Almost everyone's favorite thing about Oblivion? The Shivering Isles. An alien, and fantastical realm.

One main reason why so many people love Morrowind? It is an alien, and fantastical world.

A lot of people's favorite place in Skyrim? Blackreach - an alien, and fantastical area.

We need something new and unique. A huge new area unlike what we already have. Don't get me wrong, I love Skyrim, but I want that. What say ye?

Dawnguard offers some new places to explore, of course, not as big as the Shivering Isles, but still amazing. I am hoping that a future DLC for Skyrim will be similar to Shivering Isles.

Tiny. Tiny but beautiful. Beautiful ... but tiny.

I think you're onto something, but you're overthinking it. We need to think like the most simplistic game dev or rep out there. We need to go full Molyneaux.

Clearly the secret to success is giant mushrooms.

what about mothership zeta? we got straight up aliens and it svcked =p.


what i like about elder scrolls DLC is you usually get a kitchen sink with every DLC after the first few. Dawnguard dint really have that, but its the first one so how can they not screw up?

compare the first couple of oblivion DLCs to shivering isles. compare operation anchorage to broken steel and point lookout.

I'd personally like to see something original - I'm sorry, this means no mushroom trees
After Morrowind and the Shivering Isles, I feel like that sort of landscape has been done. Time for something new again - perhaps Sanguine's realms?

Personally, I'm not sure I want alien, I wasnt a huge fan of SI personally for this very reason, though Blackreach is nice.

What I want in Skyrim is something sunnier and greener. Could be a moonpath to Elsewyr, but I'd also be happy to get an expansion that lets us create some sort of geological phenomena that warms up the climate of a portion of Skyrim. That would be nice. Too much snow makes me depressed.

That name is forbidden to be spoken in public!

I completely and totally agree. I think the togetherness of an alien environment and a realistic one, though, is the perfect balance. For example, in Morrowind, you start in a pretty normal-looking swampy area. There's a grasslands-type region and a hilly, somewhat wooded area, as well. Right next to these "normal" areas, there are lands dotted with giant mushrooms and deserts made of ash with rivers of lava. Then, with the Bloodmoon expansion, there are forests and snow and glaciers. Altogether, they make a world that is alien to us, yet somehow familiar, allowing the alien parts to be that much more fantastic. If the Bitter Coast had been a mushroom swamp, the Grazelands a mushroom plain, the West Gash mushroom hills, and Solstheim a mushroom tundra, the world would be a bit too alien (and a bit repetitive). For Oblivion, there were mainly "normal" environments: forests, plains, swamps, and mountains, which caused a lot of disappointment among fans of Morrowind, as there was none of the "alien" quality. But, Shivering Isles came along and brought back that alien touch, with lustrous mushroom forests right next to dismal, dark swamplands. When brought together with the normality of Cyrodiil, the Shivering Isles seem that much more amazing. Skyrim, as of now, has snow, tundra, plains, forests, and mountains: all "normal" environments. It's lacking that alien touch. People don't just love these areas because they are alien, rather because they are so alien when put next to the normal environments. The reverse is also true: the normal environments seem all the more warm and inviting, since they are what we know. I believe Blackreach is liked so much because, after trudging through snow and tundra for all of the game, you come out in a giant cavern with ancient ruins and giant, glowing mushrooms. If Skyrim had been a landscape covered in giant mushrooms and grasslands and mountains, and Blackreach had been a cold, subterranean tundra, with mammoths and waterfalls and trees grown by light coming in through holes in the ceiling, I believe the effect would have been the same, even though it would be a "normal" environment.

tl;dr: It's not the alien environments themselves that are so great, it's putting alien and normal environments together.

Would this concept art change your mind?
http://i.imgur.com/rjYvM.png

Well, regardless of what the land itself looks like, I am assuming we can all agree that we all want somewhere NEW and BIG to explore?

CURVED. SWORDS.

And hey, I liked Chicken Kicking in Fable. In fact, it's the only real thing I did like in Fable.

I liked turning it off and then never playing it again.

Seems like a good idea.

That part was great, too.

Only if it looks like this! http://i.imgur.com/eH4wC.gif

Agreed. Urgh.

Without a doubt!
Bethesda, hire whoever made that and turn their grand vision into reality!

I always thought it would be nice to see the rest of Morrowind. I dont mean Vvardenfell from TES:3, but the mainland of Morrowind. We havent seen that yet, that would be a great idea.

Btw, is the mainland of Morrwind really destroyed? Is there nothing left of the land at all?

Nope, the mainland is fine. The area around Vivec City is a giant, boiling bay left from the crater, and most of Vvardenfell is covered in ash and lava, but the mainland is pretty unscathed (except for damage from the Argonian invasion, though much of that is probably repaired by Skyrim's time). I've really want the area around Blacklight to be a Skyrim DLC, since it lines up with Skyrim's eastern border.

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i want to travel to different daedric prince realms the lore on azuras is really cool but u would go blind or crazy in that realm ours is 3D hers is like 4D like a tesseract soo beautiful it would drive u insane or blind, vaerminas quagmire, a ever shifting nightmare of a realm, could be interesting, hermaes moras infinite library, id like to take a trip there and learn EVERYTHING there is to know about the dark arts and then some,molag bals realm i imagine would be a crazy place, hes like the father of the vampires and gods know what else, hircines hunting grounds, namiras im not sure, malacath is lika a baron wasteland of corpses and bones i believe, meridias not sure probably something like mankar camorans paradise and im not sure bout the rest weve seen mehrunes plains and sheogorath

A new area in Tamriel itself would be nice for a change, like the Bloodmoon DLC, although larger then and not an Island like Solstheim this time please.

This is the one potentially down side to Skyrim. Everywhere is like Bruma. In Cyrodiil I could go to different regions that were actually warm like Anvil, Cheydinhal, (pretty much every other city), but not in Skyrim, it's too far north). And even though Riften looks a little different, I still feel like the high there is usually only around 50 F whereas Windhelm never goes above 20 F (somehow Solitude is more north but never has snow in the city)

High Rock !

Why ruin it as an expansion, it deserves a main serie game...