You may wield DESTRUCTION, but I wield DESTRUCTION
@Twilight_Storm: But you have forgotten about the possibility of indoctrination theory. We really don't know until Bioware is ready to give out the info for ME4. After all, it's only been since May, so it's gonna be awhile. we won't know for sure until they have decided what is happening next and release the info to the public.
And in terms of the time period of the game, I think it will take place after ME3, because your decisions will have to take effect, and Casey Hudson said himself that the endings wouldn't simply be a few indistinct choices, just an A, B, or C, which is exactly what the ME3 ending was, but rather your decisions WOULD have an effect on what happened in the end. Either Hudson is a lying b****, or that isn't how the series ends. And you do remember that short clip you get of a guy with an N7 tag suddenly gasping in the ruins of London? After all, how would Shepard survive nearly bleeding out, that explosion, and then falling all the way back to Earth? He didn't survive an atmospheric entry in the beginning of ME2 when he was perfectly healthy, so how would he both survive the fall and end up back in London? Combine that with 'One more story' about Shepard, your decisions having to take effect, and Bioware's seemingly amused but brushing off reaction to indoctrination theory, and all in all it's likely that ME4 follows ME3., At any rate, that's what I'm hoping for. It's entirely possible Bioware was being the biggest troll in the history of the term, and what we saw in ME4 was just to piss us all off or make us seem like it was the end until Mass Effect 4, and get the next segment of the story going from where we left off. I'm sure they could get a good explanation for it all, but at any rate, it had better be a d*** good explanation to sate the angry hearts of all those ME fans out there who outright despise the ending and keep them playing, because if the explanation isn't good, they are probably going to be heading into ME4 like a wounded animal, if at all.
Wow, talk about a long post.
Well that's just how I DESTROY