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A BioWare Social Network post from BioWare's Mark Darrah where the Executive Producer on Dragon Age II explains the team is moving past DA2 and on to "the next phase of Dragon Age’s future" (thanks GameInformer). Here's word: And finally, while we will still be keeping an eye out for any issues that might crop up in DAII and supporting the community should any emergencies should arise, we’re moving the entire team’s focus to the next phase of Dragon Age’s future.
You’ve most certainly heard the rumors floating around, and unfortunately I can’t really comment on them. However, what I can say is that we’ve been thinking a lot about Dragon Age – what it means, and where it could go. This past year, we’ve spent a lot of time both going back to the “BioWare vault” of games and re-examining them, and looking at some new possibilities that today’s industry allows.
With that, the next thing for the Dragon Age team members and I to do is hear from you, and not just on the forums, or Facebook, or Twitter. We’ll be attending a number of conventions and gatherings, including PAX East in April. The most valuable thing we can get out of those meetings is to hear from you on those same topics – what does Dragon Age mean to you, and where would you like to see it go? We’re excited to hear what you have to say!
On behalf of the entire team, we are incredibly eager to reach the moment when we can tell you more and show you where we are taking Dragon Age. But for now, thank you for your continued support, and we will be back here with more as soon as we can.
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everyone wrote on Mar 20, 2012, 09:06: But rather than weed out the crap and expand on what it did well for the sequel, they stripped out all it did right, kept all it got wrong and added a lot more wrongness on top. That's a big Bioware problem these days. They are on the EA timetable now, no more long dev cycles. 2 years is all they get and that's simply not enough time to make a proper RPG. Hell even JRPGs often take longer. So when something doesn't work they make no effort to find a middle ground with it, they just throw it away.
Consoles are the other problem. Their memory constraints are severely hamstringing some aspects of development. Remember when Bioware games had real honest to god maps? Now it's a set of bullet points. DA:O stretched consoles to the limit and there is no way they'll get the time to do that kind of optimization again.
Finally console players want dumbed down things they can understand. Dark Town, Low Town, small maps, enemies that explode in absurd giblets, awesome butan, etc. I'm not sure DA3 can ever be worthwhile with these things in mind.
I was reading that thread and they already confirmed it will be a voiced protagonist again which is really disappointing. It added nothing to DA2 so they are going to...do it again? I don't really see that as listening to fan feedback. |
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