Next look at Dragon Age 4 at The Game Awards (Dec. 10)

They consider DOS2 to be fully voiced too.  BG3 first presentation had the origin VO being their own narrator which included DOS2 dialogue options style narrating, but people complained about it and they removed it. So now they have a single narrator and dialogue choices aren't voiced when you play as that character.

I don't think how it is now will change as they have to support minimum 12 voice actors (4 voices for custom PCs + 8 origins minimum) and way too many tags. Oh and the EA already has more dialogues than ME1 did...and it's not even all of Act 1. 

First we need to get a title of the game.

LOL! that just might be too reviling got to keep the hype train rolling   

“The team are hard at work on ‘the next Dragon Age’.” 

”soft reboot” of the series, to incorporate “live service”.

I mean, I’ll not pretend to like the notion, but it would track with what little has been said.

The first two are closely connected to each other. They won't give us a cinematic trailer without a title reveal.
I do expect the site to be updated if there's a trailer at the VGA, although I'm keeping my expectations low on what kind of info they'd reveal in this case. I'd like that, even without going into too much details, they'd make some stuff clearer, like the protagonist, but we'll see.

Overall, I just hope they're not hyping too much the event, because people will end up disappointed, even more so considering the rollercoaster that was this week. If they said nothing before the VGA (but the departures right before DA day 'forced' them to do some kind of damage control) and we'd have getting something minimal, people wouldn't have reacted as negatively as they'd after revealing DA's presence a week before.  And give that the Lead Producer tweeted 'nope' at one assuming that they'd just show interviews of people telling how much they love DA, people are obviously assuming that there'll be some kind of showing.

I mean, not really, or at least, not what the devs as said in blogs, tweets, the Gamescon dev diary or the summary on the website. What they said honestly match descriptions of their previous games, at least in regards of being normal SP modes. Even Hudson's words on 'live service' being something Bioware did for years was damage control on the notion of live servive for DA4 being similar to Anthem.

Now, am I fully confident that we won't get an Anthem, Destiny situation? Nope. I can't help but remain a bit skeptical to the whole 'live service' issue, until we have more definite information. And I think overall remaining skeptical is good. But, what the actual devs on the team stated so far didn't imply that the SP mode would be any different from what it was before.

Again; I doubt this will happen as well.  I only raised it because, if it did happen, it certainly couldn’t be claimed they didn’t hint at it.  Before we knew “Inquisition”, it was DA3.  I might be wrong, but I think briefly it was even Dragon Age III: Inquisition (although that may have just been a forum/internet discussion thing as opposed to an official name).  To the best of my memory, they’ve only ever called the “upcoming DA game”, the “Next Dragon Age”.  Coupled with the ‘soft reboot’ that Schreier reported on, it isn’t totally unthinkable that they’d do away with the subtitle and/or numbering altogether for the full live service experience (which I wouldn’t like and don’t actually think they’re doing).

Like you, I’m sceptical over what ‘live service’ means for, and in the context of, the next DA game, but I really hope Anthem (or Destiny) with dragons is far, far in the distance of a worst case scenario.  

Hopefully this is just a case of overthinking it and looking for the worst in a year that has been chock full of reasons to expect it.

i don't expect to see gameplay thats for sure.

Yeah, me neither. But I think that people woud be more then happy with a cinematic trailer, since many were doubtful we'd get on this early (although I suspected after the Gamescon dev diary that there was a bit of possibility for a cinematic reveal at the VGA).

So not 16 months, but 14 is pretty close.

I can see it.
The game starts with like a 10 year timeskip so around 9:50. The protagonist will be a young character, and the game follows them throughout the rest of the Dragon Age with a variety of different adventures. Like DA2, but each act is a whole game.