I can't seem to bring myself to play Dragon age again after finishing Mass effect 2. I don't know why. Is it the polish? graphics, animation, design or what not. Dragon age was without a doubt a fine game when it came out but it pretty much got pushed into the shadows by its younger brother in Bioware. With the new trailers trickling out from bioware of the expansion recently, I just don't feel any sense of awesomeness from dragon age anymore.

After playing ME2 it just feels wrong without the protagonist speaking. 

Personally it's the Sci-Fi setting that made Mass Effect 2 that much better. I don't care about my character speaking - since half the goddamn time he wouldn't shout out the line I picked, just something else with a good/bad tone.

You realize these games are almost completely different, right?

They're very different games. I can see where you're coming from, though. As much as I loved Dragon Age, I'd say that Mass Effect 2 raised the bar again for Bioware games. I also find myself more drawn to shooter-type games these days because every now and then I need something more fast paced.

Yea dude, I'm with you. I was totally looking forward to Awakening, but now having played ME2, there really isn't a desire to go back.

The two are about as close as Starcraft and Rock 'n Roll Racing. Maybe your just more into shooters than RPGs.
  
@kitsune_conundrum said:

" the ones in ME2 was just tighter, more polished and generally superior to Dragon age. "

" Two different teams worked on ME2 and DAO right? They're both great but obviously one of them is better. "

i like both differently.
 
I definitely prefer to choose what i want to say and not be acted out by a third person; It all feels very direct in dragon age. 
 
Mass effect is kind of the fun fact paced blockbuster, but it lacks that connection that i feel with every other bioware game when i make decisions.

Both are awesome in their own right, playing through both of them again soon.

Given that DA:O is by far superior no I don't understand this at all.

Dragon Age is an old-school RPG and ME2 is a shooter mixed with RPG, therefore completely different games.
It's like comparing Civilization 3 to DoW 2.

Reading through this thread, I realized something I miss in ME that saved me a few times in DA; the ability to switch party members. Shepard only dies when I do something boneheaded in ME, but I wish in those cases that the game would auto-switch to the next character so I could potentially revive Shepard instead of going back to the last check-point. On the flip side, I think the party AI in ME generally worked better than in DA, so it's a bit of a toss-up.

Dragone Age Origins is a much slower game than Mass Effect 2. Both in game-play and plot. In fact there really aren't many games around that have the pacing ME2 does.

I'm not suffering from the OPs feeling.  ME2 is like a shooter with RPG elements.  Dragon Age is a RPG with no qualms or hesitations about being an RPG and revels in everything that entails.  I can go back and forth because to me they don't scratch the same gaming itch at all. 
 
Comparing DA to ME2 is like comparing Madden to Dragon Age and saying they're kinda the same since they both have a heavy reliance on stats and team building.  I see where you're coming from, but no.

" Given that DA:O is by far superior no I don't understand this at all. "

" They're very different games. I can see where you're coming from, though. As much as I loved Dragon Age, I'd say that Mass Effect 2 raised the bar again for Bioware games. I also find myself more drawn to shooter-type games these days because every now and then I need something more fast paced. "

" You realize these games are almost completely different, right? "

Yeah. Played both. Mas Effect 2 is a prettier game and a more stylish package, but I honestly think dragon age is alot deeper in terms of gameplay mechanics, combat, sqaud control, and lore. They are both amazing games that are among the best i have ever played, but DAO beats out mass effect 2. I also like fallout 3 more than mass effect.  I actually like the pausing gameplay.

You can have gay dwarf-elf sex in DA:O.
 
You can't in ME2.
 
Just thought I'd put that out there.

I've said from the beginning that Dragon Age feels like a step back from Mass Effect 1

ME2 isn't even a WRPG.  
 
I mean most ME fans started WRPGs with what? Oblivion? Fable? LOL 
 
Dragon Age is shit on consoles. But if you played it on PC, and have been playing WRPGs for a long time, like Baldurs Gate 2, then Dragon Age blows Mass Effect out of the water in terms of RPG depth. 
 
ME1 was more of a cinematic  action RPG with a story ripped from Star Trek. ME2 was an action game with RPG elements with far more polished combat, but with a terrible story and a terminator as a final boss. ME2 is one of the most over rated games this gen. The dialogue choices are a joke, the missions structure is just going to a planet and recruiting someone, it is filled with cliches "HUMANITYS LAST HOPE!" "No one has ever returned from the Omega 4 Relay!". The story is ILlusive Man telling you the situation and you just recruiting people. The combat gets repetitive because of the lack of set pieces. The characters in ME1 were also terrible. I mean in Dragon Age, your characters have so much more personality, and you could talk to them for such a long time and find out about their personality. How much could you talk to your team mates in ME1 or 2? Not to mention that your party actually reacts to your decisions in Dragon Age.  
 
ME is a great game if you've never played WRPGs before. 

Both are great games.
 
if you meant by graphics, then yes ME 2 is better, but a lot smaller game then Dragon Age. 
I never would compare the games thou, because my advice would be to pick up both, if you feel burned out by games (bioware has a tendency to do that a person), then go play something mindless, usually helps me!