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Post by Rawgrim on Jun 28, 2017 4:17:33 GMT -6
It's crazy to think how Bioware had all these franchises and now we're one mucked up DA sequel away from them all being kinda dead as disco... I would not truly lament the death of Bioware, I would say it was a person who was very interesting to meet, and I think seemed to have many ideas, but I do not know if I ever really saw where those ideas were headed. Perhaps some other time and place, with some other company. Great rpg companies comes and goes. First one was Origin. Fucked up by EA and the only thing left of it is the name on EA's DRM client. Westwood was another really good one. Also an EA meal in the end. New World Computing was a fantastic one as well. That one just...fizzled out in the early 2000s. Ubisoft holds the license to most of their stuff now. Bioware was a great one, but I wouldn't say it is dead. It is in trouble, though. The next Dragon Age might be their final chance? Unless Antem ends up being a massive hit, of course. But I don't think many people would label that one an rpg. CDPR and Bethesda are probably top dogs right now, but there won't be any huge rpg titles from their end in quite awhile I think. Which leaves Obsidian. Obsidian was always the odd underdog of rpgs. For over a decade they have been, almost randomly, dishing out an rpg here and there. Some brilliant ones too, really. The downside is the bugs and whatever else. That company is probably the one to follow in the coming years. I think the genre has gotten to a point where Kickstarter is where we will find the classic kind of rpgs most of us are used to playing.
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