Dragon Age

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About

Dragon Age is a high-fantasy action role-playing video game series developed by Bioware and published by EA Games. The series has garnered a devoted following and a strong online presence.

Premise

The world of Dragon Age is known as Thedas. In the three main games, the player controls the Grey Warden, Hawke, and the Inquisitor respectively. Each character’s background as well as their names are chosen by the player. Each of these characters face their own unique political problem that they must solve with peculiar individuals who become party members along the way.

History

Reception

The trilogy is praised highly. Dragon Age Origins received a metascore of 91/100 from Metacritic^[8] and a 9.5/10 from gamespot^[9]. Dragon Age II received a score of 8/10 from gamespot,^[10] an 8.5/10 from IGN^[11] and a metascore of 82/100 from Metacritic^[12]. Dragon Age Inquisition received a metascore of 85/100 from Metacritic^[13] and a 9/10 from gamespot^[14]. The series is mostly praised for having intricately-woven lore and endearing characters.

Impact

Online Relevance

There are multiple official sites for the games such as Dragon Age Keep^[16], Dragon Age Inquisition^[17], Dragon Age Origins^[18] Dragon Age Journeys^[19], and a Twitter account with roughly 225,000 followers.^[15]

Fandom

The devoted following of Dragon Age are well represented throughout the internet. The Dragon Age Wiki currently has a staggering number of 11,525 pages.^[1] A sub-reddit dedicated to the series has 52,366 subscribers.^[2] Dragon Age holds the sixth place of Fanfiction.net’s Video Game category with approximately 17,000 fanfictions.^[3] Fans of the series on tumblr are also well-represented^[4] with multiple blogs dedicated to the games such as confession blogs^[5] and news blogs.^[6] DeviantArt’s search bar yields a large 202,009 results for ‘dragon age’.^[7]

Various Fan-Art

Cosplays

Related Memes

X Approves

X Approves is a remark often stated by the game after the player has made a decision in several of the choices presented in the game. It shows if the party members are approving or disapproving of the player’s actions, which can make or break their relationship with them.