Commander Shepherd survived and is sending off the next generation of explorers? I wonder which ending will end up being canon.

So, either they've cloned/frozen Shepard or the Control route is canon.

Stuff from the trailer:

Pause at 0:48 and you'll see dog tags that say 'Ryder' (protag's name?) and a picture of what appears to be a father and child (though it reminds me of the Illusive Man's silhouette).

Quote from: Byrne on November 07, 2015, 07:00:57 PM

So, either they've cloned/frozen Shepard or the Control route is canon.

Maybe it was a mission that was launched prior to the Reaper invasion, and the crew is stuck in the Andromeda galaxy following the invasion?

Who knows.

I hope not, because that idea is worse than the crapshoot that's arising from Shepard (possibly) being alive.

Not only do we have the problem of, the Reapers came from where they're firing the rocket, or they didn't know which way the Reapers were so the chances of it getting out of the galaxy are tiny anyway, but the Reapers systematically swept the galaxy and would've destroyed it on sight.
Nevermind the fact the galaxy wasn't a peaceful place prior to the invasion and the launch of such a thing would've been big news to people in the know about secret projects, Spectres, Cerberus, so we would've heard of it if this isn't a massive retcon.

I care too much for the series that ended with ME3...

I thought Shepard lived in the Destroy ending?

It doesn't have to mean he's alive. It's a recorded message. Intended to be played long after Shepard is gone. Who's to say he didn't record that message years before ME3?

Because that wouldn't make any fucking sense.

ME1, Shepard is small time. Little fish, big pond.

ME2, takes places at something like two years after the first. Shepard is clinically dead during that entire timespan.

ME3 takes place 6 months after ME2. And I doubt Shepard was busy casually recording messages for big ventures like that when the Reapers were going full steam towards the galaxy.

Hell, if they had the tech to jump galaxies at that point they probably would have had the tech to out muscle the reapers in a straight up fight.

The most logical timeframe it can take place in is after the Reaper Invasion. In regards to Shepard being alive?

Who the fuck knows. Blame Casey Hudson for boxing his fucking ass in with a bad ending and for EA not wanting the series to end.

Quote from: RadioactiveTurkey on November 07, 2015, 06:57:07 PM

I wonder which ending will end up being canon.

Does it matter?  The red one, I guess.

Everybody knows that red skittles are superior anyway.

At least Halo 4's lead writer is working there now. He'll sort ME out. He did it with Halo.

Spoiler

Then left and everything fell apart.

Hey bacon. Imagine it.

Brian Reed and Casey Hudson write a game together.

How much of an abomination would it be?

Hell, if they had the tech to jump galaxies at that point they probably would have had the tech to out muscle the reapers in a straight up fight.

Looks like they just found a badass mass relay to do it, not their own inventions.

Also

>Calling technology 'tech'

Well, this takes place "long after the original trilogy". So, really, they could be thousands and thousands of years into the future. With The Reapers gone and the galaxy untied, imagine what was accomplished. Hmm, makes me wonder. Imagine if the Reapers never existed. Or Leviathans. All these countless species that were destroyed. The galaxy would be quite different.

Its dead lol

well, its been dead for a while

The leak LC is talking about: https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/32yzxf/last_month_i_took_a_random_survey_about_mass/

Also, that gives them a really convenient way to ignore the ending to ME3. Colony ships left before the invasion? No way to find out what happened. Effectively, nothing in ME3 should affect the story.

Well, besides news reports and so on....and any Geth, would be alive...or otherwise.

Quote from: Batch on November 07, 2015, 09:04:46 PM

Quote from: RadioactiveTurkey on November 07, 2015, 08:59:12 PM

Also, that gives them a really convenient way to ignore the ending to ME3. Colony ships left before the invasion? No way to find out what happened. Effectively, nothing in ME3 should affect the story.

Well, besides news reports and so on....and any Geth, would be alive...or otherwise.

They're millions of lightyears away in another galaxy, how are they going to be able to get news reports

Space news? I dunno I assume the net they have would be vast.