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Last good Bioware game?
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BG2 is the only truly good game Bioware ever made.
The poll is missing the only turn-based game BioWare ever made.
I excluded mobile, handheld and Facebook games.
Falksi
Arcane
Mass Effect 1 for me. Fucking loved it to be honest, just gave me that space-explorer vibe which I used to dream of as a kid.
You mean sex scenes with blue aliens?
Falksi
Arcane
100% accurate. Even down to the colour.
I'm between Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect 2 had okay gameplay and the way they developed the story was interesting, how you meet again your companions, the mystery of the omega 4 relay, the final mission among other things. Mass Effect 3 was fun to play, great third person shooter and the DLCs were really good, but the story could've been better and they made Wrex a little bit faggot.
Typically in many RPGs, including Bioware's, you have options to be either kind/helpful or rude or neutral. I remember that in one of the Dragon Ages (I think the second, but could have been other) I was also - as usual - clicking the kind/helpful dialogs. So when a particular elf in my party started talking to me - I did the same, thinking it might lead to some additional quest or more dialogs.
I was wrong.
I clicked a kind dialog option and suddenly gay sex scene ensued. I don't remember much from Dragon Ages but I damn remember that scene, it was engraved into my brain.
I was already old by the time, in my twenties, studying, working and living alone. But I imagine there were plenty of young teenagers who got their parents buy this game for them and accidentally triggered the same event like I did while playing in living room with others around to see.
Bioware's good at trolling, I give them that. I started choosing the asshole responses in their games since then.
I was wrong.
I clicked a kind dialog option and suddenly gay sex scene ensued. I don't remember much from Dragon Ages but I damn remember that scene, it was engraved into my brain.
I was already old by the time, in my twenties, studying, working and living alone. But I imagine there were plenty of young teenagers who got their parents buy this game for them and accidentally triggered the same event like I did while playing in living room with others around to see.
Bioware's good at trolling, I give them that. I started choosing the asshole responses in their games since then.
Definitely Dragon Age Origins. DA:O, though showing signs of decline, is the closest thing they did in latter years to their classic offerings. The decline proper started with ME2, where there's a shift from making games designers wanted to make, to making games aimed at the console lowest common denominator, where the bad starts to outweigh the good (IOW both DA:O and ME2 had good and bad aspects, but in DA:O the good still outweighed the bad, whereas ME2 is where it flipped).
However, I will say that some of the class quests in SWTOR showed some of the old BioWare charm.
However, I will say that some of the class quests in SWTOR showed some of the old BioWare charm.
Beans00
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I liked BG1 and BG2 but find them both overrated for different reasons. Beat both probably 2-4 times during my life, including both EE's last year(worse then original versions I played as a kid). That being said I still think both are good games.
Out of what I played
NWN 1 was complete junk tier. Lots of people got trolled by volourn who pretended to love it for like 2 decades. Other people cope about mods, maybe there are good mods but I never bothered since the combat in the game was so boring.
Kotor 1 was mediocre but playable. I'm not really a star wars fan though, so maybe those guys would enjoy it more.
Jade empire I only played for like 20 minutes and I don't remember it
ME1 I played on 360, I wouldn't say I hated it but it felt like a generic gears of war clone at the time and thats what I remember about it. Obviously not the worst game, I feel like if I played it as an adult it would have cringed me out
DA:O is dogshit, whenever I see someone say they played it or enjoyed it I immediately think they're retarded. Never seen so much cringe dialogue in 1 game, and I only played for like 2-3 hours(I quit shortly after recruiting the bitch in the swamp). Not even mentioning the trash mobs.
ME2 see ME1, I remember I beat it but can't remember a single distinctive thing about the game aside from generic gears of war combat.
Out of what I played
NWN 1 was complete junk tier. Lots of people got trolled by volourn who pretended to love it for like 2 decades. Other people cope about mods, maybe there are good mods but I never bothered since the combat in the game was so boring.
Kotor 1 was mediocre but playable. I'm not really a star wars fan though, so maybe those guys would enjoy it more.
Jade empire I only played for like 20 minutes and I don't remember it
ME1 I played on 360, I wouldn't say I hated it but it felt like a generic gears of war clone at the time and thats what I remember about it. Obviously not the worst game, I feel like if I played it as an adult it would have cringed me out
DA:O is dogshit, whenever I see someone say they played it or enjoyed it I immediately think they're retarded. Never seen so much cringe dialogue in 1 game, and I only played for like 2-3 hours(I quit shortly after recruiting the bitch in the swamp). Not even mentioning the trash mobs.
ME2 see ME1, I remember I beat it but can't remember a single distinctive thing about the game aside from generic gears of war combat.
Jvegi
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Mass Effect 3 had great gameplay and actually awed me by its graphics. I very rarely see modern graphics in action due to my subpar rig, but this game run smoothly while looking very impressive. Shooting felt proper kinetic and the story, like before, was dumb but exciting.
Not a crpg of course.
Not a crpg of course.
Utfärd
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Baldur's Gate II (Throne of Bhaal was shit though)
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Poll is missing an option for those of us who don't care for Shattered Steel.
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DAO is the hard cutoff.
luj1
You're all shills
SWKotOR of course...
Poll is missing an option for those of us who don't care for Shattered Steel.
Fixed.
Cryomancer
Arcane
Origin was good but a huge 
comapred to Infinity Engine.
Everything after ORigins is trash.
comapred to Infinity Engine.Everything after ORigins is trash.
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn - The best thing they ever did.
Dragon Age: Origins - a swan song of "we actually care about cRPGs" approach.
Mass Effect 2 - not an RPG, but if you are in a mood for a cinematic space adventure popamole it's a quality product.
Dragon Age: Origins - a swan song of "we actually care about cRPGs" approach.
Mass Effect 2 - not an RPG, but if you are in a mood for a cinematic space adventure popamole it's a quality product.
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The question itself doesn't really make sense because the Bioware that made BG isn't the Bioware that made Dragon Age isn't the Bioware that made Andromeda.
It's just a skin suit worn by increasingly incompetent sickos.
It's just a skin suit worn by increasingly incompetent sickos.
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