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What is your favorite BioWare franchise/IP?
- Thread starter Cosmic Voyager
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I'd vote for KOTOR, but the Obsidian-made sequel is easily my fav of the duo. So I'm gonna vote for Jade Empire. Had a blast with that game as a kid. Almost beat it too, but I screwed myself over by neglecting to make any backup saves and kinda getting stuck in a near-endgame dungeon. I think I was fighting the silent baddie with the mask for the 2nd time... or the final boss for the 1st time.
Actually, that's exactly how I messed up and never beat KOTOR 2 either. Damn my childhood saving habits were terrible.
Actually, that's exactly how I messed up and never beat KOTOR 2 either. Damn my childhood saving habits were terrible.
I voted Mass Effect, but Baldur's Gate is a super, super close second. It could go either way depending on my mood.
Also much love for Jade Empire, but it hurts too much to think about.
Also much love for Jade Empire, but it hurts too much to think about.
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The first Mass Effect is one of my favorite games of all time, even though I realize ME 2 is objectively better in many ways. There was something so captivating about ME 1. It truly felt like a next-gen experience (that Citadel set-piece at the end? Oh my god that blew my mind) and the atmosphere was so intriguing. Slick and cool, but also very dark and messed up at times. It felt like a super refreshing sci-fi universe in a world dominated by Star Wars.
There aren't many games that I have vivid memories of playing for the first time, but I have almost photographic memory of certain nights playing Mass Effect 1. Elder Scrolls 4, Fallout 3, Halo 3, and Bioshock are the only other games from that time period that are similarly embedded into my memory/formative for me as a gamer.
Mass Effect.
Tried Dragon Age (both Origins and Inquisition, and found them incredible boring). I was always curious about Kotor, but have never played them.
Tried Dragon Age (both Origins and Inquisition, and found them incredible boring). I was always curious about Kotor, but have never played them.
Mass Effect or Dragon Age if we're talking about whole franchises.
I love Baldur's Gate II but not the first game so much.
I love Baldur's Gate II but not the first game so much.
I mean, is been like 15 years since the last installment. If they want the series to stay top of mind, it needs a new entry.
SWTOR their MMO is a continuation of the original KOTOR and got a new expansion like a month a go - it's also achieved a lifetime revenue of a $1 billion. So they are using the IP.
Yeah but that's a completely different genre. I love the original two but dislike SWTOR. It's not in the spirit the first two. A lot of people think of them as completely separate.
They said IP/franchise in the title and it is the same IP/franchise? Mass Effect 2 and 3 are much more action then 1, and 3 also has multiplayer yet you don't see anyone saying they aren't the same IP.
Multiplayer in ME is an additional game mode. It's not the main game. All three ME games are single player narrative, shooter/action RPGs.
You're not going to get most people to agree that KOTOR and SWTOR are the same thing.
I do enjoy Mass Effect and KOTOR a bunch, but I just loved the first Dragon Age game so unequivocally, it's still tops for me, despite lackluster sequels.
BioWare themselves called SWTOR "KOTOR 3-8" and it's a direct continuation of the story and features the main character of KOTOR pretty promeniently. Just cus you don't see it, doesn't make it most people, and pretty sure that the company considers it the same IP/franchise. Would you call ESO not part of the Elder Scrolls franchise? WoW not part of the warcraft IP?
As with KOTOR, it's been away too long. That may change after Baldur's Gate 3 though!
