Ever since we announced Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition on N7 Day and revealed a first look at it earlier this year, your passion and excitement have blown us away. Today, we’d like to give you more details on what you can expect to see in this remaster. You’ll find the latest information on the Legendary Edition, from gameplay tuning to rebalancing and more. Next week, we’ll provide an additional look at the remastering process with a strong focus on the visual changes across the trilogy.
SlimRam wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 01:26:
I'm not sure I'm reading this right but you didn't need to have played a third time to have a paragon save to play in Mass Effect 2? Each playthrough was it's own save. You could have just used your first playthrough save if I'm understanding you correctly?
Beamer wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 09:09:
I'd question, though, how rewatchable most shows like this are. Is Breaking Bad in syndication anywhere? Does anyone really rewatch it? It had a critically acclaimed spinoff, but I feel like it disappeared comparably to how Lost did. Maybe I'm out of touch, since I really have no clue what's in syndication.
Kxmode wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 00:28:
According to this video they used AI to upscale the textures to 4K. For a $59.99 price tag, Bioware couldn't be bothered with recreating them in 4K. You know: painstaking giving every texture the love and attention it needed. No, they went the lazy route.
MacLeod wrote on Apr 6, 2021, 22:58:Yeah, that Savegame site has a lot of choices too, iirc. The second option is there's actually a Savegame Editor called Gibbed (iirc) so you can use it from scratch or with the Savegame site.
The one thing they didn't mention is if they were changing the way the importing your character from ME1 to ME2 worked. The only way to import a maximized stat character into ME2 was actually to play through ME1 a second time with the same character. It would be odd to force that when you're releasing the entire thing in a combined edition.
*side note: I actually played through ME1 3 times completely, because I played through my first playthrough as a paragon, then did renegade because I wanted to hear all that dialog, then realized that if I wanted to export my character to ME2 the way I wanted him, as a Paragon, I needed to play through again to reset him to that. I mean, the third playthrough at max level was insanely fast, but still, felt pretty dumb for not having the foresight to play renegade first then paragon.
SlimRam wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 01:26:If I remember correctly I used something like http://www.masseffectsaves.com/ to get a decent character for my me-2 playthrough.MacLeod wrote on Apr 6, 2021, 22:58:I'm not sure I'm reading this right but you didn't need to have played a third time to have a paragon save to play in Mass Effect 2? Each playthrough was it's own save. You could have just used your first playthrough save if I'm understanding you correctly?
The one thing they didn't mention is if they were changing the way the importing your character from ME1 to ME2 worked. The only way to import a maximized stat character into ME2 was actually to play through ME1 a second time with the same character. It would be odd to force that when you're releasing the entire thing in a combined edition.
*side note: I actually played through ME1 3 times completely, because I played through my first playthrough as a paragon, then did renegade because I wanted to hear all that dialog, then realized that if I wanted to export my character to ME2 the way I wanted him, as a Paragon, I needed to play through again to reset him to that. I mean, the third playthrough at max level was insanely fast, but still, felt pretty dumb for not having the foresight to play renegade first then paragon.
Beamer wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 09:09:My wife and I re-watched Breaking Bad shortly before the more recent follow-up movie came out, and it was at least as good as the first time through. Though I'm also not aware of it's syndication status, we watched it on Netflix. With streaming services as prevalent as they are these days, I don't think broadcast syndication is as important as it used to be back when Lost was popular.
I'd question, though, how rewatchable most shows like this are. Is Breaking Bad in syndication anywhere? Does anyone really rewatch it? It had a critically acclaimed spinoff, but I feel like it disappeared comparably to how Lost did. Maybe I'm out of touch, since I really have no clue what's in syndication.
Beamer wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 09:09:The general writing of the final season may not have suffered quite like some other shows after making it that far, but I think the issue most people had with How I Met Your Mother was the bait and switch of who the mother was, or how it was presented. I didn't particularly care for it either, though I'll be honest, I can't 100% remember the details of the controversy. Sitcoms don't hold the same weight with me as most other genres.
One show that was constantly accused of screwing the final that I disagree with is How I Met Your Mother. The final season was reviled, but I watched the show start to finish 3 or 4 years ago, and would honestly say that the writing of the final season feels so much closer to the first few seasons than the other later seasons did, as most of them turned the characters into cartoons, as most sitcoms do.
Nullity wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 09:00:Quinn wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 05:22:This. I'm kinda looking forward to replaying through the original trilogy, since I loved (most of) it and the story was epic. But the thought of suffering through that terrible ending again is making me question whether I should. Same reason why I'll never watch (mostly) good shows like Lost or Game of Thrones again. A bad ending can literally ruin the entire thing, even if the rest was enjoyable.
Remember though, that all your efforts are for nothing. They'll find the catalyst and find a replacement commander to get those resources if you retire or die. It's not like Commander Shepard was the one unique variant during this galactic cycle that unified the entire galaxy to fight off the Reapers.
The ending. Such bullcrap. If they had changed the ending with this legendary edition, it would have been the best remaster ever and would title 2021 as my best gaming year ever.... T_T
Quinn wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 05:22:This. I'm kinda looking forward to replaying through the original trilogy, since I loved (most of) it and the story was epic. But the thought of suffering through that terrible ending again is making me question whether I should. Same reason why I'll never watch (mostly) good shows like Lost or Game of Thrones again. A bad ending can literally ruin the entire thing, even if the rest was enjoyable.
Remember though, that all your efforts are for nothing. They'll find the catalyst and find a replacement commander to get those resources if you retire or die. It's not like Commander Shepard was the one unique variant during this galactic cycle that unified the entire galaxy to fight off the Reapers.
The ending. Such bullcrap. If they had changed the ending with this legendary edition, it would have been the best remaster ever and would title 2021 as my best gaming year ever.... T_T
Verno wrote on Apr 6, 2021, 19:27:
There's actually a ton of info in there and the rebalancing stuff in the first game sounds very significant. Very excited to play the first again with a lot of its warts removed.
Kxmode wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 00:28:$uch a $trange deci$ion to u$e AI $caling. What in$pired $uch a choi$e?Simon Says wrote on Apr 6, 2021, 23:23:
Very skeptical about this, I fear it'll most likely look same'ish or worse than the originals with graphics mods, HD texture packs and additional injected shader effects.
Looking forward to the modded vs remaster comparisons.
According to this video they used AI to upscale the textures to 4K. For a $59.99 price tag, Bioware couldn't be bothered with recreating them in 4K. You know: painstaking giving every texture the love and attention it needed. No, they went the lazy route.
MacLeod wrote on Apr 6, 2021, 22:58:I'm not sure I'm reading this right but you didn't need to have played a third time to have a paragon save to play in Mass Effect 2? Each playthrough was it's own save. You could have just used your first playthrough save if I'm understanding you correctly?
The one thing they didn't mention is if they were changing the way the importing your character from ME1 to ME2 worked. The only way to import a maximized stat character into ME2 was actually to play through ME1 a second time with the same character. It would be odd to force that when you're releasing the entire thing in a combined edition.
*side note: I actually played through ME1 3 times completely, because I played through my first playthrough as a paragon, then did renegade because I wanted to hear all that dialog, then realized that if I wanted to export my character to ME2 the way I wanted him, as a Paragon, I needed to play through again to reset him to that. I mean, the third playthrough at max level was insanely fast, but still, felt pretty dumb for not having the foresight to play renegade first then paragon.
Simon Says wrote on Apr 6, 2021, 23:23:
Very skeptical about this, I fear it'll most likely look same'ish or worse than the originals with graphics mods, HD texture packs and additional injected shader effects.
Looking forward to the modded vs remaster comparisons.