Sat, Oct 20, 2012 | 20:54 BST
Mass Effect 4 star: ‘we don’t want Shepard 2′ – BioWare
Mass Effect 4 – or whatever the next Mass Effect will be called – will star a hero that is not just a re-hash of Commander Shepard, BioWare Montreal has revealed to VG247. Find out the studio’s philosophy to crafting the next star of the franchise below.
Speaking with VG247 at a recent EA showcase, BioWare Montreal producer Fabrice Condominas agreed that the studio has never shied away from the fact that Mass Effect will continue after the current trilogy, but with a new hero.
We asked him what the studio’s approach to whatever comes next in the galaxy-hopping franchise will involve, to which Condominas replied, “There is one thing we are absolutely sure of – there will be no more Shepard, and the trilogy is over.”
“This is really our starting point. Now the Mass Effect universe is vast, and very, very rich. So at this point in time, we don’t even know what kind of time frame we’re going to be in. All we’re doing is more gathering ideas from the teams, gathering feedback to see several things.”
“So first, we don’t want to make ‘Shepard 2′, or Mass Effect 4 with like, ‘oh there’s no more Shepard but you’re a soldier in the universe’. So this will be a very, very different context for sure, and nothing has been decided on the rest.”
Who do you think is big enough to step into Shepard’s space suit? Maybe you’d like a brand new character who hasn’t been seen before? Let us know what you think below.
Meanwhile, BioWare’s next expansion for Mass Effect 3, the Omega expansion, has been priced and dated by the studio. get all the details here:
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Posted in: EA, RPG, Shooter
Tags: mass effect 3, Mass Effect 4
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#51
overlord2486
10/04/13, 6:42 am
I like to see continued what happen next when Galatia is change!!! There no need to bee a Shepard or play as shepard but in the game want to see old character no need to bee in the team to know how they been true with out Commander like joker,garrus, grunt or wrex or others.
Can chose a raise with want play and opportunity to play with old character or new want. Interesting story and different ending. May bee the story will bee different how players ending all mass effect serials most important in mass effect 3 ending will change different story in mass effect 4. I thing maybe if someone have romance in mass effect serial the can play ass Shepard son or daughter.
Pleases rite me comment what you thing about this thought!!!
#52
codyassq
14/04/13, 7:35 pm
this is just a suggestion..but i think it would be soo sweet if you could choose your race and background, like dragon age. to have multiple options for skills and fightig and dialogue responses. just to experience being a drell, quarian, salarian, ect. who agrees?
#53
NinjaHart
23/05/13, 7:01 am
Personaly I think it would be awesome to play as Tali in a journey on creating a new home for her race, after all they do live on their fleet.
But I do agree with what @52 said, having the option to choose race. You did have background options in the trilogy tho.
But also having the race limit to what type of weaponary that race is specialized in, you will fight better with people who you make your friends. Having a lot of choiced of people you want to recriut to yout staff as in Star Ocean 1 and 2 or the Suikoden games.
Get special dialogue options and cut scenes for your own race. Which would make for great re-playability to experience different races, get the different cut-scenes and such.
But basically I think this is a genre that BioWare does better than anyone, so I trust them and hope that space traveling won’t seem so empty. Have some pirate attacking randome ships on the space map if they still keep it and stuff like that.
#54
Clupula
23/05/13, 7:06 am
@53 – But in some people’s games, she is dead, so to have a game starring her taking place in that time frame would ruin the continuity for some people. A game that takes place previous to ME1, though, that might work.
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