Individuals are the backbone of the Mass Effect universe. Comics can touch on characters that gamers don't get to play as and present new stories. Walters feels that the best stories come from deep, well-realized characters, and sometimes video games limit how much time you can spend developing an individual in the middle of a grand, spread-out story. To me, I think that you should always be able to pick up a comic and read it without playing the game, and vice versa, but there's still that sense that if you have both, it's better." A lot of times the DLCs that we put out afterwards are tied to the comics somehow, or vice versa. "The big thing that we realized earlier on and stuck to all the way through is, we didn't want the comics to just be something we did on the side," Walters said.
From the beginning, he said, it was important that whatever stories were established in the books would tie in with the universe but also be independently enjoyable away from the games. Walters said that Dark Horse initially approached BioWare after Mass Effect 2 about creating the Mass Effect comic books. "While we have no firm plans at this point, it's something that fans love - and as long as we have the energy and ability to do it, and Dark Horse is on board, I imagine we'll keep doing it," he added. "The comics are a better way to introduce some themes or ideas, or using them to tie into DLC and flesh out new characters even more. "We've seen that add a lot to the universe, and to me it's an excellent way to have a bridge of some sort, say, to establish where certain stories are going to take place and introduce new characters," Walters said.
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Walters said he's currently focused on the Foundation series of Mass Effect comics, but as BioWare moves deeper into development on the yet untitled next Mass Effect game, more tie-in comics are not being ruled out. "We could do like an Aria- Breaking Bad mashup, or something like that."
She's fascinating - she's tough and ruthless, and you want to route for her despite all the bad things," he added. That's a character I could always write for. You kind of want to root for him, and yet, you kind of want him dead. "I love his character and his moral ambiguity. "I could write stories about the Illusive Man forever," Walters told Polygon in an interview.
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BioWare may continue to create comic book tie-ins for the Mass Effect universe for the currently in-development fourth game in the series, according to writer Mac Walters - as well as more stories focused on a certain Cerberus leader.
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