"It's Dragon Age Summer" - Community Excitement Reaches A Fever Pitch Ahead Of Dreadwolf Reveal

Highlights

Fans eagerly anticipate the reveal of Dragon Age Dreadwolf at Summer Game Fest for gameplay and release date.
Optimism and excitement are growing in the Dragon Age community as anticipation for the game builds.
Concerns about continuity and reflection of player decisions in Dreadwolf are valid, but lead writer Patrick Weekes has expertly navigated these challenges in the past.

Dragon Age Dreadwolf is expected to receive a full reveal during the upcoming Summer Game Fest showcase on June 7. The reveal will likely feature gameplay and a release date, two things that have eluded the Dragon Age community for the past decade.

Though some people remain cautiously optimistic, a feeling of overwhelming excitement is now beginning to spill over across forums and Dragon Age community spaces. There’s a growing sentiment among fans of the series that this is finally their year.

BioWare has yet to confirm a date for Dragon Age Dreadwolf’s ‘full reveal’, but the studio divulged in a teaser trailer that more will be revealed in summer 2024, a blurb that’s repeated on all of the game’s store pages. Summer Game Fest would be the natural choice for a trailer.

The Long Winter Has Ended

“Honestly? I’m so excited,” reads the top comment of a recent Reddit thread gauging the feeling of the community. The comment follows with an appraisal of the series’ writing team, a group under some implied pressure because of how attached Dragon Age players are to the characters and narrative of the series.

“Perhaps more optimistically than a lot of this subreddit, I really believe in Patrick Weekes [Lead Writer], John Epler [Creative Director] and Matt Rhodes [Art Director] especially but the rest of the team as well. For me, their work has been universally appealing,” the comment continued.

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Continuity between games is a massive aspect of Dragon Age as players enjoy crafting and tweaking their canonical world states. BioWare even created a browser app, Dragon Age Keep, where players can create a customised world state for importing into Dragon Age: Inquisition.

With hundreds of decisions and deviations to account for, BioWare’s writing team had a Herculean narrative design task with Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.

One commenter expressed their concerns about the above, saying “I cannot imagine, storywise, if anybody can create a game that reflects all our decisions. I think Dreadwolf will be an amazing game, but will that game be for us?”

It’s certainly a valid worry, but we’ve seen lead writer Patrick Weekes navigate these canonical challenges expertly in the transition from Origins to 2 and again in the transition from 2 to Inquisition.

“It’s Dragon Age Summer,” reads one apt comment. We certainly hope so.