Anyone played Skyrim: Dragonborn?
 

I'm curious how similar Solstheim is to the Morrowind version, and mostly just curious in general. This is the first expansion to add a significant landmass, so I'm looking forward to the PC release.

They added landmass????

Yes, they added Solstheim, a large island in the north which previously featured in Morrowind: Bloodmoon. This is the first time the same location has featured in two Elder Scrolls games since Arena (which had the whole continent), IIRC.

From the review, it looked okay. But not being able to control dragon mounts really takes away from riding dragons as far as DLC vs. Mods goes.

To be frank, Bethesda has done nothing but disappoint lately concerning the PS3.

In what we can you not control them? I don't see how they could be called mounts unless there was some control.

So you can't control their movements as Dragons are "autonomous."

You can only control who they attack and where they land, or where you fast travel to. But no free flying/roaming. In other words, you can't fly from one end of Skyrim to the other on a dragon.

That's a disappointment, but given the fact that Odahviing most certainly did NOT show me the world through the eyes of a dovah, I'm not surprised.

I'm sure modders will be able to change that. I haven't played yet obviously because I have the game for PC.

I have it downloaded and am still working my way through it

I just want it so it adds something else to the game.
I've played Skyrim for so long that I'm pretty sure I've explored everything on the map.
I'm just down to making myself nearly invincible.

Perhaps right about now Oblivion merits a buy.

I look forward to the day that it comes out on PC. I got the other DLC as soon as twas out on PC before and was disappointed. I'm hoping this changes it because I still like playing the game.

The vampire DLC was actually pretty good. The home building DLC was meh. I really hope someone writes a mod that builds on it to create something much better.

Homebuilding.... I liked the default house in winterhold anyways.

When the heck is this coming out for PC?

Lose all expectations of even a release date. The Bethesda Development team is just a bunch of weiners with false promises.

Latest conversation with Pete Hines, the spokesperson for Bethesda:

@DCDeacon when can we be expecting dragonborn on ps3 I’m so tired of this whole mess.

@Kyle_lobcity will get you a date as soon as I can.

@DCDeacon surely we deserve a bit more than that don’t you think? That’s the same answer we were getting for dawnguard. Look how that went..

@kyle_lobcity no, we said we were still working on Dawnguard. We have committed to Dragonborn release. Just haven’t announced date yet — Pete Hines (@DCDeacon)

@DCDeacon this is just bullshit

If my gamer base was that whiny I would probably troll them by not announcing the date too.

Skyrim Add-Ons Land on PS3 in February, 50% off for One Week

I bet you feel like a prick right now.

Not really. DLC came out for the 360 last July. It's now January.

Probably going to happen with the next Fallout as well.

Just got done beating it. The landmass is similar to Morrowind's Solstheim but with some Redoran things added. The story was short but I bought it for potential mods.

Indeed, the main story is quite short, but there are many hubs for side quests. Overall, there's a lot more new content of all types (quests, exploration, items, mechanics) in Dragonborn than there was in Dawnguard, it just lacks the epic-length main storyline. Also, they added most of Morrowind in more detail so you can see/walk on it, though I assume it's still an out-of-bounds area; there are no cities, vegetation, etc, but you no longer fall though it...

I particularly liked Apocrapha; there were times when I felt like it really was pulling me toward insanity. It's unfortunate that you can't reset certain parts of it; I blitzed through most of it for the main quest and missed some spots. Also, I later decided I wanted to build up my library (definately the most book-loot-rich "dungeon" in any Elder Scrolls game I've played), but some earlier areas were inaccessable.

As for the landmass itself, it mostly feels different, though it's been a long time since I've played Bloodmoon. Obviously, hundreds of years change things, though...

Yeah I'm taking my time with it; playing it here and there.

I am enjoying it though. Feels like an extension of the game rather than separate Add-on Content, which is why I don't mind that the main questline is so short, given it's like another one of Skyrim's sidequests.
I wonder if my bias towards any add on content has swayed my opinion of it. I've essentially exhausted Skyrim of new things to do and explore, so anything new and unexplored is appealing to me.