The End of BioWare as a Traditional RPG Creator?
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HOWEVER! Teasing me with something as open and infinitely superior in its complexity as was Dragon Age: Origins, only to follow up with something that is simply NOT in the same style or genre, is completely and utterly unfair. As a gamer and a fan, I care how much profit BioWare makes only insofar as it keeps them afloat to continue making more cool stuff that I like. Selfish, but true of most gamers. I don't want to see things get blanded away from the features and elements that made BioWare my favourite game maker. While I understand their need to grow and expand, on an intellectual level, I am thoroughly disheartened at this turn of events.I'd say that if BioWare was ever a traditional RPG creator, that ended with Knights of the Old Republic, and Origins was just an anachronism.
I'll deal. I'll be ok. I'll still love them.
But I'll miss them too.
It's interesting to see a new generation of RPG gamers be disappointed in these changes, though. In 10 years time, will "traditional" fans complain as the Mass Effect-type RPG is turned even more mainstream (somehow)? That's evolution for you...
Thanks, RPGCodex.
