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25 Years Ago, 'Baldur’s Gate 2' Changed Games Forever

One of BioWare's most beloved and influential RPGs would define the developer and the genre for decades to come.

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Baldur's Gate 2 has great dungeons and epic quests, but my real love is for my fake friends: BioWare's first truly great companions

Except for that loser, Anomen.

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BioWare never stopped making Baldur's Gate 2

BG2 was when BioWare truly understood how nuts we all were for companions.

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25 years ago today, Baldur's Gate 2 set RPGs on the path to becoming the industry-defining genre they are today: 'We were putting all the fantasies that we had into the game'

The game's original developers let us in on the story of its ambitious and turbulent journey to release.

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Now that I'm done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I'm expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

The baton isn't being passed as much as looted off a collapsed old hero.

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BioWare realized late in Anthem's development that "this game was coming in on fire" after EA told the devs "we were targeting a game in the 70s" on Metacritic

Ex BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah spills the beans on the studio's expectations heading into launch

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Former BioWare exec says Anthem's storytelling failed because it was "treating everyone as if they were the same protagonist," but Borderland succeeds because "the storytelling spreads" across all players when they split up

Mark Darrah continues his chapters-long autopsy of Anthem

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"Bankrupt EA" was on the list of fears at BioWare as it weighed up Mass Effect servers, says former exec: "There's a point at which you are optimizing for an unlikely or virtually unfathomable situation”

That doesn't sound good

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Former Anthem lead producer says flying in BioWare's doomed live action shooter is proof of the dysfunction in its development: 'It's Anthem's worst feature, because the consequences of flying aren't adequately taken into account'

Flying's only so fun when it makes everything else a bit of a mess.

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Former BioWare producer says a lot of Anthem's problems "come from a misunderstanding about multiplayer games," which the Mass Effect leadership team weren't equipped to deal with

Sounds like there were plenty of issues

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BioWare veteran says "flying is Anthem's best feature" but also its "worst feature" because it broke the game, and reckons Monster Hunter is a great example of how to add "really crazy things" without the broken part

"innovation does have consequence"

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I'm mourning the Dragon Age game I missed my opportunity to play

Dragon Age: The Last Court featured some of the series' very best writing. Or so I'm led to believe.

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I played The Outer Worlds 2 and it's made me fall in love with my Xbox again

Having played an hour or so of The Outer Worlds 2, it's looking like Obsidian has done it again

'It takes Anthem's spot': Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019⁠—a 'compromised' game, but likely better received than Veilguard

It's unclear if Darrah is saying BioWare would have made project Joplin instead of Anthem, or that Anthem would have come later.

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Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah agrees that Mages were the most 'complete' class in Origins, says it came from D&D rules and the fact that Warriors and Rogues weren't allowed to 'violate physics' yet

At least Dragon Age didn't have THAC0.

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The Mass Effect vibes are overwhelming in the latest showcase for Owlcat's The Expanse game—and yes, it has a loyalty system

And I am 100% on board.

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As Anthem faces shutdown amid Stop Killing Games movement, producer says maybe we want to "sacrifice some things in order to get it so that games don't just vanish one day"

"I do believe in game preservation, and we're losing a lot of stuff right now"

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'I always knew it was going to go away eventually:' Anthem producer Mark Darrah gives his take on Stop Killing Games ahead of his own project shutting down forever

Darrah says that if we want to Stop Killing Games, there will be some tradeoffs—but maybe they’re worth it.

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Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, which it isn't'

The best RPG spinoff ever made probably should have been called something different.

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'Veilguard is 4 games stitched together', says ex-BioWare lead Mark Darrah, and it might've been better to 'shut the project down completely' around 2017

Oof.

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'This year seems shakier than ever,' BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says, and live service games are a big part of the reason—but Grand Theft Auto 6 might force the industry to change

2024 was miserable, but somehow 2025 is even worse.

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Dragon Age: Origins was "intended as a standalone game" rather than the first in a series of RPGs, former dev says, meaning BioWare left "a lot of threads" it wasn't expecting to "come back to"

Some of those threads "kind of had to be abandoned," says Mark Darrah

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Mass Effect 5 devs should use Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a "scapegoat" so they can "get what they need" from EA, says former BioWare exec

"'We should steer away from some of these things, because look what happened'"

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'Eager to move on from failure': Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: 'We weren't getting the people'

"Within EA, you're better off being 'one game at a time'."

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Learning EA passed on a Dragon Age Remaster "soft-pitch" has ruined me, because Mass Effect Legendary Edition proved how much it could do for the RPG series

Opinion | My kingdom for the Dragon Age Remaster known as "Champions"

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