Video: Here's Our First Sneak Peek At The Next Mass Effect

This made my day. I even forgot about Cyberpunk for a good while. Nostalgia hits hard. I gave up on Bioware and ME after Andromeda, but this... Beyond overjoyed if they stay the course this trailer seems to imply.

I remember being excited for every Bioware game that used to come out. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Jade empire and of course KOTOR, they were my favourite Dev and now I just don’t care.

The fall they’ve taken has been so depressing to see and at this point I don’t trust them to produce anything of exceptional quality again.

I am a gigantic Mass Effect fan. I have played the original trilogy multiple times on multiple systems, to the point where I was almost an addict.

But even I am not sure if I want to see Liara back in this new game.

I am playing Andromeda right now (almost to the ending) & have been playing it for almost 120 hrs. It’s a good, but flawed game that gets a bad rap. It had so much potential.

And that is where I want to see Mass Effect go. With a new story & new characters. EA & BioWare just showing Liara has me worried that they are just going to go down some “copy the original trilogy” safe route because Andromeda did so poorly.

@KelticDevil
While I see your point, I think it wasn't just the bugs and glitches that were thrown at Andromeda as its flaws. To me, the biggest ones were forgettable cast (both Ryders and their companions), lame antagonists and a story which, paradoxically, was too similar to the original trilogy (the Remnant, the Kett etc). I say let's give Bioware the benefit of the doubt and see what they come up with. At this point, everyone knows this game is a make or break in terms of Mass Effect as a franchise.

@gollumb82

I agree about Andromeda. I like the game, but it’s not up to the original trilogy’s standards. I just think it had a lot of potential & it was nice to have new set of characters & aliens (even if they weren’t as interesting as the old characters).

I just don’t want them to bring all the old crew back in the new one & just make Mass Effect 4, basically. Hopefully, Andromeda didn’t scare them off of going down a different path.

@KelticDevil
I don't see how they could get away with that if you know what happened at the end. I guess they could have a few returning characters but as NPCs (like in ME3). I personally wouldn't mind it if Liara was the main protagonist in that game. Researching Reapers, rebuilding Thessia and the rest of the Galaxy (until a new threat comes along, of course ).

Between this and a new DA, it's an exciting thing to see. When I watched the June "E3" presentation from EA I was starting to get the feeling that EA had sort of "remembered" who they are and were trying to reposition themselves back into being the game studio they once were rather than the weird vending machine they'd become. I haven' seen an EA presentation in years that wasn't empty corporate speak to deliver the same looping vending machine year after year, but this year felt like a real games presentation from a company that actually cared. Seemed like an EA reboot of sorts was going on. But then they did the UFC ads thing and some other controversial "very EA" things and I thought the illusion died.

These two big games re-entering imply that maybe, just maybe, EA's coming back to the world. They used to make some fantastic games, but they really lost their way under Probst. Trip knew gaming. Maybe his influence is finally waxing again and Probst's waning. Neither left the board. It would be great to see...they're still sitting on a mountain of great IP they haven't used since the 90's.

Maybe Mirror's Edge isn't dead, either!

@themightyant @Olliemar28 I feel like EA, if they're really rebooting, is kind of entering the same place XBox was in the early post-Matrick, new Phil days. Or even what MS is still doing with Fable. They'd have to do things like announce stuff years ahead of time to point out they're not dead yet and get some semblance of eyes on them. At this point they must be well aware they've lost the core gamers almost completely. It's going to take years to build up any level of trust again to keep eyes on them for "big games" other than mass market filler.

@gollumb82

Well, they did bring Shepard back from the dead once.....😂. Only kidding. That would be ridiculous.

I did always like Liara as a character. She was my romantic interest in ME1 & my last interaction with her at the end of ME3 was sooooo good.

I’m not sure if she would be a good protagonist, though. Part of the fun with a ME game is “creating” & crafting a character to what skill set you want to play with. Liara is all about biotics. She had nothing tech-wise on the battlefield, if I remember correctly.

But I guess they could turn her into more of a combat biotic commando type. And she was great with tech outside of combat in the story stuff, obviously.

@KelticDevil
Liara was a biotic, but if I remember correctly in Andromeda you could switch between classes very easily in-game. Not that I liked this, it took away from the rpg and character building aspect. I guess we'll see, but the pieces are there to create something special in this universe again. Let's hope Bioware knows it's skating on really thin ice now and they have to give it their all.

@KelticDevil EA + Space opera = infinite retcon opportunities!

@gollumb82 I don't think Bioware could get it wrong, I mean look at Anthem!

I just finished Mass Effect: Andromeda & it really sucks that we won’t be getting any DLC or a sequel!

I don’t want to be a prick & say any spoilers......but it sucks I won’t get to go save the last remaining.......ugh!!!

Anyone who has played the game will know what I mean. Like I said, I won’t ruin it for people that haven’t played it, but c’mon!!!!!