{"id":91808,"date":"2026-10-21T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91808"},"modified":"2026-10-21T17:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:43:22","slug":"mass-effect-5-was-supposed-to-redeem-the-series-after-andromeda-and-now-well-never-get-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91808","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 5 Was Supposed to Redeem the Series After Andromeda, and Now We’ll Never Get That"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is an IGN opinion piece by Jackie Thomas, who has been playing and replaying Mass Effect for nearly 20 years now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I’m the sort of person who replays my favorite games whenever there’s a big gap between releases. And those favorites usually end up being from the Mass Effect series, whether it’s just the first game or a run through the entire original trilogy. So, for me, a Mass Effect 5<\/a> that captured the magic of the first three games has been something I’ve been looking forward to since before it was even announced in 2020. Now, that game will never exist, thanks to EA closing down BioWare<\/a>. And that f**king sucks. <\/p>\n

When Mass Effect<\/a> came out in 2007, I stood in line to get it on release night, and I played it incessently until I finished absolutely everything in it. I did the same thing when the second and third games came out, except I also played the previous games again ahead of time so everything would be fresh in my mind. <\/p>\n

Ever since Mass Effect 3<\/a> came out, I’ve replayed the original games maybe a dozen times. I don’t even drastically change the way I play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an IGN opinion piece by Jackie Thomas, who has been playing and replaying Mass Effect for nearly 20 years now. I’m the sort of person who replays my favorite games whenever there’s a big gap between releases. And those favorites usually end up being from the Mass Effect series, whether it’s just the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":91810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91812,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91808\/revisions\/91812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}