Mass Effect boss may have dropped a hint about the next game: 'Make sure you play Lair of the Shadow Broker'

pcgamer.com:

We don't know much about the next Mass Effect game yet, except that it's happening and Liara T'Soni will be in it. That's left fans of the series eager for whatever scraps of information they can get their hands on, and BioWare's Michael Gamble, who's heading up work on Mass Effect 4, might have just thrown them a bone.

«So many new Mass Effect fans popping up in my mentions,» Gamble wrote recently on X (via Game Rant). «Maybe because it’s like 5 bucks or something. Awesome to see. There’s like an extra game worth of DLC content in there but make sure you play Lair of the Shadow Broker. Thx.»

First things first, Mass Effect Legendary Edition is indeed on sale for less than a fiver in the Steam Autumn Sale, which is an absolutely bonkers price for literally hundreds of hours of outstanding sci-fi RPG action. It's a great game (the original ending was fine) and more than worth your time if you haven't played it yet—trust me, you will not get more out of five bucks than you will here.

What's more interesting, though, is Gamble's seeming insistence that if you're new to the whole Mass Effect thing, you should really play the Shadow Broker DLC. For those not in the know, Lair of the Shadow Broker is a Mass Effect 2 expansion that sees Liara beefing with the mysterious—one might say shadowy—knower-of-things who first appeared, more as a plot device than a character, in the original Mass Effect. I didn't care for the DLC all that much: It was fine but served mainly as a way to bring Liara back into the action (she isn't a playable character in Mass Effect 2), and since I didn't particularly care for Liara, I found the expansion largely forgettable.

(I have nothing against Liara, for the record, I just preferred to roll with Zaeed and the krogan. As Teddy Roosevelt said, be a Paragon, but always bring a couple heavy hitters along for the ride.)

Liara's involvement in Mass Effect 4 has been effectively confirmed already, but Gamble's message could be construed as a hint