This month, Dragon Age has forced its way back into the 2024 conversation - first with a name change, followed by a release window, and then a fresh gameplay deep dive from EA. The reaction to all of this news so far has been perhaps a little mixed; none more so than the game's new name of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
We must admit, we too think BioWare's old name of 'Dragon Age: Dreadwolf' just had a cooler sound to it - but 'The Veilguard' it now is. And, in a new piece from Game Informer, various members of the development team have gone into more detail about the name change.
The outlet asked various BioWare devs the same question — 'why the name change?' — and basically all of them said that it was due to how integral the game's companions are. With these companions collectively being called the Veilguard, that became the clear choice for a subtitle.
"As we were building this game, it became really clear that it was less that we were trying to make The Veilguard and more like The Veilguard was taking shape as we built the game.
Solas is still a central figure in it. He's still a significant character. But really, the focus shifts to the team.
[We] realized Dreadwolf suggests a title focused on a specific individual, whereas The Veilguard, much like Inquisition, focuses more on the team."
Earlier this month, our Video Producer Craig got some great hands-on time with the new Dragon Age - and he's already put pen-to-digital-paper on his initial thoughts of The Veilguard. We'll drop this Pure Xbox preview down below!
Give us your opinion on BioWare's new Dragon Age name down in the comments section below.
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[source gameinformer.com]
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Tell that to Zelda & Link... game name doesn't have to match the content.
End of the day Dreadwolf was a cooler name and what we knew it as, should have stuck with that imho, but I suspect this isn't the full story, only the PR version.
I think the name change makes sense. Things do change during development, sometimes drastically. Similar to rescoping, that's normal.
"We decided that Dreadwolf was way too cool of a name and wanted to make it sound more generic and milquetoast to stifle the hype of the game..." Some intern in marketing...
They could have named it Dragon Age: Chupacabra Chihuahua and I would be ok with it as long as it was a good game.
From the game play trailer it does appear that Dreadwolf is the primary focus at the beginning but then something happens and from the end of the trailer looks like to be a lot more the the wolf and Vielguard actually makes sense from the little that is currently known about the story.
So long as the game is good the name will become irrelevant.
IDK that gameplay video looked terrible to me it def had a dragon age 2 vibe closed sets down a narrow path. Maybe the other zones open up and make it better but right now it just seemed terrible to me. I will def buy it though as i love the lore about the veil and golden city and it will be a great story I'm sure. Just seemed claustrophobic to me though.
Now that they toss away a cool name, if you are a developer, needs a cool name for your game, now it’s the time.
Honestly its the "THE" of it all that is annoying. I agree that Dreadwolf sounds cooler, but the colon : THE takes you out of it and its so awkward to say and pronounce, which you'd think someone in marketing might understand but why would I expect some c-suite CEO to understand that. :shrugs:
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