mediocrepoet
Philosoraptor in Residence
The GoT tv show is not what made dark and edgy stuff mainstream and "cool". It was a thing for years before ME2. It's weirdly selective memory you have going there.I don't know. Human experiments, exploitation, the seductive Ardat-Yakshi space vampires , xenophobia, the Illusive man and Martin Sheen carrying his character. BioWare hit the ground running with a darker world with shades of grey characters before the GoT made it mainstream.ME2 was more grounded, showing the underside of the galaxy, because most of it was set in the Terminus Systems, but it didn't portray it as well as it should've. It's far too focused on making things seem *cool* (Aria), murder, sex and wannabe "dark" concepts.
Even if you're only looking at Bioware games, you had "This is the New Shit" well before ME2 was a thing.