Poll: Dragon Age: Origins or Mass Effect?

[Naughty MrPeeps]

I was just pondering to myself, which game would the escapist forum prefer out of these two.

I have heard that Dragon Age is preferred now by many gamers. But, I still think, since it was one of the first games available on the 360, Mass Effect deserves a higher score.

8/10

 

[WillSimplyBe]

why can I not have both? I have both... and enjoy both in different ways.

I guess if I have to choose, I'd say Mass Effect, the ending is more satisfying.

 

[reg42]

Both are excellent games. Dragon Age has a more fufilling story and it's much longer.
But it ultimately comes down to whether you're looking for an ARPG or a traditional RPG.

 

[AlphaOmega]

We'all folk don take kindly to yer versus topics 'round here.

So let us solve this with the only good answer in this situation: Baldurs Gate 2
(Oh and Both for me, ME for instant fun and DA for satisfaction)

 

[Darktau]

Dragon age = Traditional Fantasy RPG
Mass effect = Futuristic Fantasy RPG

Take your pick

I've got both

 

[reg42]

Mass Effect is also very cheap now so that might be worth thinking about.

 

[oliveira8]

Dragon Age combat is actually good. There's also no Mako. Dragon Age it is.

 

[JoshGod]

mass effect = better story & graphics (by far graphis as for story its just the same but not as good set in medieval setting)
gameplay= roughly equal

as for the 2 year gap.

although you have to consider most of the effort is put into ME2 not DA

its still ME

 

[Knight Templar]

Thats a very hard decision to make. So I'll cheat and say both, your poll be damned!

 

[Jedamethis]

I'll have to play Mass Effect before I recommend one...

 

[Elesar]

Well Bioware is incapable of making a bad game so,,,
Both.

 

[Jaranja]

Mass Effect was boring. Dragon Age wins.

 

[Spectrum_Prez]

Eh, Dragon Age's combat was interesting but broke the flow of the gameplay. Mass Effect's combat was well designed and intuitive, if a little easy, and it didn't bring the game to a complete halt everytime you entered a room.

Mass Effect also wins out on graphics as well as art design. Dragon Age had functional graphics and an occasionally annoying camera with really quite generic art design.

Story-wise, Dragon Age is a little better. It also had far better side-quests.

They're quite even, but I gave the edge to ME just because it was more ambitious.

 

[_Janny_]

Both are excellent games. Dragon Age has a more fufilling story and it's much longer.

Pretty much sums it up for me. I felt like ME's main story was waay too short and without that much atmosphere.

 

[jthm]

Eh, Dragon Age's combat was interesting but broke the flow of the gameplay. Mass Effect's combat was well designed and intuitive, if a little easy, and it didn't bring the game to a complete halt everytime you entered a room.

Mass Effect also wins out on graphics as well as art design. Dragon Age had functional graphics and an occasionally annoying camera with really quite generic art design.

Story-wise, Dragon Age is a little better. It also had far better side-quests.

They're quite even, but I gave the edge to ME just because it was more ambitious.

I'd say you make a good case for ME except for the fact that you have almost NO control over your party members, whereas in DAO you have complete control if you want it, or you can set up a list of instructions to tell them how to behave. This alone gives DAO a nudge over ME in my opinion.

 

[jthm]

Dragon Age combat is actually good. There's also no Mako. Dragon Age it is.

Agreed. No stupid vehicle with wonky controls in DAO makes it the clearcut winner upon review.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

Mass Effect- it's an all around awesome game from beginning to finish with only a few very minor flaws, whereas Dragon Age Origins is good, but has several flaws holding it back, among them the fact that it has a schizophrenic difficulty level.

Buy Mass Effect, if you're a fan of sci-fi or RPGs; I guarantee you will not regret it.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Mass Effect.

I wanted to love Dragon Age. I really did. But honestly I played it for about a week nearly 2 months ago and since then I haven't touched it. Maybe it just became to difficult, but most probably it was because I just find the whole Elf/Dwarf/Human fantasy realm...well...boring. I used to love it back in my Warhammer days when I was 13 but that was then, this is now. And now I've just seen it too many times to count it always comes down to the same tired clinches.

I never feel that with Sci-Fi. With Sci-Fi anything and everything can happen, and each variation on it manages to be complete different from the other. There's miles of difference between Doctor Who and Star Trek, even though they both deal with space travel and finding new worlds. Where as the difference between Lord of the Rings and the Warhammer Universe...the differences are there, but mainly in atmosphere more than anythin else.

Also it feels to me that Dragon Age was thrown out there for the old school types, which is apsolutely fine but to be honest, it did feel very old school at times, and not in the good way. There were also little details that annoyed me, like the lack of the innotive dialogue system in Mass Effect, something which I wish they'd have taken on to all their projects, as it seems like the best way to do things. Plus while the AI wasn't as dumb as Mass Effects (something I hope to god they tieded up when they re did the combat system) the combat did seem to come down to the same cluster fucks ME did when all the enemys ran at you from behind cover, except all the time.

Mass Effect at least incorporates innovations. Dragon Age relies on nostalgic elements.

This. Though I would like to see the ability to decide what my team mates do in Mass Effect 2.