I don’t mean that in some emo sense - oooh, look how edgy the Deep Roads are! Mass Effect’s Collectors just aren’t scary - Saren Arterius and Sovereign are far better villains than Harbinger or any of the unnamed Reapers could ever be.
It’s gritty, turbulent, and brimming with bravery. And now that the world is on fire and the BioWare rankings are on Twitter you have the audacity to come to me for help? While you wasted your days alternating between Paragon and Renegade, I cultivated real Friendship.
While you were pursuing a romance with Liara, I mastered the Morrigan. While you were off partying with Garrus, I studied the Zevran. As I explained a few weeks ago, the suicide mission is just a mediocre Dragon Age quest in space. I even spoke to several ex-BioWare devs about how Mass Effect 2 was built around it. Do you know what’s better than “quite good”? Dragon Age Origins. The suicide mission - despite its linearity, boring set design, and stakes that aren’t half as high as people remember - is quite good. Push through combat arenas that look barely lifted out of a devkit while crouching behind one of 500 polygonally identical chest-high walls - what’s that? Dragon Age 2 reused assets? How dare it! “The suicide mission!” you’ll say, talking about how people can die if you don’t complete a linear quest with some admittedly fascinating exposition about the character at the heart of it. Mass Effect 2 is often revered as BioWare at its best. In fact, the first Dragon Age game is still the best BioWare RPG ever made by no small margin. I also replayed the Dragon Age trilogy in its entirety last month because I reckon it’s one of the best video game series of all time - beyond occasionally poor checkpoint signposting, it doesn’t even need to be remastered, which is yet another thing it holds over its sci-fi sibling.
Prior to Legendary Edition launching, I replayed parts of all three original Mass Effect games. Related: Not Enough People Talk About Dragon Age: Origins’ Best Quest Yes, I know some of you might disagree with my BioWare ranking - more power to you, because I wholeheartedly disagree with you too. Inquisition is a phenomenal RPG that was cursed with being overshadowed by The Witcher 3, and the first Mass Effect game is better than the second one, thanks. Andromeda is excellent and Dragon Age 2 is considerably more brilliant than anyone who complains about reusing assets in a 2011 game would have you believe. The Dragon Age and Mass Effect series contain no bad games. I was seven when it came out and hold no nostalgic bias over Knights of the Old Republic - it’s a good game, whereas Dragon Age Origins is a great one.
I don’t much care for Star Wars and Mass Effect is a better space opera than George Lucas could ever dream up, so away with any of you who are seething with rage over an 18-year-old game.
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