Even Samara, a justicar with a rich history of labyrinthian moral grey zones, just wants you to stop her daughter from murdering people. Thane meanwhile is the daddy issue, Kasumi wants to pull off a heist, while Garrus and Zaeed want - for very different reasons - straightforward revenge.

All the characters in Mass Effect 2 need you to gain their loyalty, but half of them boil down to ‘fix my daddy issues’. We have Wrex too, of course, but as soon as he gets serious about stopping the genophage he leaves our side. For example, the genophage is one of the most harrowing and complex depictions of medically induced genocide in fiction - but we explore it with Grunt, a lil baba who just wants to fight a worm. Mass Effect has huge stories too, but we learn about them in different ways. I’m not saying swooping is bad, but they are very different to the more intimate stories you see in Mass Effect. Their tales are big and epic and swooping. Dog is… well, Dog’s just a dog, but for most people, you see what I mean. Anders blows up the Chantry, setting the world on a collision course for disaster. Solas, big egg that he is, is an old elven god in disguise, who is both aiding your quest and hindering it in equal measure. Morrigan, born of Flemeth, is a key thread in the fabric of Thedas’ destiny.

Yes, the people in Mass Effect have stories to tell, and the Dragon Age stories are about people, but there are distinct differences.Īlistair is a royal bastard with a prophecy coursing through his Grey Warden veins. Mass Effect is about people (people with heads), and Dragon Age is about stories (stories with tales). Eagle eyed readers will notice that I very cleverly misspelled ‘tales’ there, and that’s all in service of this upcoming excellent metaphor.

Mass Effect and Dragon Age are two sides of the same coin, but it might be best to think of Mass Effect as heads and Dragon Age as tales.

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