r/pcmasterrace • u/TheocraticAtheist • 8h ago

News/Article BioWare is closing down.

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u/k1ng0fh34rt5 Ryzen 9900X, 64GB 5200MT, 7800XT 8h ago

My beloved Westwood. :(

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u/jb921 8h ago

Westwood and Bullfrog 😭

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u/KiNgPiN8T3 7h ago

Dungeons keepers, Theme hospital/park, the command and conquers etc etc. What an era of pc gaming.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen 7h ago

Two Point Studios is carrying the legacy of Theme Hospital/Park, but I wish there were more Dungeon Keeper successors

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u/bootsoffire3 7h ago

"Your creatures are happy with your dungeon."

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u/KiNgPiN8T3 7h ago

“THE ENEMY IS BREAKING THROUGH YOUR WALLS!”

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u/LabGroundbreaking556 5h ago

Your dungeon is full of yoghurt...

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u/jb921 3h ago

War for the Overworld comes really close, but it’s just not Dungeon Keeper

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u/numeriuscaesar 1h ago

Look into the Dungeons series by Realmforge. I still boot up D4 every now and then.

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u/upholsteryduder 6h ago edited 4h ago

what they did to my boy C&C is a war crime

edit: it's a browser based "MMO" p2w travesty.

https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-rivals

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u/Several-Ad-6958 6h ago

And not a GPU in sight...

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u/Gezzer52 Ryzen 7 5800X3D - RTX 4070 4h ago

Have you looked into the Dungeons series? They're DK with a over world component. The first two were okay, but the last two rocked...

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u/jb921 3h ago

Not to mention Magic Carpet 2, Populous The Beginning and Gene Wars

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u/Oberon_Swanson 43m ago

When I tell people all the cool shit you could do in Dungeon Keeper in 1997, they don't even believe me. they seriously heard somebody say "man i like these top-down real time strategy games but sometimes i wish i could just GET IN THERE and take direct control of one of my dudes in first person and really fuck shit up" and they added that as a full mechanic you don't even have to use

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u/AlbinoDigits 8h ago

Still waiting on that Magic Carpet remake we'll never get

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u/zoepertom 7h ago

Omg that would be so cool! That intro had stunning graphics!

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u/Sad_Plankton6782 6h ago

oh man what a mystical game it was.. gene wars was awesome too. i miss breeding crabs and mules.

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u/SgtDoakes123 6h ago

Populos is a game I've played toooons. Super unique and super fun. RIP Bullfrog

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u/Rudfud 6h ago

Don't forget Pandemic

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u/-brk0 8h ago

Command & Conquer is what got me into pc gaming. This hit me in the feels.

Kane lives in death!

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u/Alucard-VS-Artorias RTX 5090 FE | R7 9800X3D | 2TB 9100 PRO G5 | 64GB DDR5 7h ago

[🎶 Hell March theme intensifies 🎶]

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u/Both_Lie_7417 56m ago

So, what shall we talk about?

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u/Alucard-VS-Artorias RTX 5090 FE | R7 9800X3D | 2TB 9100 PRO G5 | 64GB DDR5 43m ago

"No, Comrade Premier, it has just begun..." - Yuri

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u/9G_Turn 39m ago

When game OSTs were actually better than mainstream songs used in video games

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u/sgt-hug0-stiglitz 7h ago

My first game I bought as a kid was CnC:TibSun in the box. Something like 27yrs ago. 😭😭

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u/mongojob 7h ago

Oh man red alert was so dope but Tiberian sun was WILD comparatively

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u/9G_Turn 39m ago

Red alert started it for me

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u/-brk0 7h ago

Tiberian Sun was the first collector's edition game I bought. I wish I still had the gdi pewter figure.

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u/Poro_the_CV 1h ago

I remember being stoked when I found a Command and Conquer Red Alart cd at a garage sale. Shit was like 4-5 years old and it was the first game my older sister and I bonded over. Very fond memories.

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u/Nodrod 4770k | 16GB TridentX | Strix GTX 980 7h ago

I remember downloading the OG C&C demo on dads computer with dialup. It felt like eternity waiting for a few mb demo to download. Good times.

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u/-brk0 7h ago

I played the demo on a computer at Sears. It was amazing.

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u/dmsayer 9800x3d RTX4070 Space Heater 2h ago

iirc, demo was ~200mbyte and entire game on disk was ~700mbyte

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u/Geawiel 4h ago

First game I bought for my Saturn (that I won). I played the living shit out of the game. I still have some of the audio files from the discs. They could be played like a regular CD in a CD player. You just had to skip the first track because it was the data for the game.

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u/-brk0 4h ago

I ended up having to buy c&c for the saturn twice after the disk broke, lol. Those last missions were hard.

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u/TheBoss3K 7h ago

Dune 2000 for me but same same

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 42m ago

I was a ranked player in TibSun, parents weren't amused because the phone bill. It was a different time.

My kids are into gaming as well though it's different today. They are girls so sure they have a different preference gaming wise, but modern games are a different beast compared to what we grew up with. It's not that one is better than the other, but looking at Eggy Party or Minecraft, they are very cool but it just doesn't have the feel I had with C&C, CS1.1-1.6, Sim City2000 etc.

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u/snorkelvretervreter 3h ago

I played the crap out of Dune II which is C&C's direct ancestor

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u/9G_Turn 40m ago

Ahknowledged!

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u/madchaosuk 8h ago

And bulldog thay made some great games

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u/The_Sideboob_Hour R5 7600X / RTX5070 8h ago

I'm fairly sure a lot of those guys are now Two Point Games

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u/ReDx_Nineclaws 4h ago

One of my first Bullfrog games was magic carpet R.I.P

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u/soaringowl 4h ago

Mine was Populous on playstation and i loved it soo much back in the day

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u/sd4f 4790k|Z97X-SOC|GTX970 Phantom|16GB HyperX Ram 6h ago

C&C, AoE and Blizzard's strategy games, the 90's were it.

BioWare managed to make impeccable story driven RPGs, not to mention fallout 1 and 2.

Adventure games were still a thing. The 90's certainly held up for games. They may be a bit clunky and low res, but with a bit of polish just about all of those games hold up.

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u/Both_Lie_7417 56m ago

In the Name of Kane!!!

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u/Fluid-Finish4368 4h ago

Game here to say this. I loved Nox back in the day.

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u/mythrilcrafter Ryzen 5950X || Gigabyte 4080 AERO 2h ago

As much at I loved the C&C/Red Alert games, unless Westwood planned on creating an RTS that out performed Starcraft or got into the MOBA space and won against DOTA and League; there's not a lot that they could have done especially with such a huge population of gamer's moving out of RTS and into MOBA's.