People News David Gaider leaves BioWare

[Morality Games]

Is this an early indication that Bioware is taking steps to improve the quality of it's products?

After fishishing The Witcher 3 he said to himself:
" What is this ? How could i stray from path of good ? I am corrupted ! UnWORTHY ! "
He took his pen broke it on his knee hissing loudly, put on his fedora and looked at the door saying this:
" I will make it right !, GODS, I SWEAR IT ! "
Then he looked at his mailbox and started to type: obsidi...@.. , lar... cdp...


No one heard his voice, no one saw him laughing in silence, staring at his monitor,
only his broken pen lying it its own dark blood.

Guess we need a new short story contest. Premise: What mysterious event spurred Gaider to change his place of employment?

 

[Invictus]

He is actually one of the better writers from the old school Bioware and has enough pull to be able to kickstart something with his name... Hell an Avellone Gaider RPG story based turn combat game sounds like a match made in hevan! Fargo should sign them up for his Van Buren project

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Kindred spirits, breaking their shackles

 

[Alienman]

Mercenary writers

 

[Bubbles]

Maybe he's going to work on New Vegas 2 from Behaviour Interactive/Bethesda Montreal.

Bethesda Montreal opens in December, Gaider leaves in January - plausible, all too plausible.

 

[Kazuki]

He will be joining Obsidian and Bethesda announced that Obsidian will get another chance with Fallout.

I'm curious, what contribution he will be to Fallout (Be it Lore, Design or whatever).

 

[hivemind]

pretty weird that MCA has only 22K twitter followers

 

[Bubbles]

pretty weird that MCA has only 22K twitter followers

That's a third of Pete Hines's followers - seems pretty respectable to me.

 

[Septaryeth]

I'm not sure why people still say DAII was a badly written game, when it was in fact a fairly well written visual novel, better than almost all the stuff the Japanese write. Unlike Origins, the writing didn't buttress up the RPG systems because there weren't any systems to be boosted.

Maybe he's good as a writer but not a lead writer?

Seriously, that mage/templar confrontations and the obnoxious white haired companion...

 

[felipepepe]

DA2 is a game where most character development happens off-screen during time jumps and where everything the writing tries to set up is instantly destroyed by gameplay - like "You are a poor, oppressed, war refugee trying to keep your family safe and fed... while slaughtering armies of guards, orcs, demons and looting hordes of treasure!" or "Beware of the Templars, for they are hunting mages... except that you can go around town casting meteor swarms and no one gives a fuck".

I dont' buy it's "good writing with bad gameplay", because the writers were the ones who wrote a grimdark war refugee story that becomes a generic power fantasy/dating simulator.

Seriously, fuck DA2. Magic being restricted was a minor plot point in Baldur's Gate II (mostly just to get Irenicus and Imoen to Spellhold) and yet had Cowled Wizards policing you, raping your low-level party with Time-Stop, Finger Death and whatnnot. In DA2 the Templars and hiding your/your sister's mage powers is a key plot point, but you can do whatever you want and no one cares.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Maybe he got into a fight with the BioWare resident anti-white guy

This sad little fuck?

https://twitter.com/manveerheir

Unsurprisingly, he likes 'epic quotes'.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

 

[Roguey]

Everybody in corporate denies this, but DA:I was a considerable flop.

And your evidence for this is what exactly?

Check out how EA's stock did since Inquisition was released.

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

Huh. Also he apparently wrote HK47, Jolee, and Carth. Carth obviously very ehhhh but Jolee and HK47 were great.

I kinda liked Carth.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Huh. Also he apparently wrote HK47, Jolee, and Carth. Carth obviously very ehhhh but Jolee and HK47 were great.

I kinda liked Carth.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

David Gaider is a good writer, he just isn't a good character writer.

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

David Gaider is a good writer, he just isn't a good character writer.

It's actually the other way around.

 

[fanta]

There still is good in Gaydar buried beneath the passive-aggressiveness, SJWism and general decline. Prove me right, Dave.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

It's actually the other way around.

If you want a good character writer, see MCA. I don't think Gaider has written a character that comes anywhere close.

 

[Malpercio]

I wonder who runs Bioware these days.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I wonder who runs Bioware these days.

I would hazard a guess at some faceless EA businessman.

 

[HotSnack]

It's actually the other way around.

If you want a good character writer, see MCA. I don't think Gaider has written a character that comes anywhere close.

Think you missed the joke.

 

[Infinitron]

I wonder who runs Bioware these days.

I would hazard a guess at some faceless EA businessman.

You are correct: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bromberg-79836b13

 

[Outlander]

Kindred spirits, breaking their shackles

You can actually see MCA's single manly tear on the sticky note there.

 

[Black]

Maybe he got into a fight with the BioWare resident anti-white guy

This sad little fuck?

https://twitter.com/manveerheir

Unsurprisingly, he likes 'epic quotes'.

He himself delivers some epic quotes.