I didn’t tell anyone I was starting Dragon Age: Inquisition. They’re fervent and devoted, which has its charms, but it can also feel like you’re disappointing them when you decide their thing is not your thing. That’s a dick move.) Fans of the franchise take their love of the game very seriously. (As a side note, it’s totally fine to tweet about not liking something, but please never jump into someone else's tweets about how they love something and disagree. People can be casually mean on the internet without intending to, and that happens a lot when you say you don’t like something they do. Then, recently, I picked up Dragon Age: Inquisition on PlayStation 5 and immediately got nervous-not because of the complexity of the game, but the passion of its fans.ĭelving into a well-loved game or series years after its release, when it already has an enthusiastic and devoted fanbase, can be incredibly difficult. Having given up on Origins years ago, I thought Dragon Age was a dungeon of gamer life I’d never enter.

It’s just that there are a lot of them, and throwing oneself into the deep end of a well-established fan community is nothing if not intense. There are toxic corners of any fandom, but Dragon Age players skew toward the Nice end of the spectrum. Let me be clear: This is not a bad thing.

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