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

If the remake is true I have no problem spending the money least it will preview long before the next game will (again if its true) sorry but taking a decade to produce a game means in 4 of them all will have died, retired etc. so where is the money going to come from? sorry just ranting 

I tried insanity for a bit, then immediately dialed it back. Health pool buffs and immunity mechanics are the lowest effort way to up difficulty, and frankly isn’t worth the bother. 

The time trial Virmire map on Pinnacle Station is the stuff of nightmares though.

I have gone through Pinnacle station twice in my life. That was enough. In ME1 combat most of the problem comes from how AI behaves, they all seem to always go in circles with massive speed, like Pariah on amphetamines in MEAMP... and to get melee hit is a game of chance in ME1 especially if your framerate drops. It might be even worse on original X360 as I've seen it go down to 15fps or so.

I still like the freedom of movement in 1 and A more than the camping behind barricades and bolted to floor style in 2 and 3.

This is where Andromeda found a really nice middle ground IMO. You have a very decent cover mechanic but movement is also an option, especially with the jetpack or if you skill vanguard style.

I'd like them to fix the fact that you can romance liara for 2 and a half games, yet she'll still say 'so.. Just friends?' on the citadel.

I'd have it as a option when meeting at Mars to lock it in properly from the start, if you choose to do so. And then have more romance orientated dialogue from that point.

Same for the others.

I think if it were the popular we'd see ME Online.  Not that I'd want that, since my investment in ME is entirely dependent on Shep and his/her interactions with squadmates and friends.  If this remaster is real, and they can't upgrade graphics or combat, what's the point?  You can already buy the trilogy cheaply on Origin.

Yep. ME is my favorite game series ever. Nothing else has ever drawn me in so deeply. It's part of why I want to IP retired. MEA didn't ring the bells people wanted. It wasn't hated like people here like to pretend but it also wasn't loved. It mostly got an "It was okay" reaction. Not good for moving forward.

So on to everyone's ideas for a post-ME3 MW game. They'll never live up to what's gone before. Writers who were uninvolved with the MET will come in with their own ideas as to how Shep, A/K, Liara and so forth will think and behave. They'll essentially be new characters. I'll look at Kaidan, who will almost definitely have a new voice actor (probably all of them will), and I'll be like "Kaidan wouldn't do/say that". Why is Garrus carrying a pistol? Tali took her helmet off. wtf! These are exaggerations but even minute changes will become obvious, especially when we see it all over.

Then I can imagine a lot of nostalgic talk over the events of the MET. If I were a gamer who'd never played the MET, I'd feel lost. Then maybe I'm playing on console that can't run the MET. Now you stay lost. I'd never pick up the fourth book of a series without having first read the first three.

I'd rather be happy with the memories I have of the game. Build a new IP and hope it grabs us the way ME and DA have done. Also know your target. These games were loved by people looking for an SP experience. Live service isn't it. SP with a likable cast. They can look to successful games to have an idea of what resonates with gamers who played them and go from there.

Blend genres?  Not sure what you mean.  SWTOR is MMORPG that you can play as SP.  ME3 and MEA had entirely optional MP - though I understand there was a time when playing MP really upped your best outcome in ME3.  Is that where you're coming from?  Nothing I've heard from Anthem is that it game a real SP option.

That's a great way of putting it.


While not a fan of recasts, I have heard VAs that do a fantastic job of being close enough, to be adequate at worst. Changing the characters looks, though, is an absolute no-no. That entirely beats the point.


If used right, it could be a good apology for the Stock Vas Photo debacle.


True. But Mac Walters is still there and he helped conceive a lot of these characters. And I know I've given Mac a lot of shit, because he fucked up and he knows he fucked up, he has low key admitted it, but he is an excellent character writer. At least, from what I've seen of him, so far. Maybe they were flukes, but I doubt it. I do believe that, at least as a character writer supervisor/lead, he will do a good job. If the belief is that all of Bioware's writers are absolute shit and can't write for shit, then Bioware's fucked regardless. At which point, we'd be arguing in favour of EA closing Bioware down, lest they start looking like modern day J.K. Rowling.


The problem is competition. I mean, competition is always a problem, but the genres are crowded by games that demand more and more of your time. It is a big investment for the gaming public to engage into a new IP, especially when there are ready games, with large, established communities and better track records, that Bioware has little chance to compete against, by being too late into the race, even with a stellar new entry. Meanwhile, as I said in the DA4 skepticism thread, other companies have made a name for themselves with mediocre entries, simply by stepping into the space Bioware chose to recede from. I think at this point, the Bioware fanbase is more reluctant to follow Bioware in their brave new endeavors and see how other companies do a better job catering to their tastes, while Bioware fails to capture these new markets. Maybe that will change with DA4, but that's a very risky "maybe" Bioware is gambling on, in my opinion.

Larian and CD Project comes to mind, off the top of my head, Spiders is coming dangerously close, as well. Arguably Obsidian was, until they got bought out by MS, so who knows what they're going to do next. InXile, recently, with Wasteland 3. The AA segment, while not AAA, as Bioware is expected to be, offers some fantastic games to grab your attention. And considering some of Bioware's more lackluster recent attempts, one could argue that, in spite of being AA productions, feel more AAA than Bioware.


I'd concede the CGI point, but you've seen Bioware's recent attempts at scripted cutscenes. I'd argue Bioware would be better off without them. Let's not pretend otherwise, we've all seen the meme compilations.


I completely forgot about Stoic. And don't Amazon Game Studios have some former Bioware folk? I seem to remember so and New World, while not a perfect game, is fun enough, from what I've seen. I'm expected to get a VDSL connection, finally, in a month or two and I am itching to check it out.

However, my point was that the segments that Bioware seems to want to break into, the story driven action games, are already capped by studios such as Bungie, Naughty Dog, Insomniac etc. just to name a few. And what they lack in "player choice", they make up for in continuity. Like, in the Dragon Age games, we get to make some pretty radical choices to the world ... and then we can never revisit them. I get the reason behind it and I get the world of Thedas is quite vast that allows us to explore different parts of the world, which is probably the point, but we don't get to live in the parts that we've shaped and ultimately, that would be the goal of making these choices. Bioware seems to treat these situations as "scorched earth", with the repercussions of those actions expressed in lines that reference the events, acknowledging that we did them, but that breaks the "show, don't tell" rule. And that takes us further into a different argument that we could discuss, if you feel like it.