Mass Effect Remaster, NOT Remake

Walpknut said:
How do they fuck up a remaster? The games are already on PC. And they have the gall of charging full price.
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One word: EA. Why ask a question when you already know the answer? EA is known for cutting corners when it comes to shit like this. This was a quick cash grab that they thought they can do on the cheap and make maximum profits on based on nostalgia.
Norzan said:
Mixed reviews on Steam, and people are reporting bugs, crashes, bad 21:9 aspect ratio support, and mouse and keyboard being unplayable. Holy shit, Bioware can't even do a remaster correctly to a series of games back when they were "good".

Bioware really should be just shutdown, it's embarrasing itself at this point. Much better companies got shutdown for much less.
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Not only that but they brought back the horrible Russian voice acting for the Russian version with no options to switch the voice acting to the American voice acting like you can with Ghost of Tsushima which has royally pissed off the Russian players. The best though, at least for me, is how Bioware refuses to swallow their pride and actually change the ending to something satisfactory for the fans. The reason why is because doing so will be an admission that they were wrong and no way is Bioware ever wrong. The hubris...
 
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Game got up to 85% or something on Steam because of course it did. Biodrones flooded the review page with positive "reviews", hence why the rating went up. It shows how so many people are still clinging to this clearly obsolete company at this point, and they convince themselves so hard that the company will turn around.

They also released a few patches already, which is just mind boggling. The entire point of a remaster is to basically be a patch, fix up things. But when you patch basically a patch, that's when you know you fucked up.
 
Norzan said:
Game got up to 85% or something on Steam because of course it did. Biodrones flooded the review page with positive "reviews", hence why the rating went up. It shows how so many people are still clinging to this clearly obsolete company at this point, and they convince themselves so hard that the company will turn around.

They also released a few patches already, which is just mind boggling. The entire point of a remaster is to basically be a patch, fix up things. But when you patch basically a patch, that's when you know you fucked up.
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Actually, I get the feeling that Bioware and EA did the same thing that Bethesda did with Fallout 4 and 76 in that they paid Steam to delete many of the negative scores and reviews on Steam. Steam does that a lot for big companies like EA and Bethesda in that if a big AAA game comes out and it is shit then Steam will delete many of the scores on behest of the games publisher or devs as Steam gets a cut of the money from these games and they too also have a financial incentive to make sure those games sell well which is why it should come as no surprise when you see a Bethesda or EA game go from "Mostly Negative" to "Mostly Positive" in the span of a day. It's sleazy.
 
I'm still sticking with modded Mass Effect. The Galaxy at War mod really improves 3 and there are plenty of ending mods.

1 needed some QOL improvements though so I guess that is the only benefit to the remaster I can think of.

RangerBoo said:
Oh God, that fucking email. I remember seeing that and thought to myself, "Did the writers intend to write Kai Leng as a 14 year old edge lord?" Who the fuck thought that would be a cool thing for the "bad ass ninja super solider" to do? I cringed out of my skin. Kai Leng is literally a Sonic the Hedgehog OC.
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To be fair, the novels that introduced Kai Leng IIRC established that he is a try-hard edge lord loser in terms of his personality. IIRC, he was a person that got N7 credentials like Shepard and got dishonorably discharged for his actual conduct.

Plus he ate Anderson's cereal as a form of petty revenge in that one awful novel. I give a lot of shit on Leng being a terrible boss fight and lame nemesis to Shepard but the personality portrayed is on point with how lame he is in-universe.
 
CerberusGate said:
To be fair, the novels that introduced Kai Leng IIRC established that he is a try-hard edge lord loser in terms of his personality. IIRC, he was a person that got N7 credentials like Shepard and got dishonorably discharged for his actual conduct.

Plus he ate Anderson's cereal as a form of petty revenge in that one awful novel. I give a lot of shit on Leng being a terrible boss fight and lame nemesis to Shepard but the personality portrayed is on point with how lame he is in-universe.
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What is funny is that Mac "The Hack" Walters didn't intend to portray Leng as a edge lord loser. He wanted him to be this cool, badass rival to Shepherd. Boy did he fail. Yet he is still the head writer for Bioware which proves that one can fail upward in the gaming industry.
 
Watching streams, it seems they ruined the combat balance in Mass Effect 1 as well. Seeing as Bioware can't even deliver a remaster, I'm not looking forward to ME4 and DA4; Which is a shame since ME1 and DA Origins are pretty solid RPGs.


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RangerBoo said:
What is funny is that Mac "The Hack" Walters didn't intend to portray Leng as a edge lord loser. He wanted him to be this cool, badass rival to Shepherd. Boy did he fail. Yet he is still the head writer for Bioware which proves that one can fail upward in the gaming industry.
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Mass Effect 1 did that infinitely better with the rivalry with Saren. You can see the commonalities between the two Spectres (especially with Renegade Shepard) in their desire for galactic stability and sheer determination to accomplish their goals. While they were both highly skilled operatives, Shepard had the stronger will where Saren was cowed by Sovereign's will.

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Aurelius Of Phoenix said:
Mass Effect 1 did that infinitely better with the rivalry with Saren. You can see the commonalities between the two Spectres (especially with Renegade Shepard) in their desire for galactic stability and sheer determination to accomplish their goals. While they were both highly skilled operatives, Shepard had the stronger will where Saren was cowed by Sovereign's will.
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Yes but Mass Effect 1 was written by Drew Karpyshyn, a man who is a professional writer and wrote several sci-fi books before working on Mass Effect. Mac Walters was a fan fic writer that became friends with Casey Hudson and that was enough for him to get a job as lead writer for Bioware. Nepotism sure is great isn't it.
 
RangerBoo said:
What is funny is that Mac "The Hack" Walters didn't intend to portray Leng as a edge lord loser. He wanted him to be this cool, badass rival to Shepherd. Boy did he fail. Yet he is still the head writer for Bioware which proves that one can fail upward in the gaming industry.
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To be fair, Kai Leng was introduced via the Mass Effect novel, Retribution, that was written by Drew Karpyshyn. He came across as a edge lord there too even if he was effective at completing his job.

Still got both his legs shot out by Anderson though :roffle:. He had to crawl to an escape pod like a bitch at the end.

It would be Dietz's lore-breaking novel, Deception, that introduced the petty loser aspect of the guy with the 'justification' that Leng was an adrenaline junkie. I guess 3's writers held onto that characterization despite Bioware saying that they would release a re-write of Deception due to its immensely negative reception (note that AFAIK the re-write never actually came out as well :lmao:).
 
CerberusGate said:
It would be Dietz's lore-breaking novel, Deception, that introduced the petty loser aspect of the guy with the 'justification' that Leng was an adrenaline junkie. I guess 3's writers held onto that characterization despite Bioware saying that they would release a re-write of Deception due to its immensely negative reception (note that AFAIK the re-write never actually came out as well :lmao:).
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I remember that! I remember the blowback of that shitty novel and how Bioware told their fans that they would make a rewrite. After the backlash of Mass Effect 3 I guess they knew that fans would no longer be interested in anything Mass Effect related so they didn't even bother. I have to say that it is interesting seeing Bioware try to revive this franchise after pretty much killing it. Makes me curious about the next Mass Effect game but for all the wrong reasons.
 
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Aurelius Of Phoenix said:
I like his work on the games, but the novels are hit or miss. That Revan novel pissed me off. I'm still seething that some autistic sith faggot just bisects the Exile and blows Revan the fuck out, in one move.
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His idea behind the Reapers was kind of far out. You know? The dark energy plot? Still was better then what we got which was a rip off of Deus Ex. At least with the dark energy plot it was hinted at in the pervious two games.
 
I remember when it was announced that there was going to be a Prothean in ME3 I was really excited to see how the character and the story around them was. I played a good ways into the game before wondering where this guy was so I looked it up and found out he was dlc on launch day. I didn't finish the game, but watched the ending on Youtube. 1 was hands down the best anyways. Man games were good back then, huh?
ME1
Halo
Mirror's Edge
Borderlands
Oblivion
Dead Space
Fallout 3
Blue Dragon

I always leave good things like this in the past so I don't overwrite my memories of them. I won't be playing the remake, or replaying it at all. That time has passed.
 
Morgan_ said:
Man games were good back then, huh?
ME1
Halo
Mirror's Edge
Borderlands
Oblivion
Dead Space
Fallout 3
Blue Dragon
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Mirror's Edge was so much fun. Remember playing the hell out of it when I was a teen. Dead Space was also scary as hell. Probably the scariest game I ever played. We will never see games like those again. Mainly because EA swallowed their developers studios.
 
RangerBoo said:
Mirror's Edge was so much fun. Remember playing the hell out of it when I was a teen. Dead Space was also scary as hell. Probably the scariest game I ever played. We will never see games like those again. Mainly because EA swallowed their developers studios.
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Mirror's Edge is fantastic. Much like Portal it introduces a novel mechanic with excellent presentation and doesn't overstay it's welcome at all. Highly soulful and memorable. Replayed it last summer and it was literally just as ace as I remembered it. Art style held up amazingly too.
 
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