Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster Announced (Release date May 14)

[Minnja]

YouTubers and Twitch streamers get sycophants to do things like level/unlock weapons; you'd think the first human spectre could get someone to handle scanning planets.

All Bioware games have had this issue. Scanning, mining for minerals, collecting resources. You're the hero of the world and the captain/leader but you're stuck doing menial tasks that the lowest level grunt should be doing.

I didn't really mind this until I did multiple playthroughs. And right now knowing that I want to get to ME2 ASAP but also wanting to 100% ME1 makes me realize how annoying they are lol. I do enjoy driving the Mako around and the feeling of exploring basically untouched planets but seeing those assignments and how I'm not even close to completing some of them despite being on the third main planet is a bad feeling lol.

Not related to that but if anyone is using Liara don't unlock all her skills at once. Apaprently it causes a glitch where you can't use Overload on her power wheel and thus makes it impossible for her to use it. This whole time I've been wondering why I never noticed Overload when I use her skills and looked it up and is a glitch that has been there since the original lol

 

[mihailovich]

Played like 3 hours yesterday. I'm actually surprised how good ME1 looks. Kinda reminds me of RE1 remaster as it looks too good for it's gameplay if you get what I mean.

It still bums me out that the most interesting alien races (Elcor, Hanar, Keepers etc) are the most underused. It's sort of silly that most races have 2 legs, 2 arms, 2 eyes and a mouth. And they act like humans.

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

Finished my canon run of ME1 last night and started ME2. My GOD does this game look beautiful. I look forward to playing many, many times.

 

[Schoolboy Q]

Finished my canon run of ME1 last night and started ME2. My GOD does this game look beautiful. I look forward to playing many, many times.

Mass Effect 1 was still janky but overall still holds up as an enjoyable experience. Good value in this remastered trilogy, especially for someone who never played any of the games before.

 

[mihailovich]

The ME1 asteroid dlc was neat.

Spoiler

I let the hostages get blowed up. The smoking bodies after the Balak fight were a nice touch.

This was the first mission I did after Citadel and was like "Wow, I didn't realize ME1 had side quests of this caliber". Then I understood it was a DLC. Looking forward to seeing what else I will find as I've only played vanilla 2 & 3 earlier.

 

[Minnja]

It's been great revisiting ME1 and I still have Virmire and Ilos left but man I am not interested in revisiting again for quite some time lol. It's a good game but kind of getting tired of the dumb AI and wonky combat mechanics. Maybe part of the issue is playing on Insanity but some of these fights just take too long and it's a bit tedious when the AI does annoying stuff or when I blast a guy 10 times in the head with a sniper rifle and they ragdoll on the ground and flying around but hardly taking any damage lol

 

[method115]

It's been great revisiting ME1 and I still have Virmire and Ilos left but man I am not interested in revisiting again for quite some time lol. It's a good game but kind of getting tired of the dumb AI and wonky combat mechanics. Maybe part of the issue is playing on Insanity but some of these fights just take too long and it's a bit tedious when the AI does annoying stuff or when I blast a guy 10 times in the head with a sniper rifle and they ragdoll on the ground and flying around but hardly taking any damage lol

I probably wont ever go back to ME1. The story carried it for me. I don't know if it was the update or what but I felt like the enemy was way to willing to sit back and hide behind cover during several parts of the game. I also didn't play on insanity and most likely wont play on insanity during any of the games. Hardcore is what I'm sticking to.

 

[Little Mac]

Is it worth buying the Trilogy for some one who has never played Mass Effect???

 

[Minnja]

I probably wont ever go back to ME1. The story carried it for me. I don't know if it was the update or what but I felt like the enemy was way to willing to sit back and hide behind cover during several parts of the game. I also didn't play on insanity and most likely wont play on insanity during any of the games. Hardcore is what I'm sticking to.

Yeah that's annoying af and also sometimes they just start running around in circles and because they have a lot of health or cast Immunity sometimes you are just shooting idiots running around and there's like no stun/stagger from your shots unless you knock them down so it can take a while killing them since it can be hard to keep hitting them while they are spazzing out.

Is it worth buying the Trilogy for some one who has never played Mass Effect???

Yeah. ME1 is a little outdated gameplay wise but still fun overall and the story alone of the trilogy is worth playing through. ME2 and ME3 gameplay wise still hold up well even in their original versions. ME2/3 movement in battle iirc feels a bit weird at first but is easy to get used to after a little bit.

If you play all three and do all or most of the content in them that's easily 100+ hours of gameplay.

 

[Little Mac]

Yeah that's annoying af and also sometimes they just start running around in circles and because they have a lot of health or cast Immunity sometimes you are just shooting idiots running around and there's like no stun/stagger from your shots unless you knock them down so it can take a while killing them since it can be hard to keep hitting them while they are spazzing out.



Yeah. ME1 is a little outdated gameplay wise but still fun overall and the story alone of the trilogy is worth playing through. ME2 and ME3 gameplay wise still hold up well even in their original versions. ME2/3 movement in battle iirc feels a bit weird at first but is easy to get used to after a little bit.

If you play all three and do all or most of the content in them that's easily 100+ hours of gameplay.

Thank you for the input, I know what I'm getting my payday now.

 

[Swing]

So far my experience with ME2 dlc has been mixed. Firewalkers is pretty bad so far (I have one mission left), Overlord was okay/good, and Shadow Broker was excellent.

I liked both Kasumi's and Zaeed's loyalty missions well enough, but there's something off-putting about not having interactive dialogue with squad members in a Mass Effect game (I mean on the Normandy). Kasumi is useful as a team member for my current Shepherd (gonna finish all three with a Soldier playthrough), but I don't know that I'll ever bring Zaeed along with a different class Shepherd. I'd rather bring Grunt, Garrus, and Jacob (in that order).

Also, ME2 is way more challenging on Insanity than ME1, which I didn't remember. ME1 Soldier ability spam is OP.

 

[HereticBD]

It's been great revisiting ME1 and I still have Virmire and Ilos left but man I am not interested in revisiting again for quite some time lol. It's a good game but kind of getting tired of the dumb AI and wonky combat mechanics. Maybe part of the issue is playing on Insanity but some of these fights just take too long and it's a bit tedious when the AI does annoying stuff or when I blast a guy 10 times in the head with a sniper rifle and they ragdoll on the ground and flying around but hardly taking any damage lol

Do you use squad commands? It's kind of afterthought in these games and easy to forget about them when your in a fight, but they can be useful in getting the drop on enemies. Especially in the first game, where the squad AI is just terrible if you let them do their own thing. They just run into bullets if you aren't strictly keeping tabs on them. I can only imagine how bad it can be on higher difficulties.

 

[Minnja]

Do you use squad commands? It's kind of afterthought in these games and easy to forget about them when your in a fight, but they can be useful in getting the drop on enemies. Especially in the first game, where the squad AI is just terrible if you let them do their own thing. They just run into bullets if you aren't strictly keeping tabs on them. I can only imagine how bad it can be on higher difficulties.

I do but in ME1 they don't seem to work as well as ME2/3. In ME2/3 I am pretty sure if you have line of sight on an enemy and use the squadmates ability it will basically like teleport right to them and hit them. In ME1 I can't really tell wtf is going on but sometimes their move will just like hit a wall right in front of them or something like that. I do order them to move around sometimes and Wrex is pretty reliable in that sense because I have him just stand in front of a bunch of enemies to aggro them and he won't die but the squad abilities can be hit or miss. It's also annoying in ME1 you can't map the abilities to a button for your squadmates you have to go into the power wheel (on console) whereas in ME2/3 if you press I think left or right on the dpad they will use their abilities you assigned them to.

So far my experience with ME2 dlc has been mixed. Firewalkers is pretty bad so far (I have one mission left), Overlord was okay/good, and Shadow Broker was excellent.

I liked both Kasumi's and Zaeed's loyalty missions well enough, but there's something off-putting about not having interactive dialogue with squad members in a Mass Effect game (I mean on the Normandy). Kasumi is useful as a team member for my current Shepherd (gonna finish all three with a Soldier playthrough), but I don't know that I'll ever bring Zaeed along with a different class Shepherd. I'd rather bring Grunt, Garrus, and Jacob (in that order).

Also, ME2 is way more challenging on Insanity than ME1, which I didn't remember. ME1 Soldier ability spam is OP.

Yeah the lack of dialogue with the DLC characters sucks. Soldier in ME1 is really OP it's probably the best class overall. ME2/3 I thought Infiltrator was a really powerful class, you can one shot most enemies with the widow/black widow and the cloak can be used to run away too. IIRC in the sequels you can die very fast to pretty much every enemy so the cloak into one shot kill is really strong and safe. Usually enemies don't bum rush so you can play pretty safely like that for most of the game.

 

[method115]

Yeah the lack of dialogue with the DLC characters sucks. Soldier in ME1 is really OP it's probably the best class overall. ME2/3 I thought Infiltrator was a really powerful class, you can one shot most enemies with the widow/black widow and the cloak can be used to run away too. IIRC in the sequels you can die very fast to pretty much every enemy so the cloak into one shot kill is really strong and safe. Usually enemies don't bum rush so you can play pretty safely like that for most of the game.

Nice I never played infiltrator before so that's what I went this time around. ME3 is soldier 100%. The guns are so satisfying to use in ME3 I wont go anything else.

 

[Swing]

Nice I never played infiltrator before so that's what I went this time around. ME3 is soldier 100%. The guns are so satisfying to use in ME3 I wont go anything else.

With a proper vanguard build you can spam biotic charge and blast enemies in the face with nova/shotgun. It's pretty fun and can even work on larger, dangerous enemies.

It's the class I've played most.

 

[method115]

With a proper vanguard build you can spam biotic charge and blast enemies in the face with nova/shotgun. It's pretty fun and can even work on larger, dangerous enemies.

It's the class I've played most.

Yea I went vanguard twice already though so I wanted to try something else. I’ve played this series so much now I could see this being my last. I’ve never played a series this much. I’ve barely played any game all the way through twice honestly. This and vesperia are the only games.

 

[Swing]

Yea I went vanguard twice already though so I wanted to try something else. I’ve played this series so much now I could see this being my last. I’ve never played a series this much. I’ve barely played any game all the way through twice honestly. This and vesperia are the only games.

Infiltrator is good; so yeah if you haven't played it before I think it's an excellent choice. I think Infiltrator was the very first class I ever played. At this point I've finished ME2 with every class except Sentinel because I thought it was boring as hell. Maybe I was just playing the class wrong, but survivability isn't that fun when every other class has the ability to rip through enemies.

 

[Rajon Rondo]

This is a good game. I wanna see more classic games get remastered

 

[The Diplomat]

Welp, time to jump back into this for the 4th time.

 

[method115]

Got most of my team for me2 need about 3 more people. Probably going to do shadow broker next. One of the dlc I always wanted to play but never ended up buying.