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Post by Gileadan on Aug 29, 2023 8:03:05 GMT
Oh dear.
My first game that I played a lot was PacMan on the Atari 2600, connected to my parents old black and white TV screen. After that, I played on the Commodore C64 a lot. The first game I bought and played for a long time was Microprose's "Gunship", complete with a cardboard keyboard overlay for all the keybindings.
This was followed by Dungeon Master and Battle of Britain on the Atari 1040ST, and then it was off to PC land with Wing Commander and Doom.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 29, 2023 7:50:33 GMT
I would have loved Joplin. I'm so tired of rah-rah-world-devouring-evil stories so a smaller scale would have been fantastic. Also the idea of being on my own with a small group of friends because the people in power do nothing and being an unsung hero in the end sounded very appealing.
Morrison. I have no idea how they even came up with this. Anthem should have taught them that they need way more experience to do a good multiplayer game. Many dev studios are light years ahead of BioWare in this genre.
It's good they went back to a singleplayer approach, but I still would have preferred Joplin I think.
I'm not sure why they kept rebooting their work. To me it looks that all they know is that they want to make a game but just can't decide on the details.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 28, 2023 9:16:06 GMT
Based on a recent tweet from Sheryl Chee ("They cut off my leg and expect me to run a marathon.") I would expect that crunch time is about to start or already has. I suspect that the game that was supposedly played through from start to end is a complete skeleton and lots and lots of the actual content is still missing. And if Sheryl Chee is part of the marathon crunch then that includes writing (unless she's doing other things too). It's really awful, it seems each game turns out to be a bigger development disaster than the previous one despite the all new management. But if you can play a game from start to finish. The story musst be done. Maybe some side quest. But how can you play it from start to finish if it is a skeleton. That doesn't make sense for me. If they have said we can play the game now. I would get it. But with the start to finish part i don't. I sound like EA. That's corpo speak for you. That you can play the game from start to finish just means that there's at least a placeholder for every main quest. Imagine a version of Dragon Age Inquisition where only the main story quests are implemented. You start in the first of them, going to Haven, and you can just do the next story quest from there without any power requirement and so on. While you do the quests lots of non-vital NPCs are missing and dialogues have placeholders so you can just breeze through them. You can reach the end. Congratulations, you have played through the game and the statement is true.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 28, 2023 8:36:06 GMT
I get the feeling that Dreadwolf's situation is completely absurd now. Supposedly, someone played it from start to end weeks ago, and Mark Darrah's Triage Games is here to help finalize it. But it might be released as late as 2025. What is that now, two years of "finalizing"? Did the meaning of that word change when I wasn't looking? I'm also beginning to wonder that when Mr. Darrah said that the game was in good hands he might actually have been referring to himself (and in that case, very likely not been wrong). What amazes me the most is that Darrah keeps emphasizing that he only advises in the area of story. The Story should be long finished. What are they doing? I fear it sound like a reboot.
Based on a recent tweet from Sheryl Chee ("They cut off my leg and expect me to run a marathon.") I would expect that crunch time is about to start or already has. I suspect that the game that was supposedly played through from start to end is a complete skeleton and lots and lots of the actual content is still missing. And if Sheryl Chee is part of the marathon crunch then that includes writing (unless she's doing other things too). It's really awful, it seems each game turns out to be a bigger development disaster than the previous one despite the all new management.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 27, 2023 9:52:15 GMT
I think the writing has been on the wall for a while now, beginning with the "we are excited to tell you more next year" followed by BioWare remaining almost completely silent until about right now. The frankly terrible looking leak, however real that was. Outside help (Mark Darrah's Triage Games) being needed to "finalize" the game.
I've been wondering for years how a company can stay afloat without producing anything worthwhile and now we know - they mooched off EA Sports and now that's not happening anymore and they have to swim or sink based on their own products.
It remains to be seen how many of the remaining crew will actually stick around through another soul killing crunch to sacrifice their time for a company that might well axe them too as soon as their services are no longer needed. If I were employed at BioWare right now I'd be working on my exit strategy and avoid as much of the coming crunch as possible.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 25, 2023 20:00:39 GMT
I'd love an early open access for the next Dragon Age just to see where it's going but I don't think it would work with BioWare's development cycles. Open access would require a stable series of early builds and a willingness to listen to fan feedback, but BioWare seems to potter around aimlessly for a bit and then crunch out their product in 18 months. I doubt you could somehow fit open access into that given how they seem to hastily slap their game together two days before the last deadline.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 25, 2023 13:45:27 GMT
I get the feeling that Dreadwolf's situation is completely absurd now.
Supposedly, someone played it from start to end weeks ago, and Mark Darrah's Triage Games is here to help finalize it.
But it might be released as late as 2025. What is that now, two years of "finalizing"? Did the meaning of that word change when I wasn't looking? I'm also beginning to wonder that when Mr. Darrah said that the game was in good hands he might actually have been referring to himself (and in that case, very likely not been wrong).
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 25, 2023 7:14:50 GMT
Do you know what really upsets me? This couldn't happen here. In Sweden we have a law that basically says "first one hired is the last to go", meaning that the longer you worked at a place the more difficult it is for you to be let go. For example, I started my work 5 years ago at the uni, and we've hired four new administrators since - if times get tough they would have to kick out all of them before they could touch me, and even then they are compelled by the law to make a good attempt to find me a new job within the uni first. Only small businesses can sometimes make exceptions. Luke and Mary would have both been protected here, likely at least been guaranteed another job within EA, and the others would have been way more covered because the lay offs would have had to be negotiated with the unions. It fucking blows that this type of protection isn't a thing everywhere! Unionize for fuck's sake! Good law, really. I'm lucky to work at an Austrian company in Germany that greatly values long time employees. There are unwritten laws that the owners, classic benevolent patriarchs right out of the book, take care of "their people". When the great banking crisis of 2008 hit, they traveled to every plant and told people that they would do their damnedest to keep everyone on board, and they kept their word. As a result they recovered much faster than the competition. Of course there is also another unwritten law and it says "You shall not go on strike". It may look fishy but it works well - there is a big feeling of "the world is big but we're in it together" feeling going on. Unions seem very much an afterthought and there is no big interest in them.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 11:53:05 GMT
Says who? We can't know of course how anyone new would write in the 'BioWare style' will actually be able to write in that style, how good or bad at writing they will be, but other character driven stories have been writen by other companies and by other people within BioWare. It hurts but I wouldn't take this to mean anything dramatic like 'the old ways are dead'. Going to have to see a lot more evidence of this...especially considering the old ways have made more of a return. Well, I for one think that a writer of Mary Kirby's caliber won't be easy to replace. Anyone can churn out a bunch of oneliners but it takes some skill to tread the line between humour that works in a tense situation and outright comedy. But I suppose we won't know until the next project after DAD... whatever that may be, if any.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 11:39:20 GMT
I've seen on Twitter devs from Casey Hudson's Humanoid Studios and Jenifer Hepler who works now at Thought Pennies reach out to the peeps who were laid off, encouraging them to check out their careers pages and offering to make introductions to anyone who is looking for a job and doesn't have something lined up, which is dope. Ah, that's very nice of them. Hopefully they'll find something more stable where their work will be properly appreciated. Who knows, in the long run they might better off than staying with BioWare.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 11:12:16 GMT
I sometimes wonder if their writers wanted to unionize and the hammer came down to send a message.
But if they really mostly fired writers there's a few options:
1 - they hire new writers, probably for a lower salary and with fewer benefits in their contracts 2 - writing is outsourced to freelancers or temp contractors 3 - writing is less important in future projects 4 - a combination of 2 and 3
But either way, if most of the old writers are gone the old "BioWare style" of writing is gone with them.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 8:14:08 GMT
Now specifics and context will vary from case to case and the long term effects of this case are probably not going to see the consequences of this particular decision for a long time to come. But the basics of the logic is still rather sound. Teams can still be too large and unwieldy. Too bloated. Too many indians and not enough chiefs as well as the vice versa. So large where effective decision making is made a lot more complicated and thus things get harder to do, harder to communicate these decisions through an entire team and then get feedback. Hell now that I'm thinking about it I think Mark made a video which at least touched on this subject. So a larger team can be just as much of a problem for these companies as having a small team, and corporate speak or no, a smaller team can be more responsive, reactive, and creative, as a larger one. It's true, we may not know the long term consequences for some time to come. Whether they will affect Dreadwolf or not will depend on how far along it is really. Not sure how many chiefs and how many indians were among the 50, but BioWare's biggest problems in the past seem to have been with the chiefs... but oddly enough, when money is tight it's often not management that gets the axe. But that's how it tends to go, sadly. Few things are more antisocial than a publicly traded company.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 7:22:18 GMT
This seems to be going in waves now. It's good for five minutes, then I try to post or even just to like a post, and it goes "argh - splutter - err bear" for a minute or two.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 7:12:11 GMT
I'm sorry, I never mean to make anyone uncomfortable of course. I'll do my best to not reply with anything you might find unsettling in the future, but maybe it's just easier for you to put me on ignore. Forgive me, I've misinterpreted your post and I apologize. I got overly defensive. No worries at all. In the end we all want to play good games and I sincerely hope BioWare will make something you'll enjoy.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 7:00:40 GMT
That's a very positive way of looking at it. So if your best friend turned into a zombie, would you say he's dead and gone or does he just treat you in a way you don't like now? You know, it's people like you that made me uncomfortable in being part of the Bioware fandom when I first joined. I like their current games and don't think it's dead is that so hard to comprehend? I'm sorry, I never mean to make anyone uncomfortable of course. I'll do my best to not reply with anything you might find unsettling in the future, but maybe it's just easier for you to put me on ignore.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 6:48:44 GMT
Nahh, this pulls them even further away from the team who made my favourite games. It's slowly losing what brought me here in the first place. The new writing on Andromeda and Anthem was crap. If that's who's left then I have little hope going forward The "new" writing in Andromeda was good and games like DA2 bought me into Bioware games. Bioware not "gone" it's just that they're producing games you don't like. That's a very positive way of looking at it. So if your best friend turned into a zombie, would you say he's dead and gone or does he just treat you in a way you don't like now?
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 6:41:30 GMT
After the ridiculously corpo-speak-sugar-coated lay off news I'm getting vibes of a famous airship explosion.
Can't help but feel that this was it, last guy turns off the light. Anything other than another Anthem-tier dead on arrival disaster would surprise me at this point.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 5:32:35 GMT
They fired people like Mary Kirby, that's really all I need to know. BioWare's team wasn't that big to begin with, and losing 50 people who do actual work can only result in a loss of overall product quality. Have a look at the magic triangle and take your pick, I guess (cost / scope / time).
So, how's BioWare's management doing then? Everyone still having a cushy job and talking about work?
Argh.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 24, 2023 5:22:28 GMT
Wow. Bloody hell. I've seen my share of outright ridiculous corpo speak but this one may just take the cake. How a smaller team is more creative and productive is just beyond me. I guess it takes a special kind of person to write that level of garbage with a straight face.
And it's sad that they fired Mary Kirby and who knows who else. So many years of great contributions and this is what she gets. But who knows, maybe their new design direction doesn't need as much writing.
"We are confident that we’ll have the time needed to ensure Dreadwolf reaches its full potential." Dude. Just say "delay". Two syllables. Ain't that hard.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 23, 2023 4:40:38 GMT
There must have been some big delay... or another scrap-and-reboot. I mean, when was the year they were "excited to tell us more"? Since then, BioWare is just playing dead except for that awful looking leak that hopefully wasn't true. No purple clunky action game please.
And the game "is in good hands". That sounds like a sentence you'd get at an ER after delivering your best friend bleeding from more holes than a golf course.
(Note that he didn't say "in a good state".)
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 19, 2023 8:34:25 GMT
Well, okay, something only DA-related... how about that Mark Darrah right? I think that's the last kind of news we had about the game? Nice fellow, cool he's back, not sure if he will have much impact on the content or game mechanics at this stage in development. Yeah, that's all I got. Yeah, about that... Am I the only one who's slightly worried because Darrah's company is named "Triage Games" and we all know what triage is and now he's on DA4? I mean, combined with BioWare's continued silence despite being "excited to tell us more" over a year ago?
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 18, 2023 21:13:28 GMT
I thought that DAI always stood out when it came to poor filler. There was a lot of it and it was painfully obvious that it was very low effort padding with either minimal voiced dialogue or even just letters and diaries to click without any real interaction - if they tried to crank the "quality vs quantity" dial any further towards "quantity" the handle would probably come off.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 18, 2023 9:15:37 GMT
I get the most noticeable slowdowns when hitting the "Post" button, occasionally resulting in double posts and/or Err bears. Using Chrome on Win 10.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 18, 2023 7:44:00 GMT
BioWare @biowareCaption this image! #DragonAge
"Eat a snickers."
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 15, 2023 7:17:13 GMT
In fact, with most companions, you don't even have to do a quest! Well, not the companion's personal quest, anyway - consistently behave in a way they approve of and advance the main story a bit and they'll be leaping into your bedroll in no time at all. I don't think that BG3's romance system is a disaster by any means - I'm having fun with it so far - but most of the companions are very keen early in the game in a way that BioWare companions just aren't. Even Zevran took longer to hit on my protagonist than most of the BG3 characters.
This is not a worse system, necessarily, but it is funny to me that the devs claimed that you had to work for it. There are a couple of cases where that's true, but for the most part, everyone seems to react to the imminent threat of death by trying to go out with a bang.
DA2 Anders meme level or worse?
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