Forget dragonborn vs. bloodmoon size, what about dragonborn

Post » Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:11 pm

Right. Barring a few grognards that probably don't actually like Skyrim at all, most of the people here would agree, I believe, that Shivering Isles was at least one of the best dlc's for a TES game. It was *the* big dlc/expansion for oblivion, after all. Lots of content, decent landmass, lots of stuff to do, and so on.
I wonder how the overall scope of SI compares to all the new stuff in Dragonborn. .. And, of course, I do not mean the raw "size" of the solstheim island or anything like that. Honestly, I could not give any less of a damn about cell sizes, random imaginary scales, heightmaps or any such nonsense... It's the content that matters. Amount of places, amount of quests, amount of, well, plot, and differences in visual design. So, on those points, how do the two dlcs compare?
Oh, yes, before the more angsty of you start spouting yoltoorshul all over the place, I know, I know, SI was an expansion and DB is a dlc. Meh. So what. Both add a new place with new quests, sell for +- similar price, and both can be obtained via digital download. And both add on to an existing game. That's close enough for me, semantics bickering be damned.
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Post » Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:59 am

Hmm. I loved Oblivion much more than skyrim , in general. Now even though I haven't got the chance to play Dragonborn, I know nothing will beat Shivering Isles. The landscape of Oblivion is a much more different feel than Skyrim, so to me, its simply no comparison, my friend.
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Post » Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:42 pm

@zemora - Fair argument. SI did have a lot of scope for being much more different than cyrodiil given the world design. Still. As far as actual location amount goes, SI was.. well, adequate, I suppose, but not all that groundbreaking. Looking back on it, it was a tad on the small side.. Might be just a feeling, of course, but I think there may be a chance for dragonborn to be at least nearly as big.. Possibly wishful thinking, though.
I guess it is not as *different* from the main skyrim world in the same way that SI was different from Oblivion's, though. ... Or is it?
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