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

I think Eden Prime looks worlds better, but then all of the environments do. I especially like the updated lava effects on Therum.

So long as you dismiss 'atmosphere' as something we shouldn't care about, ME will continue to falter. If you can't see the problem in losing an extremely effective mood setting intro that sells the monstrous, otherworldly nature of the threat (the effect is intended to make it reminiscent of a demonic invasion - that this isn't 'just' a really savage attack, its something different from a pirate or slaver raid etc). To lose that in favour of this blatant attempt to pander to the mainstream who prize photo mode 'Guys, its so gorgeous' nonsense for their chat streams then we really are in trouble.

Getting hung up on ideas of realism is a blind alley as we already covered. It would have been easily solved by setting it at night or making the sky overcast. Making it a bright sunny day can only demonstrate either a tone deaf attitude to mood setting and visual storytelling or a calculated and superficial decision to appeal to streamers. Its a fair enough tactic even if its not something I'd go for - my problem would be there crowbarring it into a game that originally had no such intent or need of it. That was true to its own vision.

Basically if your only counterargument is 'atmosphere doesn't matter - graphics do' then we will never see eye to eye on this. A realism argument is something I would respect and support in games like RE2 Remake etc. But here that argument is being abused outrageously to justify a root and branch change that doesn't even *try* to keep or respect the original tone. If Eden Prime was being attacked by batarian pirates or Eclipse Mercs then I'd have no problem with this intro - but its not something like that. I'd be all for putting more emphasis on the tragedy of the attack. But a) this new intro doesn't do that and not at the expense of the atmosphere of otherworldly evil.

People aren't saying atmosphere doesn't matter they are saying you are wrong MELE has as good or better atmosphere.

Therum>>Feros>>Noveria or Therum>Noveria>Feros is the way for Liaramancers




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No, I'm not dismissing atmosphere.  It changed, it didn't disappear.  The new "artist" of Eden Prime saw a different vision than the first and used a different vehicle of visual story telling to give us that vision.  The wreckage in the cut scene is as (or to me... even more) impactful than a red sky.  You're the one only seeing what isn't there anymore and not letting what was added touch you.  You're trying to shoehorn in your preconceived notion of a "hellscape"... so much so that you're seeing lava in the OT where lava clearly did not exist.   Eden Prime now looks like a war zone, not a B Horror movie hellscape.  I like it that way.  You don't.  We are both entitled to have our own likes and dislikes... as is the artist of the remastered level.

Replying ME1 made me realized how glad I am that they got rid of the overheating gun mechanic. It's burdensome, no matter how many cooling upgrades I put on a weapon. I'll take reloading and being able to shoot instantly, over waiting or having to switch to a different gun. Don't even get me started on those geth hoppers that overload your weapons every 2 seconds on insanity.

Sure.

I too would much prefer becoming Master of the Universe, or the Great Morpheus. Nothing makes me happier than making decisions for other people against their will.

The geth should be toast once they upload the reaper code. Either I stop Legion and let the quarians wipeout them or I let Legion continue and then wipeout the geth with destroy. Cause a bunch of AIs with 300 years of history killing any organic, are now suddenly all peaceful with reaper code upgrades makes all kinds of sense.

When an AI admits it is a freaking reaper and then tries to convince you destroy is the worst choice....you go with the "worst choice".

Destroy is the only option.

The correct and only option is to just play ME3MP. But since they didn't include it then I would say, if someone felt like they HAD to play ME3 I would honestly tell them to stop after beating the Cerberus base where you fight Kai Lang and just do the Citadel DLC.

it's funny because, Destroy is is the exact same thing. You're making your own  selfish decision against the will of literally every sentient  space-faring civilization in the galaxy.


It's not exactly a galactic committee present to make the final choice.

Destroy fails to to solve the organic-synthetic problem. It fails to solve much of anything, really. All it does is...destroy. Again, extremely short-sighted. Shepard essentially leaves behind a  landfill of toxic waste.