-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
BioWare Update (Casey Hudson): Anthem polishing phase, Mass Effect plans, DA stuff next month
- Thread starter JehutyRunner
- Start date
I wouldn't mind a ME trilogy remaster as a launch title for next gen.
All 3, and DLC, in one package... completely remade.
One engine, character creator imports that work, hair models that don't look like shit, updated mo-cap, updated V-O, Hanar and Elcor that move, moving NPCs,
ME2 shooting across all 3 games, pretty as a picture, and ME3s Normandy without all those frigging cables lying around my damn ship!
I mean, I'm already in to next gen... but there'd be a massive Day 1 uptake.
All 3, and DLC, in one package... completely remade.
One engine, character creator imports that work, hair models that don't look like shit, updated mo-cap, updated V-O, Hanar and Elcor that move, moving NPCs,
ME2 shooting across all 3 games, pretty as a picture, and ME3s Normandy without all those frigging cables lying around my damn ship!
I mean, I'm already in to next gen... but there'd be a massive Day 1 uptake.
Before bioware deleted their forums it would have been easy to find it, but there's a statement out there about it. I should amend my post though, they could just keep the cinematics as is. But essentially most of the missiles you see shouldn't be there.
EA's had a longstanding policy of no remasters. I dig it, as it increases the likelihood of it being something new.
They've walked back on that... last year, I think.
And C&C Remaster broke the camel's back on that policy.
Didn't they just announce a remaster like within the last month?
And there it is.
You say that like it's a bad thing but I love the DA novels and honestly if they don't want to make single player games anymore than I'd still be happy just to have books continue the series going forward. Better than some GaaS shit or nothing.
I would gladly pay full price for a ME remaster, even though I already played the trilogy in high resolution on PC.
Just having the whole package together with all story and cosmetic DLCs + HD textures + some necessary polishing done(especially with ME3) would be worth it.
What? ME3 combat improved on ME2 on every way. I literally don't see how someone would prefer 2's combat to 3, unless it's simply about not liking to fight against Reapers & Cerberus.
Just having the whole package together with all story and cosmetic DLCs + HD textures + some necessary polishing done(especially with ME3) would be worth it.
What? ME3 combat improved on ME2 on every way. I literally don't see how someone would prefer 2's combat to 3, unless it's simply about not liking to fight against Reapers & Cerberus.
I feel like EA has no choice but to do a remaster. The Mass Effect name has been run through the muck lately. A remaster would go a long way to appease fans.
For their sake I hope Anthem does well but gimme DA 4 plz. Inquisition wasn't perfect but I played the crap out of it with several completionist playthroughs. I can't get enough of Thedas.
For their sake I hope Anthem does well but gimme DA 4 plz. Inquisition wasn't perfect but I played the crap out of it with several completionist playthroughs. I can't get enough of Thedas.
I personally don't want it. I've exhausted the trilogy. As much as I adore it, I'd only jump back in if there were major enhancements, and relative to PC. I don't care about 4K/HDR console build of a game I can play on PC that's already been so aggressively modded to hell and playable at 4K. I'm just trying to think what, if anything, EA/BioWare could cook up in the wake of Andromeda's failure that is a affordable low risk investment.
I think Mass Effect is in that tough position, wherein it absolutely has a rabid fanbase, but appealing to them and the mass market is going to be tough.
A trilogy port/remaster will appeal to the niche, but I'm not convinced the masses will care, enough to have an impact.
A side-story or smaller game will appeal to the core fans, but not enough to rope in the masses, continuing to leave the series in limbo.
A major entry is a high risk investment in the wake of Andromeda's failings, and do people want an Andromeda 2 or a Mass Effect 4?
And ultimately; has the ship on Mass Effect sailed as a whole? Are the mass market fans done with Shepard and the trilogy? Is there room to recapture the fever and excitement of the trilogy with a new audience? Or has that market clocked out?
I think Andromeda's story-line could be continued but for godssake get some decent writers on board because the dialogue in that game is awful, I liked the idea of a massive new galaxy to explore and a new frontier and would like to see them expand on it, it can still be salvaged.
There were some interesting plot points that was started but never expanded upon in Andromeda that I would like to see continue but with better writers this time around.
Mass Effect 4 would be harder to do especially if they make a game set after Mass Effect 3 they could do what they did with dragon age inquisition, were you have a website were you entered in what had happened in the previous games that was unique for you and continue on from there.
But question is what the hell would it be about ?
Anything they want really. ME3 for all its issues sets up a ton of possibilities for the future of the Milky Way in the fallout of the Reaper war. Examining and drawing conclusions from how different races and factions would react and recover from a near total annihilation of the entire galaxy could lead to a lot of interesting dynamics and changes to the ME that we know. While the EC screws this up, they're going to have to pick any ending anyway so they can un-fix it if they want, and make it so the Mass Relay system was at least heavily damaged by the Crucible and basically cut off massive regions of space from one another isolating places for however long it took them to fix their relays and/or travel at much slower FTL speeds to re-establish connections. How would certain places react and change to being totally cut off from the rest of space for decades or more.
Plus ME lore already states like only 1% of the Milky Way was actually explored. None of the advanced races had any incentive to really advance FTL due to the Mass Relay system, making it so they only ventured out to those regions it connected them to. What other sentient species may have developed space travel without the aid of Reaper tech or the Mass Relay system. There could be all sorts of species as yet undiscovered out there.
Set the game some 50-100 years after ME3 and show us how the near cataclysmic events of the originally trilogy reshaped, for better or worse, the whole galaxy.
To continue, I think it has to be a Mass Effect without Mac Walters. I don't think BioWare has any appetite for that though.
Last edited:
Did everyone forget about Burnout Paradise Remastered?
I agree, the end of ME 3, After everything that was lost to be there, everyone's sacrifices... Sheperd would not compromise the way its made out to be..
You're right.. maybe they should just go with indoctrination theory and continue with the series... but even if they dont.., lets just go with the fact he was spaced, dead and withered and brought back in ME2... sutely Sheperd is going to survive when he is breathing at the end.
Just ... give us, the fans.. what we deserve.., that is, Mass Effect 4.
I was just trying to temper expectations. I don't think it would be a bad thing if it was either of those.
Verrrry interesting, I never caught that.
PS4 Pro and Xbox One X patches for Inquisition incoming, me thinks.
The team that enhanced Andromeda in time for N7 day on the X will have moved over to Dragon Age's third title. The patches act as Bioware's statement to fans that both series are still relevant to them, too. ('Now please pre-order Anthem.')
The team that enhanced Andromeda in time for N7 day on the X will have moved over to Dragon Age's third title. The patches act as Bioware's statement to fans that both series are still relevant to them, too. ('Now please pre-order Anthem.')
I had friends on the previous dragon age project which was great, and now I don't and that makes me so sad because I'm in the dark.
Eh maybe I'll go ask around.
I'm in the camp that significantly loved Inquisition, one of the few cases where in my opinion EA meddling improved the final product
Eh maybe I'll go ask around.
I'm in the camp that significantly loved Inquisition, one of the few cases where in my opinion EA meddling improved the final product
God a new Dragon Age game would get me back on board with Bioware. Lately they are just giving me shit I don't think I want.
A Destiny clone? Meh, I guess.
A Destiny clone? Meh, I guess.
lol, I saw your name and was actually pretty hype for a second. Hope you learn something good, even if you don't share it. I just want DA4 to exist.
Inquisition wasn't perfect for sure, but I still loved it. I have a weak spot for AAA rpgs where you can create your own character and have a group of interesting followers. I'm sad, because there's nothing like it on the horizon right now. I'm not counting cyberpunk, Not hyped for that at all.
I need DA4.
I need DA4.
Fuck, I don't even need remaster treatment, just give me the ability to play Mass Effect 1-2-3 in my PS4 and I'll bite. Heck if they tell me that I need to buy them individually with no DLC included and I have to buy them all over again, I'll bite them so hard regardless.
Mass Effect is so dear to me.
As is Dragon Age, actually. And it's the same. If they give me the ability to play Dragon Age Origins in my PS4 (and the sequel too, why not), I'll bite the opportunity so goddamn hard.
Mass Effect is so dear to me.
As is Dragon Age, actually. And it's the same. If they give me the ability to play Dragon Age Origins in my PS4 (and the sequel too, why not), I'll bite the opportunity so goddamn hard.
I know I may regret this... but I am excited.
Not at all. I love Bioware games, and not once have I wanted a multiplayer Destiny-like from them. The only interest I have in Anthem, is that it is being made by Bioware. If it weren't, I wouldn't even bat an eye at it.
Mass Effect is in fact so dear to me that I kind of don't want BioWare in their current state to work on it ever again. Casey Hudson might've been the vision holder but he was not really the executor of it. He's missing the writers that created the so-called "Magic" that the first two games had which the third game succesfully piggybacked on before people realized it was a crashing ship and Andromeda was their attempt to create Mass Effect with new blood in a much more EA-core management and it was just missing something entirely even beyond the technical issues. It's the art designers, the writers, and the musicians. The people that created the aesthetic brilliance of Mass Effect are mostly all gone now.
Yeah but to be able to play ME 1-3 in my ps4 is like, a dream scenario to me. My life would be consumed by it, haha.
It would be nice, especially with QoL improvements like updating Mass Effect 1 with a director's cut mix of the soundtrack. Playing through that game, though it has the charm of being nostalgic there are many, many places where BioWare inserted Jack Wall and the other musician's scores in the wrong moments and even Jack Wall said "That is not what I intended when I wrote that song!" in an interview. (Think the James Bond music jingle when you complete the Towers of Hanoi puzzle on Noveria or Tali's rescue washing out the voice acitng)
And just an overall attempt to slightly rework all 3 games to have a more consistent look and feel would make it worth it to me. They all run on Unreal 3 as a base.
in what way EA meddled? if you can talk about it
i have to say i'm enjoying Inquisition more now than at launch
Not at all. If wanting DA more than Anthem is wrong, I don't want to be right.
We're more open to doing remasters nowadays. Most recent announcement being the remaster of some of the earlier C&C games. :)
We might do more in the future! ;)
Who should I bribe to get a remaster of Dragon Age Origins or Mass Effect? Heck if you tell me to sacrifice babies to some Dark Lord I'll do it, lol.
I will never care about bio again until the mass trilogy remaster happens.
That aside I wish them luck
That aside I wish them luck
Yeah, I played through most of the trilogy again last summer, and the combat in ME3 is by far the best in the series.
I talked about it a bit years ago, how the game was originally scoped closer to DA2, but the internal push was to make it open world. So the net product is a bit of a hybrid, still very character driven/focused yet more player agency in progression and larger areas to explore at your pace. The whole product just feels bigger as a result, more of a journey than a bottle episode.