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[Fieryeel]

What do you prefer?

DA2 being made by Bioware in control by EA with a development cycle of 18 months, getting streamlined, cut down, content re-used and being made shorter. But at least, you get your game fast.

Or DA2 being made by Blizzard with a development cycle of over 10 years, getting bigger, more epic and better but.............TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING!!! But at least, you get your game awesome.

[jmadsen]

why not something in between

[DomiiMai]

Ew, No. Horrible idea.
Worst yet.

Modifié par DomiiMai, 02 avril 2011 - 05:06 .

[BeljoraDien]

Blizzard is way worse than BioWare... despite my anger toward BW right now.

I wish Obsidian had picked it up... You know THAT would have been epic.

[Dannybare]

Blizzard is controlled by Activision, who I depise way more than EA.

[AlanC9]

10 years? So we'd be playing DA2 in 2019?

[Darkest Dreamer]

And have an empty hack and slash with only a hint of story thrown in every hour? No thanks...

And I'm not sure I would've liked obsidian picking it up either.

All we need to do is convince EA that Bioware can make them bullions (sorry) given enough time. And after that we can begin harnessing the power of ponies and rainbows for free-energy and world peace.

[Packofpickledpeppers]

Theres been a few of these topics but I havent seen anyone make the best one yet.

"Would Dragon Age 2 be better if it was made by Obsidion?

Now THAT would be a great topic.

As far as this topic goes though, the combat, at least in DAO and partially in DA2, was so similar to WoW that yeah, I think Blizzard probably would have handled DA2 pretty well. It may have taken 10 years to release, but it would have been quality.  It would have paid more attention to the lore, and it probably would have had large seamless areas with many cities, and various types of mounts to travel between them with.

Modifié par Packofpickledpeppers, 02 avril 2011 - 05:22 .

[goering]

mind you, I liked DA:O a lot. Despite it's deficiencies.
It's not like Bioware is incapable ... they just royally ****ed up by adapting a new project management style known as "Let's see if we can get away with it".

[aries1001]

I would much rather see a middle ground, something like maybe 3-4 years or even 2½ years in full production. Or I wished that DA2 had gotten 3-6 months to be able to made into a better game than it seems it is right now. If the release date has been May 17th, Bioware and EA could have used, yes used, the hype around the Witcher 2 to release the game. People then probably would buy both games....

As for the dev. production time, might I remind you a little game that always wanted to include the latest tech in it - and has vanished nearly 'forever'....

[ArmedChimp]

I don't think a 10 year development cycle equals awesome game. I mean look at Duke Nukem Forever by the amount of  development time it had, it should burn out your eyes with awesomeness. Instead it looked rather dated. Same with Starcraft 2 imo.

[Broken Promise]

Bad idea... while Blizzard is acknowledged for revolutionizing the MMO genre, if you were following WoW, you'll notice it was in stasis for at least 3 years now. And then trying to bring more players to their game with the latest expansion, they simplified every single aspect of the game, making it accessible to a wider audience, removing any sign of complex class system or/and class distinction.

My deepest and most enjoyable CRPG experiences are still brought by BioWare, while "it's not the company we used to know", it's still my last bastion of hope. They're not perfect, but none of us are. At least I don't regret the time spent in most BioWare games.

[Just_For_Lulz]

Fieryeel wrote...
DA2 being made by Bioware in control by EA with a development cycle of 18 months, getting streamlined, cut down, content re-used and being made shorter. But at least, you get your game fast.

^This I will never understand. Why on earth would i want my game "fast"? Can pleeeeease someone explain? Like... will I die if I wait longer? What's the urgency for a fastfood here? Shorter development cycles scream shorter content, shallow story, and overall drop in quality. So no, I don't want my game "fast". I want quality. 

[v_ware]

How bout Bioware/EA not being such greedy bastards and giving the developers the development time that's needed to make a good game.

[orbit991]

Does Blizzard have writers? I thought their devs usually scrapped together some fetch quests scripts.
Joking of course, but its not their thing.

[captain.subtle]

Hands down Obsidian. I believe everyone will agree. They make far better sequels.

[JediHealerCosmin]

Blizzard?


Why don't we just take the whole franchise and throw it to the zerg.

Honestly, companies are allowed to make mistakes once in a while. They are human beings after all (or so we believe). We move past this and hope BioWare makes the next product something to remember. 

[byzantine horse]

No. I've just left WoW because Blizzard is completely useless.

[Akka le Vil]

Hello, Blizzard is already in the same situation than Bioware.
If you want to avoid a game catering to the lowest common denominator, Blizzard is today one of the last company I would consider. Their handling of WoW has been the DEFINITION of "dumbing down" since the two last expansions.

[devSin]

I think the real question is if you'd prefer Blizzard to be making TOR.

For DA, the focus of the two studios is far too different. You might be able to say it was more polished, but you wouldn't be able to say it was Dragon Age.

Dannybare wrote...

Blizzard is controlled by Activision, who I depise way more than EA.

Blizzard is not controlled by Activision.

[JediHealerCosmin]

devSin wrote...

I think the real question is if you'd prefer Blizzard to be making TOR.

I've seen how TOR looks today (well... I follow it a lot =P). And the answer would be no.
I like how BioWare is handling it  

Modifié par JediHealerCosmin, 02 avril 2011 - 06:17 .

[barenas]

Bioware is superior to Blizzard in their writing and story telling. If you want an RTS or a hack n slash game then Blizzard would be the one to make it.

[MingWolf]

captain.subtle wrote...

Hands down Obsidian. I believe everyone will agree. They make far better sequels.

Well, no offense to Obsidian, but their sequel to Neverwinter Nights didn't exactly impress the NWN community.  I lot of people I know still refuse to acknowledge that there even is a NWN2.  In fact, the community reaction to DA2 now resembles that of NWN2 when that game first released

[Lukertin]

If Blizzard made DA2:

They would take a big **** on the storyline of DA:O, call the Mage v. Templar war something that was 'prophesized' by unknown entities at an unknown point in time (b/c prophesies are cool), vaguely refer to the 'return of the Old Gods' or something while pretending Morrigan doesn't exist. Then in DA3 you will randomly have help from all the civilizations of Thedas (like in DA:O, only you don't need to recruit them, they just show up to help you for no reason) to fight the Old Gods.

Do you really want that?

Do you?

Really?

Fieryeel wrote...
Or DA2 being made by Blizzard with a development cycle of over 10 years, getting bigger, more epic and better but.............TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING!!! But at least, you get your game awesome.

Blizzard had ten years to make a story (just a story, never mind a good one) for SC2:WoL without retconning the entirety of SC & SC:BW and look at what they did.

Modifié par Lukertin, 02 avril 2011 - 06:31 .

[DoNotIngest]

How about if Bioware made DA2 in twice the time they actually did? Give a bit of closure, larger environment, new dungeons, and fix some bugs. And more party interaction, of course.

Modifié par DoNotIngest, 02 avril 2011 - 06:31 .