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

I saw in another post your comment about voice acting impacting what devs can do, just for cost reasons alone.  It took me a long time to accept DAO because I couldn't deal with lack of voice on the part of the warden.  I've recently come to see it as a great game.  Neverwinter Nights almost certainly didn't have voice actors.  I can't remember for sure and I now what to go back and play it if it'll run on Windows 10.

Anyway, yes, cost cuts into things.  We either get the great storytelling and better choices of outcome in an unvoiced game or we spend the money on actors.  Now that I've come around to DAO again, I'm realizing I could do without the voices.

It depends how much different they are. It can come down to growth, but being inconsistent with the lore, like any Quarian, not just Tali, taking off their masks on the regular would be bad. Or Kaidan going off to celebrate with a Turian biotic teacher from Jump Zero. Not the dead one, of course, but you'd assume Kaidan would be a little predisposed toward Turian biotics. That would be a glaring mistake, but pretty hard a situation to create.

As for Liara's "cameo" in ME:A, I don't know what's worse? that they obviously shoe horned her in, with her "sociopath" personality from base ME2, or Ali Hillis just seeing how bad it sounded and just phoning it in?

but we have to deal with the Liaramancer because they love Liara that much. They will want her back that much

That depends on whether the public is interested enough in Ryder to care about his growth, or if they'll groan and tune out the moment they see his return. You'd have to take it in a per individual basis, but the prospects don't look that good.


Oh, well, there you go.


I'd argue that a lot of the characters, especially the ME2 ones, aren't explored enough to have that set personalities, as long as they don't go back on previously established traits, like Jack saying she's against "brainwashing" the Geth and be in favour of brainwashing anyone in a sequel. Vocabulary, expressions etc. could be part of further exploring these characters. Anything that isn't directly contradicting, I could follow with.


You would have a director, though. And maybe have the actors play the previous games, or at least watch youtube videos of the characters they are supposed to portray to get a feel of the characters. Or even have a chat with one of the original VAs, provided they are still alive, in order to get a better grasp of the character.


There's a whole fucking lot of cut content for the original games. Miranda and Jack were both, at one point, squadmates in ME3. Which is why Jack got such a drastic redesign, that nobody else got, for that game. There's even artwork with her and her new look on the Normandy's bridge.


That's a 30% improvement right there, for ME3. No more dreams, no more of that stupid "you can't save me" conversation and the forced symbolism of that whole scene. I mean, come on, I'm not that stupid, don't hammer it like that, Bioware.


Well, the other characters apparently aren't the ME poster child, it seems. So fuck us for wanting something, or someone else.


But what about Liara, then? Is it even a ME if Liara isn't in it?

I was satisfied with the analysis of polling data from this board we did a while back, which made it look highly likely that Ryder was dragging the MEA setting down. Although generalizing from the tastes of posters here to the majority of gamers isn't typically a sound procedure.

In any case, EA has people whose job it is to research this stuff. I'm sure they presented their conclusions long ago.

Kaiden is always a good choice for a Love Interest.   Just curious, how would you feel if the bad guys clone Kaiden and make them work for them?

One small thing I would like them to add in the trilogy remaster is in ME2 or ME3 there is a new news story talking about the Andromeda Initiative. Just to better link the games together.

It is. Look at ME2. The player doesn't have to see her in Illium and play the broker dlc. There you go. ME without t'soni. 

I'm sort of on the opposite opinion of this.  I think they should double down and reemphasize the secret nature of the project. Though a Thane DLC where he goes around and assassinates everyone who knows about the project while deleting the data before the Reapers show up would be pretty sweet.

Let me add a couple more things. If a player romances A/K, it will be one of them telling Shepard Moreau won't get to an escape pod. If not, the asari will tell Shepard. Another thing is don't talk with Taylor. He will mention the asari by name when first meeting him. I believe TIM will as well when first talking with him. 

A player can lessen the presence of the asari throughout the trilogy. Rescue her at the last minute in ME1. Don't talk to her. In ME2, if romancing A/K, she won't exist as I pointed out above. In ME3, don't talk to her outside of cutscenes forcing the issue. After Thessia, go straight to the galaxy map to head to your next destination to avoid hearing all the dialogue from characters mentioning her name because of what happened to her homeworld.

They've called it one at parts in the game. And its beyond asinine for it not to be with the reapers coming.

In places where people recount how they joined the initiative they frequently describe it as being brought into this secret project.