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===[[Bioware]]===
There's an entire article devoted to it, but in a nutshell:

====Dragon Age====
Dragon Age: Origins was hailed as a modern classic after having been teased for several years leading up to its release. Players could choose one of three classic races (Human, Elf and Dwarf) to play as and each had several possible game starts. The character is recruited into the semi-secretive warrior organization called the Grey Wardens and is tasked with both stopping a darkspawn monster invasion but also to deal with a civil war that is breaking out in the kingdom the game takes place in by forging alliances with various factions.

Dragon Age 2, however, is widely considered to be utter tripe thanks to EA giving a very small development window forcing the developers to make only a few character and NPC models and even fewer maps that had to be reused time and time again, as well as demanding Bioware do cross-promotion material with the game for other games, notably Mass Effect 2. The player character is a refugee who goes on to become one of (if not ''the'') most influential person in the city of Kirkwall. This, however, limited the character choices to only being Human but your character was fully voiced at least.

Their third game, DA: Inquisition, was notably better if only because of how far the series had fallen with it's previous entry. It is a notable upgrade from 2 and finally gave players a chance to play the strange Qunari race and gave players the chance to, once again, design a character of their own making like in DA: Origins. The player character starts off as a prisoner after surviving a demon nuke explosion that tears a hole in the sky and due to a strange arcane mark they got there they are quickly named head of the newly reinstated Inquisition and must run around the world stopping darkspawn and dumbasses from killing everyone. [[Skub|Has either a decent ending or a completely stupid ending depending on how one views the series as a whole.]]

A fourth game is in the works, but nobody really has any faith in it turning out anywhere near decent.

====Mass Effect====
Made the first game, which was touted as video gaming's answer to Star Wars (in that it was a hyped up reskinning of an older star wars game). Then made the second installment, which many remember the best in the franchise.

The third game is where things went downhill, due to EA [[meme|assuming direct control]] over Bioware's development in the game, taking away more creative control from them (in fact the writers of the last two games quit), and shifting it away from a narrative, to a more action-y standpoint, placing less attention to story and more on gunplay (and the gunplay is good, the best in the trilogy, but that can't save a game that earned respect mainly for its storytelling). This all culminated to a lackluster ending that never really satisfied fans, even with the remade ending due to pressure.

Also there was a spin-off called Andromeda, which had been given to a smaller and under-equipped studio while the main Bioware studio was busy churning out Anthem, which tanked so badly thanks to a myriad of issues, that it nearly killed the franchise altogether and destroyed nearly all trust customers had in Bioware. While there was a remaster collection of the original three games that came out on shelves, it hasn't really changed anyone's opinions of BioWare.

====Anthem====
In which the gutted, burnt out husk of a company that made its name with character-focused RPGs and storytelling was instead pushed to make a dull-as-dishwater, generic looter-shooter.  It's as bad as it sounds since the shooting was compromised by bad design, the looting was compromised by shitty monetization, the story was a bland afterthought and the entire experience was a massive waste of time, money, and worker blood, which catastrophically failed its corporate taskmasters.

Anthem was viewed as Bioware's last hope for a comeback, but sadly, it fell apart like so many other EA titles before it, working over what little trust was left after Mass Effect: Andromeda.  But hey, the Javelins look cool at least.