Ok I'll be fair when I played it in 2008, I had fun with it. I also didn't take any long breaks, so it was a good quality game. Sad they included gay relationships. But the mechanics itself were good, no question about it.
Baldur's Gate 1/2, Neverwinter Nights 1, Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age: Origins were more than decent. They were good, easy to recommend to anyone, and worth playing through more than once.
Yours must be using selective memory, on the other hand, because "Passable, but not as good as it had the potential to be" is pretty much how I always felt about Dragon Age: Origins.
An americano is a coffee with extra water. I don't think that Anthem is a cRPG with extra real time combat. You are just drinking water from a cup that used to have coffee in it. Maybe it wasn't washed, and you are getting a bit of that flavour remains.
If we want to keep the timeline correct NWN 1 was the first major decline. It was shit smeared all over. The only redeeming factor was its editor that got appreciated years after (and maybe expansions).
That ain't accurate.
Dragon Age was the game that bankrupted Bioware, and led them to inviting money from outside, and things declined from there. Many such cases!
All Bioware cRPGs had elements of role-play and developing character. Simplified, dumber, but still RPG. If they weren't RPG, what they were? And no, "shit" is not real descriptive term.
I think this analogy goes this way - americano is coffee with a lot of water, Anthem is RPG with dilutedRPG elements. Is still coffee or RPG? For orthodox consumers - no. But only for sake of terminology - yes.
I ain´t gonna argue.
DA:O taking as long as it did didn't do them any favors, but the reason Bioware sold out was because of The Old Republic which started development in 2006. They really wanted to do that MMO.
KOTOR was the side project (partly) subsidized by Microsoft handing out Gatesbux to any RPG developer willing to work on the Xbox and ended up being wildly successful relative to the "safe" fantasy IP (Neverwinter).
That's not even remotely true.
DAO is the only good game in this list.
Calling Neverwinter Nights good is a stretch.
They used to be way ahead but they lost that by Anthem, trying to copy online lootershooters like Destiny. At the time EA was focused on attempting to get in on that and from what I've heard DA4 was supposed to be a part of that effort but since Anthem failed spectacularly and EA changed gears late-development they're trying to salvage what they can now.
No, the mechanics sucked ass.
Hey you retarded bulguroid 4channer scum, you know we keep old posts and threads here right? It's not like on your favorite reddit imageboard where we were always at war with East-Asia since five minutes ago since it all disappears down the drain moments after faggots like you piss it out. What did the Codex think about Dragon Age a decade ago?
It is a gay thing.
