Comment on Save Mass Effect

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But it can all easily be related. Planned beats or dialogue that didn’t work in the engine the way they wanted and had to be rewritten, or worked better in a multiplayer context.

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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t see any of their writing in the last decade as anything but tired tropes and juvenile simplistic plots and characters.

    Elden Ring’s item descriptions have more depth and character than BioWare’s characters that have endless mind numbing dialogue. I could say the same about the plot.

    The company founders left over a decade ago. They weren’t perfect but whatever was left was just IP and not ability.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There was an article at the time of Baldur’s Gate 3’s release (so 2023) that one of the original writers of BG1 had been laid off, so post-doctors, they still retained writers from whatever you consider to be the good old days.

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      • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If the writing needs better direction to write a good story then the writers are not good. Also, 2023 is way past their good old days.

        BioWare was good but they always seemed to push more and more into a casual audience while expecting the RPG fanbase to stick around no matter what. They took the RPG fans for granted and now they have other developers to care about.

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