Game News Dragon Age: Awakening Previews

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: BioWare; Dragon Age

Dragon Age is still <a href="http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/107/1070087p1.html">expanding:</a>
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<p style="margin-left:50px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-top-color:#ffffff;padding:5px;border-right-color:#bbbbbb;border-left-color:#ffffff;border-bottom-color:#bbbbbb;">How much content can you expect in Awakening? It seems like everything is getting an upgrade. You'll find new class specializations, new skills, an increased level cap, plenty of new items, and obviously new quests, enemies to kill, and areas to explore. It's also firmly rooted in the fiction of the game world, as Fernando Melo, online producer for Dragon Age, explained. "We spent a lot of years developing the world of Dragon Age, and Awakening has a very defined place of what it's trying to reveal both geographically but also in terms of storytelling and timeline it fits into. Awakening is something that is a massive way to add not just a chapter to the story, but a volume, like a new book to the world. But each of the downloadable content types, even down to the really small items, will usually be very rich with lore or they'll foreshadow other things that are to come. Eventually these things converge and paint a much bigger picture."
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Here are <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/dragonageoriginsawakening/news.html?sid=6251084&mode=previews">three</a> <a href="http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3178010">more</a> <a href="http://www.destructoid.com/darkness-continues-to-terrorize-in-dragon-age-awakening--163985.phtml">previews.</a>
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[Silellak]

I can't think of anything to bitch about in yours news post this time. Sorry.

 

[Mangoose]

The expansion is being developed by the same team of writers, designers, and artists who created the original game

Damnit.

The first area put us in the boots of a warrior Warden hero allied with two of the expansion's new characters, both spirit healer mages: Velanna, a sharp-tongued elf, and Anders, a human wizard with a smart mouth not unlike that of Origins' Alastair.

Damnit.

In the meantime, the Warrior possesses abilities with catchy names like "Massacre" ("spin in an arc of death," the description reads) while seemingly becoming much better at tanking.

Damnit.

As you'd expect, Awakening follows the BioWare formula: several quests that can be tackled in any order.

Damnit.

"Last of the Legion" apparently takes place in the Deep Roads, which was originally home to some of the toughest dungeons in Origins

Damnit.

 

[Shannow]

Hmm? The awakening of the blightborn god-child foreshadows a new era of doom and destruction.
Why try to make a mystery out of it? It's as obvious as your little brother trying to trick you into killing your older brother in the dwarven noble origin.
I only wish you can be able to join your child to rule the world through necromancy, together.

 

[Berekän]

The first area put us in the boots of a warrior Warden hero allied with two of the expansion's new characters, both spirit healer mages: Velanna, a sharp-tongued elf, and Anders, a human wizard with a smart mouth not unlike that of Origins' Alastair.

Damnit.

How can removing the whining bitch that is Alistair be any bad?

 

[Shannow]

The first area put us in the boots of a warrior Warden hero allied with two of the expansion's new characters, both spirit healer mages: Velanna, a sharp-tongued elf, and Anders, a human wizard with a smart mouth not unlike that of Origins' Alastair.

Damnit.

How can removing the whining bitch that is Alistair be any bad?

Read that again.

 

[Kashrlyyk]

Hmm? The awakening of the blightborn god-child foreshadows a new era of doom and destruction.
Why try to make a mystery out of it? It's as obvious as your little brother trying to trick you into killing your older brother in the dwarven noble origin.
I only wish you can be able to join your child to rule the world through necromancy, together.

I get a bad HoMM5 flashback here.

 

[Raghar]

The first area put us in the boots of a warrior Warden hero allied with two of the expansion's new characters, both spirit healer mages: Velanna, a sharp-tongued elf, and Anders, a human wizard with a smart mouth not unlike that of Origins' Alastair.

Damnit.

How can removing the whining bitch that is Alistair be any bad?

Not unlike means "similar to". Basically you would have TWO bitches because Alistair can appear as well.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Not unlike means "similar to". Basically you would have TWO bitches because Alistair can appear as well.

Considering they have the same voice, personality and even look alike, I wonder how retarded this would be

 

[Raghar]

Is he his TWIN STAR? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(manga)

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^I actually read that (up to the point where they bothered to keep making it, of course...no ending in sight), mostly because of this

The series is intended for a female audience, so X is drawn in the ornate style characteristic of shōjo manga but with the emphasis on moral conflict and gruesome violence expected of seinen works. The story is influenced by the works of Go Nagai and Kyokutei Bakin.

It kind of makes up for the MR SEISHIROOOO PLEASE RIP OUT MY OTHER EYE faggotry of Tokyo Babylon