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Not long after the message that Bethesda did what BioWare always wanted (shipping 10 million copies) but never achieved despite all the awesome 'splosions and emotional engaging gay romances, the BioDocs figured out a new, auspicious approach. Learning from the best.

Speaking to Wired.com in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, BioWare CEO and co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka said the company has been listening to its fans and learning from the strengths and weaknesses of both Dragon Age II, the latest entry in the popular series, and other games that are on the market today.

“[The next Dragon Age] is gonna have the best of features from the prior Dragon Age games, but it’s also gonna have a lot of things I think players are gonna find compelling from some of the games that are out now that are doing really well with more of an open world feel,” Muzyka said.

“We’re checking [Skyrim] out aggressively. We like it. We’re big admirers of [Bethesda] and the product,” he said. “We think we can do some wonderful things.”
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http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/dragon-age-3/

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I'm not keeping my expectations high anymore, after DAII.

Defo waiting for reviews before a buy this time round.
 
Bioware needing to copy bethesda?

Why dont they do what people actually want and copy Bioware / BG2 / DAO?????

All the good developers at Bioware are long gone now, the remaining team are just a bunch of monkeys that sold their souls to the EA devil.
 
You know, Bioware was better under Microsofts agreement.

EA has ruined one of the most prestigious games companies to exist and i blame Bioware for that. :o
 
Wow thats an awkward press statement.

I wasn't aware there were any strengths to Dragon Age II.
EA had to admit there were weaknesses to Dragon Age II.
 
Aedus said:
I'm not keeping my expectations high anymore, after DAII.

Defo waiting for reviews before a buy this time round.
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I'm assuming you mean user reviews, as the critic's reviews of DA2 were generally positive!
 
I paid very little for DA1 and, unexpectedly, enjoyed it enough to play it through twice with different characters.

I paid £12.50 for DA2, and only recently got around to playing through it on the easiest settings, just to see it for myself. I think I probably paid about £12.49 too much.

Anyone old enough to remember Dallas on TV may also remember the loosely connected series, Knots Landing. DAII is the Knots Landing of this franchise... it only exists in order to try and squeeze some more revenue out of the original idea, and fails.

DA3 will be treated as guilty until proven innocent by the vast majority of gamers. The only good thing is that the team may be able to use our reaction to 2 as a baseball bat with which to beat the suits at EA, giving them time to finish something worthy of the DragonAge title.
 
I didn't even touch DA2 because it's plot and visuals looked totally poor vs the first - and that was before the game even came out. It seems the DA2 devs spent more time slagging off the far superior Witcher 2 on metacritic then actually developing a decent plot.
 
I'm not going to judge it based on DAII and write it off immediately, DA:O was still a superb game.

I've no doubt Bioware still have what it takes to make a good game, and there's no way they'll be completely oblivious to the lashback from last time round.

I'll wait and see how it turns out.
 
I'll be more than happy to eat my words but this will be another Bioware fail.

"doing really well with more of an open world feel"

You see... Skyrim isn't a good game because it's open world. It's a good game because it has depth and atmosphere and graphics and storyline and roleplaying and open world combined into a complete package.

DA:O was a complete package too which made it a good game even though it was pretty linear.
 
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