NowGamer: BioWare's new Mass Effect game is currently in development at BioWare Montreal, but just where can the series go? Prequel or sequel?
Earlier this year, BioWare was hit with layoffs as part of a downsizing of parent company Electronic Arts, but fans have been reassured that the next Mass Effect game hasn’t been impacted. Likewise, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf’s development is still churning along, with BioWare putting it at the forefront of its focus and rumors suggesting that it could launch sometime later this year. Fans might be getting another look at the long-in-development Dragon Age: Dreadwolf at the Summer Game Fest in June.
If the recently posted job offering for a temporary development manager is any indication, BioWare could have yet another surprise up its sleeve for when Mass Effect 4 and Dragon Age: Dreadwolf are nearing completion. This mystery BioWare video game could truly be anything, from another spin-off of its two major properties to something entirely new. All there is to go on at the moment is a vague mention in the job posting, and it might still be some time before BioWare is ready to confirm any new games in its pipeline.
So a studio that spent years on anthem then this dragon age thing is now also working on another ip along with mass effect,
You think they would be worried that there brand has been on 3 major screw ups
Dragon age 3 launched broken with the frostbite engine yes its a good game but you can see in the late game how rough it was
anthem......
Mass effect 4 well that dev team was fired so yeah.....
They should make sure this new dragon age is a goat instead of putting more work on the table
How about they focus on those games and not over extend themselves? We don't need another Anthem.
Bioware died after Inquisition (some would even argue after ME3). They are no longer the same company.
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
Looking forward to playing as a new character, assuming that is the case. I love the ME universe.
Bioware once a great developer like so many others before EA got their grubby little mits all over you.
RIP
Why a prequel or sequel? I figured they would write an entirely new story with the same setting as it has been in the past three games, just with new characters, a new threat, and new events.
Like the article said, a sequel that follows the same storyline as Mass Effect 3 would have to be MASSIVE in order to cover every ending. What happens when all life is merged with synthetics (Synthesis)? What about when all technology was destroyed (Destruction)? Or when we made nice with the Reapers (Control)? Or, lastly, how can you make a decent sequel when all intelligent life in the galaxy is destroyed (Refusal)? The possibilities of subsequent events would take years and years to write and program, and I doubt even next-next-gen consoles would have the storage space to hold such a game.
As for prequels, it would have to be a contained story that can't change the current storyline. If so, there's a possibility it may be less interesting and significant than the first three games (Admit it: What is more interesting and significant than uniting a galaxy full of diverse alien species to fight a synthetic race of world-destroyers that wipe out all organic life every fifty thousand years?).
I just think it would be easier for all of us if Bioware just went the alternate storyline idea rather than being forced to choose between the confined, canonically-correct prequel/sequel route.
Not sure if I made sense with any of that.
Just make something else already. I'm tired of spacey third person shooters/RPG's.
I wish Bioware would just go back to making good games like Knights of the old republic and balders gate
They've been a shell of their former self for the entire generation
If They're asking players what they want in the wake of not giving them what they wanted to the bad degree they did with ME3, then I'm not seeing good things.