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[Majestic Jazz]

As the title ask.....

[Heimdall]

I've never thought of it that way.  Dragon Age is just...  Dragon Age. *shrug* 

[Rawgrim]

Nope. But its a damn good series on it own merrits.

[The Elder King]

Nope. Though I honestly think that line was just marketing speech.

[Aolbain]

As far as I know it hasn't been used in marketing for almost 5 years (Christ I'm getting old).

[Kantr]

Never played Balders Gate so I wouldnt know.

 

Perhaps Divinity: Original sin is the successor.

[Burricho]

Was it ever?

[Wulfram]

Well, DA:O was a successor.  DA:I is a successor to that.  But naturally the connection gets lesser as the lineage grows longer.

[cronshaw]

Does it matter?

Those games came out over 15 years ago and the Dragon Age series is on it's 3rd game + tons of ancillary products

Whether or not it is a spiritual successor seems kinda moot at this point

though I'll grant it was important when DA:O came out

[Andraste_Reborn]

Well, I think it's a spiritual sucessor in that it's a story-driven fantasy CRPG made by BioWare, in which many elements - the companions and their banter, for example - have carried over. You can definitely trace a line from BG all the way through to DA2 and beyond, and I think the lineage is inevitably stronger in Dragon Age than it is in something like SWTOR or Mass Effect.

 

However, there are obviously many ways in which Dragon Age is different. Some of which are improvements, in my opinion.

[azrael_1289]

No. Dragon Age is it's own series, a pretty good one. But BG was from another era where RPGs meant something different.

[simpatikool]

I remember that when DAO came out, it was touted as Bioware successor to Baldurs gate. That does not mean the same, it is just what they are doing now. Baldur's Gate was not original IP. We know it was DnD IP. Bioware has more control of the story they want to tell with DA.

[Elhanan]

Have not played the BG series yet, so No; not for me.

[Vilegrim]

DA:O...kinda, DA2 hell no, and I do not think DA:I is even going for that.

[drake heath]

The spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate; and all other Infinity Engine games, is Pillars of Eternity.

 

Dragon Age is just Dragon Age.

[Schreckstoff]

Well I certainly would like a Forgotten Realms game by Bioware. Neverwinter has turned into quite the interesting place recently.

[MisterShine]

Only in my dreams. I have to look elsewhere for my crpg goodness.

Though I suppose after a masterpiece like BG2, they felt they needed new worlds to conquer.

[Eudaemonium]

It's a fantasy-setting party-based CRPG, and in that represents a pretty good spiritual successor. I mean, yeah, you could argue that things like Pillars of Eternity are truer successors in a sense, but PoE didn't conceptually exist when DA:O came out. When DA:O came out there weren't really any party-based CRPGs in existence, even from Bioware themselves (this was the main reason I stopped playing Bioware games after KotOR.

[AlanC9]

How come so many BG fans can't spell "Baldur's"? This has been driving me nuts for years. If you've played the game you've seen it spelled correctly every time you start the game up

[Personality Disorder]

How come so many BG fans can't spell "Baldur's"? This has been driving me nuts for years.

 

It is the ultimate question of this forum, I suppose. These kind of threads keep popping up from time to time, and people who claim to be diehard fans of the title keep misspelling it. The only other word I can think of that gets that sort of constant abuse is "definitely", but "definitely" has no fans. 

[bEVEsthda]

Of course Dragon Age is a different franchise. But it was originally thought up as, invented and created as "The spiritual Successor to BG". You have to understand that "Spiritual Successor" leaves a good deal of freedom.

IMO, DA:O deserved the epithet for a long time, during development. And I think the PC version of DA:O also deserved it.

 

DA2 is no chance in hot underword anything like "Spiritual Successor to BG". No way. So no, DA2 is something somewhat different. But some people who have a different gaming background don't seem to notice the difference. What can I say? Happy them.

 

And I would say that DA:I is shaping up to look more like a successor to DA2 than DA:O. I can't see anything of DA:O in DA:I.

Otoh, I think I can see bits of BG in DA:I. So I'll come back to if DA:I is a spiritual successor to BG, after the game is released and I've played it. It might be.

 

Regardless, I think DA:I is going to be a good game. It might not be the exact game some people wanted, but it's going to be good. I'm pretty convinced about that. Try to be satisfied with that.

Basically, even though it's the third game set in the Dragon Age universe, I think we're on a whole new track. Maybe we'll talk about "The Spiritual Successor to DA:I" sometime in the future.

[Bayonet Hipshot]

No. Pillars of Eternity is a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, not Dragon Age. 

[In Exile]

DA:O was KOTOR but with swords and sorcery in story structure, presentation and (substantially) gameplay principles. I honestly don't know what people see in DA:O that makes it anything like BG. The phrase was meaningless marketing nonsense, like how ME was supposed to be the spiritual successor to KoTOR 

[Rawgrim]

Well I certainly would like a Forgotten Realms game by Bioware. Neverwinter has turned into quite the interesting place recently.

 

Well. D&D lost tons of comstumers and fans after they did that stuff to Neverwinter and The Forgotten Realms. 4th edition flopped and people jumped ship over to Pathfinder. Its Dungeons and Warcraft now.