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Darc Requiem on 06 January 2010
vlad321 said:
Darc Requiem said:
gustave154 said:
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
finally i can have secks with a different girl xD
i wanna kiss queen anora so badly xD

SPOILER ALERT!!!

If you play a human male noble, you can marry Anora and become King of Ferelden.

@Vlad

$40 for 15 more hours of gameplay does seem steep. $30 would be more approprite IM but I did pay $60 for Arkham Asylum and its a short game that you pretty much are done with after completing.

But at least Batman also comes with new graphics and the whole cocmbat system. What would the expansin come out with? The original $50 bucks got me the entire story, all of the graphics, the combat system, and the audio. Since it's an expansion I'm guessing that the graphics, combat, and audio will be mostly the same. That means the story better be a large and intricate as the original, otherwise it's not worth its money. I'll eventually buy it after I pirate it, just not for $40 bucks.

I can see your point but there are quite a few games that, particularly in the sports genre, that add a lot less and charge a lot more. I've already put over 400 hours into Dragon Age. I've beaten it multiple times and created several different characters and because of the multitude of choices my play throughs have varied greatly. I know I'll play through this 15 hour expansion at least a half dozen times with my current characters. I'm certain to create at least two more with the new origin one male and one female to see how that effects the story as well. I'll get at least 100 hours out of my $40 easily.



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vlad321 on 06 January 2010
Darc Requiem said:
vlad321 said:
Darc Requiem said:
gustave154 said:
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
finally i can have secks with a different girl xD
i wanna kiss queen anora so badly xD

SPOILER ALERT!!!

If you play a human male noble, you can marry Anora and become King of Ferelden.

@Vlad

$40 for 15 more hours of gameplay does seem steep. $30 would be more approprite IM but I did pay $60 for Arkham Asylum and its a short game that you pretty much are done with after completing.

But at least Batman also comes with new graphics and the whole cocmbat system. What would the expansin come out with? The original $50 bucks got me the entire story, all of the graphics, the combat system, and the audio. Since it's an expansion I'm guessing that the graphics, combat, and audio will be mostly the same. That means the story better be a large and intricate as the original, otherwise it's not worth its money. I'll eventually buy it after I pirate it, just not for $40 bucks.

I can see your point but there are quite a few games that, particularly in the sports genre, that add a lot less and charge a lot more. I've already put over 400 hours into Dragon Age. I've beaten it multiple times and created several different characters and because of the multitude of choices my play throughs have varied greatly. I know I'll play through this 15 hour expansion at least a half dozen times with my current characters. I'm certain to create at least two more with the new origin one male and one female to see how that effects the story as well. I'll get at least 100 hours out of my $40 easily.

So you spent 400 hours in the original which was $50, you also enjoyed the introduced fighting system, the graphics, and the audio.

Now this expansion will cost $40, you expect to play about 100 hours, 1/4 of what you did when you paid $50, and will ahev the same graphics, combat system, and audio. How does that seem fair at all?



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Darc Requiem on 06 January 2010
vlad321 said:
Darc Requiem said:
vlad321 said:
Darc Requiem said:
gustave154 said:
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
finally i can have secks with a different girl xD
i wanna kiss queen anora so badly xD

SPOILER ALERT!!!

If you play a human male noble, you can marry Anora and become King of Ferelden.

@Vlad

$40 for 15 more hours of gameplay does seem steep. $30 would be more approprite IM but I did pay $60 for Arkham Asylum and its a short game that you pretty much are done with after completing.

But at least Batman also comes with new graphics and the whole cocmbat system. What would the expansin come out with? The original $50 bucks got me the entire story, all of the graphics, the combat system, and the audio. Since it's an expansion I'm guessing that the graphics, combat, and audio will be mostly the same. That means the story better be a large and intricate as the original, otherwise it's not worth its money. I'll eventually buy it after I pirate it, just not for $40 bucks.

I can see your point but there are quite a few games that, particularly in the sports genre, that add a lot less and charge a lot more. I've already put over 400 hours into Dragon Age. I've beaten it multiple times and created several different characters and because of the multitude of choices my play throughs have varied greatly. I know I'll play through this 15 hour expansion at least a half dozen times with my current characters. I'm certain to create at least two more with the new origin one male and one female to see how that effects the story as well. I'll get at least 100 hours out of my $40 easily.

So you spent 400 hours in the original which was $50, you also enjoyed the introduced fighting system, the graphics, and the audio.

Now this expansion will cost $40, you expect to play about 100 hours, 1/4 of what you did when you paid $50, and will ahev the same graphics, combat system, and audio. How does that seem fair at all?

I've spent 400 hours in a game that was $65 since I bought the digital deluxe edition that included the Warden's Keep, Stone Prisoner, Edge, and Blood Dragon Armor DLCs. I also said at least 100 hours, it could be more I don't know. My point was that even if I only spend 100 hours playing the expansion it would be worth $40 to me.  100 hours is a lot play time in my opinion. I can't speak for others.

If you are only going to playthrough the expansion one time, then $40 for 15 hours maybe too steep a cost. There are quite a few games that are far shorter than 15 hours that released at full price of $60. Arkham Asylum was the example I used and initially because it was a shorter game that I still think is worth the cost.

Side Note: Arkham Asylum is a UE3 game, so they used a preexisting game engine.



themanwithnoname on 06 January 2010

Trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/expansion-debut-dragon-age/60437



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Feylic on 06 January 2010
themanwithnoname said:
Trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/expansion-debut-dragon-age/60437

Wow, that trailer makes it look like a full fledged game. If I was somehow unaware that Dragon Age already existed I would think it was a new release.