Like a lot of mid-2000s RPGs, Dragon Age: Origins doesn't exactly measure up to modern standards, in a lot of ways. There’s the generally dated gameplay which, while rather forward-thinking at the time, is nearly painful to play today, but also the game’s shoddy state on current PCs. Playing this classic title on contemporary hardware can be an exercise in frustration, as inconsistent performance, crashes, bugs, and other miscellaneous quirks characterize the experience.

This isn't something that rights-holder EA seems very interested in remedying, either. Unlike Dragon Age's sci-fi counterpart Mass Effect, there has been no current-gen return to Dragon Age: Origins, nor its successors. In 2021, BioWare launched the excellent Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which compiled the first three games and their expansions into a polished, tweaked, modernized, but ultimately faithful, package. For many die-hard fans, myself included, the Legendary Edition is basically the definitive version of Mass Effect and would be a perfect all-around product had it actually included Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode, but I digress. One would imagine that Dragon Age would get its very own "Legendary Edition," in the wake of the aforementioned's success, but it's looking like that won't be the case. At least, not officially.

A BioWare veteran who spent 24 years with the company reveals EA's main problem with 'super nerdy' Dragon Age that kept hindering the series.

Despite remakes and remasters being all the rage these days, hopes aren’t high for a return to Dragon Age a la Mass Effect Legendary Edition .

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