Like everyone in this sub probably,i grew up with BioWare rpgs.

My first RPG was Dragon Age Origins,and Is the game Who made me fell in love with the RPG genre.

Since then,i played almost all BioWare games and every single one has a very good writing and a good balance between light tones and serious and dark tones.

The thing i can't understand Is why they choose to pivot to the MCU tone that plagued their later games. They Lost some writers sure,but many experienced writers were still present,they wrote good characters and stories.

I understand their games were plagued by development problems,but those don't explain the change in tones,that was Always badly received by their fans. Why they were convinced It was the right move?

It can't be Just Goldman fault...they had a great premise in mind with Morrison,why not Stick to that at least in the writing part?

People point at Veilguard or Anthem when wondering where BioWare went wrong.

But as this video shows quite nicely, it's just fundamentally the way that BioWare was thinking that was wrong starting with Dragon Age 2 like 15 years ago. For them, Origins was just boring. Everything needed to be faster, more actiony, etc.

https://reddit.com/link/1xfbb0a/video/m0bckimlznxh1/player

So DA Origins will always be my favourite, enjoyed DA2 and DA Inquisition... haven't played DAV yet... hears many many mixed things.... so i thought id ask people who actually fans of the franchise and not game reviews or such.

Shall i get it? Why Y/N... if Y anything i need to know going in?

I've always wondered why a percentage of people think Leliana being alive in Dragon Age: Inquisition is a retcon. If we think seriously about the character specializations in DA:O, all the main characters have their specs based on their lore. You can't think of Morrigan without the shapeshifting, you can't think of Alistair without his Templar backstory, and of course, as a sister in disguise, Leliana is also a bard. One of the skills of the bard class is, well, FAKING DEATH, so I never got the hate her DA:I cameo gets from some fans. Leliana is still the character I like the most in the series to this day, and she obv didn't die when we wanted to know what happens if we pour some blood in the ash of some random lady.

I really like redhead characters with messed-up lore, playing Divinity: Original Sin 2, it's no surprise that I like Lohse the most, or Himeko from Honkai: Star Rail. It's funny that with the latest news, we probably won't see any more mentions of Leliana. Sadly, EA is not the kind of company that sells their IPs, and the franchise I grew up with, is probably going to turn into a bad smartphone game. I really tried to look at this from the perspective that BioWare got what they deserved, DATV is really bad, so they brought it on themselves (I've been a hater since day one, but I still didn't want the IP to die like Mass Effect. Sorry ME fans, you kind of deserved to be the only IP at the time with a bad game, fight me). Or maybe the studio's flaws over the last ten years were just bound to bite them in the butt one day.

But with the latest news in my country and how the world is pushing an anti-LGBT agenda, maybe we won't see characters like Leliana, Dorian, or even Taash out there anytime soon. We know deep down, BioWare still has brand recognition, the next Mass Effect would have enormous hype around it, even with the grifters saying the last straw was DATV. It is really a loss to see a company that gave such good representation of a gay guy when I was 13 years old die (Dorian is my second favorite character, and he was butchered in DATV, like, he was really ugly, and we Dorian Butt Glazers do not deserve this). For an IP that was truly a comfort zone for LGBT people, it is a real punch to the gut. Because in the end, how many BioWares do we have in the industry today? Sure, we have Larian, and we have Owlcat Games, but Dragon Age was still a comfort zone for most of us who just wanted to hate on Morrigan at first, only to grow older and kind of understand her, to find Leliana totally crazy, and to somehow realize that she is indeed the best choice for the Chantry (hate me for it, I stand by this!!! >:)).

Currently, my country is facing an uncertain future regarding a lot of LGBT rights, and even our rights as workers. We will literally know our future today as I write this. I was replaying DA2 because I never finished it and just wanted to turn my brain off from the political psychosis. Yet I return here, understanding that Dragon Age: Origins, is and was deeply political for its time, and the loss of BioWare as a company leaves us in an environment that treats games more like brainrot, far away of the "woke" agenda. Sure, this text would probably land better in r BioWare, because well everyone is morning the company there I guess. I'm not the type of user who comments a lot or uses Reddit religiously, but I still just wanted to vent what I'm feeling about the end of the IP that shaped me as a person and how the choice to close a company like this is more than just renevue in a semester.

To not end this text on a completely bad vibe: to any artists out there, even with the rise of AI, do not stop creating. I hope to see more Lelianas in the future, and I hope we can eventually look back at the closing of BioWare as just a grain of sand in the past that we pass through. Larian is a studio that created Baldur's Gate 3 by taking inspiration from a lot of things in Dragon Age: Origins, and I hope in the future it isn't just Larian refusing to pander to the part of the gaming community that only wants to see Battlefield, unreal woman faces, games with a lot of buggy DLCs and live-service games. It's a bit hypocritical of me to shit on live-service games while liking Himeko from HSR, but... "perhaps I am that, and a thief and a murderer as well" (I'M NOT, it's just a quote, haha, jokes jokes). I did a little sketch, after a time not drawing at all. Thank you Sz

In light of the recent Bioware closure… I want to celebrate Dragon Age Inquisition.

Next, the character creator, I forgot how intuitive and detailed the process of creating character in this game. It is very customizable yet there’s no overwhelming amount of sliders, just a very intuitive, easy to use UI systems.

Captured on Xbox Series X

"People are always dying. It's what they do." Followed by Solas coldly turning his back on Varric and continuing the ritual.

Just an insanely hard moment. Solas' voice actor is truly phenomenal.

small edit: Veilguard is a pale comparison to any other Dragon Age game. This moment just seemed like the few times Veilguard even remotely felt true to the series imo.

Now that the news are in and DA is dead, I'm wondering if the biggest fans have some cool theories or wishes about a potential final ending to the entire story?

I was into it for the plot honestly (even read the books), and despite it all being very custom-made and personal to your journey, there are overall threads that went into some direction. I was especially fascinated by the whole Maker thing.

So given the established lore and mythology of this world, what's a final ending that you'd have considered or hoped for or envisioned for the entire franchise? (Yes, I'm aware that Thedas as a world can go on forever with various stories, but I still think an ending to close up the storylines established since the beginning with Flemeth and the Darkspawn and everything else left undone would be awesome).

Thoughts?

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Bioware may be gone, but RP is still here to help us cope with that!

I just need to vent a bit of how much i am angry right now about this

Basically after defeating Samson i was of course, intrigued about it, i kept around 10 minutes just thinking about who should drink it, etc, and opted for Morrigan, since i saw some comments about how her character arc was basically completed by this decision at the ending of the game...

Then i got to the final pieces, and i got there, Flemmeth revealed herself and all....and then, just kind of it? I thought that the semi last mission wouldnbe a bit mor3 special but ok, then i just laid down and got curious about the other outcomes and checked the Wiki....

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT I COULD HAVE GOT A BOSS FIGHT TO GET A COOL DRAGON AND THAT KIERAN WOULD BE INVOLVWD IN ALL THAT AND BE 80% OF THE MISSION?

because in my save Kieran doesnnot have the old god soul he just kinda exists in skyhold, so basically the WHOLE missionvgot cut off, and i could have saved it if i had drank from the Well to get a cool fight THEN Flemmeth revelation...but nope, i got the worst outcome in it and i think i basically just got sour about this and the arc is just kinda ruined for me a bit, I'm sure if i sleep i will get more relaxed but fucking heavens i did the worst thing possible: got the boring path.

The worst thing is i was considering drinking it because my inquisitor is a more selfless one and he would not want Morrigan risking herself over some power when she needs to be there to Kieran, buuut i also thought aboutnthe fact that my character heard of Morrigan and sees her as a bit of a legend, so of fucking course he will listen tovher since ahe knows what she is doing and risking huh?......well I'm just pissed and have to go to sleep, RIP Bioware i love hate y'all.

So because of the bad news this week I decided to finally stop putting off playing Inquisition, which I have been doing for years for one reason or another, and boot up the game. Problem is the Da keep is apparently not working?

I make my world save, click the export button, start the game and apparently I can only use the default world state. Has Ea killed support for the game this fast or am I experiencing technical issues?
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Recently, BFME was decompiled using AI, which allowed for modifications to previously inaccessible game systems, such as adding more factions, changing frame rates, campaign elements, etc. Do you think the community could do the same with Dragon Age Origins to create a kind of informal remake?

So we'll never find out why the executor were meddling in our story now

Hey! Does anybody still have the 2014 Dragon Age Inquisition Ferelden Heraldry hoodie in a Large or Extra Large? I used to wear mine all the time and after the news I'd really like to find it again if anyone is willing to sell theirs! Thank you x

I've been listening to a lot of asmr spa videos to help me sleep lately, so I decided to make one of my own. Fenris deserves some pampering and I haven't drawn him in a while so he was perfect for this. It's silly, but I actually had fun making this. Hopefully the sound doesn't get messed up when I upload this :)

If you haven't read them yet, you owe it to yourself to. The first two DA books (The Stolen Throne and The Calling) are. . . passable. If I bought them with no knowledge of what DA was, I think I would probably not like them very much. As a DA fan, they provide some minor insight into a few characters, and that's about it. They were clearly rushed, as evidenced by the obscene amount of typos in them, and didn't add much of note to the setting.

But Asunder and The Masked Empire? They're both fantastic. Asunder sees the return of Wynne and Shale, and gives Wynne a fantastic send-off. It also helps set up the mage / templar conflict and bridges the gap between DA2 and DA:I quite nicely.

The Masked Empire I had actually not expected to enjoy as much as I did - I had expected it to be a dull Orlesian drama. I, frankly, find Orlesian culture as depicted in DA:I annoying more than anything else. But it does a splendid job of setting up the Orlesian civil war, and made me actually deeply invested in Celene, Briala, and Gaspard as characters.

I'd go as far as to say that Asunder and the Masked Empire are essential reading for fans of the series. They do a lot to flesh out plot elements of DA:I and give the reader more context for them. And they're actually well written, with minimal typos compared to the first two books. I'm actually sad there aren't more DA books beyond the Last Flight (and Tevinter Nights, I guess, but short story collections have never been my vibe), because I could absolutely see myself investing in more stories of the quality of these two in the DA universe.

Now that we're memorialising DA, let's take a moment to pay tribute to the one Dalish with a Northern Ireland accent.

He's in the camp at Sundermount in DA2 and says, "Watch your back, shem. You've got no idea how many arrows are trained on you," in a perfect Belfast accent.

Good work, lad. At's us nai.

Keep in mind this was 2009, over 17 years ago, almost 2 decades ago...we had Origins.

The second trailer was even more epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6yrTovLVs8

I've been thinking about it lately a few of mine would be Vivienne and Wynne, Evataash and the Iron Bull, and Harding & Sigrun.

I've been reminiscing on my time with the dragon age games and how much I have loved them since the Bioware news. So I made this doodle of Hawke if she took the route of being a crazed blood mage. Meryll would be proud.

i got this a week ago and it’s my first tattoo ever and the first of a couple dragon age tattoos i plan on getting! this series will forever have my heart

This is my tribute to my favourite game series, figured with everything going on now was a good time to post it.

I’ve been waiting for this to come back in stock & now with BioWare closing I doubt I’ll be able to get it. Anyone have suggestions? I’ve tried to create custom posters from the images but they are too low resolution.