Awakening will be released March 16 for $39.99 on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. A copy of the original Dragon Age: Origins is required to play.
You'd hoped that after investing 60 hours of your life, you could hang up your sword and catch a breather until the next BioWare RPG, but, oh no, the Darkspawn did not simply disappear. Thankfully, today's announcement of Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, a retail expansion to IGN's & Spike's RPG of the Year Joystiq's "4th Best of 2009," has been accompanied by this video pep talk. After all, you have quite the task ahead of you.
Awakening will be released March 16 for $39.99 on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. A copy of the original Dragon Age: Origins is required to play.
Awakening will be released March 16 for $39.99 on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. A copy of the original Dragon Age: Origins is required to play.
Reader Comments (68)
Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:32PM (Unverified) said
I wonder...could we install it and sell the disc?
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:40PM (Unverified) said
You could with the Fallout DLC. This says it needs the original to run, which tells me that you're installing it...just a thought.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:05PM (Unverified) said
I'm not sure about selling it back, but it looks like the Shivering Isles type deal where you can add it to your friend's systems.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:33PM (Unverified) said
Aah, of course. He's got an apostrophe to prevent replies.
Leaves one option. *clicks !*
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Leaves one option. *clicks !*
Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:37PM (Unverified) said
Who are we talking to? Can I reply to him too?
You tell your kids to stay off my lawn!
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You tell your kids to stay off my lawn!
Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:41PM (Unverified) said
Let me try something.
Would you kindly leave Joystiq and go to Kotaku?
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Would you kindly leave Joystiq and go to Kotaku?
Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:47PM (Unverified) said
So, Bradwart...you log into different email addresses and have conversations with yourself? Someone spends too much time at their computer, methinks.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:55PM TheDarkWayne said
R055, you've clearly been tricked by Demo's clever ruse. I don't know if you were there for it, but a prominent troll accidentally revealed he was several people, Demo is taking advantage of that to make it look like he and bradwart are the same even though this time, they aren't
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:37PM Dr Perry Ulysses Cox said
More Dragon Age is a good thing in my book.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2010 12:42AM Xylon Uxkid said
You should check the books! Im reading the first one and its totally awesome.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:38PM Nier said
At first I was really confused as to why an expansion was coming out so soon, since I had just beaten the game, but now I'm super fucking excited! More Alistair! Yaaaaaaay!
I'm wondering how the story will work into all the endings... Now that I think about it, I don't remember which saves have which endings. Shit...
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I'm wondering how the story will work into all the endings... Now that I think about it, I don't remember which saves have which endings. Shit...
Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:40PM (Unverified) said
Why do I have to enter my age again? I wonder if the amount of people born Dec 1 1900 will ever tip these guys off.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:41PM (Unverified) said
Good to see Allistair playing a prominent role in this. It looks like it will be really damn good.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:56PM (Unverified) said
Most likely. Depending on how it is treated, could be a full set of trophies and 1000/1000 for the Xbox version.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:17PM TheDarkWayne said
the new DLC, return to ostagar, only added 25 gamerscore bringing it to 1125 out of a possible 1750, so that means they're saving a lot of achievements and of course i would assume trophies, so i think it's a safe bet that this expansion will have a whole lot of them, maybe not the maximum allowable cause im sure they want to do more dlc after this, but id guess itll bring us to at least 1250
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:57PM (Unverified) said
This (so far) is being treated like a full retail release. It's not inconceivable to see another 1000 points added from the expansion.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 5:19PM TheDarkWayne said
if what it said about needing the original copy is true that makes it seem like an install, which to me would mean addition to the first game, and not have two 1000/1000 on one game
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 5:59PM The Pirate said
Hmm its a toss up. Since its on a Disc and it is retail then it may have a full set of trophies (excluding the Plat). But then again, it is only an expansion
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 3:58PM (Unverified) said
Or, it could be being used in the honorific format...
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:14PM baby sea tuna said
Or, it could be because it's a line from the trailer.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:10PM DeeZeee said
Also I'm happy to see Alister! Hopefully they'll allow us to use our Origins Character. I heard somewhere it would be a new one. I couldn't imagine them making us use a new one... unless...we ummmm...made the wrong choice at the end lol
My character is still in one piece and I want to use her! If we have to use a new one I probably won't buy this...but I'm confident that Bioware will give us a choice!
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My character is still in one piece and I want to use her! If we have to use a new one I probably won't buy this...but I'm confident that Bioware will give us a choice!
Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:07PM gettinmoney662 said
Why would you watch previews to expansions/sequels before you finished the original game?
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:09PM theydidntnameme said
i think you should have been more careful. i havent even got this game yet and i knew better then to watch the trailer (i plan to get this eventually). thats like still playing through fallout 3 and reading about how broken steel changes the game (instead of just stopping at 'it changes the ending so you can keep playing')
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:08PM gettinmoney662 said
So does this mean a GOTY edition is coming out soon?
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:18PM TheDarkWayne said
why the hell would it? Did fallout release the goty edition IMMEDIATELY after operation anchorage? No way, I'm sure there's going to be plenty more after this one, i'm even doubtful that they'll even make a goty edition, they stand to profit from that far less than having you purchase the regular game and all the dlc
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 10:19PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said
Probably next Christmas time for the GOTY edition with all the DLC / expansions included.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:17PM (Unverified) said
Well, Dragon Age was supposedly 'done' in March, but EA wanted console ports, so that took up the rest of the time. If you factor that in, they've had a year to work on this.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 4:26PM (Unverified) said
That trailer was amazing. Probably one of the best that they've done, especially considering there was no Marilyn Manson anywhere to be found.
I'm thinking this will be the kind of scope that a Neverwinter Nights expansion had, so it will probably be worth the price.
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I'm thinking this will be the kind of scope that a Neverwinter Nights expansion had, so it will probably be worth the price.
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