One Mouthy Broad

So I just realized that the Dragon Age expansion pack comes out on Tuesday. Forty bucks seems really expensive considering that the base game was fifty dollars. Especially since it's supposed to have what - like 15 hours of new content? Is anyone planning on getting it?

I think I'm going to wait and keep playing Mass Effect 2 for awhile. For that price, Dragon Age: Awakenings had better the most awesome expansion of all freaking time.

I kind of feel like I just ran a marathon or something. I have no idea how you all ended up beating the game so damn quickly, because it took me like 90+ hours to finish it (and I didn't even do everything). True, probably 20 of those hours were spent with the game idle and me afk chasing after the anklebiters or making dinner or whatever, but still, that was a damn long game.

Overall, I thought it was pretty fun. Not the greatest or most original game ever, but pretty consistently entertaining. If I were going to grade it against other Bioware titles, I'd have to say that I didn't enjoy it as much as Knights of the Old Republic or Balder's Gate 2, but thought it was light years better than Jade Empire. I'd put it on the same enjoyment level as Mass Effect, although the strengths of those two games seem to be the opposite from each other. Mass Effect had a more interesting plot line that was much tighter and very well thought out, but the NPC's fell kind of flat. Dragon Age had this sprawley behemoth of a plot that many times was too big and too disorganized and was often really, really contrived, but I liked the NPC interaction much better.

( Cut for game spoilers, bitches, gripes and the stuff that I actually liked. )