For those who liked and didn't like MEA, do you think DAI was better?

It is white mesh under any hat that shows part of the head. It displays on companions and protagonist. It doesn't even remotely resemble hair. Solas and Dorian look particularly ridiculous with it, heh.

I think DAI is a better game overall yes. More options, more choices, better characters, better story, better tone, better romances, more polished on release and with the Trespasser DLC, its not even close. I do think DAI can be a bit tedious with its quests and exploring, but not to the same extent as MEA.

I am doing a second replay of MEA and I am liking it a bit more than my first run. But it is still tedious and lacking compared to the original trilogy.

I believe it happens during the cutscene of Alec's sacrifice, just before he takes off his helmet you can see his hair clipping out the back.

I prefer MEA.

Because laser guns > swords.

DAI was more of a slog to get through.

DA: I was amazing (and I say this as someone who never had the full DA:I experience, considering that the banter bug was there for my first few playthroughs). It followed up the worldbuilding of the other games spectacularly while making the whole setting feel lived-in and fresh.

I didn't realize until I came on this new BSN that apparently DA:I was a widely hated disaster.

I haven't found that to be a useful procedure, myself.

If someone wants to know which games are "apparently widely hated disasters" then Metacritic is the site to go to. Mainly because people often cast a vote there as some kind of protest.

I like me:a and while I thought it certainly improved on some things that annoyed me in da:i, I wouldn't ever put it above da:i. I played da:i so many times after I first got it, trying to find every bit of content I might have missed, picking characters and choices I didn't before. With me:a I struggled to finish a second pt because while I enjoyed the first one the second one just emphasized what little choice you really have. And while I won't pretend da:i is the pinnacle of role playing games, it is better than me:a.

The only thing I could give me:a points on over da:i is the side quests (though I still don't think me:a's side quest are good just an improvement), and the loyalty missions (though they're not loyalty missions). But even so I still prefer da:i's companions, they felt much more real than the squad members did.
I still remember a pt when Blackwall got all pissy with me because I'd made a bunch of choices he hated, I decided to push it further and he left. I loved that, because it made sense for him to bugger off after all that. Compare that to Peebee who will say over and over again how she basically has one foot out of the door at all times but never leaves, not even if you skip her mission, she still acts like you're friends. And I'm not saying I want companions or squad members to hate the protagonist, but if they're incapable of disliking them their friendship feels a bit hollow.


But who knows what the game could have been like with a bit more direction. Or some great pieces of DLC.

It's odd that tracking relationship status never became a feature of ME. It's not in ME1, becomes a central mechanic in ME2, and disappears from the later games. And even ME2's implementation was a bit feeble.

ME:A actually makes a couple of perfunctory nods at this. For instance, Drack and Jaal can be highly displeased with a couple of Ryder's actions and refuse all interactions for a time. But they get over it, and it's like nothing ever happened. Which isn't a terrible thing in itself, but looks bad when there are no permanent relationship consequences in the game except for what the player causes by doing the NPC's event chain.

Maybe developers should block out meta critic if it's so bad? They choose to affiliate themselves with it and it's the most used scoring system. It's not hard to differentiate real criticism from "game is shot, there's no Shepard". You're letting it get to you when I guarantee the devs won't even care on that kind of talk.

good games also get through that stuff easy. Destiny 2 is smashing records (and PC isn't even out yet) and there's tons of vids calling it garbage and trash, some with hundreds of thousands of views. There's even SJW talk with some of the armor designs and symbols yet it means nothing towards the games actual reception cause again, smashing records. If andromeda was doing great then all that negative talk would be at the backburners instead of the front.

I found DA:I and ME:A about equivalent for their genres. I prefer the ME:A story and gameplay, but the DA:I character stories were more fleshed out.