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[Fizzeler]

As the title says post/sign if you would like to see BioWare make a sequel to the awesome RPG that is Jade Empire!

I'll try and link other JE2 related threads and groups to this thread as well

A Jade Empire 2 Group:
http://social.bioware.com/group/572/

Edited by Fizzeler, 13 July 2010 - 11:23 PM.

[Lukas Kristjanson]

JE was some of the most fun I've had since starting gaming. Granted, it wasn't that long ago, but the fact that the original stood up to much newer games that I was playing at the same time speaks well of its quality, and it is insane to waste the potential there. I would buy JE2. I would buy DLC, and novels based on it.

 

Come on, guys. We want to give you money. Give us a thing to buy.

I wish we could. The concept folder for the Jade franchise had some fantastic stuff in it. As did certain proof-of-concept demos. Let's just say, "forward looking" demos. Maybe someday.

 

I'm pretty sure most of the actors are still active in the business, surely at least some of them would come back to include some new dialogues, you could add some new quests, and maybe even give the PC a voice, now that that's the thing.

Ehh, considerable technical limitations aside, I don't think this kind of retrofit would do the game any favours. Experience has taught that clear silent-protagonist dialogue makes for overacted/overwritten VO, and dialogue written for VO becomes sterile (or incomprehensible) without the actor's voice to carry intent. It'd need touch-ups throughout for me to feel good about presenting it like that.

 

As for voice actors, it's been awhile. Some have retired, some are machines that never seem to stop. For example, I don't think Gao the Lesser needs work.

 

In April 2015 I would like for there to be news of Jade Empire's future (or at least a public recognition of it being the tenth anniversary in some manner that goes farther than just acknowledging the game existed). JE was (and continues to be, even nine years later) something that had no equal on the market because there just wasn't anything to compare it to. It was, and still is, their most original idea for an RPG.

Hopefully we'll be coming off a good launch of DAI, and can devote some time to it. But that's up to the powers that be. It was a fun game to write and a great setting. Hey, a relic from ages past. And an MTV thing that kind of weirded me out at the time: This was a real thing that happened.

[Lukas Kristjanson]

We just had the very first Bioware employee in years drop by this forum. We need a way to get their attention.

We could buy them a batch of fortune cookies?

No cookies required. We're still around, and the topic comes up from time to time. My bittersweet line for people who ask if they'll see a Jade 2 is that they're kind of seeing it now, in the systems and advances of our current titles. Because a boatload of features were prototyped for Jade related... things. Interrupt in ME, interactive banter and other conversation systems in DAI, and a bunch of others are the results of Jade investigations in various guises.

 

So it lives on in a way. And you never say never in this business.