“EA’s historically been, and I don’t really know why, but they’ve even said this publicly, kind of against remasters. It’s strange for a publicly traded company to basically be against free money, but they seem to be against it. That’s part of it,” says Darrah.

Of course, bringing all three titles together into one package would have been “harder than Mass Effect to do; to some degree unknowably harder. Maybe only a little bit harder, maybe a lot harder.” This is likely because of their vastly different toolsets and engines.

BioWare had some ideas on how to tackle this, though. “Let’s do Frostbite tools, and then let’s find a mod house that seems talented and pay them to do a remake of Dragon Age Origins.” Darrah revealed that, “There were lots of pitches around. A remaster, you kind of get Dragon Age 2 for free, a remake you don’t.”

“EA’s stance was probably, ‘Sure, go ahead and do it, but do it with the money you already have.’ And it’s like, ‘Well, we can’t do it with the money that we already have because we’re doing all these other things.'” Darrah has mentioned a lack of support from EA in the past, while former writer David Gaider says it always preferred Mass Effect over Dragon Age, so that may have also played a part.

Dragon Age is even less likely to receive any support following the underwhelming performance of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and BioWare’s restructuring, with the studio now focused on the next Mass Effect. While Veilguard has received extensive criticism, it saw no shortage of troubles during its long development period, as reported by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

After their success, many wondered where BioWare’s next game could venture. Few expected Star Wars; even fewer expected perhaps the best story in the franchise to date with Knights of the Old Republic. As an amnesiac Jedi, players explore well-worn and brand-new locations while becoming reacquainted with the Force. With stellar writing and companions, an excellent combat system, and the alignment system dictating one’s bent towards the Light or Dark side, Knights of the Old Republic is an iconic title for any RPG and Star Wars fan.

Inside

Combining atmospheric story-telling with clever puzzles, a stark aesthetic, and impeccable pacing, Playdead’s Inside presented one of the best side-scrolling adventure titles of all time. It’s saying something when a title of this caliber launched more than eight years ago, and nothing else in the genre has come close to matching up.

Bomb-Master Cannon – The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Upon arriving at Windfall Island’s Bomb Shop, you’ll be shocked to learn just what kind of prices are on offer. For 10 bombs, you need to pay a whopping 10,000 rupees. Sure he’s the last bomb-maker left but that’s enough to crowd-fund ten of Ganon’s deaths. Thankfully, once Tetra and her crew give him the ol’ rundown, Bomb-Master Cannon sees fit to lower his prices.

In this feature, we’ll be taking a look at all the games that BioWare has ever made (barring a couple that were on mobile devices or made for web browsers), and ranking every single one of them, starting with the worst one, and counting down right to the very best.

Without further ado, let’s get started.

#17. SHATTERED STEEL

Though BioWare is a studio associated with RPGs and storytelling, the first game they ever made was something completely different. Shattered Steel was a mech action title, which took cues from the MechWarrior series, but went for a more accessible and action-oriented style of gameplay (which you can translate to “it had more mindless explosions).

Shattered Steel was a decent enough game, with enjoyable action and a story that, for its time, was at least mildly entertaining. It was, however, a far cry from the kind of games BioWare would build its reputation on and go on to be associated with, and is, as a result, often altogether forgotten.

Anthem may more or less be borked, but Electronic Arts’ still has other offerings that are definitely worth looking into. The publisher is currently holding a sale for a number of its PC titles on Origin. Discounts go up to 80 percent, with the sale ending on March 19^th, 10 AM PST. These include titles like Titanfall 2 (75 percent off), The Sims 4 (63 percent off), Madden NFL 19 (67 percent off), and Battlefield 5 (50 percent off).

You can even pick up some bundles, like Titanfall 2 Ultimate Edition and Battlefield 1 Revolution for 80 percent off. If you’re more interested in the glory days of BioWare, then perhaps the Mass Effect Trilogy is worth a look at 50 percent off. You can even pick up Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2, each a whopping 75 percent off from their original asking price.

However, our personal recommendation is Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Collection, discounted by 50 percent and including pretty much every major C&C title ever made. Command and Conquer, the Red Alert series, Generals, and Tiberium Wars are all bundled together. Just pretend that Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight isn’t there and all is good.

A lot of people are waiting for news on Dragon Age 4. While Anthem is due out in a couple of months, it’s a multiplayer shared world game, which is unlike the story and character oriented RPGs that BioWare is traditionally known for. It makes sense that Dragon Age players, who have been waiting for a new entry since Dragon Age Inquisition came out in 2014, are antsy for news on a new entry in the franchise.

Well, it could be coming next month. In a blog update about BioWare’s affairs posted by Casey Hudson, a new update for the Dragon Age franchise was teased to be coming in December. “If you’ve been following these blogs, or myself and Mark Darrah on Twitter, you know we’re also working on some secret Dragon Age stuff,” Hudson wrote. “Dragon Age is an incredibly important franchise in our studio, and we’re excited to continue its legacy.  Look for more on this in the coming month (though I won’t tell you where to look…)”

This could be referring either to a Dragon Age 4 announcement, or, given that the wording specifies “continuing Dragon Age’s legacy”, could also well mean a remaster of Origins (which I honestly would prefer over a new game at this point).

Whatever it is, I would assume that an announcement for this could be made at The Game Awards, given that we know more than ten new game announcements are scheduled for the event (and Mass Effect 3 itself was originally announced at the VGAs, so it wouldn’t be totally out of the question for BioWare). Let’s hope that it is great, whatever it does end up being.

As we are well aware each new game has introduced us to a different protagonist and new characters and each of them have been woven with their fantastic backstory,  and with Dragon Age Inquisition on the horizon, there is no telling what kind of a roller coaster adventure we are in for. With that being said, here are some of the most awesome trivia facts in the Dragon Age franchise that you probably missed.

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Note: List is in random order

In Dragon Age Origins there were different crashes captured and fixed in the year of development.

With the delay of Dragon Age Inquisition, many of you may be complaining about why the game is delayed and how it should arrive earlier. Let me tell you that finding bugs in a game is a lot easier that you think, because within the initial month of finishing developing the game, the Q and A tester will find a lot of bugs that make the crashes occur, or make the characters go wonky and what not. For example in Dragon Age Origins there were 4,212 different crashes that occurred within the year of development. So maybe it’s a good thing that games get delayed, so that we wouldn’t have to hate the developers and the company that made the game.

So… yeah. The Fade. Apparently, in an attempt to make Dragon Age Inquisition as much like Dragon Age Origins as possible (owing to the overwhelmingly negative response to Dragon Age II), Bioware is turning to what made Origins good, and what made it bad. Unfortunately, the latter also involves the return of The Fade, only greener this time.

Seriously. This is happening. Why.

After months of teasing and hyping the game, GameInformer and Bioware have collectively taken the wraps off the much anticipated Dragon Age: Inquisition. Get ready.

What were you expecting? Did you want a return to form? Did you want it to be like Origins? Well, tough luck; looks like Bioware wasn’t kidding when it said it was looking at Skyrim closely, because that is exactly what Inquisition looks to be. It looks like an Elder Scrolls game, down to the UI (seriously, just look at that in game footage near the end of the first video; I’ll wait).

If I wanted to play Skyrim, I would play Skyrim. I wanted to play Dragon Age. That lovely, tactical party based game I fell in love with back in 2009. Instead, I get what looks to be a mish mash of Dragon Age II (urgh) and Skyrim; at least races are returning this time around.

Dragon Age: Inquisition hits Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC next year. Let’s see if we’re jumping the gun on this one too early, but Bioware’s recent efforts have resulted in them losing a lot of goodwill and a chance for the benefit of the doubt.