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All these are good and well - and the Mass Effect series in particular was a great game - but each of these required Bioware to build game types they hadn't built before, which tacked uncertainty on top of the story stuff which is, frankly, stupid expensive on its own.

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But this didn't sit well with some of the decision makers. The earliest Bioware games were basically turn-based RPGs and then pause-and-play RPGs. This was, in the opinion of these people, old and busted. So you got Jade Empire, and then Mass Effect and then Dragon Age 2 (the 'action RPG' one).

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Bioware games are great because of story. That's it. They made it their mission early on to be the best storytelling games in the industry, with a single-minded mission to truly advance the state of the art of branching dialogue and the sense that player's actions have consequences.

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Everyone below a certain level just wanted to make something more like BG3. Or spend some time making Mass Effect dating sims and visual novels.

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