BioWare today announced the next installment of Dragon Age: Origins DLC, Return to Ostagar. Set for release on all platforms this Holiday, fans of the game will have even more content for one of the best RPG’s of the year. From the press release:
Return to Ostagar, BioWare’s next thread in the Dragon Age: Origins tapestry, summons players to a new quest in which they will return to the fateful battleground in Ostagar where the Grey Wardens were nearly wiped out. Players will discover King Cailan’s top-secret political agenda and go behind enemy lines to revisit a place that many feared had been lost to history.
I haven’t had a chance to play Dragon Age: Origins yet, but Karl thinks it’s the bees knees. Yeah, I just wrote that. Don’t judge me. So save up $4.99 to buy this new content pack pretty soon.
Dragon Age has been a long time in the making – since 2004, in fact. Touted as Bioware’s “spiritual successor”to Baldur’s Gate, Dragon Age may appear at first glance to be Mass Effect meets Lord of the Rings, but in fact, Dragon Age is an entirely different beast altogether – and a good one at that. It’s not a perfect game, but it does provide a solid and satisfying story based experience, something that Bioware prides themselves on. If you’re interested in an old school RPG, Dragon Age is most certainly worth your time, and here’s why.
I’m excited for Dragon Age: Origins. How excited? Really excited. With a bunch of this year’s AAA titles pushed back into 2010, Bioware’s Dragon Age won’t have much competition for RPG of the year, and since it is a Bioware game, you’ll be guaranteed at least a decent RPG experience.
Anyway, as the release date for Dragon Age gets closer, more hands on previews have started popping up around the web. The video above, from GiantBomb, is a deliciously awesome twenty minute hands on – showing skill progression, customization, and combat, among other things. If you’ve got twenty minutes to kill it is certainly worth the watch.
The Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator will allow you to create numerous different characters before launch and experiment with the different classes, races, and create multiple faces for the 6 Origin stories and save them to your hard drive for safe keeping until the game is released.
The bad news for console gamers is that this is PC only right now. The creator will have all kinds of social features for Bioware’s new Dragon Age social website, which is good if you want to show off your large chested female wizard to all of your friends.
Hopefully this will provide as much entertainment as when the Spore Creature creator was released – although I’m not sure I’ll be spending as much time with the Dragon Age creator making walking genitalia as I did with the Spore one, but oh well.
Often times, game publishers will give loose release dates – “sometime in the next couple months”, “next year”, “when it’s done”, which reminds me a lot of what I tell my boss when he asks if I’m actually working on something (hint: I’m not.) Today, Bioware managed to tighten up that release date a bit, stating that Mass Effect 2 would indeed be dropping months after Bioware’s new shit, Dragon Age: Origins.
Oddly enough, Bioware doesn’t have many other games in development, other than Star Wars: The Old Republic, so I’m not sure why they feel the need to state this. The important thing is that the tentative date for Mass Effect 2 has been moved from “early 2010″ to “months after Dragon Age”, although in reality that could mean five, seven, or even twenty six billion months. Or Dragon Age might just get pushed back again and we’ll be stuck with waiting for both games. Damn you, Bioware.
In the mean time, why not check out the latest trailer for the game, featuring one of the new party members? Warning, spoilers for those who don’t want to be spoiled, or for those who happen to live under a rock.
I, for one, cannot wait to start having intergalactic sex with blue aliens again.
Just off the heels of news that Dragon Age: Origins was pushed back a couple weeks for release in November, we get news that EA is offering some pretty substantial bonuses when you purchase the game new instead of buying it used, and this, of course, includes pre-orders. If you buy the game used after release, you’ll have to shell out hard-earned cash for the same DLC. Hit the jump to see the new game and pre-order bonuses.
Dragon Age was announced back in 2004 and was originally developed as a PC only title, and Bioware has since delayed the game a handful of times in order to have console versions (both 360 and PS3) and to have the PC release coincide with the console releases. Two weeks isn’t a terribly long time to wait, but if you’re a RPG fan like myself, you’re itching for another highly polished Bioware game to get your fix.
You have to love when PR people send press releases with curse words in the subject line. Makes me smile a little bit. We got a first look at Dragon Age: Origins back at GDC and were fairly impressed. BioWare dropped off a new trailer showing off the violence in the game, which it has in spades.
BioWare gave us an early look of Dragon Age Origins at this year’s GDC during a private event. Dubbed as a “spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate 2″, the game is dark, gritty, and more realistic than previous titles.
There are six different origins stories that you can begin the game with as you take on the role of a Grey Warden to stop the spread of Blite, an evil force in the world. There is extensive character customization you can do before starting the game, as is expected with RPG’s or this caliper. You’ll journey with a group of three followers to aid in your quests. In the demo shown, we got to see Morrigan, a seductive sorceress, Sten, an 8 foot tall Canary warrior, and Leliana, a “hot chick who likes everyone”.
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