People need to stop praising ME1

DAO's combat system was good. ME1's was okay. It's aged poorly, but it's far from the worst I've ever seen.

It always felt like "my first shooter" combat.  Since it was BioWare's first game that I recall used ranged combat exclusively.

There's nothing that would actually require a new engine. I suspect if all three games were brought up to ME3's level, with overhauled resolution, that would be enough. The Unreal Engine is still pretty extensible (just look at Arkham Knight and XCOM 2).



In a system as open and as flexible as MEA's, if you're finding it repetitive, then it's ultimately you at fault. You literally have the entire skill tree to mix and match (including probably one of the best implementations of telekinesis in a computer game there has been) plus a vastly more flexible weapon and melee system to approach combat with.

Don't get me wrong, ME1 did a hell of a lot right and indeed, better than any subsequent game after it and MEA slipped up on as many things, but let's not go off the deep end here. ME1's combat was basically spam all active powers and hold down the fire button. You've got some very strange ideas with what makes enjoyable gameplay if you legitimately consider that better.

pretty accurate description of MEA all things considered. Actually before the game they claimed that they took the best from the three games and tried yo match it in MEA. And for the most part they succeeded. Granted the exploration in MEA wasn't exactly good...but then it wasn't in ME1 either.

Idk I felt that way most of the time. Even on Havarl.

I've always played ME1 as a Soldier. So no cheese power spams on my end. Just good old fashioned aiming and shooting. Even in ME3mp, I mostly played the weapon for like 3000 hours. In MEA the weapons all sucked, so I also relied on 3 powers that all could combo off each other (Energy Drain, Incinerate, Overload). The only enemies I've ever fought on my first 3 main planets were the same waves of robots and Kettle aliens over and over and over for 70 hours. On the same over and over cheaply copy paste bases. I kid you not. Outlaws weren't introduced until the 4th planet, but by then I've hit a brick wall with how crazy boring & repetitive this game was and just focused on priority missions to get this game over with before I lost interest in even that.

Fun fact, it was the gameplay that kept pulling me back to ME1 when I first played it, there was just something about it despite how uber clunky it felt. Otherwise I would have given up on it before it truly pulled me in because ME1 started so slow. Same thing happened in MEA, it was the gameplay that kept me going, but... that didn't last. Man did it not last. Even MEAmp I can't go on with anymore, stopped at around 1600 APEX. So I'm sorry, but MEA overall on the gameplay front bombed hard. If you guys can't see this, you all must be looking at it from a more casual perspective or something, which is fine. But not me. I didn't play ME Trilogy 8x or 3000 hours into ME3mp because it was casually gameplay good enough.

So all you "DAO combat is better then ME1" players are totally fine with playing DOA 8x within 4 years because it's combat is so fun to you guys? For me DAO once was enough and barely made it through that. Heck, I didn't have it in me to even to play it any further for the DLC content that came with my DAO copy. As far as I'm concerned, DAO combat is just typical RPG gameplay cannon fodder. Maybe good enough, but not replay value material.

Not so sure if it's better than ME1, but I'd say it was better than DA2 and inquisition as it wasn't a hack and slash game where you constantly mashed buttons.

I thought dao combat was trash.

This is all fair enough, but it still boils down to making out ME1's combat was much better than it was. I mean, you say that you were bored with Kett and Remnant but you were fine playing against just outlaws and Geth (who had far less variety) for the majority of ME1. You say that all the guns in MEA sucked but you were fine with far more basic versions (that didn't even use ammo and could literally fire forever). You never used powers in ME1 but 3 powers + combos was too repetitive. You hated the copy cut paste bases in MEA but the smaller copy cut paste bases in ME1 were fine. Every single metric you're using to say MEA was worse, it actually did better than ME1.

As I say, you can have your own opinion on how fun the combat was in both games, but the logic you're using above makes no sense and I think you'll find very few people who'd agree that ME1's combat trumped MEAs. We can't all be just casuals or whatever that condescension was supposed to mean.

The halo franchise is still using the very same engine as the one from 2001 combat Evolved. So yea, engines don't just get outdated so long as you upgrade it and such. 

Not so interested in a remaster cause I've already played the originals, remastered/remakes are nothing but fan service and a cheap way to get some quick money. However I don't think a remaster would "need" an engine upgrade, costs more doing that(redesigning everything in frostbite) than simply using the original engine, assets are already made in the UR3.