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

If this remaster is "testing of the waters", then who is the target audience? The trilogy is old enough and have been countless times on discount and now is even on steam. EA have all the metrics through the years, what more could they want? Everyone know the trilogy is super popular and was played a lot, what could some resolution and gameplay tweaks to change in general? I also think this remaster is waste of resources and time and even with the new console gen i don't think there will be lot of sales.

I am not even sure a remaster would give them that kind of new information even for the one estimation for sales being so far off.  Unlike games like Command and Conqueror, Mass Effect is still a recent game that people are still playing.  I was even playing Andromeda's multiplayer last night for a couple of hours, its not nearly as popular as in the past, but groups still form.  Along with things like EA Play and the backwards compatiblity on the Xbox already those should be enough metrics that show people playing the game without the costs of a remaster.

My speculation is that this is either for the Playstation fans that cannot play the games on their new hardware or that its just a bone to throw to people because it still years before the next game, but if the reports are correct about the different things that are happening with it I don't understand why at all.  Overhauling ME1 is going to frustrate just as many people as it might please and not including ME3MP I think is going to hurt one of the biggest selling points of that game.  Its why I remain skeptical until its announced and with the latest day of speculation that it might be announced less then two weeks away its going to be interesting to see what happens.

Yea hwhilst I don' ttouch the MP all tha toften if at all I still pla ythe singleplayer as it'sstill a lot of fun. Fo rme i tdoesn't really need remastering as the graphics even on ME1 aren' t that bad by today sstandards. TBH a rerelease on PS4/5 is really all it needs. It doesn' tneed anything els eas both PC and Xbox users can pla yit just fine and given the series X has full compatibilt ywith all previous Xbox games it won' t need a remaster either tbh.

Indeed I'm not giong t obyu a ermastered version when the curren tversion works jus tfine. I tma ybe good if anyone doesn't own or has played the originals as that's the onl yreason why I'm considering the remastre of Hot pursuitas I never owned the origina lof that. But I think most people that like that kind of game did. Especially as all 3 were pretty high in the charts around the time of their releases.

There are a lot of people these days who haven't played the Trilogy. Heck just yesterday I walked into a Service Station with my N7 hat on and they thought it was Dead Space for a second, then when I told them it was Mass Effect he was like "oh, that Andromeda game!...yea that game was kinda bad. I only played cuz my buddy made me." That guy is pretty indicative of where ME is in the eyes of the wider gaming community. 

People on these forums (including me) are just old die hards who don't really fit into the primary video game demographic. That is why Bioware basically ignores all of our feedback here, except for LukeBarrett, You're awesome for actually wasting time around here.

Unless I’m mistaken, Ye Olde ME3MP is actually still technically alive, so it would make sense that a revised version of the old trilogy wouldn’t include it. I doubt EA/BioWare would really want to go back and start retroactively updating the old game with cross-platform/generation capability, and veteran players are likely to have no incentive to start anew in that ecosystem either. I don’t think multiplayer’s absence would have a particularly meaningful impact on the game’s prospects, even if EA themselves still want to believe online multiplayer is the ultimate endgame for all gaming. 

The idea that loot boxes would keep any publisher or developer safe is tragically hilarious and ironic. Imagine, the shitty gambling tactic that contributed to the ruination of game quality across the board from these major corporations, becoming some sort of sad life support system because they couldn’t be arsed to actually make better games that gave more quality up-front. It’s like poetry; it rhymes. In reality though, I think EA is starting to get the idea that people aren’t as eager to suck their dicks and believe their lies, so perhaps there’s some hope and that anything “live service” we get won’t be some nickel and dime system that sells us a premium price game in a freemium model. 

I also don’t really think it’s going to be announced, but with nothing else to talk about I guess it’s fun to speculate. I won’t lie that I’d be disappointed. Having people complain (or gloat) that nothing happened is not as interesting as people complaining about the real product coming true. 

It's a great way to get people back and boost that MTX revenue, either through old players, or new players getting into the trilogy. You can make the old MP backwards compatible. I don't think it would require that much work. You don't need to update the old MP mode, you just need to include it for the remaster, exactly as it were, or you can patch the old game, for the MP alone, to be compatible with the remaster's.


We've had forum members here saying they're just not interested in it, since it won't have MP. Considering the larger fanbase was very fond of the MP, this will impact sales. Even if it isn't the end all be all.


It is a very reassuring cushion for any publisher, while it fills up the coffers.


*Stares at EA and its streak of ill received titles, from Star Wars: Battlefront to Anthem
Haha, yeah, imagine thinking that
*Sweats bullets


I think the grind will be more fair and the MTX will be to buy specific items, not lootboxes. The specific items may be overpriced, but it's an upfront transaction, at least. And you will be able to gain these items through gameplay, without the grueling grind.


The online community could be revitalized, in terms of content creation, from a remaster and it is the most positive thing I am looking forward to from this remaster, provided it is real. On the other hand, getting all these VAs back to bank on nostalgia can't be coincidental, but, just like the remaster itself, isn't helping the franchise move forward. Everyone is going to hanker back to the pre-ME3 meltdown debacle, with nothing to look forward to, for another ... 6 years, at best. It's like Bioware is admitting that "only this is Mass Effect" and that nothing else can be. Which begs the questions of why retire the crew in the first place and how are you going to move forward?

I don't know what this message Bioware is trying to convey to the fanbase is attempting to achieve. Am I reading it wrong?

Exactly. The only point of it, is if you specifically want it for the PS ecosystem. I don't see it being that successful.

Heres the one point I'll push back on. There have been games in my life, that I had literally never even heard of, until a Remaster for it came out, or a game I personally didn't have a means of playing.

Most gamers are Console Gamers, and most Console Gamers don't keep their consoles from the previous generation. These are facts. I know for a fact, because all my buddies are the same. So are their buddies, and theirs, on down the line. I stand alone as the packrack that keeps all the consoles. Even if potential new fans have heard of the ME trilogy, most of them are likely console peasants who don't own last gen hardware anymore to try them. Companies like EA know this, not everyone who works for that company is stupid afterall.  

Nothing.
Improved graphic and that's it.

The trilogy is almost perfect as it is.