BioWare has said that Dragon Age: Inquisition's success is not now a blueprint that the developer will work to in future games such as Mass Effect 4.

BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn took to NeoGAF to address increasing speculation that the development of Mass Effect 4 would be strongly influenced by the recently proven Dragon Age template.

“I’ve seen a few thoughts like this recently. I have a good idea where it’s coming from,” said Flynn. “All of our games are using Frostbite now. We’ve said the next Mass Effect (and our new IP, but I won’t expand on that yet) uses some of the technology from DAI. We’ve been enjoying building larger areas that you can explore with less friction, so that’ll be there as well.

“But after that, the next Mass Effect will be (and should be) drawing on its own rich and successful past more than what DAI would say it should do.”

Flynn said dropping last-gen consoles has had a more impact on the overall gameplay goals of Mass Effect 4 than Dragon Age: Inquisition.

“We’re very proud of what DAI has achieved, but that does not set a ‘template’ for what every other game we make needs to be. Each game franchise needs to innovate and improve their experience based on what’s best for it, not just what another game had success with because ‘well that was successful’.”