DISCLAIMER: I haven't played Solstheim, but I've heard plenty about it. /DISCLAIMER

I really don't get this. Whenever there's a discussion on expansions for the game, half the reccomendations are Solstheim. Some people in fact have said that it will be awful if it isn't in. But WHY?

Here are the main arguments I've noticed

1.I've been there before and enjoyed it - Exactly! How about something different? No point in revisiting the same old thing.
2. The environment - Uh... it's ice and snow and mountains and pine forest and glaciers. Has nobody realised that ALL of these things are in Skyrim, the province?
3. The culture - In Skyrim
4. Horkers - In Skyrim
5. The Underfrykte - Well, this might not be in Skyrim, but it could be
6. The Dunmer have retreated here and it will be interesting seeing them - While this is the best point, I will once again point out that Skyrim is directly next to Morrowind and we may see something to do with the Refugees that went there as well.

So, really, when Bethesda could be spending their time and money on a new, vastly different expansion with a new realm, new locations to explore, a new environment, new lore, and so on, why is Solstheim the be all and end all for many peoples choice of an expansion?

Because it was different to morrowind.
I thought it was a good expansion myself,AND there were werewolves :thumbsup:
It's not to far from skyrim or morrowind either. It also gives an indication of what skyrim maybe like.
I would prefer roscrea or somewhere,but at the same time wouldn't mind seeing solstheim again,with the new graphics and stuff.
If you have morrowind,i would recommend you play the expansion before skyrim.
I've just started to play morrowind again,then i'll go back to oblivion :thumbsup:

Well, I wouldn't pan the game over it, but Solstheim was part of Skyrim, so to not have it would be to leave out a goodly portion of the province. Also, it would be a great shout-out to Morrowind fans, even though the quests would obviously be different.

It would be nice to see them include it.

The real reason: nostalgia. They want to relive their youths playing Morrowind and Bloodmoon.

Hell yes. I want to devour those Dunmer refugees that went to live there ever since Morowind blew up! It's funny that they went straight to Solstheim in the Fourth Era, when Hircine's hunt is going to begin! Haha......HA!!!

Solstheim is not part of Skyrim.

I personally think that "giving a shout out" is not a good reason to waste an entire expansion on one place, especially when we're unlikely to get more than one. Makes as much sense to me as a Bruma expansion.

It would be a lot easier to make for one thing. They'd probably be able to get it out a lot faster.

Quality is more important than speed.

I wouldn't want them to make a Solstheim Expansion. If it was up to me I would rather they do something new like an Orsinium/Eastern High Rock Expansion.

I don't get it either, and until someone gives a good explanation on why they want to go to Solstheim again I will go with "For Nostalgia's sake."

Why would it be easier?

So we can eat Dunmer refugees! Think of the gormet!

I would prefer a part of mainland Morrowind province instead; it’s new far more Morrowind than Solstein who would be Nord settlements and the imperial fort in addition to dungeons and the town you build, hope it’s a city 200 years later.

I believe they mean because they already would have most of the sprites they need from the main game. But that's the problem. It won't feel like an expansion. It won't feel like it's own place. It will just feel like part of the original game. There will be no great draw.


Well, then eat them in Skyrim!

hehe, yeah, I also hope since he will hunt again we can have a wonderful encounter with Hircine again, god I loved the bloodmoon mainquest!!

I can understand people want new places etc,it makes sense.
But imagine they made morrowind again with the expansions with the graphics,animations,and AI of skyrim. :thumbsup:
I recon it would sell by the bucket loads.
As long as it wouldn't stop them doing other area's,i would 100% buy something like that
But i see the need for new places,because most of us have been there done that ,with morrowind and solsthiem etc.
But still......it would be great with the new tech now

I don't like sand Dunmer. It's They are coarse and rough and irritating and it they gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.

Seriously though, Skyrim will also have Dunmer refugees.

It seems to me that the main reason is nostalgia, if you ask me. Thry just see it as an excuse to add something that they got in Morrowind to the game. Personally, I wouldn't want to see Solstheim as an expansion, for reasons already mentioned. In past games, the expansions have always presented locations quite different from anything seen in the original game. Tribunal might arguably qualify as the expansion that had made the smallest departure from the original game, out of all three expansions for Morrowind and Oblivion, since it still took place in the same province, just on the mainland, and we could still see aspects of Dunmer culture, like the Tribunal, obviously, it even had a Dwemer ruin, though it was structured differently from the ones on Vvardenfell, but despite the similarities, it featured a fully walled city located entirely within interiors disguised as exteriors, and had most of the action take place in the extensive dungeons beneath it, rsther than having a lot of the exploration be above ground like in the original game. And for Bloodmoon, it's pretty obvious, snow, glaciers, a very different aethestic theme for the new creatures and items, the expansion has all that. Moving forward to Oblivion, we got Shivering Isles, an expansion that added a very different world, which goes for a much more alien feel than Cyrodiil, all located within a new world space. But if Skyrim had a solstheim expansion, it would just be more of the same, only on a smaller scale. And if you ask me, that would be pretty boring. Unless Solstheim appears in the original game, I'd say it should just be left up to modders.



I agree entirely. Yes, it would be easier to make, but that's because it's pretty much the same environment as Skyrim, and that's exactly why it would not be a satisfying expansion. At least compared to the past expansions, it would just feel like more of the same. And I'd rather wait a little longer to get a satisfying expansion than get an unsatisfying one on a shorter time scale.

Yes! Hircine pwns.


But it won't be as pleasing. I mean, look at the scenario: A bunch of Morrowind loving Dunmers fled from their now destroyed home to live in a frozen island, they think they are safe and cling onto hope to live a new life. But then the werewolves come along to eat everyone! Happy ending! They think they are safe when things got worse.

Yes, that would be a very dramatic occurence.

If they hadn't already been there for 160 years.

People want to experience the place again with better technology and graphics, just like how people like to see books get a movie version of themselves, You saw how all the Tolkein fans exploded from joy when LOTR came out as a movie, some ppl want to see Solstheim with awesome new graphics and better physics.

Bethesda is good at fixing things. But it's all thei fault, they are holding us back!

As for the refugees: I will kill them, I will kill them all. Every single on of them. And not just the men, but the women, and the *BLANK*. They are refugees and they will be slaughtered like refugees. I'm hungry!"

But you essentially WILL. It's just going to be called SKYRIM instead.


:o Talk of killing children?

I quoted Lady of the SKy. She made a Star Wars reference and I replied with a Star Wars reference with the same character whom she made the reference to. I will edit it.

Running around solstheim as a werewolf, killing of everything moving was really awesome. I want solstheim to be a part of the Skyrim experience, I want to see thirsk again!! after all the years since the third era. I hope it still stands.... will be sad if it don't.