Hello people and welcome to one of my post again, todays topic has to do with speculation... again. Anyway todays topic will be about what role Shepard and Ryder will have in the next game, but first one thing: i will look on this topic the way that we don't play as Shepard or Ryder.

Ryders role: i personaly think that Ryder will play a role in the game definitely, not the biggest but big enough to be a squamate. Ryder will help Liara to maybe find Shepard and the Normandy Crew, at least that is the only way how i could see Ryder even coming in the game. I could also see that ryder saves Shepards live because we all know if the perfect destroy ending will be the 'real' ME3 ending then Shepard got his implants destoryed do to the catalyst. Ryder could with the help of Sam maybe save Shepard or repair his implants. I honestly wanna know, do we see the tempest Crew again?

Shepard: If BioWare takes the fan base route then we will play as Shepard definitely again, but if not how could they bring him in the game? Well i saw on this amino a post about that we could see Shepard in the same position as Anderson. I personaly would love that idea, the new character could bulid up a big bound with Shepard and a mentor relationship could be created. In that way the old and new fans get a refreshing new begining. Maybe we could some kind of loyalty missions for Shepard that way we could also see old faves again garrus, Tali etc. And so they could also give Shepard a happy ending with his/her love/r.

But what do you think? Do you want to play as Shepard, or do you say him/her in the background is enough?