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It might be big news, but I'd have to wait until they've made something that's actually non-Witcher related before I can judge whether it's a good thing or not.

Because for all I can admire their technical craftsmanship, I really don't like Geralt or the Witcher setting.  I have to see if they can do something not so grimdark, and a protagonist that doesn't have a set personality before I can decide if theyare really up to the challenge of doing a Mass Effect game.

Ask me again after their Cyberpunk game is out.

BioWare made DnD and Sonic games, what's your point?

For some perhaps, though for others it may push them away from the ME brand. That may change with the release of a game more like Mass Effect like Cyberpunk 2077(I hope they do good because I love Cyberpunk) but as of now we just have the Witcher Trilogy to judge them on and that does not inspire everyone.

Sure, but only because people erroneously believe CDPR can never screw up, based solely on a "legacy" of three games belonging to one IP. Prior to that they were a localisation studio only.

BioWare has been developing higly acclaimed games for literal decades, and the downturn in public opinion is relatively recent. I don't actually like BioWare's recent output all that much either, but hailing CDPR as the golden child who could save any franchise strikes me as shortsighted and naive.

It'd be a gay porn parody. 

There is a reason why people believe CDPR cannot screw up and rightfully so.

1) TW series is highly respected and all 3 games got progressively better and was capped off with one if the best DLCs of all time. CDPR has earned their respect.

2) Their attention to detail and respect for the source material they use. First it was the novels of TW and now it is Cyberpunk. Dont take my word for it, Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the original Cyberpunk is on record saying that he trust no other developer with his brand and that what really brought him on board was CDPRs respect and understanding and rigorous attention to detail/care for the source material. And that based on what he is seeing, Cyberpunk 2077 is everything he expected a Cyberpunk videogame to be like. That is his words, not mine. Is also short sighted and naive for saying that? So if they are so good at that; first being Witcher and now Cyberpunk....whos to say they wouldn't be able to do the same with the Mass Effect lore/world?









Goto about 1:45 in the video

Man you guys sound like you are about to closeline each other in a pay-per-view match.

Sounds more like someone's been watching/reading WAY too much Game of Thrones.

Again, CDPR has been around for less time than BioWare, and has only made three games. Flops are inevitable, not every title can be a success, and one day the people who are praising CDPR so highly will turn on it just as viciously as they've turned on BioWare.

They don't have a reputation of selling out to the man, and neither did Bioware to start with. Bioware was given the benefit of the doubt when they were just sold to EA, despite a few loud voices warning the community otherwise. It was only after numerous iterations that showed behaviour Bioware didn't previously display (a clearly rushed out the door DA:2, walking away from tactical combat, a focus on multiplayer etc) did the voices start getting more and more numerous.

"Selling out" is a phrase that involves compromising one's principles, and that behaviour hasn't yet become evident in CDPR's games and software. Until it does they won't gain a reputation for it.

Depends what you like in a game. The combat certainly improved while other things were eradicated (like the eradication of tactical combat leading to the departure of the legendary Brent Knowles.)