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Yeah, I was going to mention it:Laughing at the reaction to lens flares.
Like, I remember the original promo screenshots.
Hello, old friend.
Mass Effect is pretty has been rampant with lens flare since it's reveal. I'm still debating if they need to chill or go even further.
Its either most people here have selective memory or never played the games.
What the fuck did they do to the sky of Eden Prime in ME1. Like, it was the first big "holy shit" moment of the saga, it became iconic and for some one of the best moments, even if it was at the beginning.
It looks so banal now, like, there's nothing making the scene special, the bloody sky was everything there.
It looks so banal now, like, there's nothing making the scene special, the bloody sky was everything there.
I see a few people mentioning Eden Prime's sky changes, but I'm thinking it'll be part of a larger effort to do the following:
A lot of those details were a bit muddled in the original release, and the sky is still red... but just not "oh god, it's HELL ON EARTH" red. I'm eager to see it in MOTION, and I think this will showcase their efforts better.
A lot of those details were a bit muddled in the original release, and the sky is still red... but just not "oh god, it's HELL ON EARTH" red. I'm eager to see it in MOTION, and I think this will showcase their efforts better.
The thing I keep thinking will be the strangest change will be if Conrad Verner is fixed in ME2. It will be bizarre to not have him acting as though he was handled with renegade options, regardless of how things occurred in ME1. Not sure I'm ready for that.
The Thane still image DOF looks nice. The bokeh effect on the lights is subtle but helps. Hoping they were able to get some of the visor and neon light bits to blur properly, since I recall those elements had a tendency to be ultra sharp when other surrounding models would be out of focus.
The Thane still image DOF looks nice. The bokeh effect on the lights is subtle but helps. Hoping they were able to get some of the visor and neon light bits to blur properly, since I recall those elements had a tendency to be ultra sharp when other surrounding models would be out of focus.
Sure, but that doesn't mean adding more makes that better.
Eden Prime looks generic now.
A shame indeed. From what I gathered from a couple of previews is that it's still very much ME1's combat, just a little bit less frustrating.
My bet is contuinity change. That's one of the few times if not the only time a reaper shoots up crazy overblown red electricity beams.
Ungh those art choices are super ruinous. They've completely sucked the atmosphere out of eden prime.
I can deal with that as I was pretty annoyed having to constantly mod my Xbox save file to fix that xD
Which is a steal.
I was expecting $60 for the trilogy and then a $10 to $15 DLC pack for everything else.
Let's be real. The only thing that sucks about this announcement isn't the lens flares or the changed skyboxes.
It's that we have to wait until friggin' May to play this.
It's that we have to wait until friggin' May to play this.
So we're down to "very, very frustrating" then...
... nah it isn't that bad. I can appreciate it for what it is. I'd be interested to read some first time ME1 player impressions though lol
I feel the lens flare is part of the visual identity of the series, like it or not and I'm all for it.
I bet they keep it the same, given how ME3 directly addresses that bug
It fits with the art style of the trilogy. Also, the lens flare itself didn't change the color of the sky.
Just looks like Mass Effect to me. The first game had less than the other two and they're unifying the aesthetic. You can hardly find a shot in ME2 and 3 without lens flare.
Eh, not super hyped given what has existed on PC for a while now. But, I'll take it just so I don't have to deal with mods not working to get all the visual improvements and controller support.
I've owned all three games for years, on both X360 and PC, but despite my intentions I never got around to playing them. Guess I probably never will since I will likely buy this version when it gets dirt cheap and possibly never get around to playing it either. Not because I don't want to, but there are just too many games and not enough time.
We're seeing new lens flares added where they weren't previously in the game (and of a different style), which is part of my personal criticism. They overpower the screenshots released so far, in a way I'd argue they didn't in the original versions.
I'm super happy about this.
I was LTTP for Mass Effect, only playing the original trilogy a month or so before Andromeda launched and I loved Shepherd's adventures although the original Mass Effect felt a bit of a slog with it's UI, Mako physics and excessively RPG-ified combat which I personally was not a fan of. It's the only game in the trilogy I've not replayed because of this.
I shall be picking this up on PS5 for sure, having played the originals on the MEUITM and controller modded PC version.
I was LTTP for Mass Effect, only playing the original trilogy a month or so before Andromeda launched and I loved Shepherd's adventures although the original Mass Effect felt a bit of a slog with it's UI, Mako physics and excessively RPG-ified combat which I personally was not a fan of. It's the only game in the trilogy I've not replayed because of this.
I shall be picking this up on PS5 for sure, having played the originals on the MEUITM and controller modded PC version.
It 100% clearly looks way better. It's not even questionable.Mass Effect always had a lot of lens flare. And if you ask me, this looks better.
Source is the gamespot video, so there's some youtube compression here.
IIRC That was a glitch in ME1 imported savefiles, which causes the encounter to be flagged both with the Paragon and Renegade options, but ME2 always reads the Renegade flag first.
I think what he means is that the default look in ME3 of Femshep is now also the default Femshep look in ME1 and 2.
nah i'm good
the default femshep from me1/2 looked better than the fucked up cartoon head from 3
Day... 1?!?
Im so excited for this. The only game of the trilogy I played was ME1. I loved it. It was so long ago that I wouldn't remember a thing about the game.
Im so excited for this. The only game of the trilogy I played was ME1. I loved it. It was so long ago that I wouldn't remember a thing about the game.
Sounds like there are enough changes to the combat.
We'll have to see it more in action but at least for now it's worrying.
And true, that picture has more issues than just the lens flares, but that adds to the problem lol.
Great, everything I was hoping for really. 4K 60fps with other visual updates. Looking forward to this!
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