» Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:30 pm
I find it rather unlikely that Solstheim will appear in the game, seeing as it probably won't go that far east, and neither would I want to, I've already seen Solstheim in Morrowind, so why would I want to go there again, aside from a desire to see the same place in a modern graphics engine? And as far as that goes, Solstheim probably wouldn't look that different from the rest of the game, which would seem to make adding it as an expansion even more pointless, since if you look at the past Elder Scrolls expansions, they all explored types of environments that the games they were made for lacked. Tribunal provided a city surrounded by impassable walls seperating it from the rest of the gameworld, unlike the default Morrowind cities, which only had small walls that often had many openings in them, if they had walls at all. It also included a vast network of underground tunnels from caves, sewers and ruins, which felt quite different from the often quite small dungeons of Morrowind. Bloodmoon had a land of snow and ice populated by animals like wolves and bears that you might see in real life, rather than the alien fauna that Morrowind had. And for Oblivion, we got Shivering Isles, which was sort of like the opposite of Bloodmoon, whereas in Cyrodiil, we saw a fairly mundane world for the most part, Shivering Isles showed a much more fantastical world populated by more exotic creatures, somewhat more like Morrowind, though unlike Morrowind, being the realm of the Daedric Prince of Madness, it had more insanity. Yet having Solstheim as an expansion to Skyrim would just be more of the same, and that's not what I want. If Bethesda makes expansions, it should be used as an oportunity to do things they were not able to do in the original game.
All things considered, I'd say no for both questions.
I don't like the poll options, though, because for the first question, the only "no" answer says "It would svck", and I'm not saying having Solstheim in Skyrim would "svck", I'm just saying I think it would be unnecessary and pointless and I don't think it would be the best decision, I'm sure the game would still be good if it was done.