Opinion: Is Greedfall trying to fill the void of Bioware games?

Greedfall's overarching goal is more than being a Bioware clone.

Studio Spiders, through Greedfall, is not just trying to fill in the shoes of the developer Bioware and their RPGs that once occupied massive storage spaces on our desktops or consoles but is aiming higher. The game is being developed by a a crew of forty people and its handcrafted world carries a sense of magic that reflects the passion and hard work that went into making this game.

Greedfall tries to do a lot at once and is fortunately in the right direction. According to the developers, the game won't feature a single fetch quest since it has become so common in the AAA industry lately.

Looking into what made Dragon Age Origins stand out when compared to its sequel, Dragon Age Inquisition, it would be the world-building. Inquisition for sure offered a pretty world to gawk at with varied locales to explore, but by making it a partially open-world game it lost its authenticity.

Almost all the locations offered similar tasks and if one looked closely, really closely then they would know that aside from the visual differences, everything looked identical. Since Greedfall is not an open-world game, but one that offers a few diversified and visually striking locations to explore, it will not cause any fatigue. In short, quality over quantity is what Greedfall is striving for, and this is why Origins might be better than Inquisition.

The combat in Greedfall looks fun and flashy. It doesn't necessarily offer tactical combat like in the Dragon Age games to make it more welcoming to a wider audience, but it does offer a "tactical pause" option like in DA to give players a sense of freedom and strategy to choose their combat. The game offers three distinct skill trees each for a warrior, mage and the technical(rogue) class but digs deeper when it comes to expanding and deepening the various attributes of these skills.

Greedfall is shaping up to be an ambitious old school role-playing adventure game that Bioware fans have been waiting to p,lay for a long time. Greedfall's goal now seems to be more than just a Bioware clone and it could be speculated that the game might turn out to be a grand hit this year.

Greedfall will be out on the 10th of September on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

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