Rumours of Mass Effect Trilogy Trilogy Remaster: What would you like to see?

I think if they did anything it becomes a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" situation.  If BioWare said there was nothing to the rumor I could see just as many thread around here being about how they really weren't denying it enough so it must be true and therefore a confirmation so plenty of people would then be upset because the artbook wasn't a game remaster.

Its purely on us for BioWare hasn't been feeding the hype machine based on pure speculation with only tendrils that players created.  To me it seems they went pretty quiet after the rumors started just so they wouldn't give the impression one way or the other.

A lot of people have been cramming for a remaster. Which I don't see the point to, as it has nothing to offer. Still, the people that do want it, would feel disappointed, as more than once the rumour mill has gone round and turned out false. I think it would be better to announce a remake, than a remaster.

Personally? I would go Final Fantasy 7 Remake on it; make it episodic, expand on each part, incorporate the DLCs into the main games, sell each game for a $60, release them, hopefully, on a yearly basis. ME1:E1 would be the intro and first arrival at the Citadel, ends with Shepard taking command of the Normandy and flying off, in search of Saren. ME1:E2 would be the plots regarding Noveria, Feros etc. and would end before Virmire. ME1:E3 would be Virmire, Ilos, and the Battle of the Citadel.

In E2, Bioware would have started adding planets to explore and would add more with each new episode. Which they would continue to do in ME2, as it would, essentially, be added on the original game. From there, you can have your live service quests, with Bounties on Pirates, or Slavers, or whatever outlaws and you'd get loot, get upgrades, expand your power tree maybe? We're gonna have loadouts and gear first Episode will bring our level up to 10 and from there we'd grind our gear score. Anyone that's played Destiny or Anthem or Division or the likes knows what I'm talking about. It'd be huge.

I still wouldn't get it until the whole thing was out and I see if the ending is any different.

Because no way in hell am I throwing away even more money just to take a longer and slightly different path to the same dumpster fire.

Going the FF7 Remake route would be cutting it up. Adding a lot of chaff side content to pad the playtime into a full-length title wouldn’t change that. I don’t want more busywork for minor NPC’s or factions like C-Sec. I’d prefer a tighter focus on the greater narrative, and reaching a more definitive resolution for the main conflict within that single game. An episodic format would just allow the developers to string us along longer to get to the point, but all the while getting more money from us than they would have if they just compressed the overarching story chapter into a single game. So yes, I would say it would be pretty bad. A true episodic title like The Walking Dead or Life is Strange gets away with this because each episode is fairly short, and more importantly, considerably cheaper than a full game. 

I appreciate the idea of having more to do and experience in the world itself, but as a game, I don’t want to get bogged down with impertinent content that starts to make the gameplay experience feel like a chore either. Imagine the Citadel becoming the Hinterlands. Sure, you don’t have to stay there, but our lizard gamer brains are primarily geared toward completion, and the poor design of cramming so much of so little consequence into a single area can become wearisome. 

Alternate retellings are a different story. Frankly, I’d probably sacrifice Kirrahe in a heartbeat to keep both Ashley and Kaidan alive. 

Personally I’d ditch Project Lazarus. It’s one of those elements of the trilogy that I feel aged the worst of most everything else, and is pretty much inert as far as narrative devices go. It never culminates into any kind of meaningful dialogue until the admittedly pretty decent scene at Cronos station when we see the project logs. I think the ending of the trilogy speaks for itself. I’m a person of fairly simple tastes, and would be immensely satisfied with a simple, straightforward ending. Endings that try to make me “think” tend to do little more than irritate me when I spend more time thinking about how this or that just doesn’t really make sense. 

Well, no remake should be a 1:1 of the original. No need to tread the exactly same ground as before. Especially when some of those things didn't work or others could be made to work better. Even, uh, Nomura? Who is in charge of the FF7R said that the remake wouldn't be the exact same game. Which makes sense. Although, with FF7's nearly unanimous good reception has little reason to change much, but he' right. You can do so much more, 23 years after the release of the original.


Yeah. I don't have that much of a problem with it, but I agree.


Yeah. I'm right there with you.

Ah yes, remake. People have their version of what it should be, but the one that counts, is Bioware's version. Will they remake the trilogy? Only time will answer that.

I have many versions of what I like to see for a remake. One is having ME2 happen first. Of course some stuff would have to be changed. Then have ME1 followed by ME3.

I'm fairly indifferent. I don't really mind the order of the games and, even so, we can remake everything to fit us better. God knows enough people have made diatribes on ME2 to rectify its place in a "trilogy" to make it more cohesive as a whole. Maybe even save the SM mechanic for the end of ME3. We'd sort it out.

Well, the problem with the Crucible ending and its "multiple" endings, do not change much because of our previous choices, but rather present entirely new parameters that are disconnected from the choices leading up to that point. And while it is all attributed to the War Score, so there is a connection, it is also an indirect and faceless one. I mean, it really doesn't make much sense, does it?

"Oooh! I see you recruited a bunch of Krogan. Well, that unlocks the Synthesis option."

Awha? Why would ... how did the Krogan unlock the Synthesis option? Did they poor Ryncol on it? Was that a sound engineering practice? Maybe the shot it long enough and all the bullets piled up into it. Or they headbutted it, until it grew like a bump on your head. I don't fucking know. I keep drinking ever since. I'm down to my 3rd liver. I'm still looking for answers. There are none.

Well, aside from an arbitrary War Asset number, it's not like either of those choices contributed much to the ending in the first place.