Summary
Michael Gamble, aBioWareveteran, the lead onMass Effect 5and an avid poster, has once again blessed our timelines with a tease for one of the studio’s upcoming projects. Is he talking aboutDragon Age: The Veilguard, Mass Effect 5 or just tantalising us, the masses, with some vague information for kicks? Who’s to know? It could even be all of the above.
In response to a post on social media about Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 not having multiple endings, Gamble responded “We like multiple endings.” Now, that’s not a lot to go on, but he’s probably teasing something to do with one of the studio’s upcoming projects. We’re only about a week out from Dragon Age: The Veilguard so we won’t have to wait long to find out if our favourite high fantasy RPG with Qunari has multiple endings.
Dragon Age has always had multiple endings in a sense. While there aren’t always wildly different outcomes, we do get variations on the game’s climactic moments, and subsequent epilogue slides that tell us about the fate of every major character that the player interacted with on their journey.
Blue, Red or Green?
As for Mass Effect 5, the project Gamble is actively working on, we don’t know a lot about it. We know that it exists, and we’ve seen a couple of teaser trailers, but it’s safe to assume the project is still in pre-production. N7 (November 7) Day last year brought us ateaser trailerof a feminine-looking character in N7 armour strolling down a hallway, pistol drawn. This was accompanied by snippets of cryptic information that reference humanity and the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Mass Effect series certainly has multiple endings. You can’t even import your save from Mass Effect 2 to Mass Effect 3 if the former ends a certain way. Mass Effect 3’s ending is quite infamous, and not something worth labouring on about so many years later.
Though narratives often change between pre-production and the final release, as we’ve seen with Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Avowed, we can at least see that Gamble and his team have an idea of where they want to take the series' narrative. In ablog poston last year’s N7 Day, BioWare revealed that all the fan’s canon questions “have answers.” This year’s N7 Day is just a couple of weeks away, so we’ll likely have another snippet of information and subsequent wild speculation then.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
