Dragon Age - Interview @ Dasgamer

Greg Zeschuk chats to a site called Dasgamer about Dragon Age, covering some general topics such as this:

How does this game differ from past BioWare fantasy RPGs?
Dr. Greg Zeschuk: One of the things that we’re really doing with this game being is telling people this is a gritty, realistic, tough place to live. We look at traditional fantasies and it’s hard to describe — it’s like airy faerie, bright and shiny and the elves are happy and the hobbits are jolly. That’s not the world of Dragon Age. We describe it as dark heroic fantasy. Heroic is that epic sense that great knights and great warriors are famous for. The dark part really is those gritty mature storylines. We’re writing very much from an end perspective, so it won’t be a nice, light, soft fantasy. Some of these situations are really brutal and tough and they’re quite jarring. We’ve actually launched the player right into those right when they start the game. The actual game itself is impactful. It’s emotionally jarring and I think it’s very gritty and people will see it very differently than they see a traditional fantasy game.