Originally Posted by Phonix
No, I think you have misunderstand something, its not new, its jus another genre that you are used to? There are two kind of Fantasy genre, High Fantasy and Dark Fantasy, there Bioware has tried to make Dragon Age the later.

Swords & Sorcery, Urban Fantasy, and so forth. There's by far more than two forms of Fantasy. What about Conan? That's not dark fantasy, nor is it high fantasy - It's the Sword & Sorcery series (If not the one that strongly inspired the subgenre).