Is Dragon Age any good?

If you like Mass Effect, Skyrim and The Witcher, then I'm positive that you will like Dragon Age as well. I've enjoyed playing all of the games you've mentioned, and Dragon Age is probably my favourite game series - probably one of the few which have touched me on a deep, emotional level. I'd go as far as to say that Dragon Age 2 was something of a life-changing experience for me.

Great characters, involving romances and a lot of campy yet sweet humour. The stories, especially that of DA2, are also fairly neat. What else do you need?

Oh, it is absolutely horrible. People here only spend hundreds on hours on the games for the comedy gold in the failed attempts at good writing and gameplay, then come here to talk about it.

Turn away and save yourself from this monstrosity.

It's my favourtie game series!
If you're planning on trying it out, please keep in mind that each and every game of the DA series feels... different. You may hate DAO and love DAI, or vice versa.

This and DAO, OP DAO, is the last BioWare game without a fully voiced protagonist--that is if you only count conversations/cinematics. Oddly, they talk during gameplay, but that gets rather annoying and thus you will be annoyed (your character as well, it seems for some reason), rather easily.

I can already tell I'm going to like this game. Is there anyway to change my characters face or wear a mask?

The Black Emporium continues into DAI, though it's (free) downloadable content.

Note that your helmet (or hood, hat, mask, whatever) generally disappears during cutscenes and at home base.

One further note: there is no multiplayer in DAO or DA2.

yes there is a CC just as there is in Mass Effect

Mmgh, hard to say. DA1 is a lot like updated BG2, with a standard selection of races and the "gather the factions together to fight evil" plot. Writing is slapstick, like you are stuck in a medieval fair parody. Then it forgets it's medieval, and in the end forgets it used to try to be tongue-in-cheek. DA2 is a lot like ME2, centered around a human, but by nature is a story of things just going wrong around the guy. The cast is only second to ME2 imo. DA3 I can't in a good faith recommend, as i have never played a game as unfocused and as devoid of feels. So, I'd recommend buying them one at a time to see if you like each. They are not like ME, they really are three different games. MET is a better franchise, but when there is no fish, a jellyfish is a fish.

I was going to make a joke response, but since people are - mostly - being serious...

DA is easily my favourite RPG series, with Origins (the first one) being easily my favourite. It has the slowest combat of the series and is more like a complicated game of chess.

In general I prefer Inquisition to DA2, but both have their pros and cons.

My suggestion...yes, very much worth a try. Just be aware that the first 2 games look quite dated graphically. If you think or know you won't be bothered by that...go for it.

So I played Mass Effect 1 and 2 and the KOTORs. And I liked them.

But then I ran out! Oh no! (I mean, I replayed 'em, but still.)

At some point, I was hanging out at Gamestop, burning time waiting for my husband to get off work so we could drive home. And the Gamestop minion was like "Want a game?" And I was like "Eh, sure." And rattled off my gaming pedigree (MMOs and the space RPGS). And he pulled Dragon Age 2 out of the bargain bin and said, "Hey, you might like this."

And then I fell in love.

Dragon Age 2 remains my favorite, which is probably all the evidence anyone needs to declare me terrible.

(Of particular note: Me calling my friend who played Dragon Age: Origins up long distance. I asked if there were werewolves in the setting, because I needed to know if this elf was just crazy as balls or if that was something I should take seriously.)

Shame. Shame. Shame.

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Play the DA games or I'll slap your ass with a singularity! .. oops wrong universe.

Draw your weapon oh intrepid and brave warrior, gather your party and advance to find glory forever in the world of Dragon Age.