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Interestingly, it was just this morning that I watched the new video by the executive producer of Dragon Age Inquisition, in which he talks about many aspects of the Dragon Age games and, by extension, Bioware games.I haven't played an RPGish game since, because none of the released games make me feel excited. I'm a fan of story-heavy western cRPGs. And there just don't seem to be any these days.
In it he confirms what I've always said, that Bioware games have terrible and barely any story. And I'm not even paraphrasing, he explicitly states Bioware games aren't about the story and that the stories are normally incoherent piecemeal excuses for going around doing stuff, and that the primary interest of Bioware games and it's fan's is simply companion interaction.
I have no idea if Bioware games are included in your stated preference here, but if we're excluding those as well, then, sure, story-heavy western cRPGs are just rare full stop, there's not really much "recently" about it.
Bethesda games aren't really renown for their story either. As with most cRPGs, the main incentive in Bethesda games is to avoid the story as much as possible in order to maximise exploration.
So for the purposes of helping the newsposters and general reading public, can you be more specific about which kind of games are what you'd call Story-Heavy?
Torment: Tides of Numenera would be one that is definitely story-heavy, but, well, not a very popular or broad church there and I'm thinking you don't mean this kind of game?
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