Eurogamer

While the next game in the Dragon Age series will stay true to the format laid down by its predecessors, it will also draw on outside influences, including Bethesda's Skyrim, according to BioWare boss Ray Muzyka.

Speaking in an interview with Wired, Muzyka explained that the development team has been listening to fans and intends to respond to criticism of Dragon Age 2.

"[The next Dragon Age] is gonna have the best of features from the prior Dragon Age games, but it's also gonna have a lot of things I think players are gonna find compelling from some of the games that are out now that are doing really well with more of an open world feel," he said.

"We're checking [Skyrim] out aggressively," he added. "We like it. We're big admirers of [Bethesda] and the product. We think we can do some wonderful things."

A new Dragon Age game hasn't been officially announced yet but it seems Muzyka is itching to take the wraps off.

"Our goal is to surprise and delight our fans," he explained.

"I've seen something in the last couple of weeks that is really the future of that franchise that is so compelling, I am so looking forward to being able to announce it."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-20-dragon-age-developers-checking-skyrim-out-aggressively

Perfect! If they can combine the cinematic talking sessions from Dragon Age 2 but have a lot of Skyrim like attributes then the next Dragon Age should be pretty damn good.

bring it on,although i haven't even played DA2 must be nice and cheap now but so many games to check out

I personally believe Bioware should aggressivley look into this.

Maybe one day Bioware will realize that there is a real reason why we loved Dragon Age 1 and hated Dragon Age 2, not to mention if this all turns out to be true, we will probably hate Dragon Age 3 as well.

They will (hopefully) learn one day to give the fans of these games what they want rather than mutate what it was in an attempt to make it appealing to the masses for no other reason than to chase the almighty dollar.

I wonder how many will care for DA3.

"Surprise and delight out fans." Well, Dragon Age 2 did neither... They better get their shit together pretty soon if I'm ever going to spend actual money buying their products.

Edit: Euphoria; well said, agree completely.

Crap+Crap= Worse Crap

Not necessarily. If they really do take the best from the Dragon Age franchise and have some Skyrim influence on top of that they will have one hell of a game on their hands and most people will probably love it because most people love Dragon Age Origins and Skyrim.

man everyone is making more open games these days, even Kojima

"The kind of game I'm making is some game that has a very wide entrance, a very open entrance," Kojima said through a translator in a phone interview with CNN last week. "Rather than making something very cinematic, [I plan to] make something very free."

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/20/tech/gaming-gadgets/project-ogre/index.html