It’s fair to ask, because the first three Mass Effect episodes were remastered in a great remaster, and Dragon Age is alive and well and has old episodes.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard was released on Friday for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC, and we’re already hearing that it won’t be getting any DLC because BioWare is working on a new Mass Effect. However, the new episode may have attracted a new audience, and they may be interested in the previous three episodes. Therefore, they might be interested in a remaster pack like the Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

John Epler, the creative director of Dragon Age, said in an interview with Rolling Stone that while he would like to see a remastered collection of the franchise, there’s not much chance of that happening because of the technology. Although Dragon Age: Origins is newer than Mass Effect (it was released in 2009; we were expecting Mass Effect 2 then!), it ran on the studio’s own engine, Eclipse, as did Dragon Age 2. Dragon Age: Inquisition, the third installment, was created using Frostbite.

Epler says there are maybe 20 people left at BioWare who know the Eclipse engine, and he’s one of them. So it will never be as easy as Mass Effect (the trilogy ran on Unreal Engine 3), but he says the team loves the original games. He added that hope is the last thing to die. So it’s more of a technical hurdle than a willpower one. Electronic Arts would also probably not say no if they saw that Dragon Age: The Veilguard could exceed expected sales.

So even if there is something new for the first two Dragon Age games, they’ll do it by making them remakes, not remasters… and then it would be a bigger concept.

Source: PCGamer, Rolling Stone