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$1 = 80 MS Points, so $5.
Skyrim - The Elder Scrolls V
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$1 = 80 MS Points, so $5.
Evil Bethesda MAKING me buy a $5 expansion pack!
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Are you ill? I never said they are forcing you to buy it, I just said that the quality of expansion pack has dropped. After Shivering Isles, these expansions really are no competition.
Good god man, you can't get more sarcastic on the Internet than he was.
I finally started playing Skyrim again. I've still only been to Markarth, Whiterun, Winterhold, and Morthal, in addition to a few towns and villages, but I plan on either heading off to Solitude or back to the Reach to quest some more.
I finally started playing Skyrim again. I've still only been to Markarth, Whiterun, Winterhold, and Morthal, in addition to a few towns and villages, but I plan on either heading off to Solitude or back to the Reach to quest some more.
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Uhmm...Shivering Isles wasn't the only DLC for Oblivion...
Overall Skyim's DLC model seems like a big improvement over Oblivion.
I still won't buy any DLC for a while. There's still a lot to do in the core game for me.
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Deity
I was referring more to this post. Maybe I should quoted this instead.
They said that they were going to make Skyrim DLC more like huge expansions from old. I remember this clearly from release last year. They said that we would have to wait much longer than for other games to see Skyrim DLC, because it would be large and all.
Dawnguard did share at least one aspect of huge expansions of old. Mostly the price.
Dawnguard did share at least one aspect of huge expansions of old. Mostly the price.
You inferred that Skyrim was just another Oblivion expansion or something or other.
My point is that Bethesda hits much more often than they miss (Horse Armor, Hearthfire). Since Shivering Isles, Bethesda has been involved in some very competent DLCS, including almost all 5 and all 4 of the Fallout series' expansions and Dawnguard.
Bethesda games generally come with a wealth of out-of-the-box content, so it's not like they are releasing a half finished game (except for the inexcusable bugs, but Paradox does that too) and then gouging customers to pay for what should have already been in the original game.
Game companies say a lot of things.
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What? The Fallout 3 DLC was terrible but for Point Lookout.
They did do a really good job for New Vegas DLC, though. I had a lot of fun in all of them.
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Indeed. But I would love to have these groups as new factions I can join, in addition to questlines.
Not so much the Psijic Order though. I think they should stay mysterious for a little while longer.
With Hearthfire out, I wonder if we'll see a DLC that adds better guild management or some way to set up your own merchant guild and/or shop somewhere.
A true expansion pack (more than a mere DLC) that I would like to see is one involving Orsinium.
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I wouldn't call the Fallout 3 DLC TERRIBLE, I mean it wasn't horse armor, but yeah, except for Point Lookout it was all pretty overpriced for how much you got. I thought The Pitt and Operation Anchorage were fun, but not $10 each worth of fun. Mothership Zeta was admittedly pretty bleh, but it had it's moments as long as you did it at a fairly early level before the enemies become horribly tedious mega-health monsters. Broken Steel I honestly never bothered with, the main quest of Fallout 3 was so awful that a continuation of it comes in just below root canal on the list of things I want to pay money for.
So yeah Bethesda's record of DLC is not at all so spotless IMO as some would have you believe. Yes, some of it is good. But they have some serious issues figuring out how much content should be worth in my opinion. DLC like Operation Anchorage and The Pitt provide MAYBE 5% of the content of the original game at about 20% of it's price. If you bought all 5 DLC's for FO3 upon release you'd spend $50 for what amounts to maybe 50% of the content of the original game, at most, and the only reason I go that high is because Point Lookout is pretty large.
Luckily with Steam we can always wait for a discount.
This is fairly good analysis, but compared to almost any other game company I can think of, Bethesda does a good job with its DLC (besides the inexcusable bugs). I don't like deriding one of the ones that at least gives the impression it's trying.
That being said, Heathfire is some kind of "we need something on the market to make people remember Skyrim exists" or something. It sucks. I want a gameplay DLC.
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