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Re:BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" a... by kraken_cult on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:06AM (#50337790)
err, at least for Veilguard you're missing the point that the dialogue was preachy and stupid. It was a doomed concept when they started forcing bullshit into the game.
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Re:BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" a... by Bluescreenbuddy on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:38AM (#50338316)
Veilguard was doomed long before your complaint about "bullshit" in a game. That's not why it failed.
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Re:BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" a... by Huarache1 on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:13AM (#50338973)
For dialogue, it seems that no writer has ever read a book before the 2010s, if at all.
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Re:BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" a... by eudamoniac on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:40PM (#50347762)
The writing is the primary draw for that genre. If the writing were peak and everything else the same, it would not have been doomed at all.
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Re:BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" a... by account42 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:03AM (#50350451)
"Peak" writing was never a realistic expectation for Bioware - not even in the Infinity Engine days.
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