The thing that cracks me up was that he was the one that got me hooked on dragon age. He was playing it for years before I discovered it and although he doesn't have the same passion for it that I do you would think that some of the game would stick in his memory! It can be fun though, when we got DA:2 I sat behind him the whole time and dictated to him on who he was going to romance and I made his character for him in the CC--he was totally hawt by the way! 
My ex ended up hating Dragon Age as well, but his reasons were more down to jealousy... and the fact that he was effin' mental. 
He'd borrowed it from one of my friends but hadn't got around to playing it, so it had just sat there for months. Our relationship was on the rocks (to be fair it had been from the start, lol) and I was suffering from deep depression (he treated me terribly and I'd been suffering from depression on and off for years anyway), so I figured I should probably take the game home with me before sh!t hit the fan, otherwise it would be me that would have to buy my friend a new copy of it.
Anyway, whilst I was at his house he had to go for a 2 hour driving lesson and I was bored, so I figured I'd try out this Dragon Age: Origins game (having no prior knowledge of it)... I actually thought it was going to be one of those top down "defend your land" type of games, so I was fully expecting to get bored of it after the first 15 minutes. Boy was I wrong! By the time I'd hit lothering I was engrossed, then of course we meet Alistair and that was it, I was hooked. I spent days/weeks playing it constantly and my ex actually got jealous of Alistair, he said that I liked a pixelated man more than him (which was true, LOL!)
... Hell, if it wasn't for Dragon Age, Alistair's romance, and the general group dynamic of my Warden and her companions I suspect it would have taken me a lot longer to admit to myself that I wasn't being treated right in my then-relationship, and that the vast majority of the company I had kept for years were actually pretty awful and not really friends at all. I owe a lot to that game, and to the whole franchise in general... it's been far more beneficial to me than it's intended purpose of just being a source of entertainment. 