I got dawnguard about 3 weeks after it was released and just today i watched the trailer again. I remember when i first watched the trailer that it was gonna be soooo cool. But when i played it, the feelings and expectations from watching the traler was destroyed. The gameplay itself feels nothing to what watching the trailer made me feel. This is a bad thing.

Did anyone feel the same? Did anyone feel that Dawnguard wasnt what it felt like when watching the trailer?

haha this is like every game though. You fell into the hype.


To me dawnguard was what i saw, but not as much as what i wanted out of what i saw. A trailers job though is to show you the highlights of the product, not the repetitiveness and how it effects your experience, not how gameplay hours are partially made by all traveling areas are on opposite corners of skyrim, not how some features can be inconvenient or how some new features can get boring fast.

The whole point is to bring up the hype and get you to spend the money

Like a movie trailer. What you see in the movie is going to be a combination of the most epic action scenes or the funniest jokes in the movie, not them walking around from place to place xD


Few games and few movies live up to their hype sadly. Personally I think dawnguard did not live up to the hype. It was an ok game, an ok story (logic holes in it though) but it was not "epic"

I thought Dawnguard would be rallying the troops and taking the fight to the Vampires, not doing fetch quests with a vampire. I also thought Dawnguard would be about aiding Harkon end the tyranny of the sun, but you end up doing fetch quests with a vampire to stop him.

Yeah, it feels different to me.

It was a nice little addition, it didn't flatter me or wow me due to the fact that I believe that the features of dawnguard and also hearthfire should of been in the base game an not as a dlc but they have to make more money some how lol it's a good trick in what they do to sell stuff lol.

That aside I'm still waiting for a real expansion something as big or along the lines of shivering isles.

Todd did say they wanted to bring expansions/dlc with a lot of meat on them, but I have yet to see this on skyrim feels like rabbit meat atm but that's just my opinion.

Definitely. The game I saw in the trailer worked. Currently, at least for my system of choice, it doesn't. Huge difference.

PS3's is broken and not even released, I'm on PC and had quite a few bugs, and some people on 360 hit game breaking bugs.

So in that sense, alot of peoples didn't work the way it did in the trailer

I have a theory that Bethesda was getting all the little DLC out of the way for that agreement with Microsoft, and the next DLC is going to be huge.

what I heard was the plan is, big dlc, then little, then big, and a repeated pattern.

Small DLC between each large DLC

the trailer was cinematical.... Skyrim/ES isn't... for the most part

Couldn't say.

Well so far I'm not sure what to think, though I'm not very far into the quest-line. It was cool seeing Castle Volkihar for the first time, and getting to see all of the assembled vampires eating a decadent, sadistic dinner. Though, I choose to side with the Dawnguard.

Right now all I've done are basically recruit the Breton scholar and the Nord beast tamer, as well as the quest to rid the Jarl of Dawnstar of his vampiric adviser. The Jarl quest was ridiculously disappointing...I spent fifteen minutes watching the vampire, resting for an hour, trying to see if maybe he'd try and feed on someone, or visit a 'hideout'. No, he just sat around all day and night, doing nothing. Eventually I just looked it up online and found that all I need to do is pickpocket him (sneak skill doesn't matter, doesn't matter if anyone sees me), literally pull the note from his pocket, and hand it to the Jarl before being given permission to murder the adviser. What a lame radiant quest...and it gives me some trepidation about what's to come.

I thought the Soul Cairn would be a lot better...

i thought the soul cairn had like buildings and stuff like that like shivering isles. nothing similar really

Although trailers are made to hype you up for the game, I was more than happy with what I got. Epic battles fighting off vampires in order to protect the towns with more relaxed quests in between fetching stuff and exploring new locations. The feasting and blocking of the sun I mainly skipped, but that was a personal choice, I hate playing a vampire.