Back in August 2020 we informed you about a possible release date for Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster. However, it appears that this won’t happen after all. According to VentureBeat, Electronic Arts now plans to release Mass Effect Trilogy in early 2021.
According to VentureBeat, the primary factor holding up development is the original Mass Effect game. From the looks of it, the first game does not live up to the quality of the rest of the package. Thus, BioWare is looking into improving both of the game’s graphics and gameplay mechanics.
Furthermore, VentureBeat reports that this package won’t feature the multiplayer mode from Mass Effect 3. In other words, this will be a strictly single-player gaming experience.
This Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster may be called Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Although we don’t really know much about it, we expect it to feature the base games alongside their DLCs, as well as higher resolution textures, and some QoL improvements.
Now I know that this news may disappoint some of our Mass Effect fans. However, and as we’ve already reported, you can already experience remastered versions of the first three Mass Effect games via these mods. So, until EA releases this official trilogy remaster, we suggest downloading these mods and playing the original versions.
Stay tuned for more!
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I liked everything about mass effect triology except the crappy ending.
Same, i loved the trilogy but man that ending was insulting
ME1 = Best exploration and content
ME2 = Best Story and characters
ME3 = Best pacing and gameplay
Mods bro
Even with mods it still isn’t the same as what they promised. If they delivered on what they originally planned these games would be infinitely replayable.
Mods don’t change the ending of the game, bro.
… but they do.
Remaster = trash cash grab
I’m not too optimistic, but Mass Effect is a massive franchise they clearly want to revive after that Andromeda garbage ruined its image. Its future could rest on the remaster’s reception.
BioWare started the death march in 2007 when EA bought them. Dragon Age: Origins was the last great game that the Developer made.
The co-founders left them in 2012. Most of the real talent in BioWare left as well. BioWare is now nothing more than a shell of what they used to be.
Mass Effect 2 was their last great game
I can’t agree with that. The first Mass Effect was a role playing game that promised to hold your actions accountable and carry forward for the remainder of the series. Mass Effect 2 was nothing but a shallow EA shooter game. What was great about BioWare in the past was the story and that fizzled out under EAs leadership.
“Mass Effect 2 was nothing but a shallow EA shooter game.”
It is rather nice to see someone else say this. Quite rare. I liked ME 2 a lot for its presentation and story, but what a departure it was from the role playing roots of ME 1. It was a cover shooter in the end, and ME 3 was an even further departure.
Great series as a collective, but each game got worse in terms of design, imo.
The problem is ME1 gameplay was absolute garbage. The story was the selling point, but you had to suffer through a bad game in order to obtain that story. For example, your squadmates were completely incompetent and would get themselves killed as quickly as possible no matter what gear they had and what skills. The open world exploration was awful, too.
EA fixed that, to be fair, by making ME2 a very playable and well presented game with solid gameplay (mostly by removing the god awful Mako rolling around empty worlds full of 90 degree mountains). – i.e by completely restricting the game from an RPG with shooter elements to a shooter with RPG elements. And in doing so, ruined the series.
BioWare started the death march in 2007 when EA bought them.Dragon Age:Origins was the last great game that the Developer made.
The co-founders left them in 2012. Most of the real talent in BioWare left as well. BioWare is now nothing more than a shell of what they used to be.
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Brought me some Newgroundz nostalgia
All true, but that doesn’t mean EA will sabotage their franchise by botching this remaster. All they gotta do is keep the original value in tact and polish the edges. We’ll see. At least the Mafia remake looks better than expected now that it’s released.
“Furthermore, VentureBeat reports that this package won’t feature the multiplayer mode from Mass Effect 3. In other words, this will be a strictly single-player gaming experience.”
so how you get the best ending?
God i dont miss the design of that era of game at all..but still better than anthem’s design.
Since the release of The Extended Cut you can get the best ending without touching the MP, it will juste take more time
It won”t even take more time. Literally just play the game and get all the war assets and you get the necessary war preparedness level.
Who the hell ever played the multiplayer.:P
I did it was fun. it played like horde mode from gears of war.
They patched multiplayer out of the game like 7 years ago.
You haven’t needed MP, ever except the first couple months the game came out, to get the “true” ending.
well, thas when i played it
From what I remember Mass Effect 1 did have pretty dated gameplay. Guess I’m waiting a few more months because I havent replayed the trilogy in a decade and probably won’t have the patience to do it twice in a year.
Ok now i’m excited. Sad times when I look more forward to re-makes/masrers of old classics than I do current games.
EA paid 860 million for bioware, I hope they lost every penny
EA has made plenty of money on the BioWare name and they aren’t done yet. There will be a Dragon Age 4 and gamers will buy it due the the BioWare name slapped on it. Most gamers aren’t even aware that the real talent behind BioWare have left years ago.
EA has made plenty of money on the BioWare name and they aren’t done
yet. There will be a Dragon Age 4 and gamers will buy it due the the
BioWare name slapped on it. Most gamers aren’t even aware that the real
talent behind BioWare have left years ago.
funny how mass effect fans say ME2 had some of the best writing.
that was during the big merge.
BioWare was bought by EA a week before ME1 came out so, no.
just do a remake.
Lets just hope they put ALL the DLC’s of ME 2 in there.Hate those Origin “discounts” and i was forced to pirate it just for the “the Lair of the Shadow Broker”.
What about Andromeda?
We dont talk about that “game” why? Cuz my face looka rly tired
Who the hell is that woman on the right? She doesn’t look like Femshep or Miranda.
Ashley Williams, she was redesigned for ME3, and for the better
Oh okay. I never played 3 because I heard it sucked but I remember her from 2 I think. I recall her being super boring.
She was on the first i think and not in ME2, yeah she was boring but way more interesting than Kaidan.
The ME3 ending sucks, but the game itself was solid, it has it moments, and it has the best gunfights and AI of the trilogy
She was in 2 just not in your party.
I don’t remember, it was 10 years ago after all
Well boring compared to Miranda who was brilliant, reminded me of Aeryn from Farcape, and to this day still has the most perfectly sculpted booty in all of videogame history.
Absolutely
ME3’s ending sucked but the rest of the game was amazing. You really missed out if you had played both 1& 2.
^ this.
With Leviathan, Citadel, Omega, extended cut, From Ashes and the rest of it, ME3 had the most content in the trilogy as well as the best. It was a stellar game until the ending ruined 150 hours of Mass Effect.
In this remaster I bet they gave her a pixie cut
They already gave it to Jack in ME3 after all, but i dont think so, not because they care but because it smells the lazy remaster from miles, i dont think they’ll ever touch the assets, they’ll just bring the Trilogy to the new platforms and stores and make some extra bills without effort
A pixie cut was an improvement over her bald head in ME2.
Like a bandage on an open wound, it’s a bit better and that’s it
First world problems.
Jack had the same haircut in 2 and 3.
Ashley Williams never looked like that to begin with in any of the games. It’s a bad render.
ALOT and ALOV worked fine on my cracked versions when i played them during the Spring. I did not need to do any bypassing or strange stuff
ME3 was a much, much, much better game if you’re talking about content. The DLC adds a ton to the game. ME2, not so much even with the Shadow Broker DLC, plus 2 was a straight up third person shooter.
Writing yea sure ME2 was better simply because it’s not the end of the trilogy and there was still a chance they might do a good job.
So a pointless release for PC UNLESS they put Steam achievements in. The only feature the game doesn’t have for 1 and 2.
Otherwise, MEUTIM and ALOT mod will no doubt blow this out of the water.
ME rename edition.