Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk Leaving BioWare

[maximaz]

I did. The first one felt like a very shitty 3d Baldur's Gate and I didn't even play the second after reading what a piece of crap it was.

Shit. I got it on Steam sale. Have yet to install.

 

[Crni Vuk]

if you followed Westwood somewhat this would not be a surprise. Since EA took over they only delivered garbage. You could say they stoped to really exist at that point and C&C was dead.

I hear this crap thrown around and it's just not true. Westwood agreed to the buyout offer, EA did not commit any kind of hostile takeover. It happened in 1998, meaning that Tiberian Sun, Nox, Red Alert 2, Yuri's Revenge, Generals and Zero Hour as well as Renegade were all released with Westwood under EA.

L2Rsrch.

And Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun have been pretty much the LAST decent C&C games out there. Anything that came after it was simply shit or had nothing to do with C&C anymore.

 

[thegaresexperience]

I plan on picking up the DA games when I'm done buying shit for school. And Mass Effect 3 (when it goes down to like 20 bucks or a GOTY-type edition comes out).

I guess this sucks, I know Muzyka was one of the founders. A sign of Bioware imminent fall, like many before them?

 

[Crni Vuk]

DA is mediocre at best.

 

[thegaresexperience]

I've heard good things and bad things. But the Special Edition of the first one is only 18 bucks at the Gamestop around the corner from me.

 

[ramessesjones]

I like Dragon Age: Origins, but it plays more like KOTOR than something like Baldur's Gate. If the idea of KOTOR in a fairly standard fantasy setting sounds ok, then you should like it well enough.

DA2 is a weak though, it's not completely unplayable, but it's definitely nowhere near the standard of their previous work or even their other newer games. I probably enjoyed it slightly more than Jade Empire though.

The amount of reused dungeon layouts is shameful, as is the way reinforcement spawns are handled and the decision to severely limit the way you could equip you followers and unnecessary class equipment limitations that killed the variety of characters you could make. It's choice and consequence stuff is weak, as is the end game storyline; the middle game story with the Qunari is ok though.

 

[Sduibek]

Well, for me C&C ended after Tiberian Sun + Addon. Everything after that just felt mediocre to me or wasn't my taste at all.

um, Red Alert 2 was awesome.

 

[Lexx]

It didn't hit my taste at all. The graphic, the setting, the mood. I don't like it, so nope. Not awesome for me.