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Thank You Mass Effect
During this years' N7 day, a lot of people submitted short essays, pictures, and fan art appreciating mass effect. The fan base is there,all we need is a decent game.
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Thank You Mass Effect
During this years' N7 day, a lot of people submitted short essays, pictures, and fan art appreciating mass effect. The fan base is there,all we need is a decent game.
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Mass Effect 2 & 3 overhauled with a huge fan-made texture pack
Alec Meer on December 1st, 2017 at 3:43 pm.
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Face still feeling tired after the whole Mass Effect: Andromeda debacle? Well, the earlier, better games haven’t stopped existing, y’know. Maybe revisiting them with a slightly more 2017 look will scratch your itch. For instance, with these mods that add over 3,000 replacement, higher-res, 4K-friendly textures to Mass Effect 2 & 3.
Texture packs are not in and of themselves an act of kindness – often, they wind up making the game look disjointed or more artificial, or indelicate use of sharpening and noise filters just makes them look horrendous in motion, or the modders get carried away with added details or tweaked colours that noticeably impact the game’s creator-intended appearance, or NPC faces wind up looking like makeup was applied with a catapult.
Fortunately, looking through videos and screens of the A Lot Of Textures (aka ALOT) 2017 ME2 and 3 packs, it appears that, in the main, discretion has been exercised and the broad result is indeed the same games but sharper.
Textures are hardly the be-all and end-all of what makes a game look hot or not, of course, but I do find stuff like NPCs with detailed faces sat atop shirt collars that look like pixel soup to be a mite distracting. As such, it’s the armours and outfits that most pop with these mod packs, although there is perhaps an over-reliance on added nicks and dents.
Take a look at it in action, complete with a few screeny-wipey before and after shots:
Unfortunately at present you can’t choose what you do and don’t want installed, so expect a bit of rough-with-smooth if you give this a shot. Oh, I should note that the ALOT 2017 mod packs are not themselves the work of their uploader CreeperLava, but rather he compiled, with permission, thousands of textures made by a dozen-odd other modders – full credits are on the download pages. For Mass Effect 2 that’s here, and for Mass Effect 3 it’s here.
Mass Effect 2 & 3 overhauled with a huge fan-made texture pack
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I am going to try this on my next play though
Alec Meer on December 1st, 2017 at 3:43 pm.
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Face still feeling tired after the whole Mass Effect: Andromeda debacle? Well, the earlier, better games haven’t stopped existing, y’know. Maybe revisiting them with a slightly more 2017 look will scratch your itch. For instance, with these mods that add over 3,000 replacement, higher-res, 4K-friendly textures to Mass Effect 2 & 3.
Texture packs are not in and of themselves an act of kindness – often, they wind up making the game look disjointed or more artificial, or indelicate use of sharpening and noise filters just makes them look horrendous in motion, or the modders get carried away with added details or tweaked colours that noticeably impact the game’s creator-intended appearance, or NPC faces wind up looking like makeup was applied with a catapult.
Fortunately, looking through videos and screens of the A Lot Of Textures (aka ALOT) 2017 ME2 and 3 packs, it appears that, in the main, discretion has been exercised and the broad result is indeed the same games but sharper.
Textures are hardly the be-all and end-all of what makes a game look hot or not, of course, but I do find stuff like NPCs with detailed faces sat atop shirt collars that look like pixel soup to be a mite distracting. As such, it’s the armours and outfits that most pop with these mod packs, although there is perhaps an over-reliance on added nicks and dents.
Take a look at it in action, complete with a few screeny-wipey before and after shots:
Unfortunately at present you can’t choose what you do and don’t want installed, so expect a bit of rough-with-smooth if you give this a shot. Oh, I should note that the ALOT 2017 mod packs are not themselves the work of their uploader CreeperLava, but rather he compiled, with permission, thousands of textures made by a dozen-odd other modders – full credits are on the download pages. For Mass Effect 2 that’s here, and for Mass Effect 3 it’s here.
Mass Effect 2 & 3 overhauled with a huge fan-made texture pack
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I am going to try this on my next play though
Series isn’t dead lol. They’ll bring it back in a couple years retooled
Hopeofmypeople
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Look what I found. It takes place right before Mass Effect 2. The summary is right below the video. It's also streaming on Hulu if you have it. 
Mass Effect Paragon Lost
Alliance Marine James Vega (Freddie Prinze Jr.) leads a squad of elite soldiers in a battle against an alien threat. After a fierce battle, Vega takes command of all the planet's forces, but he learns that victory in war comes at a heavy price.
Mass Effect Paragon Lost
Alliance Marine James Vega (Freddie Prinze Jr.) leads a squad of elite soldiers in a battle against an alien threat. After a fierce battle, Vega takes command of all the planet's forces, but he learns that victory in war comes at a heavy price.
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Look what I found. It takes place right before Mass Effect 2. The summary is right below the video. It's also streaming on Hulu if you have it.
Mass Effect Paragon Lost
Alliance Marine James Vega (Freddie Prinze Jr.) leads a squad of elite soldiers in a battle against an alien threat. After a fierce battle, Vega takes command of all the planet's forces, but he learns that victory in war comes at a heavy price.
I watched most of this and if they were going to make a movie about a character other than Shepard, I would have preferred it to be about Ashley. I don't really care about Vega to watch a full film about him. To make things worse, they had the audacity to compare the foolishness Vega going through to the suicide mission of ME 2. I couldn't watch the whole thing. I instead watched the Best Parts of Paragon Lost video below. I suggest you do the same.
He Who Posts Well
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Read the first 12 pages of Mass Effect Discovery. It's a prequel to Mass Effect Andromeda.
Read the first 12 pages of Mass Effect: Discovery
Read the first 12 pages of Mass Effect: Discovery
For the sake of the series, they better tie up every loose end
He Who Posts Well
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I wasn't even aware you could make Garrus so godly. Can't wait to try this build on my next play through
I have an itch to play the trilogy again. Is there a collection with all the dlc included on pc?
Wish they remastered this shyt for the ps4.
Wish they remastered this shyt for the ps4.
The pack that includes all the games has no DLC
EA slick
I'm playin' 3, right now on X1 (360 version of course)
I was this close to coppin' Omega and Citadel til I realized $30 could go towards a game
I already have a bunch of DLC for the PC version
If they released a remaster with ME3MP enabled I wouldn't need shyt for the rest of the year
He Who Posts Well
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I have an itch to play the trilogy again. Is there a collection with all the dlc included on pc?
Wish they remastered this shyt for the ps4.
Beamdog was founded by a former member of Bioware. Since the company started they have been remastering old Bioware games. So far they have done baldurs gate, icewind Dale, planescape torment. They are currently working on Neverwinter nights. I am hoping that they will eventually get to remaster at least the original Mass Effect. That would be a day one buy for me.
I'd pay a hundred twenty for that + the DLC
Take It In Blood
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ME3 multiplayer no longer works on PS3?
