Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

[Padzi]

 

[Vorark]

https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/25/mass-effect-legendary-edition-is-still-coming-but-not-this-year/

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is still coming — but not in 2020

Electronic Arts still hasn’t revealed Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, and that’s for a reason. The publisher originally planned to launch the remastered trilogy, that I first reported on back in May, with an October reveal and release. But now EA and developer BioWare are pushing that release into early 2021, according to people familiar with the development.

The primary factor holding up development, beyond the pandemic, is the original Mass Effect game. It currently does not live up to the quality of the rest of the package. It would make a poor first impression for new players, and it might disappoint fans who then won’t go on to play and experience the impressive upgrades for Mass Effect 2 and ME 3.

This is a problem with both the visuals and gameplay. The people working on the game understand the issues, and they want to do right by the franchise’s fans.

But one aspect those fans won’t get to experience regardless of how much time BioWare gets is the multiplayer. EA doesn’t plan to include the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer in this package. Something like that would turn this remaster into a live-service game, and that is likely not worth the investment. The publisher could instead put those resources into Apex Legends or another, new cooperative shooter — although that is just my speculation.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition will, however, include all of the downloadable content for all three Mass Effect games. This will enable players to get the full experience included in the purchase price.

This might disappoint fans, but that’s on me and not EA or BioWare. They’re holding back until they’re certain.

ME1 is too for the masses.

Or they are getting into trouble jury-rigging an early UE3 game to run on consoles known to struggle with the engine.

 

[racofer]

Thermal clips are complex game mechanics. It takes time.

 

[Ol' Willy]

the original Mass Effect game, which does not live up to the quality of the rest of the package

the quality of the rest of the package

 

[rusty_shackleford]

ME1 with ME3 combat will be the single greatest RPG to ever grace mankind
thank you jesus

 

[Nano]

They should remove the Mako too and just place the party exactly where they need to be during sidequests.

 

[Prime Junta]

Huh, sounds like it’s more involved than just plugging in better textures then. Imagine that

 

[Infinitron]

Huh, sounds like it’s more involved than just plugging in better textures then. Imagine that

Yes and no. The fact that they've seemingly only now realized that ME1's gameplay was unacceptable to modern audiences suggests that it was just a simple remaster at first. In a more ambitious project, overhauling ME1 would have been a design goal from the start.

 

[Hellraiser]

For all we know they could be talking about anything in ME1 from the heat mechanic to the inventory system. Besides the concept of sticking to cover, 3 person parties and the dialogue system almost everything changed when comparing ME1 to ME2.

 

[RK47]

 

[J1M]

Official ME1 Patch Notes:

-Weapons require ammo
-Ammo has been added to many locations in the game
-Citadel areas were cut due to time constraints

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

What impressive upgrades in 2 and 3? I mean, they look nicer sure, but while I liked ME3's item system better than ME1's, its not exactly "impressive".

 

[rusty_shackleford]

What impressive upgrades in 2 and 3? I mean, they look nicer sure, but while I liked ME3's item system better than ME1's, its not exactly "impressive".

ME3's combat and AI is far above the other two. ME2's combat is also a good step above ME1.
ME1 with ME3's combat would be an all around improvement to an already great game.

 

[Nano]

The best thing about ME1 is that it had more of a horror atmosphere than the other two games.

 

[FuckLiefeldGiveMeChew]

A Babylon 5 remaster would be great! We could revisit the adventures of all the companions like Geribaldi, Ivanova, G'Kar, Lando and Lorien! We would know that it would end well because it had multiple satisfying endings!

 

[J1M]

If this is really delayed to 2021 it is the worst thing to happen all year, but maybe that leaves them a little more time to realize they should add a fifth ending to ME3.

 

[raesha]

What impressive upgrades in 2 and 3? I mean, they look nicer sure, but while I liked ME3's item system better than ME1's, its not exactly "impressive".

Both 2 and 3, while not necessarily better in terms of how much it is an RPG, has combat that plays far better from the perspective of being a cover based third person shooter.

They should either have gone full turned based, or done what they did in the games after ME1, right from the start. What they attempted in the first game did not work.

 

[deuxhero]

Reminder that ehe ensign you can rape (legally speaking since she's your subordinate) in ME2 was originally going to be two characters with a threesome option. Why Jade Empire is the only Bioware game to include a threesome option, I have no idea.

https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/25/mass-effect-legendary-edition-is-still-coming-but-not-this-year/

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is still coming — but not in 2020

Electronic Arts still hasn’t revealed Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, and that’s for a reason. The publisher originally planned to launch the remastered trilogy, that I first reported on back in May, with an October reveal and release. But now EA and developer BioWare are pushing that release into early 2021, according to people familiar with the development.

The primary factor holding up development, beyond the pandemic, is the original Mass Effect game. It currently does not live up to the quality of the rest of the package. It would make a poor first impression for new players, and it might disappoint fans who then won’t go on to play and experience the impressive upgrades for Mass Effect 2 and ME 3.

This is a problem with both the visuals and gameplay. The people working on the game understand the issues, and they want to do right by the franchise’s fans.

But one aspect those fans won’t get to experience regardless of how much time BioWare gets is the multiplayer. EA doesn’t plan to include the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer in this package. Something like that would turn this remaster into a live-service game, and that is likely not worth the investment. The publisher could instead put those resources into Apex Legends or another, new cooperative shooter — although that is just my speculation.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition will, however, include all of the downloadable content for all three Mass Effect games. This will enable players to get the full experience included in the purchase price.

This might disappoint fans, but that’s on me and not EA or BioWare. They’re holding back until they’re certain.

ME1 is too for the masses.

Or they are getting into trouble jury-rigging an early UE3 game to run on consoles known to struggle with the engine.

Watch: They're going to use the unused voiced lines (which apparently exist only because Bioware's coding is retarded and it would bug out without them) and make the two romancable humans bisexual.

 

[Dramart]

They should remove the Mako too and just place the party exactly where they need to be during sidequests.

The Mako was interesting, love and hate at first but the more I replay the game the more I appreciate it. The scanning and probes in the other two games were trash. Especially in ME, really annoying when you replay the game. In ME3 speaking with Hackett after almost every mission and the cutscenes with the child are annoying to go through again.

 

[Naraya]

If this is really delayed to 2021 it is the worst thing to happen all year

 

[oldmanpaco]

ME1 was the only one in the series with any meaningful RPG mechanics. Good to know they will be removing that.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

While ME1 was the only one in the series with any meaningful RPG mechanics, it was also gameplay-wise the worst game in series.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

While ME1 was the only one in the series with any meaningful RPG mechanics, it was also gameplay-wise the worst game in series.

I dunno, the space sections were better and the powers were better in 1 than 2 by a mile. Honestly, stick the whacked out physics powers from 1 into 3 and I think you have the perfect ME game gameplay-wise.

 

[Kem0sabe]

The entire trilogy is awesome seen a a whole. For me the only letdown was the ending of ME3, otherwise it was a sweet ride.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

all i need from this is mass effect 1 without inventory, with mass effect 2 combat, all being written by mass effect 3's citadel dlc crew.