Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

Only with Javik or Vega.

I don't believe it would be hard at all. Look at what I been saying about Hackett's ending. Remove everything from when Shepard passes out on the Citadel. The crucible fires the red wave destroying the reapers. The epilogue with Hackett's narration plays.

Of course. Even if a poster on this forum suggests something that everyone on this forum likes/agrees with, doesn't mean every fan/player, outside of this forum, will like/agree with the suggestion

ME3 the art design was hit and miss. It lacks commitment to any identity compared to ME1's hard scifi approach and ME2's more fantastical femme fatales, space pirates and mercs direction

Liara got nice unique alternate armors that improve upon the boring ME1 optioms but still has the dopey breather masks. Guess she's not really concerned with zero atmo or getting shot in the head.

Ash was absolutely a miss. She has 1 decent armor, (the basic blue one she wears on Mars), the dopey looking helmet less glowy visor one (all the humans have a version of these) and then her silly tin foil skirt and thigh high boots clubbing outfit she's strutting around Alliance HQ in. Its like they felt they needed a Miranda replacement but put it on a character that aesthetic clashes heavily with.

Garrus/Tali were fine. Tali's alternates got actual metal armor plates to go over her suit, and Garrus gets camouflage and not a broken chest plate, so I count them as straight upgrades.

James and Kaidan were very same-y. In fact I think their alternates were all identical, only the defaults varied with James's armor being black and Kaidan's blue with a stripe down the front. At least theres nothing stupid going on here, but it is rather boring.

Javik is classic. Doesn't even need a helmet on the Dreadnought. Only primitives need helmets to breathe. I'll let it slide because he's Javik.

EDI is awful. Everyone hates on Miranda but I hear less about the "sexy" platform that wears almost the exact same outfits. Legion even points out the design is impractical. An ME2 character has to tell its ME3 replacement it looks silly.

I ask what were they going for. The visual style is a mess, all over the place. ME1 and 2 committed to an aesthetic. Even ME:A does for the most part (Peepee running around the ice planet or zero atmo with a breather masks with her midriff out being the obvious exception)

ME3 didn't know what it wanted to be, visually or thematically.

I still want to know who was in charge of giving the go-ahead to the breather masks in the franchise. The sad part, for me, is that they don’t even look good.
I mostly agree with you, exotically on the masks and Ashley....and the reason why they changed her appearance that way. It’s possible that after deciding they couldn’t bring back some ME2 exclusive squadmates to the full team, that they decide to change Ashley.

This is what I like to hear! I hope they add new hair style options for male Shepard too. 

I also can't recall what kind of casual outfit Shepard had in ME1. But I'm pretty sure you couldn't change it. That's another small improvement I would like to see. 

Yeah, you couldn’t change the outfit in ME1. You always wore the Alliance outfit.

I wouldn’t have seen the hypothetical Jack-Miranda ‘thing’ in my first playthrough, but I would’ve liked that. Similarly in how they developed Garrus and Tali.
I didn’t know there were files about Miranda being a full squadmate. That’s...sad.

I’ll say it again, despite all the problems BioWare showcased in recent year, the idiocy in EA’s decision to give DA2 and ME3 short development time is infuriating.

Eh, the Garrus-Tali thing felt weird and forced to me.

Oh I know. Hopefully next game they get fully suited up if they’re in it.
Vetra does. Drack is almost, except he has one upper arm exposed.

As I've discussed, I saw that the rivalry between Jack and Miranda could have evolved into a very good friendship. Something like how Tali and Legion go from one putting a gun to the other's, uh, let's say head, to Tali crying about it as Legion sacrifices itself in ME3. I believed we would be getting such an arc in ME3. I knew EDI would be getting a robot body, but I also believed that we would cure Thane. Maybe there were/would be plans for it, if the game was afforded the time, but as it stood, they had a very good excuse to cut Thane completely, as they did.

To get back on track with Jack and Miranda, I've said that their respective arcs show them both grow as people, Miranda turning her back on Cerberus would make Jack more sympathetic to Miranda and Jack could also help as a buffer in Miranda's relationship with Oriana. And if you want to ship them together, ship them, I don't care.

I don’t ship them, but yeah, a friendship path would also be good. I just know people that wanted them to get together. 
I generally enjoy any kind of content or relationship growing between squadmates, whether it’s friendship or romance.


 I meant something that would’ve be shown during the Rannoch plot. It’d have likely ended, tragically, during their end.
As I said, I didn’t want that, but given the EDI-Joker relationship, I wouldn’t have been surprised.

I would very much like to see a female bonding story, especially between two such great characters. Especially one that you, as the player, could influence one way or the other. There's just no other story like that in the medium and ... we just skipped it entirely. I don't know how, in the 40-50 years of the medium, this is probably the only chance we got, who knows how long it would be before we get another chance like it and if it will even be as meaningful a story to want to explore, or even as good characters, not to mention the performers themselves. Which is the most prevalent reason why I am so salty about ME3.
*sigh*
What a waste.