Rumorang: Jade Empire sequel in the works

I think Mass Effect is a good start in shooter combat for Bioware. In need of improvements in nearly every area though.

Jade Empire, it was a simplistic, but worked well.

i thought for what mass affect shot for it was a great game, needs some revision but not much

i tire of arguements of "it is only your opinion, therefore i can disregard it". If your require an arguement. I will substantiate my claim of sub par combat

jade empire's combat lack depth. it was a rock paper scissor system. the problem was that quick attack was over powered. the counter ,shield, did nothing and the power attack were too slow. the next problem was that the dodge ability. especially the flip behind the enemy. as it would stun the person so you could throwing the quick attack. the basic strategy was you basically leaped over behind the guy then used your 3 hit combo and leaped behind him again til the guy died.
the fact that most encounters could be defeated with this simple set of moves made it bored and bland. this became more so with the inclusion of paralysing palm and closed fist which made it even eaiser. area attack harmonic combo and your done.

i considered the combat subpar as when i compare it to other action rpgs such as tale of syphonia or sudeki and find them better than jade empire. I am not the only one that stated this as gamespot (if you still trust them back then) follows my OP as well.

combat has been my only caveat of jade empire as everything else was great (except load screens...). Once they improved the combat it can go down as one of bioware's best

@ballistic

I'm behind you 100%. There are way too many posters here that are after nothing more than 3 full hearts and that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when everyone is sucking everyone else's dick. Yes, it is an opinion. However, many opinions are based on observations of fact, which can be more or less astute. So if you don't agree with it, argue against the actual claim being made or shut the fuck up.

More on topic, I think you captured the problem with the game perfectly. I watched several friends play through it, and after seeing them do that exact combo over and over again for hours on end, I never even gave it a try. In addition, I also felt the art direction was terrible, with a boring, brown color palette and nothing but forgettable, repeatable environs.

Yea it was, but so is Mass Effect, I guess Bioware are just trying new thing with combat. Will only improve over sequels too, hopefully...

And put more effort into side missions.

And add more dude on dude alien lovin' scenes.


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Wait, what?

Hmmm... how was the game racist? I played the first one, but not very far (not my thing). But I never saw anything that I thought was racist.

Please tell me how it was racist: I'm Asian too.

Sorry Tina for completely missing the point in my previous comment: how can I really trust you for denouncing racism if you already consider that these "white" developers shouldn't make Asian-themed games, under the pretext that their caucasian side would be a handicap?

Last time I checked, Bioware was Canadian, and unlike in your world, nationality has nothing to do with skin color. Those are my two cents from a proud Frenchman who happens to be Asian.

lol wut?

It was fantasy inspired by certain asian cultures, architecture, etc. No matter what, it is just fiction. To get explanations of why people found this racist would be interesting.

Oh, great, another person that diregards the definition of racism. Racism means to apply atributes or characteristics, good or bad, on account of race, or to otherwise discriminate on a person on account of race. Wich leads to the questionaire:
Does Jade Empire show asian people as being better or worst than other races instinctly because of etnicity?
Does Jade Empire show all asian people having negative characteristics?

I think what you and your friends actually mean is that Jade Empire is not an accurate representation of asian myth, culture, or hystory. That much I would understand. After all, the game is a fantasy, and not a hystorical sim like Romance of the 3 kingdoms, or Onimusha. It doesn't even clearly state where IS the Jade Empire. It takes a western view of eastern myth. Make of that what you will, but it doesn't sound racist to me.

Kenneth Eng, is that you? (look it up)

And since it's created by westerners and directed to westerners, it would only make sense it would be from a western perpective of eastern culture. Some may call that racist, but fuck 'em.

All parts of the world have innacurate views of different cultures, just how it is.

Did you see the one European in that game? He was a ridiculous stereotype that drank tea and shot his trebuchet, wanted to kill everything and thought himself better than everyone in the entire land.

The game is just a larger-than-life fantastical approach to the ancient world.

I wants me some ME PC. At least the loading times will be drastically cut down.

This is exactly why the whole politically correct label of 'Asian' is stupid and imprecise. Technically speaking, a Russian, an Indian, and a Chinese are all 'Asian'. How much do they have in common, besides inhabiting the largest landmass in the world?

What was wrong with the old word 'Oriental' anyway? There is nothing disparaging about it. That is the term we used when I was a child. It just seemed like everyone woke up one day and the Sensitivity Police had decided it was hateful, and that we would all say 'Asian' for evermore.

I still don't understand this.

because colloquial "asian" refers to east asian, not russian or indian. the russian argument is just as stupid as the initial comment by AZN.

anyway, other races (blacks and hispanics) are marginalized more in movies, video games, and other popular media than asians are, because there are fewer blacks and hispanics in these industries. sorry we don't live in a colorblind world: deal with it. there are more important things to argue about that video games.

Frankly, after how they pooped all over the KOTOR sequel, I'm worried about how they handle a sequel to any of their other titles, especially if they handle it in-house or get another developer to work on it.

wow. Geist. There is so much fail in your post.

Bioware had nothing to do with the sequel. Absolutely nothing.

Blast.

I'd rather they didn't start^

I need Mass Effect 2 !!!! They should not do this now. They should make ME-2 First. I am not a RPG Fan but Mass Effect just blew me out of the water. I loved every single aspect of the game. It was Awsome.