I'm not really understanding why people seem to be so obsessed here over e-fucking the characters. Since a lot of players posting don't appear to know, there is a dialogue bug that can be done ingame which eventually leads to male characters being able to sustain a relationship between both Morrigan and Leliana at the same time, I achieved it by accident on my first play, but there are plenty of guides around.
OT: As much as I love DA:O, Awakening and a couple of the earliest DLC (Like Warden's Peak and to an extent, Stone Prisoner), the DLC for DA:O has been of abysmal quality and it's been really quite aggravating, let's look at some bad ones and make some comments:
"Return to Ostagar" showed a very lazy slant with next to no story, but was in the end tolerable, the player returned to Ostagar with the reasoning of taking back the dead King's armor and burying him, although all that the player did was run around killing enemies and looting his armor pieces from his corpse.
"Feastday Gifts and Pranks" was sickening, it may have been an april fool's release, but I paid for it, it was practically theft, what it essentially did was just give players a button that allowed them to raise/lower their companions love level at will, though it allowed me to see some extra dialogue which was nice. Apparently if our fat dwarven buddy hates you and wishes to leave you can threaten him to stay he'll try to fight you for his freedom, if he doesn't kill you then a few options are given to you, force him to remain, let him leave or brutally murder him for his "betrayal", in a way amusing, but not worth any money. At all. It just made me see more snippets of story that were already in the game, but now I didn't have to try to get it.
"Darkspawn Chronicles" was like a slap in the fucking face. Some will say that it only cost 400 Microsoft Points (or whatever it cost on other platforms), but low cost doesn't mean low quality. The player was forced to use a level 12 shield-warrior with some wasted talent points that barely knows any abilities at all. It can't level up either. You can collect armor and the like, however it is of a very bad quality and you will almost never upgrade any items, something that they decided to take advantage of at the BioWare DLC team, everything (barring weapons) shared the games original appearances, a naked character looked the same as a fully geared character, the most major change I ever saw was a VERY minor color change on an armor piece that I received just before the final battle. Essentially they just swapped the skins of the Darkspawn with regular characters. Balance is a major issue that is beyond broken, it would take so long to explain that it's not even worth going into without writing a 10,000 word essay. There is no dialogue in this addition to the game, you hear no talking whatsoever. This DLC is approximately an hour long if they don't die and know where to head, and this is if they've done all the extra quests, but it will feel longer when you get killed endlessly by the major combat issues, like healers only being found near the very end of the game and even then only having one point spent in a healing talent. Sorry for being so loose with this particular DLC, but that's not why we're here.
It's been a quality drop that is so steep that it's like falling off a cliff. I'll be buying this update, but that's because I'm a whiny, mindless sheep. Needless to say, I'd advise those with free will to think twice about this purchase.
My apologies if there are some grammatical issues in there, I'm half asleep and on a lot of pain medication.
