Dragon Age: Origins Expansion Media Delivers Justice

With the Dragon Age: Origins expansion pack 'Awakening' hitting North American retail shelves on Tuesday, Bi

March 15, 2010 7:28 AM

With the Dragon Age: Origins expansion pack 'Awakening' hitting North American retail shelves on Tuesday, BioWare has unveiled yet another of its characters with screenshots and a trailer.

"Not all the denizens of the Fade identify with darker emotions like rage and pride. Some embody the nobler qualities found in humanity: faith, hope, compassion" and old 'Justice' here, BioWare explains. "A victim of magic gone awry, Justice has been torn from the Fade against his will and trapped in the body of a dead Grey Warden. Lost and disoriented, he seeks a guide to help make sense of this alien world and demonstrate what it means to be human." Hey, that could be you!

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening comes to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 tomorrow in North America, priced at $40. Europe will have to wait until Thursday for the expansion.

Alice O'Connor

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hunhauu

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March 15, 2010 8:26 AM

So, has anybody actually read/heard some sort of official statement on how big this expansion will be? I've read that it's too short (at least compared to Origins), but I'm still wondering just how short it is. I was ready to preorder, but all this talk about it being just too short is making me think twice.
- Chris Faylor
  
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  March 15, 2010 8:30 AM
  
  around fifteen hours, going by the latest issue of game informer
- elocanth
  
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  March 15, 2010 10:45 AM
  
  Short is relative in relation to the game's main campaign. Even if it clocks in around 10-15 hours, that's plenty by my standards. Not to mention that it'll likely have Bioware's usual level of polish. $40 seems like a fine price point to me.
  - CoreContingency
    
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    March 15, 2010 11:03 AM
    
    Indeed, I've paid more for less.
- gireal
  
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  March 15, 2010 11:17 AM
  
  Considering they want nearly as much for an expansion as the original game I would say it is probably too short for the price.
  
  Developers always overestimate the "length" of their product. Look at Valve when they said HL2: Episode One was 6-8 hours long. It was an hour to an hour and a half if you weren't the guy they used for their playthrough that fired full clips at feet and got lost in a room with only two exits.
  - hunhauu
    
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    March 15, 2010 12:53 PM
    
    That's exactly my point. I know there are shorter games out there, I just don't feel paying the new release price if it's going to be a bit short, compared to the scope of the original game. I'll play it at some point, yeah, but I'll wait for a lower price then.