Source: BioWare/EA Noveria in the original Mass Effect and in Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
The most obvious example of the updated graphics ruining the tone of a scene is the overhauled version of Mass Effect s Eden Prime, which trades the ominous blood-red skies of the original game for a bright and warm sunset vista, complete with a giant lens flare. This makes the location look more realistic based on its in-game description, but it also makes the game s opening level feel much less nerve-wracking and tense. There was something distinctly terrifying and downright intimidating about how the Sovereign made a paradise world known across the Milky Way for its lush beauty look like a hellscape. That has been lost in the remaster.
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God I’ve got so much to play and I want to play it all. Realistically, I’ll be dividing my time between Rust Console Edition and Knockout City, but I did just re-download Steep and I still love that game. And, if I’m honest, I’m kinda enjoying The Crew 2, too. My backlog is just outrageous at this point…
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Mass Effect 2 is the best of the lot. Mass Effect 3 was controversial but mostly because it quite cleverly upended expectations about how a space opera should end.
And now the Legendary Edition updates all three games for today s tech and standards. Refined gunplay, better graphics, smoother all round.
There are so many remastered games nowadays that it s easy to be suspicious: are they just an attempt to get new cash for the same old material?
But with Mass Effect even with some creaky, original design still showing it s an important act of preservation. A hundred more hours with Commander Shephard and her buddies? I ll do it all over again.