Harbinger: "Ah yes, 'Arks', supposed vessels ferrying feeble organics to another galaxy. I have dismissed that claim. Continue our processing of this cycle."

Catalyst: Milky Way galaxy only everyone. Andromeda's out of our jurisdiction

It would be too bureaucratic, and the claim that species are escaping the cycle would just get gummed up in the works. The reapers are very kafkaesque in my opinion.

Smile and wave boys, smile and wave

So basically treat the arks like Raiders of the Lost Ark did? Just don’t look at them?

Well he's right :P

"I think he would´ve liked you." -Garrus in either ME3 after his dad died or ME1 when asking him about his family, can´t remember which one right now

@@noireweiss762 In ME1, he says he wouldn't like Shepard because he is a C-sec man to the core and didn't like Specters. I don't recall that conversation in 3 but it is entirely possible I missed it.

@@Blasted2Oblivion ah that might be right, it´s been a hot minute since I´ve played the games so might´ve gotten something mixed up.

Theres no Shepard without Vakarian

Remember? Javik said their communication is “primitive”.

Don't judge him, maybe he was at the point of no return and couldn't hold it. He had to take an emergency call while fielding off a emergency.

Because everything about Andromeda is low quality. Why does the VI sound like a speak and spell?

Well, could it be because, he hasn't *calibrated* his communications array well enough?

This game is so bad.. I had to stop at 0:46 seconds and just face palm after hearing that audio

I see Harbinger is learning from the Turian.

@@KoKoYoung "They ARE our favorite thralls, you know~"

We know from the first game, That the reapers are pretty much blind to any groups that don’t rely on reaper tech. Like for instance the thorian. It lived in the time of the protheans and was virtually ignored by the reapers despite being hyper-intelligent. And Ilos survived because they were stricken from all records across the prothean empire. It seems All you need to do is step outside the reaper’s projected path and you are safe.

If I remember right the arks didn’t use an Eezo based FTL system . they developed a special kind of engine for long distances. And they only used gates to get to the edge of the galaxy.

"Not our galaxy to harvest, not our problem."

I think he meant he wouldn't like Spectres, but later Garrus said his father would like Shepard personally

@@federicoalfero9287 Yeah that's a good headcannon. Castis doesn't hold well with the concept of Spectres having almost unlimited freedom from redtape, but he respects sound judgement even if it veers off of the status quo.

Garrus does mention that his father believes him when he talks about the reapers. Garrus is dependable and trustworthy so im not surprised

Isn't the canon Shepard femshep?

@@ferrous719 in every cinematic shepherd is male

@@ferrous719 what no lmfao, what made you think that

@@ferrous719 @Troy Johnson The canon Shepard is the Shepard you play as. Male, female, paragon, renegade, spacer, earthborn, colonist... whatever. No matter who is the fandom favourite or who is more often seen in the trailers, anyone's Shepard is as much canon as the next one's^^

But its 100% missable and you can only unlock it by doing quite some work.

@@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506 Doesnt matter. It's literally a canon story point.

@@adamhradil7923 Achkshully

Imo the part about the benefactor and the Andromeda initiative was even more interesting than the main story.

@@lissleta I mean.... no. But thanks for offering a take on what the Spectrum thinks...

Wild Card Miranda already knew about the reapers though right? So what would that mean?

I think the prevailing fan theory is that the benefactor is the Illusive Man and that the female voice is Miranda speaking as his proxy

Probably before the illusive man ran off the deep end lol

@@sambishop9856 that would make sense. This entire thing was set up in ME1 before the IM became indoctrinated. He would want to get a fragment of Humanity out of the reapers reach.. and Cerberus does have vast resources

Here's a theory: What if the Illusive Man never really died in Mass Effect 3, but rather a clone of himself died in his place while he took off to Andromeda to revive Cerberus?

I actually kinda wanted that development to be in the actual game. Could you imagine the storyline if they left full of wonder and excitement about the possibility of being pioneers and they arrive to only find life basically identical to the one they left behind? Or adjusting to a 'council' - angara warfare vs something like the angara-kett war would be kinda interesting, especially since you'd be completely different from the other faction, and angara would learn about how diverse the council is. Would the player full back into the old 'council' ways, would the player want to be independent? The 'council' could even view the 'Pioneer's' as something like country bumpkins, the 'backwards' people or something of a technology that was, naive about intergalactic travel and trade and mannerisms.

Wow, that's a great thought.

The canon version for Andromeda was that Shepard failed and harvest went on. Last message that Ark got from Milky way was that prerecorded message of Liara from black box.

@@DunkaDunka330 Well that is just depressing.

@@DunkaDunka330 That message wasn't from the black box she was actually sending a message to Alec Ryder.

The exact same thing that happens to the milkyway

@@notacockgobbler2054 But what if that's why the Jardaan went extinct? The Reaper's discovered Andromeda and tried doing just that, so the Jardaan made the scourge SPECIFICALLY to kill all the Reapers and prevent the harvest?

@@1fishmob but the Scourge only reacts to Jaardan tech.

@@kanewilson8624 But it stills harms normal technology as well. They could just control it and cover the reapers in it.

@@1fishmob The Jardaan are not extinct. They left the Heleus Cluster hoping one day they could return.

exactly, i did as much as possible the first time playing spare for a quest or two that bugged out and finding all the little secrets and mysteries just really made me want at least a dlc for the game

Am I the only one that notices that the Kett and collectors are kind of similar ( I don't mean In Design but just what they do and kind of there roles )

Honestly it would have made more sense if the reapers and collectors were in the Andromeda system considering that its one of the closest major galaxies and that it had advanced life enough to where they could make a whole ass planet but no we got the anglers and the cats and the remains of what could've been a good continuation of the trilogy

Thats putting it mildly haha

Damn right, you can even count the wood grain on his cheeks.

@@agama5538 a good mahogany, shame there’s no personality

@@samuelfawell9159 yeah, a shame indeed

wtfdym?

@@orbaitv5991 like make the reaper attack last second before comms go out

Ego and crunch. Those are the main reasons for so many games ending up like Andromeda did.

The game is really weird... Im playing it right now. Its never horrible but its always "on the way to be fun" but never gets there. I believe if it spend a year more in development it could have been as loved as the original trilogy.

@@AirWolf2301 if I remember correctly it went thru a couple revisions... Originally it was supposed to be structured more like DA: Inquisition, but then it had at least one full rewrite. I remember them talking about how they were using the whole inquisitor system as a testbed for how to do what became Andromeda.

@@AirWolf2301 Ikr, finished playing yesterday and while it was not a bad experience, definitely lacked a lot of "soul". Seems more like a shell of what could be a really good game and just became another generic open world.

Internal politics was the thing that mostly ruined the game. At it's core it's badly written and has a bad story arc and bad character development. Also, the other shenanigans the members of the team got into is hilarious if not cringe worthy. With one member of the team making it very public how he hated all white people

It’s the classic plot armor. In live combat your shields can tank a Claymore at point blank range, but in a cutscene, even the lowest leveled garbage Predator pistol will one-shot anything

Alec's helm didn't break though it was his kid's. Maybe they weren't biotic?

@@AngraMainiiu whooops, thanksnfor the correction. The suit generates its own mass affect field. They would certain have advance materials that would be able to with stand crazy amounts of force.

The first fall was quite the hit on it Id say. Weakening it to break completly for the next heavy hit.

A kinetic barrier can only absorb so much impact before it loses power. It’s entirely possible that the sheer power of the blunt trauma drained the kinetic barrier and broke the helmet but, then another question raises, one that irritates me to this day. Ryder repaired his/her helmet immediately after landing from that nasty fall in the beginning of the game. If you try to tell me that it wasn’t possible with the way that Mass Effect technology has control over matter, I will argue it until I die.

I'm Commander Shephard and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.

@@robertoneal8137 underrated comment😭

Hm...but if it was TIM, would have been way more human centric? Plus he wasn't aware of the reaper menace before Shepard brought it up I think. So the "years ago you talked about something similar" bit doesn't add up

@@helianthe3457 they've been experimenting on husks since ME1. Also, IM's motto is to advance humanity's progress, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't work with aliens, that can be seen on ME2.

@@Nosttromo Haven't they started experimenting *after* eden prime? And what I mean by that is that he would probably not promote other races on the project, but maybe humans couldn't do it alone, idk.

saaaaame

Its mass effect give it a chance

The main story with the Kett and Remnant and Angara is boring, but the Nexus politics is great, the sidequests don't feel like barren wastelands like ME1 or arcade shooting galleries like 2 and 3. Customization of every kind is the best in the series. Nomad's leagues ahead of the Mako and Firewalker. Overall, it feels more like ME1 than 2 and 3 ever did. Not that that makes it *better* than them. Being a glitchy mess doesn't make it entirely worthless. And Sarah Ryder's voice is so much better than Scott's. It's definitely worth playing.

there isnt proof of that lmao

if that was true why would he send non human species

Yeah I don’t think it’s him. He’d only want to save humans and the resources needed for this would’ve made bringing Shepard back impossible.

IT would be really cool if some part of Cerberus made it to Andromeda and they become the main baddies.

Apparently DLC that was never released was supposed to feature Drell and Quarians.

Hang on i thought Garrus face marks were meant to represent a clan or something like that not his father's. the marks are more personal taste.

@@ifallintofantasy well from what I know they're meant to represent your place of birth, which was why they're multiple turrians of the same face marks

What I find weird is that he has the same VA as Garrus and they didn't even have him alter the voice at all.

@@DropoutJerome oh yeah that is kinda weird. I get that he's his father but he's also a lot older, thats weird that his voice didn't change

Honestly that could be the next plot for the next Mass Effect game if they were to bring Shepard back. Reapers could be in Andromeda post-3 and he actually has to fight them again since they've only solved Milky Way's reaper problem. Could have an SR-3 built for Galaxy travels instead.

Here's a scary thought. The extinction cycle is 50,000 years but the Reapers are NOT just chilling in Dark Space. They're out continuously harvesting other galaxies in a regular pattern. It just takes 50K years to complete the whole circuit.

@@trh3xa174 probably far fetched but in the trailer there was a salarian, it could be kallo or mordin if he didnt blow up so idk

This was when Bioware was planning DLC fot his game, but then it got turned into a whole new game.

@@spacewombat4569 yep, and if people keep giving them a pass and defending them it will keep happening

@@spacewombat4569 Imagine if we had learned that that Reapers weren't limited to the Milky Way galaxy.

Not impossible to believe. They have a entire phase of life where they shake their asses in dingy bars lookin to copulate. Prolly loads of alcohol too

Everything in this game is like that

Yeah heard something about one of the developer's wanting to eliminate the male gaze but really all the models look half assed in this

They all have the same face model. It bugged the crap out of me. Peebee was the only one that looked different. And her former partner. Maybe the Doc a bit? But jesus. Every single other Asari was the exact same face model. It just seemed silly as fuck after a while.

@@DarkheartedMKGames “the male gaze” lmao. BioWare has become a shell of what it used to be. What a waste.

I played it. and it sucks.

@@N7_C................. yeah, I'd rather play the entire trilogy 5 times in a row than finish andromeda...

best gameplay of any ME game. just worse writing

Andromeda was my first Mass Effect game I played. I thought the writing and story was good. Gameplay was fun enough to draw me back in but I cannot forgive the awful AWFUL facial animations when it came to extreme emotions. Even after all the patches and fixes their facial animations were just bland and dry. Recently played the ME trilogy for the first time and seeing ME1 have better facial animations blew my mind. That was a major ball drop there. But I will say... at least Andromeda actually showed nudity in their sex scenes 😏

@@N7_C................. It's pretty good actually. Genuinely better than ME1, but ME2 and ME3 are the best.

Nah, I prefer they pretend Andromeda wasn't a thing. I'm playing it right now and the story is just so generic and boring. And all the new aliens just look... bad.

we have no idea what ME4(the real one) is going to be truly about yet but I have this theory they are going to pretend that Andromeda is not a thing. After all it wasn't made by the original team who are seemingly back on task for the next one. Or they could have simply not cared about it enough to put it into the Legendary.

Ryder Sr. and Shephard couldn't know each other really. Ryder Sr. and Anderson might have known each other but Shepard is probably only about 5 years older at most than the protaganist of Andromeda.

In truth, it's not a bad game, it's just not as good as the trilogy in some of the important ways it could've been. But yeah, it's definitely not a game i'd say is bad.

@@LandofBrickForests pretty unfair to compare andromeda to 3 games. That’s like comparing Halo reach to the first 3 Halo games.

@@johndang897In a way it is. But hey, i still like andromeda for what it is and i still go back to play through it again. 😊👍

As an rpg it's very lacking you don't have to compare it to the trilogy

@@johndang897 and yet halo reach had a dam good story and was still superior based in the year it came out Mea comes out what 2019 and that's all they could do compared to the 1st game that came out in 2007?

To be fair everyone they would've known would be long dead by now, so the disconnect is already there

How? You don't have a single reason to think that other than the fact that it's popular to do so. The news was "alleged" from their perspective, remember? Also, the news regarding their mom was more pressing, while the Reapers were literally a galaxy away. Focusing on that is reasonable. Not that you'd know good writing from a hole in the ground.

@@optimaltt6070 who the hell cares where the reapers are?? he just found out everything he ever knew is GONE! this HAS to leave any kind of impact on ryder. btw i have played the game. and i hated it so badly due to the writing! could barely bring myself to finish it.

@@Cyro_2235 i mean if i was him i would care alot more about my mom as well lol. they are never going to see the milky way ever again and there is nothing he can do about that. so yeah its perfectly normal for him to be more worried and excited about a cure for his mom that he though was long gone. nothing bad about that.

Yeah I mean would you care about something going on 6 centuries ago in a different universe? If it wouldn’t effect me why would I even care the slightest. Plus this it literally the end of the game where you already dealt with terraforming and fighting off different aliens the whole time I’m sure Ryder has different priorities at this point

The Kett don't do the same thing as the Reapers. That's one of the most absurd criticisms of this game I've heard. And there are plenty of criticisms you can make, but that one makes no sense.

It’s been 600 years. And beyond Liara and Castis, we don’t know anyone who really knows about the Initiative, and Castis is long dead at this point. Liara’s put 600 years on, and that’s assuming nothing happened to her in that 600 year timespan. Also, 600 years might have seen QEC be phased out. While it’s top-of-the-line for the 2180s, in the Milky Way it’s now 2819.

@@swampfireian41 I mean it was a massive project. Billions, if not trillions of credits, resources, research, man power, investigation and asset procurement. At least all of the citadel governments were involved in one way or the other. The greater part of a million people were sent along, and there’s no telling how many people were involved in building and development. If anything the QEC communicators would’ve been displayed as museum pieces. I believe a goal of the project was to establish a connection like that between the Milky Way and Andromeda to share data and research, even if travel wasn’t possible, but considering the canon afterwards of the ME trilogy, and that 600 years have passed, it wouldn’t even be completely unreasonable to assume that with the research of reaper technology and an increasingly advanced understanding of Mass Relays, that intergalactic travel wouldn’t be much easier.

@@Silentguy_ The Reapers don’t have means of intergalactic travel, though. They exclusively exist in the Milky Way. All they do is hibernate in dark space a few thousand light years beyond the edge of the galaxy, then utilize Mass Relays to travel across it. Given what is said about the Citadel relay, we can assume the Reapers themselves have a Mass Relay in dark space they are supposed to use to travel to the Citadel when it is activated by the keepers. Beyond that, Reaper tech wouldn’t advance intergalactic travel because they utilize the same things to travel across the galaxy as the species they’re harvesting. You might make advances in sublight and FTL technology, which MIGHT lead to an advance in intergalactic travel, but realistically all that would do is cut down on the travel time to Andromeda from 634 years by marginal amounts.

@@swampfireian41 I’m not saying that instantaneous travel should be expected, but relays had capabilities far beyond their conventional use. The alpha relay alone was theorized to be able to use hidden reserves to basically go anywhere in the galaxy. Post war civilization could build a absolutely massive relay that could propel hundreds if not thousands of light years into dark space, even farther than the citadel relay could, and then the remainder of the journey could be done at conventional FTL speeds.

@@Silentguy_ That's... not how relays work..... You need a second relay to connect with to move from one relay. You can't just slingshot yourself. The galaxy post-Reaper War, assuming you do the Destroy ending as canon, also doesn't know how to build relays, and their entire relay system was broken by the Crucible, meaning they need to repair them.

I thought that too Maybe Garrus shares the markings of his mother?

Its andromeda they completely butchered the alien designs

@@radecstark3191 they also excluded alot of aliens too like the Qaurians, "The Geth are a packaged deal with them" the Hanar, the Volus, the Drell, the Vorcha, the Batarians and the Elcor. Only ones featured in Andromeda: Turians, Salarions, Asari, Humans and Krogans. (And whatever Jaal was..) only 8 races counting the Kett!.."which are mutated versions of what jaal is" and the Remnant which was a knock-off of the Protheans *The trilogy had over 20 alien races!*

@@toaarky The Quarian arc was a future plot point.

@@shadenox8164 this game is so bad all it's planned DLC was cancelled along with the single player and multiplayer support for the game....

its literally the only kind of thing they could do. the only way to have all your choices in the trilogy still be cannon, have choices matter in this game all at ones is by a plot like this. people really ecpect magic and impossible things

Damn you’re dumb

@@theendofit Dragon Age does the save file import thing in 2 and Inquisition has the Keep system. And they have Mass Effect Archive now. They could have easily done that and have more involved references to the OG trilogy.

@@dillankempter5780 no they could not. we are talking 3 games in at this point with insanely different endings. yould pretty much have to make 1,000 of extra varations of many scenes just to cover the mass effect trilogys effects then add on the new games changes throughout the plot and you have millions. you fail to understand how the size of these things grows exponentially.

These little Easter eggs felt like a cheap attempt at fan service; like “hey look they’re mentioning your favourite characters”, rather than actually adding anything of value to Andromeda’s story itself

You mean like going litteraly just slightly different direction than from which the reapers were approaching?

i mean its not like the reapers are in every possible corner of darkspace. It wouldn't be outside the realm of reality to say they missed them. ALthough it was hinted that sovreign could've been active for hundreds of years setting up the initial invasion, so it would've been odd if he didn't hear about it through his indoctrinations.

@@Gingerninja800 sovereign might not have cared. What if a few 100 thousand organics leave, thats a few less he has to worry about.

Especially now, with the legendary Edition

An Indoctrinate person by the Harbinger for a Plan B.

I don't think they rushed the storyline though, I think the new writer ran out of ideas so he dragged out a ten minute story with a million tedious side quests. There's really no meat to the story.

We dont know how long does their trip from dark space to the Milkyway actually is. The Reapers are only focussed on the Milkyway, because of the harvest.

They never confirmed at all that Shepard is going to be the protagonist, and no one cares or wants to see any more of Andromeda. It's a much bigger risk to make a sequel of that.

@@RunicDragons I'd like to see Andromeda done well

@@RunicDragons I loved Andromeda, I was sad they dropped the Quarian DLC.

if Shepard coming back...or at least they're continuing off the story of ME3... then you can take ME:A like it's own standalone spin off (i mean that's what they're going with when they make it right?) lol

It’ll defo be in the Milky Way at least

I hope they use a different engine. The Frostbite engine is so bad for a Mass Effect game.

@@CabageBeans I can see that, but if they had actual time with it (which they didn't get while developing Andromeda) it could be a real beauty. And since they've now had time to work with and experiment with the engine they should have a way to make it work.

I feel like it wasn’t the best game to play like a 6-7 but it’s still a playable and interesting game to me. Everyone who bashed the story at least not the bugginess or character design(fair criticism) kinda doesn’t understand it’s the first part in what I assumed a trilogy. You can’t compare this game to ME2 or 3 where the stories already laid out you gotta compare it to the first ME and it’s infinitely better than that imo. Play the original ME1 again and you’ll see that story wasn’t the greatest beginning either

@@jaycehaste I play ME1 regularly, will be starting my second Legendary playthrough today after work and I could not disagree more lol. ME1 has aged gameplay mechanics but the writing for both the narrative and the characters is solid all the way through, can't say the same for Andromeda in any regard. A story being slower isn't a flaw, often times I like the slower stories more, but Andromeda comes off as trying too hard and missing the marks, it wants to be ME1 but stumbles.

@@clay1430 yeah the legendary where they fixed a lot of the small things. I’m talking original ME1. The things from what I remember are you got to like 4-5 planets you fight some Geth and thorian creepers, run into Cerberus a few times (side missions) all to have a non climactic ending where you fight some more geth and geth Saren to beat Sovereign. I replayed the Legendary as well a few times, and it’s still kinda boring to me. Lots of boring drive around planets in the Mako gameplay to me

Nah see the reapers were created by the leviathan race which you find out in the leviathan dlc for ME3. The leviathan race watched organics create synthetics and it always ended in war and mutual destruction. So the leviathans created a an AI tasked with coming up with a solution to stop the destruction. The solution was for them to kill off advanced civilizations before they could make self aware synthetic life. The big reapers like Harbinger are actually the leviathan race turned into reapers, as the AI decided to take the collective knowledge of the harvested races and store them in their own unique form of reapers. The real.issue with this is they couldve gotten really creative with how the reapers looked but instead just focused on current races like asari turian and humans, when they couldve done more with past races wiped out from the reapers

Given an new Mass Effect is coming set in the Milky Way, yes he did and it was the Destroy Ending. It will be probably never going to be answered what the team intended to be canon. The Static the Initative recieves could mean it was inteded that the Milky Way was purged, the new canon now could mean that something else has happend within these 600 years apart.

In Andromeda Canon shepherd lost and the last message received by the arks was liaras final message. In me4 Canon the destroy ending is Canon as you can see dead reapers in the trailer.

@@lykan2 Set in the Milky Way? Citation needed.

@@syveenwolf Nope, that's not at all necessarily the case. You can't just send a message to Andromeda. All we know is that the QECs connecting the Initiative to the Milky Way were destroyed in the war. Doesn't mean Shepard lost.

@@jameslanier2510 it took 600 years for the arcs to reach Andromeda meaning they were traveling at 4,167 times the speed of light. If mass effect technology can fling a ship that fast without breaking the universe then they could absolutely send a message to the arks. If liara knew about the arks and survived there's no way she wouldn't have sent more messages to them saying everythings ok now.

How does it retcon anything?

space is about a trillion times bigger then you think. even if there were billions of reapers there would be 10k lightyears between each lots of space to slip by

@@theendofit that and the fact that the trilogy tells you that the reapers go into hibernation in dark space in between extinction cycles so the reapers were almost all asleep while they were waiting for their agents to prepare for their arrival

@@MADMAN401 yah there are a lot of logical reasons why a small vessel like this could get by easily(yes this is insanely small in this scale) let alone reapers were progmend to only care about life in milkyway. at the time of thier making the idea of life leaving the milky way or geting to milky way was thought completely impossible even with thier crazy tech.

Yeah that would be so incredibly unlikely

Besides the fact there actually aren’t that many Reapers- there’s only a few thousand, all of varying ship classes- they were in hibernation until the very end of ME2, except for Harbinger, who was more like kn standby mode, most systems off but enough on to control the Collectors. The arks left before or during the events of ME2, so the entire Reaper armada was more or less shut down. They also appeared to all cluster together in one point of dark space, instead of fanning out across the galaxy. This is supported by the whole “Alpha Relay” situation, as well as the fact that in ME1 the entire Reaper armada was suppose to enter through the Citadel relay. (Which also should imply there’s a second relay out in dark space for the Reapers to use, which could be interesting.)

Why?

Me too. It was very flawed, but it had potential.

@@SidheKnight Miss the jetpack.

Because it takes place in the Mass Effect universe of course.

The Andromeda crew left the Milky Way during Mass Effect 2 so no it doesn't confirm if Shepard lives or dies.

because the publisher handed them a deadline that was impossible to meet the fact that we have a full 3-act story is impressive even if it is a very basic story

@Yaminabototal not only him. There’s more and we’re gonna get a sequel soon

@Yaminabototal stfu. It was a solid game.

@Yaminabototal no I enjoyed it to. It had a potential, but it was plagued by a lack of story or coherent plot until near the end of the actual design

yeah, me too. I liked the visuals, liked the new worlds (and they really looked different from the trilogy worlds!), liked the new race. The main character was incredibly weak, but the story line was pretty solid and the thing I like most about Bioware games, the companion interaction, was good, too.

The delusion is strong. Andromeda is a modern looking game. The monochrome does look weird though.

@@gradius12andromeda looks like vomit

I don't think we have a clear answer to this but because they were made by the Leviathans maybe they simply take action against species in the Milky Way because that's what they were created for.

@@SaberTI reapers were not created by leviathan. The leviathan created an ai, the Catalyst. Catalyst rebelled and killed most of the leviathans. Then Catalyst created the first reaper, Harbinger. There's more to it than that. I only gave the short version.

The Reapers don't think the way you and I think. They're just code that runs an anti-virus every 50k years, with the virus being the spacefaring/highly advanced life of that time, and their scope is the milky way due to the location of the citadel.

@@nunya_bizniz Still, the Catalyst was only thinking about the Milky Way too. Having been created by the Leviathans.

Shepard is all but guaranteed dead at the end of Mass Effect 3, although they can survive in one of the endings, it's not the ending 99% of players will experience. Whether you like it or not, Shepard's story is over, let them rest.

@@Schneeregen_ you must be new

@@hays0939 No, I'm not new, I first played the Mass Effect trilogy about 5-6 years ago. In almost every ending Shepard dies. In Control, their body is atomized and a Gestalt of their consciousness controls the Reapers, but it's implied that this Gestalt is changed by it's new perspective. In Synthesis, Shepards body is also atomized, but no Gestalt is made, and their body is used to create a fusion of synthetic and organic life. In Refusal, Shepard doesn't activate the Crucible, everyone dies, and the Reapers return to Dark Spave to await the next cycle. In Destroy, Shepard destroys the Reapers, and everything running Reaper Code, including their cybernetics, Shepard *can* survive this ending, but it requires at least 4000 Effective Military Strength, but due to the original Galactic Readiness mechanic, you effectively needed 8000, which was *nigh impossible.*

@@Schneeregen_ Yeah, this is something most people don't realise, I know the extended DLC fixed the war assets (because I get enough everytime, but others won't) but even when Shephard survives, they're not going to be game protagonist ready again. They could make Shephard a Hackett/Anderson like figure, or a side quest. So yes, they could play a part, just not as the main character (or squadmate). The only thing we can take from the trailer is that Liara is in it and is set in the future, and it looks like it's focused on the Destroy ending which I believe is considered canon by Bioware. I also hope the option to be alien in ME4 is there too, instead of a (insert new Shephard copy here).

@@mnArqal93 Being able to choose your own race would be extremely costly and time consuming for the production since this game is dialogue heavy and as such you have to voice every race type which also needs to cover the entire game.

Where'd you get that impression?

@@MeatloafSwooshbear I could've sworn I heard him say that somewhere in the first one? Sometime around either where you meet garrus, or one of the first conversations you can have with him on the Normandy. I could just be imagining things though

@@NovaxPrime his old boss, not his dad.