» Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:42 am
Actually, the landmasses aren't that detailed. It's all mostly just distant LOD meshes and textures. ie: It doesn't look so great at the sort of distances the game is actually played.
I've also seen no evidence on how much of it has collision. ie: How much is solid and can be walked upon.
There's no detail texture for different types of landscape, no road textures, no buildings other than a super low detail white gold tower.
Considering how long it takes to detail and populate a single province, not to mention doing the NPCs, dialogue, scripting, item placement, creature spawns, quests and other stuff like that. You certainly won't see even a single province DLC of Skyrim's scale, let alone one that does all of them, this side of the next game in the series.
And just to add, the surrounding provinces were present in Oblivion, and we got no DLC that added to those.