Dragon Age Awakening trailer: just as He foretold

by James Ransom-Wiley on Jan 5th 2010 3:30PM

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.

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening (Retail Expansion)

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Reader Comments (68)

Looking forward to it, I want Morrigan back though... Yes I know it's a pipe dream, but it's a nice one. I'm also a little skeptical of that release date considering their first non day one DLC was delayed the day before it was supposed to come out.

I've saw about 4 posts on Dragon Age. How the hell could you say it's Dragonstiq?

Reply fail, meant for Demoman

I have yet to play DA:O, mostly because the gameplay I have seen doesn't really interest me. But since my 360 took a crap on me last week, I sort of need my BioWare fix until I can buy another 360 and get ME2.

Is the gameplay all about micro-management?

If you play on easy, no. If it's on easy you can pretty much set your tactics for your other party members, and just control your character. If it's on normal, at least for me, you'll have to do a considerable amount of micro.

I didn't find it to be like that at all, and I'm on my 4th playthrough. Leveling up is fairly basic, skill trees are linear and well outlined, so it's pretty easy to plan a character ahead of time. IMO if you want the easiest playthrough, go mage. A properly planned out mage will wipe the floor with almost any enemy.

If you're going rogue or warrior I'd go with a dual-weapon setup as it affords for the most damage, and if you're a rogue use stealth.

Basically just remember that charging into any battle in this game is generally a bad idea, so yes, battles do take some planning; not menu planning, just proper placement and skill usage; ie: don't put your mages up front, bring them around in flanking positions, and use them to incapacitate enemies (cone of cold/hexes/mass paralysis ect.)

Thanks. I'll definitely try it I can get it from GameFly. My only concern was that I don't want to be pausing every two seconds giving out orders.

I'll definitely try it *when* I can get it from GameFly.

I fail.

I'm glad they're going to have an expansion pack; at least someone is finally bringing it back. I thought they'd gone the way of the dinosaur.

By the way, what happened with "Return to Ostagar?" Why did they delay it?

You're a fucking idiot. This just further proves my point: http://web9.twitpic.com/img/58992896-2b1ea33f69ee7001daafa89952302357.4b58dc55-scaled.png

$40 for 15~17 hours of gameplay (what I read so far) is BS!!!

$40 for 15-17 hours of gameplay is actually good now-a-days. There's been a bunch of crap that has been released in the past few years that has maybe 6-10 hours for $60.

Oh no don't get me wrong, I'll definitely continue playing it as I'm absolutely in love with it.

It just kinda sucks knowing some parts of the ending.