True, the option is nice but you won't see me using it. I want the catchy elevator music, way better than the boring loading screens in ME2.
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Yeah, was thinking more along the lines of an edited scene. Hell, even the photo being redone would be nice.
might have to go for a maleshep for the first time since my initial playthrough in 1. supposedly he got less wooden in the sequels? never did do a tali romance.
another image:
supposedly to display some of the new black hair styles they've thankfully introduced for the remaster
Just let me recreate my badass Shepard.
I tried once and I couldn't. I'm sure that dude is a good voice actor in other things but his voice with the way he handles Shepard is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Female Shepard with Hale is the only way I can play that game without my ears bleeding.
Modded controller support nukes keyboard and mouse support, which is why I've never used it. Safe to say that these will offer native support for both, which is a big selling point for me, even as someone who uses mods extensively.
Still don't know what my gameplan is on this. At the very least, I need to see if basic ass coalesced.ini mods are still available.
Yes he does - his voice direction changed AFAIK
He's great in Mass Effect 3 - all in all really good and expressive performance.
He shines in the DLC too.
Yes he get better after the first game.
Romancing Tali is awesome, it puts a lot of weight when you get to Ranoch.
I'm definitely the latter. Barren worlds do absolutely nothing for me. The stuff that excites me about Mass Effect is the lived-in universe and the melding of wildly disparate cultures. There's a Kaiden line from the first game that sums up what Mass Effect is to me:
"We finally get out here, and the final frontier was already settled. And the residents don't even seem impressed by the view."
My dumb list of things I want:
- Ability for all party members to holster weapons in Mass Effect 3.
- Full PC controller support (already confirmed).
- Restoration of cut dialog in Mass Effect 3.
- Ability to romance characters previously unavailable, specifically Kaiden MaleShep romance in ME1 and FemShep Jack Romance in ME2-3.
- Expanded customization options in all three games. Including have ME1 type armors in ME3 with full customization and vice versa.
- More black hairstyles in every game.
- ME1 inventory not being hot trash.
- ME1 weapons being less recolors and more unique models.
- ME3 type weapon customization in ME1 but retaining ME1 breadth of weapon stat/ability customization.
- At least one prompt in ME1 to let players know they can zoom in with the Mako Cannon.
- Better mini-games/gambling games in ME1 on Citadel.
- The Decryption and Electronics being combined in ME1 so you aren't forced to carry someone on your team that is high in both to unlock shit.
- In ME2, some reward for doing all those Liara tasks concerning the Shadow Broker before initiating the DLC.
- In ME2, full cutscenes when speaking to Zaeed and Kasumi on the ship.
- In ME2-3, ability to pour yourself a drink in the bar on the ship.
- Fixing ME3's broken ass Journal and Menu UI.
- Fix stock Tali .jpg in ME3.
- Fix missing textures on crowd models in ME3. Seriously, there are models straight up lacking textures on the Citadel.
- Fix framerate dips in ME3 particularly on the Citadel as it gets more packed.
- Fix texture load-in in ME1.
- Fix the way cover works in ME1.
- Fix enemy AI in ME1 so they don't blindly charge you while repeating "ENEMIES EVERYWHERE!" and "I WILL DESTROY YOU!"
- Complete integration of Miranda as a squadmate in ME3 you cowards!
- Reworking of existing audio files to allow for some party banter in ME2, particularly on small side missions in which neither Shepard nor the party speak at all.
- Ability for FemShep to at least punch Jacob in the face in ME3.
- Some unique loot in ME3 instead of everything becoming some War Asset which is just some dumb number stat.
- In ME3, Rework some autodialog into actual dialog conversations with choices, essentially tone down autodialog about 25%.
- Full Samara romance in ME3.
- Fix ME3's shitass ending that you know is shit but keep trying to pretend is good but everyone and their mum knows is shit and its been near a decade and no one has ever come around and said its actually secretly good, its shit.
- Delete Kai Leng.
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I really hope the ME3 quest log gets fixed. That would just take some new text. You can do it!
Surely Tali.jpg will be fixed, everyone in the world made fun of it and they just need to swap it out for a better .jpg.
Surely Tali.jpg will be fixed, everyone in the world made fun of it and they just need to swap it out for a better .jpg.
Crossing my fingers that they sneak a stealth retcon into the remaster without telling anybody about it.
INDOCTRINATION THEORY LIVES, DAMMIT
Unfortunately I think ME1 was a prime example of old BioWare Magic, whereby through a lot of adversity and scrambling to pull everything together in the last minutes they managed to make something that wasn't the most refined but was unique and special in part because of that necessity to get things done. But in doing things in such a way they never really got a strong handle on why those things really worked in the first place or didn't work in some cases. Uncharted Worlds worked for some despite themselves and the many flaws and shortcomings around them. I'm not all that convinced BioWare really knew what they were doing with them or ever realized why they happened to really work and resonate with some people.
I think that's all the more apparent given the fact that they completely ditched them in ME2 and 3 as they didn't know how to improve them or make them work with the tools/resources they had available so they decided to just not bother with them again. BioWare then and now is often feels quite reactionary when it comes to feedback and other major trends in gaming. They have a weird habit of making drastic changes and reductions in their games due to that where they otherwise don't need to or shouldn't. Choosing to cut instead of improving or refining. A good example is how how they gutted ME2's romances and certain characters at the last minutes due to fears of Fox News after the reaction to the ME1 sex scenes.
That lack of understanding became even clearer in Andromeda where both their own desires and those of ME1 fans wanting a return of exploration they went down the route they did with that game. First they wasted years on procedural tech to create dozens of worlds for players to discover and explore which should have been clear from the start wouldn't work with their style of story/content driven games. Even after ditching that the end result still completely missed the mark and we got these bland open world maps that lacked any real sense of discovery or wonder as they just copied many of the same hallmarks and tropes of every other open world at the time. Mechanically and visually they were quite sound and well done, but outside of that their overall design and implementation was pretty terrible and showed a fundamental misunderstanding of what it meant to explore a new world and discover new things. Not to mention just the overall pacing and structure of levels and locations that made the ME trilogy so good which just wasn't possible in these open world type games.
While the terrain and level design of the Uncharted Worlds was quite barren and rudimentary the whole point of them was to show exactly that the galaxy was not empty. It was full of life and activity even on the most desolate and seemingly untouched planets. You had unexpected pirates, colonies, secret bases, communes, ancient relics and so on. The galaxy was new to humankind but even on the most remote and seemingly desolate worlds we weren't the first to traverse them.
It's understandable that the execution of those worlds left a lot to be desired for many people, but I don't think they were fundamentally flawed or in opposition to the style of story driven game many people want focused around alien species and interaction, just held back by the tech at the time and resources BioWare was able to commit to them.
Depends on what you're into and not into. If you go in with the right expectations and just focus on the main missions(Priority Ops) and Loyalty Missions you might enjoy it. Plenty of people liked the game and even really enjoyed it. It's not some fundamentally broken and objectively terrible game. If it wasn't an ME game I probably would like it a lot more. As a game it's not bad, but as an ME game it's rather disappointing. It does some things well it just fails to live up to its legacy.
You can find the game dirt cheap and its not a "bad" game by any stretch of the imagination, there's a good amount of fun to be had.
I'm just happy cereal still exists in the far future that Kai Leng can enjoy it during his down time.
Tali works very well from 2 > 3 and is pretty satisfying when you're on Rannoch with her.
I wonder if they'll swap the model of the human character who is clearly supposed to be a Turian in that one ME1 sidequest.
The black crush in 2 and 3 seems to be fixed, which is nice. Shame they left the vignetting in though.
This is such a well done remaster, I can't wait for this. It's a night and day difference.
Updated eye shaders was one of the improvements done throughout. Definitely looks a lot better.The eyes look so much better
Can't wait for them to show more of ME1's companions. Liara looks so good.
Speaking of which they better fix the various bugs that prevent you from getting all of Ken and Gabby's dialogue.
I think so. It's not a terrible game, just average by ME standards. The characters, universe and lore are still fun things to experience.
I was originally thinking about going with male Shepard, but now I'm thinking Bobbie or Drummer female Shepard.
Where's this from?another image:
supposedly to display some of the new black hair styles they've thankfully introduced for the remaster
Also, a great opportunity to fix the character face and texture inconsistencies going from ME 2 to ME3:
https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Kelly_Chambers#Kelly.27s_face_ME2_to_ME3
Hope the remaster can make best use of Chambers' ME 2 model.
https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Kelly_Chambers#Kelly.27s_face_ME2_to_ME3
Hope the remaster can make best use of Chambers' ME 2 model.
I don't know if I want to buy this or not. Im gonna be buying MLB The Show for the first time during my vacation in April on XSX. Then I'm gonna probably buy Returnal (depending on reviews) in April. Probably buying RE8 in May. Outriders potentially too. And I'm debating buying a switch in a week or two
I mean, I understand the continuity reason based on ME3, but still, you can have some weird atmosphere going on that is different.
The truth is that it happens all the time in remasters and remakes (like that unfortunate 343 Guilty Spark level in Halo Anniversary), and that's just a shame.
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