Jade Empire: IP fuckup?

[Forest Dweller]

Okay, so it's been five years since Jade Empire was released, and not another game set in that setting or even a hint of another game. It's confusing; Bioware doesn't seem to be the type to make a new IP and then only use it on one game. They're milkmaids. So what happened? The game sold alright didn't it?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I dunno. If they're gonna make a beat-'em-up RPG I wish they'd do a new Jade Empire instead of Dragon Age 2.

 

[Tycn]

Not as marketable (/milkable) as generic scifi or high fantasy.

 

[Rhalle]

If martial arts movies ever become blockbusters again, you can bet your ass we will see a Jade Empire 2.

Now that I think of it, if Bioware was so eager to get at that weeaboo cash, why didn't they anime-up Jade Empire?

 

[Ogg]

I heard Dragon Age 2 was the spiritual successor of Jade Empire.

 

[Crooked Bee]

The combat in JE was too slow for a beat-em-up and too broken, some styles were clearly much preferable to others. If they could fix that, however, JE2 could be an entertaining action-ey game.

 

[Berekän]

Why would anyone want a sequel to that POS, anyway?

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

The game sold alright didn't it?

What matters is that it was their least successful game this past decade.

If martial arts movies ever become blockbusters again, you can bet your ass we will see a Jade Empire 2.

We should be getting a gay vampire rpg then.

 

[Roguey]

It bombed. Volourn and Josh Sawyer got into an epic argument over it over on the Obsidian forums which culminated in "That's because you don't know anything about game development." Volourn status: Told.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

It bombed. Volourn and Josh Sawyer got into an epic argument over it over on the Obsidian forums which culminated in "That's because you don't know anything about game development." Volourn status: Told.

Links? Plzzzzzzz?!?!

 

[Roguey]

It was the only google search for that particular phrase, but here ya go: http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?sh ... ntry551578

 

[chzr]

 

[DraQ]

OMG, predator is pwning a dude behind a fakelantern.

 

[GarfunkeL]

So Volly read the chart which said that XBOX-JE made Bio&MS $14 million as saying that it took $14 mill to actually make the game? R00fles!

It's only North-America and only XBOX. Wonder how much it sold in Europe and on PC.

 

[Serious_Business]

I think it was pretty cute how Volo came up in every thread about the asian game reassuring everyone that Bioware made a big, or at least a decent (much tears), profit on this game. Obviously this shit tanked, it wasn't hyped enough and everyone forgot about it. Good fucking riddance, hell yeah, here it is for you I spit in your face fuck man im getting pumped lets fight you fucking little shit i will fucking kill you this isnt about video games anymore

 

[Malakal]

I think it was pretty cute how Volo came up in every thread about the asian game reassuring everyone that Bioware made a big, or at least a decent (much tears), profit on this game. Obviously this shit tanked, it wasn't hyped enough and everyone forgot about it. Good fucking riddance, hell yeah, here it is for you I spit in your face fuck man im getting pumped lets fight you fucking little shit i will fucking kill you this isnt about video games anymore

srs business... oh right, carry on.

 

[Hobo Elf]

fuck man im getting pumped lets fight you fucking little shit i will fucking kill you this isnt about video games anymore

 

[anus_pounder]

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

I remember them talking about all the plans they had for their new IP, and then *poof* nothing else ever happened. Shame.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

DA2 is not a "beat-em-up" on the PC.

r00fles!

 

[Forest Dweller]

It is their most interesting setting.

 

[Turisas]

It is their most interesting setting.

Interesting doesn't sadly equal most money returned for time invested. Bioware is still just one team/studio is it not? Kinda odd that they haven't expanded by now - profit is still profit, even if a JE sequel wouldn't reach ME numbers.

 

[Sceptic]

It is their most interesting setting.

JE? It's erm, well... yeah, on second thought, and compared to TheDAS and ME (their only other creations), it's definitely miles better. It had a lot of untapped potential - contrasting the Empire with the equivalent of Europe, a more dynamic relationship between the typical fantasy tropes (magic! golems! demons!) and the almost-steampunk elements (the insectoid ships, the floating palace), stuff that sadly never even gets a side mention. You're just supposed to take it all as it is. But even in its current shape it was far less generic than Generic Space Opera 101 and Generic High Fantasy 101.

 

[Hegel]

It is their most interesting setting.

JE? It's erm, well... yeah, on second thought, and compared to TheDAS and ME (their only other creations), it's definitely miles better. It had a lot of untapped potential - contrasting the Empire with the equivalent of Europe, a more dynamic relationship between the typical fantasy tropes (magic! golems! demons!) and the almost-steampunk elements (the insectoid ships, the floating palace), stuff that sadly never even gets a side mention. You're just supposed to take it all as it is. But even in its current shape it was far less generic than Generic Space Opera 101 and Generic High Fantasy 101.

You saying that was " the new shit"?

 

[Roguey]

Interesting doesn't sadly equal most money returned for time invested. Bioware is still just one team/studio is it not? Kinda odd that they haven't expanded by now - profit is still profit, even if a JE sequel wouldn't reach ME numbers.

Bioware's gigantic, you have at least two teams in Edmonton (ME and DA) plus Montreal, Austin (TOR), etc. Their yellowface setting wasn't able to break even after a year so it was either shelved entirely or put on the backburner.