VentureBeat claims we're going to get a MET Remaster "Legendary Edition"

That's nice, Hanako. I'm glad you haven't been burnt. Now, you just have to carry the financial burden of those that were.

Man PC gamers that go into every thread like 'We get 60 fps and mods already hur hur' get kinda annoying after a while.

I'm technically a PC gamer.

I have a tendency of falling back on typing what is being discussed in my head. I will ask for your patience with me. It tends to happen too often for my liking.


I have yet to see EA motivated by anything other than money. They, on occasion, make some decisions to better their image, but EA has gone way down that point where they earn the benefit of the doubt for anything. Which is why, when Anthem released in its original state, everyone blamed EA, at first, when the problem was entirely on Bioware this time.


Yes, indeed. But it was a "fresh" game, on a new console, with a guaranteed good time, for those who liked it and they were many. 1 million copies sold for that, on release, is not to be laughed at. ME won't get close to that. I don't see it being neither as good a job or a remaster, as TLOU was. I expect it to sell more along the lines of the Silent Hill HD collection or the Batman Arkham Collection. Was the Arkham Collection ever released? I just remember the terrible videos with Hugo Strange and thinking how bad it looked, compared to the original games. I can't seem to find any sales data. Weird. Maybe they got laughed at hard enough to cancel them. Not that the Batman games needed a remaster, anyway.


Catalyst was a vastly inferior job to the original Mirror's Edge. The investment in that game was far smaller and only happened because of fan outcry. Which is something we are getting with the rumoured MET Remaster at this point. And if this thing doesn't sell, ME goes back to the IP freezer. And I'm pretty sure, this isn't the way to go about getting your fans back, nor getting new fans in, because none of the events of the MET matter anymore, after the jump to Andromeda. As for DICE, well, DICE has, apparently, been of a streak of doing wrong, lately. EA just dumped Battlefront 2 and Battlefield V, with a lot of promised content still left undelivered for both titles.


True. There's nothing Bioware could do. Which makes it increasingly and painfully more obvious that in the next couple of years we won't be seeing any other Bioware franchise get a new title release. But since DA is the next game, a DA remaster would make more sense. God knows DA:O could use one and since it's been 6 years already since the previous game in the franchise and another two, at the very least, until the next one, DA could benefit from the renewed interest more than ME. An ME remaster, as we move closer to DA4's launch and the announcement of the next ME, then would be a great time to announce the ME remaster. But that's not what's happening. They are using the MET remaster as a way to gauge interest and viability of ME as a franchise, before EA commits to a sequel. At least, the way I can interpret the move.


I don't know. But I am interested in the C&C remaster. I mean, I was. It looks terrible. Since the C&C games were pretty old and it's quite possible there were compatibility issues with newer versions of Windows, in which case this is a very good opportunity for EA. And the C&C franchise as well. I don't know about Burnout, though, to be honest. I'm not much of a racing fan and I don't know much about the racing community. This is obviously another attempt to revive an old franchise as well. Last game in the Burnout series was released in 2008, apparently. I wouldn't be surprised if these franchises get sequel announcements, if their remasters do well. What saddens me is that ME gets lumped in with these figuratively dead IPs. We shouldn't be here. We shouldn't have to be here. To be here, something, somewhere, went very, very wrong.


Maybe they are, but it doesn't look like this will be such a job to take that much advantage of the new hardware. Not to the point to make them a significant upgrade to the versions of the game we already have. And, as I said, PS doesn't have that much of a ME fanbase, as ME sells more on XBOX, as it started as an XBOX exclusive.


This is exactly what it is. And I doubt it will perform to the extent EA wants it to.


You're right that it won't wow anyone. It would require such a huge amount of work to make it worthwhile, that it would be doubtful whether it's worth the effort, just to retreat old ground. Even the Final Fantasy 7 remaster didn't sell that great. Final Fantasy 7's various remasters and re-releases that it had over the years, sold consistently in the hundreds of thousands and this is probably one of the most popular games of all time, vastly more popular than ME. I don't see this being a runaway success, nor something Mike Gamble will be able to parade around. I'm afraid we'll just go back in the locker, after this.

I mean isn't that same for every game developer? I'm sure Bioware cares about their fanbase to a degree.

I have my doubts on that. Otherwise, they sure have a funny way of showing it, when they called fans dumb for not "understanding" their "artistic vision".

As much as I criticise Andromeda I do wonder if, had it been created by some cutesy AA developer, whether it would resemble a cult classic now among the typical demographic that hates on Bioware.

I can just see it now 'yeah the animations are dodgy but at least I can explore unlike Bioware games lolol'.

It would be much more beneficial to the DA franchise and its public perception. You also have a new game in the franchise coming after Anthem. So it is prevalent and timely, to promote DA over ME. Especially since there isn't a DA "trilogy" version that can be played on all console systems. DA:O and DA2 were never ported to PS4/XBONE. It would be more costly, to port from Aurora 2.0 or whatever engine Bioware used at the time (Eclipse for DA:O and Lycium for DA2, apparently), to whatever new engine they intend to, but it is a smarter move. Then 2 years after the release of the DA remaster/remake/whatever, make the MET remaster, because you are now close to the release of the DA game, but the ME game is announced, with a title and everything and you want people to revisit the titles that built ME up, to hype people up for your next game.

I don't know, honestly. I wouldn't have bought it for the Obsidian logo, nor the Spiders logo. As I've quoted some user from a different community before "Andromeda reads like an AI approximation of human interaction". I would have been more forgiving of the production values and if the game was appropriately priced on launch to something like $39,99. The marketing push that Andromeda had, ultimately and the disparity between quality of final product, as it was advertised, vs asking price, left a lot to be desired, but there's no excuse for the quality of writing.

That's not strictly true as li8ke with the ME trilogy I believe DAO and DA2 are available via backwards compatability on XB1 at least I've heard they are.