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After Fallout’s TV hit, everyone’s buzzing about the next game-turned-show. Ex-BioWare dev David Gaider just shook things up by nominating Disco Elysium over the Mass Effect trilogy.

In the aftermath of the Fallout TV show’s splashy premiere, armchair critics from every corner are clamoring to crown the next big video game adaptation. David Gaider, renowned for his work on the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series, expressed his views on potential video game TV adaptations. Surprisingly, he advocated for a David Lynch-style rendition of Disco Elysium, relegating the obvious option, Mass Effect, to the sidelines.

Some games just feel like they’re a better fit for tabletop games than others, and BioWare’s space-faring RPG series Mass Effect is one of those games.

Thankfully for fans of the franchise, Mass Effect: Priority Hagalaz – The Board Game is in the works from Modiphius Entertainment. And while we’ll all need to wait for a bit as the team is in the middle of some calibrations, it’s due to release this year.

When you think BioWare greats, you think quality companions, and Mass Effect delivers with some of the most recognizable faces in all of gaming. Yet, in a discussion that kicked off on Dec. 12, fans believe that the story might be better served if some of them were dead.

To be fair to the writers of the franchise, Mass Effect has never been afraid to rip friends made along the way away from players. In the very first entry, a decision must be made to save either Kaidan Alenko or Ashley Williams. No ifs, no buts, no miraculous third option. One of them is doomed to die. This commitment to baking unavoidable death into the narrative is part of what makes those legendary three games so memorable.

When we think back to Mass Effect’s original trilogy DLC selection from 2007 to 2012, Lair of the Shadow Broker stands out as a fan favorite. In it, we are introduced to the Yahg, a species that fans are theorizing could make a grand return in BioWare’s next installment. 

This topic gained traction in a Reddit thread posted by user Akuma2004 on Nov. 29. They put forward the thought of the Yahg being a much more prominent part of the galactic Milky Way community in the next Mass Effect. This idea has gained plenty of traction, but let’s first catch ourselves up on the history of this niche species.

The recent hype surrounding the supposed development and release of the next Mass Effect has fans returning en masse to the original franchise for a little replay of sorts—but some are treading with caution around one of the titles as it is unanimously considered the toughest of them all.

The Mass Effect fanbase believes Mass Effect 2 is by far and away the hardest game to beat on the franchise’s maximum difficulty mode, Insanity, with many backing the second game in a Nov. 24 Reddit thread. While a number of missions in the sequel Mass Effect 3 come close, the sheer toughness players encountered while attempting to clear Mass Effect 2 stands above all.

There are plenty of beloved—and downright hated—characters in the Mass Effect universe that don’t make it out of the story alive, but fans of the franchise agree one character’s death was truly bothersome and didn’t make any sense whatsoever.

The most brutal death in Mass Effect, at least, according to one fan in a Nov. 24 Reddit thread, belongs to everyone’s favorite Krogan mercenary Wrex. In this nostalgic trip down memory lane, fans have shared disappointment at how the scene itself makes no sense at all. 

N7 Day has come and gone, though Mass Effect fans weren’t left completely empty-handed at the annual celebration of Bioware’s famous (and sometimes infamous) sci-fi video game series. 

The developers released a series of teasers for the upcoming game in the series and whilst it is still unclear as to what exactly this game will focus on, Bioware’s teasers all seem to suggest that the game will be a follow-up of some sort to the original trilogy rather than a spin-off (like the poorly received 2017 game Mass Effect: Andromeda). 

After a day’s worth of cryptic messages, teaser videos, and promotional art, the Mass Effect community has been set ablaze with speculation about the space RPG’s next title. Now, eagle-eyed fans have spotted what they believe to be further clues hidden in a new post from BioWare.

In addition to today’s new 35-second teaser for the next Mass Effect game, BioWare posted promotional art for the mysterious character to Twitter.

We’re not exactly sure how this would even be possible given the events of Mass Effect 3 and its controversial tri-colored ending, but gamers are convinced Shepard is coming back in the next game.

To celebrate N7 Day, BioWare has turned its hype meter up to 11 by dropping two short video teasers today for the next entry in the Mass Effect series. And they all seem to have one character on the brain: Shepard (not Wrex).

Mass Effect fans around the world are celebrating the infamous sci-fi video game series today, as N7 Day has come around once more. 

As we consider everything we love about the series, now is the perfect day to speculate on what the next installment in the franchise could be. With this in mind, we’re looking at seven things we want to see in Mass Effect 4.