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

What online community? It's fractured into pieces since they closed their own forum. You need people like Hrungr to collate info from the pieces strewn across the internet. When MEAMP was still a thing for more players here some would collate and share reddit and stream stuff to have a better overview of what was going on. That online community is mostly done for by now.

I've seen quite a bit of positive reaction on the internet, just not here.

I like the destroy ending seeing the reapers falling over. Just didn't like the lead up to the choice. I have played the trilogy numerous times. The reasons for that is it has replay value. The other is I like Shepard. 

I will as well. I will likely to a repeat of my playthrough in my signature.

I will. If it turns out to be bad, than at least I can say I played it.

The trailer that was shown gave me good vibes that I would like the game, but wasn't to be. The best thing I can say about MEA is speedruns.

I stopped playing after the first patch was released. 

I agree with this, in part. I too would have loved to see the things that ME1 introduced carry over. I expected as much. But as ME2 is a good game, in its own right, I don't mind the sacrifices made for this title. I think the payoff was worth it. We can disagree in this. But that doesn't mean that I don't also like what you like, or don't want what you want. Perhaps I've not been as communicative of it. That I liked what ME2 did, doesn't mean I only want ME2 from then on. I do want the things that ME2 did well and I want the things that ME1 and ME3 did well; characters, interactions, exploration, I want it all. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be acceptably good in its execution.


Agreed.


I don't consider repackaging a game to be a feat a developer should brag about. I can get 4k textures and even ray tracing for all 3 games on PC, with a vastly revamped game experience for ME3 specifically. I can even get Miranda recruited with extra unused dialogue. Why would I settle for the inferior remaster? I won't give Bioware praise for this, they aren't worthy of it. This is less than bare minimum. Modders have been doing far more for Mass Effect, over the past 9 years since ME3's release, than Bioware has.

Here's something that was an interesting dig from a poster in one of the other communities I frequent that I wanted to share with you guys.

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Ah, come on. Stupid twitter gizmo. Well, anyway, there's a tweet by Ryan Warden, back in 2012. Here's what it says.

"Re: Pinnacle Station on PS3, the source is corrupt and we can't build it. Unfortunately, it won't be coming to the PS3 along with ME1."


Since I didn't get the trilogy for PS3, was Pinnacle Station available, in the end? Will it need to be remade for the remaster or will Bioware just dump it entirely?


It's a texture pack with reshade. I will be hard impressed if they manage to fuck it up. I've done texture work. I have yet to manage to fuck that up. Like, I can make a bad texture, that I understand, but how bad can you do? Now I'm curious, honestly. Bioware, please, show me the way.


I bet you that the AMD processor bug remains, at the very least. Conrad's flag from ME1 to ME2 is still read wrong and I'm sure there will be more problems. Getting stuck in game geometry will make a triumphant return as well.


Have you seen the mods for ME3? They make it like a totally different game. ME3 is going to be, by default, inferior. The base game is shit, in comparison, DLC or no DLC. The finale to your trilogy, being outdone by modders with no knowledge or access to the source code of your game. They can't outdo the modders, unless they remake ME3. And the modders said they're not adapting their mods for the remaster.


Yeah.

We weren't told that in the announcement post. All it talked about was graphics.


Neither do I. I think most of the game's campaign is absolutely terrible. Anything outside of Tuchanka and a few ME2 squadmate missions, Jack's and Grunt's especially, are mostly trash. The writing takes a huge nosedive in general, the Geth are for some reason interested in having souls, all of a sudden, the Quarians start a war with the Reapers on their back, the Reapers don't storm the Citadel the moment they reach the Galaxy, instead they divide their forces over various homeworlds, it's an overall mess and somehow, Cerberus has enough military power to challenge everyone's forces. Don't get me started on Kai Leng and everything about him, or the character suicide of Udina.


I remember, back in the day, several quotes of Bioware devs saying they would never do something like the Suicide Mission ever again. So there's zero chance of that happening ever again.

I don't think people care enough to see where it can go. Like, did anyone really care or expect anything from Rise of Skywalker, after The Last Jedi? On the upside, it might retire the ME franchise for good, so no more flogging a dead horse.

Those that walked away from TLJ with a favorable opinion on it did...seriously. I know I didn't but...mileage may vary and all that.



Definitely needs at least ONE. Andromeda felt like ME1 to me - kinda flat and not sure where it was going, but decent enough to at least warrant a second game. ME gave us ME2, which was a major improvement. Could Andromeda 2 do the same? Who can say? It's worth a shot at least, but if a sequel to Andromeda does just as average or worse...then it's time to look elsewhere.

Define technical. That's so vague. Does it mean reworking the gameplay? Since it means reworking the gameplay, does it also mean across all three games? At which point does this stop looking like a remaster and more like a remake? The game engine is technical as well. The UI, inventory, lighting can be technical, too. Well, maybe it will. I am not in favour of it.


Everything ca be explained and the answer can be as far fetched as Bioware needs it to be to justify anything. It doesn't mean it is believable. It doesn't mean it doesn't break immersion and, again, if the sacrifice is too big and the payoff too small, then it isn't worth it. For some people, it wasn't worth it. I was on board with the sacrifices required of us in Force Awakens. I was no longer on board with them, in The Last Jedi. I was not on board with the sacrifices ME3 required of me. Simple. At some point, I just didn't want to go through with it anymore.


Aren't we told early in ME2 that the SR2 and resurrecting Shepard took out the biggest chunk of Cerberus' funds at the beginning of ME2? I don't doubt they couldn't get more funds in the year since, but to prepare and man entire fleets, in that time is highly improbable and Sanctuary is only a thing in ME3. So we know it only popped up in the 6 months since the events of ME2. Even if it started in the very next day of the end of the events of ME2 to get a full 6 months, they'd need a hundred thousand recruits a day. The math jumps to surreal levels. It's Palpatine raising, what was it in TRoS, 10k Death Star Destroyers, in 30 years? It takes a skilled crew to make 1 ship, 6 months, at minimum. And that crew would be several hundred people, to a few thousand, depending on the ship size. It's nuts.


You know, whenever the Empire does something stupid in TLJ, it's because someone is emotional and/or stupid. At least, that's usually the excuse. You have a council of leaders, among them Daro Xen and Shala Raan, who would not, in their right mind, vote to go to war with the Geth, when the Reapers are at their back. This is character breaking. Not to mention Zaal'Koris would never vote in favour of fighting the Geth. And then you've got Tali, who gets a vote and she'd not vote for going to war with the Geth, after ME2. And let's assume, for a moment, that Han Gerrel is indeed dumb enough to start a war with 2 synthetic races, one of which already wiped out all organic life in the galaxy once. How does he get the majority vote? Event he Quarian people wouldn't be dumb enough to follow that order, under those circumstances. No. It's dumb. Not because the Quarians are dumb enough to do it, but because the writers require us to believe they are dumb enough to do it. No. And all this stupidity has the added insult of happening off screen. So we get NO justification for why or how any of this happened, it just happened. And I do understand at some point this conflict would have happened, but the circumstances under which it does, is fucking retarded.


Where? Where does Legion tell us how he questions his existence? All we are told is that they have no interest in organics, or to be like them. And then we're at "does this unit have a soul".


Because that's what they always do. Control the Relay network, through the Citadel and isolate systems, to wipe them out more easily. It's been literally their MO since the Cycles started. We're even told that in ME1.


Absolutely, but it worked. The payoff was good and the vast majority of the gaming community agreed to it. Bioware got it right enough to pull it off. That's all it needed to do and it achieved that and then some.


I don't care about the books, Jack bodies him in the comics and doesn't even remember it, the "related media" are often contradicting the games and even contradict themselves, sometimes in their own book. I don't care. And yes, he does piss off the player in the not intended way.


I'm going to say it again, Bioware intentionally left for ME3 the threads that they did, because they needed to pad the game with something. There's no fighting the Reapers in a squad based TPS. Bioware needed you to do the busywork, to distract you from that. It was a conscious choice Bioware made for ME3. Nothing ME2 could have done, would have spared us the ME3 we did get. It is impressive, perhaps, for a game made in 18 months, but nobody gets an award for "best game made in 18 months" and there are probably better games than ME3, made in 18 months. It wasn't the game it needed to be, evidently, or we wouldn't still be talking about it, 9 years later.


They said that because the SM was a nightmare to work with and the fact that it even works, on a technical level, is a wonder to Bioware's devs. It's never happening again.


And TLJ left Disney with the greatest movie franchise ever dead and with no future. The Mandalorian isn't going to save Star Wars. It's not even making back its budget.

This is the first time I've heard of this.

And we were told it was game over, the moment the Reapers gained control of the Citadel. You'd assume, then, that whatever it was that they got at the Citadel, would be game over for the galaxy races, regardless of the starting point. Why else would they need the Citadel as a starting point? Why have Sovereign running around for a century or how long it was, if any Relay could do the job? It is surmised that whatever exists in the Citadel, for the Reapers, allows for total domination. To imply otherwise, undoes ME1. Because the entire quest for Saren was, ultimately, to stop the Reapers from reaching the Citadel. And if that is inconsequential, then the entire game is pointless.


More or less.


As established by ME3. The equivalent of Kylo Ren having a daydream of his dead dad forgiving him for killing him. It's awfully convenient, not to mention forced, in the penultimate hour.


But Udina was not a Cerberus sympathizer and betrayed his own principles, because his son died for them. Udina was a bureaucrat, a politician and a hardass, but not a traitor.


No. I wouldn't call you wrong. Depends on which "interpretation" suits BioWare today to prove you right or not.

The problem is that it may be the last ME game Bioware gets to make. On the bright side, it may be the last ME game Bioware gets to make.