Dragon Age DLC

In preparation for the release of the Dragon Age: Origins expansion coming out next week, I decided to go ahead and buy the two pieces of downloadable content I don't have yet. Warden's Keep and Return To Ostagar.

I played through Warden's Keep last night and had a great time with it! Comparing it hour for hour to the amount of gameplay you get with the basic game, it was probably overpriced. But comparing the amount of entertainment I got from it versus most other things I spend money on (chiefly comics and movies) it was easily worth it.

I had noticed that some folks have complained that the quest is too easy for characters that have already finished the main game, but I compensated for this by bumping up the difficulty level I was playing the game on by one. The expansion must have been auto-scaling fairly well, because I found some weapons and armor that would have been worthless to me at earlier levels and I even had to drop the difficulty back down again a couple times to avoid losing my entire supply of health potions!

The sour note in all of this is that when I downloaded my DLC the game forced me to apply an update to the game. Once I did this, my old DLC became unusable whenever I'm disconnected from the internet. I got around this before when it only effected one in-game item, but with The Stone Prisoner DLC effected by this bug, I can't load any of my old saves offline.

Although EA and Bioware have offered zero solutions for this problem, I found a solution on an EA forum developed by a Bioware forum user to fix the problem. The solution worked for all of my DLC... except The Stone Prisoner.

So for now I am stuck upstairs in my office, which is no tragedy. But if I want to treat myself now and then to playing the game on a bigger HD TV with a much better sound system, I'll either have to wait for a fix to be discovered or purchase a wifi adapter ($50-$100) for my 360. Blech.