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ladyfives's review
4.0
An enjoyable overview of BioWare’s start, its completed projects, and a few games that never made it off the ground. I was happy to see that for those incomplete projects there were still tons and tons of art, discussion, and concepts to make you dream a little about what could have been.
Savvier reviewers have noted that of course there’s a bit of dodging around infamous goof-ups (Andromeda, anyone?), but overall I found it pretty honest. (I’d still like art books and retrospective books to get more comfortable with being honest about their errors and how they learned, though. On big timeline levels and little concept art levels.)
It’s filled with plenty of silly fun facts about the employees and the offices, and I genuinely don’t know how interesting those are to the average reader, because I found them plenty fascinating—since they’re from my hometown. “A town only hockey fans know,” they say. So the stories of how they grew appealed to me both as a fan of the games and someone who recognized everywhere in their photographs. I didn’t even realise the extent to which they were based in Edmonton.
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Savvier reviewers have noted that of course there’s a bit of dodging around infamous goof-ups (Andromeda, anyone?), but overall I found it pretty honest. (I’d still like art books and retrospective books to get more comfortable with being honest about their errors and how they learned, though. On big timeline levels and little concept art levels.)
It’s filled with plenty of silly fun facts about the employees and the offices, and I genuinely don’t know how interesting those are to the average reader, because I found them plenty fascinating—since they’re from my hometown. “A town only hockey fans know,” they say. So the stories of how they grew appealed to me both as a fan of the games and someone who recognized everywhere in their photographs. I didn’t even realise the extent to which they were based in Edmonton.
also dragon age II expansion DLC when
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