BioWare Veteran Leading New Game Studio

Really getting sick of online, multiplayer games! I don't play them and never will. They are only made in order to cash grab by having loot boxes or other monetary transactions ingame. If this studio really wants to make a great game like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, God of War, etc. make it single player with a good story!!!!!! There is enough of Anthem, Fortnite crap out there already!

Still watching this review/vid/whatever and just want to comment on the so called "story" of the game. So to Kallie Plagge for her review, I basically agree with the fair 6/10 rating but I think you will confuse new players or potential players with your explanation/review of this games story.

In a nutshell what I believe is that the game had ideas that never got any traction, the side stories alone have almost if not 0 baring on anything of the game, they talking to NPCs which is random and "cute" "entertaining" is also dull many time and pointless, your choices of dialogue are limited to 2 options and neither of them have made any difference to my gameplay or world or anything really save for the odd NPC maybe leaving or something like that and I am now at 92hours gameplay.

There are no missions for these NPCs and even if there were, they would probably be too few and far between I would imagine.

As for the main story...its really simple, really boring and you never (as the reviewer mentioned) really get into the game before its over or that nothing is really memorable or special. No connections are really made with any of the NPCs and they are INCREDIBLY simple NPCs too. The antagonist doesnt seem really ominous or very threatening and you don't get much face time with him anyway, maybe two situations before end game?

For a game that should have a critical and interesting story it doesn't come near anything like Mass Effect or Dragon Age or Neverwinter Nights which had much deeper and compelling stories. Yes those are single player games but honestly...Word of Warcraft is an MMO and has had some epic stories like Wrath of the Lich King and the content was played in groups also.

Beyond the story the game becomes more of the same of killing mobs, doing events which just repeat and are far too few. There are no cities outside Fort Tarsis with NPCs that could give more quests and there are no other distractions in the game like driving around in a strider, races, fishing with explosives, hunting animals for materials. No...its not an MMO AT ALL I know...but imo the game is just BORING.

This game had ideas which I would call some fun filler content that other games would put in for nice to have but really would be pointless and they know it, but what BioWare/EA did was take that kind of content and make into something a bit more (because lets face it, its the only other content there) Imagine npc's have a conversation that is maybe interesting but you have no interaction with them, like conversation in passing you just happen to hear. That is what the NPC's convos you have are like...

IMO Remaster Mass Effect 1,2,3 on Anthem GFX and rework the playstyle a bit and sell that again, ill buy it, was that good.

All I want is a good western RPG like Kotor AND Dragon Age Origins !!!!

is it so hard to make a good rpg??

"Now, after a lot of great hires and great progress, we're going to focus on creating that game using Unreal Engine 4 and building on SpatialOS' next-generation online games platform."

Read carefully...…"ONLINE GAMES PLATFORM". Their website's definition reads, "SpatialOS: the cloud platform for real-time multiplayer games, built with any game engine".

Thanks, but I think I'll pass.

Rats are jumping from the sinking ship...

Ohhhh how much I long for a Bioware single player RPG set in the Mass Effect or Dragon Age universes. ANY verse for that matter. Sick and tired of multiplayer / Battle Royale games running amok. Hopefully, he can put together something with the new studio.

This is really nothing to get excited about. When was the last time a major veteran started a new studio and then went on to put out something truly memorable?

Serious question. I honestly can't think of any examples. We hear of these people because of that one great franchise we all love, and then they go on to do something else and...then what? The only thing I can think of that comes even remotely close is the Torchlight/Path of Exile teams and Destiny, but Torchlight/Exile hardly set the world on fire, and Destiny is so memorable because of how disastrous it was (but counts because the gameplay maintained the standard set by Halo).

Hopefully he can get some of the top Bioware devs still at EA to defect to his new studio. If Anthem is anything to go by, Bioware as we knew it, is dead.

"Flynn" - I wonder if that's his original name or if he changed it as a fan of TRON.

I'm cool with online focus... just give us a great game with content THEN build on that. Say what you will but games like Destiny,Division, and Anthem are just too sparse in content. I get there are fans out there of the stuff and I even like the premise of these games but give me atleast 25 to 30 hours of a solid story driven

Co-op experience with solid endgame THEN hit me with Dlc plans. I'm ok with it as long as you dont assume I'm just going to be a yes man and buy w.e.. unfortunately the latter is most common.

And so, the great Bioware exodus begins.

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