I can’t imagine a way of remaking DA:O for modern audiences without losing what made it special to begin with.
Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games
Submitted 2 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
caut_R@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can you elaborate? Would jacking up the graphics, animations, and sound mess with the atmosphere? It‘s been a hot minute since I‘ve played it so I‘m not sure what the issue would be.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Blood magic would be out. Which ruins the game immediately.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
remaster, not remake
Nima@leminal.space 2 months ago
i would love to see an Origins remaster. I’m not sure what would ruin what made it special.
can you give some examples for what you mean?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
EA have one of the worst records for re-releases of any of the major publishers/IP Holders.
That said… Look, I still think DA Origins is one of the greatest CRPGs ever made… gameplay wise (I could do without “What if Game of Thrones but even MORE rapey!!”) and wish basically anything else had continued on that mix of isometric-ish strategy and simple conditional based AI. DA2… DA2 had a REALLY good story and atrocious gameplay and level design. And I hated Inquisition so much that I never even did the DLC about the most boring fascist ever who then became a hero in the decade or so between games.
And considering all three (?) of those are different engines? It would have been a LOT of money for a re-release. And… most of these discussions would have been happening around the time Larian/Obsidian/inXile/Owlcat were fighting for kickstarter scraps against frigging Spiders.
In a post BG3 world… it would still be a stretch. But at the time when “We should re-release thse games to build hype for DAVe”? Frigging nobody would expect anything close to a CRPG to be worth that kind of investment. Hence why the DAs have been ARPGs in the vein of Divinity 2 for the past 15 or however many years since DA2.
griffinite_psx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not even a “remaster” conversation anymore, a simple port to modern consoles to rejuvenate the game’s soul should be more than enough. Too bad we’ll probably never see that happen neither :/ .
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unlike Mass Effect, Dragon Age was never a good game. 1 looked like an OG Xbox game instead of 360 and 2 was just awful.
muhyb@programming.dev 2 months ago
Dragon Age Origins was a masterpiece and epitome of BioWare.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess, unless you played literally any other RPG up until that time. Every single plot twist had been telegraphed and done before by better games.
Nima@leminal.space 2 months ago
Origins is great agreed. and 2 and Inquisition are also great. its a decent series all around.
overload@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Agree with DA2 and inquisition but DA: Origins was a great game. Graphics don’t make the game but they weren’t that bad.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The story was also hackneyed and utterly predictable. :(
Nima@leminal.space 2 months ago
ITT: Origins purists. Doing their purity thing. 🙏
dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At this point, I doubt this will happen, because they’ve purposefully sunk Dreadwolf/Veilguard into the abyss, and probably wrote the entire DA series off, as a loss, all together
lath@piefed.social 2 months ago
There's bad blood there, but the original DA team should be completely gone with the last members having been sacked during Veilguard debacle.
Maybe they'd like to shit on it one more time with a crappy remaster, who knows.