"Jade Empire is 'near and dear' to BioWare, sequel could be coming -- maybe"

[kane_magus]

A potential sequel to Jade Empire? Yes, please. While I've said that the non-Bioware Planescape: Torment is my all-time favorite of the Bioware-style games, bar none, Jade Empire is probably my favorite of the ones actually made by Bioware (again, even taking into account the newer stuff like Dragon Age and Mass Effect and such).

The "just looking for the right way to deploy it" thing is raising some red flags for me, however. Just so long as it's similar to the original game, and not another damned, bloody MMO (or something even more retarded, like a "social game" or something), then I'll probably be okay with whatever they do with it. But please, Bioware, if you make a new Jade Empire game, don't make it a MMO.

(But then, even if it's not a MMO, the pessimist in me says that EA will surely find ways to stick their malignant fingers into the pie and manage to muck the whole thing up somehow.)

(EDIT) You know what? Fuck it. Let Jade Empire remain in the past. I don't want modern day EAWare touching Jade Empire with a 10-foot pole. (/EDIT)

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

If they're "just looking for the right way to deploy it", you can pretty much assume your fears are going to be well placed. It might even go the Diablo 3 route...

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah... if it ends up going the Diablo 3 route, I'd rather they just not have mentioned it at all.