Dragon Age 2 is s badly done compared to Mass Effect 2

[taiwwa]

Both games came out at roughly the same time.

But Mass Effect 2 is so much a better game. They manage to make the loading screens tolerable and fit into the game world fiction of interstellar travel, while in DA2 the loading screens are so very obvious.

And ME2 doesn't recycle environments like DA2 does.

But the biggest thing? The f'ing overhead map. ME2 has no overhead map visible during normal play. This is a good thing. DA2 has an overhead map visible all the time and you can't turn it off.

 

[RJ 17]

Wow, a complaint thread about DA 2? Thought these things went the way of the dinosaurs.

It's unfair to compare the two games because, while both were made by Bioware, they were made by 2 completely different teams. I'm not going to defend DA 2 because there's plenty of mechanical issues with that game, I'll simply point out that it's a game based more around its story rather than its actual gameplay. I think this was an experiment by the developement team to try out a new format of story telling.

 

[Zhukov]

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Someone's watch is a year slow.

 

[taiwwa]

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Someone's watch is a year slow.

lol. Games are cheaper this way

It is kind of striking just how sparse DA2's environments are compared to ME2, and how little care seems to have been put into its game world.

At the same time, the fighting engine is fantastic IMO. But overall there just seems to have been far less care taken in crafting it.

Last straw? The stupid GPS overhead map is not present in ME2, because a designer for the game rightly recognized that it was a bad idea. But in DA2, this medieval fantasy game, there is an overhead map ever present that ruins immersion in the world.

 

[DoPo]

Didn't you create a thread a while ago praising DA2 on how much better it is than DA:O? So should I take it that DA2 is only worse compared to a different game but not to the one it's in the same series as?

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Mass Effect and Dragon Age have different development teams. And the guy responsible for the awesomeness of Origins (Brent Knowles) left Bioware BECAUSE he knew DA2 would suck.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/6513047/1

Also, THE SHAME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMcVZQI6ybw

Corporate greed is the real reason why we can't have nice things anymore.

 

[taiwwa]

Didn't you create a thread a while ago praising DA2 on how much better it is than DA:O? So should I take it that DA2 is only worse compared to a different game but not to the one it's in the same series as?

Yeah, DA2 is still better than DA:O

but when you play ME2 and realize how well-done that game is, then the rush job of DA2 becomes apparent.

Another thing: you can see visible aliasing problems in DA2 while they do not exist in ME2. Like, the weird scan line thing

 

[vrbtny]

How Bioware deals with complaints about its games included below.


OT : Seriously? Didn't we already do this thread like a dozen times? Like... a dozen months ago? Like.... a dozen times?

ME2 was meh, and DA2 I ain't played so no comment. All I can say is that if DA2's environments were less detailed and cluttered than ME2's, where the hell were they? Space?

 

[80Maxwell08]

Didn't you create a thread a while ago praising DA2 on how much better it is than DA:O? So should I take it that DA2 is only worse compared to a different game but not to the one it's in the same series as?

Yeah I remember that now too. I swear this guy is just running around trying to troll as many people as he can. Oh nice even in his last posts one of them is in his other post talking about how good DA2 is.

 

[tyler.h89]

Didn't you create a thread a while ago praising DA2 on how much better it is than DA:O? So should I take it that DA2 is only worse compared to a different game but not to the one it's in the same series as?

Yeah, DA2 is still better than DA:O

but when you play ME2 and realize how well-done that game is, then the rush job of DA2 becomes apparent.

Another thing: you can see visible aliasing problems in DA2 while they do not exist in ME2. Like, the weird scan line thing

I would have to disagree with that. DA:O was much better than DA2.

The only arguable "improvement" upon DA:O was the combat system and to be honest I'm not sure if it was really much of an upgrade.

Story was weaker, areas were way overused and pretty much everything was less engaging than DA:O