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Darth Tagnan
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To be honest while some bioware games had really good side quests the builk of them were not that great (imho). Some of the witcher 3 side quests are not great but a lot of them are very good - even better than (imho) the main story.
Well, I'd agree that the most recent Bioware games have been a little less interesting than they used to. For my part, I find most Bioware writing a little melodramatic - but it's mostly well done - and I find they're very good in terms of finding great voice actors and the pacing of dialogue is more in line with my preferences than some of the W3 stuff which just seems to go on and on. I also find some of the W3 voice actors a little weak.
That said, the Bloody Baron questline and a few others have been absolutely magnificent.
But I also really liked most of the quests in Dragon Age Origins and the first Mass Effect.
Both companies focus on story and characters - and I don't think they're too far apart from each other if we look at their best stuff.
But the style is different. Bioware is more Hollywood and CDPR is more subtle and subdued.
I definitely prefer CDPR overall for writing, it's just that W3 is too dense and exhaustive and doesn't really have much more than the story to engage me.