Greedfall

Just finished the game and really liked it overall. It definitely feels like a BioWare game with a more limited budget but also has some nice features of its own like the reputation system and emphasis on diplomacy. I invested heavily in charisma and intuition which seemed to work out well for attaining high reputation with the various factions (I got the "best" ending). The story was engaging with some surprises and I ended up liking all of the companions (I romanced Vasco).

Excited to see what they can do in Greedfall 2, hopefully with a bit larger budget.

Some improvements I'd like:
- More companion content. I liked what we had but more banter between them would be great. Maybe increase the number of companions if possible. And would be great to be able to control them in battle.
- A mini map please
- Better fast travel. Probably my biggest gripe with the game is all of the backtracking.

The lack of companion content is literally what took it from a great game to just a game I liked. I mean, I loved my chosen "bad end" and all, but the reason it was easy for me to go all evil was because I barely felt anything for anyone else. I felt closer to the Cousin so why would I side with anyone else.

I actually cried and picked the "good ending". Because I'm a goody two shoes in a game and thought it was expected of me. Found it so completely not worth it that I got angry, I reloaded, and picked the Cousin. And was like wow I mean, it's dark but it's way more interesting than keeping the status quo. And I'd done all the quests that ensured the good ending and good leaders and romanced one person (meh). So it wasn't lack of exposure to the material. I did not care about who died on the "bad ending".

Ign was throwing some shade at the end but Greedfall was very respectful that they were imitating Bioware but also missing the old Bioware

Why would you put that out there?

I hope it does come out next year. I'm excited for another Greedfall. Getting Greedfall and Dragon's Dogma 2 in 2024 would make me sooooo happy May have to do a 3rd run soon

Spiders taking half a page from Biower's playbook;

5 years between releases?

Haven't really looked much into Steelrising past some early reviews. Seemed it's Souls like and very poorly optimized. Any redeeming qualities? Anyone?

Spiders is still Spiders, but they are now owned by Nacon (since July 2019) instead of being a small independent studio. It is Spiders who are making Greedfall 2, but they couldn't work on it until Nacon acquired the IP from Focus Home Interactive who owned it.

You are starting to read like a troll. 

Spiders length of time between releases haven't increased since they moved to budget over 1m (Mars War Logs had a 500k Euro Budget). It took them about ~3 years to release Technomancer after Bound by Flame. Then ~3 years for Greedfall and ~3 years for Steelrising.

Spiders have around 50-70 devs, they don't have the staff to work on multiple AA release at the same time.

OK, Mr.-Know-it-All.

What is your expert opinion on length of time between Greedfall releases?