Bioware is a company that isn’t afraid to take criticism and learn lessons from it. You only have to look at the differences between Mass Effect and its sequel to see that – as the jump up in quality from “excellent” to “near perfect” shows – Bioware is a development house capable of accepting its shortcomings, dusting itself off and moving forward. Dragon Age 2 is another case in point: not only is it shaping up to be a huge improvement on the original, but also a fantastic RPG in its own right.
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.
This intelligent & accurate synopsis sums up Bioware and Dragons Age perfectly - and the sentiment is reflected throughout the serious RPG playing community.
"As an RPG enthusiast, I must say, I've been a little disappointed recently. I haven't had a mind-blowingly good time in an RPG since, oh, maybe Morrowind. Oblivion was a great game, and I loved the addition of the Radiant AI, the sprawling, beautifully-designed forests, and, of course, the awesome player-made content. But as has been mentioned in several other places, it was a slightly "dumbed-down" Elder Scrolls game.
I'm often hesitant to jump on the Bioware bandwagon because I'm really not the biggest fan of their games. After playing Elder Scrolls games to infinitum, with player-made content stretching the life of their games out as long as possible, I find it almost impossible to truly enjoy the linearity of a Bioware title. Oh sure, rollercoasters are fun, they're fast, they're exciting, they offer a great view, but they're on tracks. And you can't get off those tracks, no matter how hard you try.
In a Bioware game, you always know just exactly what you're supposed to be doing at any time, and there's a feeling of immediacy, you need to get it done before you can move on to something else. To me, that's a conventional video game. But I'll play any RPG handed to me, and I picked up Dragon Age and for the two weeks it lasted, it was an enjoyable movie. I call it a movie because it was much more a cinematic experience than a role-playing experience.
Everything worked in a very specific order, with only the most meager "wiggle room", but I enjoyed it. Unfortunately Dragon Age was extremely short and sweet. It was over before I even truly felt I was getting started."
(Courtesy Nexus RPG forums).