Your opinion of Dragon Age 4 releasing in late 2022 (possibly early 2023)

I'm happy to hear about it.

Yeah, they have more time to flesh out the game mechanics and story. It may prove to be a double-edged sword, but as I've said, we can't take it as a certainty that it'll go down the path of Anthem.

So... I can wait.

I voted Angered since this means I’ll be strung along for years before I get the information I’m looking for.

Indifferent about it really.

tis the latest fad.

I'm equally baffled and disappointed. The baffled part is because I can't see how the increasing length of time between releases works for anyone. (I'm still sad that DA2 discredited the "faster and cheaper" alternative approach.)

I don't think anyone wants this situation to happen or be the one that is going on.  Ideally we'd be getting one of these games as often as we get a Marvel movie.  BioWare would release Andromeda sequels in the Spring, Anthem sequel in the Summer, and DA sequels in the Winter.  lol.  But it is the one we are dealt with.  These games tends to take three years at the minimum to develop.  This seems to be the case pretty much industry wise with the exception of sports titles and really weird indie games.  And BioWare is just one studio with at least three active franchises and an active interest in Star Wars (TOR is still running, maybe a new game is in pre pod?).  They tried to do the multiple studio thing working on multiple games...but then that studio was absorbed into another...and Austin seems to be pretty much for TOR and support.  So, all else being equal, that leaves a 9 year development cycle as long as their current situation persists.  Now of course this situation could easily change in different ways but for the moment...this is it.  Now the best thing to do would be to either higher more people or to drop some of their current responsibilities. 


As far as DA 2 is concerned...as much as you or I might like it I really think it could have benefitted from more development time, not less.  Probably about double the development time...especially in order to give it the scope of some of the ideas I have heard mentioned around here.  It really wasn't that much smaller then DA O or the MET games it simply needed more polish and more fleshing out...which it did not get.   

It is what I'm hoping...almost as long as I have been a Bio fan I have been expecting them to do a game a year release cycle over a three year period of time.  It makes sense...but they haven't been able to do it.  Maybe by the time DA 4 comes out they can get that going.  Of course live service stuff may complicate this.  

In light of where we are now... put me down as optimistic.

I am glad to see they're getting a decent amount of time to work on this, and hopefully (fingers crossed) the production environment will have improved for the devs. I'm also hoping that with the previous games behind them they have much better idea of what the Frostbite engine is capable of doing, and not get hung up on idea(s) that are just not feasible with it.

There's a lot of good games to keep me busy in the meanwhile, and while I'm not "happy" to wait 3 more years, and my expectations are tempered, I'm hopeful we'll get a good game in the end.

Indifferent.

The aim to release DA4 in 2022 is about what I guessed (possibly plus some delay which sometimes just can't be avoided), so I'm not surprised at all, and frankly, I feel that the quality of BioWare's games has declined over their last few releases. I'm also no longer as interested in the Dragon Age setting as I used to be. Not having to rush a game is always a good thing, but then again, Anthem had 6+ years of time for all the good that did. Heck, without it we might be speculating about the release of DA5 right now.

So, at some point BioWare will finally release another Dragon Age game, one which was rebooted to include more live service according to EA's wishes.

Pros: Could be good!
Cons: Might not be.

We'll see. Until then, there will be many other games to play.

I'm disappointed because of the recent teaser trailer. What was the point if the release date is so far away? It built up expectations of a more recent release, only for them to be dashed. Clearly, the comic series and Tevinter Nights are no longer preparing us for an imminent release but trying to maintain interest in a still distant product. For me the next game will not be a sequel but simply a new game by a developer I have enjoyed in the past. Whether I rush out and buy it or wait for feedback from others will probably depend on what other projects I am involved in at the time. If it isn't a single player game or requires signing up to some sort of subscription service, then I just won't bother.

With regard to Trespasser, it would seem the writing team (and management) still thought of it in terms of tying off the Inquisitor's story, so a prolonged development of the next game wouldn't matter, rather than as many people saw it, an extended trailer setting up the next game with an expectation of the Inquisitor (no longer called that) still involved in the story in a significant way.

I was thinking that had they not ditched all their initial work on DA4 after around 2-3 years development time then they might well have been able to release it for the 10th anniversary of DAO,, which would have been a great marketing hook. As it is if they do release it in Fall 2022 then it will be around the 13th anniversary of DAO. Let's hope that's not an ominous sign.

Mixed. I'm happy that the game will not be rushed out-I thought of a 2021 date release- sad that I'll have to wait st least one year more than I thought for it.

And even if I'm more on the positive side and I have faith in the DA team, I'm still in the "wait and see" department.