Dragon Age III Drawing Inspiration from Skyrim

Despite telling Kotaku yesterday that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s success doesn’t change the plans for Dragon Age’s future, and that they haven’t really played the game, Ray Muzyka (who played the earliest parts of Skyrim) tells Wired’s Game|Life blog:

([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,) Muzyka said.

(We’re checking [Skyrim] out aggressively. We like it. We’re big admirers of [Bethesda] and the product,) he said. (We think we can do some wonderful things.)

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(How do we combine the new innovations we brought in Dragon Age II with the experience people were looking for in Dragon Age: Origins?) Muzyka said.