Either of those games represents the best of what their parent developer company strives to be.Īs such, it's high time to re-evaluate how they fare when compared against each other. Updated August 31, 2021, by Sid Natividad: With the advent of a new Elder Scrolls title and a Dragon Age 4 looming around the horizon, your giddy optimism and renewed excitement for both franchises is well justified. RELATED: Skyrim: The Best Weapons That Scale To Your Level, Ranked So in order to help people decide which game deserves their precious time, here's a comparison of their strengths. Functioning members of society probably have too many real-life commitments to play both RPGs. Both also consume a huge amount of time in a player's lifespan. Meanwhile, Dragon Age has been enjoying a relatively high spot in the story-driven RPG section that its progenitor, Baldur's Gate games, popularized. Skyrim is still the current crown-holder of open-world sandbox RPGs. But both are heavyweight RPGs that represent their sub-genre well in a definitive way. They're not exactly alike or comparable in terms of core gameplay and idea.
Before The Witcher franchise came along and wedged itself in the top podiums of medieval fantasy RPGs, two game titles were duking it out for contemporary supremacy: Skyrim and Dragon Age.
