Mass Effect and Dragon Age aren't dark because you can always get the best outcome.
Like the boy at the castle in Dragon Age - you can kill him...sacrifice his mother to save him, or just wait and let the Mages fix everything.
Same with Mass Effect - a tough decision - Quarians or Geth? Oh doesn't matter, you can save them both!!
Dragon Age is set in a dark world with loads of racism, rape, dark rituals, war, death, genocide, betrayal etc. but it's just not presented well in the game because you can get a "perfect" outcome.
Bioware needs to grow some balls and give you proper difficult decisions, like in The Witcher 2- There's no perfect or optimal playthrough in The Witcher 2, the R rating allows them to show all the dark realities of the world, and the decisions are meaningful and difficult and there are multiple ways of justifying every playthrough you do - there is no "good" or "bad" playthrough unlike in Bioware games.
Like the boy at the castle in Dragon Age - you can kill him...sacrifice his mother to save him, or just wait and let the Mages fix everything.
Same with Mass Effect - a tough decision - Quarians or Geth? Oh doesn't matter, you can save them both!!
Dragon Age is set in a dark world with loads of racism, rape, dark rituals, war, death, genocide, betrayal etc. but it's just not presented well in the game because you can get a "perfect" outcome.
Bioware needs to grow some balls and give you proper difficult decisions, like in The Witcher 2- There's no perfect or optimal playthrough in The Witcher 2, the R rating allows them to show all the dark realities of the world, and the decisions are meaningful and difficult and there are multiple ways of justifying every playthrough you do - there is no "good" or "bad" playthrough unlike in Bioware games.