Dragon Age II's first post-release story driven DLC finally has a release date, July 26th to be exact.

Here's the official description:

Targeted by a vicious criminal cartel that are hunting "the blood of the Hawke," you must put an end to their relentless attacks. Leave Kirkwall, and journey to an ancient Grey Warden prison in order to find the source of the aggression and uncover the harsh truth about the Hawke lineage. Playable from any point in the DAII campaign, face all new darkspawn, forge a powerful new weapon and come face to face with an ancient horror.

And the first screenshots:

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What are you looking forward to most from this DLC? Personally I'm just hopping that my party members don't just sit there like speechless zombies through the entire thing.

Really looking forward to more Dragon Age II content. It was a game with its share of flaws, but I legitimately loved the game - I'm sure that makes me crazy.

The interaction between party members was the best thing about Dragon Age II, hopefully they keep that up in the DLC.

I should be on their like 5 DLC pack by now.

inb4mikehawkeisready

I can't give them more money for this game. Not enough effort in making their levels in the DA2.

No post-DAII storyline continuation? Sad times.

Really looking forward to more Dragon Age II content. It was a game with its share of flaws, but I legitimately loved the game - I'm sure that makes me crazy.

Not sure any DLC will be able to drag me back into the world of DA2, maybe some new DLC for DA:o would work better. Oh or anything about DA3. I'm done with 2.

Looks western-y.

Looking forward to replay all of DA 2 once all of the DLC is released. That would probably enhance the experience in the "repeated environments" department. Or not, but I still want to replay it, DA2 was fun and I might finally be able to get that stupid bugged achievement.

Targeted by a vicious criminal cartel that are hunting "the blood of the Hawke," you must put an end to their relentless attacks.

Finally a new fucking area.

They burned all my goodwill from DA1 with DA2. Don't care about some overpriced DLC for a such a disappointing game.

@kingzetta said:

I should be on their like 5 DLC pack by now.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

@Tennmuerti said:

@JustTheDoctor said:

Targeted by a vicious criminal cartel that are hunting "the blood of the Hawke," you must put an end to their relentless attacks.

OH NO! Not another criminal cartel!They are so dangerous and original.

Now, now... I'm sure that this cartel will be involved in some far-reaching shady dealings. Very unique.

Enjoyed da2 will pick this up. Just started another playthrough

Short of an actual ending that isn't unsatisfying and terrible, I don't think there's a DLC pack in the known universe that could bring me back to DA2. Could alleviate the monotony complaint for people who're interested, though...

@kingzetta said:

I should be on their like 5th DLC pack by now.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Sounds good to me.

I enjoyed Dragon Age 2 quite a bit. Some new content to play with would be great.

Screenshot of Hawke kicking something into an explosion of blood. Yup, Dragon Age 2.

@Rolyatkcinmai said:

@kingzetta said:

I should be on their like 5th DLC pack by now.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

What the fuck did you just say?

Mike Hawke is ready.

Mike Hawke is ready.

Nice to see that there are new enemies which you need different tactics on in order to defeat them. I also hope they won't re-use same areas in this DLC, but from the looks of it it's all new. Hopefully the content and length will justify the 800 price point too.

Horse monsters huh.

Dragon Age II: The Legacy's Awakening Origins.

Dragon Age II: The Legacy's Awakening Origins: Journeys

And here I was just looking for an excuse to boot up DAII again.

I'd usually say I'll wait for reviews, but tbh, given that even harsh reviewers like AngryJoe gave this game a 7 'because it was dragon age', I don't trust a damn thing they say anymore. This just leaves me with user reviews, and they will either be from die-hard DA2 fans, or gluttons for punishment who love misery...so out of the interests of my soul, I won't be buying this DLC, as DA2 was more than likely the most horrible experience Bioware has brought us since Darkspawn Chronicles. And DA2 arrives just about that because it actually worked, but that's like praising Bioware for wiping their collective ass...still not great. 
 
Sorry, but all the 'bitching' about DA2 doesn't go unwarranted. I said it before, and I'll say it again; people played DA:O a lot. Maybe over 6 times, given races, genders, storylines and choices. DA2 is the first big RPG I've seen where people have said "it's not worth another playthrough". Then what was the point of praising the game? If you have to find a reason to play a game again, that isn't based on love for the game, over DLC, then what does that say about the game itself? 
 
It's just something to think about, and if you love the game, great, but for a guy like me? I need a game that makes me want to play it. It has to have a spark, maybe story, maybe gameplay, hell, maybe even characters, that drive me into playing an RPG more than once, or continue playing after it is over. DA2 didn't have that spark. And since it had a '2' in the title, people expected the story to make some sort of narrative sense to the overarching world of Dragon Age. DLC will not draw me in, because the game itself didn't draw me in. And I looked forward to a good Dragon Age game before this...god dammit...

Sure I enjoyed Dragon Age 2. I say bring it. Ginny Hawke is ready to make more sarcastic one-liners!

Mike Hawke is ready.

@wasteguru said:

Sure I enjoyed Dragon Age 2. I say bring it. Ginny Hawke is ready to make more sarcastic one-liners!

Ok....Ginny Hawke is an epic name...

Hm, I forgot what I called both of my female Hawkes. Good string of weeks of games and DLC for me to play through. Ms. Splosion Man-Fallout: New Vegas' Old World Blues-Bastion, then this very soon. I can't wait to see some new textures in this game.

Really looking forward to more Dragon Age II content. It was a game with its share of flaws, but I legitimately loved the game - I'm sure that makes me crazy.

@rjayb89: and for those sims3 addict new stuff pack.......

also devinn, inari and marian hawke stands ready

This reminds me I need to finish that game.

@rjayb89: and for those sims3 addict new stuff pack.......

also devinn, inari and marian hawke stands ready

@jkuc316: Weird, I would have said the exact opposite.

Regardless, I've heard from people who've played prerelease versions of this that it solves my main two problems with the game, namely; the reused environments and the 'waves of x enemy attack you' encounter design, so I'll be all over this.

and once again bioware dlc is not released on time......pc version that is

Nothing can fix this game. Nothing

well that was a bit... a mixture of short and long next ill bring the sister along...