Carl2291 said:
You need to play it on PC. It's far superior to the console version simply because of the top-down view. That's all I'm going to say about your complaints there. They are changing the battle system because of the console crowd, and the fact that the console versions have outsold the PC version. On the PC, the battle system has pretty much no flaws, although I can see why you dislike it if you've only played it on consoles. But if you think having to work out some complex strategies is boring in battle then, well... I don't know what to say. You just adopt a Vanguard strategy and run in with a shotgun... ------- Sten could be matched up pretty well to Mordin then come to think about it. He's reluctant to talk to you about his people at first but then when he starts to trust you, he opens up more. He tells you about his people and the ways they have. Maybe not as complex as Mordin, but you still have that history. Same goes for Leilana. She tells you about her past and how life was in Orlais . Infact, you learn a whole bunch of stuff from each and every character. I'm also going to say that characters have a different opinion on you depending on your race/class. Something Mass Effect doesn't really have, while Oblivion does. And you have a cast in Oblivion. You don't have a group travelling with you... But you DO have a cast. And pretty much every character you meet is emotionless. Literally hundreds of characters who are all stone faced and lack any sort of depth in story or voice. The fact that you say it doesn't have a cast of characters says all that's needed to be said. -------- Mass Effect's world has been created over the span of 3 Games, 3 Novels and 3 Comics. Dragon Age has so far had 1 single game, 2 Novels and 1 comic. Of course the world isn't going to be as complex to look at or read about. But when you're actually playing... You can go to many more places. Not just "scan" for minerals like in the case of Mass Effect 2. You can enter random homes, do numerous sidequests, pickpocket an entire marketplace... Etc. There's plenty of things to do, and plenty of choices that affect the game, the final battle and how people interact with you throughout the game. ------ Your round-up. I simply think your opinion on WRPG's sucks. And KotoR is pointless in this topic as it's probably only second to Baldur's Gate... And was a last gen game. |
ITs not a matter of a character having a back story, the back story should be interesting. The Mass Effect characters had interesting back stories, especially those in ME2 (Jack, The Assassin, Mordin and more). Just because Leliana and Sten have back stories doesn't mean they are interesting ones because while Leliana's was pretty decent as orlais sounded good, Sten's back story was meh.
And Oblivion doesn't have a cast of characters, I see a cast of characters as those you are with you through most of the game, the people you get to know and hopefully care about.
Oblivion has supporting characters, but not a main cast.
And lets pretend ME2 doesn't exist for a second, even ME1's world was more interesting than Dragon Age's through reading about it, and I have read no novels you speak about.
entering random homes and stealing things isn't really "fun", doing side quests is if they are good like in Oblivion, in Dragon age they are pretty meh. In Oblivion the events that happen in side quests are extremely fun......and to do a side quest you need to like a battle system, if the battle system is boring your motivation to do the side quest will go down anyway. In fact talking about variety.......Oblivion pretty much has Dragon Age beat there.
And ME1/2 had several side quests, but no you couldn't go into homes and steal stuff, thankfully.......and plenty of choices affect things in ME1/2 as well, in fact choices made in ME1 affect ME2. I'm not sure if we will see that in Dragon Age. And scanning was only a bit less boring than Dragon Age's battle ssytem, so its fine 
The fact is Bioware is making so many changes tell us they have realised changes need to be made to Dragon Age because they themselves know now there were key problems with it.
If you think Oblivion or ME1/2 is worse than Dragon Age then our feelings on each others WRPG tastes is mutual.
