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After DA inquisition i can't say i'm excited for more Dragon Age unless its a remake of Origins. I would rather a new Jade Empire.

But, we do know that they are working on something Dragon Age. I just hope it's not another grind fest but a story driven game.



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I cant wait any longer. I need some info on the new dragonage



craighopkins said:
I cant wait any longer. I need some info on the new dragonage

I find it odd they are taking so long with it (unless they are actually nearly done just not announced anything), sure they might be working on ME:A but they would surely be developing the games at the same time like in the past. And considering Inquisition was all but made in terms of resources, they could easily reuse a lot of them to produce a sequel within 2-3 years. Well we are at the 2 year time frame now yet nothing yet.

I'm looking forward to it, as DA:I was great. Hope they ditch some of the expanded lore they are trying to build however. That's getting kinda dull, this series isn't ME, each character should have their own story not just a continuation of the last heroes.

If they keep the feel of the last game with resource gathering, influence management etc, they should do it as you are a mercenary band leader. You can recruite people as well as the main party members but it a lot more localised. Less imperial army, more local company. 



Hmm, pie.

The Fury said:

If they keep the feel of the last game with resource gathering, influence management etc, they should do it as you are a mercenary band leader. You can recruite people as well as the main party members but it a lot more localised. Less imperial army, more local company. 

IDK, I really enjoyed being so insanely famous and important.

I'm not surprised we haven't heard anything about Dragon Age, wouldn't surprise me if we didn't hear anything till 2018, but it might be at e3 2017.



Barkley said:
The Fury said:

If they keep the feel of the last game with resource gathering, influence management etc, they should do it as you are a mercenary band leader. You can recruite people as well as the main party members but it a lot more localised. Less imperial army, more local company. 

IDK, I really enjoyed being so insanely famous and important.

I'm not surprised we haven't heard anything about Dragon Age, wouldn't surprise me if we didn't hear anything till 2018, but it might be at e3 2017.

You can still be famous and important, just leading an army so a lot of what you were doing isn't essentially you doing it like Inquisition? The Champion was famous but it was still him/her doing it (The game overall in DA2 wasn't the best but the personal feels was good). I'm thinking more like the world map things are missions/contracts, you send people on, they could be from gathering resources to just protecting some land from Darkspawn for people... for money of course. The more you do the more notoriety and influence you gain. My issue with Inquisition was that it was a big organisation with an army, yet this army apparently 'camped outside' Skyhold. I never saw them.

Infact, just imagine a group like the Chargers. Bull makes a point about he knows everyone under his command and the Inquisitor didn't.

I hope it's not 4 years between games, I'm more hoping ME:A this financial year. DA4 next financial year but both in 2017. :)



Hmm, pie.

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The Fury said:

My issue with Inquisition was that it was a big organisation with an army, yet this army apparently 'camped outside' Skyhold. I never saw them.

Yeah I guess I get that, it needed more large-scale battles where your army was important, and area of the map you could tell your army to patrol/hold against the enemy. Rather than just, you got a camp, we're going to stand here now.



No, I want something else. Dragon Age feels a bit soulless to me.

Disney has more or less forbid the creation of more non cannon Starwars games, so unfortunately Kights of the Old Republic is out the window, but maybe Bioware can return to Jade Empire?



teigaga said:

No, I want something else. Dragon Age feels a bit soulless to me.

Soulless? Did you play inquisition? Soulless is one of the last words I'd use to describe it.



Bioware's handling of Mass Effect information is pretty telling for the approach they want to take with games moving forward. Obviously they did the official reveal/announcement of Andromeda years ago, but it seems they then quickly decided that was actually a bad idea, and they'd rather take more of a Bethesda like approach by making the time between real information and hype build up to release as short as possible. I think we've seen that far too many publishers and developers make a habit of showing off their game too soon, and as time passes the hype and excitement around it dies down. Ideally you want maybe 6-12 month window of perfect storm marketing to build up to your release, where you're giving people a steady stream of info, trailers, gameplay, etc. Anything longer than that and you're starting to drag on.

They've also talked in the past about how despite wanting to keep fans in the loop, they don't want a repeat of a situation like they had with Inquisition where they show off certain features in early development that then maybe don't end up making it into the release version for whatever reason and everybody ends up disappointed about it, or worse, saying Bioware lied about the game's features.

I'd pencil the next Dragon Age in for 2018. Spring if we're lucky, but quite likely fall. If it's spring we'll definitely see something at E3 next year. If it's fall we might see it name dropped briefly. Keep in mind though that Bioware is also working on another new IP that they've been lightly teasing the last couple years. I wouldn't be surprised to see that game come out before the next Dragon Age, possibly taking the aforementioned spring 2018 slot, and depending on how Bioware feels about dropping two huge RPGs in one year, might even push Dragon Age into 2019.



Barkley said:
teigaga said:

No, I want something else. Dragon Age feels a bit soulless to me.

Soulless? Did you play inquisition? Soulless is one of the last words I'd use to describe it.

Maybe I'm talking about setting, plot etc. It didn't capture me in those initial few hours and no aspect of the world presented made me want to stick around. Maybe I need to give it more time but from what I heard the story isn't all that great, which made give it up on it. If the looked and felt more like the art on tarrot cards I'd be all over it. As it stands I just see it as another western, medevil inspired fantasy that could instead be something refreshingly new.