Mass Effect Remaster is happening

[happyninja42]

The terrible ending does leave a bad impression regardless and has definitely ruined any motivation I had for starting a new character. Yeah sure there's a lot of fun middle moments, but in the end they all culminate in pushing one of three buttons in the ending-o-matron. For many people, how something ends tends does affect the general feel for what happened before. I could have the best meal at a place, but if I find a cockroach in my dessert - well I'm not going back just because their steak was really good.

Though the other half for me is that ME1 has aged about as well as milk when it comes to gameplay systems, and I don't think I have it in me to put up with that. While I like to joke about the Mako after the fact, good lord I don't want to explore those planets again.

Except I didn't ask if you wanted to eat at the restaurant again (play the ME series again), I asked if you thought the steak was good (the games prior to the ending), which in your analogy, you said it was "really good." You are mixing up aspects of the dinner (franchise) in the criticism. Now, I'm not saying a lot of people don't think like this, but it's unfair to your metaphorical steak (and the chef who cooked it, and possibly didn't have anything to do with the dessert) to say it's now the worst piece of cooked meat you ever ate, due to something entirely unrelated to it.

 

[CriticalGaming]

A remaster of ME1 would be nice. It is... not polished

A remaster wont be a repolish sadly. Likely just a resolution upgrade and better frame rates on new hardware.

It is EA after all and i doubt they'll put much effort or money into it.

 

[Gordon_4]

I'd like the heat system on the guns pushed all the way through the series... Or maybe the weight system from ME3

The weight system I felt was best. So yeah, remake all of them using ME3's engine and gunplay system and leave everything else untouched and I'm good as gold.

 

[Hades]

Good.

But are the Reapers sensible yet or do they continue with the demented interpretation that cost them their credibility in Mass Effect 3? The story kinda requires them to be highly intimidating rather than a bunch of idiots.

''Lol we're worried some machines are gonna wipe ya all out so we're just gonna wipe you out before that can happen!''

 

[Iron]

It just works. Skyrim had many editions, Mass Effect is good enough to go through the same process.

 

[Worgen]

Would be cool to have a steam version without the usual ea shit added too it, but they will probably add that to the remaster so meh. But, I'm also rather played out on Mass Effect, not sure I would get it, I beat the first 2 games 3 times each.

 

[BrawlMan]

Could never get in to the franchise, but whoever's happy, good for them.

 

[Dalisclock]

*Anthem sobs alone at the bar*

Btw, Bioware announced a new entry into the Mass Effect universe too, did anyone see that part?

BioWare says a brand new Mass Effect game is in development

BioWare has confirmed a brand new Mass Effect game is in development as well as the just-announced Mass Effect Legendar…

www.eurogamer.net

I keep forgetting Anthem exists. I can remember FO76 for what a shitshow it's been. I can remember Marvels Avengers for how badly a good idea was bungled. Anthem is basically an anti-meme to me. The moment I look away it slips out of my memory until someone mentions it again.

I want to believe a New ME game will be work it, but everything I heard Andromeda about sounds so....meh.

 

[Dalisclock]

Good.

But are the Reapers sensible yet or do they continue with the demented interpretation that cost them their credibility in Mass Effect 3? The story kinda requires them to be highly intimidating rather than a bunch of idiots.

''Lol we're worried some machines are gonna wipe ya all out so we're just gonna wipe you out before that can happen!''

I actually get the logic behind it. "If we turn convert species into one of us, you'll survive forever as the best life form in the universe! Who could dislike that?" It's just really poorly presented in game and comes out of nowhere. Partially because it wasn't the original plan for the reapers but they changed the concept during ME2(it was originally gonna be abotu saving the galaxy from Dark Energy).

 

[meiam]

I actually get the logic behind it. "If we turn convert species into one of us, you'll survive forever as the best life form in the universe! Who could dislike that?" It's just really poorly presented in game and comes out of nowhere. Partially because it wasn't the original plan for the reapers but they changed the concept during ME2(it was originally gonna be abotu saving the galaxy from Dark Energy).

Yeah there's a seed of something that work in there, but first they completely fuck it up by introducing the idea that it's about preserving the species from AI. It would have worked much better if instead the reaper would do the cleansing because without it a specie (or a few species) would naturally colonize the entire galaxy and would terraform all planet, stoping any new potential species from emerging. The reaper could then point out that if they never reaped any species then humanity/asari/turian and so on would never have existed in the first place.

 

[Dalisclock]

Yeah there's a seed of something that work in there, but first they completely fuck it up by introducing the idea that it's about preserving the species from AI. It would have worked much better if instead the reaper would do the cleansing because without it a specie (or a few species) would naturally colonize the entire galaxy and would terraform all planet, stoping any new potential species from emerging. The reaper could then point out that if they never reaped any species then humanity/asari/turian and so on would never have existed in the first place.

I like this idea.

 

[Hawki]

*Anthem sobs alone at the bar*

Anthem's sci-fa, not sci-fi. And before you say I'm splitting hairs, that's BioWare's words, not mine (even if I'd say them anyway).

Of course, Anthem's even deader than Mass Effect, so, yeah. NEW IP, BioWare, not resurrected IP.

 

[Dalisclock]

Anthem's sci-fa, not sci-fi. And before you say I'm splitting hairs, that's BioWare's words, not mine (even if I'd say them anyway).

Of course, Anthem's even deader than Mass Effect, so, yeah. NEW IP, BioWare, not resurrected IP.

Which sounds like they're flat out admitting they were trying to make their own Destiny. Which they obviously failed at because Destiny is doing pretty well and Anthem isn't.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

I don't think an upgrade or graphics is enough to make me excited at all. I replayed ME before and was fine doing so, things that made me less inclined to want to weren't graphics but more some gameplay stuff that could use polishing

 

[BrawlMan]

Which sounds like they're flat out admitting they were trying to make their own Destiny. Which they obviously failed at because Destiny is doing pretty well and Anthem isn't.

I really hope with the failures of that and Avengers, people will try and stop copying destiny. I don't find as obnoxious as when everyone was copying Gears or COD, but it is nearly up there. I'm just glad the gaming public had enough since not to get fooled in to it for once.

 

[Dalisclock]

I really with the failures of that and Avengers, people will try and stop copying destiny. I don't find as obnoxious as when everyone was copying Gears or COD, but it is nearly up there. I'm just glad the gaming public had enough since not to get fooled in to it for once.

I don't particularly care about Destiny but it feels like it's got it's own niche staked out and for better or worse it's doing well there. Attempts to squueze in there by copying Destiny are no doubt one of the reasons these things keep failing.

Aside from quality issues.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I really hope with the failures of that and Avengers, people will try and stop copying destiny. I don't find as obnoxious as when everyone was copying Gears or COD, but it is nearly up there. I'm just glad the gaming public had enough since not to get fooled in to it for once.

At least the games that copied Cod and Gears were still games, and not poorly disguised gambling addiction generators.

 

[BrawlMan]

I don't particularly care about Destiny but it feels like it's got it's own niche staked out and for better or worse it's doing well there.

Exactly. The gameplay loop had no interest with me, but the game has its own particular audience. I've met a couple who bought consoles just to play Destiny 1 & 2 and almost nothing else. Which is sad, because they're missing out on other games, but that is on them. They will one day realized they were missing out on the good and better shit.

At least the games that copied Cod and Gears were still games

You're not wrong, but debatable in certain cases.

not poorly disguised gambling addiction generators.

100% with you there. Hopefully, Bungie will learn not to try that again when making a 3 or whatever game they make next that has an actual campaign.

 

[Hawki]

Which sounds like they're flat out admitting they were trying to make their own Destiny. Which they obviously failed at because Destiny is doing pretty well and Anthem isn't.

Both Destiny and Anthem are sci-fa, but I don't think that's the point of comparison most make. Mostly it would be the mechanics.

That aside, you could draw numerous comparisons in the lore between the two. We have a single city under siege by outside forces, and our only hope is the Freelancers/Guardians, who tap into the Light/Anthem, killing Fallen/Scavengers, and deal with the approaching threat of the Darkness/urgoth. That's probably a simple comparison, but meh.

I actually don't take any pleasure in Anthem burning the way it did. At least BioWare tried to create a new IP from the ground up.

 

[EvilRoy]

If they dump some time into modernizing ME1 a bit from a gameplay standpoint with QoL work and maybe look at a unified resource acquisition system between games I could go for it. Frankly the dozens of games that focus exclusively on resource exploitation that have come out since ME3 could really teach them a lesson in how to make a rapid, engaging, resource gathering subgame rather than the oddities we got originally.

Never could finish ME1. I played and enjoyed 2 a lot, 3 was OK, but I just gave up on 1 after a while. The world driving sections in ME 1 vs the probe system in ME2