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I just don't think they are capable of creating masterpieces any more because the bulk of the people responsible for the company that made those masterpieces no longer work there. It's the same thing that happens to most EA-owned studios. You get the slow brain drain as people get sick of EA's shitty corporate culture and decide to move on to other jobs, or create new studios. The truly talented people are the ones who leave early, because they're the ones with all the options, and you're left with the lesser talents and, as we've seen, you end up with lesser games.

Add to that the fact that EA will never let them have the proper time to put into a title and you've got a recipe for a soon to be shuttered studio. I'd honestly be kind of surprised if they make it to Dragon Age 4, as it feels like Anthem is about to bomb hard and that might be the final straw after Andromeda also tanked a couple of years ago.

Well that’s a depressing outlook but one that is all too possible.

At least we have CDPR. Where the fuck is Cyberpunk

Blizzard and Bioware in the shitter. Unreal.
 
Well that’s a depressing outlook but one that is all too possible.

At least we have CDPR. Where the fuck is Cyberpunk

Blizzard and Bioware in the shitter. Unreal.

Developers rise and fall and are inevitably replaced by other developers. There's no shortage of great games every year, though, that's for damn sure. BioWare might be all but dead, but we're getting games like Witcher 3, Odyssey, Divinity, and Red Dead 2 that offer similar and, in some cases, superior role-playing experiences.
 
Developers rise and fall and are inevitably replaced by other developers. There's no shortage of great games every year, though, that's for damn sure. BioWare might be all but dead, but we're getting games like Witcher 3, Odyssey, Divinity, and Red Dead 2 that offer similar and, in some cases, superior role-playing experiences.

Sorry, nobody replaces Blizzard. They better get their shit together.

Bioware, maybe so. There are no shortages of good games every year but beloved developers falling from grace is pretty sad.
 
Sorry, nobody replaces Blizzard. They better get their shit together.

Bioware, maybe so. There are no shortages of good games every year but beloved developers falling from grace is pretty sad.

Eh...Blizzard to me hasn't really made an amazing game since the original StarCraft twenty years ago. Never really cared for Diablo, StarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3 were good but not amazing, and I'm not really into Overwatch either.
 
Eh...Blizzard to me hasn't really made an amazing game since the original StarCraft twenty years ago. Never really cared for Diablo, StarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3 were good but not amazing, and I'm not really into Overwatch either.

Agree to disagree. WC3 is an all timer. Loved WoW for over a decade. Diablo 3 is a great ARPG after the expac dropped. Starcraft 2 was really good but the campaign just nowhere near the original, for sure.

Their recent moves have been highly questionable, though. They aren’t in Bioware territory yet, but sheesh. Not into Overwatch either but I thought I was alone in that.
 
Division 2 anyone? Beta is cool.
I played it a lot.

I liked it in the same way that I liked Destiny 1...which is what this game is but, in a Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six skin.

However, the beta was VERY buggy for me. The volume and sound effects would completely disappear for entire missions at a time, for both me and my friend.

And the gunplay seems kinda iffy to me. It seemed too difficult to take on a control point. Like if you engaged 3-5 enemies at once, it was almost a complete disaster unless you played it super-ultra conservative...which did not seem that fun.
 
I played it a lot.

I liked it in the same way that I liked Destiny 1...which is what this game is but, in a Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six skin.

However, the beta was VERY buggy for me. The volume and sound effects would completely disappear for entire missions at a time, for both me and my friend.

And the gunplay seems kinda iffy to me. It seemed too difficult to take on a control point. Like if you engaged 3-5 enemies at once, it was almost a complete disaster unless you played it super-ultra conservative...which did not seem that fun.

Yeah, I encountered similar bugs. I presume they'll be fixed.

I really enjoyed the gunplay, on the contrary. The sound (when it didn't bug out) design was great. The weapons felt good and it was satisfying taking fools down. As to your specific complaint, some tuning may be needed in that regard but overall I liked the feel of the game and the systems seem interesting. As for whether the gameplay loop is going to be fun enough to do over and over again ala Diablo and whatnot...that remains to be seen. But I'm considering giving it a go at launch.
 
On another note: preordered Sekiro Shadows Die Twice. Fuck it. From Software is a phenomenal developer of action games. No way that game is anything less than very good. Bloodborne and even Dark Souls 3 are games that I can't stop thinking about ever since I played them. Still tempted to go back and play Dark Souls original, but fuck, all the quality of life changes added into the game since then would probably make it more of a drag.
 
Yeah, I encountered similar bugs. I presume they'll be fixed.

I really enjoyed the gunplay, on the contrary. The sound (when it didn't bug out) design was great. The weapons felt good and it was satisfying taking fools down. As to your specific complaint, some tuning may be needed in that regard but overall I liked the feel of the game and the systems seem interesting. As for whether the gameplay loop is going to be fun enough to do over and over again ala Diablo and whatnot...that remains to be seen. But I'm considering giving it a go at launch.

I stand by my original point that I felt that the gunplay seemed off. For example, when I was playing by myself, I came across a supply drop twice. As you already know, there are 3 crates that need to be looted before the enemies loot them first. Well, the entire interaction begins with a bunch of enemies waiting around for the crates to be parachuted down. And once they drop, you have to take out all the enemies, because if you die, by the time you respawn, they have already looted everything.

Well, that's the problem, when you are by yourself, its 1 vs 4-6??. While you are trying to take out someone, you will always have a few other enemies bum-rush you and flank you. GAME OVER! The guns just seemed too weak anywhere farther than 20-30 feet. And the enemies seem like bullet sponges.
 
On another note: preordered Sekiro Shadows Die Twice. Fuck it. From Software is a phenomenal developer of action games. No way that game is anything less than very good. Bloodborne and even Dark Souls 3 are games that I can't stop thinking about ever since I played them. Still tempted to go back and play Dark Souls original, but fuck, all the quality of life changes added into the game since then would probably make it more of a drag.

I heard that Bloodborne and Dark Souls were extremely hard button smashers. Great, but very difficult.
 
I stand by my original point that I felt that the gunplay seemed off. For example, when I was playing by myself, I came across a supply drop twice. As you already know, there are 3 crates that need to be looted before the enemies loot them first. Well, the entire interaction begins with a bunch of enemies waiting around for the crates to be parachuted down. And once they drop, you have to take out all the enemies, because if you die, by the time you respawn, they have already looted everything.

Well, that's the problem, when you are by yourself, its 1 vs 4-6??. While you are trying to take out someone, you will always have a few other enemies bum-rush you and flank you. GAME OVER! The guns just seemed too weak anywhere farther than 20-30 feet. And the enemies seem like bullet sponges.

Didn't encounter any terrible sponges, although I didn't play any endgame. Part of a looter shooter I guess.
 
Didn't encounter any terrible sponges, although I didn't play any endgame. Part of a looter shooter I guess.
My lasting impress of the game was this:

Fun when played with at least another person.
Frustrating when played by yourself because everything becomes a huge slow chore just to clear a room when you have to deal with fire coming at you from the front and then getting flanked constantly.
 
My lasting impress of the game was this:

Fun when played with at least another person.
Frustrating when played by yourself because everything becomes a huge slow chore just to clear a room when you have to deal with fire coming at you from the front and then getting flanked constantly.

I'd never play alone either
 
At least that challenge is possible and I can concoct a method to get it done. The gambling ish is the most nonsensical thing I've ever seen in a video game.

I got the blackjack one done today. Just sat down and played blackjack for like an hour. Poured myself a bourbon and kept playing until I got lucky. It wasn't that hard. Just a time suck.
 

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