PoP Culture AHC: Bioware retains it's "choice matters" policy, does not go grimdark

Bioware is usually a company that creates games with lots of choice and their themes can be idealistic or cynical. However, recently they have been turning much more cynically in storytelling---all the choices you make only makes things worse and only screw people over. Up to that point, the darkest games Bioware made were ME2 and Dragon Age 1, however, despite the dark setting, you can not screw people over there and earn a happy ending kinda like Starcraft II, which depicts a gritty and bleak world leftover from the last game that slowly gets better per expansion---or screw people over if you're immoral/renergade and make things worse. However Dragon Age 2 makes things extremely grimdark and cynical and ditto for the original Mass Effect 3 ending minus the EC(the new ending makes things a bit better through and more of a world half full instead of very bleak)

A good idea is for them to not join EA, also butterfly away Modern Warfare and a lot of the dark FPS games that perhaps influenced the tone of Mass Effect, also have them themes of SC2 influence Mass Effect to some extent if it isn't butterflied
 
Well, Dragon Age 2 wasn't grimdark, it was more like grimderp...I kept shaking my head at the sheer number of mages who apparently all were just a conscious decision away from letting demons in. Hello? Dragon Age: Origins did have its share of apostates, but you did not have to elbow them out of the way when going for a drink.

Grimdark is only grimdark when its well done.

I think the most important POD is giving EA the finger. EA fucked Bioware up. That's about it. Yay for executive meddling -.-
 
This seems like a matter of personal preference. I liked the DA2 story better than DA:O. Also without EA Bioware would have gone bankrupt, so that wouldn't really make for good games.
 
Personal prefernce of course plays a big part, but didn't you ever raise an eyebrow at the sheer mind-boggling numbers of apostate mages and abominations running around?
 
Top