Which company makes better western rpgs: Bethesda or Bioware?

[SHMUPGurus]

pbroy said:

Nick said:

SHMUPGurus said:

Jo21 said:
it's like choosing from bush and reagan all over again.

i choose bethesda

i puke at the sound of someone saying mass effect.

Please enlighten me. Why is Mass Effect so bad? Because it's not on the PS3?

 

I think Bioware is still better, but I agree with his view on mass effect.  It was a decent game with so many flaws that it's not anywhere as amazing as most people make it out to be.  The only time it's not completely and insanely repetitive is if you only play the main story and that by itself is very short.  None of the planets are original.  They all have the same "dungeons" and all of the bad guys are in the exact same rooms.  They're all the same bland rock with some color changes and none of them had any life whatsoever.  They should have just left half of the planets out of the game if they didn't want to really create new ones.  Instead they just took shortcuts left and right which really destroyed the quality of their product.  The gravity is always the exact same and driving is a bitch.  The game is full of really bad filler (to make up for it's shortness) and is glitchy as hell.

The game is still an excellent game, but I don't understand why people think a game with so many issues is such a masterpiece. 

 

And for christ's sake someone tell me how one of the fastest ships in the universe could have the slowest elevator in existence?  Did they really need to do that for loading in that tiny ass ship?

I doubt that he's even played the game.

OT: Bioware is better than Bethesda. Lionhead is better than both.

What makes it so great is the story if you want my humble opinion. It is very well executed outside of side quests, and that's exactly what BioWare are known for.

Honestly, I thought it reminded me a lot of Star Trek with all the different cultures, races, the Alliance (like the Federation for Earth), etc. That's one of the reasons why I thought that the story was going to be awesome because everything made sense. We also get a great view of how the political affairs take place in the not-so-distant future! I thought the story was very well-written and the gameplay was plain awesome , if not repetitive (even though there were some frame-drops). If you can get through Assassin's Creed, this game is nothing! xD
 
By the way, the ending was just too epic, especially when you have invested a couple of months in the game like me (school was killing me). The last hours just get better! I always thought "Oh, this is how it all ends? Hmmm, ok..." but then other things start and stuff, etc. Let's just say I haven't been so proud to watch the credits of a game in my entire life (and the music was pretty good, it matched the style)!