Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

Basically, if you make one "incorrect" choice in the first or second game in the series you might as well do the bare minimum in the third game because there's no point in doing anything more than that. Remember who put out the game and set the arbitrary numbers.

Work diligently with integrity. You'll always get your reward.

One good thing if you have the PC version... someone will write a mod that changes the threshold numbers if they haven't already done so. Oh wait... there's one that's double value war assets already effectively reducing the breath scene threshold to 3750. And there's one that changes the Cerberus Ajax Armor to Alliance Ajax Armor so you don't try to convince Kaidan you're not with Cerberus anymore while wearing Cerberus Ajax armor LMAO because the Ajax armor is the best in the game. And Unlimited scan range so you can scan an entire system without having to play that stupid minigame with the reapers - I mean you just scan the system die, then scan in a particular order so you can escape. This mod is a timesaver. Gotta love the PC version.

Those of us on console... sigh.

unless that single mistake costs you six hundred assets i doubt the validity of this argument.

It can. You have to remember there are people who have never played the game before.

1) fail to do the Armstrong Cluster stuff in ME1 fails Tali's pilgrimage. 

2) Truly RP the game in ME2 instead of forcing yourself straight down the Paragon or Renegade paths and you can end up with no "I win" dialogue choices with a] Miranda and Jack; b] Legion and Tali. The latter can cost you either the Geth or Quarian fleets in ME3. 

3) Make the mistake in ME2 on a first playthrough of listening to a loyal Miranda's "any biotic can do it" and have Miss Perfection and her biotic prowess hold the bubble and take either Tali or Legion with you and you can lose one of them which will cost you either the Quarian or Geth fleets in ME3. 

4) If you didn't let Balak live OR sacrifice the Council, you MUST be able to make peace between the quarians and the geth. If you killed Balak and saved the Council and weren't able to make peace between the Quarians and Geth, you're done. 

we want choices and consequencenes...as long as our characters live happily ever after.

headcannon it if you have to. Its what i did.

Agree... playing a RPG is probably 80% about head canon.

I mean this is literally a game were 4 seconds into the very first mission you have someone die. And then a little further along you see the Geth literally impale living people onto spikes that turns them into husks.  The first game ends with a major attack on a major population center with tens of thousands if not more dead.  I mean you beat the bad guy but I would hardly call that a happy ending.

Anyways.

Finished Mass Effect 2 in the LE and as I pretty much intimated it was a blast going through it again and playing the game again. There is a lot to recommend it amongst the best. And well it being the best and all obviously explains the lack of work...though it really didn't need it. Didn't run into major bugs nor any major crashes whereas ME 1 crashed twice on me. Only bugs was the Turian through the wall in Purgatory and that persistent dialogue randomly cutting off thing that was pretty much there in the original and with them fixing the fog effect on Illium it got a whole lot better. So yeah pretty much 9.5 at the end of the day and I am pretty happy with the overall experience.

On a dissapointing note though...and well this has nothing to do with the LE since its been there in the original, and I do stress that I still really enjoy this game other than that and do not tend to rhetroactively judge games. But with the 'everything old is new again' with the LE...ME 2 really hasn't aged well in comparison to modern BioWare games when it comes to one significant area. Character content and character depth. After Horizon I kept on going back to visit Miranda for instance to see if she had anythng more to say and...well nothing but 'there is a lot to do Shepard' over and over again and this was just after one or two conversations. And while this has not always led to the best results but in Inquisition/Andromeda there is plenty to do with your characters. Plenty of cutscenes. Plenty of inveistgative options. Plenty of opprotunities to flesh them out and get to know them. The more complex things are the more likely there will be problems as well but generally this also might contribute to the cast in Andromeda and Inquisition feeling...so real and well written.

Not sure any real improvements, those seem to be for Ansel. Also these are not the drivers but geforce experience (it is not needed) Sorry for nitpicking, just was curious if there was really something new.

In the first game you beat the game. It might not be a "happy ending" but you felt like you won. You got to be a big goddam hero. In ME2 a colony was wiped out, taken, but you beat the collectors and were a big goddam hero again. But ME3? Nope. Not this time. They forgot it was a video game. Hudson said he didn't want an ending that was "too videogamey." I hate to remind him but this was a video game, not a movie - never mind you couldn't do a save game for the last hour to 90 minutes. (I have to get up in the morning, make sure to change the settings on the machine so it doesn't go into sleep mode or shut off automatically)

I wanted and ending where Shepard and his/her love interest flew off in a shuttle into the sunset. If that's immature, I want to be immature. I wanted to feel like a big goddam hero. Bite me, Bioware. It's a video game. I wanted the feeling that I won. That I beat the game. This stupid assed ending we got didn't do that. Even Destiny did a better job of this with The Taken King DLC with the Oryx Raid where you had the satisfaction of winning. That last battle against Oryx... damn. You got to win and be big goddam heroes. But not in ME3. Nope. They couldn't give you that satisfaction because of "artistic integrity" or rather they wrote themselves into a corner and couldn't figure out how to write themselves out of it. The problem was The Reapers being as OP as they were. The problem was the Crucible.