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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

which lead to Knights of the Old Republic

Which lead to Mass Effect, don't forget

[โ€“] Rakonat 1 points 1 year ago

True, but IMO the link wasn't nearly as strong between KotoR and ME as any of the previous games in the link which were all clearly D&D based systems. ME1 had a lot in common with KotoR but there were some major deviations too as they moved away from the table top standard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL Baldurs gate is the reason i hated the ending to ME3.

[โ€“] Rakonat 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kind of! Though if we are being entirely honest, the real thing to blame is the head writer being replaced and the dev time cut by almost a year.

Personally would have enjoyed it more if they went with the Biotics/Dark Energy that Drew Karpyshyn had put down groundwork for, rather than the AI subplot that Mac Walters hastily slapped together for ME3 that directly contradicted ME1 threads and subplots.