However, the blog post continues and says that BioWare has released two new short stories from the world of Dragon Age for fans to read in the meantime.
“We’re excited for next year when we can talk more about what we’re working on.”
It's possible that will change in the coming few months and years, and there's nothing stopping you from making your own theories about what the game will involve. We're just glad Bioware hasn't abandoned the Mass Effect franchise, and we're cautiously optimistic to see what it will come up with in the next few years.“Speaking of building new worlds and stories for you to explore, we want to let you all know that we’re still hard at work on building the next single-player focused experience for Dragon Age,” the blog post reads. While it's very exciting to see Bioware start up the hype machine, there's not a lot to really grab onto at the moment. The key thing to take away from the information so far is: be patient. Perhaps we'll see this game reimagined in the coming years so all games can be played at their best on the newest consoles. There's no mention of 2017's Mass Effect: Andromeda being part of this package, likely because it's a generation younger than the original trilogy. And it will offer some other unknown "targeted enhancements" to take advantage of their greater power too.
While the Legendary Edition won't be on sale specifically for the PS5 and Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, the game will be playable on these newer consoles.
The remaster is coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and will boast better "textures, shaders, models, effects and technical features" as well as 4K resolution, HDR and higher frame rates among its improvements. The Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is a remastered version of the original Mass Effect trilogy, along with all the DLC and other content bundled in. While you wait for the sequel to appear, you'll be able to play the original games in a new refreshed format next year. Mass Effect 5 - what to play while you wait Whatever direction Bioware takes Mass Effect 5, we're hoping it focuses on nailing the single-player experience rather than try and draw upon its multiplayer efforts. Some space combat would be great fun, as would the scope to play as other races or explore a story from different perspectives like Dragon Age Origins allowed players to do. That's not to say there's no room for exploration and building upon the Mass Effect trilogy foundations. So we're hoping Bioware goes back to its roots a little and concentrates on building a game that's more story focused rather than exploration orientated. But Mass Effect: Andromeda tried to adopt more of an open-world feel, leading to a lot of busy work and bloat to the game that soured its overall experience. This combination worked very well, leading to a series of games that felt taught and thrilling from start to finish. And on top of that was sprinkled on some mild exploration. The original Mass Effect series blended third-person action and role-playing systems with conversation, character interactions, and a bevy of choices. We've seen no footage of Mass Effect 5 in action but that doesn't mean we don't have high hopes for the game. But it could hint that wherever the next game is set, it could focus more on ordinary citizens rather than the galaxy's military and political elite as the original trilogy did. As such we can't tell if Mass Effect 5 is an Andromeda follow-up or another game taking place in the Milky Way.
On the other hand, it could just mean that this craft just belongs to a civilian organization, like the Andromeda initiative. This fits with an interesting observation from Rock Paper Shotgun's Imogen Beckhelling, who believes that one of the silhouetted figures in the background is an Angara, a race of aliens introduced in Andromeda. In Mass Effect: Andromeda, the game was centered around humans and other races from the Milky Way galaxy arriving in the Andromeda galaxy, after a 600-year journey. On the side of the ship in the concept art, we see "XT8." This is a common naming convention in the Mass Effect universe for vehicles used by the Alliance, the human faction in the game.Īs it uses two letters and one number like Mass Effect: Andromeda's ND1 Nomad, rather than the two-number designations of original trilogy craft like the M35 Mako, M44 Hammerhead and UT-47 Kodiak, we can infer that the new game will be a sequel to Andromeda. The N7 Day post from Hudson mainly focuses on the upcoming Legendary Edition remaster of the original three Mass Effect games (see below), but we were shown one piece of concept art as a teaser.