BioWare Open to Jade Empire Sequel

October 14, 2009 5:01 PM

While Dragon Age lead designer Mark Laidlaw says there are currently no plans for a sequel to BioWare's RPG Jade Empire, he says the company would be willing to tell another story in the Eastern-themed game.

"At this point, Jade Empire is a staff favorite and a lot of us love it, so we'd love to revisit it at some point," he said to Strategy Informer. "But right now, we are very focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2." Jade Empire was released on Xbox in 2005, eventually seeing a PC release in 2007. Rumors of a sequel were kick-started in 2008, when journalist Dean Takahashi claimed that he'd spoken with someone who could confirm the sequel was in development as an Xbox 360 exclusive.

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Fred Garvin

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October 14, 2009 5:03 PM

Rumors I heard was that a sequel was in development, but EA killed it.
- spinx2
  
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  October 14, 2009 5:45 PM
  
  no tears for that... I hated jade empire...
- Pettytheft
  
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  October 14, 2009 6:01 PM
  
  I think I was one of the few people who enjoyed Jade Empire.
  - K1Bond007
    
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    October 14, 2009 6:05 PM
    
    I really liked it too. Not as good as some of their others, but still good IMO.
  - kagath
    
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    October 14, 2009 7:26 PM
    
    I really enjoyed it as well. Well done game.
  - Navy Spitfire
    
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    October 14, 2009 9:08 PM
    
    I thought it was really awesome.
  - jedi_27
    
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    October 15, 2009 6:17 AM
    
    i loved every second of it. great game.
- SpeedComraD
  
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  October 14, 2009 8:25 PM
  
  Easily worst Bioware game to date. It was easy, predictable and boring.
- Evan_C
  
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  October 14, 2009 10:06 PM
  
  I remember getting a questionaire about a Sequel to Jade Empire 2 a long time ago... the questions made it sound like it was going to be set in the future and you played as a cop who's partner betrayed him or something cliche like that. Anybody else remember getting that? My responses were mostly negative.
- te[R]ror
  
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  October 15, 2009 2:54 AM
  
  I bought the PC version. The controls were fucked.
  - yuried
    
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    October 15, 2009 4:04 AM
    
    I had no problems with the PC controls...
    
    Really liked Jade Empire, it wasn't overall as great as KotOR but still pretty good in my book. Yeah combat wasn't so challenging/interesting but that's not really what I played the game for anyway.
    - runinal
      
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      October 15, 2009 11:19 AM
      
      You must have played it on easy or normal. Try it on the master difficulty, then you have one hard ass game. I'm not sure why the other peeps didn't like it :-/. I had a hella good time playing it.
- Porkasaurus
  
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  October 15, 2009 9:19 AM
  
  Horribly generic game that had so many exploits I felt like a monkey just playing it.