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Jade Empire 2 for the 360: Confirmed?

Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
edited January 2008 in Games and Technology
http://kotaku.com/339062/jade-empire-2-in-development-at-bioware

Dean Takahashi over at the San Jose Mercury's got the scoop: BioWare are already hard at work on a Jade Empire sequel. And that it's definitely coming to the Xbox 360. And...that's it. You should be able to fill the rest of the gaps in for yourselves, though: expect Mass Effect's conversation mechanic to feature, expect more martial arts action and thanks to EA's purchasing of BioWare you can probably expect a PS3 version as well.


http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/12/a_small_but_interesting_scoop_jade_empire_2_is_coming.html


By Dean Takahashi

Saturday, December 29th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

Here’s an opportunity for BioWare to get it right and for all of you fans out there to rejoice. Rumors have been swirling about the possibility of a sequel to BioWare’s Xbox hit, “Jade Empire.” For years, people have predicted it would come and Ray Muzyka, co-CEO of BioWare, even spilled the beans of something coming back in 2005. But I talked with someone who saw code for Jade Empire 2. It’s coming for the Xbox 360, and it’s real. It’s not much as far as scoops go, but I’m on vacation. What do you expect? Happy New Year.Jade Empire was BioWare’s second big game for the Xbox, following the exclusive Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic title in 2003. It will be interesting to see if Jade Empire 2 will remain an exclusive for the Xbox 360, now that Electronic Arts has agreed to acquire BioWare/Pandemic.



So I didn't play the first one. Is this something to get excited about?

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Some people will say yes and some people will say no. For me I'm leaning more towards yes.

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  • cdnegercdneger Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Some people will say yes and some people will say no. For me I'm leaning more towards yes.

    I second that yes.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I would buy it.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I'm the first no in the topic. True that I didn't play JE until 2007, but it failed to impress in every area except graphics.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I'd probably give it a shot myself.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.

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  • Ghandi 2Ghandi 2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Moderately. Other companies would love to have it be one of their low points, and say what you will about the actual game, it does have potential, and it would be really cool to see Bioware fully follow through on that.

    It's interesting how Bioware has been moving away from turns and D&D into real-time action.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Is Jade Empire turn based?

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Is Jade Empire turn based?

    No, entirely real-time.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Is Jade Empire turn based?

    It's more real time

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I'm the first no in the topic. True that I didn't play JE until 2007, but it failed to impress in every area except graphics.

    Not to be a total dick, but is it really fair to say that it "failed to impress in every area except graphics" without playing it? I can understand the whole "saw it, not my thing" view but "failed to impress in every area except graphics" is a pretty harsh criticism to put out there without playing the game.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Fig-D wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I'm the first no in the topic. True that I didn't play JE until 2007, but it failed to impress in every area except graphics.

    Not to be a total dick, but is it really fair to say that it "failed to impress in every area except graphics" without playing it? I can understand the whole "saw it, not my thing" view but "failed to impress in every area except graphics" is a pretty harsh criticism to put out there without playing the game.

    Read it a bit more ;-)

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  • xboxxerxboxxer Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Fig-D wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I'm the first no in the topic. True that I didn't play JE until 2007, but it failed to impress in every area except graphics.

    Not to be a total dick, but is it really fair to say that it "failed to impress in every area except graphics" without playing it? I can understand the whole "saw it, not my thing" view but "failed to impress in every area except graphics" is a pretty harsh criticism to put out there without playing the game.

    Actually, I think he says that he didn't play it until 2007 ... which implies that he played it, but a bit late.

    I played it near launch. I rather enjoyed it, but it was definitely flawed.

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Fig-D wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I'm the first no in the topic. True that I didn't play JE until 2007, but it failed to impress in every area except graphics.

    Not to be a total dick, but is it really fair to say that it "failed to impress in every area except graphics" without playing it? I can understand the whole "saw it, not my thing" view but "failed to impress in every area except graphics" is a pretty harsh criticism to put out there without playing the game.

    Read it a bit more ;-)

    I suck.

    Statement retracted.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.

    I would like to get this answered hehe

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  • Professor PhobosProfessor Phobos Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I liked it a lot, so this makes me excited.

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  • Ghandi 2Ghandi 2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    No, you button mash in real-time. One problem with the game was that you pretty much only use one attack through the whole game, changed by your class. The visuals change somewhat (I vaguely recall getting a cool sword), but it still was annoying at points. One cool thing about it was there was a bullet-time-esque thing, even though that has sort of been done to death in action games. But it still looked neat.

    I would prefer they focus all of their efforts on ME 2, but oh well. It would be interesting if for once they chose to work from the dark ending, since
    you kill the water god and then rule the world with an iron fist iirc

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I'm a HUGE fan of the game, so my fanboy blinders went on and my reading skills went out.

    I'm very excited. But if they don't bring Cam Clarke to do half the voices in the entire game like he did in the first, I'll be disappointed.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Ghandi 2 wrote: »
    No, you button mash in real-time. One problem with the game was that you pretty much only use one attack through the whole game, changed by your class. The visuals change somewhat (I vaguely recall getting a cool sword), but it still was annoying at points. One cool thing about it was there was a bullet-time-esque thing, even though that has sort of been done to death in action games. But it still looked neat.

    I would prefer they focus all of their efforts on ME 2, but oh well. It would be interesting if for once they chose to work from the dark ending, since
    you kill the water god and then rule the world with an iron fist iirc

    This is where multiple teams come in handy ;)

    One for Dragon Age, One for ME and it's related content, One for the MMO, and one for JE2

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Fig-D wrote: »
    I'm a HUGE fan of the game, so my fanboy blinders went on and my reading skills went out.

    I'm very excited. But if they don't bring Cam Clarke to do half the voices in the entire game like he did in the first, I'll be disappointed.

    He didn't do that many voices in it, come on.

    But he really did have his A-game on for voicing Sky. I actually took him seriously as a character, instead of giggling when he talked.

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  • cdnegercdneger Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I'm kind of excited about the fact that this is a next-gen (current-gen?) Bioware game. And Bioware rock, so it will at least be decent enough to warrant a playthrough.

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Fig-D wrote: »
    I'm a HUGE fan of the game, so my fanboy blinders went on and my reading skills went out.

    I'm very excited. But if they don't bring Cam Clarke to do half the voices in the entire game like he did in the first, I'll be disappointed.

    He didn't do that many voices in it, come on.

    But he really did have his A-game on for voicing Sky. I actually took him seriously as a character, instead of giggling when he talked.

    He did a ton of the little two-bit characters in the Imperial City and what-not and the student in the beginning who rushes in on your meeting with Master Li, Si Pat. But yeah, I like to exaggerate because I'm such a big fan of the characters he gets to do.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    You ran into him in Mass Effect, right? Easy to pass him by if you don't pay attention.

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  • IriahIriah Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    It'd be cool if they got John Cleese to do another cameo.

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    You ran into him in Mass Effect, right? Easy to pass him by if you don't pay attention.

    He's got a few little one in there, and Private What's-his-name.

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Iriah wrote: »
    It'd be cool if they got John Cleese to do another cameo.

    FUCKING WORD.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Pharezon wrote: »
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.

    Lol. Wish I could help you man, but without saying something along the lines of the Tenchu series or Shogon: Total War, I can't be much help.

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  • Ghandi 2Ghandi 2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    One for Dragon Age, One for ME and its related content, One for the MMO, and one for JE2
    I didn't know they were big enough to do that. But even still, wouldn't it be better if they combined everyone and made one giant super-team? ;-) A lot of the ME issues came from time/money limitations, at least that's what the devs on this forum have said, so it seems to me that they shouldn't be branching their resources further. On the other hand, EA has a lot of money. Oh, and you forgot about Sonic RPG and an "interactive entertainment product" that they're making with LucasArts.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Pharezon wrote: »
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.

    Asian culture?

    Uh... well... Persona 3... kind of? I mean, you play through a Japanese school year complete with references to holidays and traditions and everything...

    Really I am just looking for an excuse to recommend Persona 3.

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    What the hell happened to Dragon Age, anyway? Last I heard from that stupid game was from 2004-5 and then it fell off the face of the planet.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    HOT DAMN

    I am jazzed to the max about this

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Shouldn't these dudes be working on Mass Effect 2?

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Pharezon wrote: »
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.

    Every.

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  • abotkinabotkin Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Pharezon wrote: »
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.

    It's a bit old, but what I remember of Prince of Qin was rather fun. Diablo clone type game set in ancient China. Came out for the PC 4-5 years ago or so.

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  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Pharezon wrote: »
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.
    Dynasty Warriors and the shitton of other games based off Romance of the 3 Kingdoms.

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    abotkin wrote: »
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Pharezon wrote: »
    On the subject of Jade empire...are there any asian culture themed games out besides Jade Empire? I like Medieval European fantasy games as much as the next guy but if there others I'd like to try them.

    It's a bit old, but what I remember of Prince of Qin was rather fun. Diablo clone type game set in ancient China. Came out for the PC 4-5 years ago or so.

    It's on GameTap if you have it. I didn't really get into it, but others may like it.

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  • Asamof the HorribleAsamof the Horrible Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    If they make the combat not suck, then yes. I'd rather see a different IP though

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  • WotanAnubisWotanAnubis Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Well, I'm excited about this. Then again, I have a mad, irrational love for the first Jade Empire so that was kind of expected.

    I just hope we get to see more of the Empire this time around.

    Oh, and an Eastern invasion/colonisation force as well. Just for laughs.

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  • BehemothBehemoth Compulsive Seashell Collector Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    It was pretty fun, but it was definitely flawed. My main problem with the game was just that it wasn't big enough! I was surprised it was over so quickly, though it did make it easier to play through multiple times. Kinda weird considering how big KoToR is in comparison.

    The combat was kinda wonky too, stunning and the War Golem transformation made everything too easy and it felt much shallower than KoToR overall.

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