Mass Effect Legendary Edition is such an enormous missed opportunity

Maybe its because I have played the game many times with all 6 different classes....but I LOVE Priority Earth.  Why?  Because when combined with ME3's gameplay, it is AWESOME.

Soldier: All Weapons Level X - N7 Typhoon (Unlimited ammo!!!), Indra, Geth SMG, N7 Pariah, and optional pistol, with Shepard going all out in shooting and speed via Adrenalin Rush, dodging lasers while fighting endless Banshees and other husks, Inferno Grenade + Frag Grenade explosions......MAAAAAAAANNNNNNN I had a BALL!

Sentinel: My personal N7 Typhoon X and SMG combo, Liara to have Warp Ammo, Lift Grenades for more Warp Ammo, Overload, Flare!, and going with the 15% chance bonus power (and balancing the power damage via armor so not much is missed)...WAR MACHINE!!  Bodies flying everywhere!  Flares Everywhere and sometimes back to back to back to back!!  Once again I had a ball!

Vanguard: MAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN Don't get me started.  The final battle with a Vanguard, with charge and nova and whatever bonus power you have, while dodging or flying through the laser against and endless hoard of enemies....to be honest that may have been not only my fave boss fight (via Vanguard) of the trilogy, but quite possibly ANY game I have ever played (from the Sega Genesis/SNES days to this very day)

Infiltrator: Soooooo many ways to have fun with the infiltrator.  And don't get me started on a biotic sentinel Infiltrator (with biotic bonus powers)!!!  

Adept: Singularity/Pull/Flare or Singularity/Pull/Lash or Singularity/Stasis/Pull/Throw.  While I do prefer Sentinel and Vanguard, once again I had a ball. 

Engineer: Now I will admit I wasn't as impressed with this class as the others on Priority Earth, but it is still a great class on the final battle. 


And I would even add more to it as well.  The game autosaves after the first portion and you go to the long hub where you talk to squadmates, etc.  So I take the time to exit and hop in multiplayer, bust in those other major fights that should be happening somewhere in London or the N7 Base in Rio (where Jacob flat out says he is at lol).  Then after a few amazing games, hop back on single player and finish the rest of Priority Earth, have the other convos and the brief with Anderson, and then lead the charge in the war to decide the fate of the galaxy....and look cool as hell while doing it! 


Oh, and if you have FLare...throw some at Harbinger while running for your life 



I don't know about the rest of yall...but I had FUN

Engineer is the only class I have absolutley zero experience with but I will admit the idea of playing as lazy Shepard/ Iron Shepard does have a certain appeal.

You can’t compare the Suicide Mission, pretty much the watershed moment of the entire series to Priority Earth and point to the Reaper Embryo as being a bit visually naff and attempt to draw a false equivalency. Suicide Mission had everything... choice, consequence, drama, action, characterisation, atmosphere, tension, pacing, etc. PE failed at just about all of these spectacularly and even ruined the Reapers forever way more damaging to the series to the point that BioWare are still dealing with the aftermath of the reception of PE nine years later while ME2 is still universally regarded (wrongly IMO) as the best game in the series by critics and fans alike to this day largely on the strength of the final act.

Don't misinterpret things. I have friends getting into the trilogy for the first time and their reaction to the endings, with the EC, is still negative and having played the games back to back, just made it more disappointing for them. That we know Bioware isn't going to fix them, is resignation, which is something that no company should want out of the fans of its franchise and what interest there is for the next game, might disappear the moment Bioware doesn't serve the audience something that interests them. I hardly bothered with Andromeda and I am not going to even touch the next ME, if it isn't the game I want. And maybe that is impossible, to satisfy me, personally, but they had a great track record for it, for 12 years, since 1998. As far as I can remember, I didn't wake up one day in 2011 and decided Bioware games are not for me. Rather, the inverse.

As for the "impossibility" of fixing the endings, I don't doubt that some people liked it. You'll find people that like anything. Including some very, very bad stuff. In spite of liking it, it was generally not well received, including the EC. And Bioware chose to patch a sinking boat and stick with it, instead of opting, more rationally, for a new boat entirely.

Yeah it did to me too especiall ywit hall those Brutes and Banshee's descendin gon you in theend and they even had the gall of dropping in a Harvester as well. If tha tdoesn' t scream "We're doomed" I don't know what does. That fina lpart can be a real pain if you don' tuse your abilities right. In th efinal part of my recent playthrough I pretty much had to use my tactical cloak just to get near the rockets especially given I didn' thave any of my shotgun wielding or tank guys with me.

Lazy Shepard gives Garrus a Typhoon X.

Playing a random silver match in ME3MP on London vs Reapers has a more climactic atmosphere than the stilted, bland, drab, small, disconnected, arbitrary, nonsensical finale that was Priority Earth.

I might even see a random geth, krogan or a vorcha helping me fight the Reapers in MP, which is more than can be said of the entire endgame sequence lmao.

It's not even in the top 10 of the best missions in ME3 (which isnt high praise anyway), let alone holding a candle to Virmire, climbing the Citadel tower or the Suicide Mission.

Yea I'm sorry. Priority Earth is trash. But then again, if I'm 100% honest. I don't think Bioware has ever written a good finale in their entire existence...except maybe Dragon Age Origins.

I don't agree with you. I know they won't redo the ME3 endings. But I also don't have to buy their future products. So far, since 2011, Bioware has successfully produced enough controversial titles to harm their branding. I don't believe that DA4 is a game people want, or, more accurately, a game that a large enough part of the gaming public will purchase, to make it financially viable in the AAA segment. The remaster will provide similar results to the decimation of the fanbase in 2012, with its ending and Bioware might limp from title to title, if they're lucky. This is the best one can expect from Bioware right now. Nobody wants Bioware to make a bad game, but nobody expects Bioware to make a good game. And frankly, nobody gives a shit.

So you are one of the many Bioware left behind in these 9 years. They won't change for you and for these people. Now, it begs the question: knowing that in your bones, what will you do now?

I think this might be overstating ME3MP’s importance to the franchise just a bit. In any case, a remastered ME3MP would likely be its own isolated sandbox on each platform, so aside from not having crossplay, players who have been playing ME3MP all this time will probably have to start from scratch, losing all the stuff they might have actually paid real money to get. 

The “full retail price” complaint kind of rings hollow when that’s normally the price of a single game rather than an entire trilogy, and that’s not even counting the expansion content.