Pile of Shame Sunday - 16th May 2021

Screenshot from Photo Mode of the Citadel Presidium in Mass Effect Legendary Edition
A screenshot taken during Photo Mode in Mass Effect Legendary Edition

The following post is part of a series of posts that are published every Sunday to update readers on what Mark G has been up to with respect to finishing off games on his "Pile of Shame". The games to target are picked by Choicest Games contributors Choona, Luke and myself. As I'll be talking about my progress through these games, there may be spoilers ahead, especially for games containing a narrative. Consider yourself warned.


Mass Effect Legendary Edition

  • Picked by Me
  • Percentage Complete = 5%

Yep. Mass Effect Legendary Edition is finally here. As Mass Effect is one of my favourite game series of all time, I'm pretty much fully invested in it for the time being, meaning other games I have will be going on hold.

I'm really liking what they've done with the remaster so far and the changes are probably going to be most noticeable on the oldest game in the franchise: Mass Effect 1 which came out on PC in 2008. While I've noticed some occasional audio glitches and man it takes a lot of space (100GB! But to be fair this is for all three games) I'm liking the high res textures and no film grain in the original Mass Effect. Also the HUD has been revamped to be more similar to Mass Effect 3 and the character creator now has a unified look across all games. You can apparently mark things as junk in your inventory too to quickly sell things or convert them into omni-gel but I haven't tried this out yet. Elevator rides in the Citadel are also much quicker now and even skippable if you choose to do so (I kind of like it when your followers learn more about each other though).

I'm currently at the part where you've just been inducted as a Spectre and I now have Wrex, Garrus and Tali joining the crew.


Disco Elysium

  • Picked by Me
  • Percentage Complete = 41%

Progress on this game is paused while I play Mass Effect Legendary Edition


Pillars of Eternity

  • Picked by Luke
  • Percentage Complete = 7%

Progress on this game is paused while I play Mass Effect Legendary Edition


Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood

  • Picked by Choona
  • Percentage Complete = 66%

Progress on this game is paused while I play Mass Effect Legendary Edition


LINK: [ The Pile of Shame ]

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