Dragon Age News Thread

Sadness. 2020? There are no other games for me, DA is the only game that ever makes me want to play. I tried ME, I don't want to be a space Soldier. Skyrim bored me after a month. I actually like the Walking Dead Games but... DA has ruined them for me a bit, and pretty much every other game. I don't want to grind through someone else's story that never changes, I don't actually like combat. Combat is the price I pay to see the content I'm after, it's always been that way. The only reason I'm using trials now in DAI is because it's going to make me enjoy the story slower instead of consuming it in large gulps.

And they called this new IP "contemporary" and had a picture of something that suspiciously looks like some sort of Fallout 4 trailer house. I tried 2 or 3 out of all the Fallouts, and I'm not sure getting to make out with someone even as handsome as Cullen would make that setting for me. And I recently spent 12 hours ish watching game play and reading reviews of like over 100 RPG games to try to find anything that was even close to Dragon Age. And I thought I found one, played it's demo, thought I was onto something...then realized after purchase that I already felt lonely with no companions to go chat up and dress up.

So, if anyone else is like me, then this is a major bummer to hear every time someone says it: that the next installment won't even be close to realease for another THREE years.

Of course, there is the other three games to happily bide my time with. They didn't disappear.

Sadness. 2020? There are no other games for me, DA is the only game that ever makes me want to play. I tried ME, I don't want to be a space Soldier. Skyrim bored me after a month. I actually like the Walking Dead Games but... DA has ruined them for me a bit, and pretty much every other game. I don't want to grind through someone else's story that never changes, I don't actually like combat. Combat is the price I pay to see the content I'm after, it's always been that way. The only reason I'm using trials now in DAI is because it's going to make me enjoy the story slower instead of consuming it in large gulps.

And they called this new IP "contemporary" and had a picture of something that suspiciously looks like some sort of Fallout 4 trailer house. I tried 2 or 3 out of all the Fallouts, and I'm not sure getting to make out with someone even as handsome as Cullen would make that setting for me. And I recently spent 12 hours ish watching game play and reading reviews of like over 100 RPG games to try to find anything that was even close to Dragon Age. And I thought I found one, played it's demo, thought I was onto something...then realized after purchase that I already felt lonely with no companions to go chat up and dress up.

So, if anyone else is like me, then this is a major bummer to hear every time someone says it: that the next installment won't even be close to realease for another THREE years.

Of course, there is the other three games to happily bide my time with. They didn't disappear.

Well, don't start the wailing and gnashing of teeth just yet. We don't know how much work they can get done with just the core team, so their progress could surprise you. I'd still say late 2018 is the absolute earliest you can expect anything, but if we're lucky there will be some sort of spinoff or other dragon age media happening to tide us over (Comics have been announced).

A book could actually ease the pain a little (more than spin-off for me)... But probably there will be none until DA4 release is closer?

Since there's only a small team and no Writers Pit yet on DA4, I don't know how far they could get beyond an extended pre-production period. Anything less that 2 years full production and I'd start to be concerned about the quality of the game...

Hopefully we'll see a spin-off game though. Even if wasn't a game I was particularly interested in (like a Tactics game), if they felt they could grow the franchise that way I'd be all for it. And hopefully we'll also see a novel or two along with new comics series.

There was a book in the works for Fenris but then Gaider left. I don't know if they're going to totally scrap it or try to rework it for a release later.

It's also nice to hear about comics. I liked the Alistair/Maric story arc. I've heard Magekiller was bad (but ordered it yesterday anyway.)

I'm sorry. My experience is that I heard about it...and then a month later they killed it.

So, it was like a puppy I had time to get attached to.

But if you think the wait for DA4 is rough, just imagine what it's like for the Elder Scrolls fans. Bethesda wants to create not one, but two new major games before working on the next ES. Todd Howard joked how Skyrim came out in 11/11/11, so the next ES would be out in 22/22/22. That is likely close to the truth. ~10 years between releases is probably what you're looking at.