Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (Title reveal)

About bloody time.

On Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee uses the term "Magenta game" to refer to titles with a purple hue and a cast that quips more often than they breath. Besides Rage 2, other examples include Bleeding Edge, Borderlands 3, Contra: Rogue Corps and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. (Saint's Row and Far Cry: Blood Dragon probably count as well.)

Honestly, the "magenta aesthetic" doesn't strike me as in tune with a fantasy universe.

They wouldn’t name a game after a character that’d die in the prologue.


I wouldn’t be sure that it’s simply a marketing thing or a decision made by EA. I think it’s quite likely that it’ll reference to something in the game.

Hope not. I like most of the characters, and don't want them killed off because Elf Hitler doesn't like how his previous atrocity turned out. 

Others say a betrayer of his people…or a savior who now seeks to rescue them at the cost of your world.
They are speaking to you as the next PC there, so I think that is a hint that working to stop him is going to be the main aim and that, unless they pull a ME3 on us, he is not going to succeed. I do think, though, that our ultimate confrontation with him is likely to be on the spiritual plane, either in the Fade or possibly the Void, because that is where the Dread Wolf is most powerful and killing him in the Waking World will only make it more so.

I definitely think/hope that we'll stop him before he succeeds, but I can see it where he either does and we have to time travel to stop it or he partially succeeds still leading to the deaths of countless people before we stop him and it. 
Most likely. I can see a two-pronged fight, like in our world his Solas self then in the Fade as his Dread Wolf self or something. 

Did you ever play Baldurs Gate 2? It may be something like that. We fought the big bad in the real world and struck him down, only for us to be sucked into the netherworld where we had to confront him again there and where he had the assistance of various demons. I'm fairly sure that the Dread Wolf cannot be defeated simply by killing Solas in the Waking World.

Obviously, @ dreadwolf is Solas' Twitter handle.

EDIT: Didn't mean to accidentally @ someone's username

I hope we don't get time-travel.

That said, Trespasser did give us an option to "redeem" him, so I wonder what that means exactly? Or will it not matter too much and he dies no matter what, but the redemption option means he got a noble sacrifice ending?

I don't see, to be honest, how much that decision would affect his fate in Dreadwolf, without the Inquisitor back as a protagonist.
Even if our new protagonist is backed by the Inquisition, why would they be restrained to that choice in Trespasser?

@the_Elder_King

So I have been having thoughts which have been moving the needle in a more positive direction.

1. Since Jackdaw released the vid going over Inquisition's marketing campaign, and at least has made me aware of it, there has been some conversation on whether or not they will approach the marketing for DA 4 in the same way...when it begins in earnest. Or since they were kind of burned by the Crestwood demo if they were going to wait later until more features are more nailed down to show off. Well I think they are effectively having their cake and eating it to, which is quite brilliant, by just showing off the title...without a specific trailer which promises everything...I think we can now safely say the game will be out within the next 18 months (plus or minus 3 months) and we can still get trailers, as they say, later in this year which will give us more solid information. This is also a nice reason to wait as long as they did to release the titlle, as Elder King mentioned they might've known what the title was for awhile...but in this context this suggests that they waited for pure marketing reasons, which in this case I approve of.

2. Now the title is a little underwhelming...but I wonder if the reason it is is because we basically have known and been joking about this for four years. Yikes. Back when the initial trailer dropped for the game and we got the #DreadWolfRises people began basically joking that this was going to be the title...or something along these lines. When the trailer came out at the next TGAs again people were joking 'is the game just going to be called Dragon Age? will it be Dragon 4ge?' That sort of thing. So we have been thinking about this for awhile and they basically did give the game away four years ago. Sure maybe this is an indication of laziness and 'for lack of a better title' but I am also trying to lift the veil between universes and imagine how excited I would be without that hashtag being revealed 4 years ago...which I now think because of the title doing that hashtag back then was a mistake...but I think if we hadn't heard much on the game, no speculation, I think I would be pretty pumped by the title name for it and that it would do exactly what they were saying it would in the blog.

Of course the joke...oh my god this is so perfect for dragon age...

The Dread Wolf Rises...then turns over hits snooze and goes back to sleep for four more years.