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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: MysterD on Saturday, October 14, 2017, 03:58:51 PM
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Polygon - Lead Designer/Creative Director Mike Laidlaw from DA Franchise leaves BioWare after 14 years, in the middle of DA4's development. (https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/12/16467044/dragon-age-creative-director-writer-mike-laidlaw-leaves-bioware)
Youtube - Yong Yea -- His thoughts on Mike Laidlaw leaving BioWare. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahA_KEyQV2Q)
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PC Gamer - BioWare Boss Casey Hudson is teasing an upcoming Dragon Age announcement is coming in December. (https://www.pcgamer.com/bioware-boss-casey-hudson-teases-a-dragon-age-announcement-in-december/)
And, December 6th is when The Game Awards (2018) is coming, so...maybe the announcement will be there?
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Venture Beat - Rumor: DA4 is at least 3 years away (in probably 2021):
https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/04/dragon-age-4-2021/
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Dragon Age 4 - Teaser Trailer from TGA 2018:
EDIT:
IGN's Breakdown of the DA4 Teaser:
** SPOILER ALERT - DAI base-game and especially DAI: Trespasser DLC SPOILERS are loaded in here ***
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Wow, now this is really something to read...
Jason Schreier of Kotaku on "The Past & Present of Dragon Age 4":
https://kotaku.com/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351
- DA4 (original version) was once code-named Joplin.
- It was built off of DA: Inq's tools and that game's version of Frostbite.
- It was about playing as spies and you could go on heists.
- Joplin was A LOT smaller than DA: Inq and had way less "fetch" quests/MMO style quests/UbiSoft open-world questing.
- Joplin also had A LOT more decision-making, choices, and branching paths...and was definitely built for replay-ability (i.e. purposely built as the OPPOSITE of DA: Inq's Hinterlands area).
- A lot of the team was very happy and proud with how Joplin was going.
- Joplin got put on hold b/c of ME: Andromeda and Anthem, as those were in trouble and needed to be worked on.
- A lot of the Joplin team, they got moved over to ME: Andromeda and/or Anthem.
- EA's wanted more "Live Service" stuff, so DA4: Joplin version got canned.
- DA4 got rebooted and they are using the framework and version of Frostbite from Anthem.
- The new DA4 rebooted version that is now currently in development is known as Morrison.
- Shortly after Morrison (the DA4 reboot), this is when Mike Laidlaw left.
- This is also when Mark Darrah became the executive producer for both DA4 (Morrison version) and Anthem.
- Some at BioWare that Jason talked to, they called Morrison basically "Anthem with Dragons".
- Some disagree with the above statement of Morrison being "Anthem with Dragons."
- We don't know yet how far the Multiplayer portion for Morrison will go.
- Main quest of Morrison should be able to be done all alone, even if the game becomes online-only.
- We don't know if the entire Morrison game will be online-only.
- We don't know if Morrison will have an offline mode.
- The next stuff mentioned isn't etched in stone yet.
- Some ideas tossed around for MP include a drop-in/drop-out co-op like the old BG games had.
- Another idea tossed around: some quests in MP could change not only based on what players locally decide, but also based on what players around the entire globe have decided.
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Dragon Age 4 is going back to being a Single Player Game without Multiplayer & without Live Services.
Sources:
IGN - https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-4-will-reportedly-be-a-single-player-rpg-with-no-multiplayer
Jason Schreier - https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1365005940739743745
Info:
- DA4 is no longer a Live Service Game.
- DA4 is back to being a Single Player Game, after the success of Jedi: Fallen Order (from Respawn)...
- ...and also b/c Anthem failed as a Live Service & Multiplayer game.
- EA has given BioWare the greenlight to remove all Multiplayer & online "games as service" components of the game.
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Word is: Dragon Age 4 is a next-gen title only, going to only PC, PS5, and XSS/XSX:
https://www.psu.com/news/dragon-age-4-wont-have-a-ps4-version/