Buying Return to Ostagar (DA:O DLC)

I'm going to be buying it as soon as I finish my current game.

 

Voted no and probably won't. As much as I enjoyed my first runthrough of the game, I can't seem to get through a second. Even with a completely different character and party composition, it's just all feeling too familiar. I probably need to put another 6 - 12 months between me and the game... but by then hopefully DA2 will be on the horizon.

At any rate, I'm not motivated to purchase this, as after I'm done with this content, my game will likely fizzle and die. :/

 

I have to agree with Marceror on this one. The re-playability in this game is really poor. And i dont want to go through it every single time they toss out one of their dlcs. The previous ones were really short as well. Not worth the money or the effort.

 

I have to disagree, replayability is good, differences can be subtle at times but they do exist. I'm still discovering stuff and I've been playing all origins. I still haven't completed the game as a Mage though.

On topic, I've bought the DLC. It's not that thrilling. I would have liked a hell level à la Diablo. It is a rather straightforward dungeon crawl (with some cool items and a few cutscenes). Note that Alistair, Wynne and Loghain will have things to say if you take them back to Ostagar.

I'm not impressed by DLCs so far, especially when it takes so long to get them and the content is so limited. Warden's Keep offered much more than Return to Ostagar and even considering that they did drop the price for RTO it's no excuse when you can get a free fan made quest mod (Alley of Murders) that gives you more content, decisions and fun than RTO the official DLC.

I hope Bioware gives us a good expansion with Awakening because if they continue down the road they took with RTO they won't get more of my money.

I like the game a lot and I even found reasons to enjoy Warden's Keep despite the shameless in game advertising and the brevity of the quest but Return to Ostagar is not even fun, there is no choice to be made and the only story is made up by a few cutscenes (mostly flashbacks from Ostagar) and some codex entries (probably the best part of the mod with the items).

If you intend to replay the game and don't mind wasting a few bucks/euros on that then you can get it otherwise don't bother as you certainly won't miss it.

Do yourself a favour and get a free mod that is actually worth playing instead.

 

I might consider this for my second play-through. Especially if they lower the price in the future. IMO they should include this with Awakening.

 

Wardens keep was far to short, so this one they can keep.

 

No yet, but I intent to... I haven't have much time to play my second play through and in addition I have the Xbox 360 version, so it was delayed beyond the original resease date.

Maybe I will get it, if I decide to go port to PC instead!

 

I play DA on the 360 but it's not really possible to use X-box Live due to how I connect to the internet at my flat. I'll only buy it if it is released as a package with other DLC on a disc (like what Bethesda did with the fallout 3 DLC).

 

I voted no and probably won't, however, I purchased this last night, so that puts me in the yes group.

[Fixed! -Tal]

 

don't get me wrong, i loved the game, but i'm not gonna set up another account to buy something digital. I'll stick with amazon, thank you

 

Assuming you set up a Bioware account to receive some of the free downloads that pretty much everyone should have taken advantage of, you don't need a new account to download the content. Now if your issue is not wanting to fork out the $5.00 USD, well I can understand that.

I finished RTO yesterday. Yeah, it was relatively short. Yeah, it was primarily just a darkspawn kill-fest. But it was enjoyable and well done. King Cailan's armor is pretty sweet. When I set Wynne to Arcane Warrior mode, I have her don this excellent suit and she becomes quite the effective wall. And looks pretty swell too.

Spoiler

I laughed my butt off when Wynne started, basically, propositioning Alistair at the end of the final battle. I think her intent was just to break the "grandmotherly view" he has developed of her, rather than a true invitation, but it was hilarious and unexpected nonetheless. On the other hand, who knows, maybe she really would go for some young, Grey Warden action! I'm not sure I want to think about that, actually.

--Thanks Tal for updating my vote!