VG247 Article - How Bioware is losing its heart

Which was exactly my point.  ME:A's tasks were filler, no doubt, but they were well done filler that fit in with the world building and lore. Radiant quests were just random quests with no real purpose other than go here and do this.

Which one you like better is personal preference, but saying that Skyrim's filler is better than ME:A's filler is just...well...wrong.

The meatier side quests in ME:A were at least on par with the meatier Skyrim sidequests.

Aahw, how cute, suikoden telling other people they 'can't get over things' after devoting months of his life hating on a game. Most of that time the game wasn't even released yet.

I'm a straight female and my answer to Kappa Neko:
He might be your "ultimate female fantasy" - not mine. Certainly not mine. So please don't say "the".


and to panzerwhz:
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. And Charme. Charme even more, I guess.


And my two cents about TES or FO being so great games:
No one would even care to play them for more then one or two times if it wasn't for the sheer amount of mods. That's the real greatness of Beth games - you can turn every one of them into your "private wonderland". And that's also the reason I love Beth games. Not their "jawdropping "main story. Their "amazing" side quests. It's the modding tools.
But as I said, just MHO.

You've yet to convince me you're not twelve.

You gotta remember, he got ALL the sex cards in Witcher 2, so he knows what he's talking about! He knows what women want.

I was just responding to the ultimate male fantasy line which is also a sweeping generalization that does not apply to every male gamer. No need to take offense.

Witcher 1 - for such a fan I'm surprised you'd make such a basic error.

And it's not about Geralt having something wrong - he's just nothing unusual from the normal protagonist you get, just in a fantasy setting. It's hardly groundbreaking is it.

Bioware is indeed struggling with their semi open worlds among other things, although i don't necessarily agree with everything written there and many other companies struggle in different aspects too with some exceptions.  as for VG247...i highly doubt they care about quality and Bioware's heart that much with all their high profile tags for the sake of more clicks.

I was not offended, I just wanted to point out that I have a different meaning.

It'd be almost like getting F!Hawke back, since Jo Wyatt is the voice here. 

Agreed, Geralt, Yen and Ciri is a family, there is simply not other room for Triss to get involved. So I'm blaming CDPR to start this whole Triss mess. On the other hand, TW3 really catches the spirit of the novels - strikingly humane moment in desperate time/situations. 

I'm so sad this was not in TW3. But one could hope.

‘Thank you, Lady Philippa,’ Ciri said after a few moments, squeezing the head of the sphinxes in her hands. ‘I also feel honoured with the proposal to take the surname de Tansarville. However, it seems to me that my new last name is the only thing that I can choose for myself, I thank the two mistresses. But I want to be called Cirilla of Vengerberg, daughter of Yennefer.’

While some MEAs task-fillers were done fine, most were not.

Comparing MEA tasks to Skyrim radiant quests is like comparing apples to potatoes.

The TES games are not designed/developed with big "main story" in mind (thats why they are "poor" and only take like 5-10hours... while playing, ie, Skyrim will still take like 500+ hours... so go figure). The point about this whole system is... you can not have a RL like job in a game like Skyrim... lets assume you are a barber, what do you want? Siting n hours in front of the monitor, having NPCs walk in your shop and you doing their hair? Well, that gets old pretty fast and we do not play games for this. So basicaly, when main story is done, all the side content is done, we still got a world we can live in and our only job that distract from RL is something like a mercenary... and the radiant quests, dynamic in design, provide that, you never run out of work.
This is completely different with BioWare games, now MEA. It is designed and developed around a story, once the story is done, all the sidequests (and tasks), you are done with the game and have to replay and replay and replay. it does not matter if MEA world is open or not, it is not dynamic, it does not live, and we do not get random tasks/jobs/whatever to do. When everthing is done, it is done, game finished.
That said, MEA tasks are just low  quality filler to prolong the actual gameplay time a little bit more, before you finish it.

I am at 99% completition now, with 2 tasks I can not finish due to bugs and I am done. I now have to restart or wait for a DLC, since there is just nothing to do. The world does not evolve, never did. There is nothing to do.
It is different with Skyrim, I am done with the main story, I am done with all the side quests. And I now run around looking for this random radiant quests to have some work... well do not forget the modding.... I can load seasonal retextures to have winter, spring, summer, fall... and I get new quests to do, sure new "content" and stuff isnt as good as something official (though Falksaar is quite good.... have like 10times the size of a ME DLC) and is not released as often as in 2012/13 but still.