For a blog about the the business and culture of video games and their intersection with Hollywood, the guys in charge of Bioware are really well situated. They run a hugely successful RPG [role playing games] developer that was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2006, along with Pandemic, for $860 million. They've worked on one of the most successful licensed games of all time, "Knights of the Old Republic" (with an MMO sequel in the works) and created several hit original properties, one of which, "Mass Effect," is currently in development as a film. And they've got a huge original property, "Dragon Age: Origins," in production that's one of the few bets the newly slimmed EA is taking.
In other words, they're at the forefront of the storytelling in video games, cooperation with old media, and the business of developing for the mass market. That's why Variety was really pleased to get to interview Ray Muzyka, the CEO, and Greg Zeschuk, VP of entertainment, for half an hour at the Game Developers Conference.
I've played the exact same Warden in Dragon Age: Origins for years. In 2025, I will finally make a different one. Maybe.
Tried it before, doesn't work. I tried to to play a Dalish archer but ended up being a Dwarf Noble warrior again, must be a bug
My preferred origin is Dalish Elf Archer that recruits the Templars, Baelen's Dwarves with Golems and Dalish Elves. Took me 3 playthroughs to lock down a "true" file for me. What a game.
One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!
To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.
How does BioWare's latest stack up against its best offerings?
LOL
DAO pioneered a new era for cinematic rpgs while Vainguard pioneered well shampood hair.
In terms of traditional rpg aspects, origins wins. In terms of scale, presentation, and refined simplicity, Veilguard wins. Its not as simple as game A is better than game B, we have to set parameters
For example: Are there people that think origins is better? Yes, alot of them. Is it though? That is debatable.
Only for those with tremendously low standards and/or who are trying to push an agenda into gaming.
I'm thinking it's really just the former...that's what I hope anyways.
In no way, shape or form does this game come even remotely close to the nearest galaxy far away from dragon age origins or dragon age 2 for that matter.
I’d guess it doesn’t top it for me as I really enjoyed the first game but I can’t say for sure without playing both of them
World building? Yes indeed. One small building on one small patch of land on one desolate lifeless planet in one solar system at a time...apparently.