Dragon Age 4, the last bastion of hope for a Bioware that has naught but dropped out of the good graces of their fans, was teased around two years ago at the 2018 Game Awards and then…well, then nothing at all happened after that. Sure, we’ve had some snippets of information and another very brief teaser shown off in June’s EA Play event. It feels like EA and Bioware are almost stringing fans along at this point with two years of waiting and very little to actually show for it. So with people beginning to get antsy about their beloved age of dragons, some clarifications were made on Twitter which confirms that the game is still in-development.
Bioware executive producer Mark Darrah tweeted out that progress was indeed being made on Dragon Age 4, albeit slow and gruelling. Darrah confirmed that the Dragon Age 4 team were working from home and making headway on the game but as one can imagine, designing and building a game the size of Dragon Age 4 entirely isolated and from home…well, that sounds like quite a task. At this point, I’d actually be interested to see how many people are working on Dragon Age 4, given that just a few months ago Bioware announced a complete overhaul and rework of last year’s painful failure Anthem. The job of actually breathing some kind of life into Anthem sounds…monumental and I’d imagine that most of Bioware’s staff would be working on that project, given the more urgent nature of that fix.
If anything, Darrah’s tweets can at least allow Dragon Age fans to rest a little easier, knowing that while the world burns around us, the franchise that’s actually just Skyrim but good continues to chug along.
Last Updated: July 24, 2020
Llama In The Rift
July 24, 2020 at 13:44
eh don’t care much…Dragon Age ended with the Darkspawn in the first game for me.
Never the less will most probably play 4 and hopefully meet the “Maker” and give him some Elfroot.
Pariah
July 24, 2020 at 13:44
Gotta say, I really didn’t enjoy the first game. I only really enjoyed the third. I finished the first I think, but it’s not a game I was jumping around for. I even skipped 2 as a result and only played the third.
Son of Banana Jim
July 24, 2020 at 17:54
ERRATUM: Woah wait a second! I thought you were talking about Mass Effect –> The second one is the best one. I’d highly recommend you get the second and play through it, it blows the first and the third out of the water.
No! Stay away from Dragon Age 2!!! Sweet mother of that one cave! That game is what they use to torture slaves in Mauritania.
Son of Banana Jim
July 24, 2020 at 17:54
I have to agree, I still replay Dragon Age Origins from time to time. Now that was a perfect game. Everything that’s come after can get in the sea, and drown for all I care.
Son of Banana Jim
July 24, 2020 at 17:54
I was kind of hoping they’d stop, Mass Effect Andromeda sucked, Dragon Age 2 sucked, the last Dragon Age game sucked….
For the Emperor!
July 24, 2020 at 18:16
Inquisition was good for me until the end, when it turned out your choices mattered less than the colour of a Smartie. It could not pull me in for another play through yet. But not as bad as Andromeda, which I actually didn’t other finishing despite being 60 hours in. Still sad about it, as I rate the original ME Trilogy as my favourite/best gaming series ever.
Son of Banana Jim
July 24, 2020 at 18:42
I think after all these years we can all finally admit that Bioware’s attempt(s) at making your choices matter in their games are all a lie. They failed dismally at the end of Mass Effect 3 and Inquisition too. I can’t say anything about the ending of andromeda because halfway through, I ejected the disk, put it in its box and resold the game for something better.
If only they took a page out of TellTale’s book for how to make a game with multiple branching storylines (even though there is a pretty linear storyline, but the small changes add up and each play through is significantly different)
For the Emperor!
July 26, 2020 at 10:43
I was fortunate enough not to get to ME3 ending until they added the extended bits, as I only started playing ME1 when 3 came out. So it felt good enough for me back then. But yeah, rather not tell me the choices matter when the don’t. DA:I was such a let down, I can understand how people hated the original ME3 ending. “Oh you spared the Wardens, it changes nothing”. At least in DA 1 the mages could fire from a distance or Templars did some tanking in the final battles.