Uh oh.

I can't wait to see my favorite people on youtube make fun of it and trash it for 45 minutes or so.

RIP.

But to be fair. I had zero hope for this and this news is not helping.

Amazon: "No one wants to hear about calibrations"

It's a bold strategy cotton, let's see if it pays off

Not sure anyone wants this, especially in the current political climate. Their best bet would be to set it in Andromeda. That way, they can appeal to the non-gamers as franchise faithful hated 4, and they won't be interfering with any established canon. I really just see them trying to make it an anti-woke answer to Star Trek. Still, it won't be my Mass Effect... but I might give it a chance. Really just want Mass Effect 5 at this point. But I'm going through the Dragon Age games to tide myself over (still in the first one) until I go back as MascShep and do a Renegade run, bang 3 different girls, and let people die in the suicide run by not doing their loyalty missions and picking poorly. Looking back, I think you can lose most of them and still have a viable run in 3 with the war effort.

Amazon has done a pretty good job with Fallout in my opinion, so I'm hopeful that it doesn't turn Mass Effect into Paramounts version of Halo.

They have to balance the limitless time and nuance a video game has to draw in a player and the things a game can do that a TV series just can't. But as long as they can keep the core elements that made the game so popular and turn it into a 12 episode series, it might be great.

Halo (series) lost what made Halo great. Halo should have been about humanity losing a war to a more advanced alien species and a lone super soldier turns the tide. It should have been gritty, violent, bloody, making friends and losing them to war. It should have been Band of Brothers but on sci-fi steroids.

I didn't get very far into the Mass Effect games but I was thinking something like The Expanse meets Lord of the Rings. A hastely put together motley crew of aliens traveling the universe trying to figure out why these worlds are being attacked and finding a much larger universe ending mystery.

So, like Fallout? That seemed to be a huge commercial success even if new episodes seemed quite rushed.