I’m Commander Shepard, and I can only sprint for 10 yards.

WE NEED A DEAD SPACE TRILOGY LIKE THIS

14 years later and I still don't know where I'm going on Noveria.

I remember I would play ME on my 360 awhile ago infront of my dad. He would always say "Why do you like playing this game? All the man does is run all everywhere. Is it a running game? Why does he run?"

Hey DF. I was wondering if you guys might do a "farewell" video for the Xbox One/PS4 generation? To take a look back at the graphics and performance showcases, maybe get some devs in to talk about the quirks of each of the systems, anecdotes. etc. I would love to see it.

Not gonna lie, for a 2007 game and hardware, it still holds up amazingly for its era. Crazy this was 14 years ago!

the soundtrack will remain timeless and one of the best / most atmospheric si-fi soundtracks ever

And again that moment when your memory looks like the remaster xD

I’m here to see if “bespoke” is mentioned.

Not gonna lie, hearing it called New Eden and not Eden Prime was very odd. UPDATE: I was pointed out to me that New Eden is the Colony, and Eden Prime is the Planet. DUH!!!

I’m doing my best to resist the urge to buy this since my backlog is so big. This video just made it harder.

One thing worth noting that I don't think was mentioned in the video: Framerate mode on series s removes dynamic shadows for characters and a few other objects.

I can't believe how good the 360 version still looks to this day.

man, that music is still epic.. i remember those husks freaking me out so bad in 2007 :P

People playing these games for the 1st time. I envy you

I went from playing this back on a Xbox 360 at 720p , to a 3080 at 4k. They did an incredible job. Thank you for keeping the original audio !

Does anyone finds the galaxy map theme song soothing and relaxing ? I’m so happy they kept every music and sound effect intact.

ME1 Shepard still runs around like he crapped his pants though.

Great video, Tom! I imagine how hard it was to cover three games on three different platforms, props to you

12:30 is a problematic and stuttery location on many systems, has always been since the OG release of ME1 and I guess that is why it is featured in so many clips in this vid. It is an area that drops my fps from 100-144 to 60+ just when looking in that direction, no matter the resolution or other graphics settings on an RTX2070. Seems like a culling optimisation issue in UE3 because the same fps drop happens if you go to the other end of the Citadel and look toward this point, the same thing happens.

I was wondering if DF would be doing this video. And here we are!

It's a shame this wasn't called "Calibrated" edition.

Awesome, thanks so much for doing all this analysis, totally understood (and expected!) that you could only test a small portion of each--especially with the huge matrix of platforms, modes, and games within the package. Really glad to see they modernized these well, and I'll probably play through everything on my XSX once it's available on Xbox Game Pass. Excellent work all 'round as always!

Hey guys, how about a video about old demos comparing with new games, what was achieved or not. UE 3 & 4 demos, Unity demos etc...

Booted this up on my SeriesX and was blown away. 😲

Hats off to XSX for giving us 120fps 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

4K @30FPS on the Series S and 60FPS at 1440p.... Not bad at all!

This is the video I wanted from DF this week. Thank you, gentlemen.

I hadn't played these games...just got the legendary edition and Mass Effect One is truly awesome so far! 4K looks great.

The remaster is truly impressive! Although, are others playing on Xbox One X also experiencing massive screen tearing - especially in busier areas like the Citadel?

Thank you!! Been waiting for this.

Been looking for this!

Seeing Normandy remastered in 4K at 60 FPS gives me goosebumps. Oh man that ship is so awesome....

Man, that music is really bringing me back.. my God

Cheers for the video, I've never played so looking forward to this.

Ahhhhh snap, I’ve been waiting on this one baby!!!

Oh yes been waiting for this thank you DF. It’s running well on my series X and looks great. 👍

It's crazy that although the upgrades are amazing, the 360 version looks fairly good even in comparison. Mass effect 1 was so ahead of it's time. Impressive!

1440p 60hz for series s with VRR is amazing.

This is amazing. ME1 is really hard to get into on PC. Mods, fixes, control issues, antiquated gameplay. This is a great reason to give it another go.

I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite video on KZfaq lol.

I'm really impressed by this remaster playing this on PS5 @ 4k 60 FPS is a great experience. A Massive upgrade from the original 360 release while still completely nailing the tone and feel of that game. TBH I don't really miss the abundance of post processing effects they draped the screen with in 360

Just an amazing comparison! Well done!

Wish Bethesda would give Fallout 3 some love like this trilogy.

Another great comparison done by digital foundry!

I have been waiting for this.

Considering I never expected my Series S to play in 4K, even at 30fps, I’m quite proud of my little console lol.

As you can see, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition fixes the problem of every scene not containing Massive amounts of lens flare everywhere.

I'm so happy that I've never played these games before. Between this and days gone on steam, its going to be a good week!!

The nostalgia gives me the feels. This series has always been my favorite. Really really hope BioWare does this with some of their other games, namely Dragon Age, but also maybe a remake of Jade Empire or KOTOR 1 & 2.

Colossal work Thomas. Great video! I think that Series S resolution should be modified in a patch. 1440p/30fps for quality and 1080p/60fps for perfomance. Hopefully that would deliver no fps loss at each resolution and no tearing. Also, and I insist this should be on EVERY game out there on every console, there should be a fps unlock toggable option on every 30fps game, scratch that, on every game that has any fps lock, for future proofing and/or user choice. This way, newer consoles, or newer iterations of same console could improve perfomance. I still remember BioShock and Saints Row 2-3 on PS3-360 having that option and both now play at 60fps on Xbox Series X (all 360 games, not remasters). Anyway, ME Legendary Edition looks absolutely great, going to get it on SX. Thanks!

Fantastic in depth review. Thanks

I have extensively tested it on the PS4 Pro-The differences between framerate vs. quality mode are pretty striking. I noticed on quality mode, the game displays shadows, less geometry visual noise on small objects like weapons on the back, and objects in far distances fully rendered make the game much more modern. The framerate makes the game shows its age a lot more obvious but the gameplay feels far more smooth and modern with 60fps.

Looking forward to playing these. I've totally slept on this series until now and it looks great!

Brilliant. Thanks!

Those reflections don’t appear to be screen space, given they show up even when the reflected stuff isn’t on screen. The devs did say they’re rendering reflections from a reflection camera camera into a frame buffer, then using that as the reflection, which could explain the frame rate weirdness.

If it wasn't for this video, I wouldn't even know game drops below 120fps. VRR really makes a difference.

Downloading on PC now. I need those childhood feels again.

Did they change the way reflections are handled sometime after this review? They're definately not screenspace any more. I can look down at water and see everything reflected from the tops of the trees to the sky. It's not just static objects either, NPCs offscreen are also fully reflected.

This is my favourite DF guy, the one still covering game launches. Are there any hopes for Nier Replicant?

Hey, loved the video but you missed out something very very important. Right now Planar reflections are ALSO kinda broken right now. They seem to run at 15fps and the experience is quite frankly nauseating. Was hoping this issue could get some attention from your video. This seems to be on all platforms

The NPC eyeballs are.... interesting.

Thank you Tom, this was really interesting and helpful for me, a person that owns the trilogy on both 360 and Ps3 Mass effect is easily my favorit trilogy and games of all time 💕

Those 360 comparison shots are cool. More work into it than I expected.

I was really hoping Bioware would finally fix the constraint they had regarding Saren's character model. Originally, the goal was to have Saren start out as a normal Turian and then slowly morph over the course of the game into the organic/synthetic hybrid we initially see. The Xbox 360 with it's RAM capacity couldn't accommodate that plan so they ended up just sticking with the one model, so they say. I was thinking that with the current hardware, even PS4/Xbox One could have made that a reality but I guess not, and you have to witness that scene of Saren with obvious Geth enhancements on him and the Citadel Council is like "there's no way this guy is evil"

Just a heads-up HDR is bugged on Xbox series consoles. If you have auto HDR turned on it enables it for the launcher and the games for some reason, even though the compatibility options say it's disabled. If you disable auto HDR in your video settings HDR is disabled in the launcher, but works once you launch the game. The auto HDR version isn't horrible, but the real HDR version definitely looks nicer.

Great video.. this is in my opinion one of the best remasters I be have ever seen, the immortal magnificent trilogy feels fresh 🥃

ive been waiting for this

Series X looking really, really good here.

I heard this game supports Dolby Vision on the Series consoles.

5:33 - Not screen space reflections. Notice how reflected geometry/objects don't vanish when out of view. In other cases, the angles don't add up for screen space reflections. Like the panorama windows in the Flux bar on the Citadel. These are likely planar reflections.

Hi! Thank you for the video! Really interested how the trilogy behaves on Xbox One OG/S. Also wonder if it'll come to Switch and show it may behave to.

Wasn't expecting this on a Sunday. lol

THIS is how you do a remaster, Rockstar.

Good stuff!

Two corrections: 1: The first mission is called 'Prologue: Find the Beacon' which takes place on 'Eden Prime', not 'New Eden'. 2: Those are 'Render-to-Texture' reflections on water/flat surfaces, in combination with screen-space reflections. This is probably why it's capped at 30fps because they use it quite a lot throughout the remaster (at least in Mass Effect 1 from what I've played of that so far).

It wasn’t even that bad in the original! Art direction and smart techniques go a long way.

5:33 did you call the reflections "screen Space reflections"? because they quite obviously are not SSR. they are either render to texture or planar reflections. seems like render to texture to me

The reflections used in the Legendary Edition are a mix of cubemaps and geometric reflections (not screen space reflections). I think screen space reflections would look much better, ironically enough.

I will miss Shepard's sprint from ME1 that was, the camera is now slightly closer

Guys, I've been steady checking the channel waiting for this breakdown....im truly a fan now. Lol... Doin' the lords work!

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite video on Digital Foundry

Could you bring a word on sound quality / mixing and HDR implementation in all of your vids ? Thats often forgotten

THE VIDEO I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!

Want to see comparisons to PS4 base, PS4 Pro, other Xbox models and PC if possible.

The upgrade on the original is actually really nice.

“I can smell the hate, why don’t you just start fighting already?” Yea, my favorite quote..

@ 12:29 I believe that area of the citadel was like that in the original PC version. I believe that might be a engine limitation from 2007. As that's the largest and most complex area in the game (with NPC, size, water, trees).

I dont love 1...i love 2 and enjoyef 3. But man...this trilogy was something so special to me. I cried like a baby when i finished it

X Gon give it to you Holy crap 120 FPS !!!!

Here's something I don't understand about in-engine cut scenes; Why aren't they allowed to slow down to the point that the individual frames later canbe stictched together and be palyed at 60 fps or whatever rate is chosen?

Anyone else's dialogue in me1 only coming through the rear channels with a surround system? Is driving me insane

Been waiting for this one all weekend 😍

I have a VRR tv (Q80T) and a series X. 120 fps is pretty smooth, I don't notice the swings in framerate with VRR and it definitely feels more smooth than 60 fps, though 60 fps is more than smooth enough. the 1440p, I can see a slight softening though in my display. So its more preference. Maybe the resolution diff would seem better if I had a smaller screen (I have a 65" and only sit like 7' away). VRR is definitely nice to have, as then you don't notice frame drops like if your display was fixed (I use my tv as a pc monitor too, once you go VRR/Gsync/freesync, you do not go back to fixed framerate, no matter how "locked" a game seems you notice every little stutter without it).

Look beautiful. Thanks for covering it. My wife is playing it on a Pro I am going to play it on PS5. Both of us in Quality Mode.

The instant loading times are the best improvement, you got to be a speed reader for the tips lol

Series s actually handled itself pretty well here

I asked for this and you gave. So happy im crying.

could the water reflection have anything to do with them effectively rendering the game twice? (if i understood how they did reflections correctly)

I hope you guys cover Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game. I'm having significant issues with screen tearing and frame drops. Apparently loads of other people are having the same issues. It's not quite so bad on Quality mode but dear god Framerate mode is borderline unplayable at times especially in the Citadel.