Dawnguard Released

[Gusington]

^Have you tried the mounted combat?

[Toonces]

I'm going to pick this up...maybe not today but this weekend at the latest.  I'll let you know how it goes.

I'm not sure who I want to play, though...the vampires or the vampire hunters?  I'm thinking the hunters the first time through.

[meadbelly]

I have tried the mounted combat, and with the improved followers mod (it's called something else), you can lead a charge of up to 13 (iirc) of your mounted followers into combat.

It's still not as impressive as the sheer weight of numbers of that Mount and Blade can bring, but it's pretty damn impressive.

[Gusington]

Thanks guys. My resistance is slowly crumbling.

That said, playing a regular vampire [not a lord] in the original game a while back drove me nuts and was not nearly as fun as I had hoped. I wanted to play as a werewolf when I came back to the game but of course the promise of this DLC now has me in a quandary.

Toonces the high price is not making you hesitate?

[Kushan]

^Have you tried the mounted combat?

yea. I have. Its not mount and blade but its decent. Its nice not having to dismount to fight bandits and wolves.

I have tried the mounted combat, and with the improved followers mod (it's called something else), you can lead a charge of up to 13 (iirc) of your mounted followers into combat.

It's still not as impressive as the sheer weight of numbers of that Mount and Blade can bring, but it's pretty damn impressive.

The mods your thinking of are The Ultimate Follower Overhaul and Convenient Horses. UFO allows you to have 15 followers, although having that many is really difficult to control and makes the game really was even on master difficulty, but if your also using a mod like Wars in Skyrim, which adds large battles all over the map then its really fun. CH adds the ability for your followers to summon horses, amongst other changes. UFO adds a single horse to each of the holds that can be rode by your followers, but its really a pain to have to go and gather them if you have a lot of followers. With CH followers will also use a horn to summon their horse if it isn't near by or if it runs off during a fight. The one downside is that followers and NPC's in general currently don't fight from horse back. Although I think Dawnguard might add that ability bu I haven't been able to confirm it.

[Sir Slash]

Underworld and the other 3 that have followed. Nobody mentioned them. Sitting firmly on the fence for now, waiting to hear some honest opinions before jumping either way. Some new monsters would be nice but I don't really need anything new to kick my ass as the old ones seem to be doing just fine by themselves.

[LongBlade]

^And that!

Legend of Cain? Vampire-The Masquerade?

Nuthin'??

I'm hanging with you. What's it DLC for?

[meadbelly]

^Have you tried the mounted combat?

yea. I have. Its not mount and blade but its decent. Its nice not having to dismount to fight bandits and wolves.

I have tried the mounted combat, and with the improved followers mod (it's called something else), you can lead a charge of up to 13 (iirc) of your mounted followers into combat.

It's still not as impressive as the sheer weight of numbers of that Mount and Blade can bring, but it's pretty damn impressive.

The mods your thinking of are The Ultimate Follower Overhaul and Convenient Horses. UFO allows you to have 15 followers, although having that many is really difficult to control and makes the game really was even on master difficulty, but if your also using a mod like Wars in Skyrim, which adds large battles all over the map then its really fun. CH adds the ability for your followers to summon horses, amongst other changes. UFO adds a single horse to each of the holds that can be rode by your followers, but its really a pain to have to go and gather them if you have a lot of followers. With CH followers will also use a horn to summon their horse if it isn't near by or if it runs off during a fight. The one downside is that followers and NPC's in general currently don't fight from horse back. Although I think Dawnguard might add that ability bu I haven't been able to confirm it.

Yes, I quite enjoy Wars in Skyrim. It freaked me out a little at first when I ran into Riverrun the first time on a new run through, and all the guards immediately ran away. I thought it might have been something I ate while escaping Helgen (there _was_ something delicious looking in the executioner's room), but it turned out the guards were all mustering for an aggressive and scantily-clad buxom barbarian coed and some drooling minions who had decided to molest some nearby chickens on the wrong side of the Riverrun walls.

And then I went out onto the plains and saw some serious fighting.

[Nefaro]

Bethesda said that the Skyrim DLC was going to be more like expansion packs, but one story line for $20 seems a bit high. Whats 8-20 more hours of content against the hundreds of others Skyrim already offers.

Better watch out.  If that mentality gets around too much, Bethesda may start cutting out parts of their future games and selling them off in DLC chunks later.  ;)  :P

[Kushan]

^Have you tried the mounted combat?

yea. I have. Its not mount and blade but its decent. Its nice not having to dismount to fight bandits and wolves.

I have tried the mounted combat, and with the improved followers mod (it's called something else), you can lead a charge of up to 13 (iirc) of your mounted followers into combat.

It's still not as impressive as the sheer weight of numbers of that Mount and Blade can bring, but it's pretty damn impressive.

The mods your thinking of are The Ultimate Follower Overhaul and Convenient Horses. UFO allows you to have 15 followers, although having that many is really difficult to control and makes the game really was even on master difficulty, but if your also using a mod like Wars in Skyrim, which adds large battles all over the map then its really fun. CH adds the ability for your followers to summon horses, amongst other changes. UFO adds a single horse to each of the holds that can be rode by your followers, but its really a pain to have to go and gather them if you have a lot of followers. With CH followers will also use a horn to summon their horse if it isn't near by or if it runs off during a fight. The one downside is that followers and NPC's in general currently don't fight from horse back. Although I think Dawnguard might add that ability bu I haven't been able to confirm it.

Yes, I quite enjoy Wars in Skyrim. It freaked me out a little at first when I ran into Riverrun the first time on a new run through, and all the guards immediately ran away. I thought it might have been something I ate while escaping Helgen (there _was_ something delicious looking in the executioner's room), but it turned out the guards were all mustering for an aggressive and scantily-clad buxom barbarian coed and some drooling minions who had decided to molest some nearby chickens on the wrong side of the Riverrun walls.

And then I went out onto the plains and saw some serious fighting.

I like it. I really think the Civil War battles should have been in the vanilla game. The one thing i wish it would change is more civil war fort battles. It seems that every fort in the game has been over run by necromancers/bandits. You would think that with a major war raging that the legion or rebels would have rebuilt them. But thats an issue with the base game and not the mod.

Bethesda said that the Skyrim DLC was going to be more like expansion packs, but one story line for $20 seems a bit high. Whats 8-20 more hours of content against the hundreds of others Skyrim already offers.

Better watch out.  If that mentality gets around too much, Bethesda may start cutting out parts of their future games and selling them off in DLC chunks later.  ;)  :P

Not that I want to encourage them, but given the size of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games they could probably cut out a quest line or two and release them as DLC. If they did something like $5 for each quest line except the main quest then I would have an issue with it.

[LongBlade]

I have been waiting for this for some time. I see that Dawnguard is 19.99 on Steam...that's pretty high for DLC. It does come laced with vampire lore though.

Anyone get it?

I hate to put too fine a point on it, but you are a professional game reviewer. You might know someone qualified to review it and tell us whether it's worth the price... ;)

[meadbelly]

I have been waiting for this for some time. I see that Dawnguard is 19.99 on Steam...that's pretty high for DLC. It does come laced with vampire lore though.

Anyone get it?

I hate to put too fine a point on it, but you are a professional game reviewer. You might know someone qualified to review it and tell us whether it's worth the price... ;)

Gus, just sayin' - You got my support whether you stick with the lap dances or go with this newfangled professional game reviewing stuff.

[TheCommandTent]

This Wars of Skyrim mod sounds interesting I might have to check it out.

[Toonces]

Gus,
$20 isn't that much money.  The thing is, I KNOW I'll play it, so it's worth the clams.  I spent $8 on McDonalds for lunch the other day, so the price is all relative, you know?

[Rayfer]

Skyrim was/is a great game....and a rare one for me as I actually finished the fully campaign to a conclusion.  But $20.00 for an expansion seems high to me.  I'll wait for a sale....probably will be one during the Xmas sales.