According to Kotaku, a number of big announcements may be coming from Electronic Arts in the near future, including word that Dragon Age will be getting a multiplayer mode. The arena-based game will feature playable dragons and make use of DICE's Frostbite 2 engine, claims the gossip.
It's unsure if the mode will be its own game or part of Dragon Age 3, but it furthers EA's apparent plans to put multiplayer into everything. If it's true, of course.
There's also a lot of talk about Dead Space and yet more plans to expand the brand like crazy. It's been said that a fully-fledged first-person shooter could be on the way, as well as a game based around piloting spacecraft. This would be in addition to Dead Space 3, which will feature co-op (sigh), and a new project called "Uncharted in Space."
It's been said that Dead Space 3 almost got canceled because the last game was not exactly as successful as Uncharted. That's EA for you, too busy looking side-to-side and not enough time spent looking at itself. That company needs to stop with the jealous glances and actually concentrate on not being the game industry's biggest glans.
Although these rumors are dramatic, they all seem fairly plausible. EA clearly wants multiplayer in everything and has been pushing the online passes really hard. Additionally, it's been trying to force Dead Space's success for years, with movies, comics, toys, and novels. Saturating fans with Dead Space content is nothing new, so while these are all still rumors, I'd not be shocked if they all came to pass.
EA Wants To Make aDead Space First-Person-Shooter [Kotaku]
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9:00 AM on 11.30.2011 | 
The multiplayer will be a piece of shit.
Dead Space FPS, however....make it like FEAR, and i'll be cool.
I wish they'd make games more strategic, like DA:O was, and Mass Effect had hints of.
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood showed that you can "throw in" or "tack on" a multiplayer mode successfully. That was the most fun I've had on Live all year.
Lord knows EA wont do it like that though. Because you know that integrated multiplayer isnt what people want, /sarcasm
Bioware always had mulitplayer in there games Neverwinter Nights, Baulders gate in fact when it announced Dragon age would be SP only people where like WTF no MP.
But hey lets complain about games have extra length and changes in them
Just yeah...
EA: "Mmm...this engine...makes pertty things...LET'S USE IT FOR EVERYTHING"
Time spent developing multiplayer is time taken away from making a bigger, better single player experience. Also seems single player games with these online pass things - included multiplayer or not - have a way of sucking content out of the single player experience.
I'll complain because its something I refuse to support. I like Bioware, but they've totally lost their way.
If they want to look in the right direction - Elder Scrolls, Deus Ex and Dark Souls might be a good start.
No, no, no.
No.
AlSO DeadSpace FPS with MP from DeadSpace2 would be the tits
The MP in Dragon Age... I dunno. I'd have to see it. There'd be ways to do it right and ways to muck it up.
I swear, EA must have a whole department titled the "how can we make fans hate our games" division.
Like Arttemis said - they might as well complete the transformation. Dragon Age at this point is a lost cause, if they're going to keep going down that strange direction - DAII simply was not as good as Mass Effect 2's changes.
haha comin from a guy with Nintendo mascot for avatar SERIOSLY
Oh well, at least single player RPG fans like myself still have a few options such as Bethesda, CD Project, Atlus and Square. I guess I'd better enjoy what I can before we come to the point where every single major game out there is either a MMO or a multiplayer shooter.
Stalin Mario will eat your soul.
Also, Nintendo mostly takes flak for not changing things up enough, the opposite of chasing every "what's popular now" trend the way EA does. Get your stereotypes right.
Buddy MULTIPLAYER was always popolar nothin new about that and I was a gamer for pretty long time SO ur too cool for school atitude aint gona change that WE hardocre gamers like to be sosial animals who like some friendly competition in our games NOT basement dwelers playin againt the computer allday
A Dead Space fps though? Really not sure about that one. As for the mention of a Dead Space game about piloting spacecraft? No. Just no.
I'm still annoyed about co-op in Dead Space 3 though as it kind of ruins the atmosphere and the whole shit-I'm-totally-alone-with-monsters-out-to-tear-me-apart feeling that the others had.
Yeah, back when they didn't suck at making those kinds of games. Origins was spectacular, then they went and shit all over what worked with DA2...seemingly because EA said so. I refuse to believe the same people who made Origins thought DA2 was a good idea.
also, dont ruin dragon age pls.
Maybe.
Oh and it'd be an online pass feature with DLC that lets you change your costume online to exactly the same but lighter.
Also (also), parentheses.
Like what tristy says, its practically a fps anyway, so it could end up okay. I just wonder if that means good or bad for the atmosphere of the game
Oh for fucks sake! will every dev trash his IP with this turd of an idea from now on? if they at least did it right or was optional i wouldn't mind but noooo, we can't have that.
God damn the fucker that came with this forced co-op idea, seriously, damn him to hell.
Anyways, EA just needs to look at skyrim to see what a singleplayer game should be like.
That means I'll either get locked out of a good portion of the game or be stuck with a dirt stupid AI partner. Either way the experience is pretty much destroyed for me.
Next they'll add perks, killstreaks, weapon attachments, and set the whole thing on some desert planet.
If it is like FEAR then hot DAMN, this would be an amazing FPS game. Scare the beer right outa me EA!
As for the co-op, I really hope they don't pull a Resi 5, the game was fun, but it was no means a survival horror game, which I actually prefer Dead Space to keep on being since it filled in that game once Resident Evil jumped the shark a while ago.