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[ThePasserby]

I was excited about this expansion when it was first announced. But now that more details about the game has been released, I'm pretty sure I won't be buying it unless reviews are really good. A few reasons:

1) Price. This costs roughly 80% of DA:O but has significantly less content - 15 hours. Might get it if the price is lowered over time, assuming my interest in this franchise hasn't waned by then. Even considering that it's an expansion, it doesn't feel like an expansion because of the following point:

2) Too stand-alone. For the price, I'd expect them to put in more effort to integrate this expansion with DA:O. Apart from killing more darkspawn, your PC is cut off from DA:O - none of your companions present beyond cameos except for Oghren; no romances carrying over; and most of the DLC items also not carrying over. So I feel like I'm buying an expansion that is only remotely related to the main game for a price that's too high. It's like a helicopter plucked my Warden and tore him away from friends and companions and air-dropped him into another place and time, cut off from the people important to him, with the command "go forth, and kill more darkspawn!".

Based on the content as advertised and the selling price, I won't get it. Fortunately, I'm in the midst of my 5th playthrough of ME2 and eagerly awaiting the Hammerhead and the Kasumi DLCs. I'll still be entertained by Bioware products; just that my poor Warden's story won't advance beyond roaming the land with Leliana.

[grieferbastard]

noctoi wrote...
ok, said before, but not on this thread so here goes... 

A) I have a dog, he is my friend, I do NOT leave him home with someone else while I go off galavanting for months on end. This would go double if he was a trained war dog and i was going off to war. The mabari are inteligent to the point of sentience and he makes a far more satisfying conversation companion than a drunken dwarf, so why would I not bring him along? 

Alistair has never become king in any of my play-throughs so the expansion completely contradicts my endings, its not a small discrepancy, its a rather large plot hole. If it was going to be so blatently disregarded maybe it should have been thought of before DAO A was written, and patched accordingly.

C) In two of my playthroughs my Char's had an open relationship with Zev and messed around with everyone else on the side so there is no reason that those characters should have any qualms with hitting on new companions. It is a known fact that many people use sex as a re-affirmation of life in situations of extreme pain or violence so I think it pulls down the realism of the game to exclude the ability to at least flirt. Sure, leave out the "romance" if  the patch is only supposed to cover a month or 2 but leave the realism in, there is not need to confuse sexuality with romance... Zev didn't for most of his dialogue lol. It may only make up a tiny portion of the game, unimportant to the main storyline, but it is integral to the realism for many people. If its such a small thing, leave it in!!!

D) Fine, leave out the DLC armor.. big woop... But I want my damn gollem!!! Hmph!!  Actually, let me amend that... If i PAID for the DLC, I want to KEEP the DLC. Simple as that. Scrap something I have paid for and I won't pay for it again in future. 

In the end, people who don't care about complete content role playing will still tell people like me to shut up, and we will keep saying the same thing over and over... If i wanted to dungeon hack Id buy the appropriate game, If i want to role play, Ill buy an RPG and expect the same level of interpersonal interaction as DAO. anything less isn't role playing, its a hackfest. If i was playing a table top RPG and my GM did what the dragon age writers did with the lack of reasonable excuses that they show, Id sack my GM and join a new game. 

*end rant*

Okay. This has nothing to do with 'complete content role playing'. It has to do with reality.

Awakenings is 20 hours of content. DA:O was about 100-120 hours of content. Awakenings took about a year to produce, little less, and with a fraction of the budget. DA:O was around 5 years and with a huge budget.

If you import a character and Alistair wasn't king he won't be king in the game you import - the only possible exception to that is if your character had a US ending. It sounds like US characters can't be imported (without ignoring the US ending) and thus such decisions won't carry forward.

Writing relationship options and sex options and such requires a certain amount of resources. It was decided, based on the whole 20 vs 120 hours and small vs large budget thing that it was better to cut it out than have either a weaker core story or a half-done quasi-romance. Besides most characters had some romance with a prior character (which were not going to be represented in Awakenings) and thus many wouldn't even use such an option.

There were compatability issues with most DLC. Some are going to be tweaked to fit some are not. As noted prior they're working to get as much content modified to fit as possible by release but they're not going to push release back to accomidate it.

Hey. I'd love it if they could release in one year the same scope and quality of product as they released after five and for a fraction of the cost. I bet BioWare wish that even more than you and I do. This is an expansion however. Not a full game. It's a particular piece of story added to the epic that is DA:O. If you don't value what it has to offer, don't buy it. Trying to pretend that somehow the reality of business and game development should just be ignored so you can get what you want is not an attitude that's likely to earn a lot of sympathy however.

[bluewolv1970]

IMO anyone who could enjoy the game if it was a standalone - will probabaly enjoy awakenings - anyone who enjoys continuity and a sense of connection from dragon age origins will probably NOT enjoy the expansion - it seems that if you prefer dungeon crawls (like the deep roads), you will probably enjoy awakenings as well -

[Melca36]

They said it won't be like your romances have broken up. They are on hold. Just enjoy the expansion for what it is.