BioWare - Charting a Course for Next Mass Effect Game

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Nerd Appropriate has been to the this panel at Comic Con 2014. In an article at the site they sum up the talks given by the developers as well as the audience Q and A.
Here are some of them:

What are some of the trials you have to face making a [series] like Mass Effect? - "[Creating] a new entry into a series like this is extremely difficult. The precedent we've set before, the fans, the press, fans like you [the audience] who are willing to camp out during various panels to see it... so we've got the expectations of folks like you and our own creative ambitions [regarding] the things we want to do. At the same time we don't want to retread old ground, right? We want to make sure that we're doing something fresh, something that has not been done before. [We want to make] a Mass Effect for the next generation; we don't want to make a new Shepard story, right? That's not the point whatsoever; [the point is] to refresh things [and create] a spiritual successor to the game as opposed [to having the same characters]. - Mike Gamble
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A quote on the Mako:

So, the Mako is back [note: crowd goes crazy], but this isn't the Mako that you remember, this is a DIFFERENT Mako. The point here is that it is a really agile Mako, it's different than the one you've seen before. There is no cannon on it. Maybe it can hover, maybe it can jump, I don't know. We've [had] a lot of help designing it, it's gone through a lot of iteration." - Mike Gamble
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And a quote from the audience Q and A:

Will we be seeing characters like Aria T'Lok again? "We haven't decided... well, we've decided (but aren't telling yet). The theme is [that] we want to create new experiences for the player, but we still want to bring in elements of what you know and love about the previous trilogy that might include certain characters and it might not. So guaranteed, either way that we end up going you're going to see a certain amount of the old with the new." -Mike Gamble
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Will we be seeing characters like Aria T'Lok again? "We haven't decided… well, we've decided (but aren't telling yet).
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After you play and finish all ME games (DLC not needed), learning what huge impact on things Aria had and still has, a new Mass Effect game without her would just be a flawed story.
If it wasn't for her, Shepard would still be dead and would never be able to "save the galaxy".
 
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New Mako: There is no cannon on it.

First mess-up of Bioware. People love to shoot things from afar or up close. It was major fun gunning down robots and base defense.
 
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Perhaps it will instead have a device for looting the clothes or hairstyles of fallen enemies, so you can put them on when you're back on your ship.
 
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New Mako: There is no cannon on it.

First mess-up of Bioware. People love to shoot things from afar or up close. It was major fun gunning down robots and base defense.
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The cannon made things a little too easy, IMO. Once you got the hang of it, it was a 1-shot kill on everything 'cept for that worm thing. This one looks to be more of a light-infantry assault version, probably with just the machine guns— but far more agility.

I think it looks pretty cool.
 
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