Two buddies and a baby griffin enjoy a quiet moment of companionship. Andy Bickerton/BioWare
Andy Bickerton/BioWare
In 2010, Canadian developer BioWare was in peak form. It released Mass Effect 2 to near-unanimous acclaim, winning over 100 awards, just one year after the successful launch of an old-school roleplaying series in Dragon Age: Origins. The company was the name in cinematic RPG experiences, with a near-pristine record of classics like Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Knights of the Old Republic (we don’t talk about Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood).
But in the following years, BioWare’s reputation began to falter. Dragon Age