What are your too ***SPICY*** to handle hot takes of the trilogy?

He is commenting about the charred, dead bodies on the rock, not the atmosphere/sky of Eden Prime.

What exactly did Sovereign do to the planet to make the sky that red?

Andy, perhaps you missed the bit where I said 'Nobody said it couldn't have looked more realistic'. My point (again) is that whilst added realism is a worthy aim, it cannot come at the expense of completely removing the atmosphere of an iconic level. RE2 remake addressed many issues about how unrealistic the OG Police Station was but they did so whilst preserving and enhancing the atmosphere.

By removing the hellish atmosphere, they have completely no sold the main villains in their iconic first appearence. Its all about visual story telling. Volcanic dust in the skies, raging fires and screams - there were plenty of ways to achieve the atmosphere in a more realistic way. Just saying 'its not scientifically possible for this alien ship that doesn't actually exist to do that, so let's just replace the overcast sky with completely tonally inconsistent sunshine'...

I'd have settled for even a regular non red overcast sky over what LE gives us. They told me it was a beautiful paradise but its been attacked and destroyed for crying out loud. It'd be like going to Sarevo during the war and whistling 'It didn't look like *this* in the brochure... Still, nice day isn't it?'

Because in a horror setting, seeing the enemies more clearly is a basic storytelling error? Horror relies on how people feel in a visceral sense by the atmosphere of menace you create. People were terrified of Jaws but look at the actual shark prop and its laughable. In the darkness of the OG Eden Prime the Geth look 100 times more sinister, their headlamps gleaming with a cold white light in an overcast gloomy environ lit primarily by their lights, flames and gunfire. 

And again, you're ignoring that the changes could have been less drastic. You're obsessing about wanting the red gone but I've already said a regular overcast sky would have been an acceptable compromise. Or simply clouds filled with fiery dust or it being night time with the clouds and dust reflecting the light of the fires. Heck just being night at all instead of a bright sunny day... Hirata Estate from Sekiro for example - way better than this Eden Prime from an atmospheric and visual storytelling standpoint.

Its indefensible to change an iconic, appropriate atmosphere for a lens flare happy sun dappled one that is completely at odds with the needs of the storytelling. Its The X-Files from Season 6 onwards all over again.

I wasnt going to buy it, but I saw that maybe if MELE does well they might bring multiplayer back in it, so I figured I'd chip in and give it some support, ME1 looks amazing in 4K 120 FPS the other two games look good also but ME1 is really awesome, plus I love ME1 story and atmosphere, the other two games are garbage at those two elements and I am having a hard time getting the motivation to finish 2. I dont even want to think about playing 3 and that horrible writing. 

Shepard is 29 in the first game and Tali is 22

There's fire and lava nearby. Forest fires make the sky red. Lava does too. You can look at videos on youtube.

I'm fine with the new sky. I like both. But too many people have been saying the red sky was unrealistic and it wasn't. Red skies happen. Picking one over the other is a matter of taste, not realism.

Nah, it was very saturday morning cartoon level of "hell". Very 2000s too if you looked at the gaming landscape at the time.  It wasn't disturbing or fearsome. There is no eerie sense of dread that the MELE makeover subtly gives. Just very on the nose and comic-book-y. With Saren too it just screamed very generic cliche ancient evil setup you would see on some random TV show. Luckily the rest of the game shied away (somewhat) from the tackiness.

The MELE of Eden Prime is much less disconcerting, and much pleasing and interesting aesthetically. Eden Prime actually matches canonically what it was said to be. There's no dissonance in the lore anymore. And the attack itself  you take more convincingly  on a cognitive level in terms of  the awe and mystique of everything happening to it. Visually it lends itself to feeling more impactful. There's nothing about Eden Prime in the original to make you feel that it's a precious garden paradise worth being saved and not immediately tossed away. There's nothing to be bothered by.

The contrast  given between the ominous mystery of Soverign  floating above and wrecking havoc against what is supposed to be a beautiful, lush, and supposedly serene planet is very appealing from an aesthetic standpoint. Fiery disaster on a clear, sunny day is much more unsettling  than a boring blanket of one shade of red casted everywhere. The original felt monotonous and overwrought with "look, at this, this is EVIL! Red is the color of EVIL! Don't you get it? It's evil!"

It being "iconic" is merely happenstance of replay value.

Lava?  Since when was Eden Prime ever a volcanic planet?  There's no lava on Eden Prime in the OT that I can recall.  The red sky was merely cartoonish and misleading.  I much prefer the smoke, the more numerous and realistic fires on the ground, and the visible ash floating in the air.  If you now trigger the cutscene from the spaceport, the amount of wreckage you see where Sovereign landed is far more foretelling about the level of destruction to come than the "red streaks" on the ground and red sky ever were... and those "red streaks" were never lava.

Am I crazy or could you shoot the star child and he would then speak in Harbingers voice and say something then walk away and it ended with refusal, but I tried doing that again and it didnt happen. Did I imagine that?

Eden Prime in the original ME1 looks nothing like that picture though. I honestly don't believe the devs were inspired by forest fires.