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Dragon Age 2 was originally planned to be "much bigger" before EA made other demands, former series lead says, even though BioWare "did not know how to make a small game"

https://piefed.world/c/crpg/p/937651/dragon-age-2-was-originally-planned-to-be-much-bigger-before-ea-made-other-demands-forme

Dragon Age 2 was originally planned to be "much bigger" before EA made other demands, former series lead says, even though BioWare "did not know how to make a small game"

Quests were cut out wholesale

PC Gamer 1d ago

"We had all these sticky pads that were breaking up all the quests ... I had to take out half of them." #pcgamer #pcgaming #dragonage

Ja'aran 1d ago

I'll see Dragon Age opinions sometimes and it's like, I dunno, call it a guilty pleasure. An issue I have with the fantasy genre is that a lot of nerds are deeply insecure and terrified of sincerity, and in the process they just end up subjugating elves at every turn.

So, I can appreciate Veilguard because this is the first game where you can help the elves actually fucking do something. I think this is the first game in the series where the elves actually get to aspire to something, not just to reclaim the past, but to build a real future for themselves.

A part of it may be because I'm a Majora's Mask enjoyer and Veilguard does something similar. It's probably the bleakest game in the series, but I feel it employs that bleak tone to create something beautiful.

There's this theme of new beginnings that encompasses pretty much every character story, having to find new reasons to live and keep going forward.

Finding a new purpose in life, moving beyond grief and loss, accepting you're going to live no matter how much you were prepared to die. A refusal to properly deal with grief can stagnate a culture, just as much as it can stagnate a person.

Now, something that I think would *fuck* would be that the proverbial moon comes crashing down if you don't prepare enough, hell, if you don't 100% the game, you lose. That would be amazing. What if that's the canon ending?

This stands in contrast to something like Baldur's Gate 3 which is just *bad*. It's awful. It stands among Jade Empire and Temple of Elemental Evil as some of the worst RPGs of all time.

#DragonAge

Penance RPG 1d ago

https://penancerpg.com/shows/m/DT62.mp3

Leaving after the wyvern debacle, our Grey Wardens’ cart heading into Navarra is checked by some mercenaries with odd and vague questions…

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The Daily Perspective 2d ago

The 16-Month Crunch: How BioWare Butchered Dragon Age 2's Scope

#DragonAge #BioWare #GameDev #AusNews

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-09-the-16-month-crunch-how-bioware-butchered-dragon-age-2s-scope-0c8e949f

The 16-Month Crunch: How BioWare Butchered Dragon Age 2's Scope

David Gaider reveals BioWare had just 16 months to make Dragon Age 2, forcing him to cut half the quests. The studio didn't know how to make a small game.

The Daily Perspective

Fallon the chronic gremlin 2d ago

It's so funny and also fascinating to me how absolutely plain it is in DAI that your choices for new Pope are between tankie, shitlib, and right-wing authoritarian. They each represent that specific answer to "the mage question":

I'm simplifying, but--

Leliana: We will tear down the walls oppressing mages, elves, dwarves, everyone, and I will assassinate anyone who gets in my way.
Cassandra: Systematically punitive lobotomies for mages are a necessary evil.
Vivienne: I DON'T CARE IF I'M A MAGE, WE ALL GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL!

I almost always pick Leliana. And honestly, it's great writing that if your Inky just doesn't care about who the next Divine is, the right-wing authoritarian who wasn't even in the running wins in a surprise upset. True to life. #DragonAge

River City Random ☑️2d ago

It seems like the main philosophical difference between #jrpg and Western #rpg is that in JRPGs, your team of teenagers with attitudes uses the power of friendship to defeat God, and in Western RPGs, your lone grizzled muscly protagonist uses the power of his or her awesomeness to become God. What do you think?

#jrpg #wrpg #crpg #finalfantasy #dragonquest #persona #talesof #elderscrolls #bg3 #skyrim #fallout #masseffect #dragonage #fable