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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
A new downloadable add-on to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been announced by Bethesda Softworks titled Hearthfire.
Unlike the first DLC release, Dawnguard, Hearthfire isn’t about offering a brand new storyline to follow. Instead, it’s all about offering something unique and intriguing to experience in your game, keeping it fresh and fun almost a full year after the game itself was first released.
Continue reading for the dirty details and to see a cool video showing off just what you’ll be able to do with Hearthfire.
Basically, the add-on takes a page out of the ultra-popular Minecraft and allows you to build your own house from the ground up, whether you want a one-room cottage or a massive multi-feature abode.
First you’ll head out to find the plot of land you want to build your new home, then purchase the deed. After that you can start building the house room by room using various material from the game. In addition to all of the normal rooms you’ll have, you can also add things like a garden, fishery, and cattle outside if you want to go for the farm thing. Inside you can have a greenhouse for growing useful ingredients and materials for alchemy and crafting, and a trophy room to show off some of your best defeated enemies.
If you don’t have the patience for the full process, you can hire someone to help get your place furnished. You can also have your own horses or even a personal carriage driver for travel. For entertainment, you can have your own personal bard filling the home with lovely music.
You can move whomever you chose as your spouse into the new home, and use the new adoption system to get yourself a couple of kids to really complete the family aspect of this role-playing game.
Lastly, it’s not all laid back and easygoing times in Skyrim as you build your new life. Skeever infestations and giants are some of the things you’ll have to protect your family from.
Hearthfire may not be for everyone, but for those seeking a more immersive RPG, it will better help in allowing players to disconnect from reality and embed themselves even deeper into this wonderful world Bethesda has created.
For those who think it looks stupid and cheesy (mostly those bottom of the totem pole YouTube trolls), that’s fantastic—you obviously don’t have to get it. There’s no need to light the torches and whine like toddlers that it’s not another expansion like Dawnguard. More of those are surely coming, this is just a fun little bonus for those who are interested.
You’ll be able to pick it up on September 4th for 400 Microsoft points on Xbox Live. No word yet if it’s exclusive to the Xbox or if it will be made available on PS3 and PC at a later date.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. I don’t care about Skyrim anymore. I was hoping for Dawnguard on PS3 BEFORE a new DLC would be annouced. But, if they want to take this route. I’ll be sure Skyrim is the last Elder Scrolls game I buy, nay, the last game from Besthda I buy.
Awesome. Was gonna spend weeks making it work on Linux then tweaking for speed just for a mid like this. Now I dont need to. xD
Comment by Logan Kemp — August 29, 2012 @ 12:26 am
I am getting worried about spears, at first I thought they would make it in the game for sure, but now we have 2 out of 3 dlc’s already with no sign of them, and I am guessing the Thalmor War will be the third and final dlc, so unless that one adds spears, they won’t be in Skyrim.
Comment by Troll hunter — August 29, 2012 @ 12:17 pm
Jeez calm the heck down man. It’s just a DLC. Plus there’s a reason they did this. Think of iit this way, you guys on the PS3 won’t get a s bored as fast as I did on the 360. ANd don’t you get it for free?
Aw five more days. Nice can’t wait for this because I have been wanting to make my own home in Skyrim for a long time now. Now I just want them to update the actions you can do with your wife, because I’m tired of Shahvee only saying, Ah it’s my love come to visit.
You sound extremely immature by saying you won’t buy anymore games from Bethesda. Actually, you sound like you’re 5 to be exact. If only some of you PS3 players would truely understand that Bethesda isn’t trying to screw PS3 players, but are trying to make Skyrim better, and Dawnguard better, so that you too can have an amazing experience. If they really hated the PS3, they wouldn’t even have realeased it on that console, but on every other one.
Comment by Aaron Nault — August 29, 2012 @ 2:49 pm
Why would anyone buy this DLC? I guess if you only play Skyrim on the consoles you would buy this because you can get mods for this stuff on steam.
Comment by TheJohneBravo — August 29, 2012 @ 5:28 pm
I’m very excited for this. Hopefully they’ll make a forge available as well. I also hope that eventually they’ll do more with the Khajiit race. My character is very sad that he can’t marry someone of his kind…..
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Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. I don’t care about Skyrim anymore. I was hoping for Dawnguard on PS3 BEFORE a new DLC would be annouced. But, if they want to take this route. I’ll be sure Skyrim is the last Elder Scrolls game I buy, nay, the last game from Besthda I buy.
Comment by Thisguy — August 28, 2012 @ 3:23 pm
This sounds awesome but it sounds like something you’ll need lots of gold for and traveling
Comment by Niggahole — August 28, 2012 @ 4:44 pm
PS3 still hasn’t gotten Dawnguard and now there’s this? I think one thing should come before another, honestly…
Comment by Me. — August 28, 2012 @ 11:21 pm
Awesome. Was gonna spend weeks making it work on Linux then tweaking for speed just for a mid like this. Now I dont need to. xD
Comment by Logan Kemp — August 29, 2012 @ 12:26 am
I am getting worried about spears, at first I thought they would make it in the game for sure, but now we have 2 out of 3 dlc’s already with no sign of them, and I am guessing the Thalmor War will be the third and final dlc, so unless that one adds spears, they won’t be in Skyrim.
Comment by MagusGoku — August 29, 2012 @ 4:02 am
Who cares? You’re obviously an idiot anyway.
Comment by Troll hunter — August 29, 2012 @ 12:17 pm
Jeez calm the heck down man. It’s just a DLC. Plus there’s a reason they did this. Think of iit this way, you guys on the PS3 won’t get a s bored as fast as I did on the 360. ANd don’t you get it for free?
Comment by Syran — August 29, 2012 @ 1:00 pm
Aw five more days. Nice can’t wait for this because I have been wanting to make my own home in Skyrim for a long time now. Now I just want them to update the actions you can do with your wife, because I’m tired of Shahvee only saying, Ah it’s my love come to visit.
Comment by Syran — August 29, 2012 @ 1:02 pm
You sound extremely immature by saying you won’t buy anymore games from Bethesda. Actually, you sound like you’re 5 to be exact. If only some of you PS3 players would truely understand that Bethesda isn’t trying to screw PS3 players, but are trying to make Skyrim better, and Dawnguard better, so that you too can have an amazing experience. If they really hated the PS3, they wouldn’t even have realeased it on that console, but on every other one.
Comment by Aaron Nault — August 29, 2012 @ 2:49 pm
Why would anyone buy this DLC? I guess if you only play Skyrim on the consoles you would buy this because you can get mods for this stuff on steam.
Comment by TheJohneBravo — August 29, 2012 @ 5:28 pm
I’m very excited for this. Hopefully they’ll make a forge available as well. I also hope that eventually they’ll do more with the Khajiit race. My character is very sad that he can’t marry someone of his kind…..
Comment by ZRTUnit1 — August 30, 2012 @ 5:08 pm