Bioware - You've been chosen

[escape sanity]

What was the last franchise EA didn't ruin after acquisition?

Mass Effect.

Spoiler

Just because the ending wasn't "you save the universe and get back in time for tea and biscuits with the queen", doesn't mean the franchise was ruined.

 

[snips86x]

Details on KitGuru's site

 

[Squark]

See the man who thinks there was ever talent at Bioware.

You never played KotOR then.

 

[ttaskmaster]

Clearly everyone here is just bitter that their rigs are too puny to run proper graphically intense games like Peggle on full Ultra settings...

 

[Teaf]

What was the last franchise EA didn't ruin after acquisition?

Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Command and Conquer?

EA don't ruin anything per-say, they just occasionally release a stinker, same as every other company does. Last one that comes to mind was SimCity. They've also created loads of excellent IPs, like Dead Space. I still hold them personally responsible for messing up Warhammer Online though

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Not at all, from EA I've mostly played SSX, Skate, Fifa, Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect and they've all been great. Only game that's really disappointed me is Dragon Age 2 and I got that fairly cheap a while later.

They release a ridiculous amount of great games over the years. They're just the cool thing to hate at the moment (like Ubisoft) people love jumping on a bandwagon.

Mass Effect 1 wasn't EA was it? That was Microsoft/BioWare wasn't it?

I honestly can't remember the last EA game I played that wasn't ****. So by law of averages they're due for a half decent one.

BioWare did make some great games, then they got absorbed by EA and released SWTOR...

But I'll forgive them if they make a 3rd KoTOR game and it's actually at the same level as KoTOR 1 and Mass Effect 1.
Until then, I don't trust anything BioWare puts out now.

 

[Neil79]

If this is Bioware shouldn't that guy be waking up with a bloke next to him?