Eurogamer reports that the spiritual successor of Jade Empire has been cancelled:
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Jade Empire: SE - Spiritual Successor cancelled
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Some pretty nifty concept art. Too bad it was cancelled. It looks a lot more interesting than the last couple of Dragon Age games were.
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Revolver (Jade Empire 2) Cancelled
Revolver (Jade Empire 2) Cancelled
Link - https://www.unseen64.net/2019/12/02/revolver-jade-empire2-cancelled/
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Site seems dead at the moment.
Apparently people were progressively pulled from the projet to work on others. Seems like a familiar pattern, especially at Bioware.
The Bioware's 25th anniversary book written by Ben Gelinas has quite a few early art designs and piece of info on that cancelled game as well as others, like Agent. For those who like such things, the book is quite interesting, even if it's not always very well written (and sometimes not entirely correct, but then it's been made by Bioware). It's full of concept art, side stories and amusing or interesting little facts.
Apparently people were progressively pulled from the projet to work on others. Seems like a familiar pattern, especially at Bioware.
The Bioware's 25th anniversary book written by Ben Gelinas has quite a few early art designs and piece of info on that cancelled game as well as others, like Agent. For those who like such things, the book is quite interesting, even if it's not always very well written (and sometimes not entirely correct, but then it's been made by Bioware). It's full of concept art, side stories and amusing or interesting little facts.
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Sounds like it may have suffered a premature boot to the head. Too bad, it might have been glorious.
It wasn't cancelled, it was sold to SEGA and re-branded as Yakuza.
That looks *much* better than Yakuza imo.
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Jade Empire was amazing! Concept art means nothing, tho. Its the 3D content that counts. Since 2005 TALENT was needed for the amazing Mass Effect 1-3 series. If people were pulled from JE, probably this was a sensible decision.
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It does.
At some point before Jade Empire, they were considering making a martial arts-oriented gameplay with the Baldur's Gate engine, in which players could stack attack and blocking moves. They made a demo but it didn't go further (Five Finger of Death).
And the Agent game that was also canceled seemed very promising too, it was an espionage theme this time. A curious mix, very action-oriented apparently: "At the core of the experience was a visceral combat system. The stealth you might expect from a spy game was deemphasized in favor of hand-to-hand combat. Instead of a loose fighter, we wanted it to be much more kind of brutal MMA-ish, punches that landed hard […] If players wanted to choke out a character in a fight, they needed to do the work". And also, "Players would not only need to choose conversation options to direct the outcome of a conversation, but watch for tells in the faces and body language of charracters"
They explored really different themes and gameplay styles, it's quite impressive!
It's working now. I still have to read it but it looks like a wealth of info, thanks!
Well, 25 years is a long time.
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I enjoyed Jade Empire... would have liked to see a sequel. Oh well, probably would have sucked. :lol:
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Yakuza is about humor and mature themes.That looks *much* better than Yakuza imo.
Not about looks.
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EA, I guess, cancels more than Bioware does - but that's rather a suspicion than a belief or thought.
Concept art is mostly about looks - to get a project running. "Head cinema", so to say.