While Bethesda aren’t quite ready to talk about Skyrim’s first, and highly anticipated set of DLC, they are ready to let you know that it’ll be bigger than the DLC for their last game, Fallout 3.
Speaking to Kotaku, Todd Howard confirmed what we all knew; Bethesda are working on DLC. But don’t expect Fallout 3′s 5 sets of content, instead, Bethesda aims to deliver less packs, but with more content.
“For Fallout 3 we did five DLCs. That was a very aggressive path for us,” he explained.
“Our plan now is to take more time, to have more meat on them [for Skyrim]. They’ll feel closer to an expansion pack.
“With Fallout 3, it was, ‘Ten dollars is the sweet spot for us and we know we want to put out five of them. And we had overlapping teams. We were coming off Fallout 3 and right back in.”
That turned out to be “a real hardcore loop,” Howard added. “We just think we can do better content if we approach it a different way.”
Unfortunately this approach means that you’ll be waiting longer for the expansions, but Bethesda intends to soften the blow with smaller updates in the mean time, citing the recently released high resolution texture pack as one such effort.
“Because that gap is going to be bigger, we want to put little things out for free in between. We’ve already done that for PC with the high-res pack. We’re trying to figure out what those things are.”
Howard also mentioned that the recent sizzle reel of content shown at GDC was only around 60% of the studios creations. “The other 40 per cent doesn’t show as well in a video or we didn’t have good footage.”
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