[:plant:] Epic Western RPG battle

I have it on very good authority that Bioware is getting the shit beat out of them because of The Old Republic MMO. "Expect greater oversight from EA" on forthcoming Bioware games was the word. This may be why theres a continued "playing down" of RPG elements in ME; to make it more accessable to non-RPG playing doofuses.

I straight-out blame Dragon Age for this failure. Dragon Age and ME both are nothing more than Lovecraft re-writes (giant ancient evil comes back to enslave humanity, no one believes them, in the ME universe they're literally GIANT TENTICLE MONSTERS FROM OUTSIDE OF SPACE and one of the ships is named Hugo Gernsback, who was one of Lovecraft's publishers, etc) but DA is just a dismal failure because not only did it come out immedeately following ME but its the same fucking story. Yes, all Bioware games are generally the same but this was note for note. The combat system is barely touched. And then DA2 was a gigantic fucking mess I heard - all the dungeons look the same, etc - and so here we are. One huge property they have to dumb down and its retarded kid sister who follows it everywhere.

Fallout 3 was great fun but its as much of an RPG as Paperboy on NES. New Vegas I don't even know how to talk about oh god.

And fuck KOTOR. I played them both. The first one has a story hanging on the laziest cliche plot-twist ever written and the second one, though it tried to do something interesting, spectacularly dies in every way in the last tenth of the game. Lazy fanservice bullshit for jerks.

Basically, unless you're playing with pen and paper, fuck RPGs.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Elegy

I absolutely adored Dragon Age and Mass Effect

Dragon Age was horrible. A complete and total waste of time and money.

HEY YOU ARE THE GREY WARDEN AND HERES SOME MONSTERS YOU HAVE TO FIGHT AND IN THE END YOU HAVE TO DIE AND BLAH BLAH BLAH MORE OF THE SAME.

And then Dragon Age 2 was just fucking garbage. The series is just Mass Effect's retarded little sibling.

There's nowhere I can't reach.