User blog comment:Masseffect7/Mass Effect 4 - No Connection to Shepard/@comment-1683278-20131020212310

This is honestly a great way for BioWare to redeem themselves. A story with almost no mention of Shepard or his story will clear out most of the hatred for the outcome of ME3. Depending on what BioWare does with the story, they will have to make the the story canonical with the original games, but they really don't have to get into much detail with the events of the trilogy. BioWare has a relatively clean slate to pretty much start an entire new universe of species, stories, and legacies to explore. Mass Effect is going to be way different from now on, but I think I'm okay with that.