User blog comment:N7EagleEye/New Mass Effect 4 Details/@comment-68.36.22.19-20130709034023

I'm really hoping that ME4 takes place during the Prothean cycle. You could be given a choice to play as a Prothean, an advanced member of one of the primitive races, or maybe even a member of one of the prominent races of the time. I'd love to see how Bioware would handle the Protheans and how different things would be, and considering how much would be "different" due to the end of ME3, I doubt the new game would be played in the future of the current ME1-3 universe/galaxy.