EA and Bioware reveal Dragon Age III will be created by using the "best parts" of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II instead of being a purely new game.
Bioware is using fan feedback for the current project along with stuff that upset fans with the previous games as the main priority in developing the new game.
Bioware also stated gameplay features and stuff that were disliked by fans of the games would be scrapped from Dragon Age III with the focus making the game being the best in the series. The exact features being scrapped or meshed together was not revealed during the interview though.
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Dr. Ray made an attempt to assuage the fears of any players who may have been alienated by Dragon Age 2 by explaining that BioWare's current plan is to combine the best pieces of both previous titles into one drastically improved sequel.
“What we need to do as developers is take that feedback from both sets of fans to heart and see about marrying that in future games in the Dragon Age franchise. I think that the team has actually got a great plan. I think the team is going to have some things that are going to surprise both sets of fans, both core fans and new fans with a marriage of these… the best from both games, Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2. And we look forward more to talking about that in the future.”
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The studio also felt a lot of the negatives fans had with Dragon Age II and Origins were the result of over-hyped expectations than parts of the game actually being bad but they will still make the changes needed.
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