It's fascinating that Bioware put out two top-tier RPG games within months of each other. Both are tour-de-forces in their own ways, but I have to say I'm enjoying Mass Effect 2 a lot more than Dragon Age, which I gave up on. I'm not exactly sure why, but I think the Tea Leaves blog may have good insight
the design choices in Mass Effect 2 seem to me to indicate a team that took a serious look at the drawbacks of the traditional Bioware RPG and attempted to slice them away.
The link is broken (and probably contains some text that should have been in the body?); the correct link is here: http://tleaves.com/2010/02/16/biowary/
(Interesting read, thanks for the pointer.)
Posted by: David Carlton | 2010.02.17 at 19:21
Ouch, thanks David. I think it's fixed now.
Posted by: Nelson | 2010.02.18 at 07:19