Dragon Age--spending my hard earned money

[cyrano]

There will be updatey updateyness eventually, once I've slowed my roll (or whatever the kids these days are calling it), but in the meantime I am lacking in Premium Content for Dragon Age and want other gamers to tell me their experiences; what has your experience been, and what would you recommend acquiring?

Comments

Re: DLCs potentially involving your PC Warden (Part 1 of 2)

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Hey, look, finding your original post asking about DLCs was fairly simple thanks to your tags, and I can put my non-spoilery feedback for "The Golems of Amgarrak" for you here. :)

It is a slashfest, but not annoyingly so the way Darkspawn Chronicles were (IMO). There was some modicum of story, it just wasn't very great and didn't seem to tie in very strongly to anything else(*). There were some puzzles, very little RP or story, but they did the 'creepy' thing well again (they're very, very good at that.)

Oh, and it does take place after Origins or Awakening, but some unspecified amount of time. You can either import your Warden PC or play with a new character.

Also? Not nearly as difficult as I was led to believe after the SDCC reviews. I played most of the DLC on 'Normal' difficulty (which has become my default) and almost was able to make it through the final boss fight on that level. Changing down to 'Casual' made it almost ridiculously easy (for me).

Worth your money? Not in my opinion(^). I'm holding out great hopes for the next (and last) Origins DLC, "Witch Hunt", which is coming out tomorrow (!!), I think, and involves some Origins end game stuff I can't discuss because it's spoilery but is making me ~FLAIL~ like a flaily thing because of its potential to do some AWESOME story stuff with one of my characters. I'll again come back and give feedback for it once I've played it. :)

(*) - I realized after finishing up an Origins runthrough right after playing this DLC that there is a chance that the DLC does, in fact, tie-in with something from Origins. But the fact that I only realized it after playing Origins means, to me, they did a poor job of tying it in if that's the case.

(^) - There was something during the final cut-scene of the game that suggests foreshadowing for future games/DLCs. If that's the case, then I may change my opinion about whether or not it's worth picking up and playing.