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What is the Bioware game sequence?

Discussion in 'Playground' started by Chas, Jan 31, 2007.

  1. Chas Gems: 14/31
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    I am wondering what the sequence of releases is. I tried looking for the copywrites but cannot find most of them. So BG1, BG2, NWN, IWD etc, when were they released?
     
    Chas, Jan 31, 2007
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    First of all it's not just Bioware -- there's also Interplay and Black Isle Studios (I've also added a couple of others too). But I'm bored right now so here is a list of sorts:

    BG 11/30/1998
    ToSC 4/30/1999
    IWD 6/30/2000
    SoA 9/25/2000
    HoW 2/20/2001
    ToB 6/22/2001
    RoMD 9/25/2001
    NWN 6/16/2002
    IWD2 8/27/2002
    SoU 6/18/2003
    ToEE 7/21/2003
    HotU 12/2/2003
    DS 9/14/2004

    Interplay's first D&D based game was Decent to Undermountain released 10/01/1997 -- one day after it's release of the MUCH better game Fallout.
     
    T2Bruno, Jan 31, 2007
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    Who made Decent? Was it Bioware?
     
    Munchkin Blender, Apr 20, 2007
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    Nope, Interplay directly. It's Descent, btw. :p
     
    Taluntain, Apr 20, 2007
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    Actually it was Parallax on behalf of Interplay. :p
     
    Sparhawk the Pandion, Apr 22, 2007
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    That was for the original Descent... but for DtU, only Interplay is credited for the development anywhere you check.
     
    Taluntain, Apr 22, 2007
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    Yep, DtU was Interplay-only (though it did use the Descent engine developed by Parallax, but that engine was owned by Interplay anyway). In fact many of the people credited with DtU eventually became part of BIS, including Chris Avellone. Funny thing, knowing the same guy could design both games (DtU was as abysmal as you can get)
     
    Ziad, Apr 23, 2007
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    Ha, totally missed that you were talking about Descent to Undermountain and not vanilla Descent. Oops. :p
     
    Sparhawk the Pandion, Apr 25, 2007
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