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

Mass Effect was never good. Just going to put that out there.
ehhhhh it was more overated than anything. The failure to refine or improve combined with the slow decline in the writting hobbled the series after a promising start. Ea's grubby little mits are all over yet another promising franchise as they chocked yet another golden goose to death.
 
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ehhhhh it was more overated than anything. The failure to refine or improve combined with the slow decline in the writting hobbled the series after a promising start. Ea's grubby little mits are all over yet another promising franchise as they chocked yet another golden goose to death.
It always just seemed super generic and lazy to me personally. At the height of its popularity I couldn’t find a single detail that distinguished it from the heap of other titles at the time. The visual design certain didn’t help it with that.
 
because of the shepard fanservice gasp?

Because it's the only one that works for an interesting continuation. Green ending is basically "Galactic Peace" and Blue Ending is "Reapers force Galactic Peace".

While you could do a continuation that goes off Blue ending, it basically just boils down to "Shepard goes evil controlling the Reapers" so you're basically back to ME 1-3 of just fighting Reapers.

At least with Destroy, there's something different. The entire Galaxy is at square one as it is rebuilding. It'd basically be the wild west as there is no cohesive single government and everyone has gotten their shit wrecked. Hell wasn't a whole "wild west" aspect something they wanted with Andromeda?

And yeah, you could always "keep it vague" but because the blue ending specifically states that Shepard Reapers specifically help rebuild and police the galaxy, it'd be really weird to not have the Reapers show up anywhere and try to pass it off as either ending could have happened.

No matter what though, Shepard should remain dead.
 
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Because it's the only one that works for an interesting continuation. Green ending is basically "Galactic Peace" and Blue Ending is "Reapers force Galactic Peace".

While you could do a continuation that goes off Blue ending, it basically just boils down to "Shepard goes evil controlling the Reapers" so you're basically back to ME 1-3 of just fighting Reapers.

At least with Destroy, there's something different. The entire Galaxy is at square one as it is rebuilding. It'd basically be the wild west as there is no cohesive single government and everyone has gotten their shit wrecked. Hell wasn't a whole "wild west" aspect something they wanted with Andromeda?

And yeah, you could always "keep it vague" but because the blue ending specifically states that Shepard Reapers specifically help rebuild and police the galaxy, it'd be really weird to not have the Reapers show up anywhere and try to pass it off as either ending could have happened.

No matter what though, Shepard should remain dead.
Blue ending was Reapers raze the galaxy and the cycle continues. The reapers use Shepard just like they did the illusive man and saren. As puppets.

Red ending is the canon ending as its what the Extended cut goes off and Hackett spergs in his monologue about "muh togetherness", "we can rebuild" and other unrealistic bullshit that wouldn't happen so easily in the great power vacuum the reapers just created by crippling the galaxy and being destroyed.

green ending is the same as blue but the reapers fuck off because of the whole synergy thing where they all get uploaded to a giant reaper hivemind using the crucible with symbiosis. so no "organics"= job's done and they fuck off back to Dark space to await the next cycle.

The series was overrated and hyped to all hell. It went from a "psuedo-third person shooter Kotor" in 1 to a blatant reskin of gears of war in 2 onwards.

That's when it ditched the D&D style of hidden stats and actually having to pick a loadout with varying grenade types and gear beyond "this gun good" when comparing a high end weapon to a peashooter.
 
Infiltrator was a mobile game.
A fairly good one at that. Especially compared to the dumpster fire of andromeda and had a decent story.
Showed Cerberus going turning on itself overnight with the already reaper indoctrinated trying to convert whoever they could into the assault trooper husks you see in mars early on in ME3.


It was released a few months before ME3 launched and was likely repurposed cut content since dragoons didnt appear in game as playable MP characters or as new enemies like the dragoons and collector's praetorian in multiplayer until the Multiplayer DLC started releasing, Even had a tie in with the Main character and the intel you collect in game being actual war assets for ME3's campaign.

The Main Character defecting to the alliance with intel on the dragoon project helps to canonically make sense as to the other ex-cerberus dragoons being playable in ME3.

Not even mentioned in Legendary edition's disclaimer that the old war asset affecting apps wont affect ME3 saves in LE.

Was the collector praetorian in ME2?
Its their version of the faction specific tank enemy (Geth prime, cerberus atlas, Brute/Banshee) in ME3 Multiplayer.
 
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Samara is hot, ngl

Samara's loyalty mission was eh though. What could have been neat is if she had split personality and "Morinth" was her alt, which would explain why she wears the sexy outfit. In the actual game, Samara is the one who wears it even though she has absolutely no interest in sex (even if Shepard tries hard to romance her) while Morinth is the one that complains about cosplaying as her mother. Huh?! Morinth is the one who fucks the barflies!
 
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Morinth is hotter, too bad they don't do shit with her in Mass Effect 3.
They turned her into a Banshee you fight on the final mission on Earth. Kind of like Jack getting turned into a Phantom if you don't go to Grissom Academy quick enough.
 
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Samara's loyalty mission was eh though. What could have been neat is if she had split personality and "Morinth" was her alt, which would explain why she wears the sexy outfit. In the actual game, Samara is the one who wears it even though she has absolutely no interest in sex (even if Shepard tries hard to romance her) while Morinth is the one that complains about cosplaying as her mother. Huh?! Morinth is the one who fucks the barflies!
I just assumed it was cultural for asari to dress like strippers.
 
I just assumed it was cultural for asari to dress like strippers.
It's a survival thing supposedly. As an all female race they cannot reproduce without seducing a male of another species. They can breed with anyone and their female offspring with be Asari as seen with that one Asari/krogan couple on the Citadel that have a daughter in ME1
 
It's a survival thing supposedly. As an all female race they cannot reproduce without seducing a male of another species.
Not true they can reproudce with themselves making them pure asari. Liara is one.

Hottake: Mass effect 3 is actually a really good game, the reason it has such a bad rep is cause how poorly EA handled it. With making the prothean dlc and not spending enough time on the ending. The gameplay improvments over the other two entries is massive. The writing is ok for the most part. The writing in the first game is pretty good but took a nosedive in the second entry and stayed on that level. With most of the companions being utter shit and several plotholes. The first game is still the best as it feels most like an rpg.
 
Didn't buy the remaster but was inspired to go back to the series and Mass Effect 1 could have used the Yakuza Kiwami treatment. If you stick to main mission stuff it's fine but if you're doing side missions it really becomes a slog. Sort of reminded me of why I didn't like Andromeda. Driving around empty planets just to get out every now and then to search something or shoot a few guys gets old pretty quick.

You could go either way with 2 and 3 since 2 is generally held up as the "best" but if you'd remake 3 you'd have to do 2. Actually just finished 3 for the first time and was surprised how much I didn't hate it. Going to chalk it up to hearing for a decade how it's the worst thing ever and it made it over the incredibly low bar I had set for it.
 
Actually just finished 3 for the first time and was surprised how much I didn't hate it. Going to chalk it up to hearing for a decade how it's the worst thing ever and it made it over the incredibly low bar I had set for it.
Hottake: Mass effect 3 is actually a really good game, the reason it has such a bad rep is cause how poorly EA handled it. With making the prothean dlc and not spending enough time on the ending. The gameplay improvments over the other two entries is massive. The writing is ok for the most part. The writing in the first game is pretty good but took a nosedive in the second entry and stayed on that level. With most of the companions being utter shit and several plotholes. The first game is still the best as it feels most like an rpg.
When you take it at face value it is indeed a very good game. It has the best gameplay of the three games (although the jank ME1 combat has more soul) and looks surprisingly good for a game released so late in the 360/PS3s lifespan. But that last point is also where a lot of the games shortcomings are as the game was obviously rushed to stop the games releasing across multiple console generations so that saves could carry over. As pretty as the game can be sometimes, some of the shortcuts they had to make are glaring, like the textures during the final sequence or the sprites running for their lives at the start.

As I already said, on it's own merits the game is quite the accomplishment but as a bookend to a trilogy it falls flat in terms of plot and for an RPG that is a colossal failure. The Genophage plot is the only part of the game that i would argue is done well as it accounts for choices in the prior entries and is a solid end point for certain character arcs. The Quarian-Geth conflict on the other hand is a complete fucking farce that completely spits on prior choices you make as well as characters and motivations. Remember when Legion wanted to be a real boy in ME2? Me neither. Remember when you could rewrite the heretic geth to stop worshipping reaper cock? lmao get fucked they all join the reapers anyway. Remember when you are given the choice of supporting the Quarians going to war or opposing it? lmao, doesn't matter and never gets acknowledged. On top of that you get bizzarre things such as you being unable to broker peace between the Quarians and Geth if you fail to tell Tali to stop being so fucking autistic about Legion in ME2. That latter point is also weirdly mirrored in the sanctuary mission where your capability to tell miranda to stop being a cunt or not dictates whether or not she dies to Kylo Leng but Jack has no equivalent. The game has loads of little minor gripes like this which ironically you would only notice if you played the prior games.
 
3's gameplay is a weird one for me because it is basically a refined 3rd person cover-based shooter. There's a lot more going on than 2's rather anemic fights and it's not as clunky as 1's. 1 may have been more mechanically complex and satisfying to exploit, but 3 was the closest to being a good cover-based shooter.

The issue I have is 3 leans pretty heavily on the combat, moreso than the first two, and I don't think the combat is fun enough to justify the nearly 50 hours it took me to get through Mass Effect 3. It's not like 1 or 2 where the gameplay was more evenly divided between conversation, exploration, and combat (well 2 wasn't so even, but there was still some balance), in 3 you're spending about 80% of the game in combat. I end up burning out around the 30 hour mark because the repetition seriously starts to wear on me.
 
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