According to producer Dragon Age, «Skyrim has completely changed the genre of RPG»

Producer of Dragon Age: Inquisition believes that role-playing game The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim from Bethesda has created a new genre of RPG audience and raised the expectations of belonging to the genre of games.

«Skyrim has completely changed the perception of the role-playing games - said Mark Darrah from BioWare talking to GamesIndustry.biz. - Oblivion has sold approximately 6 million, it's not bad, but the number of copies of Skyrim sold 20 million. And this, in a sense, changes everything. "

"Suddenly there were about 15 million players, for whom the first RPG, in which they played became Skyrim. They had very different expectations about storytelling, exploring the world - and, in my opinion, it is in the study, we saw the most significant changes "- continued Mark.

He also added that with the change of generations "iron" comes a new gaming genre dominiruschy. Open world games may well be determined by the project for the generation PS4 and Xbox One: «Iron returned us the opportunity to make big games, and this, in my opinion, puts role-playing games back to the fore."

"Traditionally, with each new generation of consoles is changing the dominant gaming genre. A generation ago, in the first place were not shooters and racing games. If you go even further back, in the era of PlayStation 1, we see that then reigned role play. I think that is what we will see again, "- says Mark.

Darrah also shared interesting detail: some time ago, BioWare worked on pure multiplayer Dragon Age codenamed Blackfoot. Technology from this project later became a key mechanics in the Inquisition.