They have a awarding winning space odyssey game in Mass Effect, a medieval fantasy rpg epic in Dragon Age. So what's next?
I for one would love to see them come a little bit back in our own world and tackle a mythic type game. Yes you could argue how would it be different from Dragon Age, but Dragon Age is steeped in its own lore, much of which is still being written where as our own mythological tales and adventure have already been set in stone so to speak. I'm not saying they have to retell the same old stories with our ancient heroes, but rather reinvent and tell new stories with different outcomes, in other words build a world around them but in classic BioWare reimaging.
To try and draw some comparisons on what im thinking about, the best example i can think of from my own experience is Enix's one time hottest property Valkyrie Profile and his successor VP2. In which Enix pretty much only used the gods of ancient Scandinavian mythology names and partial envisioned likeness to create a interesting game.
I would love BioWare to do something in where you play as a new god leading a group of other gods or mythological monsters/heroes and have some grand epic tale crafted partially by your own deeds and actions. I think it would be unique in that unlike games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age where the confines of what is visually capable within a given characters scope of ability is limited, these such beings would be without a proverbial ceiling. It's like High Epic adventure in a D&D where the possibility for just how cosmic can you the player or the writing/programming staff get.
Now that i wrote that, it strikes me that that's kind of what im thinking about, a cosmic or divine level adventure! God or nearly god like beings are the common place. Where death isn't game over, it's just one more realm you are now visiting. A game where there aren't just towns and castles to explore, but entire dimensions? realities? realms? Death like i said would be only one realm to visit whether you were sent there willingly or not, maybe death's realm isn't the same as hell, or heaven, the possibilities are endless.
Basically, I'd love to see BioWare do a do a current Divine (as a term to which to encompass the beyond life and death.) What do you guys think? Could Bioware tackle such a game?
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