Art of Mass Effect Trilogy expanded 'leaked' (I guess) via Amazon. Release date: Feb 23rd, 2021.

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I think Bioware are doing their best, without anything to actually show for the franchise, to keep interest and feeding the fanbase something. It's been 8 years.

While I agree the ME OT IS by far their best game, I don't understand why they have the recycle a game series that is now more than a decade old and 'remaster' the graphics (what? they think that'll make it a brand new game? No. Nice a shiny maybe, updated textures etc...but the game itself will remain exactly the same as it was at release ten, 12, 13 years years ago.) As much as I love the ME OT and I have all the books and strategy guides...I don't think I'll be buying this one because it'll be having a duplicate of games that I already love and enjoy. It doesn't bother me that the current release game engine is 10+ years old... ME 3 in particular, still looks amazing after all these years and now that I have a 4K monitor it looks better still.

Personally, I would rather see the ME team invest their time and money into something like an Andromeda sequel, not a refresh of a game they've already milked. To me that just shows that the studio is struggling. If they have to re-release a game that's 13 years old now just with updated modernized 4K textures and the like, just to make money....they must be at an all-time low. Don't get me wrong, I'm a BIOWARE fan through and through. I've stuck it out and praised the studio and their games (like ANTHEM for example) when a great many people (even people on here) said they were horrible.

But to me....This doesn't mean they are a "horrible studio", it just shows me that they are running out of original ideas and want/need to cash-in on a past success in order to show they are still relevant, which to me isn't the way to show that and doesn't make sense. To me, if they want to show they are still relevant, they should focus on this redux of ANTHEM (making sure that IT doesn't suck, making sure to finish the job correctly this time around), or concentrate their efforts on even DA 4, because that is their next biggest franchise, which could have equal potential of derailing the studio.

THere's so much more they could focus on than simply a "Remaster" of the ME OT.

The first trilogy is a whole game ? Isn't that cheating   ?

You want 8 years old graphics again? I recently dabbed into ME3 and it hasnt aged so well in that department at all... complete overhaul of lighting would be needed and much much larger textures.

I take the graphics of ME2 over MEA. Less resolution but no knee and neck pain from watching.

I have an idea of a ME:A:2 game that Ellen Ryder as the Player Character and the story's primary focus is about the Jardaan. She will get her own squad that is different from Pathfinder Ryder.

I don’t see the correlation. The Paragon/Renegade system didn’t make Shepard a badass. Renegade just made them an ass.
As for a more seasoned Ryder, I hope these personality changes are just optional. I prefer Ryder’s personality options over them so wouldn’t want that ruined just to satisfy edgelords.

For sure.  Definitely will fix 3 when I get there.  Can't even see that kid in the air duct on Earth.

I don't recall a Paragon Shepard ever being how you describe. 

As for Ryder, my Ryder stood up for themselves, didn't let characters to continue to do stupid things, and wasn't led by SAM but worked together. 

Really? Look at the asari knocking Ryder down scene? Why can't Ryder get in the asari's face for that? All the player gets is some pathetic time delayed interrupt that amounted to nothing. There's also a couple of times character mouth off at Ryder without any response. Why can't Ryder get in their face and sound off at them. Show them they can't mouth off and get away with it?

The asari did. First the knocking Ryder to the ground. She found the perfect guinea pig to put up with her crap that she does it again with the escape pod.

Is that what you call it, together? It wasn't Ryder that got them in the kett facility. Without the voice Ryder would never have progressed any further in the archon's ship.