Dragon Age TV Series Is A "Terrible Idea," Says Game Series Creator

When people who love, know, and respect the source material create something new, it turns out to be pretty good.

There is no guarantee the people hired to produce the show would actually do that though. It could go like the witcher and halo shows.

I think it's interesting that he believes that, personally.

Dragon Age has 3 main things going for it:

• The Darkspawn
• Templars vs Mages
• Whatever the fuck Solas is doing

While the Darkspawn could work for TV (it'd just require a bunch of makeup and we've seen shows like The Walking Dead pull-off the whole zombie thing), it's pretty hard to do anything low-scale with them, since they're either small bands attacking small villages or a large invasion force during a Blight. Game of Thrones and Lord of the Ring pulled-off large-scale battles, but they also had rather large budgets by that point.

The Solas arc doesn't really work for TV because of the budget it would require for all the insanely high-level and trippy magic stuff that would be needed. And also because anyone who isn't already of fan of Dragon Age would be confused as fuck about what Solas is doing.

I could see a series about a smaller part of the Templars vs Mages working, personally. Unlike Solas and the ancient Elves, most "regular" magic is pretty low-level and tame. Blood Magic shouldn't be as expensive as some of the ancient Elves' magic worlds and Demons would probably need to be adapted to look differently than they do in-game, but it's got potential. Not sure if I trust most network to handle the writing of it, though.

Also, they made Dragon Age: Absolution, which was pretty damn bad and felt like someone tried to smash 3-4 seasons-worth of plot into 6 episodes. The characters were walking tropes, the villain went from one of the most brilliant minds of the Tevinter Imperium to an obsessive weirdo, and it had some of the most forced romance and comedy bits I've seen in a while. In my opinion, the show also does an awful job with their portrayal of Tevinter, essentially contradicting a lot of established lore from the game for no apparent reason.

Not sure how many people in the community actually remember, but back in the day they made Dragon Age: Warden's Fall with Machinima to setup the events of Awakening (haven't watched it in forever, but I remember liking it). It's dark and gritty like Origins and Awakening were, and less "witty" like Inquisition's writing.

IDK, I think a Morrowind show would be very hard to do well because:

• they'd have to pick a build and alienate a bunch of fans
• the main story line is decent, but the point (to me) was the journey, and that's hard to capture on screen
• the fantastical creatures and weird setting would probably be too expensive

It would probably be easier to put Skyrim on a screen instead, that world screams Nord paladin build imo.