Mass Effect Trilogy remastered

Zero-Cool

Penn wrote: »

Having never played any of them, I'm feeling the urge to just power through ME1 and focus more on 2 & 3.

Have gotten through the Citadel and gotten myself Spectred, so heading towards more action stuff next I presume.

Aw yeah, i forgot how slow the citadel bit was at the start. You'll have a hand full of main missions and pick up tons of assignments (mini missions). ME 2 is so ****ing good so it's worth powering through ME1. Any lore you might miss can be covered in countless YouTube videos.

Penn

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Aw yeah, i forgot how slow the citadel bit was at the start. You'll have a hand full of main missions and pick up tons of assignments (mini missions). ME 2 is so ****ing good so it's worth powering through ME1. Any lore you might miss can be covered in countless YouTube videos.

Didn't mind the Citadel too much, nice to see the world building. Only issue is traversal/map is a bit awkward, and the camera wobble when sprinting is f*cking awful so I just slow-jogged everywhere.

Zero-Cool

I forgot how great the setting is for rogue VI mission and how it unlocks your specialisation class. Recommend doing it early.

Adyx

_CreeD_ wrote: »

Try turning off 'Mako Camera-Relative Steering' under Options/Controls.

Yeah I found that eventually. Now the Mako feels the same as it always did tbh. In any case, the problem was never really the Mako itself, it was the stupid terrain.

Mr.Fantastic

Caved and bought this on series x.

Looking forward to it being 2007 again and having my mind blown with eden prime all over again.

J. Marston

Adyx wrote: »

Yeah I found that eventually. Now the Mako feels the same as it always did tbh. In any case, the problem was never really the Mako itself, it was the stupid terrain.

There's a planet with giant mountains and deep chasms and objectives along that path. I don't know what they were thinking making a level like that.

Retr0gamer

J. Marston wrote: »

There's a planet with giant mountains and deep chasms and objectives along that path. I don't know what they were thinking making a level like that.

We could design a level. Or we could get the algorithm to make them and place prefab buildings in it and call it a day.

_CreeD_

Aye it's not the steering model (once that ridiculous camera-relative setting is off) it's that the Mako handles and feels like a beach ball, awkward terrain really exacerbates it.

Retr0gamer

Getting trapped in a gully for 20 minutes filled with sharp peaks with the textures stretched so thin around them that they are at the point of snapping just to get to a building with ikea level design that has you wondering if it's deja vu or if you've already seen this building 10 times already is all part of the ME1 experience.

Markitron

I always laugh when people say that ME1 is the best as it is the most RPG-ish of the trilogy.

Those extra bits that make it more of an RPG are easily the worst thing about it, still a great game, but the streamlining they introduced in ME2 makes it a vastly better experience.

Zero-Cool

The only thing that saves those samey assignments on the planets are the brilliant backdrop views..

Markitron

Zero-Cool wrote: »

The only thing that saves those samey assignments on the planets are the brilliant backdrop views..

Occasionally there is some good side story content in them prefabs, the problem is I usually have no idea what anyone is on about as I clear the planets out one by one as they become available and hardly ever check my mission log.

Markitron

judywriter wrote: »

Is Mass Effect remastered coming to PS5?

It already did. It runs as a PS4 game in backwards compatibility mode, but there are enhancements built-in for PS5 users. The only realistic addition for a potential PS5 version is dualsense support.

Zero-Cool

Bioware confirim no ps5/xbox series versions as they want to keep the next mass effect for the new gen, would be too much work upgrading the engine for the remaster.

Some great story in the assignments but it's hard to know what's worth the time. I have Virmire done so I think just a few main missions left. I want to get to ME 2 asap but want to tick off the good assignments first. I think there's a doc online somewhere that list missions that carry across the games, def want to do those.

EoinMcLovin

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Bioware confirim no ps5/xbox series versions as they want to keep the next mass effect for the new gen, would be too much work upgrading the engine for the remaster.

Some great story in the assignments but it's hard to know what's worth the time. I have Virmire done so I think just a few main missions left. I want to get to ME 2 asap but want to tick off the good assignments first. I think there's a doc online somewhere that list missions that carry across the games, def want to do those.

Here you go
https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/11112-mass-effect-choices-consequences-decisions-that-matter-across-the-trilogy

Riddle101

Does anyone else love reading the planetary bios in the star map? I Gotta give credit to the developers for putting so much effort into writing the bios for each planet. Some planets have some interesting and mysterious bios.

_CreeD_

Markitron wrote: »

I always laugh when people say that ME1 is the best as it is the most RPG-ish of the trilogy.

Those extra bits that make it more of an RPG are easily the worst thing about it, still a great game, but the streamlining they introduced in ME2 makes it a vastly better experience.

Taken as part of the whole series ME2 fits better than I felt it did on release. ME1 is clunkier but it was also more complex and created and moved the story along brilliantly, ME2 was much simpler in that respect and was more a prequel for ME3 to pick up the story proper again. As for which approach was right at the time of release ME1 was in some ways a spiritual successor to the KOTOR series, albeit with a new IP, so it fit better with player expectations at the time. ME2 on the other hand while better optimised overall was in many ways 'dumbed' down, at least until you get to see the ramifications of what appear to be simpler choices later on.

J. Marston

Riddle101 wrote: »

Does anyone else love reading the planetary bios in the star map? I Gotta give credit to the developers for putting so much effort into writing the bios for each planet. Some planets have some interesting and mysterious bios.

Gas giant.

Gas giant.

Gas giant.

Oh, this one is cool.

Gas giant.

Gas giant.

Lamposts

Just started this for the first time. Does the hud and map improve in the 2nd game?

Zero-Cool

Cleared ME1, all trophies bar the completionist one. Fack! Guides say i need to have cleared roughly 55 missions and I've completed 45. Have to load an earlier save to clean those up now, hopefully they'll trigger without having to go through virmire and Ilos again.

J. Marston

It's annoying how certain decisions and outcomes are tied behind goodie two-shoes and puppy kicker playthroughs.

I'd like to be a renegade but not a "dirty Turians/Quarians" renegade.

Vicxas

Forgot how much of a pain scanning for minerals is in ME:2

Also, i really feel like they should have timegated Katsumi and Zaeed as they came in DLC and feel weird early in the game.

ItsHoggie

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Cleared ME1, all trophies bar the completionist one. Fack! Guides say i need to have cleared roughly 55 missions and I've completed 45. Have to load an earlier save to clean those up now, hopefully they'll trigger without having to go through virmire and Ilos again.

How can I check how many missions I’ve completed?

Tij da feen

Onto ME2 now. Insanity difficulty is kicking my ass a bit more here. They reigned in the difficultly on ME1 a bit too much imo (mainly sniper rifle being usable by all classes).

Side note: why is the Gamerscore on xbox totalling to 2,915? Seeing as they removed and added achievements you think they would of rounded it out to 3k.

Zero-Cool

ItsHoggie wrote: »

How can I check how many missions I’ve completed?

I just counted them under Journal, any ones greyed out. It looks as though you don't have to clear the game either so I reloaded to my last free save, after Virmire and just gonna go cluster to cluster until it pops, hopefully won't take long.

Zero-Cool

Played an hour of side quests before realising I can return to the citadel to hand a bunch in because of story reasons. Need to go back to before virmire for the cleanup and then doing some main ones again. **** that, moved onto ME 2 and so bloody glad I did, forgot how epic the intro was. If I get the plat in 2 and 3, I'll swing back to ME1.

Markitron

I'm about to finish ME1, only missing the AI hacking trophy, never used Tali.

Zero-Cool

Markitron wrote: »

I'm about to finish ME1, only missing the AI hacking trophy, never used Tali.

You heathen, Tali is the best!!

Playing the first mission of 2, I'd almost recommend people skipping 1 if you've played it before, the jump in quality is insane.

Retr0gamer

Zero-Cool wrote: »

You heathen, Tali is the best!!

Playing the first mission of 2, I'd almost recommend people skipping 1 if you've played it before, the jump in quality is insane.

Leave my alien Waifu alone.

Tij da feen

Zero-Cool wrote: »

You heathen, Tali is the best!!

Playing the first mission of 2, I'd almost recommend people skipping 1 if you've played it before, the jump in quality is insane.

I wouldn't recommend skipping 1. It's great to go over the full story again and there's so much different things that carry over to 2 and 3. Only the major choices are available in the comic, there's various other small things that carry over (like Tali's pilgrimage, different side missions etc..)