Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

[Tehdagah]

ME1 looks like shit but NuWare at least made enough changes to the gameplay so is not total trash ?

What changes?

 

[Lacrymas]

I don't understand how EA haven't killed Bioware yet. Bioware haven't released anything profitable since 2014. EA have destroyed studios for less.

 

[Padzi]

I found our man. Somehow his haircut was better (or maybe looked better) in the original also he didn't look like a moron.

 

[Sykar]

The remaster:

But when he gets angry:

 

[Tytus]

In comparison, he looks like a pedophile looking at kids.

 

[Padzi]

This can't be a mod. But it seems Chakwas got hit the aunt May syndrome from Spider-Man.
She got younger.

 

[Justicar]

Disney BIOWARE

 

[ferratilis]

If anyone ever asks "why do you like isometric RPGs?" just show them this remaster. It's pretty self-evident. I'd rather look at the same character portrait for 100 hours than any of these full 3D models tbh.

 

[Tytus]

 

[Larianshill]

I would never guess which one is the remaster, if not for stream interface

 

[T.Ashpool]

The original:

The remaster:

Ouch! Liara, I feel sorry for you.

this can't be real. i almost threw up. it's like they only used AI to upscale her textures or something which sucked the soul right out of her. also what the fuck did they do to kelly oh my god

 

[Larianshill]

Reminder that no matter how bad this looks to you, biodrones will defend this, and this will be far from the last stinker Bioware produces.

 

[Tytus]

 

[Tytus]

The original:

The remaster:

Ouch! Liara, I feel sorry for you.

this can't be real. i almost threw up. it's like they only used AI to upscale her textures or something which sucked the soul right out of her. also what the fuck did they do to kelly oh my god

Head over to NexusMods and you'll find mods for each game in the Mass Effect trilogy. Over a thousand of them, with some of the most popular the graphical overhauls A Lot of Textures and A Lot of Videos. BioWare is aware of these mods, and while working on Mass Effect Legendary Edition, used them as a benchmark.

"We actually early on looked at some of those," project director Mac Walters told me, "and said, 'OK, well, this is our minimum bar and from here we have to then go bigger, right?' Obviously they have limited access as a modder to the assets that are in there. We have full access to them."


Environment director Kevin Meek concurred, mentioning while he was initially sceptical of AI upscaling mods, when he looked closer he was impressed. "They're getting these great results with the A Lot of Texture mods and those other up-res ones," he said, "so that actually started us down that kind of the path with some confidence. We knew we could go in and hit base-level AI up-res on all the textures and receive the same amount of visual upgrade or even more than the mods because we have a lot of advantages they don't have. We get to work on the uncompressed source, full-resolution textures. Whereas what they have, it's been crunched down, it's been compressed, it's put onto a disc, and then they up-res off that."

This is exactly what they did.

 

[Zibniyat]

What a disaster. It is funny, for a moment, and then you realise that the ugliness, sheer incompetence and idiocy is the "norm" for AAA studios now, at least with EA. Before one could at least count on them making good looking characters, better graphics and stuff, but now they're completely clueless and worthless in every way. Anyone paying for this shit deserves to be driven over by a tank.

 

[Caim]

This can't be a mod. But it seems Chakwas got hit the aunt May syndrome from Spider-Man.
She got younger.

More like she got Bogged.

 

[Old Hans]

vortex

You're overreacting it. It looks fine.

this looks like one of those shitty follower mods for skyrim youd find on the nexus with a name like "sexy Yeoman Chambers" with a mod description that says "this is my first attempt using Blender"

 

[karoliner]

Fucking degenerates. When will EA shut them down?

 

[Semiurge]

The original:

The remaster:

Ouch! Liara, I feel sorry for you.

Liara model looks almost unshaded. Their philosophy seems to be "faces must be 100% visible at all times".

 

[Background Character]

But what about the boobs? Are the boobs alright?

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Oh, my god, this takes some serious talent. Very few people could effectively show the kind of face paralysis that Sylvester Stallone has, especially in a woman.

 

[Vorark]

ME3 humanoid models in general were weird back then, no wonder they look even more out of place when backported to 1. Chawkas in 1/2/3:

 

[Nano]

More ghoul faces and misapplied makeup:

Spoiler

So. Bright.

Some of these characters' eyes look kind of dead:

Bioware adding some survival horror elements into the game:

 

[oldmanpaco]

Yeah, the game looks like shit now but they put in Steam Chivo's man.

CHIVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!!

 

[Correct_Carlo]

The original:

The remaster:

Ouch! Liara, I feel sorry for you.

I'm going to play this because I'm totally hyped, but I have to agree it looks like total shit. They just cheaply up-rezed all the textures without touching the models, so it looks glarringly awful, and then on top of that they removed ME's shadows and lighting which did much of the work of masking the flaws in the originals. So now everyone looks like brightly lit blow-up dolls. Liara just looks creepy, wrong, and downright worse than she used to in all of the screenshots I've seen so far.