You will get to play as harbinger?

I don't care anymore, Eaware.

Do they mean that it will be an action-RPG like the first? Or a full shooter?

BioWare - I'm sorry - but Mass Effect has totally lost its flair.

You released a superb first game - you built an interesting world and outstanding characters.

Arguably - some people would say that the second game was even better.

But then something happened...and I'm not talking about Mass Effect 3 even.

EA - as bureaucratic as they are - thought: "Hey! Mass Effect could bring us so much more money and we can promise our shareholders so much more income!"

So what happened? Something that happens far to often in this industry:

The franchise got neglected in favor of making the game more appealing for a wider audience.

This may work with a franchise such as Uncharted or Halo - but Mass Effect has always been its own beast - and that is largely due to the fact that it has always been a single player experience.

One that doesn't end with the first game - but that continues with the second and third game.

So: DLC was developed, multiplayer was introduced, the second and third game were put on PS3 - completely ignoring the first game - and even an "Action" mode was introduced in Mass Effect 3 - which pretty much takes away the entire immersive experience from the game.

I don't have to mention the ending.

Then EA released Origin, Game 1+2 were on Steam, Game 3 was not...

BioWare pretty much seized their communication with their fans on their "social" network.

BioWare used to be famous for the relationship they had with their player base. And instead of coming forward and talking with the players - we got nothing but EA damage control.

BioWare argues that they don't visit the forums because of all the hate. Well - you don't ignore your girlfriend just because she's mad at you.

So yea - lots has happened with Mass Effect and I'm not interested any longer.

i think they mean with characters and planets garrus will be miss

What is with all the Mass Effect hate? The trilogy was amazing and I would love for the Mass Effect Universe to continue. Sure, I don't want any returning characters, but a whole new story and enemy would be great. Bioware is great and even though a lot of people hate EA, Bioware still delivers great games.

Will it be an RPG again ?

I'm probably going to be downvoted into the deepest part of Hell, but I would like a co-op campaign. Not exactly sure how it would work, but I really enjoyed playing and freaking shit in Dead Space 3 with my best friend.

As for it being an FPS... no. We have enough of those already. The Mass Effect franchise is already on shaky ground, and making it a FPS would surely be the last nail in the coffin for it.

Mass Effect FOUR will be new, there's nothing like this FOURTH instalment of this series...

If it is First Person, then it's only gonna work if it's co-op. I'd actually love a game that has a co-op campaign with dialogue choices. In fact Mass Effect and other games alike are the sort of games that i like watching other people playing, because it's entertaining to see what choices they make.

A part of me thinks that Bioware will go out of their way to win back all of the disappointed people...

...but then I remember that they are now part of EA.

Here's to hoping for the best because I think Mass Effect 2 is one of the greatest games ever.

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Half of the game will be downloadable content first day of release.

I guess Ea isn't happy with sales then. Games like these anyway can only expect less sales than something more accessible like cod yet devs continue to be lured in by this temptation Can't blame them but this need to make more sales on franchises is most of the time at the expense of what fans love in the first place. Some franchises just wont be appreciated by the same larger audience and this middle ground is usually for nothing

Honestly, I don't know what to think about BioWare anymore. I want to trust in them, because I really really want to play GOOD Bioware games again, but at the same time I suspect there is a disconnect between what most gamers want and what they think we need.

Things I want: Epic Single Player Story, Great Characters, good customization, and a deep and exciting battle system.

What they think I need: Microtransactions, Forced Multiplayer, and shorter stories that require overpriced DLC to complete them.

While I can't speak for everyone, I suspect most gamers would be happier without spending more to keep getting less and less in each BioWare game that get released.

I'm tired of so many sequels. I want something new.

Bioware just lost their way after being sold to EA

I hope it's a all new story and characters. Shepards story is done with now. and i hope it isn't a prequel either.

lol new n fresh that would be funny if after they said all this the next game main player name well be commander pharperd and they need to save the world from big old robots who are still r alive but hate all life lol

Its quite likely I will play the new Mass Effect series but given the way they handled the ending of ME3 after years of hyping how our choices would lead to very different outcomes, I don't think I will invest myself heavily like before(playing multiple times to get my desired outcome for the first two games, playing them again on PC in prep for 3).

If the previews show a game that doesn't grab me like the first did(E3 2006 was awesome!) then I might even skip the series(maybe play it after the new series is concluded).

Bioware EA doesn't really look much like the Bioware who started ME in 2004/5.

The whole trilogy is great apart from the last 10 minutes. No doubt i am buying the next one.

Lets hope it has a good ending

a few things

1: let it be an entirley new era, maybe a hundred years into the future(allows time for society to rebuild all those planets as well as bringing back population back, time for a new baby boomer genration) maybe a few extra hundred years.

2: bring back rpg, be able to loot the armour off your dead foes and their weapons etc. also being a captain of a ship, thats essentially that can either be upgraded to for more storage more weapons, more speed, so that means space combat, allow yourself either to become a space pirate attacking and raiding merchant ships, or alliance cruisers. have an entire crew that levels up and can edit their equipment (what i mean by that is not only the ground crew that would proably company you, but the engineers,ship guards, etc. who incase the ship gets boarded they can attack the invaders) ship paint, and personal emblem.

3: better sidequests!!!! not quests where you overhear a converstation than go scan something in my experiance that was the worst thing besides the game ending, have decent sidequests. heck maybe add in guilds like bounty's (have your own bounty and can be attacked by bounty hunters) make at least all planets or most planets visitable where you can land your ship or shuttle (but not that car shuttle, give us a pelican or that thing from Avatar, at least a different dropship, i never really liked the hover car, it isn't that huge but i would like something a bit more as an assault craft.

4: ps. as a spinoff, i wouldnt mind seeing a rts, where all the races are at war with each other( factions,human,asari,turian,ar ia's gangs, geth/quarian, Cerberous, Reaper. a star wars battlefront game would also be pretty epic. would have preffered that instead of mass effect 3's horde mode.

Their highest rated, best remembered, socially loved franchise... and they have small team working on it for the past 2- 3 years?

Absolute garbage company along side all the heads that made Andromeda.

Maybe Saudi Arabia make something out of this.

overall if they could get CDPR and quadratic dream to help them make the game that would give me hope for the game

Still riding off the coat tails of the original staff from Bioware that have long since moved on.