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[SithLordExarKun]

I know this has been asked, but why put this in a ME forum? The answers you get will be biased obviously. Thats like going into a twilight forum and asking them if they prefer Twilight(which is ghey) or Lord of the Rings.

[Ziggy]

I liked how the characters interacted better in da.

In me2 they were all very self interested and even your shep had primarily selfish reasons for helping them. They only talked to each other to fight those two times and didn't really feel like a team - just a bunch of individuals roped together.

Dragon age was much better in this regard.



ME graphics though >> dragon age (obviously) but that's about it.

[FlyingWalrus]

How about, "I love both for different reasons and I cannot choose between the two"?

[CARL_DF90]

Yeah, it's not really a question of "which is better" but a question of "which do you prefer". Some like them both, other its going to be one or the other. Me? I really prefer the Mass Effect series. It's probably my inner geek speaking here. I grew up with series like Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine so the whole "Space drama" thing really strikes a cord with me.

[Sable Phoenix]

As far as universe goes, definitely Mass Effect. I have always preferred SF to Fantasy, and the ME universe is wonderfully imagined, very detailed, and populated with very original and unique aliens and concepts and worlds. I much prefer the originality of the ME universe to the fairly cliche fantasy implementation of Dragon Age.

As far as gameplay and writing goes, Dragon Age without a doubt. Squad based combat with complex tactics trumps twitch shooter combat. The game is longer, and by extension, the story and characters which populate it is much more detailed and involving.

If the question was purely which universe I'd prefer to live in, Mass Effect would win hands down (and hopefully I'd get cool biotic powers too).  If the question was purely what kind of game I would rather play, I would only spend time with Dragon Age, because it crushes Mass Effect so badly it's not even funny.

Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 05 septembre 2010 - 04:10 .

[kstarler]

I'm with a lot of other people that have said that the games are different enough to make it difficult at best to compare them against each other. Also, we have two ME games at the moment, and only one DA game, and will have to wait another 6 months for the next one, making the comparison even more difficult.

That said, my preference is ME, and my reasoning is this: When I finished ME 1 for the first time, I immediately started a new playthrough and did it over again, albeit as a different class and sex, and it felt almost like a different game entirely. Of course, part of that was choosing paragon and renegade routes, respectively. However, when I finished DA:O for the first time, I took about a two week break before I started a new playthrough, and my second playthrough felt like a repeat of the first, albeit with slightly different tactics. Of course, it didn't help that my first and second DA:O playthroughs were melee (Rogue and Warrior, respectively). And, as others have pointed out, there are parts of DA:O that seem to drag when you redo them. Of course, the mako sections of ME 1 can drag too, but for the most part, ME2 doesn't have that same problem for me.

As a side note upon review of what I've typed, I think that part of it is that both ME games are short enough that they don't really have a chance to drag, at around 30 hours for a full playthrough (all side quests and planets explored) so you can do two full ME playthroughs in almost the same time it would take to do a single DA:O full playthrough. And 50+ hours is a long time to take to gain just over 20 levels, at least in my view.

All in all, I love both games (and all Bioware games, as a general rule), but the ME games are my favorites right now.

Modifié par kstarler, 05 septembre 2010 - 05:05 .

[Onyx Jaguar]

Dragon Age probably had a better spinoff than Mass Effect.



Granted I haven't played Galaxy, but Journeys was pretty good.

[DannyT18]

I was a very hardcore Mass Effect fan waiting paitently for ME2 and I thought Dragon Age looked rubbish but on Christmas my brother bought me DA:O and I played it and I thought it was very good, then ME2 came out and I loved it, then bought more DLC for DA:O and all of a sudden I absolutly fell in love with the story, characters and lore of DA:O so I'm gonna have to say:



Top 5 games of all time.

1. Final Fantasy 7

2 .Dragon Age: Origins

3. Mass Effect 2

4. Shenmue II

5. Mass Effect



I know you didn't ask but here it is

[Osset]

guns>swords .. enough said

[Solaris Paradox]

Dragon Age: Origins is overall a better game than Mass Effect 1, but really, comparing the two series is like comparing a peach to a slab of beef. One's more of an action experience and the other is more of a tactical game. One's focused on roleplay and the other is a hybrid of the RPG genre and the third-person shooter genre. It's also hard to say what I think of Dragon Age as a series because I haven't had the opportunity to judge Dragon Age 2 and the direction it's taking the series in.



Of the three games in these two series, my favorite is Mass Effect 2, my second-favorite is Dragon Age: Origins, and my least-favorite is Mass Effect 1. Where Dragon Age 2 will cut into that list remains to be seen.

[BloodRaith]

Love em both for their own reasons, I consider it comparing apples to oranges.

[Yana Montana]

I heart both series. But in terms of characters depth, squad interaction, romances and RPG gameplay in general Dragon Age way surpasses Mass Effect.

[Mondo47]

I liked both the games for different reasons. Dragon Age has the more traditional RPG feel (though I am sick to death of elves and bloody dwarves and have been for about twenty years now - curse you Tolkien  ), a deep and involving storyline, nicely detailed and performed characters, and once I'd got the hang of the combat system a really nice way of making you feel involved in fighting your various foes (something you usually do not have in RPGs... it's often a lot more like watching some little animated people move about and some fall over and don't get up after a while). I've only managed one complete playthrough of DA:O, though, because the ending seemed to railroad me into one set of choices that, while it made for a cracking conclusion, pissed me off no end because they seemed to hinge on me throwing away all common sense, morality and not being born with ovaries. It got under my skin so much I've never bothered playing through since... if it had been a book, I would have definately read it again for the action, the high adventure, the battles, the romance and the heartbreak, but to play it again? No thanks. That and Bathed-In-Blood-Vision started to grate after a while.

Mass Effect on the other hand had other things going for it. Being more action oriented, the combat and exploration elements, while much smaller than Dragon Age, seemed much more involving and exciting. The story is a cavalcade of equally hoary and ancient cliches presented in a way that is nowhere near groundbreaking, and yet it's still entertaining enough to have me create (to date at least) eighteen Shepards of various types. The performances of the central and supporting characters are as well handled as the ones in DA:O, though there is unfortunately nowhere near the depth or sense that Shepard's crew are a cohesive group that interact outside of blowing up the bad guys - Dragon Age was fantastic for this and in my book has set a very high benchmark. The more lightweight RPG elements fit the game's more combat-oriented scope, but still do what they're supposed to. And despite all those playthroughs and the game's shorter length and much more limited choices... something's drawn me back all those times.

I think Mass Effect is my winner, folks, though only by a nose.

Modifié par Mondo47, 05 septembre 2010 - 01:34 .

[YR_Lim]

In all the RPGs I have played, nothing is quite as moving as a casteless dwarf being cheered on the crowd as he march towards the final battle with the archdemon, and if you went for the ultimate sacrifice achievement... his final blow struck on the archdemon with the music at the background, it is just so damn epic.



ME on the other hand is also excellent but has a different feel to it.

[Jaron Oberyn]

You can't exactly compare the two, because they're two totally different franchises. One is sci fi and one is not. It'd be like comparing final fantasy to halo.



-Polite

[Beocat]

I have to say Mass Effect. I loved everything about Mass Effect, including all the characters and how they were developed, the cinematics, the story, my femShep! I also replay Mass Effect often. I am never bored of it. I loved it so much I even buy the books and love to reread them too.



DAO on the other hand...I played once and I just can't bring myself to play it again. I played a mage so that might have something to do with it, but the characters were harder to connect with and it felt so cheap that if I pissed someone off all I had to do to get them to like me again was buy them a pretty shiny gem or painting or something. I felt there were really no intra-party consequences to certain choices because of that. I just can't connect to DA like I did ME. I have never even considered buying the books because of that.

[RobotNixon]

Beocat wrote...

I have to say Mass Effect. I loved everything about Mass Effect, including all the characters and how they were developed, the cinematics, the story, my femShep! I also replay Mass Effect often. I am never bored of it. I loved it so much I even buy the books and love to reread them too.

DAO on the other hand...I played once and I just can't bring myself to play it again. I played a mage so that might have something to do with it, but the characters were harder to connect with and it felt so cheap that if I pissed someone off all I had to do to get them to like me again was buy them a pretty shiny gem or painting or something. I felt there were really no intra-party consequences to certain choices because of that. I just can't connect to DA like I did ME. I have never even considered buying the books because of that.

This person is my clone. Or vise versa.

[Solaris Paradox]

Actually to get technical, if your party member's approval rating is in the negative, gifts don't add as many points. I think the number is actually cut in half. Also, I seem to recall something about point values getting lower as you give them more gifts. This doesn't count feastday gifts and pranks, mind you--those ignore all limits, caps, etc. and just add or subtract approval points in mass amounts, like a kind of downloadable cheat code to play around with.

[darknoon5]

I like both series, but Mass effect is so much more enjoyable.

Also, it's graphics don't look like something from the 90's.

But as has been said, the only thing they really have in common is they're both RPG's, but even they're different types of RPG's. Different characters, story, settting etc.

[Lumikki]

I answered here allready, but it's more about style choise. Both are good games, but style is different. DAO is more traditional RPG, while Mass Effect is more cinematic action adventure. Like I sayed before, I think Mass Effect is more "experience" for player than DAO.

[Freakaz0idx]

The combat in DA was not good at all. I'm surprised something like that came out in late 2009. DA2 will fix that.



And to people saying posting this in a ME forum is unfair, DA forums are practically dead. I bought the game and made two threads and only the moderator answered me along with 2-3 other people. I went to look for strategies on youtube and everything is 9-10 months old. The ME community is constantly active and it's likely they also played DA at some point.

[Ieldra]

DA:
(+) General gameplay,
(+) more extensive character interaction,
(-) unvoiced protagonist,
(0) fairly generic setting (fairly good as mainstream fantasy goes, but still generic)

ME:
(+) Original setting (despite a few silly elements),
(+) one of the extremely rare SF game settings that somewhat deserves to be called SF,
(+) cinematic character interaction,
(0) characters a bit underdeveloped,
(0) simplistic gameplay,
(-) linear level design
(-) underdeveloped main plot (ME2)

Which do I prefer? I'd say both are among the best in their respective storytelling genres (fantasy/SF), and since I like both I wouldn't want to miss one. However, I find ME's shortcomings quite a lot more annoying than DA's, and at the same time, ME's strengths much more compelling than DA's. Which means that ME evokes a stronger response, if not, all in all, a better one.

If I could have an ME game with more developed characters and more character interaction, less linear level design, a better main plot than ME2 and less simplistic gameplay with more tactical elements, that would be the game of my dreams. And do away with the censorship, please.

Modifié par Ieldra2, 05 septembre 2010 - 08:13 .

[chessplayer209]

They were both enjoyable to me, but I couldn't get into Dragon Age nearly as easy as I got into Mass Effect. I love sci-fi in general.. and Mass Effect was just superb. Excellent story, quite thought provoking.



Plus, Miranda is way hotter than w/e love interest you had in Dragon Age. Not to mention the graphics are amazing in the Mass Effect games... especially Mass Effect 2.