PC Gaming Dragon Age: Now With More Dread Wolf!!!

[Husky_Khan]

I did thoroughly enjoy playing Dragon Age: Origins but after the semi-enjoyable Long Vacation in Kirkwall that was Dragon Age II I never even bothered to weave the tapestry and play Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Yet apparently, after many years, Bioware has released the name of the fourth installment in the Dragon Age franchise, Dragon Age: Andromeda Dickwolf Dreadwolf. Bioware did release a teaser trailer or whatever for a Dragon Age sequel waaaaay back in 2018 but I have no idea if it's any relevant now though it did have the hashtag #DreadWolfRises so probably.

The Dickwolf Dread Wolf is apparently an Elven character named Solas who was a romanceable companion in Dragon Age: Inquisition so... yeah. Not excited for the game yet to be honest, partly because I never bothered with the third installment but Dragon Age had its moments so I guess we'll see how it turns out.

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Named as Next Dragon Age Game

The official name for Dragon Age 4 has finally been revealed by BioWare -- the next Dragon Age game is called Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.

techraptor.net

 

[Stargazer]

The next Dragon Age game has been in development hell since Inquisition came out. Development was derailed by team members being reassigned to help with the fiascos that were Mass Effect Andromeda and Anthem, to the point that the whole development process had to be rebooted. It was also being made a exploitative live service money machine. Reportedly though, the failure of Anthem and the success of Jedi Fallen Order as a non-monetized game gave the developers the chance to pivot away from live services. There's a number of articles by Jason Schreier at Kotaku documenting this. Either way though, just about all the senior staff who worked on the first three Dragon Age games are gone now.

It's all a shame, because I thought Inquisition was pretty good. The final DLC of Inquisition actually set up Solas - or rather

Spoiler: Inquisition spoiler

the Dreadwolf Fen'harel, the trickster god of Elven mythology

- to be an interesting, sympathetic, and formidable villain in the next game. But it's taken so long to make they basically squandered all that momentum they had going. It's hard to feel excited for the game even though I've been a Dragon Age fan from the start. Plus, Bioware has always been the wokest of the woke, so I shudder to think how insufferable a full Bioware RPG could get in the year of our Lord 2023.