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Skyrim DLC We Want

You're probably not bored with Skyrim yet, but if you've sunk 300 hours into it already you might be ready for some DLC. Here's the Skyrim DLC we want.

UGO By Sal Basile January 18, 2012
  

If my Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim review tells you anything, it's that you can get lost in the world of Skyrim for hours at a time without even noticing. Hell, I spend two hours rearranging the tomes on my bookshelf before I saddle up on Lydia's shoulders and set off on an adventure. What? I don't buy horses.

Like all extravagant adventures, however, those hours add up. Sooner or later, you'll explore every burial chamber, cave, bandit camp and lost city and you'll be itching for more content to Fus Ro Dah off the side of High Hrothgar If you're already part of one of Skyrim's best marriages and you already have one of Skyrim's best companions, then maybe it's about time to start thinking about DLC.

Boredom isn't one of the Skyrim diseases, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't cure it before it strikes! Start brainstorming, read the Skyrim DLC We Want and tell me if there's anything you would add!

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Skyrim DLC We Want Credit: Bethesda
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Norse Mythology Mounts

Skyrim has a number of throwbacks to Norse mythology. Plenty of ancient creatures such as the eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, and the dragon Fafnir are referenced in the game through Easter eggs, literature and people. I, however, did not become a writer to read. This is all very interesting, but I rather ride an eight-legged horse while screaming Nordic banter then read about him. Where are the Hippocamps and Hippogriffs? Better yet, where is my flying horse?

I want to ride a flying horse dammit.

Skyrim DLC We Want
Skyrim DLC We Want Credit: Bethesda
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Other Areas of Tamriel

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was beautiful, and Skyrim looks even better. Now that they have the tech (and the entirety of Tamriel's landmass is already built into Skyrim), why not have us visit Vvardenfell, Morrowind's now desolate wasteland? Or maybe Hammerfell? The guards keep talking about their curved swords, maybe I can go check those out? Unless that's a euphemism, then I'll pass.

Whatever the case may be, the rest of Tamriel is in Skyrim for a reason. I am an explorer at heart, I can't be bottled up like this Bethesda.

Skyrim DLC We Want
Skyrim DLC We Want Credit: Bethesda
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New Craft Recipes

If you've spammed iron daggers to get your smithing to 100 like I did, you must be tired of your Dragon or Daedric armor by now. Anyone who tells me I shouldn't have spammed smithing so early just doesn't understand. It is called obsessive-compulsive disorder. Look it up. I needed to do it. Using the same armor since level 9, however, has made me grow tired of it.

New armor to smith? New potions to make? New enchantments and cooking recipes? I'd take all four. Besides the new stuff though, maybe I could finally craft the Dragonbone Sword that should have already been in the game, along with the Daedric light armor I should already be wearing.

Skyrim DLC We Want
Skyrim DLC We Want Credit: Bethesda
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New Perks

Skyrim seemed to have everything I was looking for, in terms of perks, early on in the game. As my Nord grew, however, I realized I really only wanted a select handful of perks. I could ask for useful perks that could benefit me in battle or make my crafting easier, but only a few things really come to mind. I want the Wild Wasteland perk from New Vegas so I can find some weird shit. I want the Mysterious Stranger perk from Fallout 3, with his trench coat and everything. I want some perks that affect my companions skills and stats.

Lydia and I have grown apart and have begun to resent each other. We need something to spruce of our adventures, and I don't mean Horny Dragon Weed.

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Large-Scale Battles

As action-packed as it may seem, Skyrim may actually be one of the boring footnotes in the Encyclopedia Tamriellica. Some of the big wars I keep reading about lasted for years. The Four-Score war lasted 80 years alone. Who cares that a couple of Dragons stopped by for a few weeks and lit some shit on fire?

I want to fight in a war with hundreds of characters on the screen. Let me experience The Great War, where the Aldmeri Dominion attacked the Empire, or the Forsworn Rebellion, where Markath erupted in civil war. Those were some shit.

 
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