Its sequel, Dragon Age II, however, took a different approach, in which all romances were available to either gender choice by the player. The first game, Dragon Age: Origins, included four romanceable characters: a male and a female straight character, and a male and a female bisexual character, so that two opposite-sex options and one same-sex are available regardless of the player’s gender choice.
Suffice it to say here that they are fantasy role-playing games where you, as a protagonist of the gender of your choice, lead a party of adventurers your relationships with your party members make up a key component of the game, and in some cases those relationships may be romantic and sexual. You can get basic information on the Dragon Age games by poking around online, and anything I could tell you would be gleaned from doing the same thing myself, so I’ll let you read up on them on your own if you’re unfamiliar. Hoping to get an insider perspective – and a range of perspectives, for that matter – I asked around online, and several queer Dragon Age fans out there were kind enough to tell me about the characters and relationships available, as well as their thoughts on the games. I guess “expertise” about any of the stuff in this column is debatable, but given my general approach, I’d like to at least have some basis in personal experience. …Yeah, so that’s a fairly substantial problem. There was only one problem, though: I’ve never actually played any Dragon Age games! The Dragon Age series of games is currently one of BioWare’s big titles, and with the newest installment, Dragon Age: Inquisition, debuting this week, I thought it would be a good time to talk about those particular games in a little more depth. In my first column, I touched briefly on Canadian game developer BioWare and their inclusion of same-sex relationships and queer characters.
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