And then suddenly it did, but as a measure of the game’s relative emotional complexity, it didn’t go as planned. I waited patiently for the moment when our relentless, banterous flirting would come to its explosive conclusion. When I wasn’t slaughtering enemies, I would go and chat to him in the library (where he could often be found perusing the Dragon Age equivalent of Mills & Boon novels), just to hear about his day. So yes, I ditched Freddie Prinze Beefcake and became devoted to my lovely sarcastic mage. I took to him immediately, and as I wandered the pastoral paradise of the Hinterlands and the opulent city of Val Royeaux, he was always ready with some wiseass joke about pretty much every dire situation we found ourselves in. Turning up early in the game as an optional companion, Dorian is a terribly posh upper-class mage, with a hipster moustache and a painful past. Why would anyone pass up that opportunity? Through the game’s intricate conversation system, you’re able to conduct elaborate affairs with computer-controlled characters, one of whom is – yes – a 10-foot man-bull voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, you play a character of your own creation, tasked with saving the vast and cultured world of Thedas from, well, a big green bad thing in the sky that spawns demons. This is, after all BioWare, a studio renowned for exploring human relationships – or in the case of its Mass Effect sci-fi series, intergalactic pansexual human-alien relationships. W hen I started playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, the latest narrative adventure from Canadian developer Bioware, I thought it was going to be like any other epic fantasy role-playing game – except that at some point, it would allow me to do the no-pants dance with a 10-foot man-bull voiced by Hollywood actor Freddie Prinze Jr.
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