Not excited by the DLC

Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 3:28 pm

I know right?

Some people were whining earlier that Bethesda made it so Vampires in Dawnguard finally get stronger when they feed rather than getting stronger when they starve themselves.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 2:02 pm

Really now? Ha. Okay bro.
Okay, Beta testers can you can confirm that dawnguard has 40 hours of content.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:01 am

So lets recap..
Hes mad that the Xbox is getting it first..and that the PS3/Xbox 360 isn't getting TES Online..and that the DLC won't be the size of Morrowind and Oblivion?

Seems legit.

I would take Skyrim or Obivion over an mmo any day. MMOs are shallow games made to make you play as long as you pay nothing more.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:59 pm

Sorry to veer off-topic (actually, I'm not as this is clearly a troll thread) but I find this very, very difficult to believe. Actually, I think you're lying. Why you would bother is beyond me, but completing Dragon Age: Origins + all DLC (including expansion Awakenings which should add a good 10 - 15 hours)... no. Just no.
I play on easy I dont like playing games on harder diffuclty I was using it as an example becuase my expirence with the game is somewhat around the same time as the dlc.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:30 pm

Sorry to veer off-topic (actually, I'm not as this is clearly a troll thread) but I find this very, very difficult to believe. Actually, I think you're lying. Why you would bother is beyond me, but completing Dragon Age: Origins + all DLC (including expansion Awakenings which should add a good 10 - 15 hours)... no. Just no.

Not with the DLC factored in, no but Origins is easily completed in under 30 hours doing everything (as much as I love it). I also don't think that is a bad thing though, games of that nature are more story driven, where as the Elder Scrolls has always been 'Main quest is secondary', at least in my opinion.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:13 am

Okay, Beta testers can you can confirm that dawnguard has 40 hours of content.
Beta testers can reveal how long the DLC approx is..its breaking the agreement if they say anything about the story..at all.

I think anyway.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:24 am



Really now? Ha. Okay bro.
Why do people insist on using "bro" on the Internet?
It svcks all intelligence from whatever they've written.
Also, it's true. There are beta testers on the thread and the NDA actually isn't as strict as some people seem to think it is. They can say they've spent x amount of hours in the DLC without getting into any trouble.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:49 am

Okay, Beta testers can you can confirm that dawnguard has 40 hours of content.

There's not really a proper way to measure playtime, I find it to be highly subjective, some people squeezed out 500 hours from Skyrim while others squeezed out 30, so no I cannot. Even if I could, I think I'd rather not. Just wait until release. :smile:
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:02 am

There's not really a proper way to measure playtime, I find it to be highly subjective to a specific player, so no I cannot. Even if I could, I think I'd rather not. Just wait until release. :smile:
Come on , my word is being questioned by...Someone.
Nvm then.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:43 pm

CONSOLE PLAYERS ARE NOT MISTREATED AND AGGRIEVED ANY MORE THAN ARE PC PLAYERS. NOBODY HAS A RIGHT TO ANYTHING MORE THAN IS SPELLED OUT IN THE EULA.

Oy. This generation...
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy... but you're the coolest guy on this forum, so add me maybe?

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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:13 pm


Okay, Beta testers can you can confirm that dawnguard has 40 hours of content.

I'm telling you right now bro. That number takes into account exploration time and everything.
The only set game time is the average time it takes to complete both main questlines.
They combine them. So very short questlines, but all the things to explore and the time you take to do your own thing COULD possibly take you 40 hours or more if you choose it. But they did not add 40 hours worth of quests. I can guarantee you that, because that is a ridiculous amount of quests.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:02 pm

To be honest I'm not too excited about Dawnguard. Vampires and 10-20 hours of gaming?

Pfft, with all the time they've took to bring it out (aaaages) I was expecting to have a huge new map to explore (all of Morrowind and Cyrodill at the very least) and 100 hours of gaming or more.

I am also annoyed that TESO is for PC and Mac only. I don't have a PC or Mac. I don't like PC and Macs. I want to play it on my PS3. I want to explore all of Tamriel on my PS3. Well at least Xbox 360 users are getting to feel the disappointment for once that PS3 users endure on a regular basis.

I still haven't got over the whole Skyrim PS3 debacle. I loved Oblivion to the point that I played over 1000 hours on it. I was so looking forward to Skyrim and waited aaaaaages on it coming out. Then once 50-60 hours into Skyrim it was the whole 'freeze, glitch, freeze, won't play' nonsense. I cried. Boo hoo, where's my mummy?

I think to make it up to all the mistreated and aggrieved PS3 users (why am I waiting longer for Dawnguard than Xbox 360 users ? Oh that's right, money) the hard work and effort should be put in to make sure TESO comes to PS3 and Xbox 360 users in 2013. Well June 2013 for PS3 and July 2013 for Xbox 360

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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:28 pm

Well at least Xbox 360 users are getting to feel the disappointment for once that PS3 users endure on a regular basis.


You probably don't care at all, but I would like to point out that there are quite a few Xbox 360 users who do sympathize with the plight of the PS3 users. Not to mention, a lot of us have had to deal with serious game-breaking issues as well.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 2:29 pm

I'm telling you right now bro. That number takes into account exploration time and everything.
The only set game time is the average time it takes to complete both main questlines.
They combine them. So very short questlines, but all the things to explore and the time you take to do your own thing COULD possibly take you 40 hours or more if you choose it. But they did not add 40 hours worth of quests. I can guarantee you that, because that is a ridiculous amount of quests.
Please Stop calling me bro, I'm not saying there is 40 hours worth of quests, I'm saying there's 40 hours of content,
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:45 pm

I'm telling you right now bro. That number takes into account exploration time and everything.
The only set game time is the average time it takes to complete both main questlines.
They combine them. So very short questlines, but all the things to explore and the time you take to do your own thing COULD possibly take you 40 hours or more if you choose it. But they did not add 40 hours worth of quests. I can guarantee you that, because that is a ridiculous amount of quests.

Well, how exactly does one measure it? I don't really think there is an official way to measure it. What if you sneak through dungeons and strategically plan out how you're going to take out individual groups of enemies? What if you waltz on in and just bash everything in the face and rush through it? Then you find that one player finished the dungeon in 5 minutes while the other took 30 minutes. How exactly do you accurately measure the hours of content? It's highly subjective, like I said.

Todd Howard was very vague with his "10-20 hours of content" statement, and people either took it too literal, or tore the statement to pieces and assumed things about it. The only way to really know is just to wait for the release. Also, IIRC you were in the beta forums as well so I assume you are basing your statements off how long it took you to complete the DLC. Keep in mind that how fast you played through it has no true meaning because everybody plays differently and at different speeds, or takes different approaches, etc.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 2:02 pm

Well, how exactly does one measure it? I don't really think there is an official way to measure it. What if you sneak through dungeons and strategically plan out how you're going to take out individual groups of enemies? What if you waltz on in and just bash everything in the face and rush through it? Then you find that one player finished the dungeon in 5 minutes while the other took 30 minutes. How exactly do you accurate measure the hours of content? It's highly subjective, like I said.

Todd Howard was very vague with his "10-20 hours of content" statement, and people either took it too literal, or tore the statement to pieces and assumed things about it. The only way to really know is just to wait for the release.
Mike actually said that the main quest (DG) is 10-20 hours, not the entire Dlc.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:37 pm


please Stop calling me bro, I'm not saying there is 40 hours worth of quests, I'm saying there's 40 hours of content,
I am drunk. I say bro when I'm drunk... Bro. Sorry.

But I'm trying to not break the NDA and explain game length to you at same time. Apparently I can't successfully do that, but it's not against the NDA to say that the "content" is exactly as Bethesda said. The Main quests and new things take about 20 hours for both sides combined. Averaged out, which is why Bethesda said that. I'm trying to state that it can take 49 or even 300 hours because the new content is added to tw world of skyrim, but quest wise Bethesda took into account the MQ. Radiant quests and what not that are always apparent in skyrim can't be taken into account, nor individual exploration time because there is no accurate time
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:27 pm

Mike actually said that the main quest (DG) is 10-20 hours, not the entire Dlc.
Well bro, if that was the case I'm pretty sure Todd Howard would not have said 10-20 hours of content.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:11 pm

Why do people insist on using "bro" on the Internet?
It svcks all intelligence from whatever they've written.


I like saying Bro. =(

But seriously, OP is just... Just... Wow.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:25 am

Well bro, if that was the case I'm pretty sure Todd Howard would not have said 10-20 hours of content.
In the E3 gameplay video if I recall he said 10-20 hours of Main quest..granted he didn't say if it was both combined or if they both are 10-20 hours each so..40 hours of MQ?...didn't say anything about the side quests and stuff, well he did mention that there would be a ton of side quests but he didn't say how many hours if they were all done they would add up too.

Its been a while since I've seen it.
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:34 pm



Well, how exactly does one measure it? I don't really think there is an official way to measure it. What if you sneak through dungeons and strategically plan out how you're going to take out individual groups of enemies? What if you waltz on in and just bash everything in the face and rush through it? Then you find that one player finished the dungeon in 5 minutes while the other took 30 minutes. How exactly do you accurately measure the hours of content? It's highly subjective, like I said.

Todd Howard was very vague with his "10-20 hours of content" statement, and people either took it too literal, or tore the statement to pieces and assumed things about it. The only way to really know is just to wait for the release. Also, IIRC you were in the beta forums as well so I assume you are basing your statements off how long it took you to complete the DLC. Keep in mind that how fast you played through it has no true meaning because everybody plays differently and at different speeds, or takes different approaches, etc.

Exactly what I'm trying to convey but was scared of possibly breaking NDA in some way shape or form and got frustrated and couldn't explain it right and now bigbossbalrog is upset at me lol
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Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:25 am

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