The part that stings the most is how the old sci-fi aesthetic got more and toned down as the series progressed. ME2 lost the cloth and ceramic armor spacesuit design in favor of "tough, tactical" metal power suit style designs, and by ME3 they had lost the film grain.
It didn't even make sense in the first Mass Effect. This is Eden Prime as seen in the Galaxy Map:
And this is Eden Prime in concept art:
No red skies.It looks a lot better with a regular-looking sky on a world that is supposed to be habitable for humans. Also, it isn't red in ME3 either, so it's clear they wanted consistency.
I was thinking, and it could be a good compromise for the sky at first to be cloudy and glowing from the battle and Sovereign's discharges, but as it lifts off, have the clouds pushed away by the wake of the hull and mass effect fields, revealing the clearer sky. Nice way to signal the shift to the new style as well.
All three games are very different from each other.
She's a shitty space racist. Nothing of value is lost by her dying.Here's your reminder that Ashley Williams did nothing wrong.
It didn't even make sense in the first Mass Effect. This is Eden Prime as seen in the Galaxy Map:
And this is Eden Prime in concept art:
No red skies.It looks a lot better with a regular-looking sky on a world that is supposed to be habitable for humans. Also, it isn't red in ME3 either, so it's clear they wanted consistency.
So the sky, which is kilometers above Sovereign, is red because it was attacking Eden Prime at surface level? That makes even less sense because the sky doesn't turn red like that. It never even looked like it was red because of Sovereign's attack, but rather because that was the planet's actual atmosphere. It was most likely a workaround for their technical limitation in regards to visual effects because they wanted to convey the colony was under attack, and in the remaster they can actually show what the sky looks like when there is a massive space ship attacking the surface: a regular sky, but with smoke, debris and dust.
Good, I at least wanted the dlc that actually had a mention in other games (not sure if 2 mentions it, but I clearly remember it having a cutscene in ME3).
Wait you think the sky was red because it was a technical limitation?
Different light source now. It'll likely still be there, but you can see the lighting is no longer come strongly from the right side.
On EA choosing the ME3 femshep model as the default model for ME1/ME2.
No, no, noooooo, nope.
ME1/ME2 femshep is the best. Receipts for proof.
This had better be an option.
It seems like a practical solution for a time when volumetric fog that was actually illuminated wasn't viable. It is now, so they replaced the sky with something that actually resembles the sky of a planet habitable for humans and included actual dust and smoke.
You mean widespread fires covering kilometers of land changing the color of the sky? Well, of course, because that fire generates tons of smoke that is, in turn, reflecting the orange light projected by the fire.
I may keep reading the thread and you'll see that was addressed.
It wasn't a technical limitation. It's absolutely insane that a person could think that was a technical limitation. They absolutely did that intentionally for atmosphere reasons. It's not supposed to look like a day in the tropics.
On EA choosing the ME3 femshep model as the default model for ME1/ME2.
No, no, noooooo, nope.
ME1/ME2 femshep is the best. Receipts for proof.
This had better be an option.
There are no "sense" in art direction. One is valid, another one is valid too.
Most characters in that game are "shitty space racists", the main difference is that Ashley has an arc where she learns to work with other cultures, while others either stay the same... or become a fanatical proponent of genocide by Mass Effect 3.
