User blog comment:James12708/Possibility of a Mass Effect 4/@comment-75.144.224.137-20121024194628

What I woud like to see for ME4 is a continuation of the story we have now. Not Shepard's story, but the over all arch. Put the story a century or two in the future where the races have managed to figure out how the relays worked and are beginning to stitch together old territories once again.

Regardless of which ending you picked (destruction of the reapers, control, or synthesis) you find that organics are increasing the number of synthetic enhancements within them. You still have your purist hold-outs and full fledged sythesis individuals making cases for both schools of thought.

The Reapers wouldn't even have to be around. If Shepard destroyed them, they're gone. If he controlled them, they were sent to the very edge of the galaxy to stand guard against other such threats.

Council space, the Terminus systes and the Attican Traverse are all rushing to retake and exapand on their old territories which leads to conflict. Another slowly scaling galactic war between these factions. And instead of just being a solider, running and gunning through the opposition, you could have diplomatic or espionage options in order to help your side win.

Imagine being able to sneak aboard enemy tranports and downloading their new relay stations and supply routes, then sabotagin them so that they're useless. Or bringing world leaders/governors/faction leaders on a planet together to broker peace in a way that helps to benefit everyone.

The main thing I'd like to see is the option to play any race, with the back story of the character being vague enough (sort of like Shepard's was in ME1) to allow for the character to be anything. I'm sure many people would still opt for human, but having the NPC's calling your character Commander, Advocate, Senator, Magister, Council Puppet, etc. would still allow them to adress you and keep the choices open for alien races.