The Next Mass Effect Game Teased, Liara Appears in Post-Trilogy Trailer with N7 Armour

I really hope BioWare knows what it's doing!

I had a split second of hype before realising "Oh yeah, it's being made by Bioware! One of the worst big developers working right now!"

Pass until reviews and sales.

I still need to finish ME3. It's hard to get excited for anything Bioware makes these days, though.

R.I.P. BioWare. You will be missed.

Yes give me a direct sequel to 3! Now I want them to take their sweet time and not release a buggy half broken mess like Andromeda or some other recent game 😌

I was getting choked up until I saw it was a sequel to the original games. Are we gonna retcon the endings now?? If they're gonna do that, they should remake the end of ME3 AGAIN for the upcoming Legendary Edition.

Love the original trilogy, but those characters and that story should just be left alone, IMHO. Andromeda had a great premise (the ark 400 years in the future and an entire galaxy away) but fumbled the execution...it's really sad and frustrating to see them just toss that whole thing to the side.

Shep or GTFO. I'm not interested in playing any other character.

I want to avoid this because modern Bioware but a return of some of my favourite characters in gaming and a gaming universe i love and it being a true sequel just can't help but get me excited. Please Bioware don't screw this up

I’d play as Liara tbh, she’s an absolute monster of a party member. Actually, playing as Shep’s old crew would make for a great game. Miss you Garrus.

Oh God. I love the original trilogy so much, Andromeda was lackluster, and now they're turning their sights back to the OT. I hope they know what they're doing and deliver. I was hoping they'd stay in Andromeda, so if they failed, at least it stayed in that galaxy.

Though I did get feels seeing Liara again.

What a Waste They Literally Have a Whole New Galaxy Full Of Potential And Instead Of Using It They Throw It Away To Return To a Place Thats Already Been Explored.

i'm not so sure bioware will still be around to complete this game.

@ShogunRok it doesn't. This needs 100% scepticism - until there is a quality product in my damn hands all excitement is reserved. No doubt the rabid corner of their fandom will hyperventilate themselves into hysteria and then throw a tantrum beyond all sense when it disappoints though.

I played Andromeda, I have learned my lesson.

I hope.

ME3's ending killed all my interest in the franchise. I'd be delighted if they retconned it.

The Mass Effect series is my all-time favorite games. I have played them so many times over I have lost count. I'm beyond excited for this even with the shaddow hanging over the franchise that was Andromeda.

So this looks like it takes place right after ME3. You see the destroyed mass relay and the citadel blown to pieces. So I guess there making the (DESTROY) red ending the cannon ending which is cool. It's the only ending that Sheppard physically lives so that makes sense in how they could continue his story line. Hopefully synthesis and control are just indoctrination choices and it's explained this way because that's then only way it would make sense.

Wonder who the big bad will be now? They could go with the easy choice and do the leviathans since the reapers are out of the picture. They could finally come out of hiding and attempt to enslave the galaxy again. Will they bring the reapers back? Could be millions of them in Dark Space still. I'm excited to see were this goes and how they bring the story forward Also really looking forward to Garrus recalibrating my entire armory again 😁

Considering that Liara has the potential to outlive everybody in Shepard’s crew (including Samara/Morinth given the age difference) it will be nice to see the series shift focus to her.

I do hope they do some kind of save state generator like with The Keep so that my Shepard’s romance with her remains intact. That being said, not even my favorite ME character can make me jump back in sight unseen. The series fell flat for me. And EAware is not Bioware of old. Still, convince me EAware.

Please let them be using the amazing talent of one of the original story writers Drew Karpshyn. He also wrote the Mass Effect novels the released before each game that joined them altogether.

Drew knows the mass effect universe and lore because he wrote it. This to me is what made the original Mass Effect trilogy great. Drew then left to write his star wars novels etc.

Awesome. I played all ME games and enjoyed all of them including 3 and Andromeda. The combat in Andromeda carried allmost the whole game for me, so if they keep the combat intact and improve on the story and quests it can only get better

WOW! Absolutely amazing news, I can not wait for this and love the direction they are going, Andromeda was garbage minus the combat and I'm glad it is continuing on from the Trilogy.
Liara is my bae

I really liked Liara in the first game, didn't like the way she fobbed off Shep in ME2 and went from shy archeologist to big bad Shadow broker. In ME3 she got dropped for the awesome Samantha Traynor. How'd you like them apples, T'soni?

@Areus In the original trilogy it is stated that the known races have only explored just 1% (!) of the Milky Way and didn't even activate nearly all of the Mass Relays. So, it's not fully explored in the slightest.

No offense, btw. I just think, there is enough potential for new stuff, even if they stay in the Milky Way.

@stinkyx
Hard agree. The biggest shame of Bioware is imo that they let ME:Andromeda go like a hot turd. Sure, the game had many technical problems as well as a bland story and characters, but the potential for something greater was there. If only they made DLC for the game, which could have corrected the course for the series.

I just don't know how to feel about this. Let's hope their solution to saving the franchise is not solely based on taking advantage of our nostalgia.

Hope ea don't take them out before they get the chance to make this. Please avoid live service, smaller contained single player rpg with genuine choices and replayability please. Liara was my femsheps squeeze throughout my me trilogy play and my fave character, strong choice to lead this trailer

At leat dragon age inquisition was amazing and still is.this mass effect.will see about that playa.word up son

@nessisonett Yeah, I remember being really disappointed when first playing ME and not being able to switch characters like in DA.

Eh, never played Anthem but I mean DAI was good, if a little tiresome. For me it goes DAO>ME Trilogy>DAI>Andromeda (so far... Haven't played much Andromeda).

Sweet Cant wait

@OMG_Waffles Hi there friend. I´m with you. Mass Effect is one of my MOST BELOVED gaming series and the fact they might come back to the milky way, it is actualy fantastic.
Really hope Bioware does not ruin this in the slightest.
And seing (possibly) Liara at the end......
Oh man, the feels hit harder than any Reaper death ray would.
Please Bioware, make us, the Mass Effect fans, happy and proud of the amazing franchise you´ve created.
Can´t wait to explore the galaxy with that soundtrack and another awesome crew of Krogan, Salarian, Turian, Asari, Quarian, Volus, Hanar, Geth, Drell and human members.
Cheers, stay safe and happy gaming to us all

If Ubisoft got Assassin Creed back in shape like they did. Bioware can get Mass Effect back to where it should be.

Glad they at least trying. They know the fans will come back if good.

If it's like Andromeda, then forget it.

Seems we could be alien.Even remaster makes me crazy but now this and Dragon Age

The Mass Effect Trilogy were my favorite games that gen, and I am glad they are returning to the crew's and (presumably) Shepard's story. They also seem to be committing to one of the Mass Effect 3 endings. Hopefully BioWare can turn things around with this and Dragon Age 4.

@RaZieLDaNtE

Right there with you! I have so many questions. Are they going with destroy ending? Is Sheppard's story going to continue? Will the game be centered around rebuilding the galaxy or will it somehow tie into Andromeda? Will Cerberus be involved. The list could go on and on hahah

There still so much left to explore in the milky way galaxy. I believe one of the codex in the game states that less than 1% of the entire galaxy was explored. So the sky is the limit new races threats. I'm supper excited!