According to reputable insider Jeff Grubb, the nextMass Effect-which just got a new teaser two days ago- won’t launch until at least 2029. I don’t know about you lot, but I’ll be a year shy of 30 by then. I was 16 when Andromeda came out.
“The trailer is a small teaser of a person in a cool outfit walking down a hallway and that’s it,” Grubb said on Game Mess Mornings. “This game is nowhere near coming out. When they revealedDragon Age: Dreadwolfin 2018, this is similar in terms of timeline. We’re not getting that game until maybe next year. So now do the math for that and we’re talking 2029 for Mass Effect 5.”
This game is nowhere near coming out… we’re talking 2029 for Mass Effect 5.
If Grubb is right, that means there will be a six-year gap between this teaser and the game launching. But it isn’t the first teaser. In 2020, during The Game Awards, BioWare announced “The Next Mass Effect” with an accompanying trailer. Rather than someone walking and flaunting a cool new coat, we got a panning camera shot that took us through the galaxy before landing on a snowy planet where hands,seemingly belonging to Liara, reached towards a buried helmet. So, it could be as long as a nine-year wait between announcement and release.
It’s a familiar story at this point. The first teaser forCyberpunk 2077was released in 2013 beforeThe Witcher 3had even come out, but the game didn’t launch until 2020, seven years later. Then we haveThe Elder Scrolls 6which got a teaser in 2018. Five years later, itonly just entered development.
The last numbered Mass Effect game launched in 2012, over ten years ago, but it looks like this new game will be treating Andromeda as ‘Mass Effect 4’.
The new teaser makes reference to Andromeda with a “DISTRESS SIGNAL DETECTED”. It also began as a countdown for “Mass Effect Epsilon”, which is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. The new poster even teased the return of the Geth, which brings up myriad questions about which ending to the third game is canon.
There are a lot of new mysteries, but it might be best to shelve them for now as the wait for answers is going to take a while.
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