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1337 Gamer on 13 December 2009

mass effect 2 hands down.



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Kasz216 on 13 December 2009

I'd go FF13. I wasn't a big mass effect fan. Though i like shooter RPGs.



dobby985 on 13 December 2009

Mass Effect 2, I can't wait!



Mr. sickVisionz on 13 December 2009

ME2.

I plan on buying XIII on day one but I've never played a Final Fantasy game so I don't know what i'm missing. I know what i'm missing if I don't play ME2 though. Plus, ME and Bio-Ware games in general have a very story driven style that I find similar to how JRPGs are structured so ME2 will probably be able to scratch both genres at once.

Wow @ the guy who said Bio-Ware was a mediocre developer

Another wow @ the guy saying KOTOR2 was a cookie cutter copy of KOTOR1.  Have you played KOTOR2?  The characters and story of those two games are like opposite ends of the spectrum imo.  To me it felt like Obsidian decided that rather than trying to out Bio-Ware Bio-Ware, they were going to take the game down a decidely different path.  Whether you love that path like me or you think they made a wrong turn, I don't know how you can say one is a cookie cutter copy of the other.



Notorius.A.i.G on 13 December 2009

All about FF13.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 14 December 2009
Jumpin said:

FF13 very easily. Simply put, Mass Effect will be forgotten in 2 years, but Final Fantasy 13 will be a timeless classic.


Are you serious? Do you actually expect anyone with half a brain in the gaming world to think that Mass Effect isn't a timeless classic? ME had so many flaws you could write a list about it easily and it still walked off with 9.0's and RPG of the year 2007.  Mind you, lost Odyssey came out the same year and that was a great RPG with less technical problems. Still to this day it's one of the most successful JRPG's. I finished Lost Odyssey way faster than I ever did Mass Effect. Mass Effect quite simply put is the most epic game of this generation. No gamer has ever surpassed it and the fact that you control the triology makes its dominance even apparent.



S.T.A.G.E. on 14 December 2009
sapient said:
I would say go for FF13 since ME2 is going to be more borderline esque according to the developer (More akin to FPS with RPG trappings).


Mass Effect is an RPG. Definitive. The game is nothing but choice, RPG structure and more. JRPG's are linear. You have HP and MP which eventually has to recharge itself if you're biotic. Mass Effect has cover shooting. FPS=First person shooter. Mass Effect isn't an FPS game and most RPG's that I know of are in third person just like Mass Effect.



S.T.A.G.E. on 14 December 2009
Opa-Opa said:
Though I prefer JRPGs, I'd go with Mass Effect 2. XIII, I don't believe, is going to be as revolutionary as everyone thinks.


What console RPG this gen do you know where you can effect the world could you bring over that world into the new game untouched? That is revolutionary.



S.T.A.G.E. on 14 December 2009
Khuutra said:
Mummelmann said:
ramses01 said:
Rei said:
First ME was a dissapointment and Bioware has become a very mediocre developer this gen. They cant put out a good game anymore like they did 5+ years ago.

So FFXIII obviously, but I'd have a hard time choosing between FFXIII and say, The Witcher 2.


What the hell are you talking about.  ME is easily the best game this gen and rivals the best of all time.

FFXIII really has no shot in this comparision except for jRPG fanatics.  don't get me wrong, I think FF is going to be fantastic and is a day 1 purchase for me, but I have seen nothing to indicate that it is in ME's class (pun intended).

You really have trouble differentiating between opinion and cold hard fact, don't you? I think the majority of the board would disagree with your sentiment (and his for that matter). If you compare ME to Baldur's Gate (among the most beloved PC games of all time) you'll find that ME is... not that exceptional to most who have been doing this for a while.

I liked Dragon Age as well but I feel that its a step down from Neverwinter Nights II so I also believe that Bioware have lost a little something along the way (and I don't like their "consoleification" of their games either, makes the PC versions less than they could be, as is the case with ME).

Now that's not entirely fair.

NWN2 was Obsidian, and they're better than BioWare


Obsidian is better than Bioware? Yeah....I dare you to put up Alpha Protocol up against Mass Effect 2. Both will be great, but Mass Effect is worlds beyond Alpha Protocol from where I am standing. Both are better than most JRPG's coming out next year.



Darc Requiem on 14 December 2009

Mass Effect 2. In the last 12 years the only Final Fantasy games I've liked are FFIX and FFX. Over the same period I've liked every Bioware RPG I've played.