move sets, and far more enemy variety. Go play Vanquish and give us something like that with a lot of choice and consequence mixed with Sci fi eldritch horror and star treck inspired politics. Do that and you'll have soemthing special.

[@anderporascu5026]

Andromeda and Veilguard were mirror versions of each other, neither had urgency, neither had real drama, both set aside petty dislikes in face of the greater threat and both acted like the threat was that common evil alchemist on crack and both suffered the tug of war effect in development or too many cooks in the kitchen. So my hope is that ME5 has it's crap together at this point. Old BioWare departed like The Clash clash after their first mall punk album, they couldn't stand working with the new team.

[@bareloto]

I appreciate so much your dedication and you have holded the caddle for dragon age for so long. But as long Bioware doesn't admit that Veilguard is borderline a failure - i trust them not and actually i don't care for them anymore (I am just very angry). I did NOT like veilguard and it was brain dead in so many moments that it feels loveless and it infuriates me (the good moments were too little and too weak). Bioware is dead - because they don't admit the failure, they can't be trusted. If they manage to pull a good mass effect 5 it should be from matty anything above 9 - enough with the excuses and whoever partici[pated in veilguard is a culprit to a crime.

[@megspradlin7345]

I can say I'm not looking forward to ME 5. After the crap show that was Veilguard - a game that is decent and has replay value but plays and sounds like a game that happened to be set in the DA Universe but with a ME soundtrack and failed to really establish itself as a Dragon Age game - I'm not sure we can afford to put any amount of trust in Bioware.

[@thekingofinfinity]

I hope Bioware gets shut down before they destroy the Mass Effect franchise like they destroyed Dragon Age with Failguard. Andromeda has done enough damage. Come on EA, do your thing!

[@utopiandystopia1383]

every day i pray for at least one modern rpg that doesnt have another dime a dozen chosen one saves the world plotline

[@aligaming7575]

[@brianwt1]

Honestly after what they did to Dragon age I have zero faith in BioWare to not screw it up unfortunately.

[@ChrissieBear]

The destroy ending is weak and lame.

[@tobygrimes9633]

I have one request for ME 5. Please let me throw Liara out the airlock! This is Mass Effect not The Liara Chronicles. I don't understand how I love Harding and loathe Liara at the same time.

[@daisythekat707]

The veil guard showed that BioWare is incapable of writing a decent story and characters, they’ll butcher ME, the franchise needs to be given to a different studio

[@lordofgingers]

Won’t happen. Licenses, rights, trademarks, and all that.

[@sonnenblumefrau2048]

Blame the fact that Veilguard went through development Hell, and Project Joplin was scrapped. I enjoy Veilguard despite its flaws like Taash, but the game REALLY would have been something if they went with Project Joplin.

[@daisythekat707]

@@sonnenblumefrau2048 so because it went thru development hell it’s not biowares fault? If you like the game that’s cool sure there’s plenty of games I like u probably don’t. But previous dragon age games sounds like we have something in common. Taash is but one problem with veil guard , the game imo is the worse DA game and possibly the worst written BioWare game

[@lovestospuge666]

I hated every single detail about Vail guard and all I really want from mass effect 4 is 1 last story about the shepherd So we can finally get closure on the ending of 3 And I won't give bioware any money for anything less.

[@Barotto87]

Pls dont be taash pls dont be taash...i mean trash.

[@ShadowProject01]

Gotta be honest Jackdaw. As much as I love both franchises, after Veilguard I am not too confident about the next ME game. BioWare told us a lot of things about Veilguard too that turned out to be not the case. My trust in their statements are at an all time low sadly. There is still a small part of me that is hoping they knock it out of the park, but again, my confident is real low going into this one. I really hope I am wrong.🫤 Please keeping doing what you do though and thanks for keeping us informed❤