Mass Effect 2 or dragon age conversations

[cheywoodward]

I was wondering what style of conversation people preferred, Mass Effect 2's fully voiced, fast paced ones or dragon ages slower and more text based ones.

I personally feel that Mass Effect 2's conversations make the experience and made ME2 my favorite game of all time (I am slightly depressed knowing I will have to wait for the 3rd one, which doesn't happen often to me) but I think that Dragon Ages conversation system was intended to harken back to a different era in gaming and that with 2 genders and 12 character options it was unfortunately impossible to voice the player characters dialogue

 

[reg42]

It depends. I think they suit the game well in each game, though I wouldn't mind having my character actually talk in DA:O

 

[Cherry Cola]

Well. I do enjoy Shepards voice... But the descriptions of what he is about to say always seem so... vague. I can never be sure if it's supposed to be something mean or nice.

DA:O was more obvious on it.

I think I'm picking Dragon Age.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I haven't played DA:O, but I have seen other people on it, which I feel makes me qualified. I preferred ME2's more natural style, but I do appreciate the attempt at DA:O to try and replicate the Tolkeinesque style, which fits well with the setting I suppose.

 

[Jory]

I would prefer if DA:O had had my character speak.

It got to the point that I didn't even know what my voice sounded like and it confused me as to who was speaking whenever I did say something.

ME is better in that respect, even if I don't find the voice entirely desirable.

 

[Gitty101]

Mass Effect 2's conversation system is one of the best I've ever used. It's nice to have your main character speak (in an RPG) for a change...

 

[Spiner909]

Mass Effect, a thousand times Mass Effect. It's just so much more cinematic.

 

[Irridium]

They both work for me.

I like Mass Effect's fully voiced conversations. But I also like knowing exactly what I'm going to say, a'la Dragon Age.

I can see why they didn't do it for Dragon Age though, they would need like I think 6 differant voice actors?

But like I said, either one works for me.

 

[Virgil]

While Dragon Age has the better gameplay, Mass Effect 2 wins out in terms of story and presentation.

Well. I do enjoy Shepards voice... But the descriptions of what he is about to say always seem so... vague. I can never be sure if it's supposed to be something mean or nice.

In general, when you're picking a response to something, the option that's on the top half of the wheel is nice, the option in the center is neutral, and the option at the bottom is mean.

 

[cheywoodward]

They both work for me.

I like Mass Effect's fully voiced conversations. But I also like knowing exactly what I'm going to say, a'la Dragon Age.

I can see why they didn't do it for Dragon Age though, they would need like I think 6 differant voice actors?

But like I said, either one works for me.

Actually they would need twelve as each origin has 2 genders

 

[Zacharine]

Voiced. It's stupid that you spend millions in creating content and can't even give a few pages worth of lines a voice-over by three or four different persons.

VtM:Redemption did that back in 2000. Every single line, voiced. And it's not like the game lacks dialogue. Silent protagonists, in a world that is supposed to be immersive, dazzle with content, be filled to the brim with people and peasants and merchants and guards yammering about how their nose itches... just makes no sense.

And if it means that every single passerby will stop throwing their generic life-stories at me, all the better. If I'm rescuing a princess, I do not want to hear how her uncles brothers fiancee is jealous of her and masterfully has manipulated the events surrounding the peasants uprising and increase in banditry to cart in assasins to the capitol to take out the guards that surround the princess and then without her guards and advisors present gives in to natural curiosity and leaves the safety of he walls whereupon she was captured.

No, what I want to hear is 'Does it really matter? You get paid, you rescue the princess from unlawful imprisonment and everyone but her uncles brothers fiancee will be happy.'

 

[Baron Crumbly]

Well. I do enjoy Shepards voice... But the descriptions of what he is about to say always seem so... vague. I can never be sure if it's supposed to be something mean or nice.

95% of the conversations in ME2 follow this format:

Top right choice = nice
Middle right = neutral
Bottom right = nasty

Left = Investigate/Intimidate/Persuade (Colour-coded for your convenience)

Edit: didn't see Virgil's post :/

 

[bladeofdarkness]

i liked mass effect 2 more

 

[Irridium]

They both work for me.

I like Mass Effect's fully voiced conversations. But I also like knowing exactly what I'm going to say, a'la Dragon Age.

I can see why they didn't do it for Dragon Age though, they would need like I think 6 differant voice actors?

But like I said, either one works for me.

Actually they would need twelve as each origin has 2 genders

Yes, but say they want to have voices but take the cheap way out, meaning they would have 6 voices. 3 for human, elf, and dwarf male. 3 for human, elf, and dwarf female.

They could just use the same voices for all origins, but like I said, thats probably the cheapest way to do it if they chose to.

 

[Ganthrinor]

I prefer the voiced route in Mass Effect 1 & 2, but at the same time I know that the sheer diversity of main character and dialogue options in DA:O probably limited thier ability to afford getting them all voiced in a reasonable amount of time. There's a SHITLOAD of Main Character dialogue options and you'd need male and female Voice Actors for each race, maybe even each class.

 

[Spectrum_Prez]

I much preferred Mass Effect's wheel system, but the actual lines in DA:O were better written. They had two completely different morality system though, ME has 2 general options while DA:O usually had four.

 

[veloper]

I'd prefer DA:O dialogue, but without the stupid fake-archaic accents.

The ME dialogue wheel is crap.