lol, DA4 loses another director.
He wrote the ending of ME3 in isolation of the rest of the writing team.
Casey Hudson and him are responsible for the ME3 endings mess.
In a sane world, after a day of "brainstorming" at the office, if that's the result, you shred that shit before leaving the building. The fact that that paper ever saw the light of day means they were proud of it. I bet it was posted on the fridge in the staff kitchen. Clown shoes for clown world.
Maybe it's the result of working methods like SCRUM and shit. Software development has a ton of templates for documents but game development has way lower standards and to be fair I don't think agile methodologies are fit for that sort of things.
EA took over just before the launch of the original, which was a decent game even if it didn't stray far from the patented Bio template established in KotoR and Jade Empire.
All of Bioware's failures should be blamed on them, not EA. They've suffered the least ammount of pressure from EA in comparison to all of the other studios they've bought, I'd say.
Old Bioware would never have released DA2 in the shocking state it came out in, or used the Frostbite engine for DA3.
The bit about the engine is probably right, but Bioware did everything they wanted during DA2's development. They did not regret a single thing, and in fact, they were behind the changes they made from Origins, and I think Gaider even said they wanted to change even more.
So Bioware wanted to release a buggy mess and cut corners and use the same assets over and over again? You really believe EA didn't force them to release a substandard product before it was ready?
They did lose a lot of time though trying to come to terms with the engine which wasn't adequately supported and resented having it enforced on them.
BG1&2, KoToR, Jade Empire, DA and the original ME games had generally adequate and tolerable writing (with some exceptions, of course). It's when you get to DA2 and you get cringe dialog like "I want to be a dragon." that the wheels really fell off.
No. The writing was objectively shit.
All signs point to yes. They did all the mistakes they chose to by themselves. Did you know that the decision to release DA2 as a stand alone game instead of the expansion it was meant to be was made by Bioware themselves? It all went downhill from there.
So shitty that you managed to play them all though I guess?
Any studio would happily continue working on a game if the money is there. The money wasn't there. In the past, Bioware had the leverage to delay things until they were ready, but their luck on that ran out (which is why they had to sell to EA in the first place).
Yes. What's your fucking point? The writing is still shitty.
rest in piss
