shadowhawk233 wrote...
Can you say the same for Bioware's other games like Star Wars: KOTOR? That was Before Mass Effect came along.
Sure. But I know nothing of the Star Wars games (I lost interest in anything Star Wars with Jar Jar and that thumbsucking toddler Annakin Skywalker taking part in an ADULT LIFE-OR-DEATH DRAG RACE! Yeah, everyone is blase and accepting of all the 8 and 9 year old Indy 500 drivers).
But I didn't really intend my comment to ONLY apply to ME...I just know ME because I've played it (and not played any other Bioware game or other company's game that is a dungeons and dragons knockoff). It's a general observation and criticism. Part of it is I have a strong aversion to the over-done wizards and warrior schtick. I can only imagine the meetings at game companies when they are brainstorming their next RPG/action game:
"Hey, let's have an evil queen witch from the west and a good king from the east, a bunch of knights and rogues (there's always gotta be a class called "rogue") people in plate armor with swords and crossbows, and have an army of wizards and zombies! "
"Wait, didn't we just do that with the last game?"
"No, the last game had an evil KING wizard from the west and a good queen from the east. The evil army didn't have zombies, it had dragons and orcs. TOTALLY different."
"Oh, yeah, you're right. How could I have mixed them up?"
Then we have the same game company setup a scifi game: there will be these wizard/witch-LIKE people...we'll make them telepaths and telekinetics (or "biotics" in the case of one game) and there will be an evil army of zombies (or "husks") and knights (most soldiers) in plate armor. We'll even have some people with SWORDS! COOL. That's "spacey" right? Swords. Etc. They inevitably redress medieval trinkets and classes and put them in space ships rather than on horses or dragons and have them go at it.
Sure, there's not a LOT they could do different...just be less blatant in the medieval flavor (like plate armor with "greaves" and big-assed shoulder armor straight out of the movie "Excaliber"). Hell, Benezia is an almost pixel-for-pixel extraction of an evil witch from some generic previous wizard and warrior medieval game, down to the clothing, stuck into a scifi setting. Literally. I don't recall the game but a few years ago I happened upon a yootoob vid that showed a scene from some dungeony dragony game and there was a witch woman in it who looked a LOT like Benezia and even possibly had the same voice actress.
Just an observation. I enjoyed the ME games, for the most part, but it was always distracting to me when I would bump up against dungeons and dragons/medieval stuff. I had to actively shrug off the "Oh c'mon...plate armor?! That guy would kill himself if he got knocked into a wall or fell down because that HUGE shoulder plate would ram up into his jaw or the side of his neck and break a bone at best, if not sever his carotid."
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