The studio’s acting like it’s on a victory lap, when it should still be on its apology tour.

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        Especially in the game series that basically put BioWare on the map, that would be like Blizzard losing the Starcraft IP and another studio making Starcraft 3 and reinvigorating the entire RTS genre in the process, setting new standards for what an RTS is and should be.

        It’s downright embarrassing for BioWare.

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        I’m not sure they even noticed. These studio execs are far more obsessed with how to mint coin from Zoomers with the next freemium mobile game than they are with cultivating a quality franchise.

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        I mean… the most negative thing I’ve heard about Starfield is that it’s a bit empty, and doesn’t meet the (insanely high) bar that Skyrim set. A lot of people I know bought Starfield at launch, played it through once or twice, and although they stopped after that they didn’t have any really bad things to say.

        Fallout 76 was a much worse game, with way more negative sentiment.

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        I don’t think that’s comparable. Starfield still mostly feels like their old games, it just hasn’t changed so the game feels like it’s 10+ years old versus any real innovation. Bethesda is just stubbornly frozen in time without any fresh ideas. Bioware now versus Bioware then is a much more noticeable difference, in my opinion.

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      Eli5? I thought everyone loved that game, I didn’t wanna try it cause I don’t like turn based

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        Baldur’s Gate 3, by Larian Studios, is amazing. It’s basically old-school BioWare but with current-day graphics. It’s so good that it shows how much of a mess BioWare games are now, especially because BioWare did BG1 and 2.