Eurogamer: Writing the Next Dragon Age (Alexis Kennedy)

A great article. One part really struck me:



This is so spot on! My first love was the Neverwinter Nights franchise and every other BW title since then and before DA2 was basically suffering from an unfair comparison against NWN. Or more precisely, against the experience of playing NWN as a kid.

Still, NWN was in the end only like a adolescent love affair for me, whereas DA2 is something of a true love. But I'm also older now and I understand that I can't expect all BW titles to feel like DA2, because true love is pretty rare. So I can't really say that I'm disappointed with DAI and MEA, because I had very little expectations in the first place. So although DAI and MEA were at times a bit bleak, I tend to be more forgiving these days and concentrate on the bits I enjoy.

I do think that DA4 will be very crucial for the success of BW, because MEA and DAI weren't all that exciting gameplay-wise. I think they will need to take that big step forward in this aspect.

And now comes the most important part of this message:

New Dragon Age!!!! :hearteyes:

It's party time!

PS. Hoping for lotsa romanceable dwarves.

They probably have nothing to show. It'd be rather dull to just say hey Dragon Age is back and having nothing to show for it, not even concept art or a title. 

I very much doubt they are going to turn Kal-Sharok into the tired stereotype of steampunk dwarves.

Going by what Kennedy is saying, he is writing segregated lore that fill in about the space of Mordin's character in ME2. Writing quests and lore for Kal-Sharok would be much larger than that. He's probably writing an important NPC/group or a companion from a place we haven't heard/seen before really.

Surely we are not talking about a browser game for Dragon Age?  More likely it's for their expertise in story branching.

NWN did it really well. The PC's name was used in subtitles, but not the voiced lines.

I don't know why but that dudes face makes me angry

Opposite for me, I think he's pretty cute.

Maybe this is just a huge hoax to throw us off the scent and he's really writing something big. Like all of Minrathous. Of the life and times of Andraste. Or what's really go on in Weisshaupt? The latter having an Illuminati angle that's kissing cousins with Cthulhu, by way of Steve Jackson.

Maybe it's because he keeps the camera too close. I hate close shots

I don't think anyone wants him to write the whole thing, which would be impractical anyway. He's working on Divinity: Original Sin 2 and that has romances in it. Just presumably written by people other than Chris Avellone.

If the games came out every year I would agree but they come out every 4 or 5 years it would not be ok

Ah, but Dorian is Neutral Good!