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Dragon Age games have typically followed the rise of a seemingly inconsequential hero to a position of power, though it almost sounds as if Dragon Age 4 will follow a character who never breaks into Thedas's traditional power structures. "For the game we're working on now, we want to tell the story of, 'What happens when you don't have power?' What happens when the people in charge aren't willing to address the issues?" Weekes said.įrom the sound of it, BioWare is aiming for the story and its characters to feel a little less important to the world than in Inquisition (at least at first). In the Gamescom trailer, lead writer Patrick Weekes described how Dragon Age 4's story will diverge from Inquisition. Dragon Age 4 will be a story about having no power In a post to BioWare's blog following the teaser trailer from December 2018, Darrah wrote that "we have been building a new team around a core of Dragon Age veterans, people I've worked with on Dragon Age, Jade Empire, and some of whom I've worked with since the Baldur's Gate days." While that may just be a way to reassure players of the quality the team will produce for Dragon Age 4, it might also mean that BioWare is looking to channel its earliest CRPG roots for its next game. It's still possible that BioWare is attempting to make a smaller, denser open world for Dragon Age 4 after player critique that Inquisition's open world felt somewhat empty. Dragon Age 4 has definitely changed staff and has likely changed vision as well now that it's known internally as Morrison. Game development is a highly iterative process, especially so at BioWare, according to Kotaku's reports on both Dragon Age 4 and Anthem. The goal was to focus as much as possible on choice and consequence, with smaller areas and fewer fetch quests than Dragon Age: Inquisition." The developers talked about building systemic narrative mechanics, allowing the player to perform actions like persuading or extorting guards without the writers having to hand-craft every scene. From Kotaku's report on the first version of Dragon Age 4, codenamed Joplin, "a large chunk of Joplin would center on heists. It will certainly be an RPG, or so one would assume, but beyond that any real details about Dragon Age 4 are still very hush-hush. What will Dragon Age 4's gameplay be like? We're probably not escaping a Dragon Age game without a visit underground. Among the small selection of artwork chosen for the page are the Necropolis in Nevarra and an Antivan Crow assassin, suggesting that we could be visiting both locations as part of the story. BioWare's studio history book includes some of the same concept art that we've seen in their behind the scenes video from summer 2020. It's possible that, like Inquisition, Dragon Age 4 will not be set just in one country but will visit other nations as well. The glimpse of Tevinter capitol Minrathous we saw in the 2020 Game Awards teaser had an almost cyberpunk feel to it with the colorful urban night-time and floating central segment. Tevinter has yet to appear in a Dragon Age game properly, though the country run by mages is often mentioned and we've had several party members from up north. "The game, helmed by executive producer Mark Darrah, will take players to Tevinter as the events of Inquisition and Trespasser threaten to forever change Thedas." Darrah has since left BioWare, replaced by Christian Dailey, though the rest is presumably current information.
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BioWare finally confirmed it in their huge studio history book "Bioware: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development".Īt the very end of the book, looking towards BioWare's future, a section called "Tevinter Bound a sneak peek at the follow-up to Inquisition" lets on that this is definitely the main setting for the next game. We'd been operating on this assumption for years now, given the less-than-subtle ending of Dragon Age Inquisition's final DLC, a 2019 report about the game's development, and the short story collection called Tevinter Nights from 2020. (Image credit: Electronic Arts, BioWare) What is the setting of Dragon Age 4? Minrathous, the mage-run capital city of the Teviner Imperium.