Dragon Age vs. Mass Effect

BioWare’s Dragon Age and Mass Effect series are pitted against one another in a new editorial penned by the editors at The Koalition. The winner of the character development department? Mass Effect:

Mass Effect did something that hadn’t been seen in gaming before. It allowed you to play through the first game making the choices you wanted to make. Shaping Shepard’s life the way you want it. And then it let you carry over all of that into the second game to further develop the exact same character. Dragon Age on the other hand, did not. Sure Dragon Age 2 lets you import your save from the previous game and expansions, but the fact remains that you play as an entirely new character. And unfortunately many of us much prefer our Grey Warden’s accomplishments to those of Hawke’s.