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    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.
    Nov 20, 2012 6:55am PST
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    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. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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      Prequel....Not much to do in a galaxy after the badassery that was Shepard. : rtricoche
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        I feel the opposite. An exploration of a devastated galaxy that has had its equivalent of the interstate... : WadmaasiThis person is cool!
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          Prequel set 650 million years in the past with dino-shepard and t-rex wrex. : mroizo40
          • Yes. : WadmaasiThis person is cool!
          • hellz yeah http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t118/lex0r11/Mass%20Effect%20Motivationals/bAFMN.jpg : MmmmmooThis person is cool!
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        Wait I thought ME3 was suppose to be the end, done, period? That didnt last long. : f4lln
        • It's the end of the trilogy that focuses on Shepard. Of course they're going to make more games in the un... : SilverSnakeThis person is cool!
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        The complication is that there aren't really many big events involving humans before ME1, and the biggest... : briktal
        • A losing war can be fine if done right, see Halo Reach. : Evil Benius
        • The funny thing about Mass Effect planet scanning was you got to read all of these great little stories a... : spidlb
      • Humans are pretty new to the "galaxy," right? So, if they wanted you to be a human, they couldn't go too ... : sogelegos
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      hmm, I dont know, I mean a sequal where they are trying to repair the mass effect relays where you are a ... : FreshwaterAU
      • IAWTP. I want a sequel where we're trying to fix the damage of the shitty ending from the last game. : guido anchovyThis person is cool!
    • As hesitant as I am to try a new ME game (for a variety of reasons), I would love if they got back to the : drhazard
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      I hope they do sequel and expand on the world. They would have to choose one canon ending for ME3 in that... : Kub666
      • The one with the explosion : MamiyaOtaru
    • I hate prequels. I'd rather move forward, not backward, since the later games will (usually) have better... : Lucien Irenicus
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      I'd be interested in a sequel without the universe-in-peril plot. Maybe limit it to a small sector of th... : excite_mike
      • THIS!!! ... I'd love to see a sandbox game where I can just be a smuggler/bounty hunter/merc/assassin/... : hatelullThis person is cool!
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        Yeah I would really like to see something that was much smaller in scope. Something with a much more pers... : Creepin_Jeezus
        • From the moments I saw and read about the Wards, I wanted a noir style game based in them. : RaptorII
      • Yeah a story about rediscovering the other races would be really cool. Have Cerberus become the bad guy ... : melkoreThis person is cool!
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        You mean like what they tried to do with Dragon Age 2, just without the shitty execution? : BeadyThis person is cool!
        • Yes. : Wisp!
        • Pretty much : excite_mike
    • Same creative team, something different : RikiTiki2
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      No Casey Hudson : EricZBA
      • ^ Seconded : LoioshDwaggieThis person is cool!
      • I think it was already confirmed he's on the staff for this one. : nakor_
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        I loved ME1 & 2, but I think that they lost the plot big time with 3 and don't have confidence in their a... : shirif
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          I think that is more of the fact that Drew Karpyshyn wrote a majority of the first two games he didn't wo... : sasquatchxing
          • Good point. Definitely a name to remember, this Drew Karpyshyn. : shirif
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          Casey Hudson is responsible for the ending of ME3 : EricZBA
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            maybe, but he directed all three ME games. I don't particularly focus on the ending only, I found the who... : shirif
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              Drew wrote ME 1 Drew and Casey wrote ME 2 Casey wrote ME3 Drew was the influence for the best part (... : LoioshDwaggieThis person is cool!
              • Thanks for the informative post, : shirif
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            Mass Effect probably wouldn't have existed either without him. I believe he was the one who originally pu... : MmmmmooThis person is cool!
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              It was Drew. He also wrote a ton of the back story, both of the introduction novels, and lead ME1. http:... : LoioshDwaggieThis person is cool!
              • I know he was the lead writer but I was under the impression that it was Casey who convinced the Bioware ... : MmmmmooThis person is cool!
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      Sequel. Joker landed on the planet where the story for Dragon Age takes place. : burning eye
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        http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/323006409 : nodeThis person is cool!
        • These are kinda cool. : silentbobuk
    • I would like to experience a story that encapsulates the Mass Effect trilogy as both a prequel and a sequ... : Xanderoos
    • A new team? That rarely comes out well. : Curike
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      Where is C) New Franchise? : scatterblack
      • Bioware is working on a new IP. It is what the Bioware Edmonton is working on instead of Mass Effect. : spidlb
      • That's pretty much my thoughts. Really I hate endless sequels/prequels it just shows lack of imagination... : Victor Psycho
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      Sequel. I want to see a post-Reapers galaxy. : thetangentThis person is cool!
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        Ya, and maybe do that Dark Matter shit some justice this time. : nodeThis person is cool!
        • Yes, this! : thetangentThis person is cool!
    • I thought an "open world" type of story set in one of the space stations The Citadel or Omega would be f... : spidlb
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      Where is C, JADE EMPIRE 2. : abrasionThis person is cool!
      • I think that this game would almost possibly redeem BioWare in my eyes. Almost : shirif
    • Weak. : Sexpansion PackThis person is cool!
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      If they aren't certain where they want to take Mass Effect then they probably shouldn't be forcing a new ... : pyideThis person is cool!
      • This is the new Bioware.. Develop by public committee : Ellissd
      • this is just PR - let the fans think we care, right? : Kiyohime
      • Lol can't win. : Professer12
    • As long as they bring back Luke and Leia for it, I don't care. ;) : Lucien Irenicus
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      Sequel. Has to be. I hate anyone that votes prequel. : Sgt_BoomstickThis person is cool!
      • ^^ this :D : fw_rams
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      NO MORE PREQUELS! EVER! It should come after the trilogy but not a direct sequel in any way. : baron calamityThis person is cool!
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        Hey man, just because George bit your dick off when he promised great head doesn't mean other prequels ca... : silentbobuk
        • like temple of doom, and that other good prequel. : Turd FergusonThis person is cool!
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      more machine kid and dream sequences please : UnleashedThis person is cool!
      • also more shitty story that diverges greatly from the first two games : Psigun
    • First contact war surely : silentbobuk
    • If I say 'prequel', will it become a KotOR game instead? : AxeMan808This person is cool!
    • Sequel, but throw it 250 years later or something. : K1Bond007This person is cool!
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      Midquel, I want Mass Effect: C-Sec where you play a fresh C-Sec Officer immediately after the events of t... : Alastayr
      • If you could choose your own species beyond either human or turian, I'd be down for this. I guess C-Sec i... : ughhhhhhh
    • I want a prequel just about hetero-intergalactic species sex. Blue girls everywhere. : SnakeIRye
    • Ahaha, could they be any more gun shy? Lame. If they do something else in the universe, I'd want th... : brickmatt
    • Haha. They were all 'our artistic vision!' before and now they're just like uh well what do you guys want : Arceihn
    • Remake ME1 in Frostbite 2. : Cliffzorz
    • An idea I read from a shacker a while back: Play as a Quarian on pilgrimage : gimpness