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Dragon MountsAt this year's DICE, Todd Howard teased a number of additions to Skyrim that the team dreamt up during a week of brainstorming. Many of these things will likely never see the light of day, but we couldn't help getting excited by one possibility: dragon mounts.
Sure, being able to ride a dragon would probably ruin the game, and make getting around Skyrim's massive countryside way too easy. We don't care. Most players have already spent a hundred hours exploring the land on foot and use fast travel anyway. Hitching a ride on the back of a dragon would at least keep them in the game world, instead of traveling via a load screen.
Dragon mounts could also require you to capture a dragon before using it for transportation, which could lead to some interesting gameplay scenarios – and be the perfect excuse to revamp dragon combat for something a little less exploitable.
Real Dragon ShoutsEver since modders added Kinect support to the PC version of Skyrim, we've wanted this to be a real thing. Not only would actually shouting dragon shouts be entertaining, but we'd love to use voice commands to equip spells and weapons without having to open a menu. Bethesda could take another page from BioWare's handbook and add a quick save voice command too. If nothing else, we just want to be able to yell, "Shut up!" at guards who start complaining about their old adventuring-related injuries.
More Hot-Buttoned AbilitiesSome folks may think this should be included in an update but we don't care. At this point we'll buy anything in order to have more hot-buttoned abilities. We don't mind if we have to explore to some old Nord ruins and fight a bipedal skeever karate master to uncover the Sacred Power Wheel of Antioch. All we want is to map a couple more abilities to the D-pad. Give us a way to quickly throw on our lockpick-boosting boots or equip a stoneward spell. Scrolling through a crowded quick menu to get from bound sword to steadfast ward takes far too long. Better yet, Bethesda could borrow yet another page from fellow RPG mastermind BioWare and give players the option to equip an ability wheel like in Mass Effect 3.
What kind of DLC do you want for Skyrim? Share your ideas in the comments section below!
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Great idea: just make Fallout 4 and forget about Skyrim.
Great ideas, some of these seem more like they should be part of an update though or free dlc
Did you honestly just say co-op?
New locations!!!!!!!
All of the above exept Dragon mounts.
how bout more weapons
I just want it to come out soon.
I think kinect support would be cool. If it worked as well as Mass Effect 3's then that would be really cool!
I agree on everything you just listed, except the co-op. Some single player games need to remain single player. And I believe TES should remain that way. But some things I would like to see. A place where you can keep all you companions in one spot, instead of going all around the land looking for a specific person I want to travel with. I also would like the option to either adopt kids from the orphanage in Riften, or procreate with someone. And maybe some different breeds of dogs. Oh, oh, and the giant Mudcrab from the video of the devs. having fun making crap.