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Is this any good or is just reddit shit
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>anything is reddit
Go back there
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>>724324769
ME: good story and characters, but everything else is janky

ME2: good characters, bad story, but gameplay is improved

ME3: not terrible, but a big disappointment to the fans of the series, terrible ending. I would recommend watching the Shephard indoctrination theory videos to make any sense of the ending

Also, don't play the legendary version. The lighting is all fucked up(unless it's been patched or there's mods to fix it). Play the original versions with mods.
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>>724324769
buy the originals for cheap.
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>>724324769
1 is amazing and 3 is good for the gameplay
2 IS DOGSHIT
>>724325305
1 LE has significantly better gameplay than 2
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>>724325070
Its very good if you can handle some jank.
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>>724324769
It's okay.
The first one is pretty dated and very short. Only like four main missions you can rush through. Mass Effect 2 is peak because of the characters and immersion, but gunplay is pretty bad. Mass Effect 2 takes a big dump on writing and everything the first two built up, but has the strongest gameplay.
It's worth playing if you are into narrative driven RPGs, but you will be disappointed with the ending in ME3.
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>>724325389
they sold this for like 4 euro
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>>724324769
Yes it’s good
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>>724325521
*Mass Effect 3 takes a big dump*, not two
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>Bioware
>is this...

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>>724325305
1 has great atmosphere. The plot twist at the end is cool, but it wrote the series into a corner. Other than that, what did this game did a lot better than the others was the feeling of inhabiting an actual lived-in universe and not just a bunch of setpieces. It also had the most actual roleplaying out of all of the other games.

2 is fine. The focus on the terminus systems was cool and the characters were at their peak here. It makes stupid mistakes though like introducing thermal clips in the most nonsense way possible, stripping past RPG mechanics from the game by never mentioning the service history from ME1, streamlining the stats menus, etc. The biggest problem with the game is that it's too formulaic. It's a cover shooter like ME1, but ME2 has a much greater focus on combat. The uncharted worlds from ME1 where you would spend time exploring and scanning minerals have been replaced with corridor shooting minilevels. The actual planet scanning was reconstructed into a minigame.

3 just sucks. The whole game has nothing to write home about, easily the worst story in the series. The combat is ok I guess, but it lacks the rigidity of the earlier games. The ending was retarded, it was even more retarded before the Legendary Edition, and it was even more retarded than that before the DLC. Originally it would just be a choice between red, green, blue with no epilogue. You would have to play the multiplayer for war assets to unlock the other endings. The characters in this game are horrible too, the ME2 characters all become cameos, and you get retards like James Vega to compensate for that.
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I played the originals when they come out and I play the trilogy almost every year or so.

ME1: Supreme OST and atmosphere. Gameplay can be broken in good ways and bad ways. Story and characters are decent, but it's better at setting up the world and overarching themes/conflicts.

ME2: Weakest of the series, but still decent. The gameplay became a typical action TPS and the RPG elements were dumbed down a lot. There's pretty much no story, it's more of a bunch of mini missions based around recruiting your team and gaining their loyalty. The final mission is a high point of the series, though.

ME3: Best gameplay of the trilogy as made evident by the multiplayer. Best guns, they added way more powers to mix and match, and the movement feels much better than in 2. The story is a mix of peaks and valleys, with the ending coming nowhere close to delivering on what the trilogy was building up to.
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100% the most soi reddit core numale wokeslop you will ever play, avoid it at all costs, never play it, leftist woke trash, yep definitely what it is, glad I was able to post in this thread before you downloaded and played it zoomie, now leave the thread I told you what to think so you don't have to yourself.
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>>724328026
*what this game did
I need to turn off autopredict
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>>724328057
I WILL DESTROY YOU
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>>724324769
OP, this is the post --> >>724325305

I was going to post basically the same thing. ME1 and ME2 character development is extraordinary. The mood is dark and heavy. Really good stuff. ME3 has great gameplay. I loved it and had tremendous fun with it. Ending is, you know, just okay. I don't care much about stories, though.

ME Andromeda is an absolute turd. I mean, just terrible in all directions. The landscapes and the textures are gorgeous but everything else is just horrendous. The characters come across as acted and written by spoiled rotten upper class high school kids out of touch with reality. The characters are dingbats but yet we are supposed to believe that they are leaders of men who are going to save the universe. Don't waste a single cent or minute with Andromeda.
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>>724328632
I completely forgot about Andromeda. What an absolute shit show of a game. I don't even remember any of the characters.
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>>724324769
Fun interactable sci-fi tv series. Gets bonus points for being the only thing of its kind essentially. It was simplified mass-market aimed back in ME1 already. If you aren't the kind of guy who goes "wow this is from X episode of star trek, that one Asimov story" and gets upset about that, you'll be have fun.
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>>724328873
I mean I played it a few years ago and it wasn't that bad, but entirely forgettable and the story is such worthless boring trash that you won't ever care to remember any of it.

Horrible antagonists that are completely uninteresting.
Only one single new alien race, and they're just boring as fuck and uninteresting.
The sense of scale is completely off, Andromeda as a galaxy is completely dead, even the new race's worlds where they live are rural empty shitholes outside of one small city on a single planet.

The gameplay carried the game, it is an improvement over previous mass effect games, but that's just about the only positive thing I can say about it.
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>>724324769
If you're gay or a woman and like persona because its a dating sim you'll love it so yes, its reddit shit.
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Legendary Edition has some visual changes I'm not big on, but the series as a whole is a classic.

Not perfect. Every game has its clear strengths and weaknesses, but it's still probably the most engaging sci-fi setting I've enjoyed personally. And as an overarching trilogy of branching choices it attempted something that no other series has ever really replicated since.
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>>724333231
Son of a...
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It's alright.
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>>724324769
Reddit?...REDDIT! you fucking zoomer child. Play the game and experience a game that could have been perfect
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>>724324769
Never played the games when they came out and then I pirated the Legendary Edition about a year ago.

Played in continuation ME1>2>3 and I dropped everything else until I finished it. It's an absolutely good experience however the serious let down in the ME3 ending choices as the only one that really makes sense is the one to destroy all Reapers at any cost. Don't buy it at any discount on Steam because it comes with the slop launcher, just pirate it and have fun.

Miranda and Liara are top tier waifus
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Its literally not even a real video game. Its a gay and boring lifetime movie.
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absolutely worth picking up, a fuckload of great content
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>>724324769
its mediocre at best but some people like it for nostalgia reasons
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>>724324769
It's a demaster like 90% of remasters out there. Awful. As for the games themselves, 1 is peak. 2 throws everything out the window. 3 tries to go back and mostly succeeds but it's too little too late.

>>724325305
>I would recommend watching the Shephard indoctrination theory videos to make any sense of the ending
You're a fucking retard.

>>724328026
>easily the worst story in the series
Impossible when ME2 exists
>even more retarded before the Legendary Edition
Nothing changed between 2013 and the LE, ending-wise
>and you get retards like James Vega
Vega is great, though?
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>>724324769
Can you retards stop asking this every single fucking day with the same thread over and over again?
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>>724324769
the legendary edition is the worst way to play them
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>>724324769
The Legendary Edition is bad, looks like shit and added bugs. If you play on PC I'd genuinely recommend you pirate and mod the originals. As for the games' quality:
>1 is the peak of the franchise, the perfect blueprint on how to create ME; great story, great characters, great extensive gameplay that truly makes you feel like you're a special agent in a big galaxy
>2 you'll probably like in a first playthrough solely because you don't know what's coming after and so you don't notice while playing it that it did in fact not advance any of 1's plot points nor did it build any up for the next game; it's a sequel that hates being a sequel and destroys everything around it trying to be standalone. Good squadmate writing and world presentation (if filled by retcons), bad everything else and moreso in retrospect
>3 is the best mechanically, brings back some RPG elements from 1 after they were taken out before; it was also rushed by EA and parts of it were added later via DLC (won't matter to you playing the games 15 years down the line). Quality over quantity squadmates, contentious ending you should get your personal opinion on (read: don't let anons tell you what you're suppossed to feel)
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I'm stealing this pic
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>>724324769
Just gonna leave this here.
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/722918612/#722963456
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When are we going to stop pretending that ME2 was anything but filler dogshit?
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>>724337458
When you stop pretending that your opinion matters.
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>>724324769
1 is good
2 is great
3 is shit
Andromeda manages to lower the bar below 3
Play the originals too, not the remasters
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>>724337632
>My White man opinion
But you are a cute Chinese girl???
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>>724336262
Which part in the first game is the red sky? When the reapers invade?
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Legendary isn't worth buying considering the 5 DRM layers and seperate accounts you have to make and go through. It's way more trouble than it's worth, just pirate it
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>>724337813
Eden Prime, the tutorial level.
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1367
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>>724337778
Solely from a scifi perspective. The worlds feel way more organic and the color palette more varied. Gameplay peaked with 1 though, not gonna argue against that.
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>>724324769
1: best in the series. Frankly one of the only action adaptations of a RPG system that works for both, but don't expect a modern 3PShooter. Story etc are great, best world building I've ever played

2: story is average, the characters are over-exaggerated cliches but there's some good parts. Combat is much more standard/modern 3PS but retains RPG mechanics fairly well. Fun last mission followed by the worst, dumbest final boss in any game ever. Worse than 3 despite popular sentiment

3: after playing 1 and 2 you kind of know all the stories it's going to tell and you'll know how the ending will generally play out. Despite that, story telling is maybe the best here, characters super well done. Only complaint is the goodbye parts seem short and I wanted more. Combat is far improved and the over world sections are much better than the other two games. Does the series justice, probably best game in the series. Ending is lackluster but I think this is in part due to 1) unrealistic expectations and 2) you know what's going to happen going in (also it wasn't executed well tbqh)

The tone drastically switches in each game and the series has some really cringe reddit parts. But it tries to be a campy, somewhat serious RPG series and mostly delivers, a lot of which is because excellent world building and good characters. Playing for the first time today after other games have done the cinematic movie game better it probably won't have as much charm
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>>724337814
Don't need EA account anymore, it has origin lite install or some shit.
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>>724324769
ME1 is a decent knockoff Star Trek. ME2 is anime fanfic tier writing. ME3 is trying to reconcile the two.
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>>724337814
Also other people are right in saying every single aspect of it is downgraded from the originals, from graphics, to gameplay to even the engine is significantly worse.
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>>724337813
Eden Prime
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>>724338196
>cleans up the lmaosoedgy garbage
This is a good change
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>>724338196
Why would Raper arrival make the sky spooky red tho?
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>>724337719
>1 is good
>2 is great
Putting 2 over 1 is how you know anon was underaged when he played the games
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>Nothing changed between 2013 and the LE, ending-wise
It did though. In the original Mass Effect 3, you had to play either the multiplayer, the mobile game on iOS or Android, or the datapad app to get the war assets required for two of the three endings. The multiplayer mode was locked behind an online pass which either came with the physical version of the game, or you had to pay for on the Xbox store separately. If you didn't do that, you would have less than 50% of total war assets. Then they started rolling out DLC where they started giving out fucktons of war assets exclusive to the DLC. They fucked their fans over by hiding two of the three endings behind external content and DLC, you had to literally pay for more content to be able to get the other endings, as expected from EA. It wasn't until fan backlash where they released the Extended Cut DLC, which lowered the war assets required to get the two other endings. The Legendary Edition bundles all the DLC together and removes the galactic readiness stat, which makes ME3 feel way more complete. In MELE, it is possible to get all war assets in the game without ever doing anything beyond actually playing it, which was not possible in the OG ME3.
You could still get the other endings without MP or any other external content, but only after the DLC came out and only if you made specific choices to maximize war assets. You absolutely should not recommend OG ME3 on its own to anyone anymore, if you do make sure it's with the caveat that they buy the retarded expansion packs and download the free DLC too.
Anyway, rant over.
>Impossible when ME2 exists
Did ME2 have anything as retarded as Kai Leng?
>Vega is great, though?
Oh never mind, you're just retarded as Kai Leng.
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>>724338256
>>724338347
>no you don't get it, the original intended artistic vision that existed for 14 years before LE was WRONG!
Yeah, nah
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>>724338516
You have to be 18+ to post here, Jr
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https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/927
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>>724338516
Everything in the past is dumb, talks funny and has wrong color grading, it's true.
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>>724324769
its alright, wouldn't mind buying it and playing if it ever comes to gog without ea launcher cancer, but they're very overrated imo, never played the remastered version only the ogs, and I didn't like the focus changing from DA MC's being obviously self-inserts, to ME badly wanting you to play the preset male shepherd as the default MC, never liked the new choice dialogue that then afterwards came to DA2 and Inquisition and other RPGs like FO4 too, and they really made waifu disappointing, they could've made alien bitches hotter, and for some reason every human female in these games has massive blocky heads and strong square jaws. I like ME1's worldbuilding a lot, the N7 suit is fucking kino aesthetic wise, but I think they could've made guns look much better and with more detail, and they could've done the character cast and companions better. I liked Garus and Tali as bro/sis, but I didn't want to fuck any of them, and the human cast was shit, which is usually BioWare's strength. I'd say DA: Origins > KotOR > Baldur's Gate 2 > Mass Effect 1 > Baldur's Gate 1 >>>>>>>>> everything afterwards is various levels of mid and dogshit
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>>724328189
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
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>>724324769
Just play Andromeda, don't bother with the trilogy.
It's the same game, only an updated and improved version of them. The gameplay feels good and the graphics are much better. There is a lot of visual eye candy to see in andromeda.
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>>724338196
you can fix it with mods
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>>724338471
>in the original you had to play either the multiplayer, the mobile game on iOS or Android, or the datapad app to get the war assets required for two of the three endings
No you didn't
>You could still get the other endings but only after the DLC
Why the fuck did you not start from there given I specifically stated "2013", not 2012, and you made a distinction between between "before LE" and "before DLC" (thus "before LE" being post-DLC)
>In MELE, it is possible to get all war assets in the game without ever doing anything beyond actually playing it
So same as in the original as I stated then
>and only if you made specific choices to maximize war assets
You have not played the game you are talking about. You get THOUSANDS over the required amount for High EMS Destroy
>Did ME2 have anything as retarded as Kai Leng?
It had worse. Anything, from Shepard's death from the Lazarus Project to TIM to being forced to work for Cerberus as a whole to Liara to the Collectors to Horizon's resolution to the Collector "trap" to Shepard's squadmates all leaving the Normandy for the kidnapping to the human Reaper to Arrival
>Oh never mind
Vega was Jacob done right. The latter was also supposed to be sort of the player's avatar in the world of ME2 which is why he was the protagonist of the Galaxy phone game and is the first companion in the game. James works because he's simply a likeable guy trying to keep up with the craziness around him. He feels genuine, he's a regular soldier in a war that's going to end the galaxy, and plays the part well. He's also there for Shepard to take on a more mentor role for him and to tie Shepard more to Earth and the Alliance given someone sniffed coke during the last game and decided working for Cerberus was a good idea. Shepard becomes to Vega what Anderson is to Shepard

Or in other words: I'll accept the concession
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mAss effect 3 makes more sense if you've watched a prequel anime explaining James Vega backstory
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>>724339789
I'd rather mod the original then
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>>724336262
t. retarded shitskin
Modded LE is significantly better than the originals
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>>724340023
>download 50GB of mods to make it better
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>>724336262
problem with ME1 is mako, and idk how everyone is ignoring this, the game can never be a masterpiece with that shit side content that's the worst side content in any rpg ever created
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>>724340023
>>724340018
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>>724340121
Toying around in the mako was kino and some of the PlanetSide missions were great
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>>724340023
Best way to experience vanilla ME:
>OGs: install five mods
>LE: install fifty mods (it still manages to not look 1:1 to the original games ambience)
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>>724340121
I was way more annoyed with probes in 2 and half the game in 3 than exploration in 1. mako kills stealing exp is the worst thing tho, glad they've fixed it in remaster.
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One of the greatest trilogies in video games.

I've played the originals and I've played the LE. LE with mods is a better experience than the originals and it looks better too. If you are a nostalgia blinded faggot, you might screech about the Remaster because the lighting is different. But almost everything about the Remaster is better. Better textures, better models, gameplay is better, there are better, more up to date mods available, etc etc.
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>No you didn't
>So same as in the original as I stated then
>>You have not played the game you are talking about.
WROOOOOONG.
https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/War_Assets
>Participation in Galaxy at War is encouraged to maximize the Military Strength given by each War Asset, as playing single-player alone will limit EMS by 50%, or half, of the overall War Assets score the player has acquired. There are 8370 total War Assets available in the game without downloadable content, but this number cannot be reached as it includes War Assets that are restricted to specific outcomes of player decisions, including saving Kaidan Alenko or Ashley Williams, saving or sacrificing the Citadel Council, and spreading or sabotaging the genophage cure. As such, the highest obtainable War Assets score without DLC is approximately 7500. If the multiplayer mode is not played, the player will only be able to acquire ~3750 EMS, which is less than the ~4000 EMS necessary to experience all possible endings.
>It had worse.
How is that worse than Kai Leng? The mindbogglingly stupid plot holes like where Anderson teleports in front of you to confront the Illusive Man, when only five minutes earlier he was only catching up to Shepard? The stupid kid that shows up every few hours to highlight Shepard's trauma, a trained elite soldier desensitized to the deaths of his own crew members. The plot holes in the ending alone were enough to spawn a massive cope (Indoctrination theory), which BioWare themselves called noncanon. That's how bad the ending is, fans had to cope a better one. Not the case with ME2.
>Vega was Jacob done right.
Both are shit characters, but Jacob at least had a personal quest I had to do to complete the game so I saw hpw they tried to characterize him. Vega was a complete non character who only shows up in the early game and DLC to do marvel quips.
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Like I said, I've played the originals, and I've played LE. The way the LE looks is the way you imagined the game looked back on Xbox 360. You didn't notice how low resolution Jacks tattoos were. And yeah, some scenes may have more dramatic lighting in the original compared to LE. But overall the games presentation is heightened.
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>>724324769
The gameplay is decent, but the character animations are infamously bad, the story isn't good, the villains aren't interesting, and a lot of stuff is missing because EA cut the DLCs when they saw the game hadn't sold as much as they wanted. The new alien race is weird, too. Apparently the two galaxies are going to "meet" some way or another, because the first ME5 teaser pictures show the Angaran mingling with the other races, Quarians included, and Liara is back, so the game should be set in the Milky Way again.
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>>724340853
jack would be so hot with blue eye contacts and a wig, fuaaaaaaaaaark i want to throat fuck her so bad FUCKKK
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>>724340853
Still should get the community patches, MELLO, LEUITM, and ALOT/ALOV. At minimum.
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>>724340954
Jack is hot period, son.

>>724341031
You should always get the improvement mods if you can, that goes for the originals as well. I played the originals with mods and LE with mods and LE is just better.
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>1 LE has significantly better gameplay than 2

Have to agree with this.
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>>724328873
yup. Only thing I remember about it was the multiplayer. I had fun playing ME3 multiplayer so I had to scratch that itch with Andromeda back when it launched.

I'd unironically play a Mass Effect PvE online game if it ripped off of Helldivers 2 a little.
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>>724324769
For Story/writing, only the first game is good, gameplay is mid.
For gameplay 2 and 3, but you have to sit through reddit dialogue

Normally, you'd say "well gameplay, of course" but these games are all about the dialogue, standing still and talking to an npc for most of the game is the main mechanic, it's what's encouraged, as silly as it sounds the gameplay wasn't supposed to be the focus....but the gameplay is pretty fun in 2 and 3, standard 360 shooter combat fun, so pick your poison.

3 has a fun enemy waves mode, but idk if that was taken out of this collection. Andromeda is also pretty fun gameplay wise, but the writing is atrocious, like proto modern writing in media, but truly awful.
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>>724324769
absolute kino.
1 was perfect
2's beginning was fucking dumb and the Collectors are lame but it's still fun
and anything but Destroy is the Reapers winning. 3 is kino
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I set it to auto-level, is that acceptable?
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>>724340847
>WROOOOOONG.
But I am right, given you posted something that argues in my favor. What part of "you made a distinction between "before LE" and "before DLC" (thus "before LE" being post-DLC)" does your brain not understand? You said it was retarded before LE but after DLC. I said it's not, because the DLCs give you thousands over the limit. I am right, you are wrong
>How is that worse than Kai Leng?
Let's see here: Shepard's death and two year timeskip kills all momentum ME1 had and throws that plot out the window, as well as killing the setting's lore by stating that the ability to CURE THE CONCEPT OF DEATH exists and can be achieved on a corpse that's little more than small chunks of mystery meat after crashing down on a planet's surface at terminal velocity from space and burning in atmosphere. TIM is a horribly written writer's pet that reads the script and is never able to answer anything (nor is Shepard ever able to go against him) who knows things just because... he knows. Cerberus is retconned from the Alliance rogue spec ops group it was in 1 to a 20yo human supremacist group the writers force you into and out of the Alliance, even if your Shepard's unit WAS KILLED IN AKUZE BY CERBERUS. AND YOU'RE NEVER, NOT ONCE, IN THE ENTIRE GAME FOCUSED ON CERBERUS, ABLE TO BRING IT UP. Liara forgets about her species' long maturation periods and five decades of seclusion and social awkwardness to turn into yet another donutsteel badass in the span of two human years. The Collectors are introduced after zero build up, out of nowhere, pulling off the single most important thing a villain has ever done (kill the MC) then stand around doing nothing for the entire rest of the game until they're blown up. You know, you'd think they could've helped Saren instead of twiddling their thumbs while he was recruiting krogan and geth...
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>>724340847
>>724342542
Horizon's resolution, like Cerberus as a whole, railroads Shepard and his dialogue into being an idiot that doesn't actually say what's stated on the dialogue wheel just to force drama between the player and the Virmire Survivor even when not intended on your part, just because the developers thought making your ME1 choices matter was too big a deal for what was meant to be a direct sequel, and thus Kashley leave after 3 minutes of screentime. You've also got such brilliant writing as >"Shepard you're gonna have to leave the ship with all 12 squadmates cramped in the shuttle like a clown van for reasons beyond your comprehension, that way you can choose your team for the next mission on the way. Oh what's that, there's no "next mission" as your quest log's cleared because you thought this was an RPG so you did every sidequest before advancing the main quest? Shut up and just follow the fucking script it's hard enough making sense of it as it is, the crew needs to be kidnapped alright?" or the fact the apparent reason the Collectors were doing their thing, the entire point of this middle chapter on what was meant to be a connected trilogy is... to build Contra's Big Fuzz. No, don't ask how that thing works or flies, an explanation will be retconned in an interview or something
>Vega was a complete non character
Vega has nothing but character across the entire game, given unlike 2's squadmates, he doesn't become a background NPC once his initial interactions are done and he actually walks around the ship and you see him talking with plenty of other squadmates making himself known. I will accept the concession
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>>724340853
>The way the LE looks is the way you imagined the game looked back on Xbox 360
No it's not
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>>724341147
>retard
>plays FemShep
>custom at that
Pottery
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First game didn't age well. 2nd is good but not an RPG. 3rd is okay but has some retarded characters.
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>>724342632
I really liked how James isn't sure whether he deserves the N7 commendation or not and comes to Shepard for advice and guidance. Dude was a bro.
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>>724342717
Yeah it is. And your nostalgia blind faggotry surrounding Mass Effect 1 and its nonsensical lighting methods after 20 years is just pathetic. Every single Mass Effect thread no matter what, it's the same exact spammed shitposts over and over again.

TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE
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>>724340278
Most delusional cope i have ever seen enjoy your dogshit gameplay because you're too stupid to install a texture mod and a single lightning mod
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>>724343423
kino hairline on left guy, more vidya protags need to have hair like that, imagine if sheperd canonically had the medieval priest cut from male pattern baldness
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>>724343423
It's literally 1 guy
You'll find a mentally ill autist like that in every game that got a remaster or a remake
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>>724343423
>nostalgia
>by posting unedited side by side pics of vanilla original and vanilla remaster
I remembered 1's dark shadows and blue hues. I remembered the red of the Citadel's alleyway where you meet Tali. I remembered the details on Shepard's visor. I remembered the way lighting is used to highlight Wrex's first appearance, and the cold darkness of Noveria's spooky labs. I rememembered Eden Prime being described as a paradise only for it to look like hell where you set foot on it. I didn't need nostalgia to play LE blind and realize something was terribly wrong. I'd expect anyone that's a fan of ME to react the same way.
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I don't understand why shills lose their shit specifically in Mass Effect threads. You don't see people sucking Demon's Souls Remake's cock, or Ass Creed 3's remaster, or GTA Definitive Edition, any other similar example of a botched job
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>>724343863
The Council room gets posted a lot by shitposters who rage about LE in every single Mass Effect thread because it looks different in LE and therefore bad.

But if you actually just play the game, the Council room lighting makes sense now, since they are public figures, not shadow operatives. The lights in the room should function. It's a space station for Gods sake. The moment here is equally as epic as well. My nephew started popping and hooting like mad when Shepard became a Spectre.

>>724343928
>OH MY GOD THEY TURNED THE LIGHTS ON!? GAME IS RUUUIIINNEEEDDDD
Yeah, it's just nostalgia you clown. Look at you crying about "I remember" five times, triggered by being told to talk about something else.

>>724344152
Yes, EVERYONE who disagrees with you is a SHILL!
You are smart.
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>>724342542
>But I am right, given you posted something that argues in my favor. What part of "you made a distinction between "before LE" and "before DLC" (thus "before LE" being post-DLC)" does your brain not understand? You said it was retarded before LE but after DLC. I said it's not, because the DLCs give you thousands over the limit. I am right, you are wrong
The MELE comes with the DLC and it removes galactic readiness (which the DLC didn't do), which doesn't only make it easier to get the endings, it makes it actually achievable just playing the game as it was intended, with no additional downloads or caveats. You can literally see this mentioned in that same wiki page.
>Galactic Readiness does not exist in Legendary Edition as the multiplayer component has been removed. All War Asset values are what they would be if they were at 100% effectiveness in the original game, and there is no Effective Military Strength value displayed in-game, only Total Military Strength. Additionally, the Military Strength scores required for certain endings have been adjusted. For example, to obtain the Destroy ending where Shepard breathes, at least 7400 Total Military Strength is required.
You lost bro.
>some rant about ME2's story
Ok but you didn't need to cope a better story with ME2.
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>>724344152
My guess is they mod the demaster and don't want to have two copies of the same game installed so they just cope and believe 25GB of mods can make the games look the same as the old ones (it doesn't, even modded you can tell the difference just by looking at Shepard's model in 1 and the broken eye reflections in most NPCs)
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>>724344429
Anon, you don't understand. LE doesn't look just like the original games. It looks BETTER than the original games. Fight me, bitch.
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>>724343928
>Muh nostalgia
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>>724344214
Damn you sound mad
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>>724344152
ME remastered is practically just upping textures and small improvements, it's like TW3 next gen update or skyrim special edition, most people just universally agree it's just a technical upgrade with no artistic integrity lost, are there maybe moments that might've looked slightly better in OGs? Sure, but overall 90% of game looks better
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>>724344321
>The MELE comes with the DLC
So it's effectively the same as your "pre-LE, post-DLC" point
>and it removes galactic readiness
It removes an entire multiplayer mode people asked for the return of* ftfy
Removed Pinnacle Station too btw
>doesn't only make it easier to get the endings
It was just as easy, keep up
>it makes it actually achievable just playing the game
It was already possible, keep up
>some rant about ME2's story
You asked for an explanation on how my argued ME2 points are worse than Leng. You got them. Getting flustered because you cannot argue back isn't my problem. Until you do, as in-depth as I did, I will accept both the concession and the last (You)
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>>724324769
It's great but each game is shittier than the previous one
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>>724342632
>>724343214
I never got the hate for Vega. Maybe you can call him the boring pick of the crew since he's a human soldier, but his story tied in nicely as the face of the next generation of N7s while Shepherd makes his exit. He doesn't have an overbearing personality, and was given a good mix of serious and lighthearted moments. He could step into Ashley's role in ME1 and it would have worked. Speaking of which, who would you have sacrificed if the choice was between Vega and Kaiden?
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>>724344731
>skyrim special edition
Another remaster that deletes the original's colder appearance kek
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8089
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>>724344152
The original versions aren't modded as much so they're mad they have to choose between newer mods or the best looking, most original feel to the games. The industry doesn't give a rat's ass about preservation, and they constantly replace the old, good versions with either downgraded remasters or remakes.
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Areas that are actually dark with minimal lights are still dark and dramatic. It's just that now in the middle of the markets, or other such very public places, the bright white light bars all over the place on the ground and ceiling will actually function to light up the NPC's and objects in the room. So there's a lot of places where in the original it will be absurdly dark but in LE it will be lit up.
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>>724345128
In Virmire, if Vega was around? If he had the same story and acted like Shepard's "apprentice", it'd be fucked. Otherwise same decision I already make: Ashley is a grunt so I send her to defend the salarians, Kaidan's a Sentinel so I send him to Tech the bomb, then when push comes to shove protecting the bomb so the mission doesn't fail is the number 1 priority.
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>>724324769
1 is amazing. 2 is bad. 3 is good. There's no other trilogy quite like it.
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>>724345886
Devil May Cry
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>>724324769
It is a good series but play the OG releases with the original graphics that doesn't butcher the art style.
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>>724345906
Saren?
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>>724344429
you also have to install 20 gb of mods for the original retard
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It has no peer
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>>724344950
>So it's effectively the same as your "pre-LE, post-DLC" point
The point is that OG ME3 requires MORE PURCHASES to play, it rips you off. Why would I want to give more money to EA? Fuck off shill.
>>It removes an entire multiplayer mode people asked for the return of* ftfy
>Removed Pinnacle Station too btw
Two pieces of shit no one cared about, and one of them has already been restored with a free mod.
>It was just as easy, keep up
>It was already possible, keep up
Read that exact greentext again and explain to me to me how you came to that retarded conclusion.
>you have to buy and play the DLC to get 2/3 endings
>you have to play the multiplayer to get 2/3 endings
>you have to play the discontinued mobile game and datapad app to get 2/3 endings
>this is apparently just as easy
LMFAO
>You asked for an explanation on how my argued ME2 points are worse than Leng. You got them. Getting flustered because you cannot argue back isn't my problem. Until you do, as in-depth as I did, I will accept both the concession and the last (You)
None of what you mentioned is as bad as Kai Leng. ME2's plot isn't amazing, but it doesn't come anywhere close to having an ending so bad you literally have to headcanon a better one.
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>>724345886
What the fuck is this tourist-ass, YouTuber take
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Don't fuck with Aria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSnZs_9lTcQ&list=PL8C98CECB7A53A1C2&index=4
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>>724346021
Pretty much yeah

>>724346285
Tourists have their favorite YouTuber tell them ME2 is a masterpiece, what universe do you come from where ME2 is not the one adored by normies
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>>724338471
>It did though. In the original Mass Effect 3, you had to play either the multiplayer, the mobile game on iOS or Android, or the datapad app to get the war assets required for two of the three endings. The multiplayer mode was locked behind an online pass which either came with the physical version of the game, or you had to pay for on the Xbox store separately.
this and putting javik behind DLC was unbelievable kikery
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>>724345130
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY THE FUCK DO ALL REMASTERS FUCK THE LIGHTING AND MAKE EVERYTHING ALWAYS MORE SUNNY WHAT'S THIS OBSESSION WITH TAKING SOMBER, DARKER LOOKING GAMES AND MAKING THEM LOOK LIKE FUCKING SUMMER I DON'T GET IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>724346573
It's a normie series anon. Sorry to break it to you.
I've only ever seen contrarian posts on YouTube. "ME2 sucks, actually!" Gay.
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>>724345128
>I never got the hate for Vega
it's because he was a dumbed down character after we got properly fleshed out characters in ME2, it was a retrograde step
ME3 was trying to appeal to a certain demographic, you can tell just by looking at the cover art
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>when Liara fucking caps Saren
my wife for all time
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Mass Effect 2 is fucking amazing, actually
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>ME3 dialog wheel barely appears
>realise you're watching a movie
this was worse than the ending
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>>724339456
yes gameplay and visuals are nice but the story and ESPECIALLY the characters save Vetra are abysmal dogshit and i just cant bother with that
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>>724346678
At least you notice, anon. Could be worse, you could be part of the unenlightened masses.
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>>724342542
It really is wild how 2 managed to throw the plot off rails in less than half an hour after pressing play
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>>724339456
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>>724342542
I've played through the series countless times and still don't understand the collectors. It's the worst story/plot vehicle in the series and I can't be bothered to try to figure out whats going on there
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>>724347339
They removed this shot in the LE, but they kept her gratuitous ass shots from ME3. But I guess those ones are locked behind her romance option
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>>724347317
?
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>>724324769
Yes, it's good but you should play the original versions instead if you can.
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>>724325389
You can't find the originals for under $5 now.
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>>724347543
>needs mods to fix what was there from the get go in the original
Oh no no no no no no no...
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>>724347565
>>724347601
I played the originals and LE through GamePass but then I bought LE for like $5.
I got LE for free on PSN
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>>724347317
HOLY FUCKING SOVL goddamn the SR1 was the best ship in the series, fuck 2 for blowing it up and giving us that sterile white junk

>>724347543
>poorly modded attempt at fake soul
You wouldn't get it
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>>724347780
Cute imagination, shitposter
LE looks better
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>>724347930
You are absolutely pathetic with your 720p screenshots
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>>724348132
You're running damage control all thread long kek
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>>724347317
The conference room where you talk with your squad after each major planet was butchered in Legendary
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>>724324769
Play 1 then forget about it
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>>724347883
Is this the same planet?
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unmodded OG>unmodded LE
modded LE>modded OG
everyone knows this
shut the fuck up
>tali pic cause best girl
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>>724348446
1's skyboxes were always god-tier
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>>724348453
TALI SUPREMACY
THIS THREAD IS NOW A TALI THREAD
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>>724348606
how's this nebula look like on the LE?
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>>724349117
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I remember all the ME2 crossover art people were making when it dropped, especially since Robot Unicorn Attack came out about a week later. Then later that year more crossover art with MLP was made. 2010 was a magical year.
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>>724346094
Saren stages mod that conceals his reaper tech until late in the game because its ridiculous that he speaks to the counsel with it showing.
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>>724349303
Looks like someone took a pic of their monitor
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>>724340513
GIWTWM
>best color and 2

tfw no asari gf(s)
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>ai slop
Figures
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>>724352494
Ashley was supposed to recite pic related instead, but they ran into permission and copyright issues, so it got changed to the public domain Ulysses
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Did they change any gameplay for ME1 with this version?
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>>724340853
>The way the LE looks is the way you imagined the game looked back on Xbox 36
I hope I had better taste 20 years ago
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>>724344152
>You don't see people sucking Demon's Souls Remake's cock
Next time theres a demons souls thread please enter it and read, theres legions of people sucking off the remake.



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