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Eurogamer: Several online retailers list Mass Effect: Legendary Edition for March 12th 2021 release
- Thread starter Saucycarpdog
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In the initial announcement they laid out what to expect.
- Higher resolution and frame rate (no specifics given, but I think it's safe to assume 60fps)
- Better textures, shaders, effects, and character models
- Some form of enhancement on XSX/PS5 over the last gen versions (no details)
It still uses unreal engine 3 so don't expect dramatic differences and do not expect ray tracing. I think high res cut scenes will be a given. No way they put out those pixelated 720p versions.
The PC versions better have native controller support as well.
This is something I'd like to have, but will be okay if is not done. Controller support on the other hand. I have a 144hz monitor but i think I'll be playing this on the 55" OLED, that's why I want the controller support.
The insane thing is it was planned for October and had a last minute delay, supposedly.
But I am a bit impatient to see how it looks. Even if it's 99% the same, at least I can manage my expectations accordingly.
Me too! I'll be happily surprised if it's more than a graphical and slight ui change. Here's hoping your choices impact me4 but I think everyone is saying the destroy ending is Canon.
I know Jeff Grubs insinuated it got delayed but he defo didn't say it was last minute and I was pretty sure he was the only one really spilling stuff about the ME remasters?
A whole bunch of leaks on the existence of the Remaster and several retailers initially put it up for October.
yeah this is literally the one thing I want out of this as well
It already is. I am hoping for some quality of life upgrades to ME1.
Just hope that the PC versions has properly controller support. Also would love PTBR subs, then some friends finally would understand why these games are loved.
March looking really nice with this, It Takes Two, and Returnal.
Probably get a trailer soon then.
Probably get a trailer soon then.
All that means is that it was originally planned for October and then got delayed, not that it was a last minute decision. Jeff Grubb might've found out about it near October, but that's not representative of when the delay happened.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
I hope this ends up really impressive but I'm not expecting much more than a simple upres.
If anything it'd be nice to have all 3 games plus DLC on one modern platform but I'm not dying to have it day one.
If anything it'd be nice to have all 3 games plus DLC on one modern platform but I'm not dying to have it day one.
Likely. Wouldn't it also be sad if the sales of this determines how "big" they can go with ME4?
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Hopefully it's not like EA using it to determine support for the Wii U.
"We put an inferior version of Mass Effect 3 lacking DLC on the Wii U at full price over a year late at the same time we released the Trilogy grouped together for the same price on other systems and it didn't sell to our expectations! There is no future for EA games on the Wii U!"
That still cracks me up.
But I'm more optimistic about this one. At least if it's competent and runs well (PLEASE run well).
After the embarrassing NFS Hot Pursuit "Remaster" im not expecting enhanced graphics at all. EA Remasters are usually bottom of the barrel effort/budget projects. Hopefully its at least stable on all platforms. When i tried to play ME1 on PC my save files got corrupted after 10 hours or so and deleted it since.
Seeing a close release date and still no content... I'm a bit worried as well.
I feel like I'm one of the few who still has little interest in revisiting after the ME3 plot beats/ending(and side quest design) but I never played the citadel dlc so I'll probably get suckered into buying this
At least the first one was great 😎
and still retroactively hate the franchise
At least the first one was great 😎
Maybe the uncharted worlds got a tune up and they won't appear as if the level designer fell asleep while clicking on the elevation tool.
Your opinion is absolutely valid, but for the sake of showing that what you've described isn't necessarily bad: I will only replay ME1 if they make the kind of changes you're suggesting.
Delete the Mako from everything apart from the storyline missions and you really do lose nothing apart from the worst padding.
Plus, yes, removing 90% of the armour and weapon options would be better.
Plus, yes, removing 90% of the armour and weapon options would be better.
Really hope they don't fuck this up. I think I'm finally willing to give the trilogy as a whole a shot if these ports/ remasters are decent.
Just wait for the release date from official sources. It's probably not coming out in March. We are in a pandemic
We should consider Hot Pursuit a baseline for what they intend to do with Mass Effect.
Outside of that, my biggest fairytale hope would be for them to completely redo ME1's menus and UI but leave the rest of its gameplay alone. Or just give it some quality of life improvements. Any more changes to ME1 would be too controversial and divisive because the fanbase has such a huge split between people who think ME1 is the best game in the series and people who think it's the worst.
Outside of that, my biggest fairytale hope would be for them to completely redo ME1's menus and UI but leave the rest of its gameplay alone. Or just give it some quality of life improvements. Any more changes to ME1 would be too controversial and divisive because the fanbase has such a huge split between people who think ME1 is the best game in the series and people who think it's the worst.
I'm still super keen on this because I'm due for another playthrough, but the longer they take to actually show the damn thing, the less work I expect has been done to spruce up the visuals. I'm in no way expecting a full remake/remaster of every asset across the three games (it'd be an unreasonably enormous job), but the impact of even minor upgrades is going to be less significant on PC than console. I actually think all three games still look really good when running at high framerates and resolutions, so console gamers should get an inherently, immediately superior experience over the original builds. But much of the standard port upgrades we've come to expect (resolution, texture filtering, anti-aliasing, framerate, etc) were always available on PC, so I'm more interested in what else they can bring to the table.
The ME1 situation concerns me a bit too, if the rumours are true. I personally would be happy to play it again as-is, but the rumour that it was delayed to take ME1 back to the drawing board makes me wonder what, if any changes are being made and how they're impacting development.
I just hope they don't break anything. Even if this ends up being a pretty lukewarm port as far as improvements go, I hope this doesn't wind up as one of those cases where the "next gen" port introduces a bunch of bugs and broken features that weren't in the originals. Fingers crossed.
The ME1 situation concerns me a bit too, if the rumours are true. I personally would be happy to play it again as-is, but the rumour that it was delayed to take ME1 back to the drawing board makes me wonder what, if any changes are being made and how they're impacting development.
I just hope they don't break anything. Even if this ends up being a pretty lukewarm port as far as improvements go, I hope this doesn't wind up as one of those cases where the "next gen" port introduces a bunch of bugs and broken features that weren't in the originals. Fingers crossed.
Keeping in mind the likely modest scale of this remaster, a few things I'd like to see improved that wouldn't be too difficult:
- Better face models for Shepard, especially FemShep who I always thought looked somewhat odd in-game.
- Better face model for Ashley. She looks bad in ME1/2 and bad in a completely different way in ME3.
- ME1 could use some gameplay changes, but I'm not sure what they could implement easily. Tighten up the Mako controls a bit? Improve the cover system? The UI definitely needs some work too.
- ME2: Fix the slow loading screens. (There's already a PC mod that does this)
- ME2: Improve the responsiveness of the cursor during the Planet Scanning minigame, this is a large part of why people find that minigame frustrating. Yes I know there's an in-game upgrade that does this, you can go ahead and take that out and make the faster movement the default, it's okay.
- ME2: Please remove the terrible "red veins of death" graphic that appears when you have low health.
- ME3: Better quest log.
- ME3: Let me check my War Assets from the menu. Don't make me slowly make my way to the back of the ship to check the special War Assets Computer every time.
- Clean up a few inconsistencies/typos in the planet descriptions.
- Clear up any lingering issues with save importing.
- Better face models for Shepard, especially FemShep who I always thought looked somewhat odd in-game.
- Better face model for Ashley. She looks bad in ME1/2 and bad in a completely different way in ME3.
- ME1 could use some gameplay changes, but I'm not sure what they could implement easily. Tighten up the Mako controls a bit? Improve the cover system? The UI definitely needs some work too.
- ME2: Fix the slow loading screens. (There's already a PC mod that does this)
- ME2: Improve the responsiveness of the cursor during the Planet Scanning minigame, this is a large part of why people find that minigame frustrating. Yes I know there's an in-game upgrade that does this, you can go ahead and take that out and make the faster movement the default, it's okay.
- ME2: Please remove the terrible "red veins of death" graphic that appears when you have low health.
- ME3: Better quest log.
- ME3: Let me check my War Assets from the menu. Don't make me slowly make my way to the back of the ship to check the special War Assets Computer every time.
- Clean up a few inconsistencies/typos in the planet descriptions.
- Clear up any lingering issues with save importing.
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it would be nice if they were an improvement than what you already get on PC