Dragon Age

BioWare is working on a new Dragon Age game

In an interview with Eurogamer, Fallen London and Sunless Sea creator Alexis Kennedy confirmed that BioWare is working on a new Dragon Age game. This game is still in a really early development stage, though Kennedy will be working with Mike Laidlaw and lead Dragon Age scribe Patrick Weekes.

As Kennedy told Eurogamer:

“There are huge differences between all of that and what I’m working on at BioWare, which I can now legitimately say is in the Dragon Age franchise although it has been known for a while. Notionally it was a secret but, because of who I was working with, everyone who cared knew. And then the day I started, Mark Darrah [executive producer of the Dragon Age franchise] tweeted saying ‘welcome to the Dragon Age franchise’, so I thought, well, I guess that’s official now then.”

We expect this new Dragon Age game to release after BioWare’s new upcoming unannounced IP that is codenamed Dylan, so don’t expect to hear anything noteworthy about this new Dragon Age title anytime soon.

Still, its good knowing that BioWare is working on it (and our guess is that it will be using the Frostbite 3 Engine, so we can at least expect beautiful visuals).

146 thoughts on “BioWare is working on a new Dragon Age game”

    1. What does that even mean, though, anyway? Specifically. After all, BioWare Austin did Dragon Age: Inquisition, & that turned out sh*t. Now that BioWare Montreal is all but dead, that leaves us with BioWare “OG” (Edmonton), & BioWare Austin. Edmonton is busy on their “new IP” project, so I’m guessing it’s more likely than not that Austin ends up doing Dragon Age – again.

      Because, we all know how well that turned out for them last time, right?

      1. They have no idea how to make an open world RPG in todays world. Bet money they ape Witchers style but they can’t do it. It’s too hard for them.

        1. Plus EA probably thinks The Witcher isn’t “mainstream” (read: retard-proof) enough, so they’ll try for some watered-down version of it instead, probably by taking a few pages out of U-BE-SOFT’s book….. Uh-oh.

  1. they already destroyed mass effect series and turned it into utter crap. DA:I was a strong meh grade so now its time to kill it off. oh and dont forget to buy new 500$ gpu to play this junk. no thanks

    1. But still all DA games sales strong 5 milion units, also there`s not much replacement for such franchise. Witcher and Skyrim are completly diffrent games. The same kinda goes for Mass Effect. The only game close to s-f fantasy clone is Warframe.

      1. True, they sell a lot, but nowaday consumers/sheep are willing to buy everything with a recognizable brand name on it, even if the game is total garbage. My wallet is closed for Bioware products

        1. “nowaday consumers/sheep are willing to buy everything with a recognizable brand name on it”

          Some. Others are waking up, fortunately. Even the Cult of Bethesda couldn’t properly defend the fail that was Fallout 4, for example, & Andromeda didn’t sell any real numbers, so after Dragon Age: Inquisition, I don’t expect Dragon Age “4” to make any real bank, either, really.

          On the bright side, if nothing else, it’ll probably signify the end of BioWare Austin for anything that isn’t SWTOR development? Hm!

          1. Even though they couldn’t defend it they still bought it. Fallout 4.

            What’s the point when they already voted yes with their wallet.

          2. Yeah, but chances are at least some of them will think twice when it comes to Elder Scrolls 6.

            It’s like a clogged pipe; the sh*t builds up over time, eventually resulting in the actual clog, itself. Unless you unclog it, the sh*t won’t flush, so you’ll end up with an overflow. Right now, we’re heading towards the overflow, & it’s going to be one hell of a stinker 😀

          3. After Fallout 4? F*ck yeah – in regards to the community, anyway.

            Even the Cult of Bethesda is split on that one, so, yeah, hope! 😀

          4. Usually I hate your analogies. This one is good and makes sense. Carry on. (Bioware is the turd that is clogging it)

          5. “Usually I hate your analogies.”

            :O
            🙁

            “This one is good and makes sense. Carry on.”

            :O
            😀

      2. Yeah, but they’re selling by advertisement investment. As in, they sell because they throw money after money on ads. At some point, because of all the burned bridges, the return will be negative. Hell, it is already at a point where they need to sell millions of copies to get a return of the investment.
        They’re saturating their client base and causing big problems for the entire industry.

          1. A saturation of a client base is exactly what it seems to be. There’s a group of people who like a genre and others who will avoid that genre. In Bioware’s case their client base is those who enjoy story driven RPG games. And we’re no longer enjoying their games. Their client base (those who really enjoy story driven rpgs) is getting saturated (feeling like we had enough).

          2. Expanding on that; “feeling like we’ve had enough [of their bullsh*t quality games with terrible SJW stories & sh*tty fetch quests].”

            There we go.

          3. Ok i understand now. Still DA have evolved if we consider major o factors so i dont think thats the core problem. But i think the client base haven`t been saturated by being tired of story driven RPG(what they would prefer instead? RPG full of gamepelay with barely attached story?), It`s just that DAI opted for open world RPG first time in Bioware history and they did not quite stand up for the task, hence mass of “fetch” quest whitch makes game more boring than DA:O. CD projekt figured it out earlier, mostly `cos they alredy had good side quest in W2 but also that they had teoretically more money, more people that they were grinding and crunching AF, plus polish developers still earn even lesss than 1/3 of what western developers get.

          4. But there lies the rub. You see, when 3 dentists decided to go into making games, Bioware was the most passionate gaming company there was. They hired wonderful content creators like Drew Karpyshyn (who created the Mass Effect universe).
            EA threw money and expectations at it, forcing Bioware to change to meet the new goals. You can try to make a case that it was not EA’s fault directly, but the simple “tone at the top” is more than enough to cause the change we witnessed.
            You can talk about budgets until the cows come home but in the end, it is all about a combination of creative, competent and passionate people doing what they love. CDProjektRED hires driven content creators. In fact, from the 1,500 people involved, only 240 were from “in-house” and many of those are not Polish.
            Bioware started to make a lot of mistakes with their hiring politics, bringing back Drew Karpyshyn and putting him working in KOTOR (online). Imagine that, getting one the greatest creative minds in the industry and putting him in KOTOR (not even in its inception). Bioware started to get people who only create to promote ideological and political narratives. It is not about you enjoying freely a universe created with care and passion. It is about appropriating these universes and take as much as humanly possible from the gamer.
            When KOTOR 1 came out, I drove from work directly to a store to get the game. It was late, I was tired and dirty and I had to drive over 30 minutes to get it and wait in line. Thankfully I had pre-order it (remember when pre-order was actually necessary?). It was great, completely worth it. I was a fan. But sometimes we have to stop and look at how things are, and the truth is that Bioware (the Bioware who created so many games I loved) is dead. It is no longer Bioware, it only has its name.

          5. I miss launch parties 🙁

            Haven’t been to one in years, since there’s been nothing worth celebrating the launch of, in years >.<

        1. We don`t talk about personal opinion about DA, but you are right. DA is unique. Becose it doesn`t have any real substitude. Witcher is more action packed RPG without hero creation, Skyrim is in it`s own league, Fallout is more a TES clone in its core concept, Pillars of ethernity and Tyranny are much more oldschool oriented. Only Dragons Dogma is the closest as you get but not always.

          Andromeda was their first mayor downfall, even DA 2 wasn`t such low.
          But still we need to ask ourself if Bioware could stillf*cked up?? They dindn`t f*cked up with DAI after DA2.

          1. Yeah, sure, DA is “unique”, to a degree. So, what? If it’s sh*t, people will still not buy it, regardless of how “unique” it is.

            Also, yeah, no. Mass Effect 2 was a step down from Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3 was a major misstep, Dragon Age 2 was mediocre, at best, & Dragon Age: Inquisition was terrible. Andromeda was just the icing on a very long, very drawn out process of quality degradation that culminated (thus far) in that sick f*cking joke.

          2. What, people sh*tting all over it?

            People are sh*tting all over it, wake up, mate.

          3. LOL “people like me.”

            Oh, I love this guy. He’s seriously either completely oblivious, or yet another EA shill. I haven’t decided yet.

          4. If you have nothing to say to those people who down you ridiculous reasons going to say “You are a EA shill” ,Nice try.

          5. “My ridiculous reasons.”

            So, my reasons are ridiculous, but yours, apparently, are not?

            Okay, kiddo, keep telling yourself that.

            Also, yeah, when you’ve got EA’s logo as your avatar, you’re a shill. Period.

          6. Yes,your reasons to blame EA is ridiculous because you want EA making a short SP game+DRM Free then EA stock going to down after that EA be a NEW THQ(That’s never happening)

            A simple example to show your reasons is just ridiculous.

            News:EA Making new Mass Effect after MEA.
            You:New ME going to be new Andsdsdsd and I’m 100% sure that game is s..t

            News:EA put Mass Effect series “on ice”
            You:Destroy other franchise by EA………EA Destroy Mass effect…and other ridiculous reasons.

            You never look at EA that they are looking for an excellent development team and the right time to build!

            And many other examples.

            “when you’ve got EA’s logo as your avatar,you’re a shill”
            When you said if I like a comment form another person that mean I liked myself,yes,it’s your logic!

            But you don’t think that I love EA for that I have EA logo in my avatar.(Just in case loving him isn’t means that I accepting any games from EA and every EA games is awesome for me….
            a simple example I don’t like NFS 2015/2016 so much after 30h playing I left it,I enjoying a little but game had many problems….
            I said it for everyone and developers..Hope next one be good and bring back The NFS name…)

          7. “you want EA making a short SP game”

            “What.” Was my original reaction, then I read the other one, I see now; you think I just want short Japanese games from EA, right? Yeah, no. I don’t give a sh*t about length, I care about quality. You can have your game be 6 hours long for all I give a sh*t, so long as it’s got serious replay value, or if it’s priced for under $30.

            “News:EA Making new Mass Effect after MEA.
            You:New ME going to be new Andsdsdsd and I’m 100% sure that game is s..t”

            No sh*t. Andromeda was sh*t, so there’s no reason to expect the sequel to be any better. IPs don’t improve these days, they just degrade.

            “News:EA put Mass Effect series “on ice”
            You:Destroy other franchise by EA………EA Destroy Mass effect…and other ridiculous reasons.”

            Yeah, EA took Mass Effect away from Edmonton, just like they took Dragon Age away from them, gave them to an incompetent, inferior development studio (Austin for Dragon Age, Montreal for Mass Effect), & either gave them no supervision what-so-ever, or over-interfered. Either way, the end results were sh*tty mediocrities.

            “You never look at EA that they are looking for an excellent development team and the right time to build!”

            They’re WHAT? And, pray tell, what actual proof are you basing these absurd claims upon? Oh, right, I’m sorry – you have none.

            “When you said if I like a comment for another person that mean I liked myself,yes,it’s your logic!”

            No idea what the f*ck this even says.

            “But you don’t think that I love EA for that I have EA logo in my avatar.”

            😮 Independent thought! Good for you! 😀

          8. You`re suprised that i don`t bother with such haters like you? With each your sentence filled with hate speech even if you will come closer to true facts they will be supressed by your hate. If not for this, I would in half agree on your opinion.

            Also, that “Oh, I love this guy. He’s seriously either completely oblivious” shows that you are only here for a showcase, to show off to others. You`re not interested in serious conversation. Im sorry but thats end of discussion.

          9. “True facts.”

            Apparently I’m not talking facts, I’m talking out of my *ss? So, pray tell, how do you figure that, exactly? No, really, because every date I quoted is accurate, everything I said about quality degradation & mediocre reception is accurate, so…… yeah?

            I mean, I know that there’s a fair number of EA shills still in denial about people thinking DAI is sh*t (not to mention the rest), but yeah, it’s the simple truth, really.

        1. DA2: Gameplay was decent, story was sh*t, replay value was non-existent.

          I mean, seriously, how in the f*ck did they actually manage to kill the replay value….. Jesus.

          1. By category, or overall? Current favourites, or all time?

            Or I could just list current interests, which would be counting down the hours to Vanquish PC, Rainbow Six: Siege, looking to do Bayonetta PC at some point soon now that it’s been patched, & I’ve also found Shadow Warrior 2 on my mind, lately (again). Oh, & I’m looking forward to Croteam finishing up Serious Sam: Fusion, & that Serious Sam 2 remake of theirs.

            Other than that, I’m hoping Nier gets patched soon, because I’ve heard great things, I’m thinking of redoing Darksiders 1 & 2 at some point before 3, I’m looking to get Mankind Divided once it goes on discount, & Styx: Shards of Darkness at some point soon. Oh, & since PREY turned out to be good, I suppose I’ll have to snag it at some point for a steep discount, because f*ck ZeniMax.

            Haven’t had a good RTS in a while, haven’t played an MMO in a couple of years now. Then of course there’s the innumerable games that need to be 100%’d by putting in excessive amounts of f*cking effort that I’m just too lazy to do more often than not 😀

            Oh, & I fire up Quake 3 in the form of ioQuake 3 every once in a while, because why not.

          2. All time favorites. Though this was interesting.

            Prey was fine, why do we not like ZeniMax?

          3. Ehh I really wasn’t that impressed. A fun game I guess, but I quickly lost interest in the game’s story. IDK as someone who loves deus ex and thief, but could never get into system shock, this game has some of those problems for me.

          4. the fact that there isn’t any cutscene to disturb your gameplay and story isn’t shoved in your face even though it’s great makes it a fantastic game, entire game is inside and outside of a creative and complex space structure, everything feels real and authentic to me, i spent time reading almost everything (every email, every note and etc), i don’t know how or why i got so obsessed with everything about this game, it has many flaws but i loved it, there’s a sense of mystery similar to dishonored 2 level design, even if you use cheats and trainer to max your character, you’d still want to explore and game is still feels mysterious, although that’s just me, obviously many people even disliked it

          5. Bunch of f*cking anti-consumerist *ssholes.

            All-time favourites by category? Tricky. This is basically going by what I can actually remember, more than anything;

            – FPS:
            – Singleplayer FPS, FPS-RPG: Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R. (OG), Crysis (OG), Halo: Combat Evolved, Bioshock 1/2, Far Cry 2, DOOM 1/2, S.TA.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, System Shock 2, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy etc. etc. etc. I’m sure I forgot a few. Something on consoles, I think?
            – Multiplayer: Battlefield 2, Quake 3, Call of Duty 4, Rainbow Six: Siege, Bad Company 2 (sort-of, it’s a solid game in its own way), Halo 3 (sadly on consoles….), & I forgot a couple, I’m sure.

            Honourable mentions for Alpha Protocol

            – TPS:
            – Single-Player: Vanquish, Mass Effect (OG), Spec Ops: The Line, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.
            – Multiplayer: Star Wars: Battlefront II (Pandemic). Space Marine? I guess.

            Yeah, I’m not too big on TPSs.

            – Stealth: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Hitman: Blood Money/Hitman (2016), Thief (OG), Batman: Arkham Asylum, The Dark Mod, The Saboteur, Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven

            – RPG: Way too many categories to just pick one, specifically, like, I could say Fallout: New Vegas, Dragon Age: Origins, Witcher 1/3, Baldur’s Gate, etc. etc. etc. Overall being far too vague for such a broad-reaching genre.
            – A-RPG is definitely Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, though Torchlight II & Path of Exile are also excellent.
            – J-RPGs, we’re descending into sub-categories again, like Demon’s/Dark Souls (OG), Devil May Cry 4, Final Fantasy 7, Metroid Prime: Trilogy, sh*t, I’m forgetting some again, now. Pokemon Emerald & Platinum? Heh. Big fan of Castlevania on the Nintendo handhelds, the Wii had some great, varied games, never bought a Wii U, though I’ve heard of some great games on it.

            – MMO: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (WoW circa 2007, before it went to sh*ts & giggles), EVE Online, Warframe is good, Star Wars Galaxies pre-combat rebalancing patch, & I’m forgetting something.

            – RTS: Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Never been much for DOTA, but yeah, WC3 DOTA/DOTA 2, I suppose. Warhammer: 40,000 Dawn of War II, Starcraft (OG), & some others, long forgotten, now.

            I’m forgetting some others, like various indie games (Super Meat Boy, for example), dogfighting sims, space sims, etc. assorted 8-bit & 16-bit titles, etc.

            All-time favourites, overall? Sh*t….. Yeah, I’m not that good.

          6. Okay thanks for sharing! Really need to play S.TA.L.K.E.R. at some point.

          7. best rpgs of all time
            dragon age origins, new vegas, witcher2
            best fp rpg of al time
            prey, dishonored1,2
            best strategy games of all time:
            attila total war, wargame, C&C, wargame series
            best fps: probably csgo and new wolfenstein games
            tps: max payne 3, 40kspacemarine
            sport: fifa, ufc
            rest of genres are trash

          8. Dude you missed Homeworld series, Gothic and 3d platformers(POP, Mirrors Edge etc.). Also where’s the honorable mention of Dark Messiah!

          9. Homeworld (OG, not that Remastered piece of sh*t) absolutely, good point. Can’t remember much of Gothic, good point on the platformers, yeah, definitely Mirror’s Edge. Forgot about Dark Messian years ago…. >.<

          10. Weren’t you the one who was talking mad garbage about Prey before it released? Saying it was going to be Dishonored 2 performance with no gameplay or storyline?

          11. It looked like Dishonored in Space with a side of System Shock & a little Deus Ex in the propaganda marketing ZeniMax-Bethesda was dishing out to us, so, yeah, I called it Dishonored in Space – gameplay-wise. Never said a word about the story, but yeah, I assumed there’d be launch issues, seeing as they’re a studio licensing CryEngine for the first time, though as it would seem, CryEngine V’s taken significant steps forward in that regard, which is great news.

            Other than that, it turns out it’s an actually good game & it runs great, what can I say; at least I’m right 90% of the time ^^

          12. i have to admit there was definitely some replay value with the class system
            first time i went as rogue archer, game was quite hard
            second time i went as a two handed warrior game was easy as pie

            The DLC’s were a lot of fun, it wasn’t honestly all that bad
            i quite enjoyed it even with it’s glaring flaws

    2. DAO was the milestone and went downhill afterwards.
      What about the “gorgeous” graphics the op is blabbering about? About a game that will come no sooner than 5 years from now? Frostbite 3? Really?

      1. It`s probably already 2 years in developement acording to leaks so it looks like late 2018/2019 Q1 game.

    3. DAI wasn’t bad, but wasn’t good either. Just average in the RPG realm.

      Here’s hoping that they learned something from Andromeda… and hire a good writers.

      1. Nah, average is something like Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny and Torment Numenara. DAI is just MMO-like trash.

        1. So everything thats not Oldschool isometric view spiritual successor RPG is below average?? And whats that abuot that MMO comparison?

          1. Uh… what? Wasteland 2, PoE, Tyranny and Nü Torment ARE “oldschool isometric sipiritual successor RPGs” But they’re average. Not really outstanding in any way.

            And DAI systems and mechanics have a lot in common with MMOs. It’s basically a single player MMO.

            Is it clear enough now?

          2. Disagree somewhat, but I like the overall thought process; Wasteland 2 (OG, haven’t played Director’s Cut yet) was good. Not legendary, but good. Pillars of Eternity & Tyranny I’d go with above-average, but not exactly noteworthy in the long term, yeah. Never tried Torment, got turned off by some friends.

          3. For me all those are somewhat in the same range. If you want something actually good, you should look into Underrail, Age of Decadence, Original Sin. That’s the really good stuff!

          4. Kinda… but DA core system and mechanics didn`t change from Origins so you could say it was always MMO type.

          5. What the dikk are you talking about? All 3 games seem like they belong
            in different franchises because of the systems being so different.

          6. All he did was state what was average. You chime in with “SO EVERYDING IS GARBAGE?” wtf? Also yeah DAI is straight up single player MMO

  2. What the F**k why???
    Why is EA keeping their abortion of a studio active? ohh i get it
    they can’t fire muslim migrants and feminist developers, it will look bad on them
    eitherway, it’s not a game i’ll ever care about, or any game on origin for that matter

        1. Visceral Games still running. But still some of those franchises they transfered elswere. If the defunct Bioware who will make games for EA to compete with Bethesda, Obsydian, CD projekt RED?

          1. Visceral Games is a shell, a puppet, doing what EA tells them to do. Right now, they’re making Star Wars games, they’re all but dead, & they died the moment EA started f*cking about with Dead Space 3.

            Transferred? What got transferred? To where? To whom? What, you mean Need for Speed? Great, a completely irrelevant franchise that hasn’t been good since I don’t even remember when, anymore, is still alive. Yippee!

            “If the defunct Bioware who will make games for EA to compete with Bethesda, Obsydian, CD projekt RED?”

            Nobody, & they don’t even care. They’ve got their Star Wars contract right now, they’ve got their sports contracts, their mobile bullsh*t, etc. Everything else, everything that doesn’t make money; f*ck it.

          2. Again, don`t bring your personal opinion about games to the discussion about games market. Bioware already doing new Star Wars Game. Plus they didn`t shut down The old republic` cos it brings them money.

          3. “Personal opinions”? What? They’re general consensus opinions, not to mention the sales numbers.

            BioWare isn’t doing Star Wars, that rumour was debunked. EA has 3 in-development Star Wars titles, & BioWare has one unannounced IP in the works that’s (supposedly) not a Star Wars game. Either way, time will tell. Regardless, EA’s Star Wars contract is only 10 years long, & more than 3 of those years are already up, meaning they can only carry themselves on the backs of sh*tty Star Wars games for so much longer, as I can’t see Disney extending their exclusivity deal – they just lose too much money on it by not being able to farm their Star Wars licenses out to whomever they please, on their own terms.

            And? The Old Republic is no World of Warcraft. It brings in sh*t. Sure, the sh*t it brings in is still enough to justify continued development (for now), but it launched over 5 years ago already, so it only has so much time left on its lifespan as it is, regardless.

          4. Well if you think that there`s something like general consensus in this worl i think you should stop beliveing in fairly tales.

            Also 7 years means a lot of time, plus which publisher do you think would make Star Wars?

            TOR in on since 5 years that means it passed the test. Unless it would be already gone and we would forgotten it.

          5. LOL. What a ridiculous statement. General consensus exists for a lot of things. Sure, it’s a case-by-case basis thing, but LOL.

            It takes at least 3 years to make a game from start to finish, & they’re launching new IPs rather than working off of existing stuff, meaning it takes even more effort than usual. EA has only got so many major studios left, & even if they put them all onto Star Wars games exclusively, only a fraction of those would net them any significant profits, never mind be actually worth buying, in the first place. As for who would license it, mate, back when LucasArts was still licensing out Star Wars (before Disney bought it all), not only was LucasArts working on them internally, but they were also farming out Star Wars to whomever was interested, which was netting them actually good creations, like Knights of the Old Republic.

            And that was before the Disney Star Wars Cinematic Universe. Right now Star Wars is one of the hottest properties you can make tie-in games for, & Disney stupidly gave EA the f*cking exclusivity to all of it. Dumbest choice possible.

            “Test”? What test? SWTOR went F2P within 6 months from launch, did it pass that “test”, too?

          6. “EA’s Star Wars contract is only 10 years long”
            It’s until 2023 So:
            Star Wars Visceral Games by Amy Hennig in 2018
            Star wars Respawn Entertainment by Stig Asmussen in 2019 or 2020
            2021 or 2022 you will see new RPG Star wars game from BioWare ?

          7. Star Wars: Battleturd II in 2017, Star Wars: Battleturd III in 2019, Star Wars: Battleturd IV in 2021.

            Star Wars: Battle-Nuked This IP Into The Ground, Like a Boss! by 2023.

    1. This kind of people are working for Bioware nowadays (yt link):
      youtube : /watch?v=neTTQLbmhcA
      Yes she is Bioware employee since late 2015 / early 2016, and its rumored that she is also working on a new Bioware IP. Imo, this kind of people DON’T BELONG in gaming industry.

      1. yeah EA is bat$hit insane about SJW
        they literally FIRED most of their straight white developers in the team in order to make room for feminists/gay/trans/muslim developers

        so what you’re left with is people with no talent or experince
        creating a really $hitty game, good thing i uninstalled origin

        everything EA develops turns to be a pile of $hit anyway

        1. Trans? Trans is so 20th century. These are non-denominational Dragons! Otherwise known as Super-Dragons!

          Wait, is it sexist to call them Dragons? 😮

  3. In 2016 I finished all dragon age games, and after andromeda flop no thanks I pass as I passed andromeda

  4. Man! That cover reminds me of what Dragon Age once was. A gritty dark fantasy filled with death. The entire feel was lost in Inquisition, here’s hoping the next game gets back the awesome grit.

  5. Never buying any Bioware title again, the magic is gone, bought Andromeda from one of those cdkeys sites for 40 bucks, and oh boy do I regret it, should have known after the fetch quest parade that was Inquisition.

    Ugly characters, sudoku, boring vaults, fetch quests, horrible writing, dumb combat, the good old days of Origins and Mass Effect 2 are gone and the Bioware I loved is gone.

    And I hate to say this, I really do but The Witcher 3 raised the bar.

    Also screw Bethesda and their review embargo too!

    And Rockstar too with how they treat the PC gaming community!

  6. nowadays bioware produce mediocre subpar games due to casualizing and simplification aiming at the console crowd. i can’t be bother until there’s a sale.

  7. Moar sexxx, moar ugly females, moar sexuality freedom, moar fetch quest, moar salez. IT would work!!!
    Looks like not working well for them.

  8. Jade Empire came out in 2005, so I’m not sure what your point is here, exactly.

    DA:I sold on the BioWare & Dragon Age brand names, alone, coupled with the advertising campaign & review scores EA bought it. That aside, its community reception at launch was mediocre, & its legacy is thoroughly sh*t. Dragon Age “4” won’t even outsell Dragon Age 2, at this point.

    Especially so after the EPIC FAIL that was Andromeda.

    1. – Whats your point about Jade Empire came out in 2005? Mass Effect has been already in developement with intent to relase as trylogy and Dragon age development started in 2001. Way before EA aquisition.
      – I can understand that Inqusition didnt top Orgins but mediocre reception? You`re probably from another continent.

      1. And? There’s “Before The EA Buyout” & “After The EA Buyout” BioWare. Before BioWare = Jade Empire. After Bioware = Dragon Age 2, Massively Defective: The Androgynous Syndrome, etc. etc. etc. The further in you go in regards to BioWare being under EA’s thumb, the worse the quality gets. The further back you go in regards to BioWare still being independent, the more masterpieces you can attribute to them.

        Here’s some dates for you to keep in mind:
        – Jade Empire launch date: April 12, 2005
        – BioWare buyout date: October 11, 2007
        – Mass Effect X360 launch date: November 20, 2007
        – Dragon Age: Origins launch date: November 3, 2009
        – Mass Effect 2 launch date: January 26, 2010
        – Dragon Age II launch date: March 8, 2011

        In regards to Inquisition; yeah, okay……. sure thing, nutty.

        1. You just shown that under EA they create at least 4 awsome, well recieved and well sold games.

          Also baldurs gate is diffrent era of gaming. After Kotor bioware wanted to make something else than another D&D clone.

          As a Gamer who got his first PC after 18 and grew up on s.t.a.l.k.e.r., The Witcher(first one), Bioshock, Prey, F.E.A.R. and Mass Effect Bioware began making good games after Kotor. But still Kotor is still awsome story but not good mechanics anymore.

          Ask yourself if EA is really guilty of Bioware style change, maybe they already just saw the change on the market and adapted to it.

          1. I don’t know why you waste your time with a someone who only want blame companies with his ridiculous reason.

            You:Hey it’s EA Game.
            Zatara: It’s s..t
            Now if you aren’t mention “EA”
            Zatara: It’s good game I like it “however,I’m surprised to see he say “I like this game”because as far as I’ve seen her talk,he just blame companies and game.?? “

          2. Well downloading Witcher 3, DA:I, and Phantom Pain takes some time soo i just need hot conversations to kill time:). And Then i will have to reinstal Andromeda and Warframe.

          3. “You just shown that under EA they create at least 4 awsome, well recieved and well sold games.”

            Yeah, before 2011. Even DICE (buyout: “Electronic Arts owned 62% of DICE on 31 March 2005. On 2 October 2006, EA completed the acquisition”. Battlefield 2: June 21, 2005, Battlefield 2142: October 17, 2006, Bad Company (OG): 23 June 2008) managed to make Bad Company 2 under EA (release date: March 2, 2010).

            Everything from mid-2011 & beyond that not just BioWare, but just about every other EA studio has done as well, has been utter sh*t; Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Dead Space 3, Need for Speed: [insert], bla bla bla, bla bla bla, bla bla bla. The one exception being Battlefield: Hardline, & that died so fast, it’s barely worth mentioning.

            You think, what, that’s all a coincidence? That EA took everyone into the sh*tter together, at the same time? Yeah, no. What about all the studios they closed down? Seriously, ask yourself; what happened to them, exactly? Simple; they sold out to EA, EA milked them for all their worth, then they threw them away, because “F*CK YOU.” Once they were done with that tactic (read: people stopped selling to them), they switched to poking their money-grubbing hands into the internal affairs of the remaining studios they had left, in order to maximise potential profits from their big-shot IPs.

            Like I said; “The further in you go in regards to BioWare being under EA’s thumb, the worse the quality gets. The further back you go in regards to BioWare still being independent, the more masterpieces you can attribute to them.”

          4. Battlefield 3 is s..t? Oh god what I see O_o,Ops I forget you never play the MP of game(As far as I know ??)

            I should go to EA and say to him for making japanese game with a good and short story with low sales+DRM Free (too everyone pirate it )
            To haters like you stop hating.

            And also told R* to …..Forget it.

          5. “I forget you never play the MP of game”

            LOL. Yeah, I never played BF3 MP…. Oh, you’re hilarious, kiddo.

          6. “Yeah, I never played BF3 MP”
            So s..t up and don’t say BF3 is s..t because BF is an MP game based,not A SP….

            When you played BF3 MP then come here and say it’s s..t

          7. Haven’t you ever heard of sarcasm? Or does it not exist in your native language?

          8. I didn’t recognize that is a sarcasm!
            if you played give me your origin ID to have honor to playing with you?

          9. Haven’t had Battlefield 3 installed for years, not about to change that. Besides, do people even play that joke anymore?

            Regardless; Battlefield 3 had one thing going for it; The Back to Karkand DLC, & that was because they were recreating Battlefield 2 maps. Everything else, from the base maps, to the DLC maps, to that horrible blue hue they shoved onto everything, to that moronic console-ported UI interface, to those absurd upscaled 24-player maps, was a joke.

            Oh, & that one close quarters DLC was good, but that wasn’t Battlefield, that was them trying to get more Call of Duty players to switch over.

          10. When you don’t have BF3 on your Origin account!Yes you should saying this bulls..t.

            If you played BF3 MP,give me your origin ID,if not that mean you just bluffing.

          11. “When you don’t have BF3 on your Origin account!”

            I’m going to assume that’s just bad English, & that you do indeed known that not having something installed =/= not having it in my Origin account, rather than the opposite.

            “If you played BF3 MP,give me your origin ID,if not that mean you just bluffing.”

            Seriously? The “Screenshot or it didn’t happen” argument? Really?

            And if I do link you my Origin ID, then what, you’ll want me to login & friend you, I suppose, in order to prove that I didn’t snag some randomer’s ID from Google search? And then what, do I also have to re-install & play a round with you just in case my stats are fake?

            Yeah, I give up, just enjoy your delusional opinions & leave me to mine.

        2. Don’t forget Bioware made Balders Gate, MDK2, and KoTOR before all that. DA:O was the last great RPG by Bioware.

          1. Exactly. The further back, the more masterpieces. The further forward, the more sh*t they get.

  9. If it’s not an improved version of DA: O then I’m not interested. DA 2 and DA: I was a downgrade from Origins and Awakening in every way except graphics.

  10. author basically doesn’t like linear games and considers dishonored and prey to be linear, then proceeds to criticize the fact that you have to find the story yourself instead of story being shoved in your face and then complains about many endings even though she claims game is designed to be played in a specific way many times.
    overall, very poor and low quality review.
    for me dark souls series is very boring and linear, you don’t feel accomplished or progressed by a bit, hits feel way off and out of place, physics are just awful, gameplay comes down to a basic and repetitive hit and roll mechanics
    i’m someone who absolutely can not endure a game more than 5 minutes if it happens to be story driven, i don’t like cutscenes and i don’t like story driven games (except if it’s a total war campaign) and still i find dark souls to be extremely boring

      1. i think you’re a bit upset because i disliked your favorite game but she was most likely on her period when she played it, i can understand if you agree with parts of that review since i know prey isn’t perfect specially when it comes to gameplay mechanics but that entire review was a conflicting mess

        1. It’s video games mate, nothing to be upset over. I just don’t see a point in refuting your points with Dark Souls or continuing this boorish conversation.

          1. lol then why was you talking about it and then posted the review? You said that it was similar views on the game as you. Then you just drop out of the conversation and say “I dun see point”

          2. Well the conversation seemed to have escalated, and I didn’t exactly see a point in doing that. I was just sharing a site that I mostly agreed with that I just read.

          3. Nah, my writing sucks. Can’t you tell? Always wish I could write well.. English is my second language, that’s always my excuse lol.

          4. regardless, you seem to be under influence of a poor review, give this game a chance if you don’t have fundamental problems with this genre and happen to have extra time to kill

          5. Oh I beat the game a few nights ago. Like I said talked it over with a good friend that enjoyed the game as much as you did, though he liked the story more than the gameplay. IDK, played 24 hours and thought I got through most of it. May replay it at somepoint, but just wasn’t that impressed a few hours in. Still fun enough I suppose.

  11. That was the worst review on Prey that I’ve seen. The reviewer compares Prey to Zelda and Dark Souls for christ sake. The whole review is based on that Prey doesn’t let you play your own way because they force you down a chosen gameplay path, which is human or alien route. The reviewer did compare it to Dishonored but basically said it’s the same game but worse. She also name dropped System Shock at the end but gave no words on it. System Shock, Bioshock, Deus Ex, those are the games that should be comparing to. Seemed almost like a strawman review.

    1. I haven’t played any of the Zelda games at length, so I can’t comment there. Though I did find the souls comparison a little strange, I guess she’s a big fan of Dark Souls. Though I kind of know what she means.

      IDK, what would you say would be a good review of Prey? I enjoyed it for the most part, but found it to be overall a bit generic and iterative of past games like deus ex and system shock I suppose, in terms of gameplay and story. Just don’t see the hype.

  12. People bought DAI because they thought it was going to be awesome. I think they got fooled by the Frostbite engine graphics.

  13. I heard that the Dylan project will feature a romance between, and I quote “a male Adonis” and “a schlubby, nerdy female”. lol Good god.

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