Bioware vs Square Enix

It comes down to Who you think makes the better RPGs and why...

Square. In fact, here's a present for BioWare:
 
 

I think it's more whether you like western or eastern style RPGs. I like western, so I chose Bioware.

If I were a young lad, Square Enix most definitely, but now my <3 belongs to BioWare.  And GB, presumably.

Not once played a Square Enix game, so Bioware it is.

Bioware, easy choice. Square isn't even top of the JRPG mountain anymore for me, last Final Fantasy I really enjoyed was VII. Bioware on the other hand still releases awesome classic feeling games [Dragon Age] as well as more modern stuff [Mass Effect 2].
Going by back catalouge is a little more difficult, as both companies have fantastic ones that contain many of my favourite games; I'd still pick Bioware but it's alot closer.

Bioware, mainly because I prefer western rpgs, and dislike the FF series.

I picked square, but really really. I'm saying yes they both make RPGs but two very different beasts. I'm saying this is like saying Hamburgs or Pizza, sure they are both food but scratch diffrent itches.

BioWare for sure, I just don't really enjoy JRPGs all that much.

i prefer linear games so i'll go with square on this one. Also, i like the bright tone in most jrpgs over the dull ones in wrpgs

Is Bethesda supposed to be a joke choice? If so, fuck you.
 
Of the two main choices, so to speak, BioWare hands down.

Bioware, because I haven't played many Square games. I would have picked Bethesda if they had stopped making games after Morrowind!

Hmm. Hard choice for me but I voted Square. I'm not voting for recent games though, cause I find that both Square and Bioware have come out with horribly dull games with dull characters to boot. This is all just opinion though so don't kill me, please. I couldn't get into Mass Effect cause I really didn't care for the boring characters in the game, same for Star Ocean. Last Bioware game I played was Jade Empire and when I think back on it, the characters were really dull. I don't know if anyone else is like me but I really look at character design when I buy a game, if I don't like the characters then I could care less what their goals are or what the game is about. Obviously gameplay will always come first to anything but at least a likable character will always draw me in that much quicker.

Square.  I play Bioware games because they do good things with the narrative that my favorite Square games did better.  Like I said before, every choice present in a Bioware game have always lacked weight for me.

" Is Bethesda supposed to be a joke choice? If so, fuck you.  Of the two main choices, so to speak, BioWare hands down. "

SquareEnix was better when they were just "Square".  Bioware wins, in my opinion, as far are games made in the last half-decade or so. 

" BioWare for sure, I just don't really enjoy JRPGs all that much. "

Well I just voted for Bioware because of KotOR but after thinking about it wtf am I doing definitely Square.
 
Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Final Fantasy X had AMAZING stories I think just topping KotOR. The reason I put them above Bioware is because the other games (Mass Effect-trash story, Dragon Age-pretty good) don't  come near the quality that was in those games. Now that FFXIII is coming out... the glory days are over.

" @Atlas said:

" Is Bethesda supposed to be a joke choice? If so, fuck you.  Of the two main choices, so to speak, BioWare hands down. "

Chill.  I love Bethesda, I just added that option in case anyone felt like trolling. "

I'm gonna say both, I have enough money not to have to choose one above the other and I can enjoy both equally, just in different ways. 
 
Also on my list, Atlus.

Square'soft' made some good games, but Square nowadays has yet to impress me with anything. Bioware.

Bioware for me...
I really don't like JRPGs

" Bioware for me... I really don't like JRPGs "

I suppose BioWare, even though I love The World Ends With You.  Only Final Fantasy game I've almost played to completion is FFX.  But I'm hyped for Mass Effect 2 and Final Fantasy XIII and I'm planning to pick both of those games up.

BioWare if any, although I don't really like their games either.

Now that I think about, I enjoyed playing Final Fantasy 1 more than I enjoyed play Mass Effect.  

MASS EFFECT 2 IN 3 DAYS! YES!

Obsidian!!!!

" @VIGGO123 said:

" Bioware for me... I really don't like JRPGs "

Funny, people seem to like FF12's battle system more when its in Dragon Age. "

" @ryanwho said:

" @VIGGO123 said:

" Bioware for me... I really don't like JRPGs "

Funny, people seem to like FF12's battle system more when its in Dragon Age. "

Dragon Age's battle system was more akin to Baldur's Gate, which was the whole point of DA..  Even if they had copied the system from FF12, the difference is that DA did it well, where as in FFXII it was a confusing, frustrating, unbalanced mess.  Having to unlock the A.I. pramaters was just ridiculous.  It didn't work, and it wasn't fun.  Which is a shame, as I otherwise very much enjoyed the more political storyline that XII had, over the usual preteen melodrama we saw in the previous games. "

" @WinterSnowblind said:

" @ryanwho said:

" @VIGGO123 said:

" Bioware for me... I really don't like JRPGs "

Funny, people seem to like FF12's battle system more when its in Dragon Age. "

Dragon Age's battle system was more akin to Baldur's Gate, which was the whole point of DA..  Even if they had copied the system from FF12, the difference is that DA did it well, where as in FFXII it was a confusing, frustrating, unbalanced mess.  Having to unlock the A.I. pramaters was just ridiculous.  It didn't work, and it wasn't fun.  Which is a shame, as I otherwise very much enjoyed the more political storyline that XII had, over the usual preteen melodrama we saw in the previous games. "

Yeah... I think he's just mad at people that say that don't like JRPGs... I don't know.  The main problem with them for me is what you mentioned, the pre-teen melodrama stories that are generally in JRPGs.  I can enjoy a JRPG if the story is not something where some unlikely pre-teen is randomly extremely powerful and saves the world.  "

BioWare, better stories, better characters, plus I prefer the BioWare style of gameplay to Square's more turn-based stuff

BioWare.  I can play as male characters in their games.

Square for there other properties.

" BioWare.  I can play as male characters in their games. "

" @VIGGO123 said:

" Bioware for me... I really don't like JRPGs "

Funny, people seem to like FF12's battle system more when its in Dragon Age. "

Haven't we had two topics already that have covered this subject? Bah, whatever. 
Bioware.

" I'm not voting for recent games though, cause I find that both Square and Bioware have come out with horribly dull games with dull characters to boot. This is all just opinion though so don't kill me, please."

Used to be Square, now I'm a BioWare convert. Though Super Mario RPG and FF Tactics will always have a spot in my heart. 

Maybe five years ago I would've said Square.
 
In 2010? Bioware.

" @ryanwho said:

" @VIGGO123 said:

" Bioware for me... I really don't like JRPGs "

Funny, people seem to like FF12's battle system more when its in Dragon Age. "

Dragon Age's battle system was more akin to Baldur's Gate, which was the whole point of DA..   "

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It's a matter of personal taste. 

I'm gonna say Square Enix for just one reason. The World Ends With You. I don't really like jrpgs, but this, whoah. 

" Square. In fact, here's a present for BioWare:
 
 

Granted, I haven't played a single BioWare game, but THAT'S EXACTLY WHY I'M VOTING FOR SQUARE! "