But why didn't they come back? Surely there would have been a message of "hey, don't worry, we've been fused into the Reapers through a magical green blast, it's totally safe to come back!"


Hmmm. On second thought...

Don't know. Claiming it's being done because of the reapers is a bit doubtful to me. Honestly, the more we learn, the more it seems like this mission is about good old fashion colonization.

Like, why did people take a multi-year voyage to a place they didn't even have a map for and the rate of death was vast to nearly guaranteed? Or why are people right now obsessing with going to another planet and turning it into another earth when earth is still here, and still habitable?

Point is, it's a new place, with new and unclaimed patches of space, just ripe for being claimed in a new power struggle with the old powers of the old galaxy. Personally, I'd probably have rather they focused on colonizing the 99% of the milky way that's gone uncharted, according to the lore of all 3 games, but hey? I guess that didn't focus test well or something. Who knows?

All I'm saying is, that while it might be a safe bet to go for the dumb option of being some sort of Noah's Arc scenario, I wouldn't rule out there being other motivations behind it besides complete and utter necessity.

I'm of the opinion that the lore of mass effect ceased to be relevant with the second game, and died entirely with the third game. I'm willing to forgive any asspull they do, any retarded non-science idea they throw out there, and pretty much let any retcon they preform slide, if it means getting a good game out of it.

That means a game with a good story, good game-play, and an enjoyable amount of replay ability and a universe you can get immersed into. Take the eviscerated components of what's left of mass effect post ghost-kid, harvest what's useful, and create something new to carry on the franchise is the route I want them to go with.

Trying to justify everything in the MU, especially those endings, is just going to lead to a lot of head aches for people. Like with Metal Gear for example, and them going full blown magic and then trying to walk it back with techno-babble. This game might as well just be a reboot of the series, and that what I'm looking at it as/hoping it is. A chance to establish a new lore, new rules, and get a good game out of the gate without a billion explinations trying to drag it back to the god-kid and RBG ending.

A sequel wouldn't be a problem post-ME3 if Bioware didn't needlessly cling to the Save Import system.

If you just went with canon Destroy, it wouldn't get rid of the derp of ME3, but at least you wouldn't need to escape the galaxy to have a sequel.

There's no money in it.

Awwwwwww

I've always found this sentiment baffling. Does the game you are playing acknowledge your choice? Does they story change or reflect what your character did? Did you get to experience a different part of the game (however briefly) because of said choice? Then why would you say how a future game uses (or ignores) that choice makes your choice not matter?

I'd say going to another galaxy centuries in the future does more to make people's choices not matter than saying "okay, we're not REALLY going to let the Galaxy be filled with green robo zombies or have the main character from the previous trilogy act as a god in future games."

Well think Alpha protocol instead if you want.