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Dragon Age: Origins - Return to Ostagar PC
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7.0 out of 10

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  • Summary: (Downloadable Content) Your memories of the battle of Ostagar will haunt you for years to come. It laid waste to your order and claimed the lives of many great men and women, including the brash young King Cailan and your mentor, Duncan. Now, there are rumors that a fellow survivor of the battle has escaped from captivity and is seeking the Grey Wardens' help. The time has come for the Grey Wardens to make their return to Ostagar and exact their revenge upon the darkspawn. [Electronic Arts]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. CPUGamer
    90
    The existence of a big-budget, very traditional computer role-playing game (CRPG) alone makes Dragon Age: Origins a huge accomplishment.
  2. GameZone
    70
    It doesn't bring anything new to gameplay, but considering DA:O's battle system was already pretty darn good, no one can fault them for not trying anything new.
  3. PC Gamer UK
    30
    An absolutely worthless addition to the game. [Apr 2010, p.107]
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. animefan1976
    7
    While being too short, it really was a decent story. Returning to where a tragic battle was fought was a meaningful experience if you are a roleplayer.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  2. orctowngrot
    5
    DA2 REVIEW 6. MISALIGNED EXPECTATIONS. There is a wierd pattern with Bioware press statements. it seems they are forever doing damage contol: Coming out to obfuscate and pretend to apologise for something else they have broken. Not just outright bad games like DA2, even in their good games, they always manage to break something, or throw some vital element of gameplay out the window. With Mass Effect 2 they threw the inventory and skill sets from ME overboard, thus alienated a portion of their fans. Some false apologies and pretence to care. Liking their wind of change they went on to their next project and they they went a few steps further with Dragon Age and threw ALL the systems out the window. If they had any interest in catering for player expectations, they would have stuck with the formula or recipe that worked in one game, since players had a reasonable expectation of CONTINUITY. This is all too obvious. So what did Ray mean when he said about fan outrage at DA2, , 'We have a case of misaligned expectations'? Fans expected a good game, you know, like the good game they already had first time around! They expected the sun to rise in the east and set in the west! They expected an adventure with a choice of the characters you could play, and with a number of DIFFERENT locations you could explore! They expected your standard, pretty good Bioware RPG, and they expected a Dragon Age Game! Nothing awry, obscure, esoteric or difficult about it. There was NOTHING misaligned about player expectations for DA2. it was exactly what you would have expected. tick those boxes and we would have had a whole string of 8, 9 and 10 metacritic user reviews. And people would be enjoying it NOW. All the misaligned expectations are inside the heads of Ray and Greg, who pretend in EA they are design geniuses and the masters of RPG games, when they are obviously just ex-med students in drag. THANK God they aren't doctors! Just imagine waking up with your kidneys stiched to your nose and have doctors Ray and Greg explaining to you that if you have a problem with it its because of YOUR mislaigned expectations. Whether they have good ideas about games is irrelevant. Because they are totally fey about CHANGE! Change this! Change that! snip snip snip! It's like going to a hairdressers and you find the facking barber has snipped both your ears and nose off and mistaken your eye socket for his pocket and jammed his scissors into your head! Why what a wonderful haircut! What marvellous CHANGE! That's different! That's new! I would have liked a hair cut without needing major cosmetic procedures, but I should apologize, its all because of MY MISALIGNED EXPECTATIONS! These two are to game design what Bernie Madoff is to sound investment. If we lay out $60 for a 30 hour merry-go-round of a game, with zero replayability, (but it still has the horrible quest structure of an MMO at twice the price), then they will give us a special offer. For only $40 or $50 more, we can upgrade this to a 31 hour yawn-fest where you also get to wear a gold mask and a leotard. They don't help you to beat the game or anything, but wouldn't it be nice to look MORE RIDICULOUS as you rotate endlessly through points A, B and C, of this ten square meter rat cage! Maybe the whole thing is a practical joke, or an obscure kind of psychological research coming out of the University of Ontario, via its Edmonton campus. Doctors Greg and Ray never really gave up their medical studies so they could lie to us at press briefings about why their games are getting more and more FACKED up with each new outing. Maybe they finished their studies, and are now engaged in an elaborate long term psyche project to determine how stupid gamers are, or how much **** people will take without raising their hand to stop it. DA2 does indeed fit the prognosis of MISALIGNED EXPECTATIONS. We expected the clowns who took the credit, and got the glory and made all the money out of the name 'Bioware' actually had some part in making the good bits of the games we all loved.. DA2 is bad, and ranting away here, I'm only skating over the surface of what is wrong with it. Basically the game is a FIRST DRAFT. This is the best explanation, because in this thesis we can give the guys who made it credit. It means they could have made a better game, even a good one, possibly. But they didn't. Why? Well. The most generous assessment is time. It was rushed. There are other clues. like the name. Why does this game NOT have a cool name, like 'Origins', or 'Awakening'. It doesn't take time to think of a name, it takes inspiration. The game was published before it was finished. THAT boys and girls is INCOMPETENCE. And probably a case that lost EA more than $50 million. Is it misaligned of us to hope those responsible are kept a safe distance from our next game? Timothy Rawlins: timtimjp@yahoo.com… Expand
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