Small niche games Mass Effect and Dragon Age, which only sold a handful of millions. When will nerds start realizing they were always a marketable target demographic
Also, saying Larian “picked up” the formula after BioWare “abandoned” it is patently wrong. They have been making these games for as long as BioWare
No one remembers divinity 2 ego draconis and it’s a damn shame, would love to see larian remake this title.
They need to remake everything before Divinity Original Sin. I’m playing Divine Divinity and it has been the most painful experience just getting the game to display properly. It doesn’t have a proper settings menu with graphics options like resolution or windowed/full screen modes so you’re just fighting with the ConfigTool to get it working.
Dragon Age sold well but it was totally unexpected. People thought CRPGs were dead, and then EA tried to make sure of that with Dragon Age II. Mass Effect arguably killed Bioware by giving them the idea that they could pick up more fans if they just made action games with dialog trees. I’m in the minority but that series got worse and worse in my opinion.
You’re in the minority, but you’re also correct.
The quality of Mass Effect 1 and DA: Origins came from how polished their stories were. The gameplay was the weakest point of both games. Don’t get me wrong, I liked playing them, but they do not hold up. Then, or now.
Both Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2 experienced the exact same quality shift. Less quality on the story side, better gameplay. In DA 2’s case, they might as well have handed the writing off to the interns.
It only got worse after this. We all remember red explosion, blue explosion or green explosion at the end of ME3. DA Inquisition existed, the multiplayer was fun (and similarly the only fun thing, to me, in ME3).
I played every mass effect in a row like a year ago and honestly the gameplay is still good. It’s nothing really that involved and it’s definitely a lot more interesting by Andromeda. But the original was still good honestly.
I liked it. You liked it. I still think Origins is fun.
However, there’s a reason the gameplay shifted from what it was to where it ended. Many people thought both ME1 and DA:O were bad, gameplay-wise. It’s just sad that the story got fucked in the process.
Did anyone think mass effect one was bad? Rudimentary maybe but bad?
