Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

It was rumored the Legendary edition was delayed in part due them not being happy with ME1 play-ability compared to ME2 and ME3.
Whether game mechanics improvements were or are still planned who knows, but I assumed it would when that came up.

for Mafia definitive edition (while more of a remake, than just a remaster) they took the gameplay mechanics of Mafia 3 for this, thus improving driving, walking etc, while upgrading the graphics and sounds etc., but keeping the stories/missions for the most part.

Depending on how it looks VS mods and how much it costs I might buy this. Current pricing on ME2 and ME3 DLC packs in Origin is atrocious, especially in some regions - they cost as much as a full game and very rarely go on sale.

I'm most interested in a remaster because of the DLC. I bought most (!) of the DLC for Xbox about two years after ME3 and it was still like 70€!

So the whole "not interesting for PC players" argument only applies to those who got the DLC on PC back in the day. Got ME2 for free on Origin and never touched it. I bought ME3 for the MP again. I could mod the games but I never bothered because why replay without the DLC?

I'm super stoked for the remaster BUT if EA wants more than 50 bucks, then I'll be on the fence...
Unless they add cut content (Kaidan romance for Sheploo etc.) I'm not sure I can justify the price tag.

Organizing the beam run? ha. I would get rid of it. The worst part about it is after Harbinger shoots Shepard. Apparently everyone suffered from temporary blindness not to notice the reaper flying away leaving the beam unguarded. But that was done so that Anderson and Shepard could have that touchy-feely scene, right? What made the beam run really bad is the cut introduced the joke called the what-the-crap evac scene. I laughed more at that than I did at the green crap ending.

The one thing I agree with is Anderson when he said need to get people on the Citadel. A couple of reasons for that. They have no idea is they will encounter any enemies and they have no idea where the beam will drop them off at. The more boots on the Citadel, the faster they can locate the switch to open the arms of the Citadel.

I would have left the Citadel right where it was. What would Shepard do? Go to Ilos. Realizing that is the only chance they have, Shepard and  squadmates, including ME2 squadmates, go to Ilos to see about using the mini-me relay to get on the Citadel. When they arrive they encounter Cerberus. Once dealt with, Shepard and squad use little relay. On the Citadel they see the uglies and Cerberus fighting with C-sec in the middle. This is where the player can see those Citadel assets at work. Bailey tells Shepard a guy in a fancy suit went that way. You want to know why that couldn't happen? Anderson. He is on Earth. Plus Bioware wanted feels so they had to have the touchy-feely scene.

Here's something I posted on what I would have done differently for Priority Earth.

Something I posted a few times about that. If blue/green/red is chosen, have the LI stand beside a statue of Shepard on the Citadel. If not, have a tombdstome with Shepard's name on it with the LI standing near it. If no LI, just have the camera show the statue or tombstone. If Shepard survives, have Shepard standing beside his/her LI with their backs to the camera looking out to the horizon as the sun sets. If no LI, have Shepard standing alone.

I would have been exponentially more excited about a total remake vs a texture update/remaster.

You don't have to remake all three. Capcom didn't drop all 3 RE remakes on the same day. Squaresoft broke FF7 Remake into several releases, even though it's a single game.


In the way that it's not the same game as the one 23 years ago? I mean, we did progress technologically. We can do more stuff than back in the day. We can do things now that, back then, weren't even possible. So I don't think I can be mad. Or would the ME1 remake infuriate people? I don't think anyone was mad about the FF7 one. At least, I haven't heard anything.

Of course they can make them separately. The problem is, it still take a lot of time and resources, which I doubt EA would give, and once more, it’d require a full team, different from
Bioware (since they don’t have the manpower to work fully on two different projects, in Edmonton, and Austin is already busy). Between this and a remaster, I had little doubts that EA would’ve chosen the latter path.

I was specifically talking on the remakes being three different releases, each one at full price. While I don’t see a problem with this, I’m quite certain that someone would’ve complained about it.
Oh, I did see complaints on the changes from the original FF VII to the remake, although I think the bulk was during the earlier presentations of the game. I also don’t, though, that people, or most of them, would complain on changes to the trilogy, especially ME. I’d have definitely chosen to at least work on the first game to make it more similar to the other two. Alas, it doesn’t seem to be happening. Hudson did mention something about modernizing the games, although I wouldn’t expect too much about that.

Remake would not be a better options for many of reasons, biggest of them is money. There is no point in investing time and money on something that was already done once. It is a financial risk that most likely wouldn't pay off. Even if they did a full remake, I doubt the sales would be as good as the originals. It is better to do the relatively easy tweaks and take the easy money. That money will ensure that Bioware exists in the future and can keep making games. Bioware could've let Mass Effect fall into obscurity, abandon it completely. Instead they chose to update it for the next generation of gamers and consoles for new people to step in and fall in love with the franchise. So no, it is not flipping a finger, it's another chance for the franchise.

Sure, but this is clearly the more costly route. I’m just working under the framework that the general outline of the final act remains the same, just changing a few things around. Things like Harbinger showing up or the Normandy picking up the teammates aren’t things that really need to happen. The only reason the squad pickup scene even happens is because of their mysterious teleportation to the Normandy at the very end. Simplest solution to that would simply be not have the Normandy even leave earth. That planet they crash on was pointless anyway. 

Hey, hey, hey, let's stop all the smack talk about drunken rhinos ... they have feelings too.

Soggy, inebriated feelings, but still.

Typical of EA not putting money for a quality product. Instead they rely on fucking people over with microtransactions and loot boxes. So, I shouldn't be surprised if they don't want to spend money on something, that would make them a lot of money in return. That's smart.