BioWare: "We're Definitely Not Done with Mass Effect"

Mass Effect: Andromeda may have dealt the franchise a damaging blow, but BioWare general manager Casey Hudson is confident the series is far from finished. Speaking with Polygon in a studio profile, Hudson, who directed the originals, said Mass Effect was "very much alive": "I'm thinking all the time about things that I think will be great. It's just a matter of getting back to it as soon as we can." He was joined by Anthem executive producer Mike Darrah, who shared similar thoughts. "We're definitely not done with Mass Effect," says Darrah. "There's a lot of stories to be told. We could pull on the threads we put down with Andromeda; we could pull on threads from Mass Effect 3. There's a lot of interesting space to be explored." The report suggests that the Frostbite engine may have been partly responsible for BioWare's Andromeda struggles. RPG systems had to be constructed from scratch to support the kind of story-driven game BioWare is famous for. The studio has since invested in advanced performance capture technology for Anthem.