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

Liara might to see a shrink....People with obsessions often have underlining mental issues. Stalking and obsession are symptoms of many possible mental illnesses and disorders.



My name of Phantom is due to my love-hate relationship to Cerberus Phantom and dangerous they are if I don't pay them attention within ME3(both SP and MP) and I do love attractive women with swords that can kick my ass.

Cadian, I will take your word for it. For i know you have good taste.  On Topic, IF there was a proper remake or con-current MET games, I would love to see Detail rivalry between Batarians vs System Alliance, I mean good bad and ugly aspects between them and possiblity of Batarian asking Citadel punish the System Alliance due to they were infridging on their terrority due to they need the resources within the systems that System Alliance took during the war between both of them. Think of a Grey vs Grey Morality debate.

With a Human and a Batarian putting everything within context for the player character.  

I usually think of it as more its weird how little anyone else cared that you died. Like no one except her tried to recover my body.  Jesus I know I play renegade for the most part but damn everyone else just dropped you like you were nothing.

Shepard: No one cares that I died.

Liara: I care.

Shepard: Fuck you no one asked what you think!

👆 I second this. 👍

👆This.

That is why I do suspect that Liara might have a form of Aspergers. Also Liara is not social adept like Normal Asari adult.  Her odd behavior is atypical for her species and norms of many species.


Also As for Cerberus, a darker shade of Grey with a reasonable size(but not the size of ME3 Cerberus) would be nice. I might post later if people are interested for new bad guy factions to fight against. Side note: I would love a three way headbutting contest between Kai Leng, a Batarian Commando and an Asari and a Player character to stop them from making a hole in the ship.

Along with tracking friendships or disliking someone in said remake. Because the forced friend zone in the MET was annoying.

Who would that someone be? The Alliance? Garrus? Ashley/Kaidan? Wrex? Anyone else who would even care were resigned enough to just write Shepard off as space debris or a frozen briquette on Alchera, not worth any attempt to retrieve. Their knowledge of where the body is at that point wouldn’t really be helpful anyway, especially if the goal is to get someone to bring Shepard back to life. Considering how few character checks carried over to ME2 outside of the actual romance decisions, it would make sense that the volcano line wouldn’t make it through. Fair bet most people don’t even remember that line exists.

As one who makes no secret of my dislike of the Lazarus Project, I too would love to get it out of the trilogy. Of course, for much of the Cerberus story beats to function, dying would need to just be replaced with a long coma. As it is, Shepard’s forced alliance with Cerberus barely held together with its hamstrung dialogue choices. There’d be no way to sensibly write Shepard to actively quit their Alliance career to join an enemy faction of their own free will if they managed to make it out of the attack on the SR1. Likely, actual death would just be replaced by presumed death, and a lot of other story beats would be unchanged, particularly the retrieval of a comatose Shepard instead of a dead one. We probably wouldn’t get the armor in Liara’s apartment, but that’s debatable. It might still be there, just in better condition (meaning Legion would likely not have his signature piece either), and some other tweaks around the Shadow Broker motivations might happen. Maybe playing up his deal with the Collectors, possibly even tying him in a bit closer with the deals the Collectors make for samples as well as the colony attacks could be a thing. I don’t think the change would really be that substantial, since not even Project Lazarus in and of itself is that impactful to the rest of the story. 

This really only works with a prolonged absence. If the SR1 is destroyed, but Shepard manages to drag Joker’s crippled ass and get out of there, the Alliance doesn’t reasonably have a motive to just help them bury Shepard or their claims as well as the claims of the rest of the surviving Normandy crew. In the exchanges we do have with the Council, much of their animus is based on Shepard’s association with Cerberus. Without that, other than BioWare deciding to conjure up some Instant Asshole, I’m not seeing a good reason for the Alliance to betray them. 

I think it would run the risk of actually being worse than what we got. I thought it was bad enough that the game did everything it could to make Cerberus the only game in town, from the Council deciding to be full on bureaucratic cunts to the Alliance being too-poor-to-live. If Shepard just decides to work with a faction they’ve known only as some rando enemy with which their only experience is capturing weird monsters and murdering an Admiral, I think I’d be checked out of the story. The alternative then would be a totally different “faction”, posing as something independent that offers answers. Perhaps then later it would be revealed to be Cerberus, like some sort of last minute twist. Miranda could be that charming NPC that sort of gets us to investigate further, and with no previous associations, we can be suspicious but not have our viewpoint colored by any established history. Personally I find the idea of it not being Cerberus up front would be much more appealing. 

Honestly, if I was really able to just change whatever I wanted, I would have made this version of Cerberus an actual good faction. All this mad science shit wouldn’t be a thing anymore. Like, Project Overlord wouldn’t be a Cerberus operation, but maybe something started by some sort of joint effort between, I dunno, ExoGeni and some other major corporation. Maybe Cerberus could be more like the IMF, and Shepard would be our Ethan Hunt. Maybe Cerberus IS the Alliance, and while the Alliance officially pays lipservice to the Council, backhandedly gives Shepard what they need. 

Faction choices are problematic, because that would require a lot of mutually exclusive content, from companions, to missions and even the ship itself (unless we actually own it ourselves). I don’t see BioWare ever being able to pull off faction choice in a satisfactory way.