There’s always going to be a degree of controversy around a new Dragon Age game, it seems, but Dragon Age: Veilguard earned perhaps more than its fair share, owing largely to how it felt like a total reboot rather than the fourth entry in the series. And according to a new video from former series executive producer Mark Darrah, that’s mostly because that’s exactly what happened.
Darrah explains in his video how the game came out of the cancellation of the original Dragon Age 4 project in favor of a live-service title after the team had been moved to finish up work getting Anthem to launch.
Obviously, that is not how the story wound up going; we don’t need to recap how Anthem was received or its overall lack of traction once again. Suffice it to say that it didn’t turn out well. Darrah also shares a lot of details about how the project morphed and how BioWare’s identity changed over the course of 2017, so if you’re wondering how the development team got here, it’s well worth watching in its totality.
