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[Cribbian]

Well, it's a song written for the movie Young Guns 2.

 

Secret IP is a western semi-confirmed

[Obliviousmiss]

The Bioware Twitter-verse is oddly quiet today.....

 

[Bryan Johnson]

The Bioware Twitter-verse is oddly quiet today.....

 

Edmonton studio is on holiday

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Edmonton studio is on holiday

So you guys take Easter off? How dare you?!

 

[ArcadiaGrey]

Pfftttttt.   That's all I've got after a week of excitingly checking this thread. 

 

And after all that, the secret IP will probably be some theme I'm seriously not into.  

[Sylvius the Mad]

Edmonton studio is on holiday

I had to work on Monday, but Edmonton was weirdly quiet. I think a lot of offices were closed. Government offices certainly were.

[Hrungr]

Jay Watamaniuk ‏@JayWatamaniuk

I have meetings from 11 to 5. I don't expect any of them to be a dance battle.

 

Brianne Battye ‏@bbattye

None of them are *planned* dance battles. Which means no one will see it coming...

 

Jay Watamaniuk ‏@JayWatamaniuk

Wily.

 

Mary Kirby ‏@BioMaryKirby

We could ABSOLUTELY make our brainstorm at 3 a dance-off.

[rapscallioness]

Ah, a good, traditional dance battle:

 

 

Now all you need is an office Dance Cam....if you don't have one already.

 

If you do, I demand a Behind the Scenes footage be included in the rolling credits of the next game. It's good to know how game devving really works.

 

With the disclaimer, ofc, that **No game devs were actually hurt in the making of this Dance Battle.

 

Good luck, and God speed.

 

[BioFan (Official)]

BioFan @BioFanOfficial

So how'd that dance battle go?

Brianne Battye @bbattye

I feel I contributed more "interpretive flailing" than "battle moves"

 

Mary Kirby ‏@BioMaryKirby

That's why I keep saying we should get bonus points for song asides.

[Silvos]

Perhaps we should go full-on crazy and analyze the lyrics of the song to see if there's anything that can imply a premise of a game?

 

The Andromeda forum convinced themselves that the lyrics to the Johnny Cash song from the reveal trailer were the exact story of the game, sooo...

[Eelectrica]

I'm thinking the secret IP is just that - a secret agent/spy game. set perhaps 50 to 100 years in the future. Hiding the truth in plain sight perhaps.

Enough scope to be contemporary, but just far enough to go a bit crazy with gadgets and setting

Find out soon enough either way.

[Heimdall]

I'm thinking the secret IP is just that - a secret agent/spy game. set perhaps 50 to 100 years in the future. Hiding the truth in plain sight perhaps.

Enough scope to be contemporary, but just far enough to go a bit crazy with gadgets and setting

Find out soon enough either way.

Maybe,

 

Whatever it is, at this point I'm more eager to find out about the setting of the new IP than I am to learn anything about MEA.

[Oyoa]

I don't even know what I am hoping for with this new IP anymore. I will eagerly get it though because of this. If it is a secret agent/spy game, maybe they'll make it semi-modern and not futuristic...

Didn't someone once say it was supposed to be more of a modern setting?

[ArcadiaGrey]

I don't even know what I am hoping for with this new IP anymore. I will eagerly get it though because of this. If it is a secret agent/spy game, maybe they'll make it semi-modern and not futuristic...

Didn't someone once say it was supposed to be more of a modern setting?

 

I feel like they did...but then it could be my imagination.  I hope it lies somewhere between DA and ME on the timeline.  Pretty big expanse to shoot for there.  

 

I just have an ominous feeling that it'll be apocalyptic Fallout/Borderlands style with a retro futuristic theme.  I really hope I'm wrong. 

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

They've said they're going to tell more "contemporary stories" with this IP. Take that how you will, but many here take that to mean it'll be set in contemporary times/setting. So not post-apocalypse prolly.

[Heimdall]

They've said their going to tell more "contemporary stories" with this IP. Take that how you will, but many here take that to mean it'll be set in contemporary times/setting. So not post-apocalypse prolly.

It could run the gamut anywhere from near future cyberpunk to urban fantasy to (and I'll admit this is stretching "contemporary", but in terms of "contemporary story" any kind of established modern society with reasonably advanced technology could work) steampunk.

All we really know is that it probably won't be post apocalyptic (Or anything similarly based on a societal breakdown) and we can probably cross space opera and classic fantasy off the list.

[ElitePinecone]

Fun fact: Bioware were actually developing an espionage RPG back before 2009.

 

I'd really like a modern espionage setting, but it's tricky to write a convincing story and characters without going totally over the top like Alpha Protocol did. In the same way that physicists have to suspend their disbelief when playing Mass Effect with ships that don't adhere to Newtonian physics, it's tough to play through contemporary settings that try geopolitics when 90% of the storylines that developers come up with are nonsense. Bioware could definitely be one of the studios that gets this sort of game right (their writers and editors are great), but I'd still probably be more critical of something set in the real world just because the bar for it to be plausible is so much higher. Even the conceits required to make a game work in a contemporary setting (we'd be a secret government agent, or something?) are just ridiculous enough to remind me that it's not actually a realistic representation of our own world. 

 

That's the benefit of doing fantasy or sci-fi, there's no real limit to the sort of stories they can tell, and nobody can jump on their back for messing up the setting when it's something that BW have invented themselves. 

[Jagaro]

Perhaps their aim won't be for a realistic setting but a setting that would fit in our current moment of time, a range within 2015-2020.

I don't think they will try for a modern day story without using some sort of fantastical elements.

Bioware has been known to create a vast history to create their worlds. Case in point Mass Effect which sets up approx. 150(?) years of future history just to create a backdrop to the game. Dragon Age has a history that spans centuries and beyond just to setup that world.

Whatever this 'contemporary setting' is for the game I believe that they'll setup a history spanning maybe a century before the actual game so that whatever fantastical elements that exist will exist for a reason within a modern day story.

So yeah I don't believe they'll try to approach realism.

[ArcadiaGrey]

They've said they're going to tell more "contemporary stories" with this IP. Take that how you will, but many here take that to mean it'll be set in contemporary times/setting. So not post-apocalypse prolly.

Phew.

[Seven Zettabytes]

Whenever 'contemporary setting' is mentioned, I'm always reminded a little of The Secret World. Personally I think that the blend between our world and fantasy was done pretty OK there.

 

I really doubt that this IP will be anything like it, though...

[Heimdall]

Whenever 'contemporary setting' is mentioned, I'm always reminded a little of The Secret World. Personally I think that the blend between our world and fantasy was done pretty OK there.

I really doubt that this IP will be anything like it, though...

There's a name for that genre: Urban Fantasy. It's a broad category but it includes Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, a favorite of mine.

It's best to keep an open mind at this point.

[Hrungr]

Alistair McNally ‏@Al_McNally
Today marks my 8th year anniversary @BioWare Feeling incredibly fortunate to work with such wonderful people on such great games.

 

Aaryn Flynn ‏@AarynFlynn
Congratulations! Did you wear a special shirt?


 

[DragonKingReborn]

Alistair McNally ‏@Al_McNally
Today marks my 8th year anniversary @BioWare Feeling incredibly fortunate to work with such wonderful people on such great games.

 

Aaryn Flynn ‏@AarynFlynn
Congratulations! Did you wear a special shirt?


 

Damn it!

 

Troll-level is over 9000....

[Jagaro]

Alistair McNally ‏@Al_McNally
Today marks my 8th year anniversary @BioWare Feeling incredibly fortunate to work with such wonderful people on such great games.

Aaryn Flynn ‏@AarynFlynn
Congratulations! Did you wear a special shirt?

Another cheeky bastard.

[PCThug]

Can I just say how jealous I am that Final Fantasy got Florence Welch to record a song for their trailer? Bioware, snap her up for one of yours!