DA:I in Space? Confirmed.

ME1 didn't have cancerous radiant quests like DAI. But I understand you drones will defend the newest chocolate flavour coming out of Bioware.

Uhm, Asari Writings, Turian Insignia, Battle Signs, Light Metals, Heavy Metals, Gases, Rare Minerals, Looking for Keepers on the Citadel, Chasing after Pyjaks and almost every anamolie on the uncharted worlds... Mass Effect had quite a few fetch quests. 

More like collectibles quests, but yes ME1 had some too, but not even close to the amount of them that are in DAI or even ME3. I think that nice balance between side missions and fetch quests was in ME2 if I remember correctly

They've gotten worse or just more inconsistent as production costs and fidelity increased. If you're comparing to the likes of Uncharted you're not very bright. If you know a little bit about how animation is made for a product-cycle you'll know that there's a good reason why BioWare animations tend to look jankier across the board than that of the best animations out there. A game like Overwatch only needs animations for a series of characters, a highly marketable cutscene, marketing in general and just a few things to sell it, so they could get really great animators to do maybe less than an hour's worth of total animation time but then it looks really fuckin' good and I bet it was reaaaally expensive.

BioWare's starting to get beat because of their own trends. They created the modern "Action RPG" with ME2 arguably, and it set a precedent as they further went this way for other developers that used to make action titles to add in RPG elements such as Guerilla making Horizon Zero Dawn. In no way is that game a more substantial RPG than Dragon Age Inquisition for example or even Mass Effect because it doesn't have nearly the same amount of care for its writing or story-planning/development as BioWare tends to make.

Bad animations in BioWare has to do with them not having the best animators in the world for sure, but they're not just bad because they're incompetent, they're bad than stuff like Uncharted because there's way more branching content during scenes in BioWare games and money is spent more in other areas. If they didn't focus on choices or customization they'd be able to prioritize good animation more because they'd be able to plan the story better ahead of time to know they only have to invest in a specific set of cutscenes instead of having to constantly account for the increasing breadth of missable cutscenes.

I for one am happy with BioWare lacking in animation quality in favor of other things... but I do think they've gotten worse in the last 5 years because their games emphasize cinematics more but the animation hasn't improved enough to justify it. If ME3 had been like Earth and Mars the whole game it'd been a different story because those had some really tightly scripted moments with decent animation and choreography but it also removed a lot of choice (like Shepard telling James to go by default) in favor of making a more "Uncharted" game experience.

I think that's where their upcoming new IP might change the tides if I'm right on the money - I think they're making it "action" driven so they can cut out certain RPG elements without fully removing the BioWare-ness of branching choices.

Well, well! Would you look at this.



A beautiful example of a La-5FN fighter aircraft, on a WWII photo, no less!

Could you link your sources for those figures please?  For the record, I could careless about reused assets.  That has been a staple of Bioware games so why should this one be any different?  We all have to live within a budget and Bioware is no different.  Not defending them, but reality is what it is.

I don't think this thread sufficiently appreciates the fine curves of a Supermarine Spitfire.

Just to illustrate: