If DAO were to be remade using Frostbite, what changes would you like to see in the game?

I'd basically just want it to be origins but with updated graphics/animations/models etc.

I'd want them to keep the tactics combat, spells schools, weapon switching and the ability to give any character any weapon if they have the stats to wield it etc.

Improving origins systems like adding more programable tactics options, combat balance (archery etc), improving ai etc would be fine but I would not want to play dao with dai's combat.

As for changing things, using their later designs for some things would be good

- like, aside from Sten, having the qunari/tal vashoth have horns, or broken horns.

- Using their newer armour designs, armour looked alot better in da2 and dai then it did on dao - where it was a bit unfortunate.
eg in my current dao playthrough I'm using a mod that replaces the light armours with their DAI ferelden, carta and dalish counterparts making for a better looking and less "oh please sir! Stab me in my unprotected chest/belly" effect, not to mention giving most of the armours pants. I'm also using a mod that changes female heavy/medium armours to look much like the male ones, saving me from the dread boobplate. These mods make a big visual and immersive improvement for me, and I imagine Bioware could do a much better job if they ever remade it.

- adding a storage chest to party camp would be great, so i don't have to carry armour I can't use yet or gifts i don't have the matching companion for yet around with me. Wardens keep has one but you have to travel to it.

I would assume they'd be reusing the old audio rather then re-recording the whole game so i wouldn't expect any large story changes ( nor would the already existing sequels be able to reflect such changes anyway).
- But it would be nice if they could recorded one line of dialogue for if you choose to go to the circle to save Conner to reflect what happened while you were gone. Eg. Add some injured knight/villagers and a nurse upon your return, click on her and she says 'the demon attacked again in the night' or something.

-Maybe add a cinematic to lelianna's death scene at the urn of sacred ashes to make it seem less weird when she comes back. (Maybe when you reduce her to zero she falls out of sight, or have a cut scene of her body starting to glow after you leave, maybe just a mention of her being seen in the epilogue? i dunno, just something to neaten that up)

- Speaking of epilogues they could probably adjust some, cut ones that they've decided aren't canon etc.

- If they were to add any side quest content then they could have a bit more of the civil war stuff that you mostly hear about from rumours.

Restore Human Commoner and Avar origins to the game.
Add Jowan as a companion.

Eh, you know what, I'll just leave this here:


dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Cut_content

I would actually prefer to be unreal engine.

I'd like many minor things to fix, but the most important for me what I can remember now:
- respec companions or just don't put any points to their abilities when you recruit them;
- Duncan survives (tbh don't know where to put him then but I really like this character and would like him as a companion or something + no Alistair's annoying whinings about Duncan)
- recruit Loghain, but also Alistair stays in the party
+ minor fixes (lots to write but no so important as above ones).

The game is great as it is. I'm just replaying it. A better game than anything Bioware put on the market within this last decade. Mature, full of choices that really matter and full of unforgettable moments. The only thing I would change would be a voiced PC, but I'd rather they don't remaker it at all. The mods wouldn't work anymore and given the current corporate fear of getting an age rating, they probably would censor the game beyond recognition. The original was R18.

As Iakus said, restore all the cut content. Jowan, Human Commoner, as much as possible. Don't add anything that wasn't meant to be there.

Adjust mechanics and abilities a bit to make Archery and Shapeshifter competitive with other talent trees.

Remove all the auras and other cosmetic effects from sustained talents, especially the non-magical ones. They're annoying and stupid and distracting in conversation.

Move Riordan's conversation with the HoF and Alistair/Loghain to the Arl of Denerim's estate after the Landsmeet, before he goes "scouting". He has every reason to tell them about how to kill the Archdemon before running off into danger by himself, and leaving thirty minutes or so of gametime between that revelation and Morrigan's offer at Redcliffe would give a first-time player more time to reflect on it before a solution conveniently presents itself.

No voiced PCs under any circumstances.

Perhaps larger battles and confrontations ? Criticisms aside I do like that games on this engine perform rather well on old systems.

More responsive combat but not the over the top cartoonish stuff we see in the sequels. A voiced protagonist (know some people will disagree). Tactical cam for consoles and mods for consoles. Oh and a shorter fade sequence.

If they remade Origins in Frostbyte I wouldn't buy it. No proper tactics screen, limited spells and talents on the action bar, zero mod support and a clunky, resource hog of an engine that takes an age to load, and isn't properly designed for RPGs.

No thanks, I'll stick with the game I have now. I'd be happy to see some kind of purely cosmetic 'enhanced graphics' version using the original Unreal engine, but with high resolution textures, dynamic lighting, and enhanced character models (as long as they were faithful to the original) but absolutely no gameplay changes at all - not even one tiny little change.

I'm more likely to become the first man on Pluto than actually get this, but it's a nice thought.

Is this better lightning? static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/5/15/1400157925449/Lightning-over-the-Dorset-006.jpg
Yeah I seldom do the same mistake trying to write about lighting in the game engines but yes, that would be one thing which would immediately be improved as with the new rendering technologies throwing 1000 lights to lit the area is considered ok. (Note: not lights that move and cast moving shadows)