Where does DA go from here?

Wouldn't surprise me if it'll be like Fable. Gone for 10-15 years, then given to a new studio for a soft (re-)reboot that's set in like... year 99:Dragon.

Assuming the AAA-industry doesn't just suddenly get really excited about trying out new IPs I mean. Then it might be dead.

I thought for sure DAV would have the Veil coming down, thus creating a very turbulent and interesting landscape for any future games. Now the only plot threads I can think of are those referencing something coming from beyond the sea, and whatever is going on with the Qunari/Qun.

And if another game happens, I expect a time jump of at least a few years to establish grown griffons...because how fucking cool would a flying mount be?

Into the deeproads never to be seen again

Nowhere. I mean that sadly and seriously.

Par Vollen

A Legendary Edition is probably the only direction they could go with it at this point.

I think the series is over. It's been 10 years since DAI, and we get a disappointing "action-RPG" designed to appeal to a new audience, but it fails in that regard and in pleasing the old fans.

With BioWare focusing on Mass Effect now, and with that game still in the early stages of production, we wouldn't see another Dragon Age game until 2032 or 2033 at the earliest. I don't think many people are going to care about Dragon Age at that point.

Dead, reboot or it’s gonna get a collection released of the old games

Nowhere, because it tanked them for hundreds of millions. The next one, if they or whoever might buy the company if they go bankrupt ever decide to make another, will be in 15 years or so from now when the generation that played this one has forgotten and the next doesn't have it in their memory to begin with. And then they'll make one that radically moves away from everything this one did, perhaps a soft reboot type game like God of War 2018 was to the rest of the series, likely with a similar time skip too. That's usually how companies behave when one of their flagships flops really badly. They'll recognize that it still has name value and thus potential, more so at least than marketing an entirely new IP, but they'll want to do the opposite of what caused a financial crater for them last time, and they'll want to do it only once the wound has healed or been forgotten in their fandom.

If you thought Inquisition to Veilguard was a long wait; expect twice that for the next, because Inquisition didn't even tank. In fact, it was their most successful DA game. To go from most successful to brutal flop is absolutely going to make Bioware take a real long look at the drawing board, hence why so many people working on this game were immediately let go as soon as the numbers came in.

For the foreseeable future? Nowhere.

BioWare itself is in a sorry state. They've bled most is their talent over the past decade and had nothing but various failures since Inquisition ended.

They're on their last legs now and desperately need the new Mass Effect to be a hit to justify EA not shuttering them now. Veilguard was a failed revival of a franchise that had already been practically dormant for a decade. It lost most of the old guard and didn't bring in anywhere near enough to justify trying again. It's not like anyone is burning to know about the Executors, the only plot hook left.

As far as anyone can tell, Dragon Age is basically dead. Locked away in the EA vault with so many other IPs. I don't think that there's much of anyone left at BioWare willing to risk what little goodwill they have remaining with EA's higher ups to fight for it. Not when they need to pull out a miracle with ME4 to justify not being broken up completely.

Really hoping it will go the way of bg3 and have the IP sold to a studio that actually cares to make a good game and listen to the fans instead of how much money they "lost by not doing live service".

They need to get out of development hell and make some linear games. All this focus on live service and open worlds is too big and ends up wasting a ton of time. I think veilguard was a step in the right direction from a level design perspective, lots of environments without needing to be open worlds.

It's dead. DAV killed it and any hope of there being anything like it again.

The new Mass Effect will kill that franchise as well.

All these "What's next for DA" post make laugh out loud. The franchise is dead, it's literally going nowhere.

If Mass Effect succeeds then it's a possibility that Dragon Age can be brought back.... But for me the og creators (Laidlaw, Gaider, Kirby, etc) have to comeback which I don't see happening. I say this because after the Andromeda storm, EA put Mass Effect on ice cancelling future projects and DLC. Only for years later to bring it back. I'm happy Mass Effect is back but cautious because of everything that is going on in the games industry.

I still don't understand how EA messed up a series that sold 12 million copies on its last entry... Nine years for a game that is so bland and uninspired. I truly believe EA forced Bioware to make this game last minute with reused assets from the two scrapped games they had planned.

If I were EA I would remake Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age 2. And remaster Dragon Age Inquisition. They have to get some goodwill going with the fans as I feel abused by EA at this point.

They should sell it to me for a crisp five dollar bill. I have some bad ideas and nothing to lose.

It doesn't. Be fully prepared for this to be the end.

For me personally? Dragon Age is dead, i was fine with origins, with 2, with inquisition. Veilguard seems like it wanted to take a dump on all of what was established (fucking executors, WHOSE IDEA WAS THAT!?). As far as im personally concerned, Dragon Age ended with Inquisition.

As for it as a game series? It all depends on Mass Effect. If their newest game from that isnt legendary, the company might straight up fail.

If there were any writers left I could see them maybe doing a fix-it novel or two or a world of Thedas vol 3, but as it stands now I think the series is essentially over, and more than that i wouldn't be surprised if EA totally shutters BioWare after ME5 releases

I think it is likely done. Disappointing sales, no DLC, fastest game ever from release to PS+ (aside from a handful planned to launch on +).

Aside from the one particular character who is awful but we have no way of calling out for being awful, I have thought it was decent so far, if not amazing (recently completed assembling the team), but after so long since Inquisition, it is tremendously disappointing.

I’m not rooting for it to fail and end the franchise, that’s my prediction, not my hope.

Toilet for now. But it's bound to be scooped up eventually again. Or it's all mobile games from here on out.

Probably either dead or live service game because they learned all the wrong lessons :/

With BioWare probably nowhere, if Mass Effect is not a massive win, a true masterpiece - BioWare will probably cease to exist for a while. It will not be enough to be just slightly better than Andromeda and the big flop of V.

I would love to see Dragon Age developed by a studio like Larian Studios, rather than current team that builds it like a jigsaw puzzle from different games, with checkboxes at its core....

The urge to just say "Into The Fade".... Must resist.

It's done for. Best we can hope for is that the IP gets sold or they see the value in a faithful DAO/DA2 remake (key word here is FAITHFUL)

Sleep

Into that good night, as a series that has given us much.

Everything must come to an end.

( Or more likely some prequel story)

Easy. Nowhere. If DAV wasn't enough of a nail to the coffin, the secret ending buried everything six feet underground

There's little chance we'll hear about Dragon Age again for a while, the commercial failure that is Veilguard has certainly killed any possibility of seeing a new game in the next few years, maybe later but it will certainly be another attempt at a soft reboot in order to put aside what happened and start on a new basis, with just a few references to the previous games, so in broad terms a bit like they tried with DAV, which resulted in a failure at every level...

If there is a new game I will buy it, because I like the license and I want to make my own opinion, but given this last game, my expectations are really at their lowest and I honestly don't expect anything more from this franchise...

Dead Space 3 and the subsequent death of Visceral could be instructive here. Give it 10 years and we might have a remake of Origins from 0% of the original team.

I don't think Mass Effect 5 will save Bioware unless it's an unprecedented hit

Hopefully nowhere. They have destroyed Ferelden offscreen. Thats already a crime itself that we couldn't help them out whatsoever! Its dead. I don't want to have a "sequel" set idk 1000 years in the future either. Not to mention they butchered so much of the story with Veilguard that i also have no interest to see where its going...

As much as I hate to say it, I think this is it unless they hand it off to another studio. I would love to see it go the way of BG3 like other people are saying, but I don't see Bioware giving it up.

On your point about the characters: The way we interact with our companions in Veilguard made me miss Inquisition so much. I could spend hours in Skyhold chatting with the different characters, and they felt so much more fleshed out and relatable then the companions in Veilguard. Even if I didn't particularly like the character, I loved learning about the world through their eyes. The writing in Veilguard felt...too plot driven? If that makes sense. It didn't let us get to know the characters as people as much as Inquisition, and the writers dropped the ball hard in that aspect.

We fight The Maker!

Circling the drain

The first paragraph tells me you didn’t play BG3.

Away unfortunately.

It’s dead. Give it a decade and EA may fully reboot. If the next ME doesn’t hit BioWare is finished.

A lower stakes political thriller. We can come down from world shattering stakes and maybe keep a story inside a countries borders like DA2 kept us in Kirkwall.

Wait awhile, everyone was saying the same doom and gloom about Mass Effect in 2017-2018 joe they are working on ME5. I think it's more than anything its that Bioware cant work on multiple projects at once anymore with how modern games are made. If Mass Effect is somewhat profitable they will probably become a studio that rotates between Mass Effect and Dragon Age for quite awhile as existing IPs are a better bet for corporations than new IPs even if they have a somewhat soiled reputation

To the cemetery!

Well DAV put it in the toilet so... I guess the sewer system?

BioWare will end up getting kiboshed after Mass Effect so nowhere, most likely

We all hate EA, but one EA can do is make money.

Dragon Age out sold Mass Effect and they just never knew what to do with it.

They will lick their wounds and attempt to come back with some type of low stakes game to try to rebuild the name.

No where. Veilguard read pretty obviously as a send off/closing arc to me with a contractually obligated sequel hook. Bioware is dead and EA shot it. Even if there's more content in the DA universe it wouldn't be the same just be glad it ended on the right foot and move on to different stories.

Realistically, nowhere, it's dead. Even if not dead, I'd only really be interested in buying the next game if they retcon DAV anyway. Other than that, I wouldn't be purchasing the next title no matter what it was.

Same thing happened with me and WoW. I don't even know if TWW is good because Shadowlands completely destroyed my attachment to the story, and without that, I'm not really interested anymore.