What kind of an off the cuff vid is this? Every time some background information, and be it simply a correct name, or the status of a certain award, is called for you "don't know", or you "guess". You obviously didn't care to do the one ounce of extra research needed to provide your viewers with a reliable story. Since I care for such things as normal thorough reserarch in videos on topics like these, because without it watching a vid becomes pretty useless, and annoying, I stopped watching. And set my playback speed back to Normal now that I don't have to listen to you anymore rattling through your presentation at top speed.
The hell crawled up your ass and died? There's a difference between providing criticism and bashing someone. (Yes, I'm aware of the hypocrisy, it's intentional. The purpose being to throw your own douchy attitude back at you to show how shitty it is.)
As the founder of a tiny indie studio, it’s good to see how once great studios slowly degraded with time. Hopefully if my studio manages to get big, we don’t let outside influences take over.
Hey, great video, dude. I was listening to this while at work, and hearing all these games I didn't know Bioware made and how they grew and fell was pretty interesting.
Goodbye Bioware, I'm not excited about Dread Wolf especially after Baldur's Gate 3 stepped in on some "I'm you but stronger" type shit. All these cinematic trailers but no official gameplay footage yeah, it's over for them. Which is sad I really did love the story of Dragon Age and wasted a lot of time combing through the lore. Great video.
I'm still holding onto "eh we'll see" since the team has a lot of older characters and most of the set up has already been done in the past, but yeah, I don't really see how anyone could be hyped for it or anything like that.
I watched Mark Darrah play BG3 and I have zero hope for Dreadwolf. He doesn’t seem to understand why we like BG3. The tutorial wasn’t detailed enough for him because it didn’t tell him what choices to make or where the hidden objects were hidden and exploring the world was too much work or something. He just wanted to use the search feature constantly so he wouldn’t have to use the clues on the screen to find things. It was hard to watch….I mean he couldn’t figure out the character creator and said it was limited because he didn’t change any of the options. (As a side note, I get some people like the geomorphing but I swear I created characters that looked…all right in Inquisition’s character creator only to get into the world and watch my elf’s teeth clip through her face while she was talking to people. If I’m assembling faces I prefer the potato head type of assembly to those stupid grids.) I was excited to hear what he had to say but none of it was worth listening to. He sounds a little bitter about Larian doing what BioWare used to do…but they did it better. BG3 is light years better than Inquisition. Light years. And the difference isn’t in the graphics. Every aspect from story to character arcs to level design and battle variety was better.
@@beccangavinThey're completely different games. Their design philosophy is entirely juxtaposed to the point where the only real overlap is the general title of 'fantasy rpg'.
Then Hack Walters was put in charge of writing for Mass Effect after 2 was nearly finished and they stopped putting attention into details or caring about what their actual audience wanted, instead focusing on themselves, focus groups, and investors. Great writers like Drew Karpyshyn and Chris L'Etoile got fed up with the new regime and left, spurning others to continue leaving and bleeding out their talent. With Casey Hudson and his artistic visions and the founders gone, Mass Effect and this company as a whole is but a mere husk.
Yeah, a company does not make games. The people that work at the companies do. None of the people that made great games work at Bioware so they won't do any more great games. Its the same thing with Blizzard. The company might own the IP but the talent is no longer there.
The flippant answer to BioWare’s fall is that they got bought by EA. But that better explains more niche developers like Westwood getting folded into larger projects and losing what made them good in the first place. BioWare was a cash cow, and its downfall is better explained by inter office politics running ever more rampant and the veteran designers and writers being chased out by manufactured scandals, chased away by torch-wielding mobs of envious losers who have failed to live up to the legacy of those they so despised. But as it turns out, if you chase away people with talent, it doesn’t make you better. It just means there’s nobody to make your shit less awful.
Jade Empire was my first Bioware game. Maybe because it was my first I feel this way, but totally underrated game! Just fantastic. Even had John Cleese! IT is a shame we never got to see another game in that world.
Yeah, I do agree that while EA contributed in killing Bioware, it was also their own fault to the same degree. Bioware always had direction problems, even since their previous games like Baldur's Gate 1, and that was going to end the company had the future king of loot boxes wouldn't have arrived to buy them. Without EA, we wouldn't have got the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises, which are highly loved by the fans, especially the first entrances and ME2. However, it also made them "corporal" as a lot of people have mention before, and they went to accelerate the releases and that was key to the controversy some games received. EA's interest in multiplayer alongside loot boxes and micro transactions also didn't help at all. However, it seems Bioware really believed they would always have their fans supporting them no matter what happened; that's why the "Bioware's magic" slogan was created in the first place. Sadly, things started to go downhill since Dragon Age 2, though getting a bit of success with DA Inquisition (such a boring game IMO, but it did won the 2014 GOTY), but that wasn't going to last. Now Dragon Age Veilguard and Mass Effect 4 are being developed, with the former being released by the end of this year... but honestly, I don't have any faith in Bioware. The ones that made it great are long gone. I just hope those two games finally end Bioware and EA finally lets this once colossal titan of the gaming industry to rest in peace. For all the bad things we have received, we need to remember that we once had great fun with their games.
Dude, great content - thanks for posting. I am old gamer and remember all this going down. Interesting how the industry has changed, the rise of consoles w/ a lack of cross platform, coming back around to platform agnostic. Thank you Valve!
2007 - 2013 was my favorite gaming Era but it's also the same time everything started going downhill lmao, but ya I'm still a valve fan forever after left 4 dead
As someone who never played a single Bioware game, looking at it from outside is a strange experience, like looking at a distant nation that was once grand and bright but has fallen and now sits in decay. Its hard to describe. If I was to enter into Biowares older game library, where would be a good starting point?
The fall of Bioware began with Knights of the Old Republic. They were a top tier RPG studio before. But going the more mainstream route, you can trace their incessant need to simplify everything about their games all the way back to KOTOR. The morality system especially is egregious in comparison to what they were doing in Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate. That was the beginning of the end. Especially considering Obsidian completely outclassed them with the sequel. The one exception post-2002 is Dragon Age Origins which was essentially the cRPG evolved and is really the only borderline great RPG they've made in the past 20 or so years. To be clear, I'm not saying they didn't make great games. They just didn't really make great RPGs anymore. I enjoy Jade Empire, ME2, and ME3 as the great action games that they are, but they're not great RPGs. And their reputation as an RPG juggernaut post 2002 is not really earned.
Exploring Bioware's past games made me come to the realization that they made Neverwinter Nights and then just went "Yup, let's just reskin this game and rerelease it forever from now on"
Say what you want but inquisition was my first bioware game since then ive 100 percented the mass effect trilogy twice and origins. I might never have played a bioware game without it
@@HandsomeMain It is! ME will always be the best in my heart. I love two, but the original is just special (like DA:O). Even though I truly dislike the third game, it has some brilliant moments as well. I think if I only had the basic games, I'd probably skip it, but I got the Legendary Edit for my birthday a couple years ago and that makes it like an epic week long movie. Definitely makes the Origin nightmare worth it 🥰 Ugh fine, you twisted my arm... now what was my password again? 🤦🤦🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mass Effect 3 called to inform you about something called a password manager. Your choice even matters, like it used to do in Bioware games. Use it, never forget a password again and forever live in peace, or don't use it, keep using "noctoi123" and get the Krogan genophage and some Russian co-owners.
Dragon age as a series kinda sucked overall, it has 1 decent game that was followed up by watered down sequels as it progresssd to the point where inquisitions is just some sorry excuse of a hack-n-slash with light rpg mechanics set in a large empty world sprinkled with busywork, this series should've culminated into something like baldur's gate 3, which must've been a big ironic slap to the face for bioware developers now if they even care at all
It is kinda wild how different each game in the series is. I like them all, but I wish we were in the timeline where bioware went more into dao and baldurs gate for the series instead of actiony
DA2 actually was my favorite, too bad it was rushed and way too short. Loved the dramatic parts of the story (losing at least 1 sibling, losing your mother...). Loved the Corypheus DLC as well. DA1 was kinda annoying because the strategy/combat system was clunky and another annoyance was DA1 crashing what felt like every 5 minutes on my Windows 10 due to being so old and poorly optimized for modern systems & 4K. Another annoyance was the amount of quests you could not finish if you missed something in the play-through and then not being able to return to the quest area. Basically had to read the Wiki alongside your gameplay to not miss important collectables. 🙄 DA:Inquisition is okay, however I was pissed because all the romancable companions are ugly as fuck in vanilla. Had to first mod the shit out of them to increase their fuckability. Also the romance options felt so limited compared to DA2... I'd never romance Solas but if I wanted to he is only into female elf chicks? Rassist bastard! Also bringing back Corypheus as the main villain was lame... Took away a huge part of Hawkes triumph. I hope for a DA1 remake in the near future...
@FeuerblutRM Hawkes story is my favorite of the bunch and its a shame that we didn't get to see it fully realized. It's also crazy that we live In a world where the last of us and horizon get a remake and not dao
@@FeuerblutRM you think dragon age origin's battle system is clunky? This is the first time I heard anyone say that, it was advertised as a spiritual successor for baldur's gate, the battle system was working as intended but it was too easy and heavily watered down compared to its predecessors and contemporaries in the CRPG genre, it was like baby's first CRPG but the story was great and there was a massive drought in the market for these old school tough as nails RPG and it was the first that really broke through the mainstream. You hear people talking about baldur's gate 3 now and singing its praises, but these types of games have never been mainstream before dragon age and there aren't really that many people who played the older games because while those games like baldur's gate or planescape torment are masterpieces, they're also games that make you want to tear your eyeballs out... And I described DA1 as "baby's first CRPG" it should be obvious how I feel about the rest of the series, DA2 especially feels like an insult, they made the game dumber to pander to the "gamer bro" demographic the industry was targeting at the time... Well at least we now have larian studios who are practically the "new old bioware" like the old doctors never left and the bioware of today can go die and rot in a ditch for all I care, we don't need them anymore
Sadly, but I still liked Inquisition and So far the gameplay of Veilguard is promising (Could eat those words later) I doubt the game sells nearly enough to justify keeping the studio around to make an even bigger Mass Effect tho
Developers are missing the point about "AWESOME" factor in games. Most of the population has mundane jobs, chores we don't want to do, and video games give us that shot of excitement or peace depending on selective playstyle. The last thing we want is a lecture regarding ideologies that are still being worked out in human consciousness. Most of us (Gamers) just want to do something awesome, be the hero, lead a scoreboard, and generally be excited about the time we're using to distract ourselves from mundane life. The DEI activists will focus on "hate" but it's more the lack of "awesome." Heroes and Heroines are fit, agile, strong characters that do amazing things. Focusing on topics like "chores" in the middle of a live action game is lame. Same for lectures on ideologies.
@Scourge1990 ya If had to choose only one bioware game for a remake I'd definitely say kotor needs it more. Jade empires gameplay isn't too bad currently either
@@HandsomeMain it was advertised as a musical rpg but really it's more of an interactive storywith choices like the telltale games (which I also really enjoyed). It's a good story, good voice acting, and pretty short so I've done three playthroughs
Nice, I've been wanting to try it out after seeing the demo a long time ago on steam, If it's short i'll try to actually make myself try it next week@@darkishphoenix
I would really encourage you to provide some timestamps or some sort of organization to sources, rather than just dumping a list of links in the description. Stuff like the early infighting at Bioware is probably worth be VERY clear with the information you are sourcing.
Ya that's fair, I took a lot of breaks while writing the script so my only way of remembering the sources was dumping them into a word document lol, next video I'll have the stuff be more precise so people can look into the info themselves
@@wordsmaybe2456 www.vg247.com/remembering-the-early-days-of-bioware-with-co-founder-trent-oster here's an article of Trent Oster bringing some of it up
bioware peak for me is Dragon Age Origins , ME 2 and KOTOR ,ME 3 is so good closed the trilogy well enough and i loved the MP on the 360 but ME 2 have the best writting i hated andromeda completed the game 1 time skipping all the secondaries and just played like 10 hours more to the multiplayer that was ME3 multiplayer with better mobility and weapons but worse enemy factions and AI so i like it less
Ya i've always thought DA origins and ME2 were their peak. Andromeda was just kinda bland for me and Veilguard just isn't the same team. That was rough
Mass Effect 3 is the best bad game ever made and still one of my favorite games of all time. It's a million times better than Dragon Age 2 or Inquisition. I'm waiting for Larian and Obsidian to crash and burn and then there are no more good game companies. And we can all just quit gaming, take up some other hobby like playing guitar or something. I hear Fender, Gibson, Ibanez and so on still make good guitars.
With the complete mod I agree, but I feel like i'm more connected to the crew of the first game moreso even though obsidians writing was a lot more my speed (That prologue in 2 was horrible too)
Good video, but you shouldn't be so flippant about knowing you're mispronouncing someone's name! Just apologise if you get it wrong, saying you're just gonna say weird stuff when trying makes you sound rude, and I know you're not trying to be
If he wasn't flippant and snarky and condescending,, he'd have no personality at all...GREAT information and research, but petulently and haphazardly presented. Borderline insufferable at times.
What kind of an off the cuff vid is this? Every time some background information, and be it simply a correct name, or the status of a certain award, is called for you "don't know", or you "guess". You obviously didn't care to do the one ounce of extra research needed to provide your viewers with a reliable story.
Since I care for such things as normal thorough reserarch in videos on topics like these, because without it watching a vid becomes pretty useless, and annoying, I stopped watching. And set my playback speed back to Normal now that I don't have to listen to you anymore rattling through your presentation at top speed.
The hell crawled up your ass and died? There's a difference between providing criticism and bashing someone.
(Yes, I'm aware of the hypocrisy, it's intentional. The purpose being to throw your own douchy attitude back at you to show how shitty it is.)
I did a shit ton of research actuallly lmao
@@HandsomeMaindon't listen to him, i liked ur vid. Keep going bro
If you think there’s no research into this video you’re absolutely insane
You’ve made it, you got a hate comment 🥹
As the founder of a tiny indie studio, it’s good to see how once great studios slowly degraded with time. Hopefully if my studio manages to get big, we don’t let outside influences take over.
Been loving a lot of indie games lately so thats cool to hear
@@HandsomeMain It’s the hope. I want the company to grow, but I don’t want us to sell our soul for money.
Hey, great video, dude. I was listening to this while at work, and hearing all these games I didn't know Bioware made and how they grew and fell was pretty interesting.
TH-cam recommended this and just wanted to say you have a great voice for gaming analysis stuff like this. Hope you keep at it!
Goodbye Bioware, I'm not excited about Dread Wolf especially after Baldur's Gate 3 stepped in on some "I'm you but stronger" type shit. All these cinematic trailers but no official gameplay footage yeah, it's over for them. Which is sad I really did love the story of Dragon Age and wasted a lot of time combing through the lore. Great video.
I'm still holding onto "eh we'll see" since the team has a lot of older characters and most of the set up has already been done in the past, but yeah, I don't really see how anyone could be hyped for it or anything like that.
I'm not excited anymore. Bioware Magic is gone.
@@kylemelo6921 Sad and true. But a man can dream
I watched Mark Darrah play BG3 and I have zero hope for Dreadwolf. He doesn’t seem to understand why we like BG3. The tutorial wasn’t detailed enough for him because it didn’t tell him what choices to make or where the hidden objects were hidden and exploring the world was too much work or something. He just wanted to use the search feature constantly so he wouldn’t have to use the clues on the screen to find things. It was hard to watch….I mean he couldn’t figure out the character creator and said it was limited because he didn’t change any of the options. (As a side note, I get some people like the geomorphing but I swear I created characters that looked…all right in Inquisition’s character creator only to get into the world and watch my elf’s teeth clip through her face while she was talking to people. If I’m assembling faces I prefer the potato head type of assembly to those stupid grids.)
I was excited to hear what he had to say but none of it was worth listening to. He sounds a little bitter about Larian doing what BioWare used to do…but they did it better. BG3 is light years better than Inquisition. Light years. And the difference isn’t in the graphics. Every aspect from story to character arcs to level design and battle variety was better.
@@beccangavinThey're completely different games. Their design philosophy is entirely juxtaposed to the point where the only real overlap is the general title of 'fantasy rpg'.
You have done very well researching your points and delivering them in a precise manner. We will watch your career with great interest.
Yes, what he says.🍿🥤
hmmm, indubitably so, yes
Yes, Senator Palpatine.
You can read Drew Karpyshyn's last name like "Kar-pee-shin"
I was prepared to call Bioware the new Squaresoft... Oh how the mighty have fallen...
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while
Spoiler: they got bought by EA. The end
Sounds right to me! I haven't brought any games from them since ME: Legendary edition and Mass Effect 3 or EA either for that matter.
Boooom.
Then Hack Walters was put in charge of writing for Mass Effect after 2 was nearly finished and they stopped putting attention into details or caring about what their actual audience wanted, instead focusing on themselves, focus groups, and investors. Great writers like Drew Karpyshyn and Chris L'Etoile got fed up with the new regime and left, spurning others to continue leaving and bleeding out their talent. With Casey Hudson and his artistic visions and the founders gone, Mass Effect and this company as a whole is but a mere husk.
Yeah, a company does not make games. The people that work at the companies do. None of the people that made great games work at Bioware so they won't do any more great games.
Its the same thing with Blizzard. The company might own the IP but the talent is no longer there.
Cries in Ultima tears…
I saw your upcoming videos list and I can’t wait to watch all of them.
The flippant answer to BioWare’s fall is that they got bought by EA. But that better explains more niche developers like Westwood getting folded into larger projects and losing what made them good in the first place. BioWare was a cash cow, and its downfall is better explained by inter office politics running ever more rampant and the veteran designers and writers being chased out by manufactured scandals, chased away by torch-wielding mobs of envious losers who have failed to live up to the legacy of those they so despised.
But as it turns out, if you chase away people with talent, it doesn’t make you better. It just means there’s nobody to make your shit less awful.
Jade Empire was my first Bioware game. Maybe because it was my first I feel this way, but totally underrated game! Just fantastic. Even had John Cleese! IT is a shame we never got to see another game in that world.
I hope we get another rpg within the setting again honestly. Untapped market
Extremely articulate and well spoken dissertation of the history of BioWare.
Well done.
Yeah, I do agree that while EA contributed in killing Bioware, it was also their own fault to the same degree. Bioware always had direction problems, even since their previous games like Baldur's Gate 1, and that was going to end the company had the future king of loot boxes wouldn't have arrived to buy them.
Without EA, we wouldn't have got the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises, which are highly loved by the fans, especially the first entrances and ME2. However, it also made them "corporal" as a lot of people have mention before, and they went to accelerate the releases and that was key to the controversy some games received. EA's interest in multiplayer alongside loot boxes and micro transactions also didn't help at all.
However, it seems Bioware really believed they would always have their fans supporting them no matter what happened; that's why the "Bioware's magic" slogan was created in the first place. Sadly, things started to go downhill since Dragon Age 2, though getting a bit of success with DA Inquisition (such a boring game IMO, but it did won the 2014 GOTY), but that wasn't going to last.
Now Dragon Age Veilguard and Mass Effect 4 are being developed, with the former being released by the end of this year... but honestly, I don't have any faith in Bioware. The ones that made it great are long gone. I just hope those two games finally end Bioware and EA finally lets this once colossal titan of the gaming industry to rest in peace. For all the bad things we have received, we need to remember that we once had great fun with their games.
Dude, great content - thanks for posting. I am old gamer and remember all this going down. Interesting how the industry has changed, the rise of consoles w/ a lack of cross platform, coming back around to platform agnostic. Thank you Valve!
2007 - 2013 was my favorite gaming Era but it's also the same time everything started going downhill lmao, but ya I'm still a valve fan forever after left 4 dead
As someone who never played a single Bioware game, looking at it from outside is a strange experience, like looking at a distant nation that was once grand and bright but has fallen and now sits in decay. Its hard to describe.
If I was to enter into Biowares older game library, where would be a good starting point?
IF you like isometric, the baldurs gate games are great, but I'd personally recommend just going from KOTOR onward
The fall of Bioware began with Knights of the Old Republic. They were a top tier RPG studio before. But going the more mainstream route, you can trace their incessant need to simplify everything about their games all the way back to KOTOR. The morality system especially is egregious in comparison to what they were doing in Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate. That was the beginning of the end. Especially considering Obsidian completely outclassed them with the sequel. The one exception post-2002 is Dragon Age Origins which was essentially the cRPG evolved and is really the only borderline great RPG they've made in the past 20 or so years.
To be clear, I'm not saying they didn't make great games. They just didn't really make great RPGs anymore. I enjoy Jade Empire, ME2, and ME3 as the great action games that they are, but they're not great RPGs. And their reputation as an RPG juggernaut post 2002 is not really earned.
Exploring Bioware's past games made me come to the realization that they made Neverwinter Nights and then just went "Yup, let's just reskin this game and rerelease it forever from now on"
ay it worked for a while too lmao
Man, bioware makes me sad...
Sad where it went but I'm still happy with what I got from them overall
@@HandsomeMain yeeah. I men I'm a younger fan, so dao was my first bioware game and they fell off pretty quick after that
@@brodieorr5393 Ya, at least for me they've never beaten it, but I still think what they made before it and even me 2, 3 and swtor are fun
Say what you want but inquisition was my first bioware game since then ive 100 percented the mass effect trilogy twice and origins.
I might never have played a bioware game without it
Hey, Inquisition is still a great game. Hell, it's the only Bioware game any of my friends or family have played lol
Inquisition is great
Gods damn it, now I want to play the ME trilogy again, but I *despise* the Origin client 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Always worth the hassle tho
@@HandsomeMain It is! ME will always be the best in my heart. I love two, but the original is just special (like DA:O). Even though I truly dislike the third game, it has some brilliant moments as well. I think if I only had the basic games, I'd probably skip it, but I got the Legendary Edit for my birthday a couple years ago and that makes it like an epic week long movie. Definitely makes the Origin nightmare worth it 🥰
Ugh fine, you twisted my arm... now what was my password again? 🤦🤦🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mass Effect 3 called to inform you about something called a password manager. Your choice even matters, like it used to do in Bioware games. Use it, never forget a password again and forever live in peace, or don't use it, keep using "noctoi123" and get the Krogan genophage and some Russian co-owners.
Get Woke Go Broke
Dragon age as a series kinda sucked overall, it has 1 decent game that was followed up by watered down sequels as it progresssd to the point where inquisitions is just some sorry excuse of a hack-n-slash with light rpg mechanics set in a large empty world sprinkled with busywork, this series should've culminated into something like baldur's gate 3, which must've been a big ironic slap to the face for bioware developers now if they even care at all
It is kinda wild how different each game in the series is. I like them all, but I wish we were in the timeline where bioware went more into dao and baldurs gate for the series instead of actiony
DA2 actually was my favorite, too bad it was rushed and way too short. Loved the dramatic parts of the story (losing at least 1 sibling, losing your mother...). Loved the Corypheus DLC as well.
DA1 was kinda annoying because the strategy/combat system was clunky and another annoyance was DA1 crashing what felt like every 5 minutes on my Windows 10 due to being so old and poorly optimized for modern systems & 4K. Another annoyance was the amount of quests you could not finish if you missed something in the play-through and then not being able to return to the quest area. Basically had to read the Wiki alongside your gameplay to not miss important collectables. 🙄
DA:Inquisition is okay, however I was pissed because all the romancable companions are ugly as fuck in vanilla. Had to first mod the shit out of them to increase their fuckability.
Also the romance options felt so limited compared to DA2... I'd never romance Solas but if I wanted to he is only into female elf chicks? Rassist bastard!
Also bringing back Corypheus as the main villain was lame... Took away a huge part of Hawkes triumph.
I hope for a DA1 remake in the near future...
@FeuerblutRM Hawkes story is my favorite of the bunch and its a shame that we didn't get to see it fully realized. It's also crazy that we live In a world where the last of us and horizon get a remake and not dao
@@HandsomeMain
Couldn't agree more! 👍♥️
@@FeuerblutRM you think dragon age origin's battle system is clunky? This is the first time I heard anyone say that, it was advertised as a spiritual successor for baldur's gate, the battle system was working as intended but it was too easy and heavily watered down compared to its predecessors and contemporaries in the CRPG genre, it was like baby's first CRPG but the story was great and there was a massive drought in the market for these old school tough as nails RPG and it was the first that really broke through the mainstream. You hear people talking about baldur's gate 3 now and singing its praises, but these types of games have never been mainstream before dragon age and there aren't really that many people who played the older games because while those games like baldur's gate or planescape torment are masterpieces, they're also games that make you want to tear your eyeballs out...
And I described DA1 as "baby's first CRPG" it should be obvious how I feel about the rest of the series, DA2 especially feels like an insult, they made the game dumber to pander to the "gamer bro" demographic the industry was targeting at the time... Well at least we now have larian studios who are practically the "new old bioware" like the old doctors never left and the bioware of today can go die and rot in a ditch for all I care, we don't need them anymore
Old bioware died with the ending of Mass Effect 3.
Sadly, but I still liked Inquisition and So far the gameplay of Veilguard is promising (Could eat those words later) I doubt the game sells nearly enough to justify keeping the studio around to make an even bigger Mass Effect tho
Developers are missing the point about "AWESOME" factor in games. Most of the population has mundane jobs, chores we don't want to do, and video games give us that shot of excitement or peace depending on selective playstyle. The last thing we want is a lecture regarding ideologies that are still being worked out in human consciousness. Most of us (Gamers) just want to do something awesome, be the hero, lead a scoreboard, and generally be excited about the time we're using to distract ourselves from mundane life. The DEI activists will focus on "hate" but it's more the lack of "awesome." Heroes and Heroines are fit, agile, strong characters that do amazing things. Focusing on topics like "chores" in the middle of a live action game is lame. Same for lectures on ideologies.
Shattered Steel is not too old
Kotor and Jade empire are my favourite BioWare games
Out of all the remakes and remasters we get, it's baffeling that neither of these have happened
@@HandsomeMain yeah.. but jade Empire graphics hold up rlly well imho
@Scourge1990 ya If had to choose only one bioware game for a remake I'd definitely say kotor needs it more. Jade empires gameplay isn't too bad currently either
They shot themselves in the feet one last time with Dragon Age Veilguard.
when I heard David Gaider had written Stray Gods I immediately put it on my wishlist and bought it after my first BG3 playthrough and loved it.
Ya same here. It's installed on my pc but I haven't had the chance to get to it. I hope it's writing is as good as his other works
@@HandsomeMain it was advertised as a musical rpg but really it's more of an interactive storywith choices like the telltale games (which I also really enjoyed). It's a good story, good voice acting, and pretty short so I've done three playthroughs
Nice, I've been wanting to try it out after seeing the demo a long time ago on steam, If it's short i'll try to actually make myself try it next week@@darkishphoenix
Dragon age 4 flopped. They made it a far left ideology simulator. At the rate bioware might be disbanded before mass effect 5 comes out.
Why did you decide to make a scene mispronouncing karpyshyns name when he’s like the most beloved part of BioWare
I try to keep my man humble
Dragon age II is great. I just beat it yesterday 🤷♂️
Yeah I think it's good enough, but the repetitive combat scenarios drag it down for me so hard
I would really encourage you to provide some timestamps or some sort of organization to sources, rather than just dumping a list of links in the description. Stuff like the early infighting at Bioware is probably worth be VERY clear with the information you are sourcing.
Ya that's fair, I took a lot of breaks while writing the script so my only way of remembering the sources was dumping them into a word document lol, next video I'll have the stuff be more precise so people can look into the info themselves
What is the precise source for that anyway?@@HandsomeMain
For which part? Like the shattered steel dev infighting? I don't have the source page anymore but I think I can find it
@@wordsmaybe2456 www.vg247.com/remembering-the-early-days-of-bioware-with-co-founder-trent-oster here's an article of Trent Oster bringing some of it up
bioware peak for me is Dragon Age Origins , ME 2 and KOTOR ,ME 3 is so good closed the trilogy well enough and i loved the MP on the 360 but ME 2 have the best writting
i hated andromeda completed the game 1 time skipping all the secondaries and just played like 10 hours more to the multiplayer that was ME3 multiplayer with better mobility and weapons but worse enemy factions and AI so i like it less
Ya i've always thought DA origins and ME2 were their peak. Andromeda was just kinda bland for me and Veilguard just isn't the same team. That was rough
Mass Effect 3 is the best bad game ever made and still one of my favorite games of all time.
It's a million times better than Dragon Age 2 or Inquisition.
I'm waiting for Larian and Obsidian to crash and burn and then there are no more good game companies. And we can all just quit gaming, take up some other hobby like playing guitar or something. I hear Fender, Gibson, Ibanez and so on still make good guitars.
"The best bad game ever made" Is actually a great way to put it lmao
Kotor II is arguably superior to the first
With the complete mod I agree, but I feel like i'm more connected to the crew of the first game moreso even though obsidians writing was a lot more my speed (That prologue in 2 was horrible too)
Dragon Age = Fantasy Mass Effect
It's simple like all other studios- everything woke turns to shit.
Bioware was always woke. It's from Canada, so it shouldn't be a surprise.
EA happened. There, I saved you 28 minutes of your life ;)
I like how he goes into detail and explains each game. It’s fascinating! The real waste of time is your comment being rude for no reason.
EA. Basically EA happened. Larian would have been finished long ago had they been bought up as well.
Good video, but you shouldn't be so flippant about knowing you're mispronouncing someone's name! Just apologise if you get it wrong, saying you're just gonna say weird stuff when trying makes you sound rude, and I know you're not trying to be
bruh imagine there are bollocks of languages on this planet which uses letters different while speaking
If he wasn't flippant and snarky and condescending,, he'd have no personality at all...GREAT information and research, but petulently and haphazardly presented. Borderline insufferable at times.