Game News Build Your Own Home and Adopt Children in Skyrim's New DLC Hearthfire

[OSK]

That voice. That music. The content. Why do I feel like I'm being trolled?

 

[Executer]

What I don't get. Ok, housing etc. Some people like to LARP. You build a home, like in morrowind. You have a place to fall back to, put loot etc. But what the fuck do you do with adopted virtual children and how will they incorporate that "feature" in a meaningful way? Why put it in at all? What purpose does it serve? I just don't get it.

You are not alone, bro. Not alone.

Perhaps you can get them to sweep chimineas and pick pockets to LARP Oliver Twist.

 

[felipepepe]

I'm buying this only if allows me to biuld a swimming pool, wait for people to get in and then remove the stairs.

 

[Edwin]

who cares,your home is only good as storage,it has no other function

since my dead body collection ambushed me after a patch(50 +-) I go there just when inv. is full

 

[Metro]

Fucking LARP simulator.

 

[Jaesun]

The..... unlimited horrors the modding community will do with this, is scary.

Thankfully I don't play this shit game.

 

[Turjan]

So when is the "Spears and Crossbows" DLC coming?

Weren't crossbows in Dawnguard, or did I mix that up?

 

[Kron]

I don't get why people like this "have a house, raise children, work like an idiot" stuff. Fucking BORING.
Aren't videogame adventures marketed at the opposite?
You know, travelling, wandering. Not staying put at a certain point.
I thought this is what these games were supposed to offer.

 

[Metro]

Never mind the fact that Gamebryo (and the modified one Skyrim uses) is a terrible engine to do stuff like this -- you're better off just playing The Sims.

 

[Stinger]

I bet Chris Avellone is kicking himself now. His DLC would have sold a lot more if it had kids and houses in it instead of all that story-focused crap.

Someone needs to mod in Ulysses as an adoptable kid in Skyrim.

 

[Mikko Moilanen]

You got a house in DA2 faggame, now you have to get house in every faggame. Bethesda just profiteered more with DLC house. "GG".

 

[4too]

'Our House' Sing Along!




Sim this for the DLC soundtrack!

...
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy
'Cause of you
…

Breathe in the Kool-Aide!



4too

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

I bet Chris Avellone is kicking himself now. His DLC would have sold a lot more if it had kids and houses in it instead of all that story-focused crap.

Someone needs to mod in Ulysses as an adoptable kid in Skyrim.

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

What if you adopt children only to murder them in your dungeon? Would Social Services get wise to the interminable stream of adopted children disappearing from your estate? OMG the possibilities are endless! This is like Sims 3 but first-person fap fap fap fap fap fap fap

In b4 youtube video where someone breaks the DLC by bringing a giant and corrals it with all his adopted children and then you see them launching out for the moon, one after the other. Great DLC Bethesda, incredible meme generator. It's just like Andy Warhol said 50 years ago with his "famous" and "for 15 minutes". Bethesda will make even more money promoting this shitty meme, you have to admire their genius in trolling. "Hearthfire" (imagine "Hearthfire" being told by a great UK Shakesperean Royal Company actor who strives to pay for his garage: "Hearthfire: where your heart belongs: lost children, a province in turmoil, but forerever more: a home: Hearthfire") lol, I can hear it from here.

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

If they were not such huge hypocrits, their shitty DLC should at least include several "Find the Object" scenes just like in the casual games destined to wake the midwestern bored beautiful wymyn from their slumber.

Bethesda: "We cater to the morons who want to initiate a youtube meme lol and to the elder wymyn who slash/fic their way out of their boring life: Hearthfire".

Well, WTF, I was supposed to stay in the DESUDESU side of the RPGCodex but I couldn't: this was such an astounding DLC announcement that I couldn't pass on. It's almost as good as designing a RPG while being influenced by GTA and Sim City.

 

[Mikko Moilanen]

Now that I thought about it, you could get a cabin or even a castle in BG2. Did not hear people whining about it - rather much the opposite was true. The castle thingy was considered to be epic by some people who then lolled at the cabin the ranger could get. Obviously they did not have a clue about RPG. Sadly the games are made for them, the masses.

I wish that in next Bethesda game you will get a space station. Naturally as a dumb fucker milking DLC.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

Hats off, gentlemen, it's a historical moment: an official DLC allowing for LARPing Gilles de Rais and pope John Paul II
Thing should be illegal, really.

 

[racofer]

So when is the "Spears and Crossbows" DLC coming?

Weren't crossbows in Dawnguard, or did I mix that up?

The Brazilian Slaughter confirms that Dawnguard has crossbows, and so do I.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Bethesda continues to cater to the needs of their audience with Hearthfire

Fucking lol.

"Bethesda: Boldly going where Second Life has gone before!"

 

[Kahlis]

It's almost as good as designing a RPG while being influenced by GTA and Sim City.

http://www.industrygamers.com/galleries/playing-favorites-bethesdas-todd-howard/6/

 

[GaemzDood]

It's almost as good as designing a RPG while being influenced by GTA and Sim City.

http://www.industrygamers.com/galleries/playing-favorites-bethesdas-todd-howard/6/

At least he had the decency to put Ultima VII, Karateka, Doom, X-Wing, Wing Commander, Civilization, & Grand Theft Auto III on there. But as for Call of Duty 4, "It’s even a good role playing game"; the fuck!?

 

[Kahlis]

I'm not too impressed with the list, honestly. The listing and his descriptions seem more like somethng written by a 15 year old doing a high school paper on the history of computer games, citing all-too-classic examples of games iconic from the 80's and 90's than a genuinely personal thing. You can glean as much about these games from Todd's "personal" memories and experiences of them as you can from their Wikipedia articles. I know game designers just want to be yes-men and list all of the obligatory classics like Ultima and Baldur's Gate, but I'm still waiting for the day an AAA developer mentions Realms of Arkania. That would command far more respect from me than any of the predictable choices on Todd's list.

Maybe it's unrealistic to hold his gaming tastes to such high standards though, especially during a time when it was particularly hard to discover games by smaller developers. But Todd continues to do that even today! And the popular games aren't even good anymore!

 

[GaemzDood]

I'm not too impressed with the list, honestly. The listing and his descriptions seem more like somethng written by a 15 year old doing a high school paper on the history of computer games, citing all-too-classic examples of games iconic from the 80's and 90's than a genuinely personal thing. You can glean as much about these games from Todd's "personal" memories and experiences of them as you can from their Wikipedia articles. I know game designers just want to be yes-men and list all of the obligatory classics like Ultima and Baldur's Gate, but I'm still waiting for the day an AAA developer mentions Realms of Arkania. That would command far more respect from me than any of the predictable choices on Todd's list.

Maybe it's unrealistic to hold his gaming tastes to such high standards though, especially during a time when it was particularly hard to discover games by smaller developers. But Todd continues to do that even today! And the popular games aren't even good anymore!

Todd Howard would hate Realms of Arkania, there's no moles to pop. He just chose obvious examples just to *prove* that he likes games that don't involve mole popping.

 

[Harg Harfardarssen]

Having twice as many FPSs as RPGs on his list explains alot.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I know game designers just want to be yes-men and list all of the obligatory classics like Ultima and Baldur's Gate

If he wanted cred, he'd probably mention games that his target public played, no?

Goyoshi12
Posted Aug 31, 2010 2:55 pm PT

I have a question for 5,452 people. Who IS The Guardian?

rbdeal
Posted Aug 31, 2010 11:24 am PT

What the hell is Ultima?

my vote is for shao kahn for 3 reasons first e is like the lord of evil second i dont even know the other
freak and third I DONT KNOW IF HE IS A MEN OR A WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!