
The Mass Effect Legendary Legendary Edition is right up there with Valve's The Orange Box as one of the best deals in gaming, and if BioWare were to ever give its Dragon Age RPG series the same treatment, it would join them. There have been some calls for such a remastered collection of Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, and Dragon Age Inquisition to become a reality as The Veilguard comes to market, but it's never materialised.
That's not because BioWare doesn't want to do it, but because the different engines the three games were created using present a significant issue when trying to bundle them under one roof. As revealed in a new Rolling Stone interview, The Veilguard's creative director John Epler "would love" to see a remastered Dragon Age collection for the modern era, but giving the three entries that treatment "would be challenging as they were originally designed using EA’s proprietary game engines".
Dragon Age: Origins and its Awakening expansion were made using the Eclipse Engine, and then Dragon Age 2 used an updated version of it called Lycium Engine. For Dragon Age Inquisition, BioWare switched to Frostbite. Compared to the original Mass Effect trilogy, which were all developed using the Unreal Engine, bringing the first three Dragon Age RPGs together into a single application and having them work together represents a far tougher task.
Of course, Dragon Age: Inquisition is easily accessible thanks to its PS4 version, but Origins and the second game are stuck on PS3 for PlayStation players. Neither of them is on PS Plus Premium for streaming purposes as well, to make accessing them that bit more difficult.
John Epler added: "I think I’m one of about maybe 20 people left at BioWare who’s actually used Eclipse. It’s something that’s not going to be as easy as Mass Effect, but we do love the original games. Never say never, I guess that’s what it comes down to."
Do you hope BioWare one day puts together a Dragon Age remastered collection? Let us know in the comments below.
[source rollingstone.com]
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I have an easy solution. Just remaster Dragon Age: Origins. It's been in PS3 jail for way too long
I can see how that could be a bit of a technical nightmare. Perhaps the solution would be to kinda do what Konami did with Metal Gear and just make them all seperate applications? That way they don't technically have to be under one application like Mass Effect was.
Just remastered 1 and 2 if these are iterations. 3 is available through back compatability
Dragon's Age Origins desperately needs a remaster. The game is borderline archaic on PS3.
I have fond memories of playing the first game and would love to revisit it - I have kept my ps3 discs and all! It really should be let out of that prison
Remaster Origins ultimate edition with none of that modern audience nonsense. Just a 1:1 with performance improvements.
Imagine an Origins remake exactly as it was just a fresh lick of paint. I’m currently playing Veilguard and I must say it’s brilliant
Only one worth a F is Origins anyway.
@species I can’t have that, Inquisition was tremendous
Origins > vail guard, remaster that game EA and you'll make money, simples
Of course they don't want to can't go reminding people of when this series was actually good
Doesnt fit the current agendas, dont you know.
I replayed Origins recently and although it hasn't aged well looks wise, it's still a great game.The fade section in the mage tower is an absolute slog to get through, though.
@Mikey856 Hmm I have to say i didnt really give it a fair shot.
I didnt really like the mmo-like quests and busy work, and if i remember correctly Witcher 3 came out soon after.
and yet all Dragon age games available to play on xbox series consoles
Well the current developers at Bioware probably hate the game so no surprise there. Thats origins and 2 are the only ones of interest
No need, Canary is doing a great job letting me play it in 4k on my pc in all its uncensored glory.
I would certainly buy that over whatever the hell Veilguard is.
@Fishnpeas Canary?
@FuriousMachine xbox 360 emulator, runs really well these days, will even run on low end machines. Great for Dragon Age, Gears of War, Forza etc.
@Fishnpeas Right. Never really entertained the notion, as emulators more often than not requires downloading game images illegally. Can I run my x360 discs directly with this emulator? (I expect not, but hope I'm wrong)
Nono... don't need a collection. Origins is enough.
Seriously? Can EA not get ANYONE ELSE to do this outside of BIoware to do this? Or a small team at Bioware. It's always Mass Effect that gets the focus, sick to death of it.
I'm not that big into either but respect them. I played more Mass Effect then Dragon Age but I still respect Dragon Age more for what it offers even though played it less. It may not be my type of game but I can understand a lot of the great stuff in it.
Regardless of the Origins only fans, or 2 being what it was or Inquisition being what it was for those that did enjoy it, their first or otherwise. A collection is needed like come on EA, seriously.
No one wants to keep their 360 DLC around, some people want all the games on 1 platform then part 360/PS3 and PS4/Xbox One of Origins and 2 then Inquistion the PS3/360/PS4/Xbox One type split.
They are both great IPs but Dragon Age even when more sales or more going on with ideas in it's world/gameplay that when explained and even playing Alpha Protocol I went wow this is more impressive then Mass Effects' direction it's always Mass Effect that gets the focus because whatever audiences vocally say or EA's preference even when Dragon Age has it's greatness to it.
Then again what else is new mechanics and level design and more mean nothing to people why else is it advertising and other appeal of characters and themes and other stuff matters to audiences or developers when to me gameplay matters and the ones with better ideas always get left behind and the more offer this and that themes, or more cars or whatever get it. It sucks so I pick up the left behind games because their ideas were so good and play less generic games of modern era and only the FEW AA/Indies actually worth my time of idea pushing not boring gameplay, the dialogue/stories, eh graphics/themes and boring characters or cars because boring tasks/modes. I want gameplay not values and boring messaging. If story is good sure but it is a VIDEO GAME, why do VIDEO GAMEs get pushed like a casual's first time, give us gameplay not concepts for toddlers/newcomers and boring game design for people with no imagination.
It always gets less touched Dragon Age EA, WHY!
I think they could be sold separately for $40, problem solved.
@FuriousMachine The disc read speed wouldn't be sufficient, but you could use an application to copy the disc image to your PC. Native hardware would do that anyway.
@Jtheripper they'll be demastered for the "modern audience" just like dead rising and silent hill were.
Bioware is a dead husk at this point. The only attention they get is negative and EA is just waiting to put the nail in the coffin.
@Deityjester yeah, probably sadly..
What about silent hill? What did they change?
@IntrepidWombat Aha, that's pretty sweet. My x360 is in storage as I haven't currently the space for it, but with this I potentially won't need it. Very good to know! Thanks
@FuriousMachine yes you can, I ended up having to connect my 360 to dump my originals to pc though because only certain drives can read them directly, but some people have had success.
Have a scout around the xenia wiki, loads of how to guides and makes for a great project if you are bored.
@Fishnpeas With my game, movie, tv show and book backlogs, I'm rarely, if ever, bored
But, yeah, it would absolutely be a worthwhile project if it means I can play some of my old faves without the need for having the console hooked up. Thanks for the info
They'd 100% need to fix the crunmy dungeons in 2 for anyone ti be interested in it again, but I would buy it if they did.
Inquisitor doesn’t need a remaster but
DA Origins and the expansion and DA2 remasters would definitely be great
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