Dragon Age may not get the same attention as Mass Effect last year.

What do we mean by the previous sentence? Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a remastered collection of the first three parts. All of them remained on Unreal Engine 3, which came out in May for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. (The PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series also ran BioWare’s games via backwards compatibility.) But that’s not what Dragon Age is rumoured to get, but first, let’s talk about the fourth instalment.

Jeff Grubb, who writes for VentureBeat, said on GrubbSnax, a Giant Bomb show that Dragon Age 4″ s development is in pretty good shape. “That brings us to Dragon Age 4, which I’ve heard is in perfect shape. Overall, when they look at where they’re supposed to be at [in the development cycle], they are hitting their milestones and where they’re supposed to be, and the game is on schedule,” Grubb said. Perhaps the game won’t be as buggy as Mass Effect: Andromeda was at launch, especially Anthem (which had its 2.0 version dropped by publisher Electronic Arts).

Grubb added, “It is still at least 18 months out from today, so not early 2023, late 2023, maybe. That seems to be the earliest you can begin to expect it.” The first proper trailer for the game was shown at The Game Awards in December 2020. Could the trilogy get a revival? No, says Grubb, because the Dragon Age games are not as interconnected as the first three Mass Effect games, which were all one coherent story. In the case of Dragon Age, the engine change (Inquisition used the Frostbite engine) complicates the situation, so it would be a lot more work to revive the whole thing. Mass Effect had everything on a single platform, so it was mainly the first part that needed to be brought up to par.

All this is not official, of course!

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