BioWare Wants To Make Small, Experimental Games

Do they mean like say a short AA cinematic story of about 8 - 10 hours?

I'd be fine with that at say £19:99 to £24:99

I would be for it but of course the issue is one of personell and well I would still like them to make pretty big games. I mean hell I wonder if a smaller scale DA game in the future might not be a good idea with regular updates as sort of a prequel to the main event games just to give us our fix...ala Metal Gear Ground Zeroes. Just don't make it as pathetic...and expensive.

One of the reasons I really like this idea is because is shouldn't distract from their big tent-pole games.

If they have 300+ people working on Anthem right now, ??? working on Star Wars, and another small team on DA4... a ~20 Dev "Indie" team isn't going to be something they can't work or hire their way around. And it might help ease some of that wait for the bigger games to have these smaller projects come out inbetween.
Also, I'm a big Indie fan, so I'm curious to see what a small team, but with BioWare's resources, and "AA" quality target can accomplish. 

The really important question is; will the smaller game(s) have realistic breast and butt physics?



But in general, I'd be quite keen to see more games from them - especially Dragon Age, but if not, then that's fine - if they comprise the approximate 'content' level of say, Trespasser combined with Jaws of Hakkon. Whether or not that's realistic, I don't know, but I probably wouldn't be interested in anything smaller than that.

I'd prefer smaller adventure games over what they're currently making, so this is good news to me. Ditching open-world and going back to DA2/ME2/ME3 style would be even better.

I'd be down with that if we get more Dragon Age content in smaller doses. I've often thought that there was room in the Dragon Age setting to accommodate games that weren't necessarily about a hero assembling a ragtag band of misfits to go on some huge quest.

One of the ideas I've always had was for a Darkest Dungeon-style roguelike that goes into the Deep Roads. Non-Wardens would actually fall to the Blight, mages would be possessed, and you would have to put them out of their misery.

Not if we're still waiting for Dragon Age. I don't want a snack to tide me over, I want my meal.

Oh, I'll gladly take a snack to tide me over. We're going to be waiting a long time for dinner.


If they had a game that was, say, a Dragon Age roguelike or Dragon Age stealth game or Dragon Age horror game, I would not care if there were romances.

I don't want to lose that in a main title, but a spinoff is fair game. In fact, depending on the genre and story, romances would be detrimental.

Is it possible that's what they were thinking of when they pitched the DA tactics game to the fan-base? Then funding wasn't forthcoming or there was too urgent a demand for personnel on MEA and Anthem, so it never got off the ground.

Personally I'd rather they focussed on their core franchise games, particularly Dragon Age so we can get the next instalment, rather than being distracted by more experimental games (Anthem is essentially an experiment on their part). Whether they are large or small in scale they still require funding and sinking money into a new experimental game is bound to put pressure on budgets elsewhere.

I think they have been doing this. Think of Shadow of Realm.