Tiaa Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Thank Jedi Jesus. The current team is terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farho Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 I loved Dragon Age Origins AND Dragon Age 2. My only complaint against DA2 was that the whole game took place in one city, and the zones all looked very similar. I still enjoyed the story, and I even thought the graphics were more my style. The combat system was also revamped to be more console friendly which I appreciated being that I owned a PS3 copy. Yeah I understand since DA2 was changed in several ways to adapt to consoles, but these changes, such as the world, the combat system and camera were the very things old schools hated. And to me, DA2, despite its alright story, was a meaningless game. The possibility that the same devs, if any of them is here, might give some of those bold (!) decisions for SWTOR scares the hell out of me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amnie Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 afaik DA3 is supposed to be a lot more like Origins, so I am actually looking forward to that game and not happy when it will now a) take longer to develope and b) might lack quality - again. DA2 was an 'ok' game, it kept me entertained, but Origins is - to me - far superiour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arunas Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Im sure the DA devs would feel thrilled to be pulled off their pet project to work on tortanic. Just imagine the morale Yup. Also throwing more people at development project that s late never helps. This is just pathetic, more they fix, more they broke. Elder Scroll Online needs to come fast. Titan can't come soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonFire Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 (edited) Just a funny side note on Elder Scrolls. Look familiar? HeroEngine, http://www.exosyn.com/Capture.PNG http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qOrF6NcAdSc/T313rhfkV8I/AAAAAAAAAQU/pxEgaCWoGy0/s1600/Sith-Inquisitor-Force-Lightning.jpg Edited May 9, 2012 by CrimsonFire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belpheghor Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 (edited) This is actually really good news, it means EA isn't dumping SWToR yet and are redirecting more resources into improving this game, I'm really glad to hear something in a positive direction. Can you imagine if the news was about devs being pulled from SWToR to work on another game? How big of an impact remains to be seen obviously, but at least EA still cares about their investment in ToR. Edited May 9, 2012 by Belpheghor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adderdin Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 (edited) Just a funny side note on Elder Scrolls. Look familiar? HeroEngine, http://www.exosyn.com/Capture.PNG http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qOrF6NcAdSc/T313rhfkV8I/AAAAAAAAAQU/pxEgaCWoGy0/s1600/Sith-Inquisitor-Force-Lightning.jpg And the Hero Engine is why TESonline will fail. Hero Engine has been used on few games so far, 2 of them released 1)SWTOR 2) Faxion Online The latter didnt last even a full year before it closed. Edited May 9, 2012 by Adderdin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neum Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 I hope the Devs that are brought over are not outsourced 3rd world people coding for a bowl of rice every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Ravenhurst Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Just a funny side note on Elder Scrolls. Look familiar? HeroEngine, http://www.exosyn.com/Capture.PNG http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qOrF6NcAdSc/T313rhfkV8I/AAAAAAAAAQU/pxEgaCWoGy0/s1600/Sith-Inquisitor-Force-Lightning.jpg You know, I can´t put a finger on what exactly it is, but I hate the look of games created in Hero Engine. Absolutely. It´s the same with "The Repopulation" also a game done in Hero Engine. Is it the terrain lighting? The skewed color look, or that everything looks like its made out of cheap plastic or the sub par perfomance? Probably a combination of all of the above. Hero Engine = Heroic Fail. At least in its current incarnation. I´ll never buy anything based on Hero again, that´s for sure. Dreamworld Engine, Crytek Engine, Unreal3 Engine for the win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChazDoit Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 (edited) I hope the Devs that are brought over are not outsourced 3rd world people coding for a bowl of rice every day. Maybe people that are not fat and comfy sitting on their Ivory towers could do a better job, who knows? Edited May 9, 2012 by ChazDoit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcracker Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 (edited) SWTOR at Pax 4/8/12 Edited May 9, 2012 by Tcracker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serbegorn Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 And the same successes that created Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins and to a lesser extent Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 (depending on your view) can carry over as well, I am simply stoked at the idea of having David Gaider on board if he has indeed switched over. And I actually liked Dragon Age II, not as good as Origins, but was still a nice tide over. EA bought Bioware and since then almost all of the team that brought you KOTOR has left. Mostly what they have now is people that worked for Mythic. Yeah, the warhammer guys, lol. The only thing left of Bioware is the freaking name folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senatsu Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 EA bought Bioware and since then almost all of the team that brought you KOTOR has left. Mostly what they have now is people that worked for Mythic. Yeah, the warhammer guys, lol. The only thing left of Bioware is the freaking name folks. I heard that BioWare was going downhill, but I never believed it until I played ME3 - biggest let-down of the millennium. We got a good multiplayer, but when you finish the single-player even 1 time, you never play it again. I spent, literally, 6-700 hours on each Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2. I spent 40 hours on Mass Effect 3. I bought it at launch, beat the single-player game, never touched it since. If these types of management decisions we see in SWTOR and the horrible state of ME3 continues, BioWare/EA (whatever you want to call it now) will go bankrupt within 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlarto Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Good move I think, I get the impression that Bioware is way behind on getting contentt and patches out to us due to problems, hope this helps them get things caught up and, patch managment flowing like it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerion Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 This is interesting news. BioWare could have hired new devs to come in and work on the project, but they've decided to bring in an experienced team. I like it. But I also would like to see Dragon Age III. I'd give the franchise one more shot, since I was so pleased with DA:O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stineo Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 I whole heartily agree, but in Bioware's case you need two content patches to make up for one that other games release. First, the initial patch Second, the patch to fix the game breaking bugs of the first patch. Welcome to the world of MMOs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgelling Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Well, it's an encouraging sign that they aren't going to scale back dev work on TOR. Given the conference call and the comments from the CEO about how Star Wars isn't that big a deal for EA (not even in the top 5), you might have thought they were going to scale back their commitment going forward. Still, does this guarantee more dev work on TOR or is it just shuffling some people around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerion Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 EA bought Bioware and since then almost all of the team that brought you KOTOR has left. Mostly what they have now is people that worked for Mythic. Yeah, the warhammer guys, lol. The only thing left of Bioware is the freaking name folks. you could be right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerion Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Well, it's an encouraging sign that they aren't going to scale back dev work on TOR. Given the conference call and the comments from the CEO about how Star Wars isn't that big a deal for EA (not even in the top 5), you might have thought they were going to scale back their commitment going forward. Still, does this guarantee more dev work on TOR or is it just shuffling some people around? Well if you read the history of the development of this project, BioWare: Austin hired a lot of new talent fresh out of University...I'm sure these people are talented, but probably lack the experience. Bringing in an experienced team seems like an answer to this dilemma...to give the young team more assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett-Rinn Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 You know, I can´t put a finger on what exactly it is, but I hate the look of games created in Hero Engine. Absolutely. It´s the same with "The Repopulation" also a game done in Hero Engine. Is it the terrain lighting? The skewed color look, or that everything looks like its made out of cheap plastic or the sub par perfomance? Probably a combination of all of the above. Hero Engine = Heroic Fail. At least in its current incarnation. I´ll never buy anything based on Hero again, that´s for sure. Dreamworld Engine, Crytek Engine, Unreal3 Engine for the win. The statement is a bit ironic.....you know because you are playing SWTOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawgtide Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 It was a good game, people were just angry about the lack of content, only being able to be a human and the homophobes were angry about Anders, so it led to negative over-all outlook on the game, but all in all, DA:O was the better game of the two in almost every aspect, the only way in which I think DAII was better was simply the dialogue, was far improved over the first, mainly due to the main character having a Voice. I agree that combat and the voicing was good. But the same maps being used over and over again was a rushed product. And the fact that we really were not equipping characters like we used to do. Bioware was trying to go mainstream instead of catering to the core. And it showed big time. While, I played it through two or three times, I really don't want to say it was a good game. It was an ok game. If I didn't get to look at Isabella a lot, I would really degrade it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scerge Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 The devs that were meant to work on the third instalment of the Dragon Age series have instead been moved to increase the overall resources to help develop content and fix bugs for SWTOR. Could this mean quicker updates or a wider array of content in the same amount of time? Link: http://www.develop-online.net/news/40736/Pachter-Dragon-Age-3-devs-loaned-to-SWTOR No it means the old devs was fired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawgtide Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Mythic is handling PvP, A Dragon Age team would probably move onto the much more storyline side of things. Exactly, I think this move is to help push storyline content out faster. They probably want to keep the "base" satisfied with some updates in the near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerion Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 No it means the old devs was fired. link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scerge Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 link? They lost 25% of their subscribers and knowing EA they probably ran into Biowares office shouting and screaming and fired a few devs here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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