Yeah, there’s no real impetus for remastering Mass Effect.

I can totally see this. Peter Moore of EA:

“Could we make an easy buck on remastering Mass Effect? Yes. Have a thousand people asked me that? Yes they have. Do we have… No.”

Look. I have a Mass Effect hoodie. I have Mass Effect cufflinks.  I played all three games. Loved them to death – and yes, I was fine with the ending, if only because I was feeling guilty over what I did to Shepard at that point and I needed closure. But I’m not out there playing any of the games.  They’re not endlessly re-playable like, say, Skyrim was.  Maybe if the Mass Effect franchise had stayed a pure RPG and done open world and modding I’d feel differently, but they didn’t and that’s fine.

So, yeah.  Stick to ME: Andromeda, Bioware.  That’s what I want to see.

4 thoughts on “Yeah, there’s no real impetus for remastering Mass Effect.”

  2. I think a bit further down the road, I would not mind seeing them redo the series. By the same token, I respect them not wanting to divert resources away from current projects (and I assume they have the next Dragon Age lined up behind Andromeda.)
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    Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. You want to replay a game because it was great the first time through. The problem is you will never quite get the same feel the second time through.
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    The first cool moment I remember about Mass Effect from … almost 10 years ago was at the very beginning of the game. I had not spoiled myself at all for this game. I knew it was Bioware and after the Knights of the Old Republic games, that was enough. I remember going through character creation. I thought the character creation was interesting and wondered what they would do with it. The moment that got me though, was the reveal of Shepherd. The camera bobbing along in his wake, the faces of the people he passed in the corridor, not seeing his face. And then the swooping movement of the camera as it panned around to show his face. I remember thinking: That’s pretty movie like and cool. It is a moment that Naughty Dog, in around 3-4 games of theirs I have played where they are obviously trying to make a movie with some gameplay tacked on as an afterthought have not matched.
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    Like a great book that you read for the first time though, you will never be able to recreate that moment exactly when you saw something or played it for the first time. This series is full of moments like that- and it is why we love them.

    1. I had what turned out to be a major advantage: I played ME 2 first, then ME, then replayed ME2 with my ME Queen of the Girl Scouts save loaded. Night-and-day difference, and at least two occasions where I actually felt like I had had… bad dreams about friends dying. Just bad dreams, because were they not here in front of me?

      It was pretty cool, actually. Although I liked the RPG aspects of ME.

  3. If they fixed the third game to have an appropriate ending and to stop rubbing homosexually my face, then I might be interested.
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    But I’m not.
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    Truthfully, with the way they bollocksed up the third episode, I’m not even interested in Andromeda.
    And hiring the queen of all SJWs to work on the story makes me actively dislike the thought of ever buying it.

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