Poll: Bioware's best franchise

[Sunrider]

Unless Dragon Age 3 turns out to be the best game they ever made by a country mile, I have to vote Mass Effect. I'd say Baldur's Gate, but I could never really get too into it, even when it was new. Sure, I enjoyed it, but not as much as I could have.

 

[rofltehcat]

Would be Star Wars by far if they hadn't ruined everything with SWToR. Should have just done another KotoR

 

[Socius]

Would be Star Wars by far if they hadn't ruined everything with SWToR. Should have just done another KotoR

I agree.
This is also somehting that troubles me with most companies, whenever they decise to build an MMO based on a series of single player games they usually stop making the games the MMO is based on. Instead they will begin to produce expansionspacks for the MMO so they can beat the horse untill it's way beyond dead. I fear this is the future of the elder scrolls just as it was for Warcraft, and seemingly also for the KOTOR series.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Man it's hard to choose really. If I went on my nostalgia I would definitely go for Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights.

On the modern side I would go for Dragon Age over Mass Effect (don't consider this one much of an RPG).

Don't get me wrong, I love and enjoyed all of Bioware's IP's (SWtoR included).

 

[CloudAtlas]

Mass Effect, definitely. One of my all-time favorite games for sure. But I loved Baldur's Gate II too.

The number of people who do not know the horrible truth of Mass Effect (They're all pretty crap in terms of story on a mechanical level) hurts my head...Dragon Age!

I guess I must be one of the ignorant sheep then. One of the many.

 

[Frozengale]

My favorite has always been Jade Empire... but I'm kind of wanting to switch to Dragon Age because I like Dragon Age 2 so much. First Dragon Age was a mess but the second really brought things together. But I think I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Jade Empire.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Definitely Dragon Age. I think i just prefer fantasy setting to sci-fi, but i tried both Mass Effect 1 and DA: Origins at around the same time (about 2 months ago) and i've played through Origins 3 times and i'm almost done with my second playthrough of DA2. Mass Effect on the other hand i still haven't beaten once because the gameplay and story were too uninteresting for me. When i at some point go back to the game i can only hope the pace picks up a bit so i don't feel so bored...

 

[Excelsior789]

Best Bioware franchise- more like best franchise save Fallout, I'd say.
Mass Effect though. Haven't played Dragon's Age but from the gameplay I've seen it looks a little too generic fantasy, and I'm not a huge fantasy fan.
I am on the other hand a huge Mass Effect fan. The third game is probably my second favourite game, and the writing, soundtrack and characters amongst other things are without rival in my opinion.
Let's put it like this- I've never replayed any game other than Mass Effect 2 and 3.

Fallout is developed by Bethesda.

My vote goes to Mass Effect. You can't have an ending controversy THAT big unless people love the franchise.

 

[In Search of Username]

Mass Effect - superior in storyline (would people have been that upset about the ending had the storyline not been so amazing up to that point?), and, in my opinion, in gameplay - I was never into the D&D style thing KOTOR and Dragon Age had going. Disclaimer: I never played BG or NN.

 

[Larcenist]

Baldur's Gate since this is where real gaming begun for me, being born 1991 an all that. That one game that turned you into the gaming nerd you are today will forever hold a special place in your heart.

 

[deathbydeath]

Where the fuck is Jade Empire.

 

[Xarathox]

While Neverwinter Nights isn't exactly a BioWare franchise, seeing as it's a D&D game, I still think it's the best game they've produced to date. I still have my Diamond Edition and I still play the shit out of it when I'm in the mood for dungeon crawling.

 

[Tom_green_day]

Fallout is developed by Bethesda.

I worded myself badly. I meant that in my opinion, Mass Effect was the best franchise of all time save for the fallout franchise.
Although Bethesda only made 1 fallout, other people have made more

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Fallout is developed by Bethesda.

I worded myself badly. I meant that in my opinion, Mass Effect was the best franchise of all time save for the fallout franchise.
Although Bethesda only made 1 fallout, other people have made more

It's very similar to KotOR 1 and Neverwinter Nights 1 as well. Both of the sequels to those two franchises have been developed and created by Obsidian.

Same thing goes for Fallout 3.

 

[00slash00]

baldurs gate only has 13%?! its an older game so i didnt expect it to be first, but i thought it would be significantly higher. well definitely baldurs gate for me. one of my favorite series of all time and probably the game that really ot me in to rpgs. mass effect is my second favorite bioware series though

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights really. So well written and well realised, would love more like that. They went down the "cinematic" route however and I have to admit, did very well for the most part. At least until EA.

 

[Seneschal]

Having recently replayed Baldur's Gate 2, I can testify that it is, in my opinion, BioWare's most intricately crafted and best-paced game. In comparison, most of the other, newer ones (with the exception of DAO, because of its looooong development cycle) feel a bit rushed.

The locations, in particular, are designed with utmost care and given immense flavour, internal diversity and entire lives and ecosystems of their own (I still consider the Irenicus's Dungeon opening as the best tutorial-level ever, the best narrative introduction, and the best-designed level in gaming). I must admit, I felt more for the touching character moments in the Mass Effect trilogy (especially Tuchanka in ME3), but ME never had levels this interesting - in fact they are too often dreary chest-high-wall arenas with pretty skyboxes. I preferred ME1 locations like Noveria and Feros.

 

[Meatspinner]

...Mass Effect is pretty much the most ambitious and fleshed out sci-fi thing for a very long time.

Mass Effect stopped being Sci-Fi once ME2 came out. And even it were, it's certainly not the most "fleshed out" one.

Lots of amazing books out there that aren't D&D in space.

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. I'll show my elitist ass to the door

 

[Raikas]

I voted for Dragon Age, not because it had the best gameplay (I'd have voted for Baldur's Gate for that), or the best universe building (I'd have said ME), but because as franchises go, the DA brand has the best quality tie-in material (I was surpried by how decent the novels and comics were) and because they tried to do something different with the second game (which mostly failed, but I was impressed by the bits that worked).

 

[plugav]

I voted Mass Effect because it was a fresh setting with fresh gameplay. I still can't understand why there aren't any games trying to copy ME.

That said, I've enjoyed both DA games and I've got high hopes for Dragon Age III.