Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

[Caim]

£55 on Steam in the UK. That's $78 US. Whatever happened to the days when you could pick up an old game re-released in the bargain bin for £2.99?. Let's say (adjusting for inflation) that x3 games @ £2.99 each is approx £15-£20 by today's standards. So about 2/3rds of the remaining worth of the entire trilogy is priced for the DLC?.

I've been waiting all these years to play the third one just for the sake of completionism. Thought I'd pick it up without the DRM on Steam or Gog one day. But who gives a fuck. I'll pass.

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2. So this actually IS the cheaper version of the earlier games, but in the most ass-over-head backwards way.

 

[Volourn]

"The remasters are a huge commercial and critical success. 83% steam rating atm. "

83%? Wasn't the original rated higher? And, how much is it atcually selling? You stating this doesn't make it true. Even it does, they're selling because it is Mass Effect. I won't be buying it, though. They added nothing to the games. Maybe when they are $10 10 years from now when they remake the remake. LMAO

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2

DLC for old EA games has been free for quite a while
https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/

 

[Caim]

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2

DLC for old EA games has been free for quite a while
https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/

The hoops I mentioned. Instead of them being part of Legendary Edition you need to download and install them all individually.

 

[Chippy]

£55 on Steam in the UK. That's $78 US. Whatever happened to the days when you could pick up an old game re-released in the bargain bin for £2.99?. Let's say (adjusting for inflation) that x3 games @ £2.99 each is approx £15-£20 by today's standards. So about 2/3rds of the remaining worth of the entire trilogy is priced for the DLC?.

I've been waiting all these years to play the third one just for the sake of completionism. Thought I'd pick it up without the DRM on Steam or Gog one day. But who gives a fuck. I'll pass.

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2. So this actually IS the cheaper version of the earlier games, but in the most ass-over-head backwards way.

That's at full value for the games without the DLC surely?. What I meant was - once upon a time - games would be released, and then after a few years, they'd be re-released in these white boxes without the instructions for a few bob. Then games became digital and the trend kinda stopped. The equivalent now is Steam & Gog sales. Then DLC totally screwed everything up.

And now it seems they've totally moved away from all of that by re-releasing enhanced versions of stuff that isn't really enhanced much. Back in my day, when I was a lad, £55 quid was still £55 quid. That's a lot of money for 3 re-released games. As you say; ass-over-backwards is how they get you to pay for stuff.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2

DLC for old EA games has been free for quite a while
https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/

The hoops I mentioned. Instead of them being part of Legendary Edition you need to download and install them all individually.

why would you pay for videogames though?

 

[Ismaul]

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2

DLC for old EA games has been free for quite a while
https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/

The hoops I mentioned. Instead of them being part of Legendary Edition you need to download and install them all individually.

What did you except they would do? Remaster the games with DLCs included? That's crazy maaaan

 

[Lacrymas]

Aren't all the DLCs except Pinnacle Station included in the LE? Also, I like how they've misspelled DA:O as Dragon Age: Origin instead of Origins on their own website.

 

[MajorMace]

To their defense, they probably have very few people left from the DAO era.

 

[Semiurge]

Remember when people didn't buy ME3 because of the origin DRM on it?. That was one of the reasons I bever bought it, as well as the shitty ending. Now years later it seems there's still DRM on the re-release and people are buying it.

Pathetic millenials and generation Y. No standards like GenX.

So I guess there's no chance in hell the classic trilogy will be available at GOG? I still don't believe they let GOG sell DAO: Ultimate Edition. DA2 seems like a possibility in the future, though. DAI? No fucking way. It's the latest multi-platform installment so far, so they see it as still having commercial value.

 

[The Jester]

You are actually fucking retarded if you think any of that looks better than, or even as good as the original

And you are a shitposter. Eat your own shit and die, faggot.

Why was Rean so butthurt? was it because of his dilatation period?

 

[Larianshill]

Somebody call the wambulance.

 

[J1M]

To their defense, they probably have very few people left from the DAO era.

That's not a defense.

In the realm of semi-useful information, if you do the X-57 mission in ME1 (hack Udina's computer) you'll receive several level-ups due to the large number of automated turrets and the reduced XP penalty for kills with the Mako in the legendary edition.

I imagine any of the mandatory vehicle sections will also produce 3+ levels, but X-57 is more notable because it can be the first thing you do when you get the ship.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

Why was Rean so butthurt?

He was upset because we were criticizing the Legendary Edition.

I, for one, was particularly hurt when he called us all Adolf Hitler fans.

 

[RRRrrr]

Rusty actually makes a good point. Is the reaction to the graphics here a sign that Codexers are bigger graphics whores than other gamers?

The Codex has become extremely casual.

 

[Ismaul]

Liking good artistic direction has nothing to do with being a casual.

Everything is worth doing well. Quality can be appreciated. Appreciation of beauty is something we should cultivate.

"Graphic whore" used to be a term referring to people preferring technology advances in graphics rendering at the cost of good artistic direction and/or gameplay, at the time when graphics tech was improving fast (1997+) and the switch to 3D was made often at the cost of quality. That, btw, is a sin the ME remaster is guilty of: better tech at the cost of artistic quality. Ergo, those deriding the remaster's graphics are the opposite of graphic whores, they're artistic connoisseurs .

 

[oldmanpaco]

Liking good artistic direction has nothing to do with being a casual.

Everything is worth doing well. Quality can be appreciated. Appreciation of beauty is something we should cultivate.

"Graphic whore" used to be a term referring to people preferring technology advances in graphics rendering at the cost of good artistic direction, at the time when graphics tech was improving fast (1997+) and the switch to 3D was made often at the cost of quality. That, btw, is a sin the ME remaster is guilty of: better tech at the cost of artistic quality. Ergo, those deriding the remaster's graphics are the opposite of graphic whores, they're artistic connoisseurs .

That's a fancy way of saying they made a 15 year old game look much worse, so you have to wonder what else they fucked up.

I mean are the chivos even working?

 

[Caim]

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2

DLC for old EA games has been free for quite a while
https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/

The hoops I mentioned. Instead of them being part of Legendary Edition you need to download and install them all individually.

What did you except they would do? Remaster the games with DLCs included? That's crazy maaaan

No, it's the other way around. AFAIK the remaster has all the DLC included, it's just that for the original versions you have to download them manually.

 

[Yosharian]

£55 on Steam in the UK. That's $78 US. Whatever happened to the days when you could pick up an old game re-released in the bargain bin for £2.99?. Let's say (adjusting for inflation) that x3 games @ £2.99 each is approx £15-£20 by today's standards. So about 2/3rds of the remaining worth of the entire trilogy is priced for the DLC?.

I've been waiting all these years to play the third one just for the sake of completionism. Thought I'd pick it up without the DRM on Steam or Gog one day. But who gives a fuck. I'll pass.

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2. So this actually IS the cheaper version of the earlier games, but in the most ass-over-head backwards way.

That's interesting because I just picked up ME1+2 (+all DLC) for a total of £9.20 on the Origin platform.

 

[Yosharian]

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2

DLC for old EA games has been free for quite a while
https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/

The hoops I mentioned. Instead of them being part of Legendary Edition you need to download and install them all individually.

What did you except they would do? Remaster the games with DLCs included? That's crazy maaaan

No, it's the other way around. AFAIK the remaster has all the DLC included, it's just that for the original versions you have to download them manually.

When I installed ME1+2 all the DLC were automatically installed with them.

 

[J1M]

I crunched the numbers earlier in the thread and buying the old games with all the DLC is $110 and you have to jump through hoops to get the DLC for ME2

DLC for old EA games has been free for quite a while
https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/

The hoops I mentioned. Instead of them being part of Legendary Edition you need to download and install them all individually.

What did you except they would do? Remaster the games with DLCs included? That's crazy maaaan

No, it's the other way around. AFAIK the remaster has all the DLC included, it's just that for the original versions you have to download them manually.

When I installed ME1+2 all the DLC were automatically installed with them.

Unless something changed recently, it came with some DLC, not all.

 

[Caim]

That's interesting because I just picked up ME1+2 (+all DLC) for a total of £9.20 on the Origin platform.

Taken from Steam a few days ago:

When I installed ME1+2 all the DLC were automatically installed with them.

For some bizarre reason it's actually more expensive on Steam. Maybe as a ploy by EA to lure more people to Origin?

 

[Yosharian]

So? That's just because EA artificially raised the base price and refuses to put them on sale anymore. You can still get them dirt cheap on various websites, usually Origin keys but who cares. ME2 in particular is very cheap.

 

[Infinitron]

Better late than never:

 

[Caim]

Are the DLC weapons in Mass Effect 2 and 3 unlocked from the start, or do you pick them up during the course of the game? Oh, and did they fix the bug with Ashley's ability in ME3 shorting out her AI and rending her useless for the rest of the game?