User blog comment:Agentsmit58/Shepard's story has truly ended and wont have DLC to continue the story!!!/@comment-5038903-20120528184428/@comment-1388547-20120529050922

I very much enjoyed Dragon Age: Origins, and I quite liked the ending slideshow. Part of that was that the game did a good job of getting me to care about the characters and civilizations in the game world, so that I was just plain interested in seeing what happened to them, and knowing the consequences of my decisions. Having been primed to enjoy any epilogue, I'd have probably been reasonably satisfied with a silent, black-and-white text display. The DA:O slideshow, though, had some very nice artwork, coupled with some stirring, epic music in the background, which substantially added to my enjoyment.

That kind of slideshow is cheap to make, too -- you just need to pay the art staff to make some still pictures for the slides, and have your studio's composer make some nice music to go with it; by comparison, a full video epilogue would need environments made (if you're not reusing them, which could be a viable possibility), might need animations done, and definitely needs voice actors. (There's also the writing, of course, but you need that for any epilogue.)