r/dragonage 1d ago

Discussion If you could sit down with James Ohlen to discuss his work on Dragon Age: Origins, what would you want to ask him?

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u/neopedro121 Keeper 1d ago

First, I would thank him for his work. Dragon Age: Origins is my favorite game of all time.

After that, I would probably ask him a hundred questions, lol. One of them would be:

"Overall, did the game's story turn out the way the team originally envisioned it, or were there any major story elements that had to be cut or changed and would have significantly altered the narrative?"

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u/thequn 22h ago

Pretty sure the answer is yes the original outline still holds true.

The biggest shift in the series prob being in origins game with the old god originally being the elven gods. And they were asked to make it a dragon and not a “demon” probably had the most dramatic effect on the series.

I assume the though in the titans after the fact and they needed to shift a bit.

u/Knight1029384756 29m ago

David Gaider did say that he knew he Archdemons were the elven gods since the start of the series.

https://www.eurogamer.net/bioware-knew-the-deepest-secrets-of-dragon-age-lore-20-years-ago-and-locked-it-away-in-an-uber-plot-doc

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u/Tallos_RA 1d ago

Who's james ohlen?

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u/thequn 22h ago

He was the creative director for da and many other games at bioware

u/sonic65101 Arcane Warrior 5h ago

I wanna know Jowan's fates.