Would you wan't a X-MEN RPG from BioWare?

[Xero Kaiser]

You imply depth couldn't be added in with good story telling

Of course it can. Just not by Bioware

and fact is that create a character and romances are very important to the Bio ware fanbase which numbers the millions.

Yeah, I know that romances are important to the fanbase that Bioware chases these days. That's why their forums are filling with hand-wringing over who is or isn't a potential love interest, how pretty this character is or isn't, who may or may not be gay. etc. Going to any forum about Dragon Age: Inquisition felt like I was hearing people discuss some reality dating show. Meanwhile the game's mechanics are absolute trash but that's not important to Bioware or their current fanbase anymore.

Yeah, I'm ranting. I don't care. I'm still pissed I paid money for DA:I.

[simbob4000]

Look, if you bought Dragon Age Inquisition after Dragon Age 2, and Mass Effect 2 & 3...well, that's on you man. BioWare has been trying to tell people how much they suck for years now. Even the first Mass Effect and Dragon Age aren't up to their old stuff, although at least they seemed to have promise.

[Xero Kaiser]

Look, if you bought Dragon Age Inquisition after Dragon Age 2, and Mass Effect 2 & 3...well, that's on you man. BioWare has been trying to tell people how much they suck for years now. Even the first Mass Effect and Dragon Age aren't up to their old stuff, although at least they seemed to have promise.

Yeah, I know. But I wanted to believe. Like you said, DA:O had promise but...clearly the Bioware capable of making games like Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate no longer exists.

[Immortal Weapon]

After checking out Pillars of Eternity it reinforces my desire for Obsidian to do a Marvel RPG.

[Xero Kaiser]

After checking out Pillars of Eternity it reinforces my desire for Obsidian to do a Marvel RPG.

I just started that game up. Only about 8 hours in but this game is doing everything right so far.

[Sardorim]

Look, if you bought Dragon Age Inquisition after Dragon Age 2, and Mass Effect 2 & 3...well, that's on you man. BioWare has been trying to tell people how much they suck for years now. Even the first Mass Effect and Dragon Age aren't up to their old stuff, although at least they seemed to have promise.

DA2's only problem is that it had less than a year in dev time. The character stories are the best in DA2 compared to the other ME/DA games and Hawke is the best protagonist they've had since Revan. If it hadn't been rushed out by EA I'm sure it could have been far better than it was. DA2 is also where they did DLC pretty well, story DLC that is.

After checking out Pillars of Eternity it reinforces my desire for Obsidian to do a Marvel RPG.

Ugh, Pillars isn't that great. It's more of create your own party of emotionless and epressionless NPCs for you to control and the ones you do get are pretty hit and miss.

[simbob4000]

To say Dragon Age 2 only has one problem is pretty fun...even if that's something that can cover a number of things. I don't remember anything of interest in any of the characters stories. And I sure don't remember anything interesting about Hockey. Some third rate crappy story isn't enough to carry a video game with such terrible gameplay through the same house and cave in the same one tiny city over and over again. And Dragon Age 2 has some of the same problems Mass Effect 2 has, so big bad EA isn't the reason the game sucks.

[Immortal Weapon]

DA2's only problem is that it had less than a year in dev time. The character stories are the best in DA2 compared to the other ME/DA games and Hawke is the best protagonist they've had since Revan. If it hadn't been rushed out by EA I'm sure it could have been far better than it was. DA2 is also where they did DLC pretty well, story DLC that is.



Ugh, Pillars isn't that great. It's more of create your own party of emotionless and epressionless NPCs for you to control and the ones you do get are pretty hit and miss.

The emotion is there if you care enough to dive into it. Chat with your party once in a while.

Dragon Age 2 is a piece of crap. Bad enough that only the minor story bits of the first game carried over. DA2 has stuck in a single city, turning the choices into the black and white affairs as oppose to the ambitious nature from the first game, having to go through the same environments over and over, going with genetic hack-n-slash gameplay instead of sticking with the tactical systems of the first game. I didn't bother finishing the game because the gameplay was so awful.

[The Chou Lives]

Rather have Obsdian do it any day. Quite honestly.

I miss Black Isle Studios. They were so freakken awesome.

But yeha as for a X Men RPG? Sure, it will be awesome. Sure, Bioware has a fan base, but there are better people out there.

[wjowski]

Like the actual Bioware or EA's brand holder handpuppet?

[Vaishakh]

Rather have Obsdian do it any day. Quite honestly.
I miss Black Isle Studios. They were so freakken awesome.
But yeha as for a X Men RPG? Sure, it will be awesome. Sure, Bioware has a fan base, but there are better people out there.

I am pretty sure people from Black Isle ended up forming Obsidian. I would prefer Obsidian over Bioware too. Though Obsidian games almost always have a lot of bugs though

[simbob4000]

I am pretty sure people from Black Isle ended up forming Obsidian. I would prefer Obsidian over Bioware too. Though Obsidian games almost always have a lot of bugs though

Some of them, the best ones went and formed Trokia Games before Black Isle died though. But Tim Cain is with Obsidian now.

But I would still rather have the people behind Dragon's Dogma or Freedom Force do something like that. While Obsidian is better than BioWare, combat isn't really their strong suit. And in a X-Man (or Marvel) game the fighting aspect seems more import and interesting than what makes up a game like Pillars of Eternity, not that you couldn't have choices being made.

[simbob4000]

Like the actual Bioware or EA's brand holder handpuppet?

That is the actual BioWare.

[Carabas]

And this is exactly why I wouldn't want to see this done by Bioware. No depth or complexity to the game but boy-oh-boy, look at all these love interests.

Assuming that this were true (which I don't agree it is), wouldn't that make Bioware the best game publisher ever to make an X-Men game?