Mass Effect - Mass Effect: Legendary Edition - Launch: May 14
 

Yemeth spotted this tweet:

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Mildly interested as I own the originals and all DLC already. :thinking:

Basically don't know if it's worth buying again just for graphic upgrades.

Are there any other changes ?
Do you know if the 3 games have essentially been put together or they're still 3 separate games ?

From the press release:
"The remaster package will benefit from AI upscaled textures, improvements to shaders and video effects, updated lighting, and improved dynamic shadows, volumetrics, and depth of field, along with a buttery smooth 60 fps on PC and consoles. Pre-rendered cinematics have also been enhanced to make every story moment feel even more impactful. The PS5 and Series X|S will feature improved load times and the PC version will support high refresh rates and 21:9 aspect ratio out of the box.

The original Mass Effect game features comprehensive world-building enhancements with added detail and depth to locations like Eden Prime, Ilos, and Feros that players will explore in their journey across the galaxy. Mass Effect also includes updated interfaces and UI as well as a variety of quality of life improvements. In addition, combat and exploration are modernized through improved aiming, squad controls and behavior, Mako handling and cameras.

The Mass Effect Legendary Edition features unified character creation options that persists across all three titles and is complete with an improved and expanded selection of hair, makeup and skin tone options. The iconic Female Shepard default appearance from Mass Effect 3 is now available as the default female Shepard appearance in character creation in all three games, further adding to the unified experience across the trilogy."

There's also stuff like rebalanced XP for lvl 60 cap, more consistent auto save points, cover pass, improved AI and boss fights, removal of class-based weapon restrictions, removal of class-based aim penalties, unified control scheme between the games, reduced difficulty/frequency of mini games etc.

See basically engine and graphic updates that all. Really cant understand why so many are excited over this. Anyway I might buy it on a very cheap sale next year.

Is there any info on limited installations ? Download only ? System requirements ?

Digital only on the PC and of couse both digital and physical on consoles.

No idea about limited installations or what type of DRM it will use. Though the usual will apply depending on what storefront you buy from. Looks like you have to activate it.

Something about EA on-line activation.

Edit: System Requirements.

They also release this trailer. Or was it already included?

They mention in the trailer that it has Mass Effect 1/3/4 and 40 DLCs. Is anyone counting? Are they all included? Any idea? I hope so.

Anyway, if they deliver on all that they're saying, I'll be happy. Finally have a reason to play through it all. I never finished Mass Effect 1, since I didn't like some of the story beats. (stuff that you usually see in all recent Bioware games: like stroking the player's ego with cheap stuff). But I'll make an effort to get over that since I keep hearing people praise Mass Effect 2. So I'm kind of excited.

Also, I hope they're selling it on Steam day one with the Origin version.

Idk, but it should be a big seller if it really includes Mass Effect 4 as well. ;)

I'll pass this one. The only one I didn't play was Andromeda.

https://www.ea.com/games/mass-effect…ition/overview
The preorder price asks me 60€.
As I have everything, not just games but DLC too, I don't think I'm gonna budge for just a few visuals.

But those who never played any of these games, this offer IMO should not be skipped.
Because you see… There is a sellpoint catch:
"Includes singleplayer content only".

Thanks for posting the DLC list. I'm too lazy to do a thorough check, but it looks like the main stuff is there. At least I remember the Shadowbroker and the From Ashes being among the main culprits usually left out? Am I remembering that correctly?

Not just those two.
Lemme quote my ancient post about ME games DLC in the past (mission type DLC are marked):
https://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/show…post1061240422

Sadly, this is only thing that Bioware can offer nowadays.

Since I haven't played ME 3 and some of the DLC I am tempted for the first time to install Origin. But then again, I hate EA so I might not.

I'll be skipping it. The first game in the series was the only one I liked.

In the second title I began suspecting that the developers possessed malicious mindreaders and had gone through my wishlist for the sequel, only to do the absolute opposite for every-single-point on the list. The third game was just dissapointing all around, long before I even reached the "infamous" ending.

So this series was essentialy my long "Bioware Love Affair" terminated with extreme prejudice. :biggrin:

Since there are only two Mass Effect games, I'll be gleefully ignoring these shenanigans. That third one…..I still have the nightmares about how sucky it was before I demanded a refund!!

I remember the trailer for ME 2 being particularly good.



I remember thinking: "Alrighty, then. Let's have some of that." It's not often I see a trailer these days that grabs me that way.

I played through ME3 recently and I don't get all the hatred for it.

Yeah, I enjoyed a lot of it. I do the get the criticism of the deus ex machina green/blue/red ending, rather than something than something more related to your actions throughout the saga. I also see the contempt for having a separate mobile game, which was the only way to get a boost to your troop strength, to get the "best" endings.

That's going to be long, not sure I want to go through a remake of games I partially played when there's quite a few promising new ones. Maybe on a sale, in one year or so.

That trailer makes it seem a lot better than I remember it being. Almost makes me want to play it again.

Did the mobile game really have much of an impact on that though? I don't recall having any difficulty getting a high military strength without it.

It's not even a remake. It's just a remaster, and from what I can see, it doesn't look extraordinarily different from the originals. This reeks of being a cash grab.

I think they changed it as I didn't do any of it and was allowed all the endings.

Iget what you mean about the final choice ending. I guess they didn't know how to end it, but I thought the game was a lot of fun and the ending didn't detract from it for me.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition Has HUGE Changes

Apparently.

Mass Effect 2's Cut Characters Revealed

Can anyone please explain what do they mean by cut characters? Haven't played ME2, and don't want to spoil myself. Did they cut characters out of the legendary edition or is the name of the video just inappropriately named?

EDIT:
I've seen the gamespot video with the changes done in the legendary edition, and honestly it feels like very little effort went into it. There's been excuses after excuses as why various major changes couldn't be done. Mostly due to not having that kind of budget, I imagine. Which just goes to show how much they wanted to invest in this edition. Not very legendary imo.

Also, apparently there is a missing DLC. Pinnacle station in ME1.

Anyways, I'll play it and see for myself.

Yeah right, since when is budget an issue for Bioware/EA?

It's also strange to me that this is only a little over 3 months away and yet they've shown almost nothing in the way of screenshots or footage.

I’m curious about the unified control part. I hope they add controller support for the first game, though I’m not holding out much hope.

I'm guessing this still requires Origins to play? If so, I will pass (I think my old physical copies don't require Origins except for ME3).

I wouldn't have expected otherwise. It doesn't keep me from playing it though if I wanted to. I've never had any issues with Origin.

If you get it on steam it still requires a "light" version of origin. You don't even have to be logged in (or it logs you into origin without me noticing anything). I remember I even had an issue with some origin game I started from steam and it had issues starting until I explicitly logged out of origin. Then it worked fine.

I'll probably get it (eventually) because I missed all but one of the DLCs so, by Christmas, I'm sure it will be well worth the price for me.

The only change that got my attention was improvements to driving the Mako around in the first game. That thing got pretty crazy in the first game. Improved graphics will be nice, too.

Yep, me too - the ending I got matched one of the good endings I saw on YT when I watched all of them.
I even liked the ending. The green ending made perfect sense to me: we united the AIs and the meatbags into one, removing the whole reason the Reapers were made. I suppose I could have picked an ending that wouldn't have made sense for my character if I had wanted but that's not unlike any other choices in the game.

Yeah, but it should have moved towards that ending if you were supportive of both humans and ai.
Making it a choice is probably what makes it annoying for lots of people.

Same with Deus Ex HR

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This article lists the differences in ME1 that are not just visual improvements. Since it benefits from QoL improvements of ME2 & ME3, it may be the most interesting part of the remaster for who hasn't played it yet:

https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/1071…-mass-effect-1

I haven't checked their sources.

get ALOT mod and fuck their "remaster"

I mean if I'm going to replay ME1, then it's practically worth it just for this!

Daniel.

Hitting level 60 so you can get max bonuses for ME2: But, if you're the type of player that will do all the quests it takes to get to that level, do you even need those bonuses??

But how is that different from any other choice in the game? I was playing a Shepard so good that, if it had been Knights of the Old Republic, the woman would have glowed in the dark. But still the game constantly gave me the option to piss all over somebody completely out of the blue. If I decide to do that, it's called role playing. If I decide that Shepard watching her home world burn coupled with some pretty hard knocks to the head means her anger would make her pick the blue option (and regret it later), then that's the game's failure to take into account my past choices and force me to use green??

I own the 3 games but I preordered this one too.
I will certainly enjoy replaying ME1 with better controls and the 3 games with an unified look and feel. Re watching the trailers, I missed most of those guys.

I don't lament EA doing a remaster of their old games, they are the only things worth playing in their catalog.

Depends what you mean by old. Also, some of their newer games are quite good like Jedi: Fallen Order.

I didn't like it but I can understand lot of people could really appreciate it.
But this game is an oddity for EA lately, mostly a catalog error: Single Player, Star Wars well done and without controversy?

Yet didn't EA has also lose the rights to only make Star Wars games? So I look forward to seeing what other developers can release. Hopefully we get another RPG game.

Anyway back on topic I wonder how that unified Shepherd will work?

As the last time something like that was implemented was with Dragon Age Inquisition, and you needed to use origin, and another website called Dragon Age Keep.