Worth remembering that most of that list predates EA. Baldur’s Gate, KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire and the first Mass Effect were all made before EA bought BioWare in the 2007 deal that also brought in Pandemic, which EA shut down about two years later. The EA years are mostly the later Dragon Age and Mass Effect games, Anthem and Veilguard.
Dragon Age’s inception was long before EA too. I remember them talking about it in the Neverwinter Nights community forums.
Back then very little was known beyond the title, the fact it would be an original IP and that the “Dragon Age” title would be about a literal calendar “age of the Dragon” rather than indicating the presence of actual dragons.
Hard to say how much of it was conceived then, but they were probably already writing stuff.
Worth remembering that most of that list predates EA. Baldur’s Gate, KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire and the first Mass Effect were all made before EA bought BioWare in the 2007 deal that also brought in Pandemic, which EA shut down about two years later. The EA years are mostly the later Dragon Age and Mass Effect games, Anthem and Veilguard.
Dragon Age’s inception was long before EA too. I remember them talking about it in the Neverwinter Nights community forums.
Back then very little was known beyond the title, the fact it would be an original IP and that the “Dragon Age” title would be about a literal calendar “age of the Dragon” rather than indicating the presence of actual dragons.
Hard to say how much of it was conceived then, but they were probably already writing stuff.
They weren’t saying “Dragon Age” was an EA‐years product. The later games in the Dragon Age franchise were.