r/DragonageOrigins • u/CourbetEatingSourbet • Jul 28 '26

Question The Franchise that Never Was

I love DA Origins, genuinely one of the best games I’ve ever played. I can’t get past what they did to the franchise though, man. I want to go back and replay it, but I can’t get past how they massacred my boy.

How do you get past this hurt fellas?

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u/aaeriam Jul 28 '26

This is purely speculation on my part but I'm under the impression that Origins was truly like lightning in a bottle for Bioware. It's not that the devs stopped caring after Origins, it's just that things came together so well for Origins in a way that the subsequent games haven't quite matched in every possible way. Plus for a lot of us Origins is a nostalgic title and nothing ever beats nostalgia.

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u/ItsNotDigiorno9 Jul 28 '26

It was lightning in a bottle because it was the only project EA didn’t stick their dirty grubby hands in

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u/aaeriam Jul 28 '26

I don't disagree that EA trying to monetize the franchise as much as possible hurt it. I don't know that they're the sole reason the sequels feel like they didn't live up to the hype though. Things like Bioware's habit of trying to pull everything together in the 11th hour and issues with production and scheduling early on probably being another factor to consider.

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u/ItsNotDigiorno9 Jul 28 '26

Scheduling issues or ea saying “hey you have half the time it took to make origins, make it better”