Skyrim is a game that has amazed me time and time again, With it's deep storyline, Massive world to rome about, and it's stunning visuals. From battling the undead in an underground tunnel to scaling to the top of the highest mountain to battle a dragon, Skyrim is a game that has captured my imagination and given me endless hours of enjoyment. Skyrim EASILY makes my list for best games ever made and i can assure you, Modern Hackfare 3 is NOT on that list.

Just when you think you've hit a dead end in a tunnel, You find a secret latch and dive deeper to find even more, Just when you think you've seen every type of creature something new and more dangerous comes out of nowhere, Just when you think you've reached the edges of Skyrim you find even more. Skyrim is ranked 1 on my list for best games ever made, and trust me, I really gave this a lot of thought. It was not easy, I had to compare Skyrim to games that were very good and very unique like Chrome-hounds when it still had multi-player. I don't just throw around "Best game ever made" often and to any new title coming out but Skyrim is a game worthy of this tile.

I see a massive amount of potential for Skrim as far as DLC goes, and i've really put a lot of though into this. Heres what i think will make GREAT DLC packs:

Multi-player survival mode: I understand you can't get 20 players all playing together in a massive world such as Skyrim, But if you shrink this world down and focus on a certain part of the map then your in for a treat. My idea is that custom maps can be made just for Multi-player, These maps would be scaled down for online play and designed around their game modes like Survival, For example, A map could be created that featured a Castle where 4 players would hold off for as long as they could against endless waves of creatures, There could be trolls, Giants, Dragons, the undead, witches and wizards, Imperial soldiers and the list goes on. The players would have all their skills from single player and would have to work together to hold out, There could possibly be defenses that players could build like traps and some sort of arrow turrets ect.....

I would hope for a few different castle maps designed for survival, There could also be a game mode where players would have to battle their way through a cave to find some sort of treasure, There could be regular team death-match and some weird variant of capture the flag or "Headquarters" where one team would have to break through a castle to capture the headquarters.

Of course, I'd also like to see an expansion pack that adds 50-60 more side quest AND a new playground for players to explore, perhaps expand into morrowind or cryrodiil or Hammerfell. The possibilities for Skyrim are endless and a survival mode could be a BIG hit IF you put more into it then just holding out...... perhaps you can get gold for killing enemies and then upgrade defenses or even recruit troops to help you out.....

Not to be a buzz kill but there will be no mulitplayer dlc. If Bethesda wanted such a feature it would be an option in the vanilla game.

If you are on PC there is a mod on the Nexus for multiplayer, don't know how well it works since I have no interest in it

I hope to god they never put in a MP.

Multiplayer would destroy the concept of TES games. It's one of the few successfull series that hasn't succumbed to the multiplayer/co-op trap.
In some games, like Borderlands it works great, even with the RPG elements, but Skyrim, no. It's single player and may it always stay that way.

not every game is better with multiplayer crudely taped onto it.

You guys don't seem to understand what I'm saying, I don't mean turn skyrim into call of duty by adding multi-player, I'd just like to see a nice little expansion where you can take the enjoyment and fun of Skryim online and play with friends. I don't see this hurting the game in any way as single player already exist and it's [censored] fun as heel, but now there needs to be DLC and multi-player seems like a good choice for it.

I would rather they focus on the single player and making that even better by doing a massive expansion than adding a feature that you can get in so many other games

I agree there will be no mulitplay from Bethesda but it is being worked on from within the community. That mod right now is rudimentary we will see if it continues to develop.

Ah, mods..... I have an Xbox 360..... no mods for me.... but consoles have an upside and a downside.

In fact, it would hurt the game. It would make them spend less time developing the single player which would probably result in less content and thinner storylines.

Before posting that "This game needs multiplayer" think of what makes the game fun.

Exploring dungeons specifically designed for a solo player, interacting in a world however you damn well please, making a name for yourself, creating the fantasy badass you want to be, and having your personal actions affect the gamespace permanently.

A multiplayer aspect, would destroy what the game's entertainment value as it is currently based in the series. And one like you're suggesting would feel alien, tacked on, and just in general unnecessary. Can games benefit from multiplayer? Sure. Can the Elder Scrolls benefit from multiplayer? I doubt it.

I'd much rather see DLC (preferably actual expansions) that further what currently makes me and many others a fan of the games. It's an epic single-player only experience that many of us want to stay that way. We don't hate multiplayer, it simply has no reason to exist within the confines of the Elder Scrolls universe.

The nice little expansion you envision would take rewriting the engine code from bottom up. If you'd spent any time in the construction set, you'd know that every object would have to be rewritten and maintained in a consistent world playable across several computers at once, from different perspectives, with full allowance for physics, and a complete revamping of memory allocation. The engine change simply by itself is something that gamesas didn't even take on when they moved from Oblivion to Skyrim. I'm not saying it couldn't be done, just that it wouldn't be financially feasible. And gamesas is all about financially feasible things.

See, You don't understand what I mean. Multiplayer can't hurt the game because the single player is already made and done with, Nothing can change that, Skyrim needs multi-player so i can kick some troll ass with my friends. I understand your concern is that if they implemented multi-player that future elder scrolls wouldn't be as good but I'm talking about Skyrim, Not future games, Skyrim needs multi-player.

There are perfectly wonderful games out there that focus on multiplayer/coop... and typically we don't go there and say "why not make us a single player version?" So do the single player community a favor and don't insist that our games be made MP.

um no it wouldn't.... Perhaps if they tried to get multi-player going on the entire map but I'm talking about making mini-maps designed for certain game modes.

Actually it can.

If DLC is devoted to a multiplayer aspect, the single-player expansion that would of been made instead is either delayed or never made. That's a direct punch to the game, and as multiplayer in Elder Scrolls is foreign and would require its own separate engine to function properly (due to the massive amount of small data that'd have to be removed or limited from just general crap you can move around in the world) it can't even be guaranteed to be a quality multiplayer experience. It's a massive and unnecessary risk that most of us don't want when we love the current way the game plays out.

It doesn't need multiplayer.

No, it doesn't, and no I don't understand you. The single player isn't "made and done with". There will be expansions coming later. Beth needs to focus on that, not on co-op level grinding.
WoW sounds like the perfect game for you if that's what you're playing for.

you're right, it sound like you dont want CoD but rather GoW.

Bethesda has made an amazing game, Can we all agree on that? Well this game wouldn't be the way it was if Bethesda didn't take risk and didn't experiment with features. I have complete faith that if Bethesda made a multi-player add on then it would kick ass and be just as amazing as single player. I'm ashamed to even be talking to you doubters. lol.

You're the reason why we can't have nice things.

Then it sounds like what you want isn't a gamesas game at all, but something akin to a generic mini-map Defense title. Which means either gamesas would stil have to rewrite the code for everything in the games to access them simultaneously from multiple machines, or create a new physics engine with new objects, all new code, for your multiplayer module. I'm afraid it still doesn't appear financially viable.

The problem, as already stated, it that in order to properly do a multiplayer add-on they would have to take valuable time and manpower away from single player add ons. Virtually no one wants to see this happen.

If you mean the game wouldn't be "amazing" if gamesas "didn't take risks and experiment with features," I think reality proves otherwise. Most big game industry titles have been such huge successes, both publically and financially, because they didn't take risks or experiment with features: series players knew what to expect, with only a few minor shifts, such as graphical upgrades. Skyrim isn't an experimental game with many new features. It is a conservative title that does what it does arguably very well, but has little (if anything) that's new in it. And gamesas hasn't really been an experimenter for a long time. If you want experiments, look to the small indie companies, or some second tier products.

We all know multiplayer ain't coming but I must say the survival thing sounds pretty fun idk about most of the loners on this forum but I think a co op mode would make skyrim one of the best games of all time we can only dream I suppose

I do think a multiplayer mode would be a great addition to the game IF and ONLY if they managed to find an amazing team of workers to work on it without taking away from the single player team. If they could somehow manage to do this flawlessly, then fine. It would just be more trouble than it is worth for them, however.