Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

I say again - what reality are some of you living in where a guy accused of the murder of 300,000 plus the destruction of a mass relay, a whole system and god knows how many millions of credits worth of damage in destroyed stations, resources etc doesn't lead to the arrest of the accused? Pepple might not be on the best terms with Batarians but 300,000 deaths in cold blood? Come on. Do you think that's the kind of press attention and accusations the Alliance, Council or Cerberus for that matter want? It isn't.

But anyway, Hackett's attitude speaks for itself - he was all set to deny this op but he can't now. It had been days since Shep's bungled op and presumably they now have a clear picture what happened. It is a prison after all. Not everyone is as incompetant as Sheperd at gathering evidence - my garage at my house has a CCTV to deter burglars and hopefully capture the image of anyone who tries something. We're really saying a prison has no cameras? Even in its docking bay where escapees would have to go to get a shuttle? To say nothing of gun cams like Eden Prime patrol guy.

If they really came out of that incident with no evidence it was Sheperd, we'd have to add them to the 'people who act stupidly in Arrival' list. Batarians take internal security of their systems seriously. They'd call in an attack like this instantly.  Balak is probably heading there in a ship as soon as he heard, yelling 'FASTER, DAMN IT!' Do you think he'd care about evidence one way or the other? And evidence aside, do you think *anyone* is going to defend Humanity over this? Its a free pass for every anti-human group to say 'Look at what they've done - we *told* you'. You'd make the Batarians look like victims here - *because they are!* 

Also Sheperd can try (unsuccessfully thanks to Kenson) to blow his own cover by warning the colony to evacuate. Full marks for having a conscience about it, zero marks for implicating himself, the Alliance, Cerberus and the Spectres in this seeing as how he currently represents and\or is publically associated with all of them. Its like the Council say in ME1 - his style suits certain kinds of operations. But stealth and discretion are not his way and thus this op is entirely unsuitable for him.  And so it proves. They weren't wrong in that assessment. His involvement always involves mass firefights, big body counts and even bigger explosions. Hackett would have to be out of his mind to think Sheperd was the go to guy for something like this.

This is a failed mission that resulted in a disgraceful atrocity to cover said failure. The idea that the Alliance would try and sweep this under the rug even in the absurdly improbable case there is no evidence isn't just obscene - its transparent lies that would be completely self defeating in the anti human outrage it would foster. There would protests, race riots, wearing an Alliance uniform would be like psinting a bullseye on your back. All amidst border skirmishes, rising tensions and a daily hammering from the media to the Alliance, Cerberus and Council.

If only more of them had made it - no wonder Garrus looked so worried. 'You're going to go this... alone? Wait, let me glue myself back together here...'

They needed their rides back. When they were running to that beam, you can just hear Sheperd saying 'I *told* them to keep their hands off my ground vehicles - reaching the Conduit on Ilos was a snap in my Mako. And I'd be there yesterday if those swines hadn't nicked my Hammerhead. Now I've got to just run?! Isn't there a bicycle or something at least? A skateboard? I'll take anything!'

What press?

The press would only have what the Alliance is willing to give, and Hackett can simply ghost them all. 

In the end, it’s really a matter of priority. Shepard and Hackett know that the reapers are due to arrive in mere months after this delay. Any issue with the Batarians would ultimately be pointless, and hilariously, most are too dead to do anything about it by ME3 anyway. 

In short, fuck the Batarians. Either way they’re bound to waste everyone’s time with their griping while an existential threat looms on the horizon. Keeping as much to yourself and keeping everyone in the dark about the incident is the only option that really makes sense, provided you truly believe there’s a threat coming, which Hackett seems to acknowledge. 

Ah yes, the who wants to commit suicide run, I mean beam run. What a joke. Made worse with the SR2 showing up to pick up the squadmates during the what-the-crap evac scene. But the funniest part is everyone suffering from temporary blindness not to notice the reaper flying away leaving the beam unguarded for them to get to the beam. That couldn't happen, right? All that crap was done for the touchy-feely scene between Shepard and Anderson.

TBH the Batarians have no allies wheras the Allianc eat least has the Council on their side and Batarians had already been using terrorist attacks on colonies for decades befoer then both sponsored by the Hegemony and by independent action. So the Batarians can't claim to be entirel yinnocent and at leas t as Shepard can at least attempt to warn the colony befoer activating the project I'd say their actions are justified.

Yeah I don' t think it's a massive improvement but I think it does more make improvements in areas where the originals needed it but didn't get such as ditching hte MP requirement and galactic readiness a more universal CC across the 3 games as it definitely feels and looks moer coordinated to me things like that. Granted there ae ra few bugs tha thave crept in wit hthe changes but hopefully with time they'll  get ironed out. I can definitely see a tleas t 1 or 2 moer patches coming anyway to straighten it out based on my experience with it. It's a good enough improvement that I like what they've done so I'm not completely writing it off as I can see myself going through again with another Shep later as I do have at least 2 Shep's in mind I wantto play. I'm not doing them now as afte rdoing 2 playthroughs one on the original and then one on the LE I needed a break.

I'll probably play it again to polish off achievements once they fix the achievements but on the Xbox, but I don't see myself ever playing it again after that.  I'd rather play the original versions.  The ME3 adjustments to EMS are not an issue at all as, when I have the EC installed, all endings are readily available even at 50% of TMS.  For me, the graphical improvements are not that big a deal because HDR is still not being recognize with my particular TV configuration (even though the TV is HDR).  I finally got the photo mode working, but I wouldn't say it's working well either.  There's just no upside to playing LE for me over playing the old games right now.

For me there were more ups than downs withthe LE so I'll likely stick with it. I basrel yplayed Pinnacle statio anywayso that isn't reall ytha tbig a loss and if I wantto pla yit I have the originals which I'll probably install on my old games section of my PC harddrive if tha tshould happen but I think for the most part i'll be sticking with the LE

I'll probably eventually uninstall LE from my Xbox and keep the old games installed.  LE is eating up more than 90 GB of my hard drive ATM... space I could use for other games once I'm done with it.

Yeah other than the fish bug I mentioned I've not really faced any issues or bugs if anything it runs and plays very smooth indeed.

For those tha tdon't know I was referrin to this little bug I noticed an took a screenshot of.


fish bug by Steven Sharp, on Flickr

But yeah this is very muc hworth it as whlist the upgrades despite being small all add up to m et omaking it a better expreience I think. Though tbh I don't think the trilogy needed anything major anyway.

I just realized something....about Mass Effect 1. So let me get this straight (from the perspective of an in universe civilian or soldier):

*Humans have been on the galactic front for less than 30 years. About 25 give or take.

*The Geth, who have not been seen outside the veil in centuries after the Morning War, just randomly decide to attack humanity, whom have only been on the galactic front 25 or so years.

*Not only do the Geth attack, but they have a MASSIVE ship that in both size and powers surpasses anything and everything known to Citadel space.

*There may or may not be a rouge spectre involved. Which is kind of just extra, because the Geth have randomly decided to attack humanity, who have only been with the Citadel Species for 25 or 26 years.


Now, if that doesn't put an IMMEDIATE alarm to the Citadel Council...what they hell are they there for?!?! Instead of gathering every fleet in Citadel space, their all like "well we aren't going to risk war over a few human colonies nuked by the Geth..."

BRUH WTF!!!! Literally every Citadel species should be on Red Alert from the jump. Saren or no Saren. Geth came out to attack and people act like its just another Tuesday.


And to think I used to be nice and save these ***hats to keep galactic peace. Shame on me

At this point I feel they did fix ME1 the most, which is fine by me, but lets see when 3rd one comes if they fixed anything in it. Mostly if the combat is now on good level or do I still get stuck to everything etc...
Some of the faces and their animations are hilarious today, more than anything in MEA before patches, but for me they never were a problem.

Now the Legion mission next, I'm gonna just walk over the glowing lines on the ground