Build a House, Raise a Family in New Skyrim DLC Hearthfire

[Mauler]

HAHAHA Sweet my own mounted mudcrabs.I would like to build a mudcrab farm and sell them as mounts for those pesky neighborhood giants. Also could they make at least one or two aragonian, khajeet or orc children?

 

[Arakasi]

If I can't kill my own kids what's the point?

Anyhow, this seems pretty cool, finally Bethesda takes a hint from all the mods there are.
I wonder if the next Fallout will feature something like this. That'd be absolutely badass.

 

[LongMuckDong]

1. Build bare-bones blockhouse. 2. Decorate it as dungeon like as possible. 3. Adopt every child you can in Skyrim. 4. Keep them all locked up inside. 5. There is no "???" 6. Profit.

Excellent.

Jail, here I come.

 

[algalon]

Only if there will be a mod where instead of raising a family, you can create a giant deathtrap, maybe starting with beartraps and boulder drops, moving up to spike walls, spike pits, and the more elaborate Dwemer fire and spinning blade traps. At the end i would set an empty safe and a chocolate cake.

 

[solemnwar]

In before "Horse Armor"

Also, this is a Bethesda game. WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD YOU WANT CHILDREN?

Asuran the wood elf is disturbed by her (or her spouse's) apparent infertility.
That's why.
ROLEPLAYARGHING.
Also, imagine how much of a horrible bastard you can be, when you have the child-killing mod(s) enabled and you have children?

THINK OF THE EVIL CONSEQUENCES!! >8DDDDDD

 

[Lyri]

That's....Pretty darn cheap for a feature like this. I wonder what they're hiding from us. DLC furniture perhaps?

None the less i'm buying it.

In before "Horse Armor"

Also, this is a Bethesda game. WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD YOU WANT CHILDREN?

With your powers combined Bethesda will unleash a new great evil upon the lands of Skyrim in the form of DLC.

[HEADING=1]FURNITURE ARMOUR![/HEADING]​

 

[weirdee]

I, and many others, probably deserved this after setting so many giant camps on fire.

 

[Noxman]

Seriously what the hell?! I was fine not buying Skyrim, then I can be a flying vampire. That was awesome but I still wasn't sold, now it does what the Fable games are failing at. I can't explain why but I really dig the whole wife and kids and home shtick in an adventuring game. But... I still can't play the game for one very shallow reason that people will hate me for... I am terrified of the giant spiders in this game. Playing on a mate's PS3 and a giant spider comes at me in first person, shit even if third person and it just horrifies me. Don't no one be posting no pics of spiders now, but it actually stops me from playing Skyrim. I can't just do my Dragon Age tactic of just look away while auto attack takes care of it, plus its easy to guess in Dragon age where a spider will be. I figured "Oh, I'll just avoid caves and stuff."

Don't panic! Get it on pc and there are like 20 mods that replace all the spiders with anything from bears to mudcrabs!

Check it out here:

Spoiler

 

[trophykiller]

Seriously what the hell?! I was fine not buying Skyrim, then I can be a flying vampire. That was awesome but I still wasn't sold, now it does what the Fable games are failing at. I can't explain why but I really dig the whole wife and kids and home shtick in an adventuring game. But... I still can't play the game for one very shallow reason that people will hate me for... I am terrified of the giant spiders in this game. Playing on a mate's PS3 and a giant spider comes at me in first person, shit even if third person and it just horrifies me. Don't no one be posting no pics of spiders now, but it actually stops me from playing Skyrim. I can't just do my Dragon Age tactic of just look away while auto attack takes care of it, plus its easy to guess in Dragon age where a spider will be. I figured "Oh, I'll just avoid caves and stuff."

An open field. An open field and I got a massive one, not even the little baby spiders the big fuck off car sized ones. Bastards. I'm gonna go watch a Familiar of Zero and MLP marathon to release some endorphins, with maybe a little Monty Python.

I never had much trouble with the little guys, but the bosses were terrifying, given the size ratio they had on you. That's why I'm fine with letting real spiders crawl on me, they're tiny. Also, when will we have a game with friendly spiders? Jumping spiders are actually quite cute.

 

[Syzygy23]

In before "PC has a Mod for this, free"

Let me state a few things guys:

• - It's optional to purchase
  - This is for console gamers
  - Only 400 microsoft points ($4 dollars) for a nice feature
  - Bethesda worked on this before that free mod came out for making your own home

Apart from those facts, I look forward to this. It's going to be better then any other house I can get in all of Skyrim and not to mention how awesome it'll be having the adoption system intact .. though, a lot of the kids in Skyrim are quite awful so am unsure overall.

So once again, consoles ruin it for PC.

Bethesda COULD have been spending time making the next big Shivering Isles-esque expansion for BOTH platforms, but instead we get a glorified mod. Because I always wanted to adopt a child in Skyrim.

Oh Bethesda, why you gotta make loving you such a hard pill to swallow?

 

[TAdamson]

A) What the hell is Josh doing in my Escapist? Get thee back to Twentysided you foul demon. Isn't there supposed to be a SpoilerWarning today or have you guys just been playing too much Guildwars2?

Edit: I see you have been an Escapist correspondent since 2009 and have just not posted much recently.... Touche.... You win this round.... But next time.......

B) I don't care about raising a family, just like I never cared about raising a family in Fable. Why doesn't Bethesda actually make some DLC that adds to the shallow little world that they've created?

How bout something where you can give the Altmer a little highly deserved what-for? Or fix the Markarth quests so that the actually make sense?

 

[I.Muir]

Dovahkin has a midlife crisis and decides to try and being housebound where most people buy sports cars or in this case probably try dragon slaying?

 

[Darkmantle]

fist off, wow that's pretty cheap
second...will we be able to mine for resources next? lol

also it'd be awesome to raise children up to young adults to go adventuring with your old self...tho considering the life expectancy rate for NPC followers in Skyrim that may just be kind of brutal

that would be a great Idea! Sort of a "new game+" mode where you play as one of your children or something.

I think it would be cool anyway!

Captcha: funny farm

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

So I take it we are stuck with a mundane cottage.

Why not a dwemer compound? meticulously recreated with centurion factory?

Or even a necromancer lair?

Or a castle?

My first thoughts were this. I mean COME THE FUCK ON. This is SKYRIM. A land where i can slay dragons and rip hoards of undead apart and journey into the depths of an ancient dead civilization. Give us EPIC adventures on a scale we have NEVER SEEN! The trailer seemed mundane to the extreme. I thought it was a parody. I expected a line to be "File tax returns as you try and feed your family in a dwindling job market" Why ANYONE would want to play sims in SKYRIM where you get swords and awesome things to fight is beyond me.

Why a developer would say "Look at this awesome fantasy land we created where any adventure is possible no matter how outlandish or insane. Infinite creative space? Lets add houses and child rearing and farms. And a fish hatchery."

What a waste. At LEAST make the houses interesting.

 

[Janaschi]

Please tell me they're not charging for this fucking Horse Armour 2.0
Someone please make a PC mod exactly the same as this so they can't fleece us like the console monkeys.

Here's a thought..don't fucking buy it? Believe or not the world doesn't revolve around you PC gamers.

Don't worry I won't, that was exactly my point. I'll leave it to saps like you to pay for stolen mod content.

You do realize that this DLC has been in the works for longer than any of the mods revolving around the same concept, don't you? (The popular ones, at least.) The truth of the matter is, this is optional content that Bethesda/Zenimax believed would be nice for players; especially those who do not have access to desktop modifications. So getting your panties in a wad over flavour material is like pissing in the wind. Constructive criticism is always fine. But just blatantly complaining about it and making vague references to them stealing content from the modding community is just plain asinine.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

In before "PC has a Mod for this, free"

Let me state a few things guys:

• - It's optional to purchase
  - This is for console gamers
  - Only 400 microsoft points ($4 dollars) for a nice feature
  - Bethesda worked on this before that free mod came out for making your own home

Apart from those facts, I look forward to this. It's going to be better then any other house I can get in all of Skyrim and not to mention how awesome it'll be having the adoption system intact .. though, a lot of the kids in Skyrim are quite awful so am unsure overall.

This is a whole lost more expansive than the mod on Nexus, so you can't really compare the two. I'm looking forward to it, I've already uninstalled BYOH for the sole purpose of building one in Hearthfire, so it'll be fun.

 

[crazyrabbits]

Don't worry I won't, that was exactly my point. I'll leave it to saps like you to pay for stolen mod content.

You do know that most of the elements in this DLC have been around since Morrowind, right? The concept of purchasing land (or having someone else build a house for you) and negotiating building permits / contracts was established in that game. This DLC was in production longer than most of the mods for the game itself (as per the Game Jam video from last year).

I don't see the problem with releasing a DLC (which costs very little, by the way) that gives added benefits to console owners. If you're going to be a PC elitist, at least know what you're talking about before making silly assumptions.

 

[Newby_Newb]

Why can't I have my own kids? D:

The Dragonborn took an arrow in the balls.