We want it. You want it. Electronic Arts knows the world wants it. A remaster of the Mass Effect trilogy might be the most in-demand project the publisher has ever had at its fingertips, and it feels like now or never for the return of Commander Shepherd. So, we've got four chances at this thing between now and the end of March 2021 as EA has just announced that it has four major games planned for launch during that time frame as part of its latest earnings call.
At this point, we truly hope the remasters come to PlayStation 5 rather than Sony's current-gen console, but what could the four titles in question realistically be? We know that Battlefield is being saved for the end of next year while Star Wars Battlefront 2 still seems to be the focus when it comes to the publisher's efforts in a galaxy far, far away. It's worth mentioning that the total doesn't include sports games, so what does that actually leave us with? A new Need for Speed? That seems unlikely after Need for Speed Heat's release just a few months ago. Another ANTHEM? Now that's a good joke.
We don't want to tempt fate here, but when you look at the grander picture, a Mass Effect Trilogy remaster might not be so out of the question. EA is clearly letting some of its biggest franchises take a back seat as we head into the next generation of consoles, so if it wants to earn some goodwill back, the return of one of Bioware's greatest franchises is something we'd certainly appreciate. After all, the publisher has already stated that it has "exciting remasters of fan favourites" in the works. We don't know about you, but it looks like the stars could be aligning.
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FIFA 21, Madden 21, NHL 21 and UFC 4.
@nessisonett As I stated in the article, this number does not include sports games.
Hopefully one of them will be a new fight night
*sorry just read that its not sports games
Dragon Age? Skate? Burnout? Command and Conquer? SSX? Dead Space? It could be any number of games and some are a LOT easier to remaster than others - if you want to do a good job rather than just port up and increase the resolution...
Mass Effect wouldn't be an easy trilogy to remaster properly due to the scale of each game. Dead Space would be easier as its linear too.
No doubt we will see in time....
@nessisonett abit late for those games they would be released this year
A new Road Rash as a next gen launch title would be awesome😁
More NBA Jam too please!
Strange they didn't do remaster on PS4 shortly after end of PS3.
I hope its ufc 4
Dead space trilogy is my most wanted ea games not mass effect.but its all good.word up son
A Mass Effect trilogy remaster and a rebooted Dead Space game? 🤞
They should announce remakes of Harry Potter games. The three first ones were amazing back on PlayStation and PlayStation 2.
I hope so. I hope they don't count Madden and FIFA as two of those games.
@RenanKJ I think that's all on WB these days.
@Octane Then maybe we have a chance of them coming back some day.
I prey to the gods for it to happen, I want to salute my fellow fans on twitter who constantly let Bioware/Ea know we want a remastered trilogy, keep up the good fight.
Plus when you see Jedi Fallen Order, a singleplayer game has sold 8 million copies so far, I hope they get the hint.
A ME Trilogy remaster would be neat, but I think I'd prefer a KOTOR remaster. Can't say I'd be horribly upset by either.
plants Vs zombies, dragon age
Well we know theres still another SW game. People keep forgetting (or want to forget haha)
Ea tought single player games were dead. Now I just read the news that fallen Jedi surpassed EA expectations. When you talk industry you have to know it.
Nobody mentions Skate 4 and I'm sad, because that's all I want. (I know it's close to impossible, rip)
Why would you want the ME Trilogy to only come to PS5? Most people won't be buying PS5 at launch, or even over the course of the next 2 years. I'm one of them, obviously.
I wouldn't say a remaster of Mass Effect would be classed as a major release even for EA, I think @nessisonett is probably unless they out the pressure on Respawn to pump out a Star Wars sequel
@kenyowa Same, KOTOR 1 and 2 are older and never came to consoles. Never played them but want to. Sad times
@stuzster Burnout 3 hd with online support on current platforms would do me.
@stuzster That's fair, but there's a lot to compete with when it comes to that kind of real racing. There are only a few Burnout style games I can think of and one was just made by the devs of Burnout Revenge that left and another I've forgotten but sure I've played, maybe I'm thinking of MotorStorm. The other was FlatOut, basically a rip off of Burnout 3.
Be good if they put the time into ME1 a la RE2 and redo the game, rather then just a 4K 60fps respray (which would still be nice).
Otherwise I don't think that one will have aged too well.
ME2, my personal favourite, would very much enjoy playing that one again. Quite fancied Miranda.
Dead Space 1 & 2 remaster would also be tiptop!
command & conquer and red alert remasters are in the works.
Mass effect trilogy
Sims 5.
Need for speed.
Battlefield
You heard it here first!
Fight Night Round 5
@kenyowa I'm with you. I'd love to see both franchises remastered but I'd choose KOTOR 1 & 2 over the ME trilogy without any hesitation.
please let it be a remaster of the mass effect trilogy.
@Jayofmaya KOTOR 1 and 2 were both on the original XBox
Skate trilogy, Skate 4, and SSX 2012 are what I want.
All this talk of EA expectations being smashed with then Fallen Order game does anyone really think EA will change really...????
It will be the same IPs year in year out they've destroyed so many they've bought I wouldn't expect any IP brought back to get the love and recognition it deserves without some form of getting in that shop or LB (oops surprise mechanic)
Dead Space dead
SSX dead
Mass Effect dead
DragonAge dying slowly than a wet fence drying
Mercenaries dead
Theme park dead
Command and conquer dead (mobile game doesn't count)
I’m all for remasters but I’d rather have brand new games. Remasters should be filler in between major releases.
EA have so many decent titles they could make new games of... I hope they give us four major games and some remasters and not four old games.
Most I’d want have been mentioned above.
I would be thrilled with a Dragon Age Origins and DA2 remaster. Mass Effect was good too, but DA: Origins enveloped more hours of my life than anything out at that time period!!
it will just be sport games and the next Battlefield
Mass Effect is dead now, Andromeda started it on it's death crawl and they had plenty of time and opportunities to release it already, they aint going to do it at the end of the console life cycle
i would love a Mass Effect Remaster but it's not coming so the only option now if you wanna play Mass Effect again then boot up your PS3 or 360 and play it and if you can't do that then it's on XB1 via the Backwards Compatibility Program
I’m still half way through Mass Effect 3 on my PS3, which is in storage. I’d definitely restart from scratch if it comes out for Switch tho.
Edit: It’s me from the future! It’s not coming out on Switch.
@Jayofmaya they were on the OG xbox
Dragon Age Trilogy (I know DA:I was on PS4 already) with then a sneak preview of DA 4?
@LiamCroft Mass effect doesn't need a Trilogy Remastered it needs new content, like Andromeda 2. You people these days have no creative imagination and want the same rehashed reused content thats not what this franchise needs let Shepards story end and move on.
@Ichiban hahahahahahahahahahahahahah! Ok u win funniest thing I’ve heard in weeks at least
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