Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched final October, and although it fared decently amongst followers, writer EA stated it missed gross sales expectations by 50%, bringing in roughly 1.5 million gamers as an alternative of the anticipated 3 million it had hoped. These missed expectations have left followers questioning what the way forward for the sequence seems to be like whereas BioWare works on the following Mass Impact sport.
Wanting again on the franchise, nonetheless, we have just lately realized BioWare, at one level, softly pitched a trilogy remaster of the primary three Dragon Age video games, but it surely was turned down by EA. That is based on Mark Darrah, former Dragon Age sequence producer and BioWare govt, in a brand new interview with MrMattyPlays on YouTube, as reported by IGN.
“I truthfully suppose they need to do – I do not suppose they’ll, however they need to do – a remaster of the primary three [Dragon Age games],” Darrah, who left BioWare in 2020 however consulted on final yr’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard, stated to MrMattyPlays. “One of many issues we pitched at one level – fairly softly, so pitched is a large overstatement – was to retroactively rebrand the primary video games as in the event that they had been a trilogy, name it the Champions Trilogy, so you’ve these larger-than-life heroes… possibly you try this as a primary step.”
As for why this trilogy remaster, which might encompass Dragon Age: Origins (2009), Dragon Age II (2011), and Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014), by no means got here to gentle, Darrah locations the blame on EA.
“EA’s traditionally been – and I do not know why, however they’ve even stated this publicly – they’re form of towards remasters,” he informed MrMattyPlays. “I do not actually know why, and it is unusual for a publicly traded firm to seemingly be towards free cash, however they appear to be towards it. In order that’s a part of it.”
Darrah later posits {that a} Dragon Age trilogy is a more difficult job than, say, a Mass Impact trilogy (which EA and BioWare did within the type of Mass Impact Legendary Version in 2021), due to the sequence’ storied improvement historical past and the engines used to create the video games.
For extra, learn Recreation Informer’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard evaluate, after which take a look at Recreation Informer’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard cowl story hub for unique particulars and interviews in regards to the sport’s improvement and extra.
[Source: MrMattyPlays via IGN]
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