Dragon Age is a game made by BioWare and currently has two installments (Origins and two), a third one, Inquisition, is due to be released in the Fall of 2014.
Dragon Age Orgins Starts you out playing as a race/origin of your choosing. There are many options from human, dwarf, elf, and then sub-origins from there, such as a dwarf commoner or noble. After that you go through a short introduction sequence, just to get used to the game (all of them are different). After a bit you
meet a man named Duncan who decided to have you travel with him. He makes you into whats called a grey warden and recruits you to fight in a war against an un-dead enemy called the darkspawn, led by a huge dragon. During the war you troops are betrayed, resulting in the death of the king and the destruction of the city. Your job is to travel the world of Ferelden, gathering team members, and seeking revenge for the fallen king on the man who betrayed him, plus a little romance on the side never hurts.
In Dragon Age 2 you start out the game as refugees from that very town that was destroyed during the war in Origins. You need to fight your way out of Ferelden and into a place called Kirkwall. You can only play as a human in this one, but you get to choose between a warrior, mage, or rogue. Once in Kirkwall you find
yourself in poverty and seeking the aide of a dwarf to go onto 'a life changing mission'. You need to fight your way back into the higher ranks of the city and stop the ever boiling war between the mages, the templars, and the very unwelcome 'guests' know as the Qunari.
This is one of my favorite game series for the PS3 of all time. I was debating doing 1 and 2 in different reviews but decided to combine the two. Origins is great fun and dangerously addicting. There are so many different twists, turns and side trips you can take (or avoid), along with the huge amount of downloadable content that's available for purchase. There are so many decisions you have to make and that's something, in my opinion, that sets this game apart from so many others. You can radically change the outcome of the game and one of my favorite parts is that, if you've played both games on the same system, the choices you made in 1 can carry over into 2. For example, one character in the first game, Zevran, attacks you. You have the choice to kill him and let him join your team. If you let him join you, then he shows up a few other times in 2 and if you develop a romance with him in 1 then he mentions that 'he's already spoken for' in two (you're given the option to sleep with him, if you don't romance him in 1 then he doesn't deny you). If you have him killed in 1 then he doesn't come up at all in 2, the options are limitless.
Dragon Age 2 is a huge leap in graphics and is actually my preferred game of the two. One big draw back to 2 is that you have to play as a human, unlike Dragon Age 1 where you get to choose from 3 races. The fighting style is also drastically different, especially when it comes to mages. Where in 1 you're strictly limited to magic/long distance attacks, in two, mages can get up close and actually beat people with that cool stick they always carry around, on top of many more spells that can be taught. Dragon Age 2 also has a system where you HAVE to play through everything and do every mission in order to proceed through the story, which, depending on the person, can be good or bad. It's incredibly time consuming and sometimes gets a little dull or boring with the lengthy dialog, however it does ensure that you don't miss anything, whereas in 1 you can skip right through the minor side missions and miss a large portion of the main story if you're not careful.
Overall these two games are both incredibly fun and I sit impatiently waiting for the third. I would highly
suggest getting these two games together and playing them in order (it's not that hard people, there are only 2). The fact that the first game carries into the second is very interesting and makes all the effort you put into the first one shine though into the second, which is surprisingly satisfying.
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