Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t imagine a way of remaking DA:O for modern audiences without losing what made it special to begin with.

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  • caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Blood magic would be out. Which ruins the game immediately.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • lath@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dragon Age Origins was a masterpiece and epitome of BioWare.

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The story was also hackneyed and utterly predictable. :(

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