It’s a big company called BioWare that made series like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, but they’ve had to stop some projects.
There are some great video game companies that have helped build multiple huge franchises that have stood the test of time and are still remembered by fans. This keeps players excited to see what the development team is working on next.
BioWare is one of the biggest game companies in the world. Some of the most popular games in their library are Dragon’s Age, Baldur’s Gate, and Mass Effect. BioWare did start a lot of games over the years, though. And they never finished them or released them to the public. Even though it’s a shame that gamers will never get to see these goods fully realized, it’s fun to think about what they could be.
Revolver / Jade Empire 2
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Jade Empire is one of the most famous BioWare games ever, and it’s still a huge surprise that this great RPG based on Chinese mythology hasn’t had a follow up since it came out in 2005. But there was one being worked on at one point, and it had a lot of problems during development. In part because it had to switch to Mass Effect’s Unreal Engine in the middle.
Because of this change, the team had to change the setting. It was meant to take place a few decades after the first book. But the idea was pushed forward to present day in the Jade Empire universe. This slowly changed into a project called Revolver. Which looked a lot like the first Jade Empire game but had almost no link to it. After a long and expensive development process, the idea was finally given up on.
Shadow Realms
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Though it was supposed to come out in 2015, Shadow Realms was an original action RPG that BioWare had to give up on making. According to the plan, people with special abilities would travel between Earth and a parallel world called Embra. There, they would fight the Shadow Legions to save humanity.
Shadow Realms seemed like it could be a big hit for BioWare and even the start of a franchise. It had a lot of traditional RPG features, like different classes for characters, a lot of ways to customize them. And an episodic release style where four players would work together as a team to fight a single Shadowlord. Some of the ideas were pretty original, but BioWare had to stop Shadow Realms. Because they were too busy working on Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mass Effect: Andromeda. However, some people think it might come back at some point.
Knights Of The Old Republic 3
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Although the first two games in the series were big hits for BioWare, there hasn’t been a third game in the Star Wars RPG series that they created yet because a planned third game was quickly shelved after the second game came out. An informational book about the background of LucasArts says that the project was put on hold before it got very far because the company was having money problems.
The developers said that a trilogy had always been the plan for the series. So they had already come up with a lot of ideas for the third movie. A character named Naresha was supposed to be the focus of the story. She was supposed to find the “really ancient Sith Lords who are far more terrifying than the Darths that show up” in order to bring the series to a thrilling conclusion that never happened, and it may be too late now to do it justice.
Mass Effect Team Assault
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One of BioWare’s best-known video game series has always been Mass Effect. But there was one game that was meant to take place in that world that never came out. After Mass Effect 2 did well, the team started working on Mass Effect: Team Assault, an online competitive multiplayer game set in the world of the Mass Effect series. They got as far as sharing screenshots of the game in progress.
Work stopped and went in a different way after four months of development. Fans of BioWare and the Mass Effect series didn’t miss out on much because Team Assault didn’t come out. Since a lot of what would have been in it was later added to Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer game.
Anthem Next / Anthem 2.0
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Anthem was always a project that had a lot of promise for BioWare, but it never came together. In 2021, the coder who was in charge of starting over with Anthem as part of a project called Anthem Next said the project was ending. Before the release of this project, there were a lot of problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic. But the main reason BioWare gave up was something else.
Over the years, BioWare has slowly stopped trying to make as many unique projects as they used to. Instead, they focus on their most successful franchises. They thought that Dragon Age and Flappy Bird would help them grow, so they shut down Anthem Next to focus on the big titles more. Today, it’s still not clear if this was the right choice.
Baldur’s Gate 3: The Black Hound
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Fans no longer have to be sad about the first try at Baldur’s Gate 3 not being made because the game has finally come out. The Black Hound was in development in 2002, but no one knows how long they worked on it. When the enhanced version of the original Baldur’s Gate was released in 2012, the team behind the series said they were going to make Baldur’s Gate 3, but they weren’t going to use any ideas from The Black Hound.
The Black Hound was supposed to be a scary character that showed the player’s guilt and bad decisions. It would show up at different points in the game. There isn’t much known about the plot. But players would have been after May Farrow, a bad priest who killed a Black Hound. A lot of attention was also going to be paid to the Archenrider group and the Church of Lathander in the game. Luckily, a great version of this game came out in the end and was a huge hit.