The better Bioware RPG?

[bojackx]

I've never played Mass Effect before, but I have played Dragon Age, and from the 30 minutes I sat there playing it I thought it was terrible. The combat is dull and the characters aren't at all believable. I've not played it since then, cost me £20 too. So even though I've never played Mass Effect, I'd still heavily recommend it over Dragon Age.

 

[Trolldor]

Twenty minutes? So, not even past the prologue?

 

[The Wykydtron]

Dragon Age Origins. Mass Effect was superior to DA:O but ME 2 is just a FPS basically. The NPCs are there and some are cool but in DA:O are much more defined and have way more lines.

I didn't play them on PS3 (I'm mostly a PC gamer) so I can only express it from that point of view but I really couldn't call ME2 an RPG (which is what you wanted). (I may be lynched for this opinion however)

I agree. ME2 ws a TPS just with dialouge.
DAO however was a pure rpg, much bettter for replay value.

O RLY? *cough* Well dialogue is basically the only reason i play Bioware games and i really hated the shuffling towards enemies taking turns to kick each others shins gameplay of DA:O so ME2 had way more replay value to me.

"obligatory but everyone has opinions speech goes here"

 

[Xaositect]

Get Dragon Age Origins, since its actually an RPG, not just a glorified Gears Clone. Dont listen to anyone in denial about the game, its just almost a complete barage of constant cover shooter combat (never mind "haters gonna hate", how about "shitbrains gonna shitbrain" when they try and deny that the game is just all take cover/shoot enemy/return to cover).

Dragon Age has a lot more variety to it. Youll visit lots of areas where there are many things to do, in many different ways.

In ME2, youll either visit linear shooting galleries, or linear "shopping malls" designed to shepherd the player between said shooting galleries.

 

[meowchef]

They're both incredible.

Dragon Age Origins is an old-school tactical RPG.

Mass Effect 2, contrary to some people's beliefs, is just as much an RPG as the first game. The weapon inventory has been moved to the ship and the armor selection actually consists of selecting different pieces of armor instead of the same armor over and over with different textures.

Also, smoothing out the combat to not be mediocre is a good thing folks...

 

[faspxina]

Although both are great (I played DA:O on ps3 and I loved it), Mass Effect 2 is probably more console friendly.

Here are the main differences:

DA:O
- fantasy setting
- tactical rpg combat (pc friendly)
- highly customizable protagonist
- silent protagonist

ME2
- sci fi setting
- third person shooter combat (console friendly)
- less customizable protagonist
- voiced protagonist