Some Dragon Age quotes that might give this context:
An RPG of great length, dubious execution and sparse charm that has familiar fantasy schlock as its major selling point.
Many games have dialogue that is inferior to Dragon Age's, but few have the termerity to force so much of it upon you... one of many scenes so clumsily scripted you almost wish you were reading a Dan Brown novel.
The miser of its dramatic ambition is only compounded by the gruesome quality of its motion capture and character modelling.
Any one of these elements might be trivial in isolation, but the sum total of its failures in writing, acting and presentation creates a cringe-inducing quality comparable to watching a school play performed through the medium of second-rate machinima.
They actually speak about both PC and 360, saying that the PC does look nicer, but the same problems exist with the gameplay. They hate the dungeon crawl aspect. But they keep returning to the setting, and the "tawdry Tolkienisms" that it apparently features; that's what gets the most criticism in the review, which is odd, as I think that Bioware
did actually do some interesting things with it. If this had the Baldur's Gate license, would they have been so harsh, knowing that it was playing within an established and continuous universe? I don't know. They are, in the end, not kind to any part of this game, at all.
Oh, and they give special criticism to Claudia Black's performance.
Is it bizarro day today?
