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vaibhavpisal
Member
Incoming Dragon Age Origins spiritual successor.
BG3 has opened the floodgates.
BG3 has opened the floodgates.
EDMIX
Member
This was being worked on long before BG3 lol
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I have such a sinking feeling this game will be a half-baked piece of shit and woke as hell. I would love to be wrong.
And I bet BioWare is getting euthanized after this flops.
And I bet BioWare is getting euthanized after this flops.
Pasta la Vista
Gold Member
Well this should be fun...
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Same wording on the PlayStation Store.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
And the tiny bit of leaked gameplay footage showed some really janky FFXVI style action combat
SublimeCorruptor
Member
Epic page is up.
diffusionx
Gold Member
However low your expectations are, they're not low enough
Dazraell
Gold Member
Looks like it's gonna be closer to Inquisition but even more dumbed down and action-heavy, kinda like Final Fantasy XVI. Also you really should look up who is a game director and what are their views on Dragon Age franchise
GymWolf
Gold Member
Pretty much.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
A recent history of BioWare:
2014: released Dragon Age Inquisition which IMO was pretty good
2015: work on Dragon Age 4 (code name Joplin) begins as a single player story-focused game
2017: released Mass Effect Andromeda which was released in a sorry state and was mediocre. But supposedly that was because the BioWare “A-Team” were all busy working on Anthem
2017: Joplin gets canceled because they want DA4 to be a live service game instead, based on Anthem’s code
2018: Dragon Age 4 development begins now code name Morrison, set to be a live service game
2019: Anthem releases and it’s such a broken, disappointing, half baked pile of shit that it makes ME: Andromeda look like a masterpiece in comparison
2020: Bioware announces their plan to totally overhaul and reboot Anthem
2021: BioWare cancels their plan to totally overhaul and reboot Anthem
2021: Bioware decides to remove the live service components from Morrison and make DA4 into a single player game
And there was a ton of staff turnover. I’ll just copy the section from Wikipedia because it’s too much to summarize:
The project has been marked by a high turnover of leading staff. Several veteran Dragon Age staff, including Laidlaw, left the company in response to Joplin's cancellation in 2017.[3] After the 2018 restart, Mark Darrah remained as an executive producer, while Matthew Goldman took over the position of creative director for the project from 2017 to 2021.[10] By December 3, 2020, Darrah had resigned from BioWare, replaced by BioWare Austin studio head Christian Dailey as executive producer.[11] Goldman left BioWare by November 2021,[5] and was replaced as Creative Director by John Epler.[12] Dailey left BioWare in February 2022.[13] Corinne Busche became game director thereafter, Benoit Houle director of product development, and Mac Walters production director.[13] Walters in turn left BioWare in January 2023.[14] In March 2023, Darrah returned as a consultant for the game and the Mass Effect team joined the production of Dreadwolf, according to EA.[15][16]
In August 2023, BioWare fired 50 people working on Dreadwolf and the next Mass Effectgame;[17] this included Mary Kirby who was one of the series' original writers and credited with "creating Varric and the Qunari".[18] PC Gamercommented "that's not to say there are no veterans of the good old days left, but you're looking at a very different group of people than the one that made the studio's greatest hits".[18] In October, seven of them sued BioWare for additional compensation, complaining that BioWare's NDAs prevented them from adding their work on Dreadwolf to their portfolio.[19]
en.m.wikipedia.org
2014: released Dragon Age Inquisition which IMO was pretty good
2015: work on Dragon Age 4 (code name Joplin) begins as a single player story-focused game
2017: released Mass Effect Andromeda which was released in a sorry state and was mediocre. But supposedly that was because the BioWare “A-Team” were all busy working on Anthem
2017: Joplin gets canceled because they want DA4 to be a live service game instead, based on Anthem’s code
2018: Dragon Age 4 development begins now code name Morrison, set to be a live service game
2019: Anthem releases and it’s such a broken, disappointing, half baked pile of shit that it makes ME: Andromeda look like a masterpiece in comparison
2020: Bioware announces their plan to totally overhaul and reboot Anthem
2021: BioWare cancels their plan to totally overhaul and reboot Anthem
2021: Bioware decides to remove the live service components from Morrison and make DA4 into a single player game
And there was a ton of staff turnover. I’ll just copy the section from Wikipedia because it’s too much to summarize:
The project has been marked by a high turnover of leading staff. Several veteran Dragon Age staff, including Laidlaw, left the company in response to Joplin's cancellation in 2017.[3] After the 2018 restart, Mark Darrah remained as an executive producer, while Matthew Goldman took over the position of creative director for the project from 2017 to 2021.[10] By December 3, 2020, Darrah had resigned from BioWare, replaced by BioWare Austin studio head Christian Dailey as executive producer.[11] Goldman left BioWare by November 2021,[5] and was replaced as Creative Director by John Epler.[12] Dailey left BioWare in February 2022.[13] Corinne Busche became game director thereafter, Benoit Houle director of product development, and Mac Walters production director.[13] Walters in turn left BioWare in January 2023.[14] In March 2023, Darrah returned as a consultant for the game and the Mass Effect team joined the production of Dreadwolf, according to EA.[15][16]
In August 2023, BioWare fired 50 people working on Dreadwolf and the next Mass Effectgame;[17] this included Mary Kirby who was one of the series' original writers and credited with "creating Varric and the Qunari".[18] PC Gamercommented "that's not to say there are no veterans of the good old days left, but you're looking at a very different group of people than the one that made the studio's greatest hits".[18] In October, seven of them sued BioWare for additional compensation, complaining that BioWare's NDAs prevented them from adding their work on Dreadwolf to their portfolio.[19]
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf - Wikipedia
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balls of snow
Member
Please be good.
Skifi28
Gold Member
It's going to be dreadwulf.
Humdinger
Gold Member
A recent history of BioWare:
2014: released Dragon Age Inquisition which IMO was pretty good
2015: work on Dragon Age 4 (code name Joplin) begins as a single player story-focused game
2017: released Mass Effect Andromeda which was released in a sorry state and was mediocre. But supposedly that was because the BioWare “A-Team” were all busy working on Anthem
2017: Joplin gets canceled because they want DA4 to be a live service game instead, based on Anthem’s code
2018: Dragon Age 4 development begins now code name Morrison, set to be a live service game
2019: Anthem releases and it’s such a broken, disappointing, half baked pile of shit that it makes ME: Andromeda look like a masterpiece in comparison
2020: Bioware announces their plan to totally overhaul and reboot Anthem
2021: BioWare cancels their plan to totally overhaul and reboot Anthem
2021: Bioware decides to remove the live service components from Morrison and make DA4 into a single player game
And there was a ton of staff turnover. I’ll just copy the section from Wikipedia because it’s too much to summarize:
The project has been marked by a high turnover of leading staff. Several veteran Dragon Age staff, including Laidlaw, left the company in response to Joplin's cancellation in 2017.[3] After the 2018 restart, Mark Darrah remained as an executive producer, while Matthew Goldman took over the position of creative director for the project from 2017 to 2021.[10] By December 3, 2020, Darrah had resigned from BioWare, replaced by BioWare Austin studio head Christian Dailey as executive producer.[11] Goldman left BioWare by November 2021,[5] and was replaced as Creative Director by John Epler.[12] Dailey left BioWare in February 2022.[13] Corinne Busche became game director thereafter, Benoit Houle director of product development, and Mac Walters production director.[13] Walters in turn left BioWare in January 2023.[14] In March 2023, Darrah returned as a consultant for the game and the Mass Effect team joined the production of Dreadwolf, according to EA.[15][16]
In August 2023, BioWare fired 50 people working on Dreadwolf and the next Mass Effectgame;[17] this included Mary Kirby who was one of the series' original writers and credited with "creating Varric and the Qunari".[18] PC Gamercommented "that's not to say there are no veterans of the good old days left, but you're looking at a very different group of people than the one that made the studio's greatest hits".[18] In October, seven of them sued BioWare for additional compensation, complaining that BioWare's NDAs prevented them from adding their work on Dreadwolf to their portfolio.[19]
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf - Wikipedia
Boy, that does not instill much confidence...
The Cockatrice
Member
I liked Solas a lot and his story/dlc in Inquisition. It also gave us one of the best songs in the franchise.
Please be fucking good.
Please be fucking good.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Why any of you should have any smidgeons of hope or faith in this is beyond me
BioWare died over a decade ago
BioWare died over a decade ago
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
New screenshots.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Solas in particular was quite dramatic at the end of inquisition. After that lead up to the ending and the well of sorrow I think they’ll be a lot of attention on elves as a species.
Plague Doctor
Member
After Anthem and Andromeda, unless BioWare had some sort of long night of the soul reflection and somehow magically EA isn't being EA with monetization and somehow they got back the old writing talent from the golden age of the company, I don't understand how anyone could have faith in this company and this game.
I could be wrong but there is a lot of conditionals for this not being utter modern AAA shit.
I could be wrong but there is a lot of conditionals for this not being utter modern AAA shit.
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Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
I've no expectations at all. It can be even worse than Inquisition or at the same exact level with outdated conversation system, animations etc. Can't even imagine that combat system will be even close to the first Dragon's Dogma, let alone remake. Also can't see how they're going to beat BG3 in pretty much everything. The game should've came out like 4-5 years ago, but now.... Good luck.
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Art is very goodNew screenshots.
StereoVsn
Member
Modern game for Modern Audiences!
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Will this be a proper CRPG? Or an action RPG? I remember seeing some very early stuff with action combat and over the shoulder camera.
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StereoVsn
Member
I had to dig a hole for my expectations to get low enough!It's a shame there is only one good game in this franchise, keeping my expectations floor level low.
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Luipadre
Gold Member
It will be a dumbed down action RPG. Dont expect anything close to BG or even the first game
Sentenza
Member
Unless there was some drastic and sudden change of plans it was already confirmed (and even leaked in some clip) that the combat would be action.
The leaked clip didn't look particularly encouraging, for the record.
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Cautiously optimistic. Anthem was just so awful, in so many different ways, that I'm wary of Bioware being capable of putting something out of high quality in this day & age. It's been a long time.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
In all likelihood the best point of comparison for this gam would be Inquisition. So if you liked that game, well, look out!