8 Best BioWare Games That Aged Like Fine Wine
From Baldur's Gate to a surprisingly good Sonic RPG, these 8 BioWare games still hold up decades later..
From Baldur's Gate to a surprisingly good Sonic RPG, these 8 BioWare games still hold up decades later.
The short version
- Party-based dungeon crawling, approval systems other RPGs are still copying, martial arts combat, even one of gaming’s most infamous flops hiding a superb flight model: All of this and more is in BioWare’s back catalog.
- These eight BioWare games hold up particularly well today — whether you’re looking for good story, good mechanics, or plot twists you’ll still be thinking about years after the credits roll.
- Why it still holds up : Skip a loyalty mission, and that squadmate can die for good in the finale.
What happened
Why it still holds up : Companions approve or despise your choices in real time, and it’s still one of the sharpest systems in the genre. Why it still holds up : Its alignment system tracks what you do, not what you say, and few RPGs have matched that honesty since.
Why it matters
Why it still holds up : Real-time-with-pause tactics precise enough (and hard enough to learn) that a wolf pack can still wipe your party.
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