User blog comment:Rusty650/About the Idea of "Mass Effect 4"/@comment-109.112.40.126-20130628083013

Shepard has already been both cloned and resurrected, so I don't think it would be difficult to bring him back in future games, but the question is: to do what? If reapers are really defeated, we will need another threat, possibly bigger to motivate us, but it needs to be invented from scratch... I don't see traces in the trilogy... Apart Leviathans, maybe. Or... The split galaxy seems a good starting point, but if this theory is based on deactivated mass relays, how the reapers got there?

Maybe the easiest path is to make a couple of "smaller" games to set a new background and menace to bring our loved Shep back to fight!

I truly hope so: I now feel no other game, present of future, will be of any interest after my days aboard SSV Normandy... Even a different ME game: it could be great and interesting (hopefully), yes, but for now I can't let my crew go, I want to go back to Normandy and be able to speak again with my old and dearest friends! Not to mention Legion, he's somewhere in the consensus...

On the other side, it is true that making us free to select the race would be a big cost for Bioware implementing all the dialogues voices and (possibly... hopefully!) variations.