dragon age origins or mass effect 2?

I'm anticipating both heavily, as Bioware's a great company. However, Mass Effect 2 wins because I loved Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins is a new property. Likely by the time Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 come out, I'll be jonesing for both of them equally. :)

Mass Effect 2, though that doesn't mean that Dragon Age won't rock. Mass Effect 2 will just be amazing.

Well... hmm... this one is actually pretty tough for me. Mass Effect had to be one of my favorite games once you got past the horrible shooting in that game, the story was emaculate and well... the story was just emaculate. I don't think that anything else was really all that great, I mean other than the story it had nothing good going for it.

*Horrible Sub-Quests

*Graphics were a bit meh

*Horrible Shooting

I mean, now that I look back on it hard and long, it seems that this game with just a slightly weaker story would have been one of the worst games I've ever played. Lets just thank god that they actually got the story down.

Now for Dragon Age: Origins... from what I saw, it looked pretty awesome, from the looks of the game-play and the super epic dragon fight, then again the fight did take ten times longer than I thought it would. I seriously hope they were fighting it on the hardest setting and it was a boss or else you better be looking at playing this game for a long time just killing the monsters. This was however just a preview and so I don't really have anything else to fall back on.

All in all... if they can fix all three of those huge cons in Mass Effect it will probably be my favorite game. So, I'll just go with that, because they probably will.

Both. Bioware = Awesomeness

Hoping i'll enjoy both. But i adored Mass Effect so #2 will probably win. I'll wait till i play both to decide though.

Mass Effect 2, but only because Dragon Age would be atleast twice as fun with a mouse and keyboard and my comp is terrible (fyi I'm a huge baldur's gate fan)

Mass Effect 2. I feel that it'll be more of what we've grown to unhealthfully love.

Both I refuse to choose between the two.

Both...these are the games I die for.

Mass Effect. If they fix all that was wrong with the first AND keep an intriguing story, I wont be surprised if it gets a 10.

BOTH

I liked most Bioware games and will definitely pick up Mass Effect 2. Dragon Age: Origins looks very similar to Oblivion and will be directly compared to it...so I'll wait and see on that one. KC_Hokie

Why would it be compared to Oblivion.. If it does I will laugh at those people.craigalan23

[QUOTE="craigalan23"]Why would it be compared to Oblivion.. If it does I will laugh at those people.KC_Hokie

I'm planning on getting both, but looking foward to Mass Effect 2 a little more. Not that Dragon Age: Origins doesn't look good, but not as much has been shown about that game. I'm somewhat disappointed there wasn't more about it at E3 considering it's supposed to come out first.

It looks very different to me. The only thing slightly similar is it's medieval. Dialogue options, group of teammates, you can make decisions that changes the story, third person combat(Oblivion's was just horrible), and etc. craigalan23

[QUOTE="craigalan23"]It looks very different to me. The only thing slightly similar is it's medieval. Dialogue options, group of teammates, you can make decisions that changes the story, third person combat(Oblivion's was just horrible), and etc. KC_Hokie

I want both games though if I have to pick it would have to be Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect 1 was the best game of 2007 by far, so the sequel should be better.

Ideally, being purchased by EA for almost a billion means those guys can expand their staff and have the resources to do what they want. I think most creative people can work on multiple things at once, especially as they move farther and farther away from doing the technical things. I'd use an example of Coca-Cola. They don't only make one beverage. If it was only one guy who had to come up with every flavor, design every can, create every marketing plan, work every distribution channel, talk with every retailer, and manufacture every can... yeah they'd only be able to work on one beverage at a time. But when you have entire teams and squads of expert bottle makers, graphic artists, marketers, retailers etc, that one guy could probably develop alot of stuff at once and not have a quality drop off. If he was the expert at making flavors he can devote 100% of his time to that rather than having to get involved in aspects that he's weak at. Bio-Ware is in that type of situation now.Senor_Kami

[QUOTE="Senor_Kami"]Ideally, being purchased by EA for almost a billion means those guys can expand their staff and have the resources to do what they want. I think most creative people can work on multiple things at once, especially as they move farther and farther away from doing the technical things. I'd use an example of Coca-Cola. They don't only make one beverage. If it was only one guy who had to come up with every flavor, design every can, create every marketing plan, work every distribution channel, talk with every retailer, and manufacture every can... yeah they'd only be able to work on one beverage at a time. But when you have entire teams and squads of expert bottle makers, graphic artists, marketers, retailers etc, that one guy could probably develop alot of stuff at once and not have a quality drop off. If he was the expert at making flavors he can devote 100% of his time to that rather than having to get involved in aspects that he's weak at. Bio-Ware is in that type of situation now.KC_Hokie

Bioware is a faithful developer. They won't let EA mess with their games.

Bioware is a faithful developer. They won't let EA mess with their games.Phoenix534

[QUOTE="Phoenix534"]Bioware is a faithful developer. They won't let EA mess with their games.KC_Hokie

Well, maybe North Korea will nuke EA and Bioware will be free.

[QUOTE="KC_Hokie"][QUOTE="Phoenix534"]Bioware is a faithful developer. They won't let EA mess with their games.Phoenix534

Well, maybe North Korea will nuke EA and Bioware will be free.

mass effect 2, without questioning

Looking forward to both equally since Dragon Age comes out in October and Mass Effect 2 in 2010. Plenty of room and time to play both! :D Also someone mentioned DA looked like Oblivion. Big ole' LOL on that one. Nothing alike whatsoever.

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[QUOTE="KC_Hokie"]That's exactly what Pandemic said right before EA forced them to rush Mercenaries 2 and turned it into a monstrosity. EA has a really bad history of doing this to subsidiaries it acquires. KC_Hokie

Well, maybe North Korea will nuke EA and Bioware will be free.

Well, I guess we'll have to deal with it. Or go on strike and convince a whole lot of people to not buy EA games.

Mass Effect 2 but both look awesome.