The honest truth is that Bioware isn’t Bioware anymore. The people that made the KOTOR games and even the Mass Effect series have left the studio in droves. It’s one of the things Jason Schreier pointed out in his two excellent pieces.

Here is an honest question

Maybe the DA leads will round up all the negative reactions to the idea of DA4 as a live service game, put them into a PowerPoint presentation, and use it as leverage to get EA to back off. :)

Fair point. God damn do I wish these big publishers weren’t run by management who only chase the latest monetization fad. Diversify, god dammit.

“Did EA’s executives really care about narrative? Did they really care about RPGs?”

Yup, it’s pretty clear “BioWare magic” is just borderline abusive crunch time.

It’s not that EA didn’t cause issues, it’s just that EA isn’t the ONLY problem. Bioware is causing a lot of their own problems, too.

Tons of EA defenders jumped on me when I blamed EA for the problems for Anthem, when it wasn’t explicit in the article that it was EA causing the issues.

I like to imagine that the Shazam movie is 90 minutes of this:

ain’t no fight announcer gonna always be calling “ooh, it’s The Mountain That Rides with a takedown, and now The Mountain That Rides has Oberyn in a head hold ... and wait, The Mountain That Rides is gouging eyes out and crushing the skull ...”

Fuck the cat, fuck the cunt, fuck the king.

0/10, should have called the cat a c**t several times

Also, if you think about it, The Hound is basically a tsundere...

It’s not that the show is actually confusing in absolute terms, it’s just very obviously written far more obtusely that it really needs to be.

Season 2 had a very simple plot wrapped up in seven layers of non-linear storytelling bullshit that existed pretty much exclusively in order to always strategically keep the…

I wouldn’t call it a disastrous fiasco, as there were a couple of really good episodes, but I no longer have faith that the writers are going anywhere interesting.

I look forward to more performative confusion about shows that are very easy to follow with a decent amount of attention.

TORMUND RESTORES THE SUMMER.

Are we no longer entertaining the theory that the Iron Throne will be broken down into its component weapons to defeat the White Walkers? 

It’s kind of like musical chairs but more stabby.

It will be Tormund and Brienne jointly ruling AND I WILL BROOK NO OTHER THEORY