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Dragon Age: InquisitionvsMetal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Dragon Age: Inquisition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 5

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes leans harder on execution: Boss fights and first-person aiming demand decent hands.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 8

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes leans harder on optimization: Patrol routes and boss patterns converge to a solved run.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition

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Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes