Bethesda: Skyrim DLCs "Closer to Expansion Packs"

TotalerKrieger

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Well...Bethesda's Shivering Isles is the only recent DLC that I would qualify as "expansion pack degree of meatiness", so I'll believe them when they say they are developing a significant chunk of content.

I really miss proper expansion packs...these bite-sized add-ons fail to satisfy a healthy gaming addiction.
 

GonzoGamer

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PrototypeC said:
Did Bethesda just admit that I paid Expansion Pack prices for short mission DLC?
No, you're thinking of the GTA4 dlc. Those were twice the price and didn't expand the map at all.
I thought most of the F3 dlc (except OA & Pitt) was a pretty good value. Not Borderlands value (nowhere near that) but definitely not the worst $10 I've spent gaming.
 

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SirBryghtside said:
Sniper Team 4 said:
fanklok said:
Sniper Team 4 said:
Sounds good to me. I'd like to leave Skyrim myself. Perhaps go into other territories since they're already in the game. Maybe deal a crushing blow to the Thalmor, or find a hint as to what happened to the Dwarves. Oh! Or find some snow elves! There are so many things they could do, so many mysteries they could answer. I can't wait for these DLCs.
Snow Elves are already in Skyrim, they're called Falmer and they don't like you.
I know that part, which is why I want to find actual Snow Elves. I think it'd be a fun story to suddenly discover a small band of them living in hiding, disgusted by what their race has become, but too afraid to show themselves to the outside world. A lost culture and everything.

SirBryghtside said:
Sniper Team 4 said:
or find a hint as to what happened to the Dwarves.
Play Morrowind. Explains everything but the final piece of the puzzle, which most fans, including me, would rather be kept secret forever.
Do tell! I play on consoles, so there's pretty much no chance of me ever getting my hands on Morrowind. Or is it something I can read in the wiki? I check that once, but I couldn't really find any evidence as to what happened.
Hal10k said:
Sniper Team 4 said:
Do tell! I play on consoles, so there's pretty much no chance of me ever getting my hands on Morrowind. Or is it something I can read in the wiki? I check that once, but I couldn't really find any evidence as to what happened.
Morrowind actually got released on the original Xbox and PS2. Just be prepared to deal with substantial load times; I read entire books during my experimentation with the console versions.

If you're still not interested, here's the short version:

The Dwemer were experimenting with the Heart of Lorkhan, which was the literal heart of the long-dead god responsible for the creation of the mortal plane. When the stronghold where they found it was threatened by an army of Dunmer (who were called the Chimer back then I think; long story) the chief scientist went into full-on crisis mode, tried to use the heart for some unknown purpose, and wound up giving the universe a rounding error and deleting the Dwemer from existence.

So basically, the Dwemer are gone. No drawn out war, no slow degradation of their civilization, just one guy dicking around with a dead god's internal organs and the entire race vanishes in the middle of breakfast. The only thing left unexplained is where exactly they went: somewhere else in Mundus, somewhere else entirely, or nowhere at all.
Mostly right, apart from two things - Morrowind wasn't released on the PS2, and they were trying to become Gods with the heart, merge themselves with the skin of Numidium or whatever. The Dwemer are pretty crazy once you read up on them, actually - they're hyper-intelligent, to the point where they can divide by zero and are atheists.

Atheists in Tamriel.

Yeah.

But Sniper, Morrowind is 10 years old at this point (anniversary's on the 5th of May!). It will run fine on any system, including that awful laptop you're using right now. If you want to go further back, check out this [http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Arena_:_ArenaSetup_EN] and this [http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Daggerfall_:_DaggerfallSetup_EN]. Removes all of the annoying screwing around in DOSBox that those two games usually require :)

And I agree with you on the Falmer, they were a big fat retcon in Skyrim.
DAGGERFALL!!!! SQUEE!

Do you know how much fun (and how easy) it is to modify the text files for the "who are you" questions? Wanna start with daedric artifacts? YOU CAN!