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Bioware to make Halo RPG?
Inglorious Coyote
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According to the new 1up Yours podcast, Mark McDonald announced that he's leaving the show. But the big news is that he said he's going to Bioware to work on the just announced (he said he was holding the press release in his hands) Halo RPG, called according to him Halo Origins Volume 1: The Forerunner Chronicles.
Did I miss something huge, or is this not been announced yet?
Did I miss something huge, or is this not been announced yet?
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edit - bruin ruined it.
How would a Sonic RPG work?
But I doubt this is true.
here is the podcast, the forst 4 minutes is about it, listen for yourself.
And it would be easy for MS to hire Bioware to make a Halo game, especially now that Bungie won't be.
But sonic is populated with technicolor animals that like to fight tons of enemies.
I can imagine a sonic RPG.
But Halo... what, basically Halo Wars but on a smaller scale with random battles and stats?
Yeah people.
95% of the time publishers own the ip.
I hope it is true, simply because more Bioware RPGs = happy Kami.
Who's making that again?
I love Halo, but goddammit Bioware, make with the KOTOR 3.
But that's different. It'd be a 3rd person Halo game with stats then?
I don't quite see how this is going to pan out...
I'm trying to think of Bioware RPGs with more than a few random battles.
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and Icewind Dale 1 & 2
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 do have random encounters, but they tend to only happen while traveling between areas and in the context of their world, they make perfect sense, especially given the game system they're based on. Faerun isn't a safe place to travel around. Any game where it wouldn't have made sense, the random encounters aren't there.
The Icewind Dale series BioWare didn't have anything to do with except that they had made the engine that Black Isle used to make the games and offered technical assistance.
And a more Mass Effect like approach to a Halo RPG could work. Contrary to popular belief, JRPGs aren't the only way to make RPGs.
There weren't many random battles in Baldur's Gate 2.
They are making like 9 games now (unnamed MMO, Mass Effect, Sonic RPG, Dragon Age, maybe more I don't even know of). This is still BS though.
I don't believe there are any random battles at all, actually.
I'LL MISS YOU MARK
Still, he had Shane, Garnett and John fooled, so I don't feel too stupid.
But I'll echo the 'well played Mark, well played."
Man, Bioware likes making them RPGs.
edit - Hahaha, oh my god. That bastard...
KoToR. Even if you're not into Star Wars it's pretty awesome.
http://DocumentingLaziness.blogspot.com/
That is the one with the branching storylines yes? I will rent it soon, though my Star Wars fandom is negligible and kind of limited to Empire Strikes Back.
and I never got into any Baldurs gate games.
I am a horrible person, I know.
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Play KOTOR. You don't need to know shit about star wars except that Jedi carry lightsabres and are badass.
Jade Empire was over-hyped and over-reviewed. It was a well built game, but the story and the combat were pretty lame.
I never asked for this!
Unfortunately, it seems the Master Chief is everywhere. I mean, if Halo wasn't such a huge fan fuck fest, it would be way cooler, but no, Microsoft has to go out make a Halo 3 360 and Zune... >_>
Overwhelming support for playing KOTOR. I will, soon. I think most of the Bioware criticism I heard was directed at Jade Empire, by the by.