User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Bioware HAS Written Themselves into a Corner/@comment-5287758-20121110094841

Nice blog. The totally casual but accurate way of depicting your thoughts was very enjoyable.

Personally I like the ME universe so much that if it were to be ended with the trilogy, i would suffer a huge blow to my heart. Problems, obstacles are always there like the ones you mentioned, but Bioware will definitely find a way. They should, they freaking should.

1) "Back to the Future--or the more future" sounds great in theory, but it has a high probability of changing the galaxy too much. The mass effect tech might have evolved to levels that would seem too unfamiliar to us, hence making us feel that its not Mass Effect we are experiencing. New races could come up, complicating matters further(not saying it wouldn't be appreciated), stars can go supernova, destroying entire systems, dark energy might ultimately start to exert itself(LOL), etc. There are more obstacles than I just mentioned. But with a little innovation and a level-headed approach, Bioware can sort 'em out.

2) Retconning, now that is a dirty stereotype. It would be devastating to Bioware and to the fans whose hopes of future ME content would be dashed. Our choices rendered irrelevant, it wouldn't feel like "our" galaxy, more like something out of a nightmare. We might as well bury ourselves and spare us the anguish. Not even as a last resort should Bioware even think about retconning.

3) A bad case of the sequelitis, meh, it wouldn't be particularly interesting when you already know how things are going to turn out, unless of course, they make FPSs or RTSsm which would be fun for a short time, but would lack the true charm of Mass Effect. If the Krogan Rebellions are portrayed in a game, there will be no humans in it, and I dont think Bioware will make such a move, keeping the interests of the fanbase in mind. Everything else, like the First Contact War, or the Skyllian Blitz, simply turns out the way we know them to be, hence rendering the game moot.

4) And now for completely something different, not too enthusiastic about that one. I just want ME to continue.