ok i cant take not knowing. what the hell even is dragon age. ive never seen it mentioned anywhere outside of this blog and the monstrous productions server. i feel like a scholar going mad with a thirst for arcane knowledge
omg I love that you’ve been sitting there for however many weeks like, “Wow what an infinitely googleable conundrum. Guess I’ll never know!”
Dragon Age is a series of fantasy adventure RPGs (and some books and spin-off things but mostly the games) by Bioware that has made many people insane for many reasons.
Veilguard is the 4th game in the series, it came out this Hallowe'en just gone. The 3rd game came out ten years ago. As you can imagine, the people who have been insane about Dragon Age for over a decade have generally all gone a little more insane with this new release.
Trying to be as objective as I can, I think the reason DA makes people insane is that the games tend to fall into that sweet spot of “good enough to make you love it, bad enough to make you want to fix it”. The combat is pretty universally terrible, the writing is uneven and occasionally appalling, but each game has a set of companions for you to obsess over and a lot of people feel very strongly about the player characters they’ve created for each game.
I also think DA does a really good job of pretending that your choices really matter from game to game, even though we all know it’s just set dressing. You’re never going to get a profoundly different game than anyone else, but you still get to feel attached to the decisions you do make. In a lot of ways, the game you’re enjoying as you play a Dragon Age game is at least 50% made up in your own head and has to do with how you’re projecting onto the world and the roleplaying choices you’re making. And I love it very very very very much 💖💖💖💖💖💖