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[The Elder King]

I don't buy that for a second. Dragon Age has always been just as aimless, with lore just as fluid as Mass Effect. Hell, even more so. The lore of the entire Dragon Age world changes from game to game. BioWare also said they had the story of the Mass Effect trilogy planned out when ME1 was released.


I also don't buy that that was ever the plan from the inception of DA2. DA2 set up the Mage/Templar conflict as the coming world-shaking issue but Inquisition ended the entire conflict in it's prologue. They're obviously making it up as they go, just like the Mass Effect team/s.

To be clear, they stated that they planned DAI's story (at least some part of it) as the second Dragon Age game, before creating a new one (Da2), possible for the limited timeframe they got. That's clear by some artworks they shown for Inquisition, where there was a female elven archer with a black mohawk haircut, with the Inquisitor. Earlier in DA2's development they shown a video of some characters in concept arts, and one of member of the party was that elf. Also, there were two other members of the part, a male qunari and a male human Warden. The team kind of seem like being previous versions of Sera, Bull and Blackwall.

 

As for the lore, I'm not sure if they planned Solas/Fen'harel's role from the start, but they definitely already thought of something about him in DA2, since Flemeth was shown as being connected in some way with the elves/dalish. They already planned for her to be Mythal in that game, so they might've already planned Solas. Her role in DAO doesn't seem to imply anything about that, though the connection with the Old Gods (which might be connected in some way with the Evanuris) was there.

[Dalinne]

I hope not. I hate Dragon Age's stupid "new protagonist every game" rule Bioware has set for themselves. 

^^^^ THIS

I want the same PC in a trilogy

[maia0407]

They wrote all the ancient elf stuff (i.e. who and what the elven gods are) before DA:O, so they've been planning Solas's story for a while. And while never confirmed, it's speculated that Hawke was originally intended to be the Inquisitor with DA2 being his origin story, a plan that was dropped following DA2.

Yeah, it appears that the arc throughout the DA series so far has been watching the ramifications of the Evanuris being out of control, finally locked away and the veil created. This act led to the fall of the elves, the disconnect of some from the fade, the fighting between mages and non-mages, the magisters entering the black city and the blight, something going on with Titans and dwarfs, possible creation of the Quanari, Solas' whole DA3 story, etc. To say there has been no story arc is to be blind to the story.

[Fredward]

Second, the cast of MEA has been described as 'greener,' not younger. They could be in their 90's and still be green in the ways of exploration and combat. 

 

Actually they were described as greener and  younger, quote:

 

Walters, referencing the trailer shown, had one big thing to point out: a younger cast of characters seen on-screen. Where players pick up Mass Effect as "a hero who then became a legend," Walters said, Andromeda focuses on characters who are far greener.

 

 

 

 

Bioware's games have always seemed to influence each other, they take bits and pieces that work/seem to have worked and incorporate it in things they're busy with. I do think we'll be sticking with Ryder tho. Probably.

[TurianSpectre]

It's just a hunch, but I feel like they will be doing what Dragon Age is doing with the new mass effect franchise. Dragon Age isn't really considered a trilogy, but the central arching plot tie in throughout the three games. Each game, having a new PC. I just heard that Andromeda will showcase a younger and greener cast. I also feel like we'll see these characters in following games all matured. This is a good thing if I'm right because we'll see a lot of the characters come full circle and properly developed through many years. Does anyone else feel like that's the angle they'll take?

I beg to differ but erm yes it is considering the actions you make in the first game carry over into the other two and you actually get to converse with the Hawke you create in DA 2 so erm yes it is considered a trilogy

[Fredward]

I beg to differ but erm yes it is considering the actions you make in the first game carry over into the other two and you actually get to converse with the Hawke you create in DA 2 so erm yes it is considered a trilogy

 

It's a trilogy in that it's currently three games, it's gonna be four or more in a few years and then it's not a trilogy. It was never planned to be three games specifically hence not a trilogy.

[DarthLaxian]

I hope not. I hate Dragon Age's stupid "new protagonist every game" rule Bioware has set for themselves. 

 

Well, it's got its drawbacks, sure (like not seeing the character progress over several games), but it's got many advantages, too like:

 

Stories are finished after one game (some stuff might tie into the next game, but the main plot of one game is finished, which is great, too because a bad game won't ruin the series (even 2 not so great games don't ruin the first game in this case!)) and you can look at new things and different countries (in ME that would probably different nations/species!) in each game (so far we've seen Ferelden, Orlais and the Free Marches - still some ground to cover left, like the Anderfells, Antiva, Rivain, Nevarra and the Tevinter Imperium and even after that we can go full circle and return to places we've already seen!) with their own politics, intrigues etc.!