Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster! Take my money!

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  • #183152

    I know I’ve mentioned it before in other threads, but I love Mass Effect. For years I kinda ignored it, played it a little, and generally didn’t pay too much attention to it.

     

    Then after one of the worst times in my life, when I came back after a disastrous job opportunity in China in 2016 that not only ended up leaving me in near financial ruin which I am still feeling the effects of to this very day but also literally almost killed me thanks to Chinese respiratory virus, I found the ME Trilogy on sale at the PSN store for only $4.99.

     

    All three games for only $5 bucks! I got it instantly for my PS3 and my oh my was I in love. ME was the perfect game for me to play during my recovery period, because the virus put me on my ass for almost a year as well as a foot injury I suffered at the same time. It was some of the most fun I ever had playing through all that content, and because I got it for so cheap, I happily dropped a little extra coin on DLC content to enhance my enjoyment.

     

    To this day I’ve played it 5 different time with 3 male Sheps and 2 Fem Sheps, in addition to 2 play throughs of Andromeda (yes, I enjoy Andromeda too for all the hate it gets).

     

    So when I heard the other day that there is possibly a remaster for ME coming….just take my money now! To play ME 1-3 all cleaned up on my PS4, probably with all the content included….that’s a whole lot of fun waiting to happen.

    #183227

    I loved the first game – I got it way back when it was first released in 2007 (I was a massive BioWare fan at the time) and while its gameplay was flawed and hasn’t aged well, the amazing world building and exploration made up for it. The side quests were the true meat of the game that took you on Star Trek-esque adventures across the galaxy. I loved going to these unexplored planets and solving crises before they could metasize. The main plot was simply the glue that held everything together, but it was intriguing enough on its own. Saren was a great villain, and the fact that he was the harbinger for something greater left an ominous feeling.

    Pity BioWare dropped the ball from there on-wards. Everyone gave the ME3 ending shit, but I thought such an ending was inevitable (just wish it hadn’t been that disappointing). People who say it was all good up until the ending are deceiving themselves: The cracks were starting to show as far back as ME2. That’s not to say ME2 was necessarily bad: The streamlined gameplay was a vast improvement. It’s just that they streamlined everything else. It was a dramatic tonal shift: The Reapers weren’t meant to be a simple invasion force to be stopped, they were an unfathomable Eldritch Abomination that couldn’t be stopped. ME1 gave you all the tools you needed to explore the unknown and uncover the mysteries of the galaxy to find some way to prevent their return, but this was tossed out of the airlock in favor for an action-movie style plot. ME1 was focused on “details first, drama second,” but ME2 and ME3 swapped this around.

    That’s not to say I didn’t dislike ME2 and 3. There were plenty of things both games got right. I loved ME2’s loyalty missions, and Tuchanka and Rannoch were some of the best conclusions to their respective over-arcing storylines I’d seen. I have and would still gladly play these games again. It’s just the main story they utterly bungled. ME2’s story was problematic from the get-go: Working with Cerberus just felt contrived and forced, I didn’t give a damn about the colonists (the game kinda just assumes I do) and the Collectors were basically Saren and the geth rehashed, but far less interesting (not to mention the soft retcon of the Protheans). What exactly was the point of the Human-Reaper, again? Few criticized the story back then because we all just assumed BioWare knew what they were doing and when ME3 came out all the pieces would come together. But that was even worse. I guess this is what happens when you change lead writers half-way through the story.

    I shouldn’t go on making assumptions about BioWare’s internal politics at the time, and I don’t want to point the finger at a single person. But Drew Karpyshyn clearly left things for other writers to pick up on. Instead, Mac Walters kinda just ignored almost everything Drew wrote and did his own thing. That’s not to say I think Walters held Karpyshyn’s writing style in contempt or found it too hard to follow or anything like that: The most generous assumption would be that the decision to have ME2 a more action-orientated plot was a decision that went all the to the top (EA) and Mac Walters simply did the best job he could do within that framework. I just think it’s a shame that a universe with so much potential went largely untapped. Maybe another game studio in the future will have a similar idea and learn from the mistakes BioWare made.

    I’d still buy the full trilogy again if a remaster were to come to pass.

    #183288

    Yes I agree.

    In my own experience I prefer the open exploration style but looking back many of those moons where too empty.

    Instead of removing that they should’ve refined the exploration to less locations but more to do.

    They still could do short missions drops on space bandits or derelict vessels.

    Buy I heard the remaster is altering the 1st game by removing content and making it more ME2, I’m not buying it without seeing what they’ve done.

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    #183414

    But dude, come on…driving around in the Mako was the worst. It was terrible. If they take out driving around in the Mako, I wouldn’t miss it in the slightest.

    #183490

    Because of the empty landscape and bad terrain, if you had proper content to explore than it’s so much better.

    #183491

    But even if there was exploration, that doesn’t change the fact that the Mako was terrible. I’ll take the Nomad from Andromeda over that any day. I know it’s comparing apples and oranges due to difference in game design generations, but the Nomad was still a better vehicle.

     

    #183504

    Yeah the exploration in Andromeda was better, fewer locations but more to do.

    That’s what I’m talking about focus on several locations with the Nomad style vehicle and when exploring space your ship drops you off on smaller quests like derelict ships or bandit moon bases.

    #183740

    Having never played ME1 I never knew there was a tonal shift between the games.

    Guess thats what happens when 1 is a Xbox only title till long after 2 & 3 were finished.

    As for the snding of 3 I wasnt a fan of the first version. The altered version was a bit better. Andromeda was pretty but pretty much sucked; none of the characters looked right compared to the PS3 graphics and none of the named characters looked like they did in the book written to show how they got to the starting point.

    #183745

    I tried to like Andromeda’s story and characters but it just fell flat, and the final flaw that made me walk away was the Antagonist…he was so dull.

    I did the same in Dragon Age Inquisition, I didn’t even play the DLC I just finish the game and never went back.

    Your Antagonist or at least the organisation need to hit the mark in a RPG but that’s the problem these days… RPGs aren’t RPGs anymore.

    ME1 was mostly but after that it wasn’t.

    Bioware has been gutted by EA and I just don’t see a future for them 😢, my early adult life was spent playing Bioware games…

    #183848
    m76

      I don’t know where people are getting their info on a ME remaster. So far I ONly saw a single youtuber run with it, it doesn’t get a mention anywhere else. I’ll assume it’s hot air until there are at least collaborating reports.

      #183891

      It’s been on the rumor mill for years, frankly. Just do a quick engine search and you will find plenty of articles on it.

      It’s just that no official announcements have ever been made, (far as I’ve heard, at any rate). So of course there are doubts and no one really wants to gossip about uncertain information long-term.

      #183892

      Also, I never played Andromeda. I just saw the memes, LOL’d hard, and decided the franchise was pretty much dead.

      “My face is tired.”

      CHRIST WHO WROTE THIS

      #183958

      When Bioware made proper RPGs they did Thier best work, ups and downs but mostly enjoyable.

      I noticed the change when Dragon Age 2 & Mass Effect 2 came out, they sacrificed too much to reach mass appeal.

      Andromeda had issues but mostly the Story fell flat, poor characters and yes the facial animations were meme worthy.

      Bethesda has done the same, sacrificed too much to reach mass appeal.

      #183960
      m76

        Unpopular opinion. Mass Effect Andromeda wasn’t as bad as it was made out to be. It had some lows, but overall the game was better than DA:I in my opinion. The exploration aspect was pretty good, the vaults were great, better than HZD’s cauldrons. And some of the questlines were actually fun. The worst issue it had was with its pacing. Not the animation glitches that it was made fun for. Those were very rare if you actually played the game and wasn’t deliberately trying to glitch it. So the game was a victim of mob hate. It wasn’t bad at all, of course not on par with the trilogy but I still enjoyed it very much.

        #183973

        I loved the first three even though there were many critics of some of the games – especially 3 – but I loved all 3 and I also bought all of the expansions on the PS3. I’ve replayed the whole trilogy twice and I’ve replayed part 2 three times. The ME trilogy is probably my favorite game trilogy because it felt like the Star Trek of old (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager) and there were many moral choices. Even the bad moral choices had a perfectly logical justification behind them every time.

        Andromeda I quit playing halfway through because I couldn’t connect with the story. It didn’t make me feel like I want to continue playing. My choices seemed to be more forced and not make a difference, and the only choices given to me were pertaining to unimportant side-quests and not the main story in Andromeda.

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