Jade Empire Pile-On
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We haven't talked about the storytelling very much. Bioware is at the top of their game in Jade. A lot of games give you the "obviously evil" choice and the "obviously good" choice. But here they've done a great job of presenting you with a lot of morally ambiguous circumstances -- the two paths are still pretty clear but the decisions you have to make are way more interesting than other games. Which is great: there's a LOT of dialogue, yet I never really found myself bored during it. Some of the stories are particularly haunting, and the game treats these characters and situations with a lot of respect. I find myself genuinely moved in many of the sequences. And THAT is incredible in this era of shallow graphics.
