Mass Effect Universe (Spoilers) - The Bear and Badger

EvilRedEye

I feel like if you have a shot of a character with a building in the background and the building is very prominent because it's brightly lit and bloomy and then you remaster it and suddenly the building is pretty dark and receding into the background of the scene then that's a pretty major change in composition that wasn't intended by the original creators.

Clearly a lot of fine detail will change in a remaster and people will inevitably think it's either better or worse but some of the lighting changes seem a bit macro level for this kind of project?

Blocks100

Right, when I get home I'm going to post that shot of my Mako trundling towards a distant sunset. The improved god rays alone will burn all your eyes out. You were warned.

b0r1s

That’s yer ME1 done. Great fun despite the dated jankiness. Now I get to my planet scanning.

Raiziel

I polished off ME1 yesterday too, and dived straight into ME2. Loving the journey all over again.

b0r1s

Just did the intro of ME2. What a great opening to a game.

Blocks100

Ha! The Normandy has never looked so good!

b0r1s

That’s cool, but would have been better if they’d just Easter egged it in and people just started posting videos saying they’ve found the Normandy.

regmcfly

b0r1s wrote:

Just did the intro of ME2. What a great opening to a game.

YES

LivDiv

Great opener and a good way of covering the fact character models couldn't be taken from ME1 and didn't exist on PS3.

LivDiv

Also I caved and bought this.

b0r1s

Good man! While ME1 was like going back to watch an old film I thought I loved but I didn’t, ME2 is like revisiting something I’ve watched over and over. It’s such a well made game and I don’t think playing 3 closely after this is going to change my mind.

#me2forlife

Raiziel

Oh god, the planet probing addiction is real.

b0r1s

Haven’t got that far yet just on the first mission. The lighting compared to ME1 is much much better. Can’t wait for a bit of planet scanning :-)

Verecocha

b0r1s wrote:

Haven’t got that far yet just on the first mission. The lighting compared to ME1 is much much better. Can’t wait for a bit of planet scanning

I think I’m spending too much time with ME1 but it’s still so good...

Blocks100

I too am still plodding through ME1 but how much of this stuff could they have fixed before it switched from being a remaster to a remake?:

Why is it when I try and activate some of my team's powers on distant enemies they 'spend' their ability, it goes into recharge mode, but it has no discernible effect on the enemy? Why doesn't it supply an 'out-of-range' notification, rather than executing the power with no effect? Maddening.

I only have to get 'touched' by a charging enemy Krogan for it to be 'game over' on the higher difficulty levels. There's no enemy melee execution, no animation move at all. Shoddy.

Someone else mentioned this, but why do I have all the stamina reserve of an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping when attempting to sprint anywhere?

LivDiv

There are still some aspects of ME1 that are a bit clunky thats for sure.

Using powers is so much better in 2 and 3. I thought this might be the kind of thing that was resolved.

Some other stuff would go over the line into remake territory remains and highlights the game's age a bit. There is way too much equipment thrown at the player, just tons of duplicates. The side quests involve a lot of back tracking around.

Someone else mentioned it but Shepard has the running endurance of a fat kid. That probably could have been fixed. Just give us infinite run outside of battle.

New bugs. I've had a few now involving the Mako. One where once out the A button stopped doing anything, had to load the game again. Another where the Mako was wheel spinning, got out and had Mako controls still.

I'm enjoying it still but pushing through to 2 really.

b0r1s

Yeah I brought up the running thing pretty much irritated me from the start. Yet it seems to be the same in ME2. Having said that I’ve not got far through the game.

Bugs wise there is one mission (the one with the colonists and the plant creature) where Tali just got stuck and I just carried on without her. Every time I got to a cut scene she appeared but she just would get stuck in the level after. Apparently a know. Bug from years ago and amazed stuff like this hadn’t been patched.

Also had a bit on Virnire where the Mako got stuck and Shepherd was doing som stuff where she would be point 90 degrees off axis from where I was pointing. In both cases it sort of sorted itself out but again these must have been known bugs they could have patched.

Speedhaak

Just started on PC tonight, brings back some great memories. Hard to believe it's been 14 years since I played the first Mass Effect.

regmcfly

I get paid on Thursday and by some dumb luck I've got a little cushion this month, probably because trading in PS4 paid for Returnal et al. Thinking about just doing it

Speedhaak

Yeah cashed in a €50 Gamestop voucher my brother had gotten me for Christmas for this. Just landed in The Citadel. Time to explore!

regmcfly

[Forlorn response] time to spend

regmcfly

[Excited delivery] G2A are doing it for £37 digital

Speedhaak

Pull the trigger!

Blocks100

Delay that order soldier!

Reg - go buy Biomutant, support yet indie developers instead! The Mass Effect Universe isn't going anywhere (and you've been there before)

afgavinstan

G2A are as dodgy as they come, too.

Blocks100

Blocks100 wrote:

Reg - go buy Biomutant

Errr...exercise caution commander!

Speedhaak

Shillup said it's shite. I believe him.

Next!

Verecocha

It’s amazing how much slicker ME2 is...and it still looks incredible in a number of ways too.

b0r1s

Completely agree. Amazing game.

Bob

Verecocha wrote:

It’s amazing how much slicker ME2 is...and it still looks incredible in a number of ways too.

For a remaster it's incredible how not slick ME is. Fuck me I have to look at the map every five minutes to find out where I'm supposed to be going via my journal to find what area my objective is in.

Anyway Having had to diffuse those bomb things about four times I'm finally making progress and recruited all but one of my team now.

I've decided to go full ass kicking, scenery chewing, renegade fem shep who just gets the job done what ever it takes.

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