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Jade Empire was alright, it was KOTOR with Kung Fu and the only thing I remember standing out was being able to talk two of the romance options into a threesome.
Report: EA Is Remastering The ‘Mass Effect’ Trilogy At Long Last (Unconfirmed)
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Jade Empire was alright, it was KOTOR with Kung Fu and the only thing I remember standing out was being able to talk two of the romance options into a threesome.
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KOTOR 1 doesn't fit the template perfectly at all, because the major twist of the game is that you're actually an already established character and the "tropes" you've encountered were for the most part deliberately placed by the Jedi. I would expect any BioWare cliche chart to have an asterisk on KOTOR 1 because of that fact, but then I noticed IMC made it.
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The remaster trilogy showed up on a Portuguese website earlier this morning but was taken down shortly thereafter.
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Normally, I agree, but the original releases are woefully unoptimized on console. I went back and played them on PS3, and I was hit with constant stuttering and audio issues. At first I thought it was because I was playing on the PS3, a system known for getting shit ports, but I looked into it and found even the 360 releases had the same technical problems. A while back I went and purchased the games on PC and found that most of the technical problems I was experiencing on PS3 weren't present. All they'd need to do with this release is make it closer to the PC version, with high framerates, improved audio, and less hitching.
Of course, this collection is also several years too late and anybody who already has it on PC doesn't have much incentive to get it.
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Really depends, if it's shit that never had a console release or is on a console with a very small install base, a release on a larger more prominent platform is appreciated.
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lol remember when Mass Effect was a 360 exclusive?
Would EA be better or worse off if Bioware was bought out by Microsoft instead of EA?
Would EA be better or worse off if Bioware was bought out by Microsoft instead of EA?
James Roancrest
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*Looks at Rare*
Worse, definitely worse. BioWare would've been stuck making Kinect games.
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I don't think Rare is a good example. Most of the people that made Rare left after the Microsoft buyout, right? Cause I could have sworn that Rare have stated they actually wanted to make Kinect games.
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This news just makes me remember all the fucking dumb shit in ME3
1 - fucking everything about the star child
2 - The illusive man becoming space Hitler for seemingly no reason
3- Shepard getting PTSD from watching one kid die
4 - Jack getting cucked and turning into a school marm
5 - That incredibly gay and out of place anime space ninja villain (I forget his name)
God that game sucked.
1 - fucking everything about the star child
2 - The illusive man becoming space Hitler for seemingly no reason
3- Shepard getting PTSD from watching one kid die
4 - Jack getting cucked and turning into a school marm
5 - That incredibly gay and out of place anime space ninja villain (I forget his name)
God that game sucked.
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Don't forget how he would constantly beat everyone up, one-ups Shepard several times, and even mortally wounded Thane and how everyone talked up how totally dangerous he is! Yet somehow he came off as lame and annoying instead actually threatening.
People in this thread have criticized Mass Effect for having Writer's Pets like the Illusive Man, but Kai Leng was the worst offender because there wasn't anything interesting about him and he would only win fights because the plot demanded it, and yet the game expected the player to be intimidated somehow.
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Didn't Kai Leng break into Captain Andersons apartment, eat his cereal and take a piss in one of his houseplants in one of the books?
Dude was a joke even before he was put into the games.
Dude was a joke even before he was put into the games.
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But wait, there's more! In the Mass Effect novel, this clown breaks into an apartment (Anderson's?), and to show who's boss, he went and... raided the fridge for cereal.
Truly, a Cereal Killer of the finest caliber.
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because bioware is a notoriously shit dev when it comes to technical stuff. there were plenty of issues on pc too, but they got fixed at some point (or not, I still remember seeing unofficial fixed years later) since pc doesn't have the limitations console have and patches are free. you could excuse it with the ps3 also being very shit to develop for in the beginning, but ME2 released in 2010, 4 years after the ps3 launch, so take that as you will.
quick reminder that ME3 has no holstering animation because they couldn't fit it into the 360's ram.
I'll never forget the fight on thessia where I was dunking on that tard hard till the cutscene triggered and suddenly it was all "haha shepard you never had a chance yadda yadda", the literal definition of plot armor.
apparently (from what I remember reading about the book he first showed up in, another great idea to have a new antagonist hardly anyone knew show up in the last game of the trilogy) he was supposed to be some kind of anti-shepard where something went wrong, hence he's running around with his progamer goggles. can't remember why he blamed shepard for it, but for some reason he had beef with him. I think it was supposed to make him a tragic, misguided figure, but if you only go by the game - as most people are gonna do - it fell completely flat on it's face.
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No difference since Bioware is creatively dead.
They kept that idea for a DLC.
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None of it matters unless they fix ME3, how do they not know this?!
I get the ME1 purists say ME2 tarnishes its legacy, but ME2 doesn't completely gaslight players into bad options, it at worse neglects to confront the consequences of some of your actions, and it did so by exploring areas you wouldn't have seen through the framework ME1 set up. Think about all the characters, factions, and worlds ME2 gets you to. Fighting the Collectors is very side-questy but it did the job highlighting there's vast swathes of space uncontrolled by the Citadel that need to be roped in too if you're gonna stop the Reapers.
Now, ME3? Whole thing's fucked with an ending like that, and everybody knows it. Your choices ought to matter... but they don't. Even some of the weirder moments like Rachni enemies and Udina being a traitor? That stuff can be forgiven if they add some text here and there to flesh them out. A bit of foreshadowing goes a long way to making audiences think they've discovered a secret all by themselves, but Kai Leng? Closest thing to a Donut Steal I've ever seen in media. Like I said, they established all these new characters in earlier games with untapped potential, I don't understand why their go-to was some e-book villain instead of a character with a bit of emotional weight behind them.
And the final hour? Chop it off, start over. Total mess and everybody understands why. EA aren't gonna do any of this, of course. Re-masters are commissioned because devs don't want to do any work.
But I re-played ME2 so much to get the different options and save / kill companions, and I tried replaying ME3 a month after finishing it but couldn't even finish Mars knowing what lay ahead.
Again, who is this re-master for? 'Once bitten, twice shy' will be the mentality from anybody who bought the first time around, and new players only know the series for the shit ending so they're hardly enthused.
I'm not gonna tell Bioware I told you so, but beginning with Dragon Age 2 I've never seen a company so comprehensively burn bridges and goodwill like Bioware. From the games' content to the media strategies to the indignant developers firing up twitter? It's crazy, and the downward spiral really started with ME3--THAT was when everyone started taking more critical notes, and began to think it and DA2 weren't flukes but the new standard we could expect from Nu-Bioware.
Thousands tried warned them on their own forum that leaving the ending as-is would lead to this exact situation: gamers don't hate your company, they just feel 0 emotion whatsoever to anything you get up to. That's why Anthem was a miserable failure. Players didn't hype it up or hate-watch, they just tuned it out altogether.
I get the ME1 purists say ME2 tarnishes its legacy, but ME2 doesn't completely gaslight players into bad options, it at worse neglects to confront the consequences of some of your actions, and it did so by exploring areas you wouldn't have seen through the framework ME1 set up. Think about all the characters, factions, and worlds ME2 gets you to. Fighting the Collectors is very side-questy but it did the job highlighting there's vast swathes of space uncontrolled by the Citadel that need to be roped in too if you're gonna stop the Reapers.
Now, ME3? Whole thing's fucked with an ending like that, and everybody knows it. Your choices ought to matter... but they don't. Even some of the weirder moments like Rachni enemies and Udina being a traitor? That stuff can be forgiven if they add some text here and there to flesh them out. A bit of foreshadowing goes a long way to making audiences think they've discovered a secret all by themselves, but Kai Leng? Closest thing to a Donut Steal I've ever seen in media. Like I said, they established all these new characters in earlier games with untapped potential, I don't understand why their go-to was some e-book villain instead of a character with a bit of emotional weight behind them.
And the final hour? Chop it off, start over. Total mess and everybody understands why. EA aren't gonna do any of this, of course. Re-masters are commissioned because devs don't want to do any work.
But I re-played ME2 so much to get the different options and save / kill companions, and I tried replaying ME3 a month after finishing it but couldn't even finish Mars knowing what lay ahead.
Again, who is this re-master for? 'Once bitten, twice shy' will be the mentality from anybody who bought the first time around, and new players only know the series for the shit ending so they're hardly enthused.
I'm not gonna tell Bioware I told you so, but beginning with Dragon Age 2 I've never seen a company so comprehensively burn bridges and goodwill like Bioware. From the games' content to the media strategies to the indignant developers firing up twitter? It's crazy, and the downward spiral really started with ME3--THAT was when everyone started taking more critical notes, and began to think it and DA2 weren't flukes but the new standard we could expect from Nu-Bioware.
Thousands tried warned them on their own forum that leaving the ending as-is would lead to this exact situation: gamers don't hate your company, they just feel 0 emotion whatsoever to anything you get up to. That's why Anthem was a miserable failure. Players didn't hype it up or hate-watch, they just tuned it out altogether.
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6 - Cerberus suddenly going from a small shadowy group to one so powerful it can launch a direct assault on the Citadel
7 - in the original ending, the mass relays blowing up. Not only were we previously told doing so would cause an explosion big enough to wipe out a solar system, but it would have doomed the surviving fleet around Earth
8 - also in the original ending, the Normandy straight up abandoning the battle, somehow warping to a distant planet, and your squadmates being on it despite fighting by your side on Earth.
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9. Mordin doing a complete 180 on his stance on the Genophage no matter what happened in ME2.
10. Legion and the Geth having a complete 180 on their stance on individualism vs the collective
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I'd like to take this opportunity to bitch at the mega missed opportunity this presented. Cerberus, a sketchy organization, got their hands on one of the most influential personalities in the galaxy and who is directly involved in shady operations on behalf of the galactic government and you intend to use them to advance your own organization's goals...
So you just rebuild them and give them a superior ship with no strings attached and ask them to do you a solid? What if they said "no" and just resumed doing Alliance or spectre stuff?
Cerberus certainly should have had a kill switch for shepard 2.0 or something to maintain control. I think the justification for not having anything was "We want the real shepard" or something equally retarded.