Mass Effect Legendary Edition will contain more than 40 pieces of DLC when it ships on PlayStation 4 in May, but the Pinnacle Station expansion for the first entry won't be a part of the long list. That's because support team Demiurge Studios was the one to put it together during the PlayStation 3 generation, and the data BioWare received upon requesting it for the remastered collection was almost completely corrupt. The RPG developer states it really wanted to include Pinnacle Station in its plans for the full remaster of Mass Effect, but the situation was taken out of its control.
In an interview with Game Informer, game director Mac Walters expanded on the predicament. He says that since the original code was no longer properly accessible, the team would need to completely remake the DLC from scratch to be included. "It would basically take us another full six months just to do this with most of the team we've got. I wish we could do it. Honestly, just because this is meant to be everything that the team ever created, brought together again - all the single-player content. And so, leaving it all on the cutting-room floor, it was heartbreaking."
Pinnacle Station was essentially a combat arena located on a top-secret Alliance space station that consisted of 13 different challenges. Containing roughly three hours of gameplay, there wasn't any content relating to the story. You would unlock powerful guns for use in the main game instead.
It's clear then that BioWare tried its best to include Pinnacle Station in its plans, but delaying the project by six months just wasn't feasible. Still, there are over 100 hours of content to experience as part of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition so it's not the end of the world. The remastered collection will sport gameplay upgrades including "improved aiming and weapon balance, sound effects, better Mako controls, input/controls, squad behaviour, cover behaviour, and gameplay cameras" alongside 60 frames-per-second on PlayStation 5 and PS4 Pro. Load times will be much shorter too and an expanded character creator will allow you to shape Shepard to your individual needs.
[source gameinformer.com]
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I also hope they touch up the trophy lists. It seems to be the one thing most remasters neglect. Demon's souls did a great job in this respect as they got rid of the shard grinding.
Some of the DLC will be missing? No problem. They'll just have to make a slight adjustment to the game's name to
'Mass Effect: Legendary, except a little bit of dlc from one of the trilogy that would've taken 6 months to produce but, you know, we could've, but management didn't want to do that work, deadlines and all that, i suppose they're not motivated by a sense of pride in the franchise like the Halo team, oh well, guess this is almost complete and still good value Edition'
Edit: after consulting with my lawyers I've been instructed to point out this is a joke. Its not my actual opinion. I've taken a hypothetical opinion to an obviously absurd extreme, a fairly standard formula for a joke
Edit2: edit 1 is also a joke. And so is this. And this.
@Hyperluminal
Because wasting six months of important development time on combat arenas that nobody played and that frankly were not very good to begin with instead of devoting those developers to other projects is such a serious omission.
@Hyperluminal Imagine reacting like this.
@PegasusActual93 Yeah I was being deadly serious. No way I could've written that as a joke 😆😉👍 Its quite interesting psychologically speaking; you read it and in your mind I said all that as if I were complaining. Another person with a different frame of mind would take it for the tongue-in-cheek comment I intended to make. It's not your fault.
Anyway, interestingly, the Halo team even included the Halo 5 Guardians beta in the Complete Collection, let alone just the games and dlc.
@LiamCroft you too?! How come the first reaction i receive is a negative one? I made a joke not a complaint. I thought this place was meant to be friendly.
Haha unless your joking with me 🤯 the internet is a minefield!!
@Hyperluminal It doesn't come across as a joke whatsoever.
@LiamCroft well thats on you because your bias is towards negative behaviours. Several times you've singled me out because you take issue with what I've said. We're communicating on a thread. You have to be open minded to the fact that your impression isn't necessarily the one meant by the commenter. Maybe I should've put a laughing emoji on it to make it clear for those people who choose to take things negatively over positively. Thats my fault.
slightly more disappointing is that it's still using unreal engine 3, which does feel like a bit of a relic at this point. spruced up graphics and a few gameplay tweaks will struggle to hide its age, i think.
@Hyperluminal I don’t know how anyone could read your first comment as a joke or positively 😂
@Hyperluminal definitively didn't come across as a joke to me, and I don't recognize you at all.
Yea, if you want to make a joke, you should add a sign of sarcasm at the end.
@LiamCroft @Hyperluminal - i didn't think it was serious. anybody who wanted to make the negative point wouldn't have gone to half the trouble to be an ar*e about it..
This has been known since yesterday evening, I even posted about it yesterday in tje comment s of another mass effect LE story
@LiamCroft well that shows quite a lack of imagination Liam. I guess emojis are what's required this day and age. There seems to be a disconnect in social media that if tone and intent it isn't spelt out for people with visual aids like a smiley face, and you don't know the person, a negative perception is likelier.
@leucocyte hahaha very true 👍
@Tharsman so it would seem, cheers, you're right. The not knowing me is an important part if it. Like I said, I find it all quite interesting.
It was pretty obviously a joke... But hey whatever, we live in the age of outrage! I'm outraged that people didn't realise it was a joke. 😂😂😂😜😜😜 /S (sarcasm) just to be clear, I'm not outraged about the outrage. I hope that clears this all up. Got to cover all the bases.
Back on topic, I think I only briefly played the second one and liked some of the story but felt like I had missed out by not playing the first so I'm quietly excited about this release. Looking forward to the review.
@leucocyte
It's going to show its age regardless, over a decade of game play evolution typically does that.
@Liberty____1st 😆👍
I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting.'
For the price this game will sell for, if it reviews well and it's the real deal, it will be well worth it.
Or they could you know release it later as one of those things that usually come out after a game releases, I think some kids these days call it DLC 🤔
Favorite mission in ME:1 is the moon mission. Can’t wait to play through that game again in glorious 4K.
Also I just realized I legitimately don’t know the last EA game I bought 🤔
@Juanalf
Again I dont see why they would spend all that development energy on something so insignificant when those devs can work on the next Mass Effect or Dragon Age
No real loss as it was pretty terrible anyway, out of all the DLC to be cut this is the best one to go.
@Hyperluminal I had a laugh with your comment. It's all good bro. ♥️
@Amusei thanks mate 😊
@Hyperluminal haha. You mentioned halo In the joke and made the Sony fanboys salty. That was your only mistake.
Made me chuckle and it came across as a joke to me.
@LiamCroft Some people say jokes with straight faces. Sometimes that's harder to get in person, being in the internet can make it even harder.
Thanks for the heads up, I've canceled my pre-order.
Oh no. Pinnacle station? That's definitely taking this game down to a 2/10.
Pros - None
Cons - No Pinnacle Station.
“Majority of gamers skip Mass Effect Trilogy in effort to vote with their wallets by not supporting EA, one of the most corrupt gaming companies in America”
@Hyperluminal @Liamcroft
I read it as a joke, it was obviously written with humorous intention. I didn't know whether or not it reflected their views, but I could tell the point was to make me laugh.
I get how Liam perceived it though, it could easily be considered a snarky joke in the gaming climate we're in.
Either way, we all brothers here in the PlayStation nation!
The important thing is that the story related DLCs are intact.
@Hyperluminal I thought you were joking lol
The problem is that there are enough people online who would make comments like those of @Hyperluminal while being deadly serious, and then try to cover for their bad opinions by pretending it was sarcastic.
And again, if you can't tell something is satire, it's bad satire, because it ends up reinforcing the point of view you're supposedly making fun of.
@theheadofabroom there's logic to what you're saying. It's certainly another way things can be perceived. Some people will think like how you put it, others will find it funny, it depends on the individual. What's sad and disappointing is when people like Liam, who works on a website and should know better, can't even acknowledge that the comment could be taken humourously. Very immature. Clearly that's wrong as it has been demonstrably shown that some people have got the joke and found it amusing.
Well, not ALL the content, unfortunately.
@AndyKazama Unwavering will be in all 3
@Hyperluminal You've got a good perspective in my opinion. It's all red vs. Blue in the end. What we experience will shape how we see things up until a point we shift view points intentionally. Up until recently (with much self reflection) I would have seen your comment as very negative, but now I wouldn't have even if you hadn't made the edits. No one is wrong here, though!
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