Mass Effect Trilogy remastered

Zero-Cool · 31-01-2015 10:56pm #1

After reading the 'sad moments in gaming' thread, I have a serious craving to play the trilogy again. I never played through the updated ending, citadel and some other dlc. Sold my ps3 so wanted to check if anyone here heard about the trilogy bring released on next gen?

I read Bioware hinted at it last year but can't see any recent news.

Especially as Mass Effect 4 won't be out this year.

Captain Chaos · 01-02-2015 12:50am

I reckon they will do a trilogy and they did say that they would leave the ME1 combat as is and not change it to ME2 and 3 style as it would not work well in the game. Also talk of making new cut scenes to like the games together more closely.

The next Mass Effect game won't be called Mass Effect 4 though as it is not a continuation of the ME3 time line. It will be set before or during the first 3 games.

Mass Effect was a great new IP for gen 7 consoles and came out early in the 360's life cycle. There is no new IP like it for gen 8 so far which is worrying imo.

Generation 8 is moving alot slower than 7 that really hit the ground running on the 360 at least as the PS3 was late to the party.

SeantheMan · 02-02-2015 1:57am

Updated ending is overrated.
Citadel...I didn't actually finish it...though everyone seems to like it

Did my 3rd playthrough of the Trilogy late last year.

Was utterly disappointed with Leviathan...given the price

Lahinchians · 02-02-2015 9:23am

Starting my first play through soon enough. Only ever played an hour of the first years ago. Kinda looking forward to it really, even with the mixed reports from everyone

Zero-Cool · 02-02-2015 9:33am

Lahinchians wrote: »

Starting my first play through soon enough. Only ever played an hour of the first years ago. Kinda looking forward to it really, even with the mixed reports from everyone

YOU LUCKY B@STARD!

Stone Deaf 4evr · 02-02-2015 11:50am

Lahinchians wrote: »

Starting my first play through soon enough. Only ever played an hour of the first years ago. Kinda looking forward to it really, even with the mixed reports from everyone

theres a massive difference between 1 & 2, in a good way.

I never finished 3, another one on the long term back burner.

Mr.Buzz · 02-02-2015 12:52pm

Lahinchians wrote: »

Starting my first play through soon enough. Only ever played an hour of the first years ago. Kinda looking forward to it really, even with the mixed reports from everyone

You should really enjoy. IMO the ME2 is the best one, but I'm pretty sure not everyone agrees with me.

Zero-Cool · 02-02-2015 1:05pm

Yeah ME2 was my favourite. I rushed through ME1 on my PC (all low crappy graphics) so I understood the story for ME2 on playstation. Would like to play through it again and put proper hours into it but definitely preferred the combat in 2 and 3.

Great looking over the

Indoctrination

series ending theory again.

shruikan2553 · 02-02-2015 1:06pm

Mr.Buzz wrote: »

You should really enjoy. IMO the ME2 is the best one, but I'm pretty sure not everyone agrees with me.

ME2 was provably my favourite but I felt the story added very little for the trilogy, it added lots of characters but you could go from 1 to 3 and still follow the story, you'll just be asking who is that every few minutes.

Haven't played any of the DLC for 2 or 3. Biowares DLC rarely lowers in price

Kiith · 02-02-2015 1:07pm

They'll definitely do a next gen release of the trilogy. It's an easy money maker. Sure modders have already improved the textures on the pc, so it shouldn't be that big an issue to up the graphics a bit.

K.O.Kiki · 02-02-2015 1:20pm

Gunplay-wise, I'm of the opinion that every sequel improved upon the last.

But in the sci-fi exploration angle the series has been all over the place, so I hope they take all the best bits of 1&2 (Mako, underground areas, uncharted planets) and build upon them. ME3 was too close to "corridor shooter".

Also there better be a simultaneous PC release!

Varik · 02-02-2015 2:04pm

I'd rather they redo combat in me1, and it would hopefully be more remake than remaster.

quad_red · 02-02-2015 2:08pm

I loved ME 1 and 2 on the 360. Got ME3 on the PS3 and couldn't play it the frame rate was so bad.

Either way, as entertaining as they were, they were seriously broken tech wise. Interminable loading times (the elevators of doom!), clipping, crashes, slowdown.

These games would seriously benefit from hardware capable of running them smoothly with massively reduced load times.

BeerWolf · 02-02-2015 2:15pm

Maybe in 5 years time... Mass Effect still looks good.

jones · 02-02-2015 2:53pm

I'd definitely play through a remastered ME series again. Imagine them in 1080p and 60fps goodness.

ME2 was my favourite by a mile but I did enjoy 1 & 3 also.

Generic Dreadhead · 02-02-2015 3:08pm

Unnecessary imho.

Nody · 02-02-2015 3:39pm

ME1 - I'm a RPG game with an open world to explore and choices to make; oh and I love elevators, elevators is the bestest thing eva!
ME2 - Shooters R Us, Look at me COD; I haz gunz!
ME3 - I heard you like corridors; let me show you my corridor technology and don't worry about making decisions because I'll make them for you so you can shot some more in my corridors. Did I mention I like corridors?

Captain Chaos · 02-02-2015 4:01pm

Cormac... wrote: »

Unnecessary imho.

One of the best new IPs from gen 7. I think it deserves to live on. There is so much that can be done with it with all the back story and lore that the first game alone set up with all the codex entries.

You could make an RTS like Homeworld or Halo Wars, an FPS/RPG style game like Deus Ex or revive the space shooter genre with a Colony Wars style game all set in the Mass Effect universe.

The first game deserves the HD treatment imo.

Generic Dreadhead · 02-02-2015 4:08pm

Let me rephrase.... "At this point in time, it is completely unnecessary"

This is not some 64bit game from way back when, a person could pick up Mass Effect 2 tomorrow and it would still hold up.
Maybe in 2 or 3 years, yeah fair enough might be a decent idea.

It would be like saying Fallout 3 or Bioshock 1 or Red Dead Redemption need to be remastered.

We're reaching ludicrous Spider Man movie franchise levels of rehashing the same stuff now.
I can't wait for the only version of the Last of Us that matters on next gen (Playstation 5)

Captain Chaos · 02-02-2015 4:21pm

Fair enough point but do consider that Mass Effect 1 is 8 years old this year. Halo got the HD treatment after 10 years, alot would not consider it worthy of that.

Mitch Connor · 02-02-2015 4:25pm

Gave my 360 to a mate - if they released the trilogy on next gen I'd be all over it. Would love to play through it all again on the Xbox One or PS4.

Generic Dreadhead · 02-02-2015 4:26pm

By all means Remaster 1 (i actually never played it as it was so dated to be frank), but the whole trilogy? Madness!

Zero-Cool · 02-02-2015 4:31pm

I got a loan of Dragon Age Inquisition and playing it just makes me want to play Mass Effect all over again. Checking on some forums, a lot of people are looking for a remaster on next gen. Dunno why but since getting a PS4, my favourite games have been remasters - GTA V, Last of Us, Sleeping Dogs, Resident Evil. I'd look forward to a ME Trilogy remaster more than most upcoming new releases.

First time I regretted getting rid of my PS3.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 02-02-2015 4:34pm

Cormac... wrote: »

By all means Remaster 1 (i actually never played it as it was so dated to be frank), but the whole trilogy? Madness!

Id be with you here, They hold up pretty well by and large, If they really cared about preserving the legacy for gamers who didn't get a chance to play them on old systems, they'd just sort out backwards compatibility and leave that be it. A lot of these remasters - Sleeping dogs, Metro, Saints Row, etc have a real smell of "quick coat of paint, and easy money for us".

sweetie · 02-02-2015 5:35pm

nearly given up on ME1, the combat is quite poor, the save system is terrible and although i'm enjoying the story I might just skip to the second one.

Johny_cash · 02-02-2015 5:37pm

its a great game alirhgt

Generic Dreadhead · 02-02-2015 5:38pm

I just used the DLC comic for 1, no gameplay, make 6 choices, bobs your uncle

Pac1Man · 02-02-2015 8:07pm

sweetie wrote: »

nearly given up on ME1, the combat is quite poor, the save system is terrible and although i'm enjoying the story I might just skip to the second one.

You can save whenever you like.

Captain Chaos · 02-02-2015 8:56pm

sweetie wrote: »

nearly given up on ME1, the combat is quite poor,.

The combat is bad until you max out the skill of whatever your weapon of choice is but by then you are almost unstopable in normal difficulty.

2 just streamlined all the skills, made base accuracy shooting more realistic starting off and unlimited ammo is gone as a trade off. Replaced with heat clips to keep with the game's codex lore of ME1 that traditional ammo does not exist anymore. It's all tiny metal shards accelerated to near light speed with mass effect fields.

Varik · 02-02-2015 9:37pm

Missed out on the last 2 DLC for ME3, both are meant to be good or at least nice additions. But due to the fact that Bioware never have sales on their DLC (on PC) or the points to buy them they're still very expensive.

I could likely get the remastered version with all the games and dlc for cheaper.

ME2 was a big change in combat, biotics got a big over hall and weapons were improved.

Dave_The_Sheep · 02-02-2015 10:07pm

Started 1 again there recently, decided to hook it up to my 50" flatscreen. It still holds up reasonably well - sure, it's not going to win any realistic graphics competitions, but with this quality texture mod, it's still very watchable. And playable, even if - as mentioned - the combat of ME2 is quite a bit better.

Decided to go Engineer, the one class I haven't played yet. Also picked a black femshep, which I haven't done either.

shruikan2553 · 02-02-2015 10:11pm

Captain Chaos wrote: »

The combat is bad until you max out the skill of whatever your weapon of choice is but by then you are almost unstopable in normal difficulty.

2 just streamlined all the skills, made base accuracy shooting more realistic starting off and unlimited ammo is gone as a trade off. Replaced with heat clips to keep with the game's codex lore of ME1 that traditional ammo does not exist anymore. It's all tiny metal shards accelerated to near light speed with mass effect fields.

Ah good times putting heat sink mods into the assault rifle. Just hold down the fire button and never worry.

K.O.Kiki · 02-02-2015 10:14pm

Cormac... wrote: »

I just used the DLC comic for 1, no gameplay, make 6 choices, bobs your uncle

Sadly you still get a lot of "bad" choices this way.

If you're on PC there's a save editor online with full options.

Maximus Alexander · 02-02-2015 10:16pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

YOU LUCKY B@STARD!

I know! A friend of mine who plays a lot of games had somehow, inexplicably never played any of the ME games. So I told him he must, and he did.

The last few weeks I've been seeing his stupid little user name, first on Steam, then in Origin, cycling through the trilogy. The envy!

He's finished now though, so he's in the same place as me. A crack addict in withdrawal. Sucker.

Mitch Connor · 02-02-2015 10:35pm

Cormac... wrote: »

By all means Remaster 1 (i actually never played it as it was so dated to be frank), but the whole trilogy? Madness!

If you are going to do one, do it all and release the full lot together. Why release just the first one?

moc moc a moc · 03-02-2015 12:48am

jones wrote: »

Imagine them in 1080p and 60fps goodness.

As a member of the PC master race, I don't have to :cool:

Mr.Buzz · 03-02-2015 9:56am

Mitch Connor wrote: »

If you are going to do one, do it all and release the full lot together. Why release just the first one?

Because the first one is the oldest? There's no need to remaster the third and second game which really look more than decent enough?

Maximus Alexander · 03-02-2015 10:24am

There'd definitely be no point in remastering 2 or 3 at the moment. I played them both last year and they still look well, the mechanics still feel modern and sharp, it would be a wasted effort.

It's something I can imagine happening maybe ten years down the line if they end up being classics.

03-02-2015 12:39pm

Lucky that I have them on PC but could not bear playing through again to get that crap ending, so underwhelming

Varik · 03-02-2015 12:56pm

Remasters don't have anything to do with if a game NEEDs it, it all depends on if it'll sell.

Lot of people missed out on it first time roun, if they did it'll sell well or at least enough to justify the cost.

03-02-2015 1:02pm

A LOT of people missed out on ME1 in fairness.

03-02-2015 1:04pm

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

decided to hook it up to my 50" flatscreen.

Look at you with your 50" screen, ohhh la dee da

Zero-Cool · 03-02-2015 1:06pm

Yeah, I don't care whether it needs a remastering or not (ME1 could do with it but can't see the combat being changed), I just want to play through it again on the new system. Also, whatever about the ending, game is worth it alone for the story and characters you encounter. I got the platinum trophy in ME 2 and ME 3, usually that would put me off playing through a game again but would instantly buy the trilogy on PS4.

03-02-2015 1:09pm

Why not just play it on the old systems?

Zero-Cool · 03-02-2015 1:12pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Why not just play it on the old systems?

I sold my PS3

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Captain Chaos · 03-02-2015 2:01pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Why not just play it on the old systems?

Like saying why play Res 1 again on the PS1 when the HD version of the remake just came out on gen 7 gen 8 systems.

ME1 ran like a dog on gen 7 consoles. ME2 and 3 were a little better but they would benefit from next gen hardware big time.

I played through the were as they were released on the 360.

I got rid of my 360 when the PS4 came out. I went and bought the trilogy on the PS3 when it was on sale last year to play through again the PS3 version of all 3 games suffer in looks and fps compared to the 360. Great game but runs like crap.

ME1 is considered a classic and the best new IP franchise of gen 7. A next gen trilogy would sell very well. Yes you can argue that it's basically KOTOR in a new dress but it does the job.

Shiminay · 03-02-2015 2:03pm

Jaysus, look at the spooge over a series of games only a few short years old - it's no wonder we see no new IP getting a push when threads like this are skewing "market research" and making sure that nothing ever changes. :rolleyes:

Make a new Mass Effect game with new stuff and new ideas and new mechanics. Leave the others alone ffs and let them get dug up as remakes for the next generation.

03-02-2015 2:04pm

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Like saying why play Res 1 again on the PS1 when the HD version of the remake just came out on gen 7 gen 8 systems.

ME1 ran like a dog on gen 7 consoles. ME2 and 3 were a little better but they would benefit from next gen hardware big time.

I played through the were as they were released on the 360.

I got rid of my 360 when the PS4 came out. I went and bought the trilogy on the PS3 when it was on sale last year to play through again the PS3 version of all 3 games suffer in looks and fps compared to the 360. Great game but runs like crap.

ME1 is considered a classic and the best new IP franchise of gen 7. A next gen trilogy would sell very well. Yes you can argue that it's basically KOTOR in a new dress but it does the job.

He stated that he did not mind it NOT being remastered and many people keep older consoles (now that backward compatibility is a thing of the past)

I don't know how they play on consoles (so was a valid question to me)

Captain Chaos · 03-02-2015 2:11pm

[QUOTE=Shiminay;94127970 as remakes for the next generation.[/QUOTE]

It already is:pac:.

You want to wait until the PS5 in 2020 for the 16k Ultra Super High Def VR trilogy.:D I'll take that version too.

Can't say there are any other games from gen 7 I'd like to see get redone or improved. Gen 5 and 6 are another story, I've a list as long as my arm.

Gbear · 03-02-2015 2:12pm

The games are pretty old at this stage.

If you want a better graphics experience just play them on a PC.

ME1 could run on a toaster.

jones · 03-02-2015 2:16pm

Shiminay wrote: »

Jaysus, look at the spooge over a series of games only a few short years old - it's no wonder we see no new IP getting a push when threads like this are skewing "market research" and making sure that nothing ever changes. :rolleyes:

Make a new Mass Effect game with new stuff and new ideas and new mechanics. Leave the others alone ffs and let them get dug up as remakes for the next generation.

I think the point is the new Mass Effect (or whatever it will be called) wont be with us until 2016 at the earliest. All this talk of mass effect has me wanting to play it again. I missed the first one too and played ME2 and ME3 on the ps3. I just think there is a market for a "remastered" series on ps4/xbone even if only ME1 is remastered and the other 2 are ports from last gen.

I'm planning on building a gaming pc towards the end of the year so I could just buy it on PC but I think there is definitely a market for it.

I actually agree that there is a LOT of remasters and rehashes of last gen stuff so far this gen but it looks like 2015 is going to have a lot more new stuff. :-)

Mass Effect Trilogy remastered

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