Oh for crying out loud EA, what the heck is wrong with you? Earlier this month, studio boss Patrick Soderlund said that the company was "actively looking at" remastering the original Mass Effect Trilogy for current-gen consoles. Soderlund's comments were met with cheers from countless fans of BioWare's sci-fi series, but it's never quite that easy, is it?
Speaking to IGN in a new video, party pooper and EA executive Peter Moore has delivered a pretty decisive gut punch to the followers of Commander Shepard, stating that the publisher is "focused on delivering for the future". Echoing comments that Moore himself has made in the past, the exec continues: "Can we make an easy buck on remastering Mass Effect? Yes. Have a thousand people asked me that? Yes, they have [...] We just feel like we want to go forward. There's a little thing called Mass Effect: Andromeda that we're totally focused on at BioWare and it's gonna be magnificent."
Okay, so we get that Andromeda is a big deal for both BioWare and EA, but surely a remastered Trilogy would be a great way to introduce new players to the Mass Effect universe? We're not entirely sure how two of EA's most important figures can provide such different points of view, but then, this is the company that says press conferences are a waste of time after years of putting on absolutely awful presentations.
What do you make of Moore's patter? Is this remaster happening or not? Feel free to write EA a letter in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com, via gamespot.com]
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DAMN! is that pic creepy
Hopefully someone with some sense will make sure it happens, even if we have to wait for a few more years. Just look at how long people begged for a FF7 remake. They kept saying no but eventually they caved.
I already tweeted to them that I wanted this trilogy. Countless people already said the same thing. Now go, do this one remaster that qualifies as an essential move. Bluepoint Games can handle it!
Man that must be Captain Shephards love son with Mezit Ozil in the Masseffect Fifa Ultimate team.
Yeeeeaaaaah... And how are we supposed to transfer our saves to the PS4 version of Andromeda now?
Don't think he explicitly denied that there's a remaster in the works in this interview. There's hope.
FFS!
I just want Andromeda to be honest so I'm kind of with Peter Moore on this. I understand why people might want the trilogy to be remade and respect that, but i am ready for new stories and adventures now.
Why is this so hard to follow? EA said months ago they weren't remastering anything, period. One guy says he's "looking into" the POSSIBILITY of a remaster. Nowhere has anyone even close to stated it was going to happen. It would be a bad move anyways, giving people the opportunity to play what eventually became a bigger disaster from Casey Hudson's lies than anything the no man's sky drama has been about.
Personally, I just want a KOTOR remaster. Could they not give it to another team or something. I need some KOTOR
@ShadowofSparta I want a new KOTOR a la witcher
And so Ramsey's rage still persists.
@Mr_Alejo Imagine Star Wars in the hands of CD Projekt Red. Cue drooling
@ShadowofSparta but Id like a better fighting system... A la Arkham.
Wow for once I agree with him.
Where is my Shenmue collection again Sega? Andromeda is way closer than Shenmue 3 by several years.
So close. Also because, SPORTS.
@ShogunRok I HAVE SPECIAL EYES.
"They can't have my brand! I have SPECIAL EYES."
For anyone who doesn't understand my comment, the picture above was actually taken from a really funny short video made by MegaGFilms.
If you want to see, here's the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fRuoMIfpw
I wonder if Peter Moore is in the know at this point because hasn't he now change job positions to focus on esports instead?
@DrJoeystein The video gets me every time, Shepard's face had to be used.
@Mr_Alejo @ShadowofSparta The only way a KotOR remake was happening is if Disney, and EA allow it. Just think about that for a bit.
@Tasuki 10 years ago a new SW trilogy was only a dream... Think about it
EA don't want to make fast easy money? Yeah no, they're still making this.
"focused on delivering for the future". In other words, "forget those RPG based games, now that we have our EA talons deep into BioWare, we can focus on making an all out action Mass Effect game with less dialogue, less player choices and more explosive set pieces. Plus the inevitable online multiplayer to tick that box for the kids".
@ApostateMage While I can see where you'd get that idea with EA, from what we've heard so far Andromeda seems to place a huge amount of emphasis on exploration. And the online multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 was absolutely fantastic so I for one would love to see that return.
That aside - I do think an HD trilogy is in the works. But I think there is relatively little resource applied to it with Andromeda still very much deep in development. Naturally it'll be outsourced to another, smaller developer, who may be struggling to get the game performing well on current-gen consoles (it was a buggy mess on PS3, after all). It's a huge undertaking and these kinds of things can be cancelled at the last minute, so not much sense talking about it until it's 100% iron-clad. The lack of communication around Andromeda is also telling - this is huge for them and if they're this quiet then it means the developers might be struggling for time to spend on creating demos/preview code etc. I can imagine how the project is almost like a reboot of the entire franchise, and as such is constantly being reworked and changed to the point where if they had revealed too much by now then they would get unwanted drama further down the line when the final game inevitably changes.
Just remaster the God-damned games already!
Who did you say that spokesperson was, Sean Murray?
Never played them on last gen (shock, horror) and would give them a go if remastered. I for one would be more interested in Andromeda if I could play the other games first. I had never played Uncharted before the Uncharted Collection and then I pre-ordered 4.
@Zukato I totally agree they don't need to use the original studio....
@Tasuki I know EA is already involved in a third-person Star Wars game but surely an RPG Star Wars game where you could be a Jedi or Sith would appeal to fans. There are profits to be made. Only reason I can see Disney declining would be continuity issues but I don't think it would be a risk to either company
I think at this stage I'd be happy with just backwards compatibility with the PS4.
@FantasyMeister Agreed.
@Mr_Alejo Yes you are so right. The fighting system was my main complaint with the Witcher 3. I liked Arkham and shadow of mordor for the fighting.
@tenderbeefcake Yes! Thank you! Every single blow and every burst of igni in Witcher 3 felt... Inconsequential? I don't know, but if you could mesh the grandiosity of that world with that fighting system I AM TOTALLY IN!!
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