A person on the internet said so, so it MUST be so! :O

Yeah, it certainly felt rushed. There were those flaws [and more, especially the recycled environments], but I honestly enjoyed the game, the story, and the characters. I want to see Bioware improve the flaws, and take the things that made Origins great, and mix them together to make an awesome game. I’m still hopeful of that.

When DA2 came out I felt literally sick to my stomach. My reaction was negative on every single count. I went to Kirkwall and felt both anger and boredom. Every single thing I saw had me yelling, “How could they!?” I’m still mad, mostly because I actually paid for that garbage.

I have almost zero hope for DA3. I’ll wait quite a while and see what others are saying before getting anywhere near it. I have yet to actually finish DA2. I couldn’t get past being bored to tears long enough to finish it.

And as for EA, every ship should to prepare to go down when they join EA’s ranks. I think a lot of companies do it for financial reasons, or maybe they have little choice in the matter. EA loves to force their companies to dumb down their games. Just look at The Sims series. Bioware’s co-founders are leaving just in time if you ask me.

My biggest problems with ME2 were the damn thermal clips and the derpy reaper baby at the end. Although the variety of weapons and armor did seem quite lacking. If you’re not going to have a ton of guns with different stats, you should have a small bunch with different properties that are all viable options in certain situations. ME2 didn’t have much of that. They were all different sure, but there were too few (and the avenger was pretty much a pea shooter). Its something that they noted when making ME3. Unfortunately ME3 was a rush job and it shows in several places.

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This is something we’ll have to agree to disagree on. I appreciate and understand your opinions though, so thanks.

I’m happy to know that. Thanks.

The mission structure in ME2 was slightly annoying as you only gained XP after completing a mission. This meant there was no leveling up during missions and it kind of limited/controlled the amount of grinding that could be done. The combat and story was good though imo. I was just trying to emphasize that people held ME1 in higher regard than ME2.

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No, Mass Effect 2 was /simplified/. The two concepts are not the same. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like my post-mission wrap-up to involve fifteen minutes of sorting through my inventory, trying to figure out what’s worth keeping and what I should sell. “This gun does more damage but has a smaller clip.”. “This gun is strictly more powerful than the previous one, a reward for your progress through the game.”. That’s nice, that’s easy to approach. In the former case, decide what your preference is and roll with it. In the latter, take it, and then feel like the badass that you deserve to feel like after accomplishing what you have thus far.

Gradually increasing equipment’s various attributes works from a game balance perspective, sure. It’s a holdover from the PnP games we all love, where you are expected at a certain level to have received a certain amount of loot of a certain strength (when referring to armor/weapons, not money itself). However, it’s one thing to manage loot to kit out four or so characters when you have four or so players (as you would in D&D); you each call the stuff you want, what you don’t want you sell. When you’re managing fourteen characters (the total available number of squad mates with DLC, plus Shepard) and are only one player, it becomes tedious. There’s still the expected amount of loot to have when you’re facing certain things in the game, but now you have to manage the equipment of everyone, not just yourself. It’s a huge hassle and not fun.

ME 2 fixed this. It got rid of the Mako sections too. Why? Everyone fucking hated them.

There are some valid points in this article, but the entire thing feels like it’s trying to just say that Bioware’s changed and now it sucks, and frankly, I enjoy Bioware just as much as I always have.

This is a weird aside, but one thing that gave me bad omens back in DA2 wasn’t so much the combat redesign or the lack of choice of the character’s background. It was the redesign of the Darkspawn. In DA:O they had this monstrous appearance that really was threatening. In DA2 they looked like pale zombies. The fact that they would (A) feel the need to change that and (B) change it to something so inferior really bugged me.