{"id":90120,"date":"2026-09-24T13:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90120"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:42:20","slug":"its-not-great-content-ex-dragon-age-exec-says-hed-now-change-or-ditch-several-key-moments-from-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90120","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s Not Great Content’: Ex-Dragon Age Exec Says He’d Now Change or Ditch Several Key Moments From the Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Dragon Age<\/a> exec Mark Darrah has revealed what he’d change about BioWare’s beloved fantasy series, after spending more than 20 years at the studio.<\/p>\n

Darrah was a director or executive producer on all of the Dragon Age series, though departed the company back in 2021, years before the final version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched. He returned as a consultant on the game in 2023, in time for its final stretch of development.<\/p>\n

Now, looking back on the franchise’s four main games via a Q&A posted on TikTok<\/a>, Darrah has reflected on what he would recommend ditching or adding to each title in an ideal world, if he were making the games all over again. <\/p>\n

“I would be tempted to cut or dramatically reduce the dream sequence content in the Mage Tower,” Darrah began, discussing Dragon Age: Origins’ rather lengthy sojourn into the Fade that he admitted felt like “filler.” Continuing, he added: “It’s not great content, and it was definitely done pretty fast in the end.”<\/p>\n

Conversely, Darrah said he’d like to add in some extra character options, with another human origin, and potentially the Avvar.<\/p>\n

For Dragon Age 2, Darrah said he’d address the game’s ending, where players are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Dragon Age exec Mark Darrah has revealed what he’d change about BioWare’s beloved fantasy series, after spending more than 20 years at the studio. Darrah was a director or executive producer on all of the Dragon Age series, though departed the company back in 2021, years before the final version of Dragon Age: The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":90122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90124,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90120\/revisions\/90124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}