Anybody else disappointed with Skyrim DLC?

ecozombie said:

I haven't quite finished all the DLC content as of yet, so this is a tentative answer that may change in the future. But in a way, yes. Even just what I've experienced so far and read about thus far was just slightly less than I expected.

First off, Hearthfire. I agree that there was a lot of hype about a custom house that wasn't quite the reality. Silly me, I thought that just maybe Bethesda had learned something from modders and made a truly customizable house. But no. You get to customize the wings you want - to an extent. For example I found it quite ridiculous that you couldn't have both an Enchanters Tower and Alchemy Tower at once (which by the way is a big reason why I bought it). I mean you can in a real house and obviously Skyrim has the capability to do it, so why? And oddly enough you can have an Alchemy Tower - and an Arcane Enchanter in the hallway. But not both towers. Like wtf?
And I would've definitely appreciated more say in the decor. For instance, being able to pick the colors of the walls or the types of stone in the fireplace - or even hang paintings - would've been nice. And the organizing thing is just bizarre to me. You have to use telepathy just to set up a butterfly in a jar the right way? Weird.

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Kalin of High Rock said:

If you use The Shivering Isles as your metric then there's realistically no DLC that will please you. The Shivering Isles was less of a DLC and more of an expansion pack. It was enormous, huge. Something of an early masterpiece.

In some ways it's from another era in game design. Down-loaded content has become an industry standard in gaming now. Mostly because developers and produces have recognized its potential to turn a fast buck on a game post-market. Steamed from the internet, they sometimes provide as little as two additional hours of game-play.

The Shivering Isles and other earlier Bethesda "expansion packs" existed before the era of wide-spread digital streaming had to be be big enough to sell an actual physical disk in its own game-box.


That said I would say Skyrim fares pretty well. Dragonborn is massive by contemporary DLC standards. Additionally, when compared to other Bethesda DLC like Knights of the Nine, or The Tribunal or Bloodmoon I would say that both Dawnguard and Dragonborn stack up fairly well.

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