User blog comment:Bronzey/Tying up the threads: possible storylines of Mass Effect 3/@comment-1919702-20100327135009

I think the obvious choices that will lead to a "good" or "excellent" ending will depend on which sides Shepard took during the previous games (ME 3 will probably have a basic number of allies if previous game data isn't used). For example saving the council means that the ship with the biggest gun survived and ensuring Tali isn't exiled means that you have gained a representative to the migrant fleet and should make gathering them as an asset easier.

I believe that the style of the game will be very similar to Dragon Age Origins given that with each army that you gain on your side will progress the game along. There will probably be missions were you have to save refugees fleeing the reapers or kill them encase they are indoctrinated. The first challenge would be convincing the council and other races that the enemy is the Reapers and not other organic species or Geth. I assume that the Reapers use the cycle of extinction to allow more primitive specious the chance to grow (if the Protheans hadn't tampered with the Keepers then humanity and Krogans etc would be dominate species) and then creating reapers so that the species knowledge and culture survived 'That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction." The game will most likely start another two years later due to the amount of distance that the Reapers need to travel unless their seen by an astronomer etc.

I will be very interested in seeing how the romantic options will effect the game supposedly there will be a confrontation between ME and ME2 romances, but i am more interested in how the characters have changed have changed through the romance (changes in appearance, behaviour etc)