Everything Wrong With Mass Effect

If they remaster the trilogy all they will do is up the visuals to be more inline with current gen consoles. Much like how Skyrim was nothing but a graphically updated version of the same game on PS3/360.

That being said I never watched any of the videos. I've seen similar video format for other content and the content creator always comes across as whinny. So not going to bother watching another video in the same format that is just someone looking for any and all reasons and or excuses to complain about something. I can do that in my own head for free and I don't provide add revenue to them doing so.

50 minutes? Fuck that.

So I just skipped to a random point of the ME2 one, and he gave a sin for Rana Thanoptis saying the words "it's complicated".  That's not even a plot hole.

I figured it would be something stupid like that being brought up. These kind of videos are all the same.

Yeah he did missed that part of how Shep could get around where there's no gravity, but the rest of the video has very valid points like why the Council still denying the Reaper's existence and the Asari councilor simply meld with Shepard to find all the evidence they need to prepare for the threat. The guy may be a nitpicker but he shows a lot of conviction with the inconsistency in Mass Effect though.

I really did not watch the vids, probably because I have strong feelings on the matter. Won't go into the ending (dead horse) but I will say I did not like the renegade/paragon options that 'let you have your cake and eat it too'. So for instance passing a reputation check to make Saren/TIM kill himself vs. doing it yourself is fine. It adds to the feel of the story and sometimes saves time from a tough battle. What I did not like were the reputation options for Tali's Loyalty mission. I felt they were opportunities for making real choices and were subverted by a reputation-dialog cop out. For Wrex it definitely made sense since you are convincing one guy to stand down, and you already did a pretty big favor for him before. Similar to the Tali/Legion and Miranda/Jack dispute.

So less use of reputation to avoid making decisions.

Like I mentioned in another thread, I would pay for re-master or redo that:
1- Updated all textures
2- New voice acting for male shep. The rest are fine as is, but male shep Voice actor is the reason I have 1 or 2 male sheps per ME game vs 10 or 12 fem sheps.
3- Complete rewrite of the last 15 minutes of ME3

I disagree... remaking the endings has a lot of downside to it as well.  Some people here have an agenda about pushing Bioware into that decision, but there is also a significantly less vocal group who believe the work should stay as it was completed despite it being imperfect.  One doesn't rewrite the endings to famous novels or movies just because they didn't like how the author originally chose to do it.  The work passes into the realm of history... flaws and all intact.

In the case of games... there is also the option of using mods available for those players who absolutely insist on a different ending.  Bioware rewriting the endings who "stomp" on all those mods.  The EC is also actually a Bioware made mod.  They could, IMO, make another alternate ending(s) DLC... effectively modding their own game.  It would be a cheaper cost, and people would have the option then of using it or not.  I would also like them to modify the EC so that, even if it is installed, the player retains the option of using the original endings if they so desire.  There should be no need to squelch any of the existing endings in this process, and that way, both the people who do happen to like the existing endings and those who don't can be satisfied.

IMO, ME:A now is it's own story.  It should be allowed to move forward from that point... and perhaps return some day to the Milky Way... but a Milky Way so changed over time that whatever ending Shepard selected has no visual impact on the state of the galaxy in the new game.  At most, the result of the ME3 should be inputted through a keep-like function and reduced to a textual footnote in the new codex.

Time... and in this case distance... should be allowed by the fan base to heal all wounds.  THAT would be the smart move on the part of fans... we'd get better games out of Bioware in the long run without this "war" with the fans going on over ME3 that's been raging for 5 years now.  Peace.

I don't think I am in the minority here, but I would concede its less of a priority than the other 2 requests.

There was one other thing.  He shows his clear bias against EA right from the start.  I've seen other "sins" type videos, and they're generally meant to be tongue-in-cheek rather than believe they're a legitimate review.  How can you take someone serious when, right from the start, they tell you they have a dislike for the company putting out the game?

Hey what can I say? The guy is hilarious.

Specifically, her delivery of the line "I'm just wanting to talk for a bit" when talking with Jacob in ME2 sounds like a come on and is really unavoidable if one wants to talk to Jacob at all in ME2.  The line she can revert to when romancing Jacob is actually delivered in a less "come hither" tone.  I also find the delivery of many of her lines to border on the "screeching female" stereotype.  There was a lengthy thread on this on the old BSN... so I know I'm not alone in this assessment.  A lot of people do prefer Meer's delivery to Hale's.  The majority have individual lines they don't like in both of their deliveries and lines they like in both as well.  For example, IMO - Meer really nailed "the best" line at the end of the Citadel DLC... way better than Hale.  Neither performance warrants a demand for a redo... that's just ridiculous.  Furthermore, the player can already choose between them... not like in TW3 where one must play as Geralt... "throat cancer" voice and all.

I think that's all in the direction and I guess I've just learned to ignore it when talking to Jacob, though I can see how it can seem that way. I do think ME2 pushes a FemShep to romance Jacob, and that's all I took it as. I'd blame whoever told Hale to say it that way rather than Hale herself. I mean, if the intention is to portray a Shepard who's romantically interested in Jacob, then she pulled it off, even if it's out of character. And if that's the only line in ME2 that comes across that way, I don't think it's fair to characterize the entirety of her ME2 performance as "sexpot."

As for the rest, I think they both have pluses and minuses. In my playthroughs Hale is far better at a Renegade Shep than Meer is, because he's either murderously angry or mildly annoyed. But hey, that's why we can have choices.

Stop trying to bill it as a "remaster" request then... because it's not.  Remaking the same game at this stage will most likely not be profitable for Bioware.  It's not going to happen.