Mass Effect Remastered: A known story with a new experience

Rumors have began that EA will remaster the original Mass Effect Trilogy and I decided to stake my opinion on how it should be done if ME1, ME2 and ME3 were remade into a single game:





1- Combat System:

- The entire Trilogy needs to be brought to the combat system of ME3 with classes, combat dodges, melees and power combos.

- Likewise, bring the weapon diversity from ME3 for the entire franchise.

- Remove Ammo Powers and replace them with the special rounds from MP, allow those to go from level I to V like other weapon mods. Add other powers to compensate*.

- Remove the submachinegun slot, no more ass stored guns, auto-pistols (EX: Shuriken, Hornet) will go into the pistol slot while long SMGs (EX: Locust, Hurricane) will go into the assault rifle slot.

- Make Shepard's armor customization purely cosmetic, stats modifiers should come from invisible upgrades like in ME3 MP or ME1.


1*- Modified Classes:


- Soldier: Concussion Shot / Frag Grenade / Carnage / Arc Grenade / Fortification / Combat Mastery / Fitness

- Vanguard: Carnage / Barrier / Pull / Biotic Charge / Shockwave / Nova / Assault Mastery / Fitness

- Infiltrator: Arc Grenade / Tactical Scan / Incinerate / Tactical Cloak / Sticky Grenade / Sabotage / Operational Mastery / Fitness

- Liara T'Soni: Singularity / Warp / Stasis / Biotic Orbs / Pure Biotic

- Garrus Vakarian: Concussive Shot / Overload / Stimulant Pack / Proximity Mine / Turian Rebel

- Urdnot Wrex: Carnage / Lift Grenade / Barrier / Lash / Krogan Battlemaster

- Kaidan Alenko: Reave / Barrier / Overload / Snap Freeze / Alliance Officer

- James Vega: Concussive Shot / Carnage / Fortification / Multi-Frag Grenade / Arms Master

- Jacob Taylor: Pull / Lift Grenade / Barrier / Slam / Cerberus Operative

- Grunt: Concussive Shot / Carnage / Fortification / Multi-Frag Grenade / Krogan Berserker

- Zaeed: Carnage / Concussive Shot / Arc Grenade / Inferno Grenade / Mercenary Veteran

- Kasumi Goto: Tactical Cloak / Overload / Tactical Scan / Decoy

- Jack: Shockwave / Pull / Warp / Biotic Flare :twisted: / Subject Zero

- New Bonus Powers: Biotic Orbs, Stimulant Pack, Snap Freeze, Multi-Frag Grenade




2- Exploration and resources:

- Planet scan is ME3 style, system scan is ME1 style. No more resource scanning by foot and no goddamn hacking games.

- Collectibles and resources spawn at random planets each new game.

- Mineral scans work like credit caches and show up in the white radar scanner.

- Eliminate fuel system, it's pointless micromanagement. Probes are also free.

- Full body suits for all squadmates in all games whenever they are in a hazardous environment, no more breathing masks protecting people from vacuum or below zero temperatures.

- Create Mako segments in ME3.




3- Story and Romance:

- Remove Jacob Taylor as romance option for Fem!Shep in ME2, replace him with Mordin Solus.

- Make Tali romanceable by both genders, Bro!Shep already got Bi!Kaidan, Fem!Shep deserves Bi!Tali.

- Make Javik into a full romance option for Fem!Shep in ME3.

- Change the reasons for Tali's recruitment mission, Haestrom's sun going bonkers doesn't fit in the rewritten canon. Make it about a prototype Dyson Sphere on that sun and the Quarians trying to figure out what the Geth are planning on the long run.

- Modify the ending of ME3 so that Control and Synthesis doesn't look like the Catalyst is trying to troll Shepard into suicide. To specify:

   .Show Shepard entering an interface like the one he used with the Geth for Control instead of grabbing exposed wires like a suicidal moron.

   .Show Shepard fusing with some magic space core to trigger Synthesis instead of just jumping into a beam of anti-matter like he is done with life.




If they followed those lines the remastered trilogy would be just perfect for me.