It's not often we see a developer fall so far from grace. Once regarded as pioneers in narrative-driven RPGs, BioWare has completely lost its way. So, what the hell happened?
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Atari has acquired Intellivision. The company announced today that it had acquired its long-time rival, ending one of the original console rivalries, dating back to the 1970s.
Wow.... two of my earliest gaming platforms. All they need is Coleco to round things out.
This is like Nintendo buying SEGA.
Good piece of history here.
edit: I wanted to read it but the cookies pop up is stopping me.
This was just before my time. I do remember my mom's friend having one all dusty in her apartment back in the day.
[R.I.P.} Ms. Irene
People forget that console wars are part of the history of this industry. The console wars were started by competitive companies all the way back then and continued through Sega vs Nintendo, Jaguar/3DO/NeonGeo, and PlayStation vs Nintendo and Xbox.
These companies are across oceans and competing for the same business. These companies created the console wars, not crazy fanboys.
I had both. Snafu on Intellivision was addicting as hell. Also had Colecovision which had Time Pilot. Combat was probably my favorite Atari game and both Atari and Intellivision had similar games like Pitfall and Jungle Hunt. It’s been so long I don’t really remember which game I liked bettter out of those but I did play my Intellivision a bit more than Atari though I’m not sure why besides Snafu. That was 40+ years ago damn I’m old lol
EAss happened.
The Doctors left.
Casey Hudson left.
Drew Karpshyn left.
Everyone else left.
I'm guessing the interns are running it now.
1. They got bought out by EA for $$$, and ruined their own brand.
2. They lost too much high-end talent.
3. They were forced to start using Frostbite engine because EA wanted to play Engine wars and lost.
4. They needed a publisher who nurtures talent, and instead they were left on their own.
5. Their strengths were game worlds and storytelling, & they slipped in those areas & stuck in PS360 gameplay era.
Now are an entire generation of failed attempts we have the shell of the company that exists. Honestly, Bioware and 343i have had the same fall from grace. Both had huge franchises, but lost so much talent that they're shells of the PS360 era quality that was once there....except 343i is the leftover bad Bungie apples.
greed. sold out to ea and then all their key personnel left.
EA did a EA all over them.