Tyion133 wrote...
Cybermortis wrote...
I wondered about this as well. My first throughts were that 'updating' ME1 to use the ME3 engine would be quite possible...Then I remembered that ME1 has the Mako, which you can leave at any point (unlike its replacement in ME2 which you could only leave at set points). So I don't think that updating ME1 would be possible without some major re-working of the engine.
Hmm... Should still be possible though... Would have like the weapon-selection thing from ME3 in the other 2 games as well... Was awesome that you could select what type of weapons you wanted to bring along instead of the ''default'' every weapon in ME1 and some weapons in ME2
Oh it would be perfectly possible to remake ME1 using the engine from ME3. It is just that you'd have to tinker with the engine to get the Mako parts to work correctly - and you can't just cut those parts out because they are too intergral to the game itself. Such tinkering would take a considerable amount of time, money and play-testing that I seriously doubt anyone would be willing to do it at the moment.
Now if they fix the ending of ME3, I could see someone deciding that it might be worth the time and effort to update both ME1 and ME2 and package them all together as a single 'game' split into three parts - which would be jaw-droppingly good. But...this would require indications people would buy it, and with the current fury over ME3's ending and its poor sales this is unlikely. Those people who might have been interested going back to play ME1 will either have the game already, or have been put off by ME3's pitiful ending.
Now if they give people a good ending to ME3 and sales start to raise, then I wouldn't be surprised if this option was considered as a post DLC release. In fact depending on how much time and effort would be needed to do this it might even have been a viable option for a release before any ME4 game - a HUGE game with all the DLC, and maybe some extras that were not available for general sale, to get people interested in the franchse again a few months before you release ME4.
Humm, anyone else thinking I'm having some better business ideas that Bioware itself at this point?
They could even do this if they don't change the ending of ME3 as it stands, by producing a new ending for the 'Ultimate' ME pack in a year or so's time. I, at least, would be considering this if ME3 doesn't get a fixed ending and sales continue to vanish after PAX as it *might* renew interest in a flagging company and series.