Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

So ironically enough I just got through my first PT of the LE as well and while I am still going to do another run through ME 3 starting tonight still I have thoughts on it.

First up for ME 3. On the face of it without making large sweeping changes ME 3 comes off as probably the most bi polar experience of the LE. On the one hand it actually seems to have gotten a huge visual upgrade in some places at least. Much like with ME 1...ME 2 was hardly touched at all but there was a lot of scenes where new stuff seemed to stick out more. The initial escape from Vancouver, the Krogan genophage cure scene having a lot more particle effects in the air (achu!) and the charge to the beam all look very, very gorgeous. As does the hair in general and yeah a few other things. But on the flip side they couldn've reallly used another facial animation pass because, I did not realize this problem was as prevelaent in the original game as it was, thought it was just my Shepard and not even that bad...but talks with Eezo apparently this is fairly universal for custom Fem Shepards. The squinty fricking eyes, so much. Wasn't as bad in parts, was especially bad in Omega...but there we have it. Still despite probably fairing the worse of the remasters for this reason I still had a blast and put something like near on 45 hours into it.

As for the LE as a whole worth every single penny I have paid for it and then some. From a pure technical standpoint I put into...lets make sure I am doing the right math here... 115 hours into it in the end and given I am probably going to put in another 40 right now, worth every penny. And, to be frank, I knew what I was getting with this. This was going to be a remaster, not a remake. Sure they could've still improved this or that, tightened down that bolt, improve that bit of combat even more, re edited things to be more lore friendly in various ways...but this was a remaster so there was only so much they could do, this was not a remake...or a reboot. So in that case I got exactly what I was expecting. And, as I mentioned before, the games on current generation consoles as is would've probably been just enough...and then with the backwards compatability up through the PS5 era as well... and just having the ability to take pictures and stuff, is a real treat. And boy has this been fun revisiting and should be fun revisiting in the future. As far as the bugs are concerned my own experiences with them...well the LE is the most stable game I have played for awhile now. Two crashes in 1 and the rest have been fairly minor, the usual audio bug from 2, a Turian got stuck in the wall in purgatory, and some lost dialogue in 3. But yes, as a whole I couldn't be happier with this product. Gonna be so hard putting it down.