Poll: Dragon Age: Origins or Mass Effect?
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Mass Effect, partly because I like the shooting mechanic, partly because I don't care for the style in Dragon Age, and partly because fantasy doesn't do anything for me, but future sci-fi stuff is my kind of thing.
Well, the fact that you have a party in both games kind of masks the fact that the combat style and its relationship with your 'team' in each game is influenced by two different traditions. Mass Effect draws more from the tactical team based shooter genre (the only game I've played that is similar was that brilliant Star Wars clone commando shooter, but I believe there are some games with Tom Clancy slapped on the front too) where you give general commands to your friends but don't 'jump' into their body.jthm said:
DA:O on the other hand, draws more from the D&D tradition where you do have a party whose body you can jump into and give detailed commands for, drawing from the Black Isle games and Obsidian's NWN2. The two traditions are completely different and have separate goals in mind, you shouldn't try to compare them directly.
Personally, I like ME's system more because you stay more in touch with your central character and he/she doesn't become just another person you're controlling. I had this problem a bit in DA:O where I was spending most of my time controlling Morrigan because I had to micromanage her spells and I sort of lost touch with my main character. In NWN2, it was even worse because you had a party of 5 or 6 waltzing around with you. No such danger in ME, which is good because it brings you closer to the Shepherd you create.
Are you actually saying all fantasy is the same whereas all Sci-Fi is different? Because Mass Effect is just as cliche and overdone a setting as Dragon Age (well almost it's a very generic setting but DA:O raises the bar for genericness).SomeBritishDude said:
Dragon Age. I actually gave a damn about things in that, compared to the thoroughly insipid "Look! More proof that Saren is evil and the Reapers are returning!" "...We'd LIKE to believe you, but the plot demands that we tell you to fuck off until you've done four more planets' worth of missions."
ME, am actually thinking of upgrading my computer so i can play ME2,
Dragon age was good but was to start-stop combat and the main story was to long for my liking.
Now Mass Effect has good story (like DA:O, universe/world going to hell, you're the only one that can stop it) had a short story if you didnt want to develope the characters/side quests, the DLC mission/update was free, it had flashing lights (guns), forcelike powers (singularity/throw/lift
), semi-fluid combat (if you weren't changing skills/weapons), average cover system and A CONTROVERSIAL SEX SCENE, also if you had a male character, you could answer when 2 women are fighting over who you like more "cant i have you both" or something along those lines.
Dragon age was good but was to start-stop combat and the main story was to long for my liking.
Now Mass Effect has good story (like DA:O, universe/world going to hell, you're the only one that can stop it) had a short story if you didnt want to develope the characters/side quests, the DLC mission/update was free, it had flashing lights (guns), forcelike powers (singularity/throw/lift
), semi-fluid combat (if you weren't changing skills/weapons), average cover system and A CONTROVERSIAL SEX SCENE, also if you had a male character, you could answer when 2 women are fighting over who you like more "cant i have you both" or something along those lines.
Of coarse not, but I wouldn't say Mass Effect is anywhere near as cliche as Dragon Age.Axolotl said:
The Mass Effect universe is popilated by original and interested aliens and worlds, all of which have a fully developed back story that I want to know about.
Where as with Dragon Age...I really don't want to hear about the history of the Dwarfs, because minus or plus a few details I've heard it all before. If Mass Effect contained exactly the same races from Star Wars except from different planets people would call them out on it.
That isn't to say Dragon Age's story is bad and Mass Effects is completely original, because neither are true. I was just more interested in the Mass Effect universe.
I payed for a full game and got half of a game with Mass effect.
I like the futuristic setting, rather unique. But it was half-assed in a lot of non-setting areas.
Mass effect is okay. But I had more fun with Dragon Age.
And Dragon Age has a fantastic toolset.
And the game was a good 60+ hours long. And I liked it.
It has been a LONG LONG time since I have gotten a game I played for that long before I beat it or got bored of replaying it for the millionth time by hour 60.
I like the futuristic setting, rather unique. But it was half-assed in a lot of non-setting areas.
Mass effect is okay. But I had more fun with Dragon Age.
And Dragon Age has a fantastic toolset.
And the game was a good 60+ hours long. And I liked it.
It has been a LONG LONG time since I have gotten a game I played for that long before I beat it or got bored of replaying it for the millionth time by hour 60.
Never played either one, but I've heard a lot of good things about DA:O so if I had to pick which one I'd like to try more, it would be that.
I gotta say I like both equally. I think they are both great games, though I played Mass Effect first so I do lean a tad bit more to that side.
