Ok fair enough. Though I don't get why it isn't like in ME for the PC where you would turn the wheel rather than now but eh not really a problem just a thought.Scars Unseen said:
Has Bioware been falling in quality?
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I don't think so. Dragon Age 2 wasn't very good, but one bad game does not constitute a "decline". They'd have to keep making games like that for me to consider there to be a decline in quality.
I love ME2, probably my favorite game from last year, and TOR looks to be the best MMO since WoW (acronyms FTW). So no. They haven't been falling in quality. At most they've been adjusting to the market AND I'LL STOP YOU RIGHT THERE- that's not a bad thing. Not at all.
Eh I wouldn't really call ToR the GOTY just yet. All MMOs are frontloaded to garner as many subscriptions as possible, it's also probably not a coincidence that many reviewers only play the beginning of the game to get a feel for it. From what I've heard and seen ToR doesn't have much in the form of level 50 content so I feel that it's staying power on the MMO market may be brief.Bhaalspawn said:
Yeah, as much as I would like to think that Bioware has earned the right to make what they want with little to no publisher interference, I find it more likely that EA will use them up, throw them away, and just use Bioware as a big name skin to throw on whatever development house they want to boost the sales of.Bobbity said:
That isn't just a Mass Effect problem. That's a problem for pretty much every BioWare game i remember, including my favorites of the Baldur's Gate series.80Maxwell08 said:
If you only first discovered this in Mass Effect, then you really haven't been paying attention.
The rest of your complaints (Dragon Age 2 ones excepted) rings rather hollow. You complain about the difficulty being too easy in Mass Effect 2, yet don't play on the hardest difficulty (second hardest at best in one mission). Do you think "Insanity"-difficulty is just there as a placeholder? As for the conversations, that's a matter entirely up for interpretation. I feel they do their job, considering that Shepard knows about a galaxy-wide threat, which allows him (or her) to ignore most of the bullsh*t thrown in the face, even if it does occasionally piss him off. I'll agree that they've better gotten rid of the Paragon/Renegade-system for Mass Effect 3 if they had any f*cking clue, but beyond that Mass Effect 2 was a very solid update to it's predecessor, and the third one is going to be even better from what i see.
To me, it seems you are mostly nitpicking very small nitpicks from what is overall very solid games and trying to make them bigger than they are. Sure, they're flaws, but not any harsher than some of BioWares previous games. Dragon Age 2 is the exception since the game in my eyes is still a huge pile of sh*t, but the design direction for that one was the problem, not the nitpicks.
I never thought of Bioware as a solid, top-of-the-line hits-only developer, like Valve. They just sometimes hit all the right buttons and make something marvelous, like KOTOR or Mass Effect franchise. They've always had some worse games - like Jade Empire or Dragon Age.
I'm waiting for ME3 with great anticipation, I even preordered a CE, but I don't really feel like any other franchise that's currently in development there will be interesting for me at all.
I'm waiting for ME3 with great anticipation, I even preordered a CE, but I don't really feel like any other franchise that's currently in development there will be interesting for me at all.
If it is falling in quality then its better to have it happen now because the longer it takes to have a few bad games, the worst the bad games are going to be.
Skyrim, The Witcher 2, Battlefield 3 if you're into that kind of thing.Bhaalspawn said:
I realize they will be adding content in the next months but there are plenty of level 50 characters already that may be bored out of their skulls by the time it comes out. In today's market I wouldn't release a game without a few months of endgame content already on the discs.
Fair enough, but I curse all the time. THe first game didn't really have any profanity that I recall, so the second game suddenly throwing it in felt less like "realism" and more awkward and stilted.Scars Unseen said:
As far as Shepard killing a Reaper, they could have done it in a way that wasn't ridiculous. Shooting at a giant Iron Maiden stage prop was silly. Besides, I don't understand this notion that ever game needs a "boss fight" Then again, I'm more concerned with an interesting story than combat. *shrug*