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BioWare: Dragon Age & The Witcher Revealed

[May 08, 2004, 3:17 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

With accompanying details presumably to emerge at the show, BioWare announces their E3 showing will reveal development of a pair of new games, Dragon Age and The Witcher. Here are the scant details so far:

BioWare is proud to announce Dragon Age™, an upcoming PC RPG based on a brand new BioWare fantasy world. Dragon Age will be shown to a limited number of journalists behind closed doors. Many more details will be announced at E3.

Also to be shown in the BioWare booth is The Witcher™, an action-RPG developed by Poland-based developer CDProjekt and powered by the BioWare Aurora EngineTM.

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May 9, 2004, 03:10

Awesome Spume

Hey Creston, you were getting excited about one Bioware PC release a couple of weeks back and now you have two (presumably) announced. Good times huh? The Witcher is the one that interests me. It's Bioware's answer to Black Isle's Lionheart. ie they've given their engine to another developer to make a game under their guidance. But this time hopefully it'll be good. I've been pretty happy with the RPG's coming out of Europe, and there's usually a different slant on things. Dragon Age on the other hand will let us see what Bioware can really do. Their D&D and Star Wars stuff aside, which of their RPGs have been set in their own game world? Exactly. Make or break time but I hope they pull it off. Currently I'm playing Beyond Divinity, with mixed feelings. I'd just finished Sacred and was extremely underwhelmed by that (it could yet become a quality game with patches but it's just not Diablo 2 enuf yet) and really wanted to like BD but... <spoiler> : how am I meant to feel about a game that has me fight through 3 levels of lvl 2 skeletons to get to the bottom of a dungeon with TWO lvl 13 bosses, while my 2 characcters are lvl 7? That was a futile exercise in burning through every health and mana potion I owned, before dying. There are so many ways you can play BD though and it has a certain retro charm to it. Lots of good ideas too. In fact there're so many choices you can get beguiled into gimping your characters by trying out all the secondary skills, and suddenly realising you've no combat skills. EDIT: oh and on the top down view for Dragon Age... if you had a massive hit on your hands with KOTOR, which engine are you going to use for your new game? This comment was edited on May 9, 03:12.

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Comment [quote="Awesome Spume"May 9, 2004, 03:10]Hey Creston, you were getting excited about one Bioware PC release a couple of weeks back and now you have two (presumably) announced. Good times huh? The Witcher is the one that interests me. It's Bioware's answer to Black Isle's Lionheart. ie they've given their engine to another developer to make a game under their guidance. But this time hopefully it'll be good. I've been pretty happy with the RPG's coming out of Europe, and there's usually a different slant on things. Dragon Age on the other hand will let us see what Bioware can really do. Their D&D and Star Wars stuff aside, which of their RPGs have been set in their own game world? Exactly. Make or break time but I hope they pull it off. Currently I'm playing Beyond Divinity, with mixed feelings. I'd just finished Sacred and was extremely underwhelmed by that (it could yet become a quality game with patches but it's just not Diablo 2 enuf yet) and really wanted to like BD but... <spoiler> : s{how am I meant to feel about a game that has me fight through 3 levels of lvl 2 skeletons to get to the bottom of a dungeon with TWO lvl 13 bosses, while my 2 characcters are lvl 7? That was a futile exercise in burning through every health and mana potion I owned, before dying.}s There are so many ways you can play BD though and it has a certain retro charm to it. Lots of good ideas too. In fact there're so many choices you can get beguiled into gimping your characters by trying out all the secondary skills, and suddenly realising you've no combat skills. EDIT: oh and on the top down view for Dragon Age... if you had a massive hit on your hands with KOTOR, which engine are you going to use for your new game? [/quote]

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