Dragon Age Inquisition Game of the Year Edition Remastered?

I would say Yes because EA still makes Remasters like Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered.
And who said that this  hypothetical Remaster would be full price?

According to the rumours EA isn´t making Kotor 1 remake but Aspyr is.

I’ve actually been thinking of making this the subject of a video.

I’m not sure DAI needs much in the way of a remaster, so it probably isn’t worth it. Some minor tweaks and optimization bundled with other remasters, maybe.

From a technical standpoint, however, DAO and DA2 represent a much larger challenge for a remaster than the Mass Effect trilogy did.

DAO and DA2 were built on proprietary engines, internal to BioWare, that according to some sources were already in dire need of an update when those games were originally released. They couldn’t use the trick of importing to a new version of the engine like they did for the Mass Effect Legendary Edition. And so they would probably have a few options:

1. Drastically update and overhaul the old engines (that have likely remained untouched since DA2 was released and many current devs aren’t familiar with) to modern standards and create a pipeline for importing the old code.
2. Effectively rebuild each game in a new engine.
3. Offer only updated textures and some other more minor visual updates.

Both of the first two would call for massive resources in time and personnel. They might consider it if the Legendary Edition is a big hit, but it will be considerably more work. The last scarcely seems worth it.

No thanks.

I don't think it has been long enough since its release to justify an update for Inquisition. Anything I can think of is pretty much patch material and not really an upgrade. With the Mass Effect Legendary Edition my feeling is that its an update of Mass Effect 1 and they are tossing in patches for ME2 & M3 so they can charge more.

The one Dragon Age game I think could use the most attention is Origins, but I my opinion of the underlying code of the game from the reports over the years sounds like its a house of cards ready to fall over due to it originally being designed for Windows Vista and all the problems I have trying to get it to run today. So my guess is that it might go into remake territory and then I would be concerned about modernization and the changes that would bring.

I suspect some of the content in DAO would need to be “updated” to fit with contemporary values.



But if a remaster/remake/whatever is made, doesn’t that become the definitive version of that product and supplant the old canon?

In some ways, it’s maybe a good thing that BioWare can’t remake the old games easily, since that also kind of shackles them from completely up-ending the lore and, like, turning the darkspawn into butterflies or something.

The topic of a remaster\remake of the DA games has always been tricky for me, unlike the one for the ME trilogy. Remastering the ME trilogy always seemed like a no-brainer, lots of people throughout the years have said how they'd love to play the trilogy with a new polish, bugfixes and QoL updates (especially for ME1), and a remaster almost 10 years after the end of the trilogy makes sense.

But with DA games, things are bit trickier. First of all, the engines: the ME trilogy works on the same engine for all three games, but DA made the switch to Frostbite with Inquisition (and DA2 had made some changes to DAO's original engine too if I remember correctly), so a remaster of the games would require BW to work on two different engines at the same time.

Second, even though Frostbite seems a "hard-to-tame beast", when it works it really looks pretty... which is why DA Inquisition hasn't really aged that much compared to the other two games. Sure, some outfits seem low-res by now when you look at them in cutscenes, some specific object textures are not high-res enough, but generally the game aged well enough.

Porting the previous two games to Frostbite would require an amount of work closer to a remake than a remaster... and to be honest, I'd prefer if DAO\DA2 received a remake in Frostbite rather than a remaster. I'm picturing the Battle of Ostagar, or the Qunari uprising in Kirkwall made in Frostbite, and they're glorious... but they're just dreams, of course.