User blog comment:Rusty650/About the Idea of "Mass Effect 4"/@comment-96.19.156.81-20131209221148

The idea of a prequel is just lazy, at least for a stand alone game (could work in DLC, perhaps in a similar fashion to Operation Anchorage from Fallout 3). Maybe it's just a bias I have against prequels- you already know where the story goes from there, even if that part of the story hadn't been 100% filled in, it's easier to make an educated guess as to the conclusion. Even if Shepard's specific arc has been tied up, I feel that the more interesting direction of the story lies in the events following the reaper invasion. Sure, they rebuild, but how? None of the races were responsible for the construction of the mass relays, how do they rebuild that network? Also, the matter of dark energy that was brought up in Mass Effect 2 relating to Haestrom's star destabilizing offers, I believe, an interesting area to expand upon.

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