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'Dragon Age' Remastered Trilogy Faces Major Roadblocks, Former BioWare Producer Says

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah explains why a "Dragon Age" remastered trilogy is unlikely, citing outdated engines and BioWare's current priorities.

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EA is 'a hedge fund with a videogame hobby,' former Dragon Age boss says, and that's why he reckons the series is probably dead and buried

Mark Darrah doesn't think there's anyone left at BioWare who would pitch a new Dragon Age game, and he doesn't think studio executives would let anyone else do it either.

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Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'

Part of the sales pitch for AI is that it can carve out tedious 'busy work.' Should it?

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Mass Effect 5 is going to release "a long time" after Dragon Age: The Veilguard because BioWare has become a "one project studio," veteran suggests

Mark Darrah says it's "probably for the best" since different teams won't be fighting for resources

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Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard are both "very LGBTQ+ friendly," former EA dev says, "but one handled it perfectly and one fumbled it"

"Baldur's Gate 3 just supports you"

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I'm mourning the Dragon Age game I missed my opportunity to play

Dragon Age: The Last Court featured some of the series' very best writing. Or so I'm led to believe.

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'It takes Anthem's spot': Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019⁠—a 'compromised' game, but likely better received than Veilguard

It's unclear if Darrah is saying BioWare would have made project Joplin instead of Anthem, or that Anthem would have come later.

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Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, which it isn't'

The best RPG spinoff ever made probably should have been called something different.

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BioWare pitched a Dragon Age trilogy remaster but EA turned it down because it's 'against remasters' – 'It's strange for a publicly-traded company to seemingly be against free money' says series veteran

A remaster of the first three Dragon Age games was pitched to EA, but turned down because the publisher is "against remasters".

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Enraged Dragon Age fans are punishing EA for rejecting BioWare's remaster pitch by covering pixel art map Wplace in adorable threats

Oh no! I'm so scared, I guess

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New report details Dragon Age: The Veilguard's ugly failure through live service flip-flops, rewrites, and conflicts with Mass Effect

The last Dragon Age game we're likely to see for a very long while was in trouble right from the start.

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Even after EA let Dragon Age: The Veilguard out of multiplayer hell, BioWare reportedly still had to rush to target "as wide a market as possible," which feels like the opposite approach of great RPGs

EA doesn't seem to understand what makes a good RPG

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Ex Dragon Age writer worries more fans are tying their identity to games and hoping to see games fail to prove a point: "See what happened to them? See how their game sold?"

"They're very determined suddenly to see your game fail as a sort of a lesson to others who would make games of the same type," says David Gaider

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Dragon Age voice actor says his favourite way to play Inquisition is as a woman who romances himself, which is apparently 'the best'

You'll go blind doing that.

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I'm haunted by the decline and fall of Dragon Age, and can't help but wonder how it came to this

A once-legendary RPG world now plunged into shadow

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard pulled in 1.5 million players but still missed EA sales expectations by nearly half

Dragon Age: The Veilguard grabbed 1.5 million players but still missed EA's sales expectations by almost 50%.

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From Dragon Age: The Veilguard to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, here's the best RPGs of 2024

Year in Review | The new golden age has some royal welcomes and returns – here’s the must-play RPGs of the year

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Dragon Age players think Fallout creator's video about the worst RPG ever made is about The Veilguard, but he says it wasn't targeting anyone unless it "helps you make a better game"

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Dragon Age The Veilguard player makes the number one dating mistake and pecks fan-favorite love interest’s face off with giant bird head

Do not do this

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The best Dragon Age Origins character was nearly cut content before a writer’s pigeon trauma saved her: "The pigeons used the HVAC like some kind of sex den. Angry, ugly pigeon sex"

What did pigeons ever do to you?

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After 330 hours across 3 Dragon Age: The Veilguard playthroughs, I'm still trying to perfect one thing - the look of my Inquisitor

Now Playing | The greatest test of Dragon Age The Veilguard is trying to recreate my canon Inquisitor in its new and improved character creator

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Dragon Age creator reveals that one of the RPG series' most iconic characters was originally cast thanks to a rendition of Baby Got Back

Morrigan likes big butts and she cannot lie

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2024's Most Overlooked RPG Is Breaking One of the Series' Long-standing Rituals

The Dragon Age series has always made great use of expansions and DLC, and Veilguard foregoing all that feels like a real oversight.

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Bioware's art lead shared some off-the-wall rejected concepts for Dragon Age: Inquisition's multiplayer characters, including the return of a controversial companion we never saw again

I wish I could be friends with all of them.

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The Veilguard is the first Dragon Age game where my companions don't care enough about anything to argue with me

The lack of passion from the heroes of the Veilguard keeps leaving me cold.

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