Dealspwn: 'When it was reaffirmed that Dragon Age 2 would be arriving in March 2011, across the top-end consoles and PC simultaneously, the audience of assembled journalists, bloggers and lucky enthusiasts erupted into applause. BioWare’s next-gen take on classic, Tolkien-esque fantasy may have floundered around a bit in the last eighteen months trying to forge an identity of its own but its surprisingly compelling characters and storyline provide have earned the series a pretty big following.
Understandably, BioWare and EA are looking to see if they can strike gold twice with a sequel that Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw assured us had taken into account the feedback from the fans'
Dragon Age 2 set the precedent that the series would always carry our choices over, but was it worth it?
If the choices won't matter, why bother? Bioware works so hard at giving meaningful choices but rarely if ever carrying out the impact of such choices to the end.
Immersed Gamer writes: "In order to replace the oppressive BioWare Points system, EA is making a large portion of the Mass Effect and Dragon Age DLC catalogs free for PC users.
For those of you blissfully unaware, EA and BioWare employed a payment system called BioWare Points on PC to pay for DLCs for titles like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. While PC gamers have been struggling with BioWare point’s unfair conversion rates and extremely scarce and cost-detrimental sales.
Console players have been allowed to purchase content in pieces through the appropriate Sony and Microsoft shops. For real money, and not BioWare monopoly bucks. In turn, console players missed out on some DLC content, such as Mass Effect 2 pre-order bonuses that have been repackaged into a DLC pack."
Great response to Ubisoft and their disgusting behavior. Ubisoft decide to take away DLC from people who paid for it, while EA give it for free to everyone when they realize their system sucks. Who would have thought that EA of all companies would be showing Ubisoft how it should be done (even if this is EA fixing their own mistakes as well).
What goes around comes around and I promise you, Ubisoft will see their actions blow back on them when their diminishing sales numbers and stock taking a hit downward. That's the only way a company learns when they decide to be reactive instead of proactive.
BLG writes: "There was a time that BioWare games were the biggest deal in gaming. The Canadian developer’s legacy of all-time classics is well known. Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic, and Baldur’s Gate are some of the biggest names in gaming.
While BioWare’s quality has fallen off lately, there’s no denying the quality of titles in their portfolio. That’s why we’re going to dive in and rank every BioWare game from worst to best. By every, I do mean every BioWare game, even the ones you completely forgot about!"
Ranked from worse to even more worse more like, they been on free fall for a fair few years now and I personally don't think any of there earlier games have aged well
Wow to think at one point in their history they made a Sonic the Hedgehog game..crazy
Anthem is crazy underrated. I really enjoyed it. ME1 is Bioware's best imo
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I actually put quite a bit of hours into Anthem but i dont think its underrated. It was a huge mess, server issues, gameplay issues, crashes, no endgame loop, too few different enemies, uninteresting gear. too few dungeons.
It for sure had potential and if they could have managed to keep the same gameplay of the classes but without the rest of the issues, this game could have been huge, but in the state in which it launched it was such a letdown. They partly fixed some of the issues, but it took too long. A grinding game like this needs to hook players from day 1.
I'm afraid Dragon Age (and Mass effect) is just another dumbed down, linear, commercially driven casual game franchise masquerading as an RPG. Despite excellent production values and story-telling don't be fooled by the RPG tag.
These games could have been absolute classics if Bioware had developed open worlds with abundant exploration, trading, factions, loot & in-depth leveling and in-game customization - key elements crucial to true RPGs - and would have challenged the likes of open world greats such as Fallout, Witcher, Elder Scrolls etc. The fact that it falls way short is hugely disappointing... and concerning for all serious gamers and the RPG genre as a whole.
The time spent producing the plethora of drip fed DLC-for-cash snippets could have been better spent developing true RPG masterpieces, and by taking the easier dollar-friendly option Bioware have sold their soul.