This week's edition of Critical Reception examines online reaction to BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins, which reviews describe as "the best RPG of the year -- and maybe the best of the HD era." Dragon Age currently earns a score of 91 out of 100 at Metacritic.com.
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How'd fallout not make the list. Atleast over cyberpunk, tales , and halo. Fallout been around since what 96 98 and has 5 6 games into it. It's full of lore when you play it. I'd even add star ocean to a point.
Yes in lore. Easily missed... absolutely. Never played a game that had me loving the world and lore behind it as much as that one. Most of course wouldn't be able to experience it since it is a more difficult game.
I can't speak for all titles on this list, but by the time you get to Dark Souls III, the lore is a bloody tapestry of intricacy
Played them all. Im not saying the games on the list dont have good lore...I just think hollow knight had more lore that is hidden but present and more easily explored and accessed. The souls games have tremendous lore but theyre mostly hidden and stay that way unless you look for it and research it. The lore is not very accessible.
Crows90,
I think that's a somewhat fair assessment. For me, the Souls games are less upfront about the lore, but it does invite your fascination through NPCs, items, locations, bosses, etc. There's this kind of natural progression where the picture becomes just clear enough by doing the essential tasks, but it really makes you want to explore every inch of the world.
narration is more important than lore i'd rather watch the story and characters in a more cinematic way instead of searching for notes and stuff that's why i love sony exclusive games like uncharted and gow and hate from software games
The article was top ten lore in video games. I think they did a bad job picking games out. I know what you mean though. I just like a variety of games and genres.
I think Demon souls as an RPG gives Dragon Age a very good run for the money. Both are superlative in their respective executions of the RPG genre. I find each of their worlds fascinating, though i would obviously give the edge to Dragon Age for dialogue (Bioware FTW!) and Demon Souls for far more realistic portrayal/gameplay (Funcom FTW!). Suprisingly to me even, I give equal marks for both games being punishing. I keep reloading Demon Souls for not playing a perfect game, but just as tragically I reload Dragon Age for not playing out a perfect dialogue scenario (or realizing consequences down the line).
If I need to give a slight edge right now... I would say Demon souls because I have completely no idea of how this story will play out... whereas Dragon Age has that familiar D&D lore to it.