Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

I'm wondering how they'll port this game from UE3 to Frostbyte without introducing a milllion new bugs?

Doubt they'd dare. At most they'd port it to UE4.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

They should replace the gameplay of 2 and 3 with the 1.

 

[J1M]

I'm wondering how they'll port this game from UE3 to Frostbyte without introducing a milllion new bugs?

Doubt they'd dare. At most they'd port it to UE4.

Careful now, keep talking like that and they will think you are overqualified to work on Anthem.

 

[Nano]

ME2 actually has the best combat system, the combat was way too twitchy in ME3. It also sucked how Shockwave was heavily nerfed.

 

[J1M]

If I was to remaster these games the first thing I would do is add more boss battles.

The second thing would be to add a 5th ending to ME3 which allowed for another Shepard adventure.

 

[wahrk]

I remember ME2 combat being way too stiff/sticky and I also hated how you had to strip enemies of armor and shields before tech or biotics would work. Not to mention the equipment/abilities options were severely lacking. Also, switching from heat system to regular ammo was .

ME3 combat was better, but it’s a shame we never got a real sequel to ME1. In an alternate universe Bioware actually improved and iterated on the design instead of just throwing the baby out with the bathwater. “The equipment interface sucks, so we got rid of equipment completely.”

 

[rusty_shackleford]

ME2 higher difficulties were just bullet sponges, no changes to the AI or new abilities, just popamole.
Hiding behind cover in ME3 simply doesn't work, you'll get pelted with grenades which can kill you in a single hit or get flanked. If you aren't on the move then you're probably going to die soon. The AI is all around more aggressive.

If you play both on insanity the differences are night and day. ME3's AI is leagues better.

 

[Wunderbar]

They really should replace the combat in 1 and 2 with the one in 3. The first game in particular is just awful mechanically.

this will require them to redesign most of the levels, encounters, AI, etc. basically remade two games. Why would they bother?

 

[DalekFlay]

Before they wasted all this time did anyone bother doing a blind test to see if people actually notice the difference between 1440p and 4k when sitting on a couch a good distance away from the TV? I don't really notice it(in games, I love it for programming) when I'm sitting only a few inches away from my monitor.

I don't notice a difference on my living room TV either, but I definitely do on my monitor. When I can run a game at 4k+ using nVidia DSR it looks pretty amazing.

With all the processing effects they throw at games now to make them look like films nowadays, and most consumers not noticing things like sharpening and blur AA, I don't really blame them for ignoring native resolution. As much as that stuff annoys me, most people don't seem to give a shit.

 

[Riddler]

If I was to remaster these games the first thing I would do is add more boss battles.

The second thing would be to add a 5th ending to ME3 which allowed for another Shepard adventure.

Just canonise the indoctrination ending.

 

[Grunker]

The second thing would be to add a 5th ending to ME3 which allowed for another Shepard adventure.

Been ages since I played this trash but didn't that add one already? Like an ending shot where you see sheppie in the rubble and he/she draws in breath and then it ends?

 

[vortex]

Yes, but what is he? A reaper? ME5 could be rebooted with Shepard-reaper if ME3 is canon ending.

 

[J1M]

The second thing would be to add a 5th ending to ME3 which allowed for another Shepard adventure.

Been ages since I played this trash but didn't that add one already? Like an ending shot where you see sheppie in the rubble and he/she draws in breath and then it ends?

They added a fourth ending ("yellow") where you can reject the other three endings. It's an attempt to tell the audience that complained about the existing endings to fuck off, but it is actually the most hopeful. Everyone loses and dies, but Liara does a better job of leaving warnings for the next cycle. But unlike all the other endings, the mass effect relays are not destroyed so the franchise can continue.

Shepard breathing or whatever is something that happens if you had really high victory points at the end. Not a new ending color.

 

[oldmanpaco]

The second thing would be to add a 5th ending to ME3 which allowed for another Shepard adventure.

Been ages since I played this trash but didn't that add one already? Like an ending shot where you see sheppie in the rubble and he/she draws in breath and then it ends?

They added a fourth ending ("yellow") where you can reject the other three endings. It's an attempt to tell the audience that complained about the existing endings to fuck off, but it is actually the most hopeful. Everyone loses and dies, but Liara does a better job of leaving warnings for the next cycle. But unlike all the other endings, the mass effect relays are not destroyed so the franchise can continue.

Shepard breathing or whatever is something that happens if you had really high victory points at the end. Not a new ending color.

They need to add a fucking ending where they can tell stories in the main universe. Maybe something that puts the reapers back asleep or something. They can be done with Shepard and friends but a game set 50 years after the reaper invasion with the galaxy trying to rebuild would be OK.

 

[AW8]

I Also, switching from heat system to regular ammo was .

Ammo conservation is fun, watching an overheat meter is not. Nothing of value lost.

 

[wahrk]

Ammo conservation is fun, watching an overheat meter is not. Nothing of value lost.

What ammo conservation? You run out of ammo, you just wait for enemies to drop more. Learning to pace your shots and modifying your weapons to make trade-offs between damage/heat buildup is far more interesting to me. Bonus points for also tying game mechanics directly into the established rules of the setting. Universal ammo is always decline.

 

[J1M]

Ammo conservation is fun, watching an overheat meter is not. Nothing of value lost.

What ammo conservation? You run out of ammo, you just wait for enemies to drop more. Learning to pace your shots and modifying your weapons to make trade-offs between damage/heat buildup is far more interesting to me. Bonus points for also tying game mechanics directly into the established rules of the setting. Universal ammo is always decline.

I liked that in Mass Effect 3 you could use only powers if you wanted to. Well, up until Mr. Marauder Shields.

 

[racofer]

Ammo conservation is fun, watching an overheat meter is not. Nothing of value lost.

What ammo conservation? You run out of ammo, you just wait for enemies to drop more. Learning to pace your shots and modifying your weapons to make trade-offs between damage/heat buildup is far more interesting to me. Bonus points for also tying game mechanics directly into the established rules of the setting. Universal ammo is always decline.

I liked that in Mass Effect 3 you could use only powers if you wanted to. Well, up until Mr. Marauder Shields.

 

[Silverfish]

They really should replace the combat in 1 and 2 with the one in 3. The first game in particular is just awful mechanically.

They should replace the gameplay of 2 and 3 with the 1.

Vanguards need to fall in line with the Mass Effect 2 presentation. The other classes are gay and don't matter.

 

[oldmanpaco]

They really should replace the combat in 1 and 2 with the one in 3. The first game in particular is just awful mechanically.

They should replace the gameplay of 2 and 3 with the 1.

Vanguards need to fall in line with the Mass Effect 2 presentation. The other classes are gay and don't matter.

While its true that Shotgun Vanguard is the best class ME1 was the only game where combat skills mattered. Starting with ME2 the series was just a FPS with gay sex minigames.

Also you got to bitch slap the reporter. God I wish I could have romanced her.

 

[Silverfish]

While its true that Shotgun Vanguard is the best class ME1 was the only game where combat skills mattered. Starting with ME2 the series was just a FPS with gay sex minigames.

My love of the ME2 vanguard class aside, this is undeniably true. Makes it all the more disappointing that Andromeda made some strides in the right direction mechanically, but botched everything else.

 

[Kainan]

Before they wasted all this time did anyone bother doing a blind test to see if people actually notice the difference between 1440p and 4k when sitting on a couch a good distance away from the TV? I don't really notice it(in games, I love it for programming) when I'm sitting only a few inches away from my monitor.

I don't notice a difference on my living room TV either, but I definitely do on my monitor. When I can run a game at 4k+ using nVidia DSR it looks pretty amazing.

With all the processing effects they throw at games now to make them look like films nowadays, and most consumers not noticing things like sharpening and blur AA, I don't really blame them for ignoring native resolution. As much as that stuff annoys me, most people don't seem to give a shit.

I used to care a lot about anti aliasing, dsr and stuff like that. Nowadays i wonder what was wrong with me and why did i even care about that stuff. Especially since it slows down the games by some amount.

 

[CaffeineConquistador]

Brave is a man willing to play the ME series without any AA at all.

 

[Kainan]

Doesnt it have some kind of grain filter anyway? But, if a game is 3d it should just be fluid, and look decent enough from afar. I dont care about any kind. of retarded pixels anymore.

 

[CaffeineConquistador]

Yeah, aside from the “film grain” filter, there’s a couple of other effects they use to make it more cinematic, namely a vignette (the edges of the screen appear a tad darker) and motion blur. The grain and blur can be disabled in the games, but the dumb vignette can’t be removed without a mod, which in turn I guess can screw with the games colors.