User blog comment:The Milkman/Alpha and Omega/@comment-4950455-20121130094447/@comment-4721065-20121130115829

People just tout the idea of the spiritual successor without beginning to consider the challenges associated with it. I'm sure that Bioware can easily make good characters and story in another sci-fi universe, but what really gets me is the lore. Mass Effect has managed to address numerous problems involved in making a realistic sci-fi (especially one with not-magic in it) in a very "hard-science" way. Pulling this off again without resorting to the same explanations as in ME is very, very hard. I don't see any way to do this right now.