Mass Effect: Andromeda is arguably the most controversial entry in the space opera RPG series. The response to the game was so negative at the time that BioWare and EA canceled the planned DLC. Even with the AAA game receiving mostly negative reviews, its game director wanted to make a sequel.
In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Mass Effect: Andromeda game director Mac Walters shared that he would have liked to make a sequel. The director believed that BioWare would have been able to correct what was wrong with the first game.
He compared the improvements from Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2, and eventually Mass Effect 3. Each new game in the series made big leaps in terms of gameplay and overall player experience. Many of the criticisms levied against Andromeda concerned performance and bugs, which were solved with patches later on.
"I only wish we had been able to then do a second one, because then you would have really seen that polish just like we did from [Mass Effect] to [Mass Effect 2] on the original [trilogy]," Walters said of a potential Mass Effect: Andromeda sequel. "With Mass Effect, arguably there [are] lots of things that we didn't do right, but then we got to hone it and improve it on [Mass Effect 2], and then perfect it on [Mass Effect 3]."