BioWare: Is the Wii Actually Gaming?

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I should also like to add that BioWare has a deplorable tendency to DROWN their games in narrative.

Sorry to quote Zero Punctuation, but game dialogue should be succinct and punchy, not swimming with piles and piles of useless information which has little relevance to anything you're doing in the game or ever WILL do in the game.

And BioWare claiming the title of "best western RPG developer" is laughable because there really isn't much for competition, is there? (Bethesda, and?) I played Baldur's Gate II for as long as I could before the game became so sidetracked with random quests and bullshit that I completely forgot what the main story even WAS.

And let's talk about Mass Effect's so-called "gameplay": it was horrible. Aside from the fact that they stripped out the much-needed ability to freeze the action and direct your teammates to specific locations, the combat itself is clunky and cumbersome, your teammate AI is absolutely worthless, and the only weapon you should ever bother using is the sniper rifle. Most of the time, I either told my teammates to get the hell out of the way while I handled everything or I sent them in as meat shields.

The point is, BioWare complaining about the Wii is completely predictable because the Wii is trying to push the limits of gameplay and BioWare wouldn't know decent gameplay if it bit them in the ass.

But as was mentioned earlier, narrative and story have been done well before the advent of optical media, mainly in games like Chrono Trigger and FF6/US3, Fire Emblem on the NES, etc., etc.

Which leads us to our final point: BioWare is whining for the sake of whining, which I don't really understand, unless the interviewee never had his mother tell him "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."