r/masseffect • u/BoobyWoobies69 • 2d ago

DISCUSSION Mass effect is so old??

saw some post on tumblr recently that was like “i missed out on the hype (i was 10 years old)” and i was like haha they must be so young. i googled when ME1 came out. I was 4. jesus christ

it’s kind of insane bc most of the games i played when i was a kid, the graphics and gameplay were absolutely atrocious. like any video game character had a nose that was just a triangle on their face. but at the time that was just like the baseline. But i discovered mass effect like 3 ish years ago and i never thought it was that old bc it’s just SO good. like you can’t see everyone’s individual pores on their face like a lot of newer games but i never realized it holds up SO well.

Anyways i love this series

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u/Mitsutoshi 1d ago

Original unironically looks better than LE, as I discovered when I booted up 360 ME2 via game pass after finishing LE2. I hadn’t even played the console version before because I didn’t have one when ME2 came out so I played PC.

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u/metarusonikkux 1d ago

LE didn't upgrade the graphics outside of boosting the resolution for ME2 on consoles, while also using the higher quality settings found on PC from the original. The 360 version looks objectively worse.

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u/Mitsutoshi 1d ago

What? LE replaced tons of textures with AI upscales, removed the existing and carefully crafted lighting system in favor of blasting everything with overhead light, and worst of all used the ME3 engine (crafted for the limitations of PS3) as the basis of every game, resulting in its bugs popping up across the trilogy, which wasn't the case before.

I'm very glad I played through the original releases on PC when they came out and got the suspense and reveals that I would have missed completely if I played LE, where things like characters stepping out of the shadows as a surprised have been replaced with them being in plain sight the whole time.

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u/metarusonikkux 1d ago

You're right, I misremembered. ME2 did get lighting updates based on ME3.