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

The budget would be 2.5 times larger than that of the ME3 we got and the dev time would be 3.5 times longer. So as much as that would afford us. Just to reach the dev time and budget of Andromeda, not even that of Anthem.

That’s a fairly broad overview. Obviously I’m not asking for anyone to do some sort of big flow chart of all of the mutually exclusive paths, but what I am saying is that this may be a great deal more complicated than suggested. 

I’m more of the mindset that maybe BioWare should work toward a better balance of efficiently managing its efforts while not trying to bloat the game with content that’s too dependent on a previous game’s save files. I think this approach would probably work better for a purely standalone game. If we’re going to get some big sprawling game with a lot of story options and wildly divergent alternate paths, maybe we would be better off not being tied into a series that carries things over, ultimately finding out that it’s just biting off more than it can chew. 

Did Bioware have the budget for what they originally wanted to do for ME3? Or was it because they didn't have the time? If only EA gave them 5 years like was given for MEA.

But they did so for Andromeda. So I don't see the reason not to. ME3 should have, arguably, been a greater production than Andromeda.


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The problem is you are thinking of ME3 and that's as far as you'll look. We're talking ME4, ME5, ME6 and beyond that, reaching into other franchises, not just within the developer, but rather within the publisher and how ME3 affects EA's public reception and all the brands under its wing. You've got, under your brand, the greatest gaming undertaking of all time. And you pulled it off. Not SONY, not CAPCOM, not SquareSoft, not CD PROJECT RED, but EA and Bioware, that's who. That's prestige you can't buy and nobody else will have in the medium, unless they attempt something similar and manage to pull it off. And they're all years away from building up to it. CDPR are the closest studio to that prestige right now and, I'm going to be frank here, other than doing basically good customer service, they've done nothing to earn it. Personal opinion, you don't have to subscribe to it.

True. We're not at all involved in the development process. Isn't it fair to say, though, that with a budget and development time of Andromeda's caliber, we'd get a much greater game than the one we got? Maybe not by a 1:1 enlargement ratio for expanded budget and time, sensibly so, but enough to add what the fans would have expected to see, but didn't.


Some choices should, yes. Even if just to see the failed outcome. Some people had multiple saves to import to see these things.


In that way, though, you ensure you have a player want to go through the trilogy, at some later point, see the things they could do different and get a better outcome. Some people do annual runs of the trilogy, some never touch the games again, after the ending debacle. But in a scenario, as the one suggested above, the MET might be the ONLY game they ever play, again and again to experience all these different things. Even if I am completely stuck, forever and ever, in this one title, I am then going to buy the next ME, even if I never play it, because I can't wait to see what Bioware comes up with for the next trilogy and I will buy the incremental graphical upgrade of the "remaster", because I want to play these games again, with a texture pack and reshade.


Then you get the same backlash you originally got. Which you probably wouldn't want to.


Maybe you're right. Maybe I'm right. Problem is, until one or the other is tried, which wasn't, we can't tell for sure. Maybe your version will be enough. Maybe it won't be. Maybe it's too little too late. Maybe you'll need to go all out, like I'd have Bioware do. What I can tell you for sure, if my suggestion is overkill, imagine what that would do for Bioware's image.

I also had a thought. A Remastered ME1 NEEDS to rework the Thresher Maws. Most irritating sheeeet in any game. I'd probably change it so that it spawns in the centre of the 'area' and just stays there spitting acid at you. I'd also get rid of the 1-hit kill melee it does. Frankly the only way to consistently kill TM's in ME1 is to cheese it back with a Bastion Adept or Sentinel and use Stasis to freeze it while also damaging it.

Time, as I recall, was on the short end, but it's hard seeing if anything we got would have really been any different. The basic narrative I think would have been the same. Maybe we'd have had more goings on at Earth, Omega would have been part of the base game, and we'd probably have a lot more MP stuff, but otherwise, I can't really think about how anything we ended up getting would have been any more substantial. Give it 6 to 12 months (which it probably should have gotten, if nothing more than to round out the typical 3 year production cycle), and you'd see a few touch-ups and maybe a bit more depth and substance for certain parts, but otherwise, ME3 (and all of its problems in the narrative) were not dependent on time.

Well both of them are designed to be hate sinks for players to hate.     Paragon Of Our Kind is so pro alien that even other aliens and pro alien humans are put off by them. Black Talon organization makes the worst of Cerberus look Boy Scout.  If people think Pragia from Jack's Loyality was a nightmare, Exploring a Black Talon base will have more implied and shown nightmare fuel. For example, how they convert willing members into Black Talon Wraith(they are nightmarish blend of a N7 Fury and Cerberus Phantom and giving them a predator personality). With Black Talon Wraiths, their implants are more extensive thru out their bodies and deeper than most factions are comfortable for their biotics. 


Black Talon Wraith has better control of Annihilation Field than N7 Fury and able to use their biotics to attack from any angle. Imagine Black Talon Wraith using their more offensive biotic as an aerial assault and biotic charge if they want to get in close. My Intent with Black Talon Wraith is to be a dedicated Boss battle when encountered. True they have a nice arsenal of weapons including Shotguns and other types of weapons. Yes Many Black Talon Wraiths have known to have a Wraith Shotgun(yes the actual ME3 shotgun).  They have a High Quality Light Armor on par to Medium Armor of similar make. They have a Skull Helmet for Scare Factor. Yes I am using Reaper from Overwatch as inspiration. 

Common Black Talon Wraith Abilities:
Annihilation Field(their biotic implant and amps produce a stronger Annihilation than N7 Fury and other biotics and able to control it more effectively)
Dark Channel
Reave(yes they can drain you of your health as well while having a damage resistance)
Throw
Warp
Biotic Charge
Health Regeneration
Biotic Bubble
Increase Agility, Strength and Durablity. 


One of their passives does allow them to biotic float like Top Tiered Asari Justicars and Pathfinder biotic Ryder.


Black Talon Juggernaut is Jet All Black Armor with a Faceless Helmet. High Quality Heavy Armor that enhances their strength up and beyond even of the strongest Black Talon Wraith. And Often they will carry a variety of Heavy Weapons comfortably. Remember all of the Heavy Weapons within ME3 and ME2, they are strong enough to comfortably carry them into battle with more than enough ammo to decimate enemies platoons.



There are more Black Talon enemies types, I have to work on.  Paragon of Our Kind will have solely be made of High Quality Biotics and Tech abilities.  So They have sabotage key locations for Reapers to take over locations.  

I had some more things I'd like to see. To recap.

1: Kaidan Bi from the start/in ME1

Unless a ME1 remake is included to justify the re-purchase I'll hard pass. If it does like the Mafia trilogy I think most people like myself will just see it as the Mass Effect 1 remake and not bother with the 'bonus content'.

14: Remove all sync-kills from ME3-R

15: Replace that awful, dated, reporter than nobody cares about Diana Allers, with someone we actually do care about, Emily Wong.

Last I heard, it wasn't actually happened. The "down payments" were retracted or something.

For me, though, a dealbreaker is changing ME1. I know people hate the style but I loved it. Loved the kind of modding of weapons and guns. Loved that a gun you find/buy isn't instantly available to everyone because you just have the one and have to decide who to give it to. So, know, I wouldn't change it. I would keep Shep's apartment and move it forward into the next two games but apparently not an option. I'd also restore the cut content with BroShep being able to romance Kaidan or FemShep able to romance Ash (the voiced dialogue and video is all there but BW chose not to use it. It was actually the BroShep/Kaidan romance from ME3 that drew me into Mass Effect. I never realized how I'd fall in love with the entire series as a result. Still, I'll happily play the games I have if that doesn't become part of it.