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I don't feel I need a brand new personality in every book or video game I play. I liked Baldur's Gate and I like their new games. I believe ToR will shine a light on this like no one can believe. How do I change the story as best suits ME.
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Does this person live or die? I will deal with the consequences later for this action. The choose your own adventure type of play is about as close as you can come to actually carving your own story. In a story driven game, there needs to be goals. Jaheira and Mynx and Boo and company had the same thing going on. So I feel it's unfair that you praise that, but then dislike the bitchy sorceress, or the good rougue guy. Every npc party character has their personality, even way back with baldur's gate. but at the same time, they left key points in their games that identified with their old style. Bioware (from a business perspective) had to try the linear thing. Big explosions and dumb looking robots make millions more than an amazing story. The classic rpgs don't do anywhere near what they used to. The other thing you have to think of in terms of archtypes and choose your own adventures is, look at the market now compared to then. I can't think of anything they did that I didn't find enjoyment in. I think bioware is pretty much gold personally. I'm curious as to what you mean by create our own stories in the games. I find a lot of their RPG's, tradtional or no, very fun. In general though, I love Bioware's writing. In the end, I'll still play Dragon Age 2, and I'll probably end up liking it still. I like more options, but I understand why they do the things they do, at the end of the day they're looking for their profit. I will agree though, I was kind of upset to see them make Dragon Age 2 similar to Mass Effect in the way that you just play Hawke, but it's not my game. Less complication and less requirement to understand how the class and battle system works. The traditional RPG that we all knew and love is changing because the playerbase is changing. Dragon Age, and now Dragon Age 2 is the effect of Bioware getting with the times. A game where you take the role as Commander Shepard, and save the universe.Ī lot of the changes you see now, i.e. Do not expect Mass Effect to be like those. Mass Effect was Bioware branching out and trying something different than their games like Baldur's Gate/NWN/Kotor. Are we not allow to create our own stories in RPGs more? This translated much onto Dragon Age: Origins, the last Bioware game I actually played with some glimmer of enjoyment without seeing the gameplay only slightly changed, and the characters the same old characters with a new coat of paint.Īnother thing I dislike about their direction is the lack of true choice of roleplay in their games, Mass Effect being the first example of this, you played as shepard, not your own character, and the game is basically a choose your own adventure book about him, not a write your own story about your character, I did enjoy the portreal and the game itself showed a very nice universe, and I saw Dragon Age rgins was not like that, as to quote Bioware themselves, it was more of a spiritual sequel to Baldur's Gate.īut then I saw Dragon Age 2, and it leaves a very sick feeling in the pit of my stomach as a die-hard RPG fan. Transfering from KoTOR 1 and 2 I saw that Mass Effect was practically the same without the old republic setting, characters taking up the same archtypal roles like "Good rogue guy" or "Bitchy magic user woman." They're games start to feel the same blend of characters and class archtypes with little variation. Greetings MMO-Champion, I was once a very avid RPG fan, I used to play Neverwinter Nights, baldur's gate, spellforce and tons of other old style RPG games, and at that time I especially enjoyed games from Bioware Corp.īut ever since Mass Effect, I feel they have gone down hill, and quite frankly, are not making the same quality games as they used to.