Speaking on a Giant Bomb podcast, Jeff Grubb explored how Dreadwolf’s constant delays are also impacting the next Mass Effect game.

  • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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    1910 months ago

    In all honesty does anyone actually care anymore? Like, I really have no interest in a new Mass Effect or Dragon Age at all now, and I loved both series at one point. Andromeda was a mess, Dragon Age 4 was shaping up to be a live service shitshow until they abandoned it (allegedly), and this is the same Bioware that gave us Anthem. At this point I’d rather they just let both series die

    • @MTLion3@lemm.ee
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      1010 months ago

      Let BioWare die at this point, honestly. Like, they’ve done nothing of true note in the last decade under EA. At this point, even if they were freed from their prison, so much of the talent that made BioWare worth a damn is gone anyway.

      • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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        810 months ago

        That’s another good point, Bioware now is so far removed from Bioware then that any Dragon Age or Mass Effect may as well be them selling you fanfiction. And I would have no faith in a new Bioware IP after Anthem so at this point why keep it around?

        • stopthatgirl7OP
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          810 months ago

          One of the people they just laid off was the writer who created Varric fricking Tethras. I don’t have any faith in them anymore.

          I want Dreadwolf to come out just to finish the story they’ve been setting up in the books, comics, and Inquisition, but I’ve accepted we might never get it. They might rush out a book like they did with the quarian arc in Andromeda when Dreadwolf falls through, maybe.

            • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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              310 months ago

              Why, who else is gone? I’d heard already about the writer for Varric, just how little faith should I actually have in it?

              • stopthatgirl7OP
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                710 months ago

                The guy mentioned there wrote Joker, Aveline, Sera, and a lot of the really good scenes in the Dragon Age series.

                  • stopthatgirl7OP
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                    610 months ago

                    They’re firing all the senior people because those are the ones with the highest salaries. Which tells you just how much trouble BioWare must be in.

                • @MTLion3@lemm.ee
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                  210 months ago

                  Writers are the cornerstone of any epic rpg. Character development is crucial. Getting rid of the people behind both of those pillars is shooting a nice hole in your foot

    • @n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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      310 months ago

      Andromeda was half decent (gameplay) the story was kinda lack luster but there was a few good moments with the characters. I would love a fifth installment. They should say screw dragon age and put that into the grave where it belongs

      • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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        310 months ago

        The gameplay was actually pretty good, but the writing, the setting, the characters, none of the rest of it was any good. I gave up after the first planet because I just didn’t care about anything at all, and I don’t have any faith that Bioware could even reach that level any more