Mass Effect Trilogy in a Single Package This Fall

It'll most likely just be a port, but still I hope they improve the performance of the first Mass Effect for 360 and PS3. I remember playing it on my friend's 360 and was frustrated with the frequent 5-second loading times in the middle of gameplay, the pop-ins, the frame rate stutters, and the occasional glitches. To me it felt like a beta test for the pc version.

I will have no excuse not to finally play and finish this franchise now. Good.

Awesome! Just hope they swap out endings on Mass Effect 3. Otherwise its just causing even more people to be confused / pissed off at the ending.

So should this game get its own page, or will the three game pages already in place suffice?

I might actually play this series now....

Hopefully this will get more people to play Mass Effect 1. The best in the series by far. That's alot of gameplay for $60. I would buy it if I didn't own them all already.

So does that mean I can finally buy ME3on Steam? I'd rebuy 1 and 2 for that privledge.

I don't get it?, only Mass Effect 2 was good

I wonder how they got around the fact that MS published the first game. I figured they held exclusive rights to that first game, otherwise ME1 should've been released on the PS3 some time ago. Also, I'm disappointed this isn't coming out for Wii U. You could sell it at $100 and sell ME3 alone at $60 like they're going to anyways.

@ProfessorMatrix said:

Awesome if you haven't played all 3 games, although honestly ME1 sucks! Assuming they haven't fixed those issues.

Story's still great though. And yeah the combat is bad but it's still better than Skyrim/Fallout/Oblivion combat.

Multiplayer just got extremely boring after about a month or so... haven't played since April and don't plan on playing. PVP would have kept me interested but that's not going to happen. The random equipment is annoying, you should be able to buy what equipment you want not just blindly picking a box just to be disappointed in the end.

Mass effect would be cool if it was all one game :P.

I'm happy that PS2 exclusive owners will be able to get in on it.

I hope they weather their expectations, though. The gameplay, especially after playing ME2/ME3, can take work to get through. But I think the storytelling, conversations, and decision making are all worth it.

I can't help thinking if you're one of the PS3 owners who has only played 2 & 3 then playing the first game is going to be a weird experience.

I guess this is an obvious move for 360 because all they really have to do is package it, but doesn't this seem like something that should be on WiiU?

I may end up picking this up when it goes on sale. I have 1 on Xbox, 2 on the pc and 3 on the Xbox again, so I might just pick up this collection and maybe play through all of them on the Playstation 3. It would be cool if they could all fit on one Blu-Ray though!

Looking forward to it. I haven't played Mass Effect 1 (which is an XBOX 360 exclusive in '07), but thank goodness the HD Trilogy is coming. Black Friday, here we come.

Awesome if you haven't played all 3 games, although honestly ME1 sucks! Assuming they haven't fixed those issues.

Cool, I can finally experience the Mass Effect series. As far as dlc I'd hope that they at least package all the relevant dlc from the first 2 and whatever dlc from 3 that's injected into the initial story, anything taking place outside the main game for 3 I'd be happy to pay for.

Does it include all of the DLC for all three games?

Well, I wish they came out with this sooner. I bought the trilogy on Origin when it was on sale for PC and now it looks like keyboard/mouse for at least ME1 is utterly disappointing.

@FuriousJodo said:

Does it include all of the DLC for all three games?

Haha that's a good one.

@SwirlinDervish said:

@FuriousJodo

Does it include all of the DLC for all three games?

I would hope so, but I kinda doubt it

The PS3 ME2 disc already has a lot of DLC on it. It would look pretty bad if they reprinted it just to take that off of the disc and upload it to the store.

Even if you were a huge fan of Mass Effect a whole day to celebrate it is so stupid. None of them were even innovative or genre defining

@Metalisticpain said:

They could release the trilogy on Wii U, oh wait if they did that they couldnt sell ME3 by itself for $60.

ME1 + ME2 are great in their own ways. ME3 was a total letdown when stuff like killing the rakni queen is just overwritten.

I agree. If you pay $60 for ME3 on WiiU I feel sorry for you.

They could release the trilogy on Wii U, oh wait if they did that they couldnt sell ME3 by itself for $60.

ME1 + ME2 are great in their own ways. ME3 was a total letdown when stuff like killing the rakni queen is just overwritten.

A LITTLE FUCKING LATE on ME1 for PS3, but better late than never.

Cool that ME1 is coming to PS3 but don't think I could go back and play it because of the mechanics. Also elevators and the fucking mako

Yes finally i can play ME1. I just wish i could have known back when they said they could not release it back in 2011.

@taz88ny said:

I would hope that this collection includes all of the DLC, if not, it doesn't seem like a great deal.

Highly doubt it will. I still would like to play the dlc for mass effect. To date I still think that's the best same out of all three. ME2 was awesome but ME1 is just such a better story and experience.

As someone who played ME2 first, the series is so much more enjoyable when you start from the beginning. There's no shame in spending a few hours creating your Shepard as they'll be with you for 80+ hours.

This is a neat idea...though the Wii U will be only receiving ME3? This seemed like a good idea for this upcoming new system, I mean from a marketing point of view..

@FuriousJodo said:

Does it include all of the DLC for all three games?

This, and mash a DA 2 pack together while you're at it guys - I heard it's terrible but at least give me all the enchiladas so I can be the judge

Awesome, although I own the games on PC, this is a sweet deal

The Wii U version is even more of a joke now

Wait, "N7 Day" is NOT November 7th? I really like Mass Effect, but I don't know, it sounds too weirdly corporate and off-putting. Hopefully the events don't disappoint.

This is fantastic news!

I've been holding off on the series in the hopes this might happen.

@0blivion said:

Wrex.

@dethmunky said:

@0blivion: Shepard.

Love this.

I did love the hell out of ME2 when I picked it up for the PS3, so I'll probably pick this up. It'll be cool to finally be able to check out the original game. Here's hoping it comes with the DLC, though, because it'll be a bummer if it doesn't.

Does it include all of the DLC for all three games?

I wonder what kind of port the first mass effect will be, pc port, 360 port, or maybe they rebuilt the game in the me3 engine like they did witht he port of me2.

Yeah, I own all three games and beat them multiple times... I REALLY wanna buy this but ONLY if it comes with all the DLC.

I am so IN.

I had Mass Effect 1 for my old 360, but it RRoD'd when i was about 20 hours in, and i haven't touched a Mass Effect game since. This is right up my alley as i've been umming and ahhing about getting ME2 for my PS3 for quite a while. Glad i held off.

@MikkaQ said:

@cosmic said:

I'm curious if Microsoft's logo will still be on the 360 version. There's a reason for The 360 and PC version coming out first.

Probably because a PS3 version of the first game has never existed before and they need to do the work porting it?

It would be awesome if the Port of the first game was remade with the ME3 engine. Of course, that could be the only option for them.

I'll be buying this whether it has any of the DLC included or not. There's enough game here that I won't miss it.

Amazing deal for $60. Hundreds of hours of game to be had.

@ma_rc_01 said:

I'll wait for the Ultra-ultimate directors cut with all the dlc to buy it all again thank you very much.

I hate to admit this but I have beaten each Mass Effect at least 5 times and will probably buy this too. I will also probably be buying the imaginary version you just made up.

Awesome, I played ME2 on PS3 a while back and loved the hell out of it.

Looking forward to going through the whole trilogy.

@MikkaQ said:

And yet no announcement for Wii U, a console that is randomly getting the 3rd entry to the series with zero context. Seriously, who is that port for, Mass Effect fans that haven't gotten around to the third game, but feel like the Xbox, PS3 or PC in their life is just not the right way to experience it?

@cosmic said:

I'm curious if Microsoft's logo will still be on the 360 version. There's a reason for The 360 and PC version coming out first.

Probably because a PS3 version of the first game has never existed before and they need to do the work porting it?

Or because in Microsoft and Bioware's original contract they had a 5 year publishing deal? In any other generation we would have had new consoles by now, considering ME1 came out in 2007

Hmmmmm. Might partake of this when it eventually comes to PS3, giving me one less reason (or three, I suppose) to own my Xbox.

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

@zombie2011 said:

releasing the same day as Halo 4 and Election day, probably not the best idea.

If Halo 4's tagline isn't "DEMOCRACY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME," someone over there isn't doing their job.

War Politics never changes!

That's great! Regardless of all the hoopla about ME2, ME1 is the title I enjoyed playing the most. Everything just clicked with me more in the first game (the story in ME2 was pretty solid though).

@Evercaptor said:

@LegendaryChopChop said:

I have had all games since their original launch dates, but I'm tempted to pick them up again in that nice packaging for the trilogy release. If they had a different/new set of achievements much like Batman AA and Batman AA GOTY, I would be all over that: another reason to play through the trilogy fresh.

I probably won't pick them up again, but it looks good. I really wish it had all the DLC for 1 and 2 (understandably why it doesn't have the DLC for 3), but what can you do. At least 2 might have the Cerberus Network codes?

I'm hoping that "N7 Day" is also the release of the ME3 Omega DLC.

Batman AA and it's GOTY had different achievements because they had different engines (the GOTY suddenly supporting 3D). I have a magical SSS-Rank in Batman Arkham Asylum.

Great, now I suddenly want ME3D edition...