Dragon Age 4: Every Rumour & Leak You NEED To Know

8. Heists And Spies Were The Original Focus

The cancellation of the first Dragon Age 4 is something to be mourned because, as Schreier detailed, everything sounded positive. The devs who were working on it have explained how there was a real passion for the project after the difficult development of Inquisition, and the leads had committed to a smoother production cycle.

What was particularly interesting about this first version though, was that it was intended to be a smaller-scale affair than the sprawling Inquisition.

The idea was that players would take control of a group of spies, with gameplay occasionally focusing on infiltrating large environments to pull off heists. One of the best missions in Inquisition actually took a very similar approach, so there was a precedent for the team to build upon this element into a full game.

The idea of controlling spies, bribing and sneaking your way into environments, would have brought something new to Dragon Age, and made the scale of the game far more intimate.

Sadly, nobody really knows if that's being carried over to the new version.