Teasing my eyes and ears with new Dragon Age: Inquisition footage will get you everywhere, Bioware.
So much pretty. Want to see more.
Dragon Age: Inquisition releases on October 7th.
My body is ready.
Tag: Bioware
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September Game Informer Features Dragon Age: Inquisition, Developer Video Shown
The newest issue of Game Informer will delve into the new open-world of Dragon Age: Inquisition from Bioware. A new developer video shows how the developer is trying to listen to fans and give them what they want in this latest entry in the franchise. It looks like they are well on their way in correcting the mistakes from Dragon Age II and even go as far as to make comparisons to Baldur’s Gate in the video. That is reason enough to get excited.
Check out the video below. The new issue of Game Informer will be on newsstands soon.
Dragon Age: Inquisition releases in 2014.
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Mass Effect 3: Reckoning DLC Pack Available Today.
Photo courtesy gameranx.com Fans of Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer are getting a nice, shiny new DLC pack to download today and the best part is that it is absolutely free.
Mass Effect 3: Reckoning will add new allies, weapons and equipment. Geth Juggernaut, Cabal Vanguard, Talon Mercenary along with others are now playable characters as well as seven new weapons and equipment like the Geth Scanner and Batarian Gauntlet.
Mass Effect 3: Reckoning is up on PSN and XBL. Take a look at the trailer below.
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Developers Want Dark Souls 2 To Be “More Accessible”
In the newest issue of Edge Magazine new [amazon_link id=”B006YDPU48″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Dark Souls 2[/amazon_link] directors, Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura, discuss how they intend to make the game instantly ready for new gamers that are not familiar with the first Dark Souls title (i.e. its soul sucking difficulty). I know a lot of Dark Souls fans are afraid that this means the sequel will be dumbed down for the masses and honestly I can’t blame them. Let’s read this quote by Shibuya:
“Accessibility to players who haven’t picked up Dark Souls is definitely a key topic.Right in the beginning when players first pick up the game is something that I will definitely focus on. To not immediately throw them into Dark Souls but provide a good introduction in terms of what the game’s about and how the game should be played.”
“Hopefully that adjustment at the very beginning of the game will help draw in players and get them addicted right away without immediately making players feel rejected by the game system itself.”
Now I admittedly have not played the first Dark Souls but I know of stories of people who have and enjoy the mind-crushing difficulty and as a fan of the Mass Effect series I can say that when reading that statement I can’t help but hear the same words coming from EA and Bioware about Mass Effect 2&3. Mass Effect 1 was a true space opera RPG that dumb down combat, leveling and almost everything else in the name of “accessibility”.
I hope I am wrong Dark Souls fans.
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New Mass Effect Has A Late 2014- Mid-2015 Release Window
Take heart Mass Effect fans, EA and Bioware are already hard at work on the next game in the series.
The fact there is going to be a new Mass Effect game is no surprise with Bioware’s Casey Hudson tweeting about this back in November but now Mike Gamble, producer on Mass Effect 3, has given the game a very early release window.
“Late 2014 to mid-2015. I honestly can’t tell you an exact because full development on the game started a month or two ago.”
So I guess we can be pretty safe to say that the next title in the franchise will be on next-gen consoles. The game will be a completely new story not involving Commander Shepard (for obvious reasons). It has not been announced if the title will be a prequel or a true sequel.
Gamble went on to talk about the use of a new engine for the game and more.
“The game isn’t far along in development so I can’t comment on specifics because they isn’t any yet. Frostbite 2 is a really good game engine that we are also using on Dragon Age 3. As far as release date, there’s nothing to be announced yet. You’ll hear more about the new Mass Effect game in 2013.”
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Dragon Age III Swaps To Next Gen, Influenced By Skyrim
Bioware Delays Sequel To 2014.
Dragon Age III has officially been moved to next-gen platforms and will see a release date switch from “late” 2013 to “who can guess” in 2014. The switch was announced via an EA level designer’s LinkedIn profile.
Also on the Dragon Age front is Bioware’s Aaryn Flynn saying that the next game will focus heavily on exploration which comes as welcome news to someone who was frustrated by Dragon Age II’s more linear approach. In his interview in the new issue of Game Informer, Flynn also noted that the game can not help but to be influenced by the massive success of Skyrim.
“You can’t look at a game like Skyrim and not think about how impressive what they’ve accomplished is — or [think] that’s an interesting new direction or that there was something that didn’t work well for them that we could take in a new direction.”
Let’s just hope they don’t take too much away from Skyrim and make DA3 unplayable on Playstation 3’s.
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Casey Hudson Announces New Mass Effect Game Is In The Works
Producer Wants Your Input For The Future Of The Series.
Most fans knew a new entry in the Mass Effect saga would be coming eventually but now we have definitive word from the main man behind the best-selling franchise.
Casey Hudson, executive producer of the Mass Effect series, sent out this tweet yesterday morning to the delight of fans.
We’re in early stages of designing a completely new Mass Effect game. What would you want to see in it?
— Casey Hudson (@CaseyDHudson) November 8, 2012
Bioware has already said that anything in the future for Mass Effect would not involve Commander Shepard but this is the first concrete evidence that the team is in fact at work on another game.
It seems they are still taking all of the fan outcry from Mass Effect 3’s ending (which I had no problem with) into account with Hudson asking fans to give their suggestions for what they would like to see in the next game.
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Mass Effect Movie Gets A New Screenwriter
Legendary Pictures Still Has Faith In Film Adaptation.
Legendary Pictures purchased the rights to a Mass Effect film way back in 2008 but like most video game to movie adaptations it has become stuck in the well known “development hell”. Things seemed to be heading in the right direction when screenwriter Mark Protosevich, who had written the story for Thor and the screenplay for I Am Legend, was brought in to write a script. Now it appears that his draft of the script is being scrapped and a new screenwriter is being brought in.
Morgan Davis Foehl, who has worked as an assistant on Rescue Me and the Adam Sandler movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, has been brought on to start the script from scratch. Foehl is a big Mass Effect fan and the studio has liked some of his other action movie scripts which may have helped in him getting a high profile gig such as this.
This can not be an easy script to tackle considering how large the story for Mass Effect is and not knowing if the movie will be a hit enough to warrant sequels. Does Foehl concentrate on the first game, try and fit in the basics of the entire story in a single film or go in a completely different direction altogether?
Should Hollywood even try to attempt to make a movie based on Commander Shepard at all? Let us know what you think
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Next Mass Effect Will Be Shepard-less
Series Producer Says Commander Shepard’s Tour Of Duty Is Over.
While this is what most people have thought would happen with the series this is the first time (to my knowledge) that a higher up at Bioware has actually confirmed that the next Mass Effect will feature a new hero…or heroine.Fabrice Condominas, a producer at Bioware Montreal, had this to say:
“There is one thing we are absolutely sure of – there will be no more Shepard, and the trilogy is over. This is really our starting point. Now the Mass Effect universe is vast, and very, very rich. So at this point in time, we don’t even know what kind of time frame we’re going to be in. All we’re doing is more gathering ideas from the teams, gathering feedback to see several things.”
It will be interesting to see how the Mass Effect universe will continue on after the whole fiasco about the game’s original ending (which I had no problem with) that may have led to the departure of Bioware co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk from the company earlier this year.
EA and Bioware are still releasing multiplayer content for Mass Effect 3 on a regular basis and a new single player mission named Omega will release on Xbox 360 on November 27th. You can find my review of the previous Mass Effect 3 single player DLC, Leviathan, here
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Mass Effect Trilogy To Touch Down In November
Rejoice Playstation Owners!!
Well if you own a Playstation and haven’t had an opportunity to play the first Mass Effect game you should rejoice in moderation.
Bioware announced today that all three of their award winning Mass Effect games will be released in one set on November 6th for Xbox 360 and PC and retail for just $59.99. The Playstation version will be released at a later date that has not been announced yet so if all you know of the first game is the motion comic that greeted you before your playthrough of Mass Effect 2 you will finally get a chance to complete the most RPG-feeling of the trilogy. The first Mass Effect will be available for download on the Playstation Network at a later date also.
All three should come packed with all the downloadable content that were attached to the games.
If you have not played through any of these games then this is the perfect opportunity to get on board and experience one of the best stories ever told in gaming. You really are in for a great time. $60 bucks for almost eighty hours of historic gaming? Sounds like a great deal to me.
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