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If only Bioware were Valve and gave out DLC for free. Sigh. I'm not buying it. Got a hundred hours of playtime why bother with just a few more? | |
Oh come on. It's impossible to miss, surely. The guy has a big glowing exclamation mark on his head and the flower you need is across the path you're forced to take to continue the game. Not to mention Human Noble origin gets him for free automatically. That's like people missing Leliana because they didn't visit the tavern in an RPG. Such things boggle the mind. Edit: Grats on 8k Posts Maly :P | |
In before any number of "it should've been in the game"/"DLC=ripoff" posts. Sounds neat, though you might want to stick a spoiler alert up there. | |
I'll pick this up. I've played through the main story once, just started on my second go-round with another class/origin. There's just so much to do and see in this game, and I was absolutely blown away by the detail to the setting and characters. I'll be glad to shell out 5 bucks for DLC that's up to those standards, just as I'd rather keep playing a game I thoroughly enjoy than make myself finish games I don't actually like. Besides, I'm ready for some payback after the beating we had to take at Ostagar. | |
$50 for 50+ hours of gameplay vs $5 for 1-2 hours of gameplay... nice balance, there. Eh, I'm a sucker for this game so I'll buy it anyway, so I guess I'm part of the problem. Still, I don't like all these micropayments. The game has been out for barely half a month and already there are two DLCs to pay for... | |
Happily pick this up when it comes out, found the other dlc's to be worth it. | |
Hmm, this seems like something that should have been included in the game for sure, but I know I'll be getting it anyway. | |
so thats where she is, i was wondering about that, ive heard that there where two love interests, and i wasted allot of time and gifts trying to get freaky whit Wynne. i assume that the dlc will be available even though you have completed the game, also as i just completed it today and have yet to get this off my chest. WTF! after 60+ hours of playing this game i was excepting closure, not just a bunch of text boxes all ending whit "for now", "or will they?" and "as far as we know". i want closure, i want "and they lived happily ever after", this could be forgiven in allot of other games that doesn't really focus on story, but in a bloody rpg! | |
I'll be getting it...and just about another other DLC that get's released for it. Awesome game. | |
My brother missed her and Sten :P Just ran right through that town | |
*squee* | |
What. The. F***. People say Bungie is milking Halo (A franchise they don't own), but Bioware gets away with 2 DLC in less than a month? One on the day it came out? WHY?!?! Look, drop the double standard or stop complaining about DLC people! | |
Boooooooooo I was hoping for a patch that allowed more party members. Oh well. :) | |
What double standards? Fans have been complaining about this ever since the first DLC was announced. Try paying attention before you start whining about how your precious Halo is treated unfairly. | |
Sqwee!!! ...and it's only 5 bucks, which is great... | |
"Hey, Mr. Head of the Design Team, I've got a great idea for the game we've just started working on that won't be finished until 18 months from now." "Nah, we're good for now. Save it for when we start talking DLC, okay kid?" | |
Pay for it and enjoy it, or don't pay for it and don't enjoy it. Don't complain about it. 5 Dollars for a couple hours of entertainment is still a pretty good deal. Compare that to the ticket price to a movie. Hell, even renting the movie from blockbuster will cost you almost that. And you own this content for your enjoyment after downloading. Quit whining. | |
Have you every developed software before or are familiar with the process beyond your base assumptions? If not please see here. | |
Three love interest per gender. Alistair, Zevran and Leliana for lasses; Morrigan, Zevran and Leliana for lads.
Pardon my french, but your brother's a fecking idiot. Morrigan even says that you should visit Lothering because it has a tavern where you might be able to get information. I think the Templar outside Lothering Chantry complains about the tavern as well. | |
but why cant i get freaky whit Wynne, she even admits to some times seek the "company" of some of the other mages back in the tower, adn i freaking talked her up, saved her life and showered her whit gifts. | |
Oh the irony. | |
I have read that, yes. And for the most part, I'm sure that it's accurate, and it certainly explains how games can have DLC out of the gate, say, a month or two after release. But I'm not thoroughly convinced--considering that there have already been 3 DLC offerings for Dragon Age and the game is only a couple of weeks old--that this didn't happen at least once. Also, you know that developers/publishers are not ignorant of this new revenue source they have going on here. I won't be convinced that--at least sometimes--they actively plan content for DLC long before the game is done with its main development cycle. | |
What can say? I'm goddamn prescient. Or maybe I'm just good at spotting posting trends. | |
Fucking useless. Let's go back to a place we've already been, fight things we've fought before, get a re-skinned armor and get Dog if for some stupid reason, you haven't already. | |
Don't want it? Don't buy it. | |
Hmmmm as far as I can tell this is just like all the other main areas in the game. A few quests some items some moral choices and things to kill. There are 14 main areas in the original game. the original game costs $49.99. That's $3.57 per area, but for some reason the PC DLC is $7.00? I really want the DLC for this game, and I would pay $4.00 maybe $5.00 for it.... but double the price for the content is a little excessive Bioware. | |
I'm just going to wait for the "Dragon Age: Origins" ultimate-pack thing in a year or so that has the game and all the DLC for a lower price. I'm not feeling any rush to pick this game up, and if they're going to keep cranking out pay-to-play content I'll save my wallet some grief and wait until it's all in one affordable package. | |
I'll admit I already have an anti-DLC bias and am not an owner of this game, but even to me this is a really stupid "announcement" stunt Bioware pulled here. If you're going to build up hype and/or suspense by saying "something cool on the website Thurday", whatever you are pitching had better be AVAILABLE that day. Not "Come here Thursday when we will reveal something you can get a month or two later". Just use the first announcement to announce the fucking DLC and be done with it! ESPECIALLY when announcing something that isn't any bit a surprise. That's like the Sims announcing they are planning to do expansion packs. Well DUH, everyone and their fucking Sim DOG knows they'll do at least a dozen expansions, some stuff packs, a collectors edition, deluxe, double deluxe, and when the game is old and buried, a Complete edition. | |
I'm a little concerned that all they can say about it is that you get to fight darkspawn in Ostagar (again), there's more named loot and you can get dog again. A developer on the Bioware forums also said it would probably take a first time player about 1 hour. I really can't be bothered with that, not out of a monetary complaint, but it just seems like a bit of a waste of time. Edit:
While the 'don't buy it' reply is entirely valid, it does miss the point a little. I agree that people should calm down a bit about this stuff, but we've come to expect quality stuff from Bioware, and a 1 hour, re-textured dungeon with some more armour isn't particularly great. I know it barely costs anything, but it does seem like a slight waste of time. | |
I rarely if ever buy downloadable content. Never has appealed too much for me. Heck, I waited until Oblivion: Game of the Year edition came out, before buying it. Personally, I'm hoping for something that'll teach us more about the Darkspawn. They're something of an enigma when it comes to why they are the way they are. I think the dwarven character sums it up well enough. "You kill them. What else is there to know?" What else indeed! Ah, but irrelevant tangent aside...this probably won't sway me to start buying DLC. | |
Seriously what do you expect? People to just go to work for free? Last I checked Valve doesn't release tons of dlc for free either. They do some, but what you seem to expect is that if hl episode3 came out tomorrow you wouldn't need to pay for it. I may not buy it right away and instead wait for a few dlc's to come out but I think an extra $5-10 for a few more hours is a hell of a lot better then $50-60 in a year or 2 for a sequel. I can't be the only one that thinks that games like MW2 would have been just as good if it were just a dlc for CoD4 but came out 6 months ago at $25, instead of a week ago at $60. | |
5 bucks is 5 bucks, I'll love more. :D | |
*cough* I actually did miss Leliana, hell I didn't even know she existed until I checked the Dragon Age site. I digust myself sometimes. | |
I'm not going to say anything along the lines of "It should have been released on the game disc" since it likely isn't even finished as of now otherwise it probably already would be available. I will, however, say that it is unfortunate that it wasn't. | |
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BioWare Reveals Return to Ostagar DLC for Dragon Age: Origins
BioWare has announced Return to Ostagar, a new downloadable content pack for Dragon Age: Origins, coming this winter.
BioWare hinted on its Facebook and Twitter pages last night that "something cool" was in the offing for Dragon Age: Origins and as many suspected, the studio was talking about new DLC. In Return to Ostagar, players will make their way back to Ostagar, "the site of the Grey Wardens' darkest hour," where they will seek to reclaim the honor of the fallen King Cailan.
Returning to the Darkspawn-infested battlefield, players will undertake a new quest that will lead them to discover the king's most secret political agenda and ultimately take them behind enemy lines to "a place that many feared had been lost to history." Players will finally be given the chance to exact their revenge on the Darkspawn and, for those who missed it, another opportunity to add Dog to the party.
"The Return to Ostagar DLC pack is a prime example of BioWare's commitment to give fans a game that continuously offers new experiences and further enriches a storyline that has already received critical acclaim and positive feedback from the players," said BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka. Return to Ostagar will be released this winter and will cost 400 BioWare Points on the PC, 400 Microsoft points on the Xbox 360 and $4.99 on the PlayStation store.
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