User blog comment:James12708/Possibility of a Mass Effect 4/@comment-96.255.156.45-20120716003955

Personally I believe that ME 4 should include Shepard (though, that just might mean I'm the kind of person who gets attached to characters), I would be okay ( I suppose) with someone else. I believe the ME4 plot should run along the lines of; risk of all out war between citadel races and terminus systems, while at the same time a reaper, unaffected by the crucible at the end of ME 3, due to it floating out in space, reactivates. After it finds out what happened, it starts to gather enemies that survived the conflict of the first 3 games (husks, geth, collectors, etc.) and also indoctrinates a colony of organics on some far off planet. While this is happening the main character, (whoever it may be), does several missions regarding the coming conflict, all the while discovering things that lead him/her something else is going on. eventually the character finds evidence showing what is happening, effectivly starting the game. The character then gathers companions, some old, some new, and sets off for the reapers base, discovering that the reaper and its minions are developing a device that will not only convert the other reapers back to the way they were before, but also create a new reaper, using a mixture of all the different species to create it. The character reports their findings to their superiors, but just as they seem to be willing to deal with it the war between the terminus systems and citidel races erupts, leaving the main character alone to launch an attack on the device itself, it is at the device that the player faces off against the reaper, destroying it after blowing up the device and sending the new reaper into deep space. After showing a shot of the player's ship leaving the area, narrowly escaping the blast, it shows a shot on a swamp-like planet where the new reaper landed, before it ominously powers up.