My dissection of the Hearthfire trailer

Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:34 pm

Developer diary #6 indicates that the idea for adoption came from someone asking what happens to the kids in Honor Hall. So I am guessing they will be adoptable.

there's already the option to ask for adoption from the woman who takes over honor hall but she says no kids are available for adoption at the moment. so i definately think we will be able to
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:01 pm

Actually, there's no way to ask anyone at the orphanage about adoption: not Grelod, not Constance, and not the kids. Constance volunteers that the children aren't up for adoption when you ask about Grelod, or in her random dialogue. Hroar states that "the orphanage" isn't letting the kids get adopted. But there is no way to ask in the vanilla game.

I am assuming that with Hearthfire, you will be able to adopt the kids. This may be the case regardless of who's in charge, or possibly only after Grelod has been eliminated.
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:31 pm

The bit that interested me was in the trailer where they showed a dialogue option that says something like 'maybe I could adopt you' or something along those lines. Does that mean we just talk to the child, agree to adopt it and hey presto? Or will there be some sort of official ceremony like there was with marriage? It could be that speaking to Grelod or Constance is never actually a variable, the only difference would be that those children are unavailable for adoption until you deal with Grelod.
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:45 pm

It would be simplistic either way. If Grelod is alive, you just Persuade, Bribe, or Intimidate her into backing off. If Grelod is dead, you just Persuade Constance that she deserved to die for what she did to the kids.
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:19 pm

The bit that interested me was in the trailer where they showed a dialogue option that says something like 'maybe I could adopt you' or something along those lines. Does that mean we just talk to the child, agree to adopt it and hey presto? Or will there be some sort of official ceremony like there was with marriage? It could be that speaking to Grelod or Constance is never actually a variable, the only difference would be that those children are unavailable for adoption until you deal with Grelod.
The trailer shows Lucia in Whiterun so Honorhall isn't in the equation in her case.
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:25 pm

Nice work! Reading this just got me more hyped for this.
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:37 pm

I didn't think that Hearthfire's trailer really needed a dissection, but you've picked up on quite a few little details. Nice work!
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Post » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:39 am

Just two additions:

At :23 the plot for the Falkreath home seems to be shown.

At :24 the plot for the Pale home seems to be shown
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:25 pm

Nice work! Reading this just got me more hyped for this.
I didn't think that Hearthfire's trailer really needed a dissection, but you've picked up on quite a few little details. Nice work!

Thanks! : )
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:32 pm

forgot to mention there are new recipes to cook with more meaningful effects :D
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Post » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:06 am

forgot to mention there are new recipes to cook with more meaningful effects :biggrin:

Those can't be seen in the trailer actually, just the screenshots, : )
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