MEA Official Reviews Thread (Polarized 9.5-5.0 7.6av)

It might be the goat to you... but tw3 for many is mediocre. Mind boggling I know.

Sure, those would be the minority. Also, how much did you like DAI?

Thought it leagues better than TW3. But considering TW3 isn't even on my top 100 list that shouldn't be surprising.

Says the guy on a forum dedicated to Bioware but has to bring up TW3 in some insecure need to validate an opinion. Talk about typical and crap attitude.

I didn't bring that up. Context is important. Insecure? Who's bitter about it? Not me. Butthurt DAI fans, never change.

*also ignores everything I said about MEA*

Personally, i'm puzzled how a Bioware fan can not at least somewhat appreciate the Witcher series. And seemingly just because you can't craft your own character. In reality, you can define your personality pretty much like in Mass Effect, so in the end, it's just about visuals we can't change. Oh, well, to each their own...

I love both games but I prefer ME but that’s more to do with the fact that I prefer sci fi to high fantasy, but let’s not forget that the TW3 is the lessons leant over three games where as the BW b team is their first game. What annoys me is when people pretend the Witcher didn’t have any glitches and pretend it didn’t have any bugs at launch. With good patching ME A could be turned in to a lot better game it just needs time its a solid game, the other issue is that people though it was going to change the ME 3 endings and magically have better characters and writing than what the trilogy had over three games. Much like the Witcher evolved over 3 games in to the excellent Witcher 3 perhaps the BW b team should be allowed to learn and develop instead of pretending because ME A isn’t goty ME is dead.

TW3 is CDPR's first open world game, first multiple platform development, and first time work with the completed in house Red engine (yup, TW2's engine is still WIP when it ships). So I'm not too sure inexperience is a valid excuse here. Every new project brings uncertainty, is dev team's attitude makes all the difference.

The reason so many old Bioware fans have jumped ship and flocked to CDPR is because THEY are now writing amazing characters and stories that move you to tears while Bioware has turned into an embarrassing parody of its former self.
Bioware's creativity is gone because the people who wrote these beloved great characters are GONE. They jumped ship years before most fans realized that the blank eyes of MEA are what Bioware has become under EA. Those freak show faces and awful animations couldn't be any more symbolic. MEA is a caricature of Mass Effect, it's a dating sim for teenagers to me. It's so wooden and dull, it's bordering on the bizarre.

And the biggest irony of all is that Geralt allows for far greater roleplaying/real consequences than Ryder or his equally boring predecessor the inquisitor. Geralt is like paragon/regenade Shepard. You can be the sweetest helpful guy ever or sell out your friends to be tortured to death. Apparently Ryder is four shades of paragon that boils down to the same thing. How is that for roleplaying?? How can anybody defend this crap and hate on Geralt as a set character?! It's HILARIOUS!

Can't create the face you want for Ryder, can't make the choices you want because the game won't allow you to be a big meanie. Can't even save your progress whenever you want. LOL.

So does it boil down to who you can shag or what? Is that all that matters to people these days? Because that's the only thing Bioware still has to offer that other developers don't: LBGT romances. That's all that's left. Everything else is done way better by others now. Hell, Horizon has a MUCH better cinematic emotionally rewarding intro that drew me in the way Bioware once did. Aloy, another set character, feels more alive that this wooden creepy doll that is Ryder.

It's only a matter of time until CDPR realizes that they can get away with a lot less effort too. Uninspired buggy games sell just a well. Why make an effort? Just look at all the people here not believing these reviewers all saying the writing is weak and the characters dull. And the quests are nothing but busywork. Having watched the opening and mission bits on YT I can only agree.

CDPR has replaced Bioware for me as the most engaging storytellers. They don't care about SJW whining and political correctness one bit. They just do their thing, writing good stories and complex characters. I wish Bioware had done the same. But they chose to ride the special snowflake wave. So that everybody can indulge in their personal fantasies rather than play a good story. And it has killed all their creativity.

It's disappointing