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

Looking around for any kind of "cinematics", it doesn't seem like there's anything that functions on the level of even a Destiny cutscene. It's all a very basic back and forth or first person view for things. 

Wow. Never thought I'd say this about a CC, but this might actually be... a bit too much.

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Stop giving them ideas!!  

Maybe I am alone in my thinking, but all those complaints about bad lipsyncing or other issues around the protagonist could be tied to having too many character options.  Its like the playable race thinking as well.  Instead of designing one armor for a male character BioWare has to make two one for a male and one for a female character, but in Dragon Age: Inquisition they had to make eight, two for each race for the male and female models.  Looking at the character generation options BioWare has (aside from hair, I think that is probably my bigger complaint about BioWare CC) what they allow you to change means it changes how the mouth moves and its location and side.  It seems that again its the conflicts of trying to have two different ideals incorporated into one thing means that neither is very good.

Right, but I mean it gets exponentially larger in number and why in Inquisition there were so many armors that looked alike and just different patterns because every base look required eight models.

Sure. You could make a fantasy setting with no elves, dwarves or any other race, to cut down on the amount of work required. You could also lock women out of the positions that would require a variety of armours be tailored to them. Or lock the men out, if that's your thing. Have the opposite sex, in any case, locked out of the fighting roles, to minimize development. Eventually, you are just going to come down to the realization that, perhaps, in order to have an easier time, you've cut so much out of your game that nobody wants to play it, because there are other studios that put more work and did a better job and people would rather play that. So yes, game development is hard. It doesn't mean you should do a poor job at it.

Mixed to be honest. As it stands w/ BW, more time does not always equal a better product. I'm looking at ME:A and (specifically) Anthem, so disappointed for this reason. Angered at EA for making BW start over for live service. Only slightly optimist in that more time couldn't hurt.

Yeah I really hope they're doing things right this time - and if something is not working out, are able to push the game back.  I'd love to see DA4 ASAP in an ideal world but would rather they look after their creators.

After the very public talk of their crunch time on Inquisition/Andromeda/Anthem, I hope they've been shown their errors and hope it's 2022/2023 to avoid that - if they were to crunch I have a feeling it'd be a lot sooner than then as the development - even with the restart - was a little while ago now, judging by the crunch reports of the time, the restart was before the Game Awards tease wasn't it? I may be remembering wrong. 

Basically I'm hoping my theorising is right and it's already in full development and they're taking their time - people were moved off Anthem so it seems to be the case that most of Edmonton is doing DA4. They've been writing the game for ages, I only hope the people actually building/coding/artists and QA have plenty of time. Because 'Bioware Magic' (as they said) definitely didn't work for Andromeda/Anthem. 

I love most Bioware games, I only hope they learn from their mistakes and set an example for the other crunchy studios (CDPR/Rockstar etc, whose also awesome games come with a bit of a human price) to make a change.


TL;DR: I'm glad Dragon Age is a few years away as I'd rather it not be rushed and the devs aren't crunched.