Dragon Age: Inquisition is everything that a role-playing game ought to be, a sprawling universe packed with interesting places, people and challenges. It's oozing with romance, adventure and humor with tons of things to do. Lead writer Gaider and the BioWare team have borrowed many ideas that have gone before, but in doing so have created an important RPG that's set the tone for a new generation.

Following his superb speech at GDC this year, excoriating game designers for their lazy depictions of minorities, women and LGBT people, BioWare Montreal developer Manveer Heir received a standing ovation. His passionate plea for a respectful depiction of minorities serves as a useful focal point for a year in which those voices calling for diversity in gaming are finally breaching years of indifference.