So i always lamented the lack of a true expansion for Fallout 3 and the fact the Oblivion only had one real expansion pack (Shivering isles) and a bunch of trivial DLC (houses, Dagon, etc..) so this makes me worry that Skyrim will be devoid of a true old school expansion pack a proper large adventure that introduces new lands, new cities, a whole new main quest and lots of new side quests and characters (Tribunal/Bloodmoon/Shivering Isles). Does this bother anyone else DLC just seems really trivial and short KOTN was good but didn't add much to my experience, and stuff like the Pit and Broken Steel didn't do much for me ether i want a proper expansion pack for TES V

I really hope Bethesda considers making expansions rather then DLCs. Hell, Shivering Isles was just so wicked and awesome.

I would much prefer huge expansions like Shivering Isles over horse armor DLC. But, DLC like KOTN and Point Lookout are cool too. But, expansions would be better.

Small DLC is cancer. Full sized expansions please.

I'm all in for expansions. But in this day and age, it'll probably come in the form of downloadable content. Im just praying there's none of that day one DLC we've been seeing more and more frequently.

I would love true expansion packs, but they seem to be on their way out. How many expansion packs have come out for console games any time recently? Dragon Age: Origins Awakening is the only one I can come up with. DLC has the annoying tendency to contain almost no content for their usual $10 price tags, and are brief distractions at best. I miss the days when expansions had almost as much content as the original game. Well, those are still released, but now they're called 'sequels'

you know it should be both of the types but more of an emphasis on expansions...

I never buy DLC on principal, but I pretty much always buy a full-on expansion pack. I hope we get a proper good expansion maybe a year or two after release.

The poll is an epic win so far.

I hate DLCs without actual content.Makes me feel i'm playing a micro-transaction type MMO.

Heck no not by a long shot I hope they make something similar to Shivering Isles in Skyrim. Maybe a return trip to Solsteim or Morrowind (Not Vardenfell) or heck maybe even a Daedric Relm thats not Sheogoraths but all thats at least a year if not longer away.

I want to see a true expansion. DLCs are just too short for my tastes. If I'm going to buy additional content for a game I already have, I want it to last more than a couple of hours.

With FO3 Bethesda said that they felt large DLC was their best developement option and I got the impression this was a general comment, not just one for Fallout. I wouldn't expect to see small DLC like the ones that were released for Oblivion, they seem to have moved away from those. I also think a full-sized expansion is unlikely.

that is quite a landslide
but yea, full expansions rather than DLC

Pretty unanimous here...

Well so long as we don't get the horse armor that should have been included anyway! I have no problem with DLC so long as it doesn't feel like it should have been in the actual game. Not to bash BioWare but what they did with DA was horrible and just felt like it should have been in the game. So long as Bethesda stays away from that I'll be fine.

NO 360 EXCLUSIVE DLC PLEASE!!!!!
I HATE WAITING A YEAR T_T

Expansions!

I'd love to see at least one full-sized Shivering Isles-esque Expansion, but I'm not so sure something like that is very likely in today's market. I think the best thing to hope for is larger DLCs that add a decent amount of content like the ones in Fallout 3. No horse armor, please.

Expansions! Point lookout was the closest we had to an expansion.

Oh, the day I got Bloodmoon was great one. The day I got Shivering Isles was a good one. The day I got Mothership Zeta, I slept plenty.

I smell a trend.

I would much rather see full expansions instead of small DLC's. And as a few have mentioned I would rather these not be 360 exclusives. I'm a 360 user myself but it svcks for one of my best friends who has a Ps3 when they do that :shakehead:

Im guessing there gunna do what they did with Oblivion, DLC's and then a Expansion

Expansions. The Fallout 3 DLCs were nice, but each individual DLC was too short to be very memorable. It would've been much nicer to have one expansion pack with a lot of content instead.

I'd go for a fourth option-a bit of both.

If I were gamesas I'd go with a particular scheme for DLC:

Minor DLC: Something that adds a new house, a new dungeon, or a new shop with a fair number of new items (avoid Fable III style micro-transactions involving singular items with little more than aesthetic value). Minor DLC would be anything like Mage's Tower or Mehrune's Razor from Oblivion.

Midrange DLC: Would be similar to most of the DLC from Fallout 3, adding a new area or areas with a handful of new quests and new content. They should avoid DLC like Broken Steel insomuch that Skyrim shouldn't have an "ending", which wouldn't really fit with the style of series anyway. It'd be sort of okay to have DLC that requires you to have completed the main quest, however, so long as the requirement is fully justified.

Epic DLC/Expansion Packs: Comparable in scope to Tribunal, Bloodmoon, and The Shivering Isles. Offering substantial new content and brand new locations to explore, side-quests to take on, etc.

I think of Oblivion has having had 1 1/2 expansions as Knights of the Nine could be considered an "Expansion Pack" in a number of ways but it didn't offer quite enough new content besides the new quest itself and a handful of new items. I think Skyrim should have at least two full and proper EPs.

Also, gamesas needs to be sure to offer patches for ALL DLC-it was a huge issue, especially with the console version, to have a number of huge bugs involving conflicts and/or glitches with the DLC.

I hope we get a large expansion that will be sold in a similar manner to Shivering Isles. I absolutely despise the "exclusive content" DLCs they've been doing for XBOX with FO3 and NV. Absolutely enraging the other two platforms have to wait just to placate Microsoft. If they continue this with Skyrim (which they probably will) I won't be too happy.

Yea, a Hicine's realm expansion.