What's The Deal With: Dragon Age?

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Jason Schreier, Technology, Society & Culture, Maddy Myers, Video Games, Kirk Hamilton

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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For the first time in ten years, a new Dragon Age is out this week. Maddy and Jason give some quick impressions on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, then get into overall series discussion with Kirk. The three of them talk about the long shadow of Origins, how the series has evolved over the years, and why people love Dragon Age characters so much.

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0:00.0	The Dragon Age gets all the attention, but before that age came the Blessed Age, the Storm Age, the Steel Age, the exalted age, and the Towers Age?
0:12.0	Welcome to Triple Click, and why don't they make it Age and the Towers Age?
0:13.2	Welcome to Triple Click and why don't they make a game about the Towers Age?
0:16.6	It's got a nice ring to it.
0:18.2	This week we are of course talking about Dragon Age, a storied RPG series with a new entry
0:22.2	out this week.
0:23.0	How does the Vale Guards stack up to the series legacy?
0:27.0	I'm Kirk Hamilton.
0:31.0	I'm Maddie Myers. And I'm Jason Shrier. Hello hello hello everyone hello my friends
0:39.2	Maddie is wearing a compete shirt I am R. I am R. A R. A. R. I. P.
0:44.0	dearly departed E-Sports website.
0:46.0	It's slowly falling apart.
0:48.0	It's so funny that there was a time when we thought that not only was
0:51.0	e-sports a viable business, it justified like an entire vertical website.
0:55.1	Yeah, you know, it was fun while it lasted and it I feel like the beginning of the end
1:01.2	happened before the pandemic and then that was really just the nail in the coffin.
1:06.0	Although I did really enjoy reading those chapters on Overwatch League and Play Nice, a book by Jason Shrier.
1:12.2	I was excited to get to that. I was like I hope
1:14.8	Jason doesn't skip over that Chicho and you didn't. You didn't and it was
1:20.9	thrilling to relive it all.
1:23.0	I was talking to my colleague Cecilia the other day
1:25.0	I went into the office and I was talking to her about
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