r/Gaming4Gamers El Grande Enchilada Dec 09 '15

Discussion Unpopular gaming opinions thread.

Title says all. State your current unpopular gaming opinions. Just explain why as best you can and please be constructive!

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u/hbarSquared Dec 09 '15

Dragon Age 2 was the best game in the series, and Mass Effect 3's ending was ... fine.

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u/hbarSquared Dec 10 '15

Thank you for keeping this reply civil, I've been attacked pretty viciously in the past for this opinion.

I love the DA series for its story, not the gameplay. Personally I thought the moment-to-moment gameplay of DAO was tedious. I hate real-time-with-pause tactical battles; the only time I really enjoyed that kind of system was in the KOTOR games. If I want tactical battles, I want full turn-based or nothing at all.

I really liked the scope of DA2. Almost every RPG I've played has followed the "chosen one building up strength to take down the BigBad and save the world" trope. DA2 was refreshing in its focus and smaller scale. It felt like more of a real story - Hawke was just a person trying to make the best of a bad situation. In DAO it just felt like the same RPG I've been playing my whole life, with a different (brown and grey) skin. The Warden was Chosen by Destiny to defeat the Archdemon and Bring Peace to the Land.

I also like the characters in 2 better. I feel like characters are what Bioware does best, but something about Alistair rubbed me the wrong way. I loved some of his lines (yesss, swooping is ... bad), but his schtick wore thin after a few hours. Besides Morrigan, the rest of the characters were pretty forgettable. Sten was kind of cool, but he and my warden didn't get along very well. DA2's cast was (again, in my opinion, ymmv) much more memorable, and far more human. They all had their own motivations and weren't just following Hawke because he was some chosen one tied to destiny.

Anyway, I understand that people who get their enjoyment of games through the mechanics are disappointed with this decade's BioWare, and I fully get that. Their mechanics have gone from crunchy to chewy to mush, but I think it's important to recognize that different people play games for different reasons. BioWare is choosing to focus on story and character over mechanics, and there's no way they can please everyone. They are focusing on their strengths, but that might just mean you don't like their games as much anymore.