Six years after its announcement, we know very little about Mass Effect 5 aside from the few cryptic clues that BioWare has left us to speculate on. Nonetheless, Skyrim design lead Bruce Nesmith has some advice on what the team should be doing.
"I would hope that they would try to just take their lore and make a modern game of it," Nesmith said in an interview with PressBoxPR. "One of the knocks on Mass Effect I would have is that they always felt like they were a generation behind. I know, they had very cool characters, they had great stories, but the gameplay always felt dusty and old. It just wasn't there."
Nesmith's solution? Take cues from Skyrim, naturally. "I think they should probably try to make a more Bethesda-style game, to be honest," he explained. "I think Mass Effect players are dying for an open-world science fiction game that has that kind of flavour to it. A big open world content heavy game? I think Mass Effect players would be going nuts for that. But I'm a former Bethesda guy, so I'm probably going to say that about a lot of things."
Nesmith also thinks BioWare...
