The Nexus is treated as a different sort of entity than the Arks, and for good reason - it’s much, much larger than the Arks. It does serve as one, since it had its own crew that rode to the new galaxy on it, but nobody ever called it one. The sixth ship - and the first to arrive in the new galaxy - is the Nexus, a Citadel-esque mobile space station intended to be headquarters for the Andromeda Initiative as they explore and try to settle down on new planets.īut in the game, nobody ever refers to the Nexus as an Ark. In “Andromeda,” there are six total ships that make the trip, but only five of them are ever referred to as Arks. But the fact that it specifies “Ark 6” gives me some pause, and makes me wonder if there’s a bigger hint here.Īlso Read: Watch Vin Diesel Beat Up Dinosaurs in New Game 'ARK II' (Video)
This is in reference to one of the big ships that made the journey across the void between galaxies in “Andromeda.” Does this mean story in the next “Mass Effect” will actually deal with all that stuff in any way? Of course not. This segment of the trailer ends with the camera swooping past a destroyed Mass Relay - wreckage from the Reaper War.īut there’s another bit that’s very, very easy to miss if you’re not actively trying to hear what these distorted recordings are saying.
This bit serves as a sort of timeline of human space travel in the “Mass Effect” universe, from Neil Armstrong’s moon landing, to first contact with the alien Turians, to humanity joining the Citadel.
At least nothing that would warrant addressing the spinoff in a new game that continues directly from “Mass Effect 3.”Īlso Read: Gamers Roll Their Eyes at 'The Last of Us Part II' Winning Big at The Game Awardsīut this trailer, at least, doesn’t ignore “Andromeda.” The first chunk of the trailer involves a camera swooping through space while we hear various radio broadcasts. After all, that game takes place in a different galaxy, the journey to that other galaxy began, canonically, before the Reapers invaded in “Mass Effect 3,” and there’s almost no story interaction between “Andromeda” and the original trilogy of games. It would be easy enough for the next game to simply pretend that “Andromeda” never happened. While we still know basically nothing about where the next “Mass Effect” game will take us, the trailer makes it pretty clear - by highlighting Liara, one of the main characters from the original three games - that it’s instead going to pick up after the events of “Mass Effect 3” and stay in the Milky Way galaxy. “Mass Effect: Andromeda” was a big miss for publisher Electronic Arts and developer Bioware, and judging by the trailer shown at The Game Awards Thursday for a new, untitled “Mass Effect,” it looks like they’re returning to the Milky Way for the fifth game in the franchise rather than continuing where “Andromeda” left off.
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