BioWare Founders On 2003, Future Prospects

Thanks to C+VG for their interview with BioWare founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk, discussing "their thoughts on the videogames of the past year [and] potential future developments" for their own company. They lament that "one of the most unfortunate things happening in the industry today is the demise of the small independent developer", and note they're "working on three new games, all set in BioWare-created intellectual properties, right now" (lending credence to the previous rumor that the BioWare-affiliated Obsidian Entertainment may be creating the sequel to Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, which sports an external IP.) The internal BioWare projects include the already-announced Xbox action-RPG Jade Empire, as well as "a PC RPG inspired by our own past work on both the Baldur's Gate series and Neverwinter Nights."

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xbox fantasy rpg

[*weasel]

all i want is a good xbox fantasy rpg. something like kotor, but in a fantasy setting. and morrowind just didn't do it for me. (a little -too- open-ended. the main story didn't pull me in whatsoever). and i'm beginning to doubt fable actually exists.

that jade empire thing... meh, i like my fantasy a little more generic. i know, i'm not hardcore, something must be wrong with me, etc, etc. but i don't care to 'explore' a world that tries to deviate from the tolkien-archetypes for no reason.

If the story demands an eastern setting, that'd be fine. but i get the sinking suspicion that, like every 'oriental adventures' rpg before it, the story will have little eastern feel. it'll be a new setting for its own sake, and that's nauseating.

just touch up the kotor engine, switch 'force' to 'magic', 'blasters' to 'crossbows' and give me a good story.