#imagine if they did actually implement saving both ashley and kaidan...

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i feel like theres so much to do or fix in mass effect that they would never do a remake properly besides giving it a facelift and that sucks to think about considering how the games could have been. im happy with what we have of course but just knowing that there was voice files in the code for more romances and saving both virmire survivors and everything

oh 100000% and this goes even well back to ME1 like dont get me wrong, it was a stellar like gameplay flaghsip fantastic never rly done before kind of game for its time and definitely helped lead towards a certain play style developed by other companies. but they all have faults.

me2 has i think personally some of the most glaringly obvious ones, in just how “no gay people in space” it hard lines, as well as just the sheer amount of sexism and racism etched into it (jacob’s entire character and loyalty mission but also his progression into me3 when romanced, real talk). if you had a dollar for how many ass shots miranda got alone, you’d be swimming in enough cash to rewrite the game. or at least give her decent clothing. like me1 gets some passes (not a lot like maybe two) because it was pre-EA and they were like uhhh what kind of player do we even want but me2 just stinks of dudebros. like they saw an opportunity to go to 100 on like titty straps and emphasising that asari only have two modes: hoe and bitch, and we’re literally going to give women camel toes and emphasis them at every opportunity because you know whats really sexy? that. apparently. like i love me2 to pieces but it rly is the biggest shit pile of hyper masculinity.

but they also recorded a bunch of mlm romance lines??? like. okey.

i rly do stick by the whole “in biowares best interests a remake (esp of me1) would be best to reintroduce and recuperate and reclaim mass effect” just because remakes arent remasters. they are more, technically, than a remaster. they fix bugs, sometimes more often than not implement dialogue and choices that were cut due to time restrictions or bugs or narrative. sadly i dont think they could ever make the virmire survivors a thing, just because of how they play it out in the later games. even though we know at one point it was possible... and well somehow the salarians make it out but ashley/kaidan doesnt. okey. but anyway like there will never be any real true way to fix me3′s ending which is what still holds to be the biggest problem. they cant erase like 8+ yrs of it having existed. and they cant justify it, either. they tried that. didnt work the first time. but bringing me1 up to speed could give them enough of a break between mea and potentially mea2 (now that casey devil hudson is on board again). like obv i dont know logistics and they fired a ton of ppl and shuffled around too much during production as well as for anthem so the state of bioware is very tedious. i think theyre relying heavily on a potential da4 sell to keep them afloat, as anthem bombed.

but anyway. like mea had a shit launch at the end of the day. bioware/EA shot themselves in the foot by trying to appeal to old fans with the N7 logos splattered around on initial artwork like it was just. tokenism. mea wasn’t dead awful, contrary to popular belief. it was fun. funny and stupid and ryder was very relatable. i think it got too caught up in promises bc bioware always makes promises, but also just like being titled ‘mass effect’ is a lot of pressure considering how the OT ended on a sour note for a lot of ppl... and then theres all internal stuff and apparent rumours etc etc etc. but mea had a fucking awful launch where they gave people demos that werent polished and all those faces and wonky animation came out and people didnt buy it. i mean at least it didnt brick ps4s like anthem, but it wasnt that bad.

who knows. bioware has been struggling for years, EA is draining them dry, theyve lost almost all their major writers and developers and players... we’ll see ig