Last year, we reported that Bioware had specific opinions about Skyrim. They went on the record and stated that they admired the scope of Skyrim, and also acknowledged that both Skyrim and Dragon Age are lore-heavy games where your actions mattered.
Now, in a Game Informer interview with Biowareâs Aaryn Flynn, Bioware doesnât tiptoe as much when it comes to discussing what similarities we might see between both dragon-centric games.
âYou canât look at a game like Skyrim and not think about how impressive what theyâve accomplished isâor [think] thatâs an interesting new direction or that there was something that didnât work well for them that we could take in a new direction. So, weâre always influenced by these games, especially in a relatively tight-knight genre like RPGs,â Flynn stated.
Perhaps more interesting is the idea that Flynn poses next: that the RPG genre should emphasize more exploration, like older games such as Baldurâs Gate and Neverwinter Nights do. Flynn even recognizes that Biowareâs major franchises, Mass Effect and Dragon Age, have shied away from these rootsâbut that Bioware wants to return to them.
Idle musing: if Skyrim is an influence on Dragon Age, and Bioware wants to emphasize exploration⊠could we expect an open-world Dragon Age? I mean, look at that Dragon Age III artwork. Thatâs kind of open-wordly lookin, eh?
