So, without spoiling anything, what do you give Dawnguard? I'm downloading it right now, and haven't seen or played any of it (outside of the trailer I watched 10 times, of course ), so please, no spoilers.

9 out of 10.
Would give 10 if it didn't lack some things.

8. Very nice, very nice indeed.

8. Had some flaws.

i rate it 4.2 monkey poop out of 5

I'd say a 9/10. Loved pretty much everything about it other than the glitchs and crashes. It crashed on me twice in 10 hours and I have had some experiences with minor glitches.

9

9 here as well

I haven't finished it yet, but so far I'm not that impressed. Its nowhere near as good as Bloodmoon was.

I'd give it a 10 because of the new areas you're allowed to go to. The Soul Cairn is my favorite place now, and the story was very well-written and the characters were developed even in the short time that they were relevant to the quests. Hopefully the other DLCs will follow suit with Dawnguard, and hopefully spears will be added in the next one!

I'd give it an 8 out of ten. I didn't give it a ten due to some of the glitches, but overall it was a great addition to the game.

It'd be helpful if people provided their rating of Skyrim as well, 'cus I'm honestly kind of skeptical about this and I'd like to know what people who weren't so hot about Skyrim thought about the DLC (if they have it).

8. I like what I've seen so far

9/10

7.5

-1 point for several glitches/game crashes resulting in console reboot (one very annoying one in which Serana got stuck performing Vampiric Drain, and I had to reload twice just to get into castle Volkihar -.-)
-1 for not being able to marry a certain someone
-.5 because anything that doesn't add spell creation won't ever get higher than a 7.5 out of me.



Just to humor whomever asked, I'd give Skyrim overall an 8. And that's probably being a bit generous considering the ridiculous number of problems and hoops I've had to jump through just trying to enjoy the game (one of my characters had to be restarted 3 times due to glitches, for reference).

With that said, whoever wrote the general storyline of Dawnguard needs to handle the entire storyline for the next game. The Dawnguard/Volkihar story is far and away more interesting than the whole Dragonborn concept as a whole imo. Despite being Dragonborn there's this sense of your being "insignificant" to everything going on... even when you're the catalyst behind it. Somehow your existence seems to have relevance in Dawnguard's plotline, and furthermore, Serana is easily the most memorable character not named Cicero in the game. And she's genuinely memorable where almost every NPC in Skyrim isn't.

9/10
Reasons
Pros:
1. Great story
2. Vastly large new areas
3. New characters
4. New personalities
5. New transformation
6. New armors/weapons
Cons:
1. Too powerfull
2. Spending too much time as Vampire Lord (too attatched to it )
3. Empty spaces

Probably an 8. Its good but not amazing.

8 for story... And 10 for Serana... She's (censored) awesome!

9 out of 10. Because there's some things that were never implemented. Such as a full set of Dawnguard weapons, Ancient Falmer Helm, Castle Improvements, etc. but with the addition of 2 new locations, both unique and interesting, specifically the Vale, makes the DLC worth it. The gripping story line helps too along with the amazingly written Serana. This DLC was totally worth it.

8.5 because you can't marry the sweet Serana, I wanted more artifacts, like Crystalmere, no distruction spells...

The good stuff is you get very well designed vampire transformation and some new perk trees for it and Werewolfs, Crossbows a new ranged weapon returning from Morrowind,Some good storyline, less bugs, Auriel's Bow, a lot more

That is generally how Bethesda games go. Storywise, I'd ranked the Bethesda expansions/DLC like so: Tribunal = Morrowind, Bloodmoon > Morrowind, Knights of the Nine > Oblivion, Shivering Isles >>> Oblivion, The Pitt > Fallout 3, Point Lookout >>> Fallout 3.

Considering how bad Skyrim's main story was, Dawnguard being superior is no surprise (I haven't played DG myself).

I are confuzzled.

6.5

Dawnguard: 5. For reference: I put Skyrim at an 8.5.

It screwed my main character, none of his saves in the last 25 hours would work.

There are also plenty of bugs, some minor (crossbow bolts float 2 feet away from your back), others include critcal NPCs being hostile for no reason. It's a real immersion breaker.

The content isn't bad (it doesn't feel like there's that much, but there's a decent bit of new stuff), but the presentation is sloppy and lazy.

It adds bugs and they still haven't addressed tons of things in the base game.

I'm less than pleased.

8.5. Doesn't include much new magic spells which is sorta frustrating but you gain an awesome new follower that is very well done

I also will give sky rim as a whole a 9. One of my all time favorite games. Not many crashes or glitches for me. One thing that svcks is how weak destruction becomes. I still use it along with the other 4 schools, but without spell making it really is not nearly as strong as it should be; especially the wall spells.