So I'm not going to be serious about this anytime soon, but for giggles and grins I feel like discussing it.
If I were to adapt Mass Effect to screen, I'd probably do a series. Being an anime fan, I'd of course love to make it animated, but that wouldn't be a definite - it would depend mostly on production costs, given the diversity in set locations, aliens, and special effects requirements.
In any case, the overarching plot would be more or less the same for the first game, with all the little side missions being like sub-plots or stand-alone episodes. But for the rest of the series, I'd take a real divergence from the games because I wouldn't do any of the stuff with the collectors, and I'd come up with a different ending that would be based more on the success Shepard has with getting all the aliens in the galaxy to work together.
I have to admit, though, that at least at this point, I have no real idea what my alternative overarching plot would be for either the second or third chapters, beyond that there'd have to be some investigation of the Reapers still being a threat, with Shepard perhaps meeting official resistance because they're satisfied that the threat has been averted. Maybe Earth could be on her side (I'd totally do a femshep as the MC), but the others would be against her? I might even have the SR-1 destroyed, but I wouldn't kill Shepard only to resurrect her later - that was all going toward an in-universe reboot I wouldn't have. I also might keep at least similar versions of characters and sub-plots, but that would be about it.
So I guess the up-shot is I'm curious what other people would do or like to see in lieu of the Collector and Catalyst plots.
If I were to adapt Mass Effect to screen, I'd probably do a series. Being an anime fan, I'd of course love to make it animated, but that wouldn't be a definite - it would depend mostly on production costs, given the diversity in set locations, aliens, and special effects requirements.
In any case, the overarching plot would be more or less the same for the first game, with all the little side missions being like sub-plots or stand-alone episodes. But for the rest of the series, I'd take a real divergence from the games because I wouldn't do any of the stuff with the collectors, and I'd come up with a different ending that would be based more on the success Shepard has with getting all the aliens in the galaxy to work together.
I have to admit, though, that at least at this point, I have no real idea what my alternative overarching plot would be for either the second or third chapters, beyond that there'd have to be some investigation of the Reapers still being a threat, with Shepard perhaps meeting official resistance because they're satisfied that the threat has been averted. Maybe Earth could be on her side (I'd totally do a femshep as the MC), but the others would be against her? I might even have the SR-1 destroyed, but I wouldn't kill Shepard only to resurrect her later - that was all going toward an in-universe reboot I wouldn't have. I also might keep at least similar versions of characters and sub-plots, but that would be about it.
So I guess the up-shot is I'm curious what other people would do or like to see in lieu of the Collector and Catalyst plots.