BioWare has been extremely keen to court fan opinion of late. Many believe this has been directly prompted by the ferocious backlash over Mass Effect 3′s controversial ending. But a senior member of BioWare’s development team claims that the company has always worked hard to reach out to its fanbase.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's creative director has recently claimed in an interview that Anthem taught BioWare to focus only on its strengths.
Let's hope so, because I'm pretty sure they're one more stinker away from being canned by EA.
2 stinkers
They are already working in the next Mass Effect.
And both Dragon Age and Mass Effect are valuable IPs ... EA aint selling those IPs. So, if EA cans Bioware, who'll make those after?
Yes, if EA outsources, like Dragon Age to Larian, then that's justifiable but keeping an internal RPG studio is more viable.
Sad thing is, EA was the beginning of Bioware's woes. When EA made Bioware move away from it's traditional rpg model towards an action/adventure model, it hurt Bioware as a developer, and let's not even get started on how EA rushes releases. They've wrecked EVERY developer they have touched
y'all were good at Jade Empire 2 back then. More Jade Empire please. Though it'll probably be a LS. At this point IDC just bring it back.
Brought to us by the same people that said it was exciting to only focus on gameplay while they were hyping up Anthem. So, this could mean that they dropped the ball on Dragon Age. I mean, the art looks like Fortnite and the quick banter of a Disney action movie doesn't really say "Dragon Age."
The thing about Anthem is the game had a good foundation. To this day I haven’t played a mech suit game with better flying mechanics. It’s everything else in Anthem that sucked.
thank god they released that EA access thing at the time for anthem, so we only had to waste 3.50 for the game instead of 60, good guy EA thinking of their consumers for once.
The flying/combat was actually really fun, but as you said everything else was really bad. the gameplay loop, the gear, loading, the open world was empty and that story hub was one of the most terrible hubs I have ever seen.
Hanzala from eXputer inquires, "If Dragon Age: The Veilguard needs BioWare to degrade its own works just to promote it, what does that tell you about the game's quality?"
Damn, people really need to calm down. Every Dragon Age game has been wildly different from each other, there is no singular version of what it used to be... Back when DA2 came out, people complained and compared to DAO, but still played the game. When DAI came out, they complained and compared to DAO and DA2, and still played the game. I know, I've been there. I complained about DA2 and DAI, but I still played them and I still enjoyed them. All 3 first games were vastly different, and I count them all among some of my favourite games. We've seen very little so far, it's much too early to be this dramatic about it.
What we know/seen is dragon age 4 for through over 3 overhauls have entire teams leave all the original bioware member's leave and now we have a game that decided to redo all the known designs of every enemy.
This thing its going to be saints row reboot and or anthem/redfall/me4
You should watch the netflix dragon age that made it cannon da3 ending is that inquisition gone everyone split up and or is dead why? we need that dei clipboard paycheck.
https://www.koveras.net/ind...
https://gamerant.com/dragon...
https://stlawyers.ca/blog-n...
I watched the netflix show, not that I see what it has to do with anything? We already know we get to set our own world order for our game. There is an "official" canon that is separate from each players personal canon. This is nothing new.
As for the rest of your comment, that is purely speculation (I think, consider proofreading before hitting send).
@Daeloki
" watched the netflix show, not that I see what it has to do with anything?"
If you actually watched the show you would know at the end the item they have is in vanguard gameplay the part they climb the steps.
Also in the anime da3 charecters appear it shows one of the end of the games dlc which is cannon because again da4 starts after the anime.
Not to mention your talking about dragon age keep that has not worked for 8 years on pc and sits dead not updated sense da 3.
Just like mass effect 4 they have not shown any interest in porting over old data from the keep.
Now everyone mass down vote yell i am a liar with 0 evidence sense no doubt no one on here has ever played the games or used the keep in the last 5 years.
"If you actually watched the show you would know at the end the item they have is in vanguard gameplay the part they climb the steps."
Ok, so that item will be relevant to the plot. I still don't see what that has to do with my original comment?
"Also in the anime da3 charecters appear it shows one of the end of the games dlc which is cannon because again da4 starts after the anime."
So? You realize Dragon age has had books and comics before too? There is an official established canon for publishewd media like that, and then there is the canon we players determine in the game. These are separate canons.
"Not to mention your talking about dragon age keep that has not worked for 8 years on pc and sits dead not updated sense da 3."
Nowhere did I mention Keep, I said we get to set our own world order, they've confirmed that this is part of the character creation. But since you brought up keep not working, it worked just fine for console less than a month ago when I started a new Inquisition playtrough. Can't say for PC though.
I prefer number 3 combat but number one had the best character's choices its to bad that game is abandon ware now.
Its a pain to get running without crashing has 0 controller support and the mouse/keyboard controls are barbaric.
We need a collection like they did with mass effect.
Similar thing happened with SaintsRow and look how that turned out. To be fair we are seeing this happen in other industries as well. This is what diversity hiring gets you, people that hate gaming and only ended up in the industry for the money.
Wow, everything can be blamed on diversity hiring... "the problem with the world today"
wow 12 dislikes on a comment that actual devs of the game agreed on
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
But the mega cult is getting trump into power again so i should not be surprised saint row reboot has a fanbase.
Legacy?
I can hear the fans being insulted and being told that this is no longer a product for their audience.
I can't think of anything more dumb than insulting past games legacy to promote your new game, even more when they were among the best CRPGs ever. The game has to be in really bad shape if they want to promote it that way.
So, he insulted the legacy by stating better combat in this than previous entries, better story telling with a bigger focus on narrative than prior entries, more intricate character designs, which he claims were limited in the past to make cosplay “easier,” is “insulting” the legacy?
Ive seen so much sh*t talking about DA2 and Inquisition that it weirds me out to see people now defending those games. I, personally, thought the gameplay trailer looked great… while the initial teaser, not so much. I’ll wait for the game to come out and see if it’s “better” than the previous entries, but people need to calm the f*ck down over this. He’s just claiming improvements they’ve focused on that I’m pretty sure stemmed from consumer criticism in the first place.
I liked Inquisition but 2 was not very good. I have no idea about this game yet I haven’t played it
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
Bioware today is like 150 poeple i dont see how they are seemingly working on all these projects at the same time.
Inquisition wasn't broken, it just had some flaws and on the contrary it also had some strengths. If you call inquisition a major screw up then idk what to say.
That said with what happened to the study since then and now, I'm not really confident that their next game will be any good.
If you played it fully to get plat like me back in its novemeber launch window you had that castle with empty area's endgame missions not there or working and a mp that was made around loot box grind like the mass effect mp.
Its hard to explain to those that played it years later after they tossed out the dlc/patch's
entitled much? I played it at launch too. Why you even platted it if it was a "major screw up"?
It was good enough for you to sink 100 hours in but also a complete fuckup at the same time, make up your mind.
So either you like shitty games or you're just talking out of your ass.
Well just wanna say, Archetype Entertainment is the new BioWare, composed of mainly ex-BioWare vets.
And they're developing Exodus (starring Matthew McConaughey), a new sci-fi RPG (spiritual successor to Mass Effect, dare I say?)
They're owned by EA. What makes you think that they wouldn't publish for PS5? Shoot, if your fridge could connect to your bank account EA would try to release it for that if they could!
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.
"that the company has always worked hard to reach out to its fanbase."
Oh you mean like you asked us for months what we wanted to see in a Uber Mass Effect 3 Collectors Edition only for you to cancel it. Then theres the rushed ME3 ending which I'm pretty sure Casey was the main problem behind it, lets not forget EA pulling the strings behind closed doors and you guys covering it up pretending that everything is fine.
If you guys really cared then the inducruation theory would of been the ending of ME3, we would of gotten a DLC pack to actually finish off Harbinger and everyone would of been fine with that, but I guess you couldn't face the fans coming up with a better story then you guys.
I wonder if the next Mass Effect will get a reveal at E3?
@ TrendyGamers
Probably too soon. I know there's six months to go, but only last week BioWare were suggesting they hadn't actually decided whether it would be a prequel or a sequel! I reckon they're in the VERY early stages of development.
Considering that bioware made an entirely new dlc for people because that weren't happy with the original ending, is generous enough. Sure they shouldn't have released the game with that type of ending, but think about the amount of developers that made a new ending dlc because fans weren't happy with it. Heck, even bethesda couldn't make proper port for the ps3 and still can't for the past year.
And never has a game company so failed such a fanbase.