User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Mass Effect II (+I)/@comment-1655340-20110430005111/@comment-1786741-20110430014248

I too enjoyed DA2 in the same way I enjoyed Fable 3. Both were good games that had the potential of being great but ended up not being able to live up to its potential. IMO both took the gaming formula of their predecessors and neutered the crap out of it until it was a shadow of its former self. There were improvements but not enough to outweigh the new ones they created. What pisses me off is that Bioware is better than that. At least Lionhead had a track record of making good games that didn't quite live up to their hype but Bioware really caught me off guard. To tell you the truth I actually though Fable 3 was BETTER than DA2. They at least had: Choices that actually mattered, a full blown attempt at humor (not the subtle approach by Bioware), fun sidequests, the sense you were actually becoming a hero, antagonists that you KNOW are antagonists e.i. Logan and the Crawler, top notch voice actors, and memorable characters (the only ones I liked in DA2 were the companions but that is already expected in Bioware games). Plus, even Fable 3's DLC is better! I'd take Traitor's Keep any day over *speaks in monotone* generic item pack #1.