4 years of nothing

The interactive elements presented in their games are bland, uninteresting and creatively bankrupt.

Now you might answer this with the typical, "Well they focus more on their narrative", but after their last few games, the writers seem to come up with pandering poorly written shit.

Anything they made after 2006 wasn't good.(2007 if you really liked Mass Effect even though it was pretty mediocre)

Baldur's gate, Neverwinter Nights and KotoR were enjoyable though.
/opinions

Ridiculous, the mass effect series had spectacular story elements ,character depth/development(mordin solus, Garrus Vakarian), spectacular voice acting and over all well developed game play which was marred only by a poorly written ending which could have been soooo much more. The Dragon Age series was also has a ridiculously rich world which provides some top quality entertainment. While Dragon Age 2 was a disappointment I do want to point out that was due to EA forcing the product out the door right after take over, but Dragon Age Origins(released in 2009) was a top quality RPG and is one of the staples of the genre, only the Witcher 2 could be said to be a better quality RPG in recent generations.

If your argument is that ME3 was bad it can only be backed up by the ridiculous re-write ending that they threw together, the rest of the game had the epic moments and amazing dialogue that bioware is known for. I also want to point out that the story behind The Old Republic is also compelling and really deserves some credit.

2 disappointing games should not qualify as shit, otherwise everyone would qualify in kind.

The real reason everyone hated on them as hard as they did was because they let people down, they created series/games that people fell for only to let them down. Expectations have to be high for someone to let you down.

Nigga, even though EA raped Bioware, bee dub cranked out ME1 and DAO before EA could assume full control. Everything after that was blatantly casualized garbage, because EA wanted to "appeal to a wider audience," which means dumbing-down the game so that even the downers waar victimizes with his cane wielding droogies in canuckville can enjoy headshotting aliens with whatever working motor functions the droogs graciously allowed them to keep. Combat wasn't the real focus of ME1. The first couple of hours spent running around the citadel are arguably some the best you'll spend in the game. Characters, narrative and lots of talking. That's what ME1 was about. The sci-fi setting and space exploration aspect made the game reminiscent of Star Trek. ME2 implemented babby's first rpg mechanics and started evolving into gears of war (and Bioware never pressed B to stop it). Fewer missions, shit space exploration, a nonsensical last boss and worthless plot (i.e., at the end of ME1 the reapers were coming; at the end of ME2 the reapers were coming). The only redeeming quality was the new characters. ME3 tried to be more like ME1 but still managed to fuck everything up. There were fewer dialogue choices, chobot was there, the plot was raped, space exploration was reduced to farting in solar systems and running away from any reapers who came to relish the scent, the game completed its evolution into gears of war, it was polished by a spiky dildo made of diamond, day 1 dlc, Tali's face, babby's first rpg mechanics leveled up, space magic, and "we hoped you liked the game, now buy dlc pls."

ToR was such a fuck-up they made it F2P.



Good thing that won't happen again. I'll be so glad when Inquisition turns out to be the casualized shitpile EA will force it to be, but on the off chance it turns out to be good, I get to be pleasantly surprised; win-win.

Commencing bioware dump:

You don't have to have the most complex or over the top combat system. Combat != gameplay
There are several ways to tell you of telling or letting you experience a great story. Mass Effect 1 wasn't terrible by most standards, it was just seemed unexceptional.


EA did managed to fuck over a lot of devs though.

I just heard about what they did to Dungeon Keeper, and jeez are they disgusting.

Going to argue Bioware under EA is not the Bioware that produced the best games in the RPG format. Their values and goals have changed from making the best RPG's possible to making RPG's everyone will like.

I don't agree with rbz that ME2 was bad but it's clear it was getting away from traditional RPG(it was never supposed to be).

Apparently I'm not apathetic or a misanthrope. I'm a "Machiavellian Sadists".

You found your true self

I'm sorry.

Hwut?

FYI, my epeen is still huge.

Sure.

You're alive?

I'm a puppet that wishes he was a real boy.

do we really die? literally no one has an answer to what happens to the 'self' once we die.

Do we go somewhere else?
Do we Deteriorate along with the body?
Do we even get answers to anything after this game is over?
Its a long wait to experience a peaceful nights sleep

lol