Originally Posted by
sycld
in the end, it's an aesthetic choice. they wanted to give a visceral sense to the player the lost greatness of the ancient dwarven empire whose vestiges are now overrun with darkspawn. it's the same reason why they have large computers in Fallout 3 even when it's obvious there must be electronic miniaturization for robots to work. they wanted to use an aesthetic in keeping with a 1950's view of the future, which included gigantic computers and intelligent but bulky, clunky robots.
or if that's not good enough for you, there was an evil stone altering wizard named Mxyzygltyrp that accompanied the darkspawn horde and destroyed the great works of the dwarves as well as making caverns where there were no caverns. his name has been lost to the anus of history... until now
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