I've decided to re live one of my fondest gaming experiences on XB 360 but now on PC. Mass Effect

TonyTurbo78 · 30 May 2014 at 10:54

I've spent hundreds of hours of my life on this game and its sequels LOL

I'm kinda bored with modern games, nothing just seems to have the immersion and design of the older classics. So, to avoid me loosing interest in games at the moment, I've decided to go back and revisit my all time favourite game, Mass Effect Trilogy. Now, I played this all on my 360, never played it on PC, and after seeing some of the texture mods in the Screenshots thread, I want to get this working.

Can anyone here that applied the mod, give me any pointers as to what might give me problems, if any, and what things to make sure I do regarding the Mod? So far I've installed ME1, patched to latest version, downloaded and installed the L.A.A patch for the memory address, edited the bioengine.ini with the suggested changes. And I'm now downloading the MEUIT full download at more than 4GB in size. I'm guessing this is self explanatory once I run it regarding were this should be installed? I take it just goes in the main ME binary folder with all the main files?

snips86x · 30 May 2014 at 10:59

I loved this series and it's great on PC!

May have to join you in replaying once I've completed Tomb Raider!

porushinobu · 30 May 2014 at 11:00

I may end up replaying this aswell. I say this while wearing my N7 t-shirt.

stooeh · 30 May 2014 at 11:16

TonyTurbo78 said:
I've spent hundreds of hours of my life on this game and its sequels LOL

I'm kinda bored with modern games, nothing just seems to have the immersion and design of the older classics. So, to avoid me loosing interest in games at the moment, I've decided to go back and revisit my all time favourite game, Mass Effect Trilogy. Now, I played this all on my 360, never played it on PC, and after seeing some of the texture mods in the Screenshots thread, I want to get this working.

Can anyone here that applied the mod, give me any pointers as to what might give me problems, if any, and what things to make sure I do regarding the Mod? So far I've installed ME1, patched to latest version, downloaded and installed the L.A.A patch for the memory address, edited the bioengine.ini with the suggested changes. And I'm now downloading the MEUIT full download at more than 4GB in size. I'm guessing this is self explanatory once I run it regarding were this should be installed? I take it just goes in the main ME binary folder with all the main files?

Saw those screenshots myself

- think I just pointed it to the main ME folder ie not the actual \Binaries folder. In my case it would be 'Z:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\mass effect'

I recommend forcing AA as well, not sure how you do it on AMD though...

Shamikebab · 30 May 2014 at 11:20

Mass Effect counts as an older classic?

WHAT21A · 30 May 2014 at 11:29

Only ever played Mass effect on PC loved it, been doing a replay through myself recently. Really jogs the memory how far the series came over the 3 games and how it improved through every one of them.

TonyTurbo78 · 30 May 2014 at 11:36

Shamikebab said:
Mass Effect counts as an older classic?

Sure it does, the first one is what, maybe 7 or 8 years old now and the trilogy will definitely go down as a classic series.

VincentHanna · 30 May 2014 at 11:51

7 years.

I remember playing it on my Xbox 360 very well as it was so cinematic. To this day I've never played any with the default male Shepherd.

Zethor · 30 May 2014 at 11:53

TonyTurbo78 said:
Sure it does, the first one is what, maybe 7 or 8 years old now and the trilogy will definitely go down as a classic series.

Mass Effect isn't a classic, it's the final nail in the coffin of high quality Bioware RPGs.

VincentHanna · 30 May 2014 at 12:32

Zethor said:
Mass Effect isn't a classic, it's the final nail in the coffin of high quality Bioware RPGs.

Personally I had more fun with the Mass Effect trilogy than Balders Gate.

Mass Effect 3 was a bit disappointing at the end but it was a strong series.

xRBLx · 30 May 2014 at 12:40

VincentHanna said:
Personally I had more fun with the Mass Effect trilogy than Balders Gate.

Mass Effect 3 was a bit disappointing at the end but it was a strong series.

Mass Effect 2 to me was by far the greatest one. I really want to replay but i'm holding out on hope that they will release a Mass Effect Trilogy GOTY.... :eek:

I know they are making another but its in a different timeline and doesn't have Shepard, I think that's all that's known so far.

Amraam · 30 May 2014 at 13:51

I still think ME1 is the best, I just hear the music and visualise the atmospherics and it makes me want to just load up and play again. I started ME1 again for easily about the 8th time, but as a male Shepard for the first time and it's wrong. I'm about 2 hours in, but I'm really tempted to delete the save and start again with femshep.

xRBLx said:
Mass Effect 2 to me was by far the greatest one. I really want to replay but i'm holding out on hope that they will release a Mass Effect Trilogy GOTY....

I know they are making another but its in a different timeline and doesn't have Shepard, I think that's all that's known so far.

Stay tuned for E3. Fairly likely ME4 will be there this year.

TonyTurbo78 · 30 May 2014 at 13:58

Oh my gosh

Mods installed and SweetFX running. This is going to be as enjoyable as ever.

VincentHanna · 30 May 2014 at 14:04

TonyTurbo78 said:
Oh my gosh Mods installed and SweetFX running. This is going to be as enjoyable as ever.

That does look rather good.

Having completed the original three times already, somebody should come up with a MOD that bypasses all the MAKO planet driving and just assumes you discovered everything...That bit is pretty boring.

Amraam · 30 May 2014 at 14:13

VincentHanna said:
That does look rather good.

Having completed the original three times already, somebody should come up with a MOD that bypasses all the MAKO planet driving and just assumes you discovered everything...That bit is pretty boring.

I think there are console commands for most of it.

cheesyboy · 30 May 2014 at 14:19

VincentHanna said:
That does look rather good.

Having completed the original three times already, somebody should come up with a MOD that bypasses all the MAKO planet driving and just assumes you discovered everything...That bit is pretty boring.

This^

Took the gloss off the game for me, a bit. It felt like a bit of a drag, to the extent that I haven't played 2 or 3, despite finding the ending to ME to be so good.

Starting to feel like giving it another go, though. Especially with those mods (played ME on X360)

Elixir · 30 May 2014 at 14:23

VincentHanna said:
Having completed the original three times already, somebody should come up with a MOD that bypasses all the MAKO planet driving and just assumes you discovered everything...That bit is pretty boring.

This killed the game for me the first time round. Exploring very similar planets going through the same process each time.

VincentHanna · 30 May 2014 at 14:27

The planet scanning on ME2 was almost as bad though. I feel asleep doing that on more than one occasion.

And yet it has to be done to fully upgrade your ship, find all the little extra side missions etc etc.

Rroff · 30 May 2014 at 15:26

Zethor said:
Mass Effect isn't a classic, it's the final nail in the coffin of high quality Bioware RPGs.

I'd have to disagree on one aspect I found it more accessable both in controls and gameplay concepts than any of their previous work - tho still not perfect it felt far less disjointed to play, tho ME2 went downhill from there and ME3 I can't make it more than about 10 minutes into the game before having to turn it off.

VincentHanna said:
The planet scanning on ME2 was almost as bad though. I feel asleep doing that on more than one occasion.

And yet it has to be done to fully upgrade your ship, find all the little extra side missions etc etc.

Didn't think the planet scanning was that bad wasn't the most interesting thing ever mind but I didn't feel like it dragged the game down as much as the mako bits did in ME1 - comes back to what I was saying above the controls for it were just plain awful and the "freeroam" environment bits very uninspired, tho quite well stylised.

ME1 is a classic for me - just the opening bit with the music kicking in with the view out the window and the voice overs just perfectly set it up.

TonyTurbo78 · 30 May 2014 at 16:43

does it for me as well Roff, I get serious goosebumps

I love all the exploration on the various planets, and seeing as I only done it once on xbox, it will feel pretty fresh on pc I think