Dragon Age News Thread

Agreed... and if even then. So to help myself patiently wait for DA4, I hope we get news about the New IP... er Secret IP? What are we calling it now? I feel like I should be tagging #AnyNewsIsGoodNews now on twitter. Gah.

Good God.

Okay, the silver lining as far as DA is concerned is that now is probably a great time to pitch your Da4 wishlist at them. This early stage when it can still be considered.

edit: i wanna be a pirate..Felicisima Armada ftw ..yes, i said it!...quietly..

I look at it like this.... It was 3 years, 8 months from the release of DA2 to DAI. Assuming it took roughly the same amount of time to the next release, we'd be looking at June 2018. However... it's almost 2 years after the initial release of DAI and they're not running a full dev team on it yet. So my gut tells me that's too ambitious a date to meet, especially since it looks like it's going to be some months yet before they can even ramp up the team.

I would be very surprised to see the game out before late 2018 and can easily see it taking longer depending on how ambitious they are with it.

DAI got additional year of development... Add to the fact that they're now two things they're not doing - converting to Frostbite and developing the game on 5 platforms. In fact with both MEA and new IP using Frostbite, even with new title being put between DA and MEA I expect for things to be more streamlined and therefore faster.

I'm pretty sure that happens during development of MEA and new IP. You know, just like I'm pretty sure now MEA and IP use updates and modules developed for DAI (and probably other EA games that use Frostbite 3 - I do know that even new FiFa used parts of Frostbite developed for DAI). I suspect that was sort of the point of converting on Frostbite - so each new games can use stuff and knowledge developed for past titles, plus you get staff more and more familiar with the engine = everything is easier and faster.

Familiarity will definitely help, I agree. And having each Frostbite game sharing their improvements across their studios is one their big strengths. And that should absolutely pay dividends down the line. But the improvements aren't going to suddenly stop with MEA and the New IP.

The next gen consoles are coming out next year (PS Neo: likely early next year / XB Scorpio: late next year). Will the New IP be built to take advantage of them...? Likely the Neo, but who knows for Scorpio (which is a very big upgrade) as it may come out right around the New IP's release. With DA4's time-frame, it will definitely take advantage of them and my guess is that will be the game to feature the next "big jump up" in features/quality.

I also think, regardless of the features they add or don't, they will likely spend more time fleshing out secondary quests and the like as that seems to be one of the biggest requests.

So I believe whatever time they have saved with the move to (and familiarity with) Frostbite, will just be eaten up in other ways (coupled with the fact it's going to be a while yet before they even get a full studio up and running on it).

DA4 is coming ... DA4 is coming ... DA4 is coming ...

I'm sure you're right...sadly. I just really want DA4.   (Thanks for the response, Hrungr.  )

That may not be so strange. Once DAI was concluded, they let all their contract people go, so I'm sure they had plenty of vacancies to fill.

You guys are hurting my heart talking about late 2018 +. You see, I don't play ME so I don't even have Andromeda to look forward to that will get me through the long cold winters. I miss Dragon Age.

My bet continues to be MEA in 2017, Sekrit New IP in 2018 and DA4 in 2019. I don't see any way DA4 could be out before late 2018 at the absolute earliest - we're more than half way through 2016 and it's not in full production yet.

I have my fingers crossed we're getting that rumored strategy game to keep the franchise in the public consciousness and tide us over, though.