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[Mass Effect] Ah yes, "sequels". We have dismissed this claim. Tag spoilers for newbies!
Sorce
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Previously on the Mass Effect Thread
Version 1.0 - Mass Effect Andromeda announced, featuring even hotter humanoid ship AI
Version 2.0 - Ryders on the Tempest
Version 3.0 - Negative Ghost Ryder, the planet is full.
Version 4.0 - Sara's out and Scott free.
Version 5.0 - Ryders of the Lost Ark(s).
Version 6.0 - Shepard may get a day, but Ryder gets a planet.
(OP at least partially stolen from Curly. He carries us through more than just MP.)
Trailers!
https://youtu.be/PfHxklxMhA4
https://youtu.be/X6PJEmEHIaYWhat We Know:
The Original Trilogy is out.
Mass Effect Andromeda is out.
Good lord there's a bunch of comics and novels. Most are good, the rest are really bad.
Maaaybe there'll be a remaster of the OT at some point, but no one knows, so we're perennially talking about when that could happen. We'll probably hear something by N7 Day, assuming BioWare wants to celebrate it this year.
Versions of the Releases
PC
-The entire OT is currently available on Origin, complete with DLC.
-The entire OT is currently available on Steam, with only ME3's DLC. All Steam does is open the Origin Launcher anyway.
-Andromeda is available on both Steam and Origin, but both ultimately use the Origin Launcher.
Console
-The X360 has a full OT release, which is able to be played on the Xbone.
-The PS3 has a full OT release, but no compatibility with the PS4.
-Andromeda is available on the Xbone
-Andromeda is available on the PS4.
-No idea how it's going to work for the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X
Multiplayer
ME3 servers are still going, Andromeda servers are still going. Hit up the thread if you want to get a game together!
Lastly, Quads.
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Then this reality was a mistake.
(the first trailer that marketed FemShep)
My favorite multiplayer trailer
And my second-favorite Andromeda trailer
Trilogy remaster spotted on a Portuguese game retailer's website, briefly.
Steam | XBL
This is it.
Every time I saw this thread get bumped I would come here hoping a remaster was announced.
What's with the lower price point on the Switch version? That's very not EA-like.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Think of it more as gouging the Xbox and PS players, and it makes sense.
Arrgh, I wish they would do a real announcement already. I have plans to try to get my wife to do a full replay with me (she's not a gamer at all, but I think she'd enjoy the story if I do all the combat), but if I start laying the groundwork too early then she will lose interest.
Also, I keep thinking I want to dip back into ME3 multi, but I have these unreasonable hopes that the remaster will trigger a whole new wave of players, etc and I don't want to burn out before that happens.
That’s a lot of hours I could be spending playing games I’ve not already played twice (apart from 3, which I only played once).
I might be tempted if the combat has been tweaked, as 1 felt really clunky when compared to 2 and 3.
I suppose it would depend on what remastered actually means. If it’s just higher resolutions and tweaked graphics, I don’t think I’d bother.
I do miss Femshep, though.
Scary.
xbl - HowYouGetAnts
steam - WeAreAllGeth
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Hell, even the PC version of ME1 was farmed out to another studio back in '08.
Steam | XBL
I almost forgot this happened. Yeah it's not unprecedented that a port could be sourced out to a third party
I'm going to be honest though? I'm still not sold on a Mass Effect remaster. I know people out there really, really want one, but besides Mass Effect 1 I don't think any of the games really need a remaster. The visual design of 2 and 3 in particular has aged spectacularly well and is definitely still one of the nicer-looking Unreal Engine 3 games out there. I guess there's also a bias from my end where I play Mass Effect on PC (and occasionally Xbox) so it's not like being able to access the trilogy has ever been out of reach for me so I'm not really perceiving a game preservation issue either.
Too many questions right now!
Steam | XBL
But I haven't seen a single bit of actual proof that it exists. It seems to be the same rumor bouncing around different websites.
xbl - HowYouGetAnts
steam - WeAreAllGeth
I remember loads of muddy textures in 2 & 3. Of course, people have fixed that more or less with mods, but it'd be nice to have the trilogy together in one package with better visuals and all the DLC included.
I welcome it, but I don't need it
Same, I'm gonna be so fantastically rusty though
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
I would be kinda surprised if the remastered trilogy didn't include the DLC.
Okay but... you have to unlock all the good classes and weapons again. Plus probably a bunch of other whammy unlocks that EA made Bioware shove in there to pad out the loot boxes.
Even if the DLC is being resold separately, as long as it's just sold DIRECTLY THROUGH THE STOREFRONT and not some weird-ass installer that you have to buy from an in-game menu for $Funbux and then download and run manually, it'll be an improvement.
Looking at the full installs of the 360 games on my Xbox One with all DLC, ME1 is 7.9GB, ME2 is 18.4GB and ME3 is 27.9GB. So somewhere north of that, I assume...
...yeah, that's definitely gonna be in "get a bigger SD card" territory for me! Even if they went with a 32GB cart, which they won't.
Edit: I mean, that looks tailor-made for an 8GB cart and download 2 & 3. Similar to Bioshock Collection.
Steam | XBL
Neil Gaiman once said that he didn't believe a movie was coming out until he was sitting in the theatre with a tub of popcorn. Terry Pratchett replied that it would take a lot more than that to convince him.
What's funny is that if they don't touch the multiplayer much then the player credits are still hosted locally. As in, at least on PC, you can get something like cheat engine and give yourself millions of credits to open packs.
Back in the day there was supposedly some moderation involved but nowadays? I played the series on the xbox but got ME3 on PC well after the fact when the game was barely monitored. I definitely cheated myself cash.
I won't be the first lemming for the remaster, but I'll keep my ear to the ground...
@RonaldoTheGypsy is a goddamn *saint*
Ugh.
Hopefully they'll get some proper armour stripe hoodies back and I can at least get a couple of things at the same time.
... if only they'd take payment in costuming group challenge coins. That I could totally do!
Yeah my armor stripe hoodie has seen better days at this point