BobSmith101 wrote...
You make a good point here, maybe without realising it.... Many of Biowares successful RPGs were made under other peoples rulesets.
Using other people's systems permits them to avoid the heavy workload of trying to design and test a system to make sure it works and is fun. Using D&D or D20 let Bioware concentrate on content, rather than trying to come up with a functioning system.
Judging from ME2's bland gameplay, and DA2's DOA gameplay, it's pretty clear that devising a working system is not Bioware's strong point.
Of course, they're also being forced into unfamiliar territory, Shooters and Marvel Ultimate Alliance's gameplay is foriegn to a studio that's been making RPGs all it's life.
I think Bioware knows how much of a failure this game was. And you can't really compare Skyrim side by side but Skyrim will certainly crush DA2 in RPG of the year voting. I find it hard to believe DA2 will even be mentioned in any kind of voting.
People are waaaayyyy overestimating Skyrim.
1. Bethseda's been on a quest to remove anything that even remotely appears to be an RPG mechanic from their games since Morrowind.
2. Zenimax took on enourmous debt to purchase several companies, with only Bethseda releasing games. ID hasn't released a game in 6 years. Bethseda's the only revenue stream for 7 companies, 1 of which doesn't produce anything(Zenimax) and 1 of which is working on an MMO (Which are traditionally massive money consumers during development). Skyrim is being released because Zenimax is overextended and needs revenue. It'll likely turn out rushed and half-baked.
I would say we're looking at a Dark Horse race here. The likely winner will be either Witcher 2, Age of Decadence, or Dead State. With my money on Dead State for it's extremely novel setting (It's a Zombie Apocalypse survival RPG very influenced by Fallout).
I mean, you sell a million copies and outpace the first game in terms of revenue, and it's hard to write any game off as a failure.
People keep putting that world "Sold" in there, go back and reread Bioware's statement. They don't claim to have Sold 1,000,000 units. They only claimed to have moved them.
It's PR misspeak, designed to let the reader assume something without using the word, almost always used to mislead the reader into assuming some event occurred that didn't while staying away from statements that would cause SEC and Legal issues.
From what Bioware said, all we can say is 1 million copies were moved somewhere. They could've been moved from a warehouse to store shelves. They could have been moved from EA Conference Room A to EA Conference Room B.
We cannot say 1 million copies were sold, because it's actually pretty certain they weren't. You don't use misspeak to say something that's true. You don't use "Moved" to mean "Sold" if you Sold 1 million copies, you use it if you have 1 million copies go somewhere but have not yet sold them.
So in truth, what Bioware actually did say was that they have not yet succeeded in selling 1 million copies.
Modifié par Gatt9, 07 avril 2011 - 07:43 .
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