Report: EA Is Remastering The ‘Mass Effect’ Trilogy At Long Last (Unconfirmed)

[Aqua Panda]

Just finished a 100% run with the updated ME1. Overall, worth it, but if you're on PC, mods can go a long way. Standardizing the hud and a few other things really go a long way. (Dedicated punch button and controller support on PC really made for a better playthrough.)

Some of the background improvements do look nice, but sometimes some of the other stuff they did can get a little janky. Especially the character models. I'm kinda amazed they actually made the Liara sex scene more explict with the updates. (I was expecting the opposite in this day and age.)

Also, removing the weapon restrictions is an amazing godsend.

 

[Ishtar]

the catalyst does fuck all because he only showed up after they found a deus ex machina on mars to interact with the citadel. or the AI. or whatever. AFTER the reaper took control of the citadel. which was their goal in ME1.

however you want to slice it, ME3 is fucking retarded.

Eh, as others have said the Tuchanka and Rannoch arcs are pretty damn amazing. It’s only on Thessia and afterwards that the writing takes a nose dive.

My opinion being that the Leviathan and Extended Cut DLCs make up for it fairly adequately.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

It smacked of a mid-development decision to pivot away from whatever their original goal was and them quickly trying (and failing) to patch the holes.

Bingo. Story I heard was that the original plan for the ending got leaked (use of eezo causes stars to go wonky like the one from Tali's recruitment mission in 2, so the Reapers cull galactic civilization on occasion to keep the galaxy existing), so the writers locked themselves in a room for 3 days and came out with "FUCK YOU, STARCHILD" and refused to let anyone edit it.

 

[ZMOT]

Eh, as others have said the Tuchanka and Rannoch arcs are pretty damn amazing. It’s only on Thessia and afterwards that the writing takes a nose dive.

My opinion being that the Leviathan and Extended Cut DLCs make up for it fairly adequately.

candy in a turd still means you don't wanna eat it, no matter how tasty. it starts shit right off the bat with PTSD kid (which was fucking retarded depending on your original background), followed by a literal austin powers sexbot that's so advanced it can fool actual scientists just so EDI can have a sexy body with cameltoe. afterwards you dick around in the galaxy while the reapers conveniently take their sweet fucking time after it's shown they can just roflstomp everything.

didn't play leviathan, if it costs money it might as well not exist, extended didn't really fix anything and arguably made it worse with OH CRAP SHIT'S HAPPENING WAIT LET ME SAY GOODBYE TO EVERYONE because bioware sucks at writing.

 

[Ishtar]

candy in a turd still means you don't wanna eat it, no matter how tasty. it starts shit right off the bat with PTSD kid (which was fucking retarded depending on your original background), followed by a literal austin powers sexbot that's so advanced it can fool actual scientists just so EDI can have a sexy body with cameltoe. afterwards you dick around in the galaxy while the reapers conveniently take their sweet fucking time after it's shown they can just roflstomp everything.

didn't play leviathan, if it costs money it might as well not exist, extended didn't really fix anything and arguably made it worse with OH CRAP SHIT'S HAPPENING WAIT LET ME SAY GOODBYE TO EVERYONE because bioware sucks at writing.

Eh…that’s super unfair as a summary? As for Leviathan, I downloaded it for free.

the extended edition explains what each ending means in practice.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

extended didn't really fix anything and arguably made it worse with OH CRAP SHIT'S HAPPENING WAIT LET ME SAY GOODBYE TO EVERYONE because bioware sucks at writing.

I actually don't mind that particular scene, personally. The Normandy is the only thing there that isn't running headlong for the beam, so as long as Harbinger has the reaction time to take it out if that changes, then it's not a priority target.

 

[capitalBBustard]

Eh, as others have said the Tuchanka and Rannoch arcs are pretty damn amazing. It’s only on Thessia and afterwards that the writing takes a nose dive.

My opinion being that the Leviathan and Extended Cut DLCs make up for it fairly adequately.

'muh Tuchanka muh Rannoch' is cope by people trying to reframe ME3 being shit as 'only the ending was bad and extended cut fixed it uwu', both planets were near complete shit too, but they were tied to preexisting plot and characters thus milking brainded fanboyism

extended cut literally didnt change anything besides making the shitty ending sequence longer, and leviathan adds a particularly retarded "lol the robo spacesquids were spacesquids" and nothing else

I actually don't mind that particular scene, personally. The Normandy is the only thing there that isn't running headlong for the beam, so as long as Harbinger has the reaction time to take it out if that changes, then it's not a priority target.

hard to notice a giant spaceship parking in front of you, best shoot lasers at individual retards running towards you

yeah no its dumb

 

[Ishtar]

'muh Tuchanka muh Rannoch' is cope by people trying to reframe ME3 being shit as 'only the ending was bad and extended cut fixed it uwu', both planets were near complete shit too, but they were tied to preexisting plot and characters thus milking brainded fanboyism

extended cut literally didnt change anything besides making the shitty ending sequence longer, and leviathan adds a particularly retarded "lol the robo spacesquids were spacesquids" and nothing else


hard to notice a giant spaceship parking in front of you, best shoot lasers at individual retards running towards you

yeah no its dumb

Eh…I’ve played the game many times? Maybe I just got into it later than most people, but ME3 is not near as bad as people are saying it is.

Most of the criticisms fall apart(at least to me) upon close examination.

Also, not just Tuchanka and Rannoch, but the leaving earth mission, plenty of the side missions, javik, among others.

As for Leviathan-I like it personally.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

hard to notice a giant spaceship parking in front of you, best shoot lasers at individual retards running towards you

yeah no its dumb

I'm not saying Harbinger didn't notice, I'm saying that when the objective is "keep these fuckers out of the beam", taking out the people trying to get into the beam is more important than taking out the medevac getting people away from the beam.

Yes, agreed, on the face of it, it looks comical, but it does make a tactical sense to be shooting at the faggots on foot, as long as the Normandy isn't trying to get at the beam.

 

[capitalBBustard]

Eh…I’ve played the game many times? Maybe I just got into it later than most people, but ME3 is not near as bad as people are saying it is.

Most of the criticisms fall apart(at least to me) upon close examination.

Also, not just Tuchanka and Rannoch, but the leaving earth mission, plenty of the side missions, javik, among others.

As for Leviathan-I like it personally.

You haven't illustrated how any of the criticism falls apart, only that you really really really really really like the game that happens to suck shit.

Your comeback to me pointing out how leviathan is a basic mystery box with a retarded reveal about space squids is "i rike it". lol

I'm not saying Harbinger didn't notice, I'm saying that when the objective is "keep these fuckers out of the beam", taking out the people trying to get into the beam is more important than taking out the medevac getting people away from the beam.

Yes, agreed, on the face of it, it looks comical, but it does make a tactical sense to be shooting at the faggots on foot, as long as the Normandy isn't trying to get at the beam.

No.

There's really not much more to say to that. Reaper fuckface is pretty chill, even has the time to eyefuck the normandy before it leaves while doing nothing. It's not like its blasting non stop. Thing can shoot like 4 lasers at a time. Much like the rest of the game, its so stupid you can find new things that are nonsensical nearly every camera cut.

Talking tactics is worthless because everyone behaves in the single most retarded way imaginable. Tactically, why the fuck wouldn't the reapers just turn of the teleporter, they just use it as a glorified garbage shute, they don't need it to be active for shit. Oh wait, maybe muh catalyst wants you to go through. Why do they try to stop you from getting through then? Oh, maybe catalyst is at odds with Harbinger. Why doesn't harbinger try to blow up the thing then instead of guarding it? Oh wait, maybe they just want you and anderson to get through, without anyone else. Which is why they nearly kill you when harbinger directly shoots you in the face. Maybe he was holding back like its an anime.

This is Attack of the Clones tier stupid shit. It's all just an increasingly dumb excuse for "set piece where player runs at laser shooting at sky while robot cthulhu shoots at him".

 

[Ishtar]

Honestly I legit think Harbinger was being chivalrous, especially if Shepard's love interest was the one being evacuated. There is no other explanation.

 

[HeyYou]

Eh…I’ve played the game many times? Maybe I just got into it later than most people, but ME3 is not near as bad as people are saying it is.

Most of the criticisms fall apart(at least to me) upon close examination.

Also, not just Tuchanka and Rannoch, but the leaving earth mission, plenty of the side missions, javik, among others.

As for Leviathan-I like it personally.

There's a difference between "people have a hateboner for this game, it's not as bad as people say" and "most of the criticisms of this game fall apart upon close examination." There are lots of very valid criticisms of Mass Effect 3 that held up on release day and hold up now.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Cerberus role in ME3 is overdone though on further examination the game does try to at least justify it. With Cerberus abducting civilians en masse and converting them into shock troops or using Sanctuary for the same. Presumably they were using reaper tech to mass produce ships and equipment(alongside their pre existing front operations). It’s not the most satisfying explanation but the game does at least give one.

As far as enemies go-the game only has Cerberus and the reapers as antagonists(and technically the reaper aligned Geth and the mercs in Citadel).

As far as the crucible-I don’t mind it per se. The games make very clear the reapers can not be beaten in a conventional slugging war. It’s just super convenient to be introduced this late.

The Crucible needed to be something a great deal more subtle than a giant Dark Energy laser. Since indoctrination was such a key power in the game, what if the Crucible was a virus like in ID4? Where Reaper technology is reverse-engineered? Granted, two of the four endings do use the Crucible in this way, but that wasn't what the game was building up towards. The game was built around building a giant Prothean (yes, yes I know it's every civilization) superweapon that destroys the Reapers, so it's expected to create a big boom. That doesn't really fit into the David v. Goliath theme ME3 was working from; David didn't win because he invented the arbalest. He won because he happened to hit Goliath in a soft spot. Which is also why Harbinger should have been the Reaper that died from Thanix missiles instead of some no-name Reaper.

Or they stuck to the original idea of the Reapers managing the use of dark energy and Shepard has to decide whether to let the Reapers continue on or get rid of them and potentially cause the acceleration of entropy. I would also argue that up until the Star Child showing up to explain how the Crucible worked, the scene between Anderson and the Illusive Man would have been a good time for the player to make the ending choice; you could have chosen to take IM's side or Anderson's. Synthesis and Refusal are unnecessary endings.

 

[Snekposter]

I actually had to look up Thanix missiles, and boy, am I disappointed. Mostly because it seems like the ME3 writers slapped a name on something to make it sound cooler. Should have been a jury-rigged Thanix cannon and not missiles, you dumb fucks. "Hey, we needed a ground-based weapon that can punch a hole in a Reaper, so we jury-rigged a cruiser cannon into something vaguely mobile by mounting it on a tracked platform. There's a good chance it will explode and kill us all when it fires, if the recoil itself doesn't destroy the gun, but its the only thing we could manage with our limited resources and time frame".

 

[Ishtar]

So…the extended cut was released in July or June right? With the main game in March? People have said that the DLC was added in response to fan criticism, maybe I don’t know much about game development cycles-but that’s a super brief time to develop a DLC?

Same with Leviathan. Citadel as I understand was released even later.

Anyways, I only really got into the ME trilogy back last December so I guess I’m not as connected to the controversy, or the drama. I played ME3 on PlayStation when it came out back in 2012-but I didn’t really understand I was playing an RPG at the time, (I just played it as a standard shooter-didn’t have much experience with anything else), and I watched the indoctrination theory video, but I didn’t really understand the game that well. Then got back into it as a I said in December of last year.

Anyways-playing the full game with such limited exposure(or really no exposure as I never played the first two back in 2012 and had no real understanding of the series) I don’t see the criticisms as making sense.

There are definitely cut elements-Palaven and Thessia are bare bones, but ME3 makes sure to finish things with every ME2 squadmate and even brings back Conrad Verner in a small side quest that rewards you for all the grind work you do in ME1.

Take Grunt or Samara’s ME3 missions-both of which I think are really well done. Yet I’ve never seen much discussion or criticism of that element of the game. Or the fact the game has Miranda show up three times(excluding Horizon and Citadel)-for all those ass effect fans.

Anyway, sperg over-ME3 is a pretty damn good game, that works with the development nightmare of ME2’s variable character survivals and concludes the story satisfactorily.

 

[TVStactic]

For clout, some faggots showed companies that they can easily "forget" source codes around.

Yes, it's a cringefest of a article, it's cringegamer afterall.
well can't say the r word anymore....

 

[Ishtar]

I actually liked Pinnacle Station. Combat was fun.

As for Bioware, apparently they would have had to re create the source code from scratch. I suppose it could have been done. It would have delayed MELE for another six months(or so they say).

 

[Vault Boy]

I actually liked Pinnacle Station. Combat was fun.

As for Bioware, apparently they would have had to re create the source code from scratch. I suppose it could have been done. It would have delayed MELE for another six months(or so they say).

I'd prefer that they focused on bringing 3's multiplayer instead since it was a blast playing as different species.

It's been five months though, I've given up hope of them ever adding that or even Pinnacle Station at this point.

 

[Übertroon]

I'd prefer that they focused on bringing 3's multiplayer instead since it was a blast playing as different species.

It's been five months though, I've given up hope of them ever adding that or even Pinnacle Station at this point.

Yeah, multiplayer is one of the reasons I stayed away from the remaster. It wouldn't feel like a complete product without it

 

[TVStactic]

Yeah, multiplayer is one of the reasons I stayed away from the remaster. It wouldn't feel like a complete product without it

Nowadays if you want to use the ME3 mp you literally have to download a server emulator rather than using the ole matchmaker and get around forums/trannycord to find people to play with.