Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

[Nano]

"Who is your specialist in the vents?"
'Jacob' is the only right answer.

Jokes aside, giving Miranda the biotic barrier is my favorite incorrect specialist choice. I think failing at holding it gives her the dose of humility she needs.

 

[Silverfish]

"Who is your specialist in the vents?"
'Jacob' is the only right answer.

Putting Jacob in the vents is a hell of a risk... but the prize.

 

[Lemming42]

Oh god, after a string of good-to-great missions, we're onto the Citadel.

Cerberus has taken over. Cerberus, the small single-species paramilitary terrorist organisation, has taken over the Citadel. Alright yeah fine. After killing 500 more Cerberus troops, we see the Salarian councilor. Oh no! An anime man has arrived to take him down!

Shepard, who has shown absolutely no willingness to ever hold fire before, refuses to fire at him and tries to talk him down. This fails and anime man prepares to kill the councilor with a very lame one-liner, but Thane is here!! He was invisible up to now, but he's ready to kick ass!!! Cue a three hour long fist fight complete with retarded "whoosh" sound effects while they prance about doing homoerotic kung fu shit. Girlfriend almost got a hernia from laughing so hard.

Shepard stands there doing nothing, she just watches the two homosexual men fight each other with "whoosh" and "kapow" sound effects. This explosion of pure retardation ends with Thane getting impaled, at which point Shepard finally springs into action and fires like 20 shots at the guy, all miss. Alright well forget anime guy, we're in a car now and we're rushing to get Udina, who is, uhh, working with Cerberus. Then anime man jumps on top of the car!!!

It's impossible to explain how fucking stupid this scene is in mere words. If there was any dialogue, I missed it because my gf was shrieking with laughter and I was screaming "JUST TILT THE FUCKING CAR" at deafening volume. Seriously, why didn't Liara just TILT THE FUCKING CAR and send the dude falling to his death. Hell you don't even have to turn it upside down, there are bridges right above him, just raise the car's elevation by like one meter and the dumb fucker will get decapitated. No, instead, Liara does anime man a favour by keeping a steady course to ensure his safety, while Shepard CLIMBS OUT OF THE CAR to try and shoot him. Then he puts his sword in the car which makes us veer wildly off course and crash into a woman's garden.

Still very impressed with some of the previous stuff but holy fuck this part is bad.

 

[Lemming42]

Geth arc isn't doing much for me. It's not badly written and the gameplay is fun (barring that bit where you enter the Matrix and shoot cubes, which went on way too long) but I never care for "is this computer program ALIVE??!?!?!" shit in sci-fi. Feels like the writers have already made up their minds - the Geth are objectively alive in-universe and have been anthromorphised to a truly ridiculous extent (Legion has emotions now, and says he "admires" human's ability to rely on "hope"). As a bonus, any time Shepard gets the chance to voice the opinion that the Geth aren't actually life-forms, the writers ensure that she comes across an angry raving lunatic, whereas voicing the opposite opinion always causes her to speak in a calm and considered way.

The Geth were a lot more interesting in ME1 when they were just freaky as fuck and communicated in alien-esque bleeping noises.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I always thought it was supposed to be some hamfisted metaphor to how humans are made up of many living cells but are treated as one or something, idk. It was dumb.

 

[Alienman]

Replaying ME3. The interaction with Jacob is so damn awkward. I didn't think he was that bad in ME2, but I know he was overall disliked or just viewed as a "meh" character. The interaction in 3 is just out of this world cringe though. Not anything exactly he says, I just get the overwhelming feeling that Shepard and Jacob have nothing really to say to each other. It's like when you meet someone you once knew, you are trying to catch up, but both of you stumbles around on what to say and to ask, and it is all very unnatural and don't flow at all as a conversation. And when you get out of it it just feels like you escaped Omaha beach with your life intact. That is how I felt when my Shepard got out of the conversation with Jacob in the hospital. Kinda genius to be honest, if it was intended this way.

 

[Lemming42]

Dizzy with laughter at this boss battle against the reaper where you've got to use the targeting scanner. The fuck is this.

Replaying ME3. The interaction with Jacob is so damn awkward. I didn't think he was that bad in ME2, but I know he was overall disliked or just viewed as a "meh" character. The interaction in 3 is just out of this world cringe though. Not anything exactly he says, I just get the overwhelming feeling that Shepard and Jacob have nothing really to say to each other. It's like when you meet someone you once knew, you are trying to catch up, but both of you stumbles around on what to say and to ask, and it is all very unnatural and don't flow at all as a conversation. And when you get out of it it just feels like you escaped Omaha beach with your life intact. That is how I felt when my Shepard got out of the conversation with Jacob in the hospital. Kinda genius to be honest, if it was intended this way.

Him yelling "Shepard! I'm in here!" whenever you walk past his hospital room is so heartbreaking, especially if you choose to jog straight past without acknowledging him.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the asari in the hospital with PTSD is the one who killed Joker's parents btw

 

[Lemming42]

Finished the Geth plot by destroying the Geth and shooting Legion in the face. I assumed the game would give me shit for this, but I'm very impressed to look on the wiki and discover that the choice wasn't as clear-cut as the writers seemed to be making it out to be, and that doing the top-right "Paragon" action of upgrading the Geth would have had disastrous consequences. Wiki also says there's some more impressive C&C stretching all the way back to your actions throughout ME2. I have no idea how stuff of this quality (moreso the Genophage mission, which was straight-up one of the best bits of the whole trilogy) is existing alongside the mindbendingly shit main plot with the dumb Cerberus stuff and the boring Reaper invasion. Different writers working on different parts?

 

[Nano]

but I'm very impressed to look on the wiki and discover that the choice wasn't as clear-cut as the writers seemed to be making it out to be, and that doing the top-right "Paragon" action of upgrading the Geth would have had disastrous consequences.

Uh, really? If you destroyed the heretics in Legion's ME2 mission you get less war assets if you side with the geth, but I'm not aware of anything else.

 

[Technomancer]

Oh wow, modders actually implemented cut DLC? Show how lazy actually devs are. Couldn't even spend some extra months rebuilding it without their precious source code.

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/832

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Oh wow, modders actually implemented cut DLC? Show how lazy actually devs are. Couldn't even spend some extra months rebuilding it without their precious source code.

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/832

the real reason they didn't is likely licensing, it was outsourced to a separate studio

 

[Nano]

Literally nobody plays Pinnacle Station. LE is a downgrade in many ways but this isn't one of them.

 

[Lemming42]

but I'm very impressed to look on the wiki and discover that the choice wasn't as clear-cut as the writers seemed to be making it out to be, and that doing the top-right "Paragon" action of upgrading the Geth would have had disastrous consequences.

Uh, really? If you destroyed the heretics in Legion's ME2 mission you get less war assets if you side with the geth, but I'm not aware of anything else.

According to the wiki, choosing to save the Geth results in the Migrant Fleet getting wiped out. Didn't reload the game to try it myself but it sounded really cool.

 

[JDR13]

I've never seen so many people overanalyzing such a medicore series.

 

[Technomancer]

the real reason they didn't is likely licensing, it was outsourced to a separate studio

Maybe, lost source code was the stated reason though.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the real reason they didn't is likely licensing, it was outsourced to a separate studio

Maybe, lost source code was the stated reason though.

The amount of "source code" that would have been lost would have been minuscule. The reason modders were able to port it so easily is because UE3 games used UnrealScript and the script files shipped with the game itself. e.g., there's already a legendary edition fanmade SDK that makes all the script files accessible for modding. UE3 file formats are fully documented, and extractors exist. Reverse engineering it would have been trivial for Bioware to do if they truly lost the source files used to create it.

I'd have trouble believing it was anything but licensing.

 

[Technomancer]

I'd have trouble believing it was anything but licensing.

I just repeated what I read before release, don't really know how it works or why would they lie about it.

The training facility was the second DLC to be added to the game, though PS3 players were not able to partake due to the source code being lost. While the team would have liked to include Pinnacle in the upcoming remaster, the reason behind its exclusion was honestly beyond their control.

When speaking with game director Mac Walters, he confirmed that the entire ordeal of trying to get the code was "an emotional roller coaster." The team tried to contact everyone and anyone that had any connection to this DLC. When BioWare and EA contacted Demiurge, the studio responsible for this DLC, hope surged only to come crashing down once more when the backups for the code sent over contained almost all corrupted data – even vital links were missing.

Walters added that in order for Pinnacle to see a revival, it would have to be an entire remake; made from the ground up and entirely from scratch. "It would basically take us another full six months just to do this with most of the team we've got," he told us. "I wish we could do it. Honestly, just because this is meant to be everything that the team ever created, brought together again - all the single-player content. And so, leaving it all on the cutting-room floor, it was heartbreaking."

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I'd have trouble believing it was anything but licensing.

I just repeated what I read before release, don't really know how it works or why would they lie about it.

The training facility was the second DLC to be added to the game, though PS3 players were not able to partake due to the source code being lost. While the team would have liked to include Pinnacle in the upcoming remaster, the reason behind its exclusion was honestly beyond their control.

When speaking with game director Mac Walters, he confirmed that the entire ordeal of trying to get the code was "an emotional roller coaster." The team tried to contact everyone and anyone that had any connection to this DLC. When BioWare and EA contacted Demiurge, the studio responsible for this DLC, hope surged only to come crashing down once more when the backups for the code sent over contained almost all corrupted data – even vital links were missing.

Walters added that in order for Pinnacle to see a revival, it would have to be an entire remake; made from the ground up and entirely from scratch. "It would basically take us another full six months just to do this with most of the team we've got," he told us. "I wish we could do it. Honestly, just because this is meant to be everything that the team ever created, brought together again - all the single-player content. And so, leaving it all on the cutting-room floor, it was heartbreaking."

bioware employees making up some ridiculous lie to cover for something nobody would care about seems like something they'd do tho

 

[Ismaul]

I've never seen so many people overanalyzing such a medicore series.

Nigga you forgot about PoE?

 

[Lemming42]

Hahaha what the fuck is this DLC with the sushi bar and shit. Don't get me wrong, this is ace. It's like what Mass Effect 2 could have been if they'd just committed to going full retard and treated the entire thing as the joke that it clearly is.

I've just reloaded the game like six times just to see what every party member would say when brought along to the casino and forced to wear stupid formal clothes. Love that there's a different joke each time and a different reaction from Brooks. Shepard walking in on Garrus' arm fucking killed me. 10/10

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Hahaha what the fuck is this DLC with the sushi bar and shit. Don't get me wrong, this is ace. It's like what Mass Effect 2 could have been if they'd just committed to going full retard and treated the entire thing as the joke that it clearly is.

I've just reloaded the game like six times just to see what every party member would say when brought along to the casino and forced to wear stupid formal clothes. Love that there's a different joke each time and a different reaction from Brooks. Shepard walking in on Garrus' arm fucking killed me. 10/10

citadel DLC is one of the best DLCs ever made for any game
it's basically a "sorry the ending sucks" apology DLC

 

[Lemming42]

Mm-hm, that's a fine looking guest list. Definitely haven't missed anyone out. Yep, that looks like the perfect list to me. The final version, no additions necessary. Time to send it out!

 

[J1M]

Just did the genophage cure mission, really good stuff. Shot Mordin in the back and ruined the cure.

It gets even better if you kill Wrex in Mass Effect 1. Then you can convince Mordin that curing the genophage is wrong and he joins the crucible effort.

It gets even better if you didn't. Then

Spoiler

if you sabotaged the cure you get that cool scene where Wrex assaulting mc at the Citadel's gate.

What a great questline. Who would've thought you'd see C&C like this in a ME game.

Of course, doing anything other than sabotaging the cure is peak bleeding-heart retardation. Their women lay a thousand eggs at a time, ffs.

Call me a pragmatist, but I thought we needed a Mass Effect 4 plot that didn't involve the Reapers.

 

[J1M]

but I'm very impressed to look on the wiki and discover that the choice wasn't as clear-cut as the writers seemed to be making it out to be, and that doing the top-right "Paragon" action of upgrading the Geth would have had disastrous consequences.

Uh, really? If you destroyed the heretics in Legion's ME2 mission you get less war assets if you side with the geth, but I'm not aware of anything else.

According to the wiki, choosing to save the Geth results in the Migrant Fleet getting wiped out. Didn't reload the game to try it myself but it sounded really cool.

It's also possible to thread the needle and make peace so both join the war effort.