Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

As I have been saying, the idea is not to touch Shepard and co. ever again. And the best way to do that, is MEA2. So in our back and forth, MEA2 is the idea we got. That's not a confirmation, but nothing else made sense at the time. Hrungr has posted that video where Mike Gamble talks about returning to the Shepard timeline, but without Shepard, but I can't see that being viable in any of its available options.


Because changing it can give the franchise a future.


That would be the definition of a remake, not a remaster.


It was mostly negative, before Casey returned. And by saying negative, I am really understating it. Even with Casey, the feeling was ... if they packed up and closed the next day, nobody would have batted an eye. Not so much ... well, shit. How do I even begin to describe it. There was relief Anthem was finally out, depression that it got roasted, frustration at the users at the words hurled at them, hopelessness at the task ahead and whether they even had a tomorrow to look forward to, insecurity. Lack of leadership is a severe thing. And the people there worked their heart and soul into Anthem, in spite of the poor result. And it's not insulting to say it was a poor result. Because you can work your ass off and still come up with a failure. Casey, alongside the remote work, has afforded the devs a lot of reprieve. Not that they aren't working hard, but having work in the pandemic, that security and the ability to be at home and work at your own pace and especially not sleeping in supply closets, is working for morale. And of course it's a benefit of not working in crunch. But I don't know of the direction DA4 is moving in and if the "solid" vision is as solid as some people think. Things are better now. I don't know whether we'll fall into familiar patterns in the future. I've been told precautions have been taken. Whatever that means. I assume it's some restructuring at work.

Yeah I think it's jus ta simple pain tove rthe cracks over what's already there tbh  rather than a change of engineI domn' tsee myself getting it though I willook ove rsom egamepla yvids when some a rereleased just to be sure

Ho hum. I'll just wait and see. And even if it's ok, I'll not be shelling out much $$ for it. Most curious to see what price tag EA is going to hang on it.

While I would have loved to have some more new stuff added (additional scenes, maybe a few new lore heavy quests) at this point I'm just going to be happy that I get to play one of my favorite games with upgraded graphics and performance on PS4 (and maybe later PS5). We console plebs have been yearning for this for some time.

I feel the exact same way.

If they'd included MP and I had more friends playing on one format over the other, that would influence my decision. But for SP only … whatever makes the most sense for you.

With the mods available for PC, it might make the console purchase more appealing … see the benefits of the remaster on the one that mods have not already upgraded, plus give you the options to play on current gen/next gen consoles.

I think it goes without saying that this is the driving spirit behind the enthusiasm for this remaster. 

For me, I'm thoroughly looking forward to working with Cerberus again to stop the collectors. Unfortunately they're turned into the keystone cops in ME3. Carry on.

I’m buying the remaster just to see Miranda in 4K.