I have a tendancy to have a one-track mind and sometimes it gets me in trouble. I found myself obsessing over Dragon Age 2 and felt I needed to finish it so I could let my mind focus on other things. So last night I sat down, turned the game on, played for 15 minutes and realised I was staring down the end game credits. I almost didn't even know what happened.
The end of the game is a short, unfufilling, unexpected mess. Its like developers got to about the 80% finished mark on the games and the slapped a bow on it and called it done. Its screams that they were not ready for the games "due date". You could also say it tastes like a cake that could have spend more time in the oven. I don't think it leads to DLC or to a sequel. I think it just was not finished.
While the game has many moments where you feel that the dev team took the cheap way out. There is still some good in there. I liked the characters a lot. The combat is fun, even when its wasted on underwhelming final boss fights. So, I'm happy I'm done and might pick it back up again in a month or so. This game should have been an A+ title, but it didn't reach its full potential so I'll give it a "C+". Thats not my review, but it would be the report card I would give to Bioware.