Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

Geth, Quarians, Krogan, and Rachni can all be doomed to that fate in the game.

Don’t cure the genophage and it’s strongly implied that they’ll go extinct post-war.

Strongly implied does not mean they are extinct. If you mean the image shown in the cut, how far in the future is that? They have put up with the genophage for about 1400 years. Why do they go extincted so quickly even with the losses they suffered in ME3?

None of them go extinct. Krogan overcame the first genophage and the "current" one (if you don't cure it) just holds the numbers in check. But: the biggest argument against them going extinct is that they won't stop to search for a cure even if you don't help them. Shepard is not THAT important, that everyone just stops to go after their goals if Shep doesn't help them. Never understood this train of thought. Shep is just one person.

That Quarians, Geth and Rachni were involved in bigger plots with different outcomes also just means that they won't play a major role as a group in a future story. That's the price of being in a prominent position in the trilogy, but it doesn't mean that you can't have a Quarian or a Geth as a squadmate in a future game. That wasn't even a problem of the trilogy, because a. why should the Geth hunt down and kill every Quarian in the galaxy when the war is about Rannoch and b. why shouldn't a Quarian activate/rebuild a Geth if so desired? Don't even get me started on the return of the extinct Rachni in ME3... But with Andromeda established and basically every species going there, it is even less of a problem.

But anyways, I don't even understand why this topic is still discussed as much as it is. BioWare told the story they wanted to tell and that's it. That won't change. The important question for everyone who still wants more Mass Effect is now, whether there will be a great fifth game, with an interesting premise and not whether they'll change the trilogy. That won't happen.

I personally still want more ME. Whether it is in one of the created parallel universes or an Andromeda sequel that stays in Andromeda or one that puts both galaxies together in the future (hint: they could even end such a story arc with the return to the Milky Way in a way that honors your ME3 decisions, because you would see the Milky Way outcomes just in the epilogue once you have succeeded to return) or something completely different, is of less importance to me than a great story that takes ME serious again.

Not as many as 8-9 years ago.


Arguable.


Highly unlikely.


That's the problem.


Who cares? As far as "honouring" our choices, why would they honour them now and in what way to make it up to the userbase that argued with them, 9 years ago? In what way does returning to the Milky Way ...back and forth ... ~1200(?) years after the events of ME3 do anything? Fuck if anyone cares. Might as well have them return in the year 39.568.294. Everyone you know will be dead and even the Citadel will be this archaic relic of a station that just hovers over the Earth. What is there, really, that Bioware didn't utterly burn with the Andromeda Initiative? It's not like we saw much of Earth in the ME universe to be particularly fond of it. Quite the contrary, I'd say. I'd miss Ilium and Noveria more than I'd miss any of the other places. What mattered was the people, the crew and that's all gone. So fuck it. Let's go to the Sombrero galaxy and get wasted on Tequila, instead.

"Then why should I get a remaster when they're not going to change where it needs to be fixed?" That's what they should've thought about that question over before deciding to do a remaster.

How would you know if the online community would not accept it? If that's the case, then it's up to BioWare to blow our minds and prove skeptics wrong.

Because remasters are popular and sell well?  

I mean I don't know I've decided its worth it to get.  

I mean what can you do about it at this point?  Continue to whine?  The ending is done, I personally made my peace with it and the EC makes it...at least tolerable.  The rest of the trilogy is pretty great warts and all and I do have good incentives to getting it and experiencing it again.  I mean does ME 1s crappy combat taints BioWare's legacy?  I think that answer is no.  And even if it were yes, then don't get the dang thing.  My best advice is to move on already.  If the ending is a big enough deal for you to not get it then that is well within your perrogotive but many people are looking forward to this, no matter what our feelings on the ending are. 

Not really. whatculture.com/gaming/10-video-game-remasters-that-were-utter-failures?page=2

I suppose I should have more sympathy for this perspective...afterall I was there.  After the ending dropped and I was pissed at it I followed all the news, all the protests, waited with baited breath on every single piece of information I could find.  Hell I wrote a 54 chapter fan fic fixing it in my own way and how I dealt with it.  I probably obssessed over it and talked the ear off of anyone who would listen and they probably thought I was a little insane over the whole thing.  So I've been there but then...I don't look at that moment with a lot of pride.  And its not one I intend to emulate .  

Sure it sucked, sure it was less then ideal but if something is bad I just move on (like I did with Doctor Who).  I don't view myself as some personal guardian maintaining the truth and I don't have a chip on my shoulder on this, or simply think that BioWare is personally attacking me for having the adacity to mess up from a writing perspective. I move on, I don't worry about it.  Its fiction.  Its entertainment.  And while these stories mean a great deal to me, its not that important, and I am not that important.

I liked it a lot more after the EC came out that's for sure