Board 8 > Mass Effect Legendary Edition Review Zone

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KamikazePotato posted...

As someone who never played Andromeda: despite having seen a lot of people say they dislike it, I still have no idea why it's supposed to be bad outside of facial animations. People were SO ready to dump on that game.

Ryder is just not a compelling lead at all. They're fine, but you can't be just fine when you're following Shepard. None of your squadmates are that special either, other than maybe the one guy who's from a new species. You can't help but compare the characters to the original trilogy, and they just come up short.

I think the gameplay is pretty good, and I enjoyed terraforming worlds, but the world building just isn't there like the OT.

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daylight savings time claims another victim

...i assume? ...somehow? that sounds really weird.

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physical edition wins again

despite me still not getting the game before you guys

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xp1337 posted...

daylight savings time claims another victim

...i assume? ...somehow? that sounds really weird.

I have no idea why. My PS5 time settings are correct.

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Oh good, I'm not the only one. I was ready for some mass effect early lol.

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This already has more posts/activity than the RE8 topic lol. I almost forgot how much Board 8 loves it some Shep.

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Also sucks that Walmart closes early now. They would have definitely done a midnight release for this - pretty sure no such thing exists these days. =/

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it loves shep a little too much to be quite honest

766 votes too much, to be precise

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Mobilezoid posted...

I never played ME3 back in the day, but I remember the uproar. Does this version do anything to fix the ending everyone hated?

The original ending was literally a 0/10 troll ending.

The fixed ending is still only like a 3/10 if were being generous. Theres only so much they could pull out of their ass in a limited time. The game overall is still great though and would probably have been like an 11/10 all time masterpiece with even an average ending.

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Yeah, ME3's ending took so much out of everyone's sails that we forget (or at least I do) most of the game leading up to it was almost peerless in quality.

Who knows, maybe it'll hit a little different now when we're almost a decade older and generally mellower about these things.

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In classic mode, you will retain the same 1-60 level range. In legendary mode, you will use the new 1-30 level range.

Hmmm....

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I'm not taking the plunge on it just yet, but I might if the ME1 changes are significant enough. Although I think my biggest problem with potentially re-playing the series is that I'm honestly not interested in experiencing the other choices. My original ME runthrough went exactly how I wanted it to.

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https://youtu.be/dGl6zAy5fiI

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Hmmm....

Wait so does it change the balance or are you limited to half the level cap/skills??

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Changes the balance. I think this is what they meant by bringing ME1 in line with 2 and 3 more.

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6 points from the first level up lol.

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That doesn't seem too unusual. IIRC, levels up in ME1 gave out 3 at first, then 2, then 1. So if they cut the levels in half it makes sense they'd double the points given.

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Here we go.

Veteran. Classic or Legendary?

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I see now that that question has already been asked.

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Yeah I mean it is that simple, it's just still funny to see.

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

This already has more posts/activity than the RE8 topic lol. I almost forgot how much Board 8 loves it some Shep.

What's RE stand for? Retinal eyescan? Don't think I ever played that.

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Poor Ethan :(

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I've never played a version of mass effect where ashley lives do I change that this time

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Only if you're a bad person.

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It's less about her and more I don't know if I can stomach another 3 games worth of Kaidan

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Still no good beard options!

Elevator confirmed: conversations start immediately. You reach the top as soon as they're over, but can skip at any time. Best solution I think.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Elevator confirmed: conversations start immediately. You reach the top as soon as they're over, but can skip at any time. Best solution I think.

This is not a knock at Mass Effect, but it amazes me that gaming as a whole has taken this long to figure out how to handle ambient conversation and still isn't consistent with it. Some games still cut off interesting dialogue and never bring it back.

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if i regained all the time i've lost because of reloading a save because i accidentally missed/had ambient dialogue cut off because of something dumb like getting ambushed, or walking too far, or unfortunately hitting a menu right as it started which for some reason means the game just kills it entirely...

...i'd have a lot of time

Ironically, I think Mass Effect is probably one of the better games for me in this regard!

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ninkendo posted...

It's less about her and more I don't know if I can stomach another 3 games worth of Kaidan

Kaiden is voiced by the same guy who voiced Carth Onasi in KotOR, and he sounds exactly the same (no change in cadence or anything, he just used his natural voice) so I've always kept him alive. Just too much nostalgia there.

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Carth was my favorite KOTOR 1 character, which puts me in a club consisting of me and no one else, and that definitely factored into my decision to keep him alive as well.

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Mass Effect and Nier.

It's the month of re-releasing fantastic old games with super bad sidequests.

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Oh good Jeff is also dunking on Kaidan in that quick look

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Got Spectered up.

I'm being reminded of all the issues I had with this game that I'm just finding myself not caring about a ton. The camera is way too close. It sucks, but I don't care. Movement feels really bad. It sucks, but I don't care. The Citadel is most noting empty space and is a pain to explore. I don't care.

I really feel like I'm making a lot of excuses for this game. I guess it's just truly a case of something being more than the sum of its parts. All I have to do is hear Garrus or Wrex say a few lines and all the problems go away.

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Find all those keepers

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Naw initiating that quest is a bottom of the wheel option which means it's renegade aligned.

NO RENEGADE OR RENEGADE ADJACENT OPTIONS WILL BE SELECTED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.

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Anyone know if the Legendary edition fixed the overarching issue where choosing a mixture of Paragon and Renegade was detrimental? That was my #1 issue with the series and I would be way more likely to replay it otherwise.

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I believe I heard they were adjusting how it was handled in ME2 at the least but I don't know how exactly - whether it's a complete revamp that stops punishing you for a mixed playthrough or if it's "just" making some of the thresholds more forgiving.

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They made the thresholds for them more forgiving, particularly stuff like the confrontations between your squadmates, like Miranda/Jack and Tali/Legion in ME2.

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They had mostly fixed that issue by ME3 anyway, so it's probably something in line with that.

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LeonhartFour posted...

I liked Andromeda. It had a lot of glaring problems though.

Old post but I agree

I enjoyed the gameplay and feel like if you gave the characters two more games they'd end up being pretty good. I was interested in how the larger story played out.

Like Garrus isn't my favourite character in the series because of ME1 alone, good lord can you imagine? Worst incarnation of Garrus easily (not bad, just not memorable). ME1 crew are made better in retrospect because you meet them and get the fond memories of them and stuff. Not necessarily great in a vacuum. I like to think Andromeda would have done something similar - although Jaal was just really good regardless. Liam may have been irreparable though.
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I like Kaidan :)

Andromeda plays nicely and there's some good ideas with the open world there, but the writing is a mess. I'd like it more if it stuck to the 'quirky little sidestory spinoff' stuff and removed the more serious grand ideas that really doesn't work with the obviously limited budget they had. Like they set up how big a deal it is to go to a new galaxy and interact with new species for the first time, then 2 minutes later you're just chatting to the new aliens normally and doing fetch quests for everyone.

And imo they went too hard on the snarky comedic Marvel style dialogue with the new crew, they should've toned that down and had them act like real beings. They're not all awful but they aren't very interesting overall.

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XIII_rocks posted...

Old post but I agree

I enjoyed the gameplay and feel like if you gave the characters two more games they'd end up being pretty good. I was interested in how the larger story played out.

Like Garrus isn't my favourite character in the series because of ME1 alone, good lord can you imagine? Worst incarnation of Garrus easily (not bad, just not memorable). ME1 crew are made better in retrospect because you meet them and get the fond memories of them and stuff. Not necessarily great in a vacuum. I like to think Andromeda would have done something similar - although Jaal was just really good regardless. Liam may have been irreparable though.

Yeah, I would agree with this. I ranked Andromeda on a similar level with ME1 because it also had a lot of glaring problems. ME1 could make up for it in other ways, like the A+ world building, but yeah.

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Glad to see that they didn't completely fuck up the remakes after the tire fire that was Andromeda.

I'm worried that the changes to ME1 are negatives though, since ME1 was easily my favourite of the 3. It just felt so much more open and expansive, even if a lot of that was artificial. Going from ME1 to ME2 is like going from the open world FF games to the "walk in a straight line" style of FF10/12/13

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Just saw someone say that galactic readiness in this version gets effected by side quest completion in all 3 games??

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Just saw someone say that galactic readiness in this version gets effected by side quest completion in all 3 games??

Yep, galactic readiness is a composite of all three games to compensate for the lack of multiplayer.

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That's a good way to handle that. Multiplayer was already dead by the time I played ME3 so I had to do it through the website where you sent fleets out on missions or whatever.

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smh people who weren't able to max galactic readiness with ME3 singleplayer alone
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Mac Arrowny posted...

smh people who weren't able to max galactic readiness with ME3 singleplayer alone

well it was originally impossible until the update!

but yeah you don't necessarily need the other stuff, it's just helpful in case you don't feel like doing everything

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Does anyone remember if you can re-customize your ME1 character at the start of a NG+? Like can I play as an Engineer during the first run and as an Adept in the second (with the same character)?

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