Would you want it be HBO level or would it be unchanged?
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Dead Reapers are how we win this. - Admiral Steven Hackett
A) I wouldn't want a remaster cuz I'm sure loot crates will be included.
I'd have the Kaidan/Male Shep romance restored in ME1.
It definitely wasn't intended, but I found the whole buildup between them to have made the ME3 coupling all the sweeter.
Eh. Seems more like shortchanging us, especially when we've heard bullshit like "it doesn't make sense" in terms of certain characters being romanceable. (This was stated to be something true in MEA.) No more telling us what makes sense for us. They don't have a clue.
Dead Reapers are how we win this. - Admiral Steven Hackett
In the remaster, Liara will be the default romance for Shepard throughout the trilogy and you'll have to jump through hoops to romance anyone else. Romanced Ash in ME1? You'll have default Liara in ME2. Romanced Miranda in ME2? You'll have default Liara in ME3. BioWare will want to make extra certain that we understand just how important Liara is. That's why she even got a mention in MEA.
Dead Reapers are how we win this. - Admiral Steven Hackett
In the remaster, Liara will be the default romance for Shepard throughout the trilogy and you'll have to jump through hoops to romance anyone else. Romanced Ash in ME1? You'll have default Liara in ME2. Romanced Miranda in ME2? You'll have default Liara in ME3. BioWare will want to make extra certain that we understand just how important Liara is. That's why she even got a mention in MEA.
Oh, hells no! Hey Carnage, I got a "Playmate" for you. Her name is Liara and she lives in a universe called Mass Effect...
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I would add a mission to find a cure for Thane, so to not have his death mandatory. You do the mission/make a choice there, he doesn't die in the Kay Lang fight, but is just hurt (since he would have still been recovering so not at his 100%. You don't do the mission/keep the cure, Thane dies.
I would add some more moments with Garrus in ME1 and ME2.
I would make mandatory Jacod death to not have his squallid betrayal in ME3.
And Vega would be a true romance option. Possibly BI, but I would just be happy getting rid of the creepy scene in Citadel. Or at least not having to get him drunk.
"Odin è un nome ispirato alla mitologia nordica, ma in russo vuol dire qualcos'altro... significa uno! Chissà poi perché mi sarò scelto un nome russo?" Uno. PKNA
"Odin is a name ispired by norse mithology. However in russian it means something else... It means one! Why did I choose a russian name, I wonder?" Uno. PKNA
I would add an interrupt for femshep to give Samantha a hug after the events of Sanctuary. Its a good chance her parents are dead. I would also add that femshep can buy Samantha the Cision Pro Mach 4 toothbrush with a scene showing femshep giving the toothbrush to Traynor when they meet on the Citadel.
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I would add an interrupt for femshep to give Samantha a hug after the events of Sanctuary. Its a good chance her parents are dead. I would also add that femshep can buy Samantha the Cision Pro Mach 4 toothbrush with a scene showing femshep giving the toothbrush to Traynor when they meet on the Citadel.
I wouldn't really change too much. I would, however, make it more difficult to enter a romance with Liara in ME1, and Jacob in ME2. As it sits right now you basically lock in the romance just by being nice to them.
Any further changes would have to be relegated to a fully-fleged remake and not a simple remaster.
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I'm honestly torn on making Kaidan romanceable for both genders in the first game. On the one hand, yeah, extra content, but they would also have to go in and add extra scenes to actually get to that point, like a threeway conflict, which is reportedly one of the things that kept them from adding it back then. Of course, if they're going to be adding extra dialogue anyway, then this isn't a problem. On the other hand, building up over three games really did feel like something special that made Kaidan's m/m romance stand out from the f/m version. Though maybe I'm just biased because I was with the series from the beginning.
Change Jacob's storyline in the third game to remove him cheating. It's fine if he gets with Brynn if he was single to begin with, but if he's with Shepard it should at least play out similarly to Jack.
Give Thane a lock-in of his own, and basically give us a chance to actually see that Shepard is mourning him too much to move on.
Make James legitimately romanceable so that FemShep has at least one guaranteed straight option. Also, removing that disgusting sequence from the Citadel DLC.
If the player romances Kaidan or Ashley, even if they wait for the third game, give them the option to call Liara out on leaving Kaidan/Ashley in the dark.
I would add a mission to find a cure for Thane, so to not have his death mandatory. You do the mission/make a choice there, he doesn't die in the Kay Lang fight, but is just hurt (since he would have still been recovering so not at his 100%. You don't do the mission/keep the cure, Thane dies.
I would add some more moments with Garrus in ME1 and ME2.
I would make mandatory Jacod death to not have his squallid betrayal in ME3.
And Vega would be a true romance option. Possibly BI, but I would just be happy getting rid of the creepy scene in Citadel. Or at least not having to get him drunk.
I would add a mission to find a cure for Thane, so to not have his death mandatory. You do the mission/make a choice there, he doesn't die in the Kay Lang fight, but is just hurt (since he would have still been recovering so not at his 100%. You don't do the mission/keep the cure, Thane dies.
I would add some more moments with Garrus in ME1 and ME2.
I would make mandatory Jacod death to not have his squallid betrayal in ME3.
And Vega would be a true romance option. Possibly BI, but I would just be happy getting rid of the creepy scene in Citadel. Or at least not having to get him drunk.
I like most of these but don't kill Jacob.
It can always be changed in "I would make mandatory for Jacod to keep his pants closed and not impregnate another woman if in a romance with Shepard"
"Odin è un nome ispirato alla mitologia nordica, ma in russo vuol dire qualcos'altro... significa uno! Chissà poi perché mi sarò scelto un nome russo?" Uno. PKNA
"Odin is a name ispired by norse mithology. However in russian it means something else... It means one! Why did I choose a russian name, I wonder?" Uno. PKNA
-Add more content to neglected romances. Miranda, Ashley and Jack had really, really short content in ME3 and even with Citadel, they miss out on helping Shepard in the Archives.
-Make Thane able to survive for a romanced Shepard.
-Make Jacob loyal to a romanced Shepard, but move on to Brynne if he's not romanced
-Give Femshep more dignity in her romances. Keep the sleazy responses, hit ons and childish behavior an option, maybe actually have the male love interests show some interest first.
-Making Vega a true romance and not a creepy nightmare if we can't have decent Jacob and Thane content. For crying out loud, Allers got more recognition as a romance option than Vega despite the build up and flirting.
-STOP HAVING OTHERS SAY SHEPARD HAS A THING FOR LIARA. I'M LOOKING AT YOU AETHYTA.
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