Rank all BioWare games

[Ismaul]

Adapting D&D into RTwP is a cancer borne upon gaming, perpetuated in time with all the BG-likes made since then.

"Oh hai chosen one, only you can fix my mundane issue X, and my marriage plz" type of quests are another cancer that inspired many others. That and "quirky" infantile companions.

We have early Bioware to thank for all that. So no, the decline was there from the start. And it stinks to this day.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

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[mondblut]

Compare BG to Pool of Radiance. It has better UI and graphics and sound, but the gameplay and storytelling were massive decline. That's what a decade of technological progress achieved.

What decade? Ruins of Myth Drannor was released a couple of years after BG.

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And for all its deficiences, I did like RoMD better.

 

[Ismaul]

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Laughing at Bioware games was the default and widespread position in the early years of the Codex. But you know how it goes, newfags join, decline follows...

 

[The Jester]

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I looked up what this retarded expression is that you keep using and this is what I found:

It looks like it originated as a running joke in an internet comic. It's intentionally written in broken English and mocks Poland for being technologically underdeveloped.

So I guess I approve.

On topic:

Man, DA2 is shit. I've played for 90 minutes and I was doing nothing. Watched a bunch of cutscenes and followed a couple corridors engaging in banal MMO type combat. Most of the lore is rehashed from the first game (so far) and dialogue is worse due to voiced protagonist and that shitty mechanic where he doesn't say exactly what you select that witcher also uses. I hate that shit and because of that even the dialogue feels like watching a movie, or shitty netflix series rather, with pauses.

Overall big downgrade from DAO so far, I'll keep playing a bit more obviously but unless it starts getting really good soon I'll uninstall.

Just pretend that nothing exist after Awakening.

 

[MerchantKing]

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Baldur's Gate was always seen as a downgrade compared to older AD&D games. Especially compared to something like Darksun. It was also a excessively simplistic compared to Darklands. The good things in those games can be reduced to a few small aspects like Jan Jansen (PBUH) or allowing a drow to get killed twice. Though BG1+2 are excellent games if you want examples of why metacritic scores can't be trusted.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Welcome to this weeks workshop to exercise your hate of the formerly popular thing: Rebellion against Bioware, sponsored by RPGCodex™ . Don't skip it or you will lose your edge!

Some of us have despised Bioware and Baldur's Gate for a quarter-century. And the early Codex generally agreed.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Welcome to this weeks workshop to exercise your hate of the formerly popular thing: Rebellion against Bioware, sponsored by RPGCodex™ . Don't skip it or you will lose your edge!

Some of us have despised Bioware and Baldur's Gate for a quarter-century. And the early Codex generally agreed.

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