Mass Effect producer asks: prequel or new sequel?

The Internet certainly wasn't quiet with its thoughts on Mass Effect 3, leading to BioWare taking the remarkable step of expanding its ending in free DLC. With the mysterious next game in the series, BioWare is asking fans for feedback early, currently curious about whether you fancy a sequel or prequel.

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The Internet certainly wasn't quiet with its thoughts on Mass Effect 3, leading to BioWare taking the remarkable step of expanding its ending in free DLC. With the mysterious next game in the series, BioWare is asking fans for feedback early, currently curious about whether you fancy a sequel or prequel.

"Parsing through your thoughts on the next #ME game. Would you be more interested in a game that takes place before the trilogy, or after?" series executive producer Casey Hudson said on Twitter. Go, spill your guts, whisper sweet nothings and furious rage or his Internet ear.

BioWare recently commented that the next game's star won't be just another space-soldier. BioWare Montreal will be heading the next game, taking the reins from the main studio in Edmonton studio which handled the original trilogy.

Of course, one cynical take on this question is that it's a big ploy to make fans feel they're involved in the process while BioWare will make whichever decision it jolly well pleases.

Mass Effect 3 isn't over and done with yet, mind. The sci-fi RPG has just hit Wii U, which we've reviewed, and Shepard's off to help Aria in the 'Omega' DLC later this month.

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    November 20, 2012 6:55 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Mass Effect producer asks: prequel or new sequel?.

    The Internet certainly wasn't quiet with its thoughts on Mass Effect 3, leading to BioWare taking the remarkable step of expanding its ending in free DLC. With the mysterious next game in the series, BioWare is asking fans for feedback early, currently curious about whether you fancy a sequel or prequel.

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      November 20, 2012 7:06 AM

      Prequel....Not much to do in a galaxy after the badassery that was Shepard.

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        November 20, 2012 7:41 AM

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        November 20, 2012 7:48 AM

        Wait I thought ME3 was suppose to be the end, done, period? That didnt last long.

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          November 20, 2012 8:27 AM

          It's the end of the trilogy that focuses on Shepard. Of course they're going to make more games in the universe.

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        November 20, 2012 7:53 AM

        The complication is that there aren't really many big events involving humans before ME1, and the biggest one is a one sided war they were on the losing end of.

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          November 20, 2012 12:17 PM

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          November 20, 2012 1:09 PM

          The funny thing about Mass Effect planet scanning was you got to read all of these great little stories about rebellions and events they never cover in the game. They could set up a story about one of those events that is big enough for a planet or a system of plants, but not necessarily Universe threatening.

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        November 21, 2012 12:15 AM

        Humans are pretty new to the "galaxy," right? So, if they wanted you to be a human, they couldn't go too far back. But, the future is wide open.

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      November 20, 2012 7:30 AM

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        November 20, 2012 7:55 AM

        IAWTP. I want a sequel where we're trying to fix the damage of the shitty ending from the last game.

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      November 20, 2012 7:41 AM

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      November 20, 2012 7:44 AM

      I hope they do sequel and expand on the world. They would have to choose one canon ending for ME3 in that case though.

      Prequel would be just more of the same. I already have 3 games about this cycle.

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      November 20, 2012 7:48 AM

      I hate prequels. I'd rather move forward, not backward, since the later games will (usually) have better art and effects and you can expand on the original ideas to give people new stuff with familiarity.

      Prequels always run into story problems.

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      November 20, 2012 7:49 AM

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        November 20, 2012 8:41 AM

        THIS!!! ...

        I'd love to see a sandbox game where I can just be a smuggler/bounty hunter/merc/assassin/space asshole and just take missions and interactions. Give me an overarching story plot, but don't make it End of the World the sky is falling SERIOUS aliens from another galaxy are showing up absolutely ahead of us in power and are ready to rule our pitiful assess. Something low key, like one particular contigent of pissed off people.

        So yeah, I guess I want FO:NV in SPPPPAAAAACCEE!!

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        November 20, 2012 8:45 AM

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          November 20, 2012 8:15 PM

          From the moments I saw and read about the Wards, I wanted a noir style game based in them.

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        November 20, 2012 10:45 AM

        Yeah a story about rediscovering the other races would be really cool. Have Cerberus become the bad guy trying to keep all borders closed and bing bang boom done.

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        November 20, 2012 1:43 PM

        You mean like what they tried to do with Dragon Age 2, just without the shitty execution?

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      November 20, 2012 7:56 AM

      Same creative team, something different

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      November 20, 2012 8:38 AM

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      November 20, 2012 9:20 AM

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      November 20, 2012 9:27 AM

      I would like to experience a story that encapsulates the Mass Effect trilogy as both a prequel and a sequel, and where your decisions from the trilogy carry over into a persistent post trilogy universe.

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      November 20, 2012 9:37 AM

      A new team? That rarely comes out well.

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      November 20, 2012 10:01 AM

      Where is C) New Franchise?

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        November 20, 2012 10:36 AM

        Bioware is working on a new IP. It is what the Bioware Edmonton is working on instead of Mass Effect.

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        November 24, 2012 3:48 PM

        That's pretty much my thoughts. Really I hate endless sequels/prequels it just shows lack of imagination and greed. Personally I've gone back to the 1990s games, graphic suck compared with what's currently out there but the games are actually fun and have depth not just an interactive movie.

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      November 20, 2012 10:07 AM

      Sequel. I want to see a post-Reapers galaxy.

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        November 20, 2012 10:43 AM

        Ya, and maybe do that Dark Matter shit some justice this time.

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      November 20, 2012 10:41 AM

      I thought an "open world" type of story set in one of the space stations The Citadel or Omega would be fun.

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      November 20, 2012 10:47 AM

      Where is C, JADE EMPIRE 2.

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      November 20, 2012 10:48 AM

      Weak.

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      November 20, 2012 10:51 AM

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      November 20, 2012 11:08 AM

      As long as they bring back Luke and Leia for it, I don't care. ;)

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      November 20, 2012 12:12 PM

      Sequel. Has to be. I hate anyone that votes prequel.

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      November 20, 2012 12:14 PM

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        November 20, 2012 1:35 PM

        Hey man, just because George bit your dick off when he promised great head doesn't mean other prequels can't give the best metaphorical blowjob of your life.

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      November 20, 2012 12:24 PM

      more machine kid and dream sequences please

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      November 20, 2012 1:33 PM

      First contact war surely

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      November 20, 2012 1:34 PM

      If I say 'prequel', will it become a KotOR game instead?

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      November 20, 2012 2:01 PM

      Sequel, but throw it 250 years later or something.

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      November 20, 2012 8:00 PM

      Midquel, I want Mass Effect: C-Sec where you play a fresh C-Sec Officer immediately after the events of the first game.

      Tasked with maintaining order on the Citadel after a devastating terror attack from an at that point unknown aggressor, helping with evacuation efforts and the purging of Geth remnant forces while Shepard is still under the rubble.

      Later on you get to investigate uprising smuggling cartels, have a run in or two with that awesome C-Sec dude from ME2, get to decide if you stay clean or become a dirty cop and stuff. Ever tightening security measures get implemented and you're rushed through the ranks as a parade boy, you get to manage your own district and eventually have to stop fanatics from blowing up your part of the Citadel.

      And all of that with the trademark BioWare cast of diverse, quirky characters. You play either a Human female or Turian male.

      I want this.

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        November 20, 2012 9:50 PM

        If you could choose your own species beyond either human or turian, I'd be down for this. I guess C-Sec inherently limits the species from Mass Effect you can use. Either this or what excite_mike mentioned (and with co-op FFS).

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      November 20, 2012 8:22 PM

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      November 20, 2012 9:41 PM

      Haha. They were all 'our artistic vision!' before and now they're just like uh well what do you guys want

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      November 20, 2012 10:29 PM

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      November 20, 2012 11:55 PM

      An idea I read from a shacker a while back: Play as a Quarian on pilgrimage

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