Re: Dragon Age: Origins, I bought it.
Having completed the game and its expansion pack, I can say I thoroughly enjoyed both. The cast in Awakening, I thought, was much better than the cast of the original Origins. The DLC thing still bugged me.
One thing that bugged me about Awakening is that after you beat the final boss, your character sits there in that save. In the original Origins, you would be teleported back to camp and it would say "Now go have some DLC fun!" Does this mean Awakening will not have DLC? That makes it sad if it's true.
I intend to go through Awakening at least one more time so I can get the other achievements and do all the side quests, but still, Awakening had a lot of untapped potential.