What does an adventurer do when they're done slaying dragons? Settle down, apparently.

The new DLC for Skyrim gives the player the ability to buy land and build and customize a house from the ground up. And I don't mean just place a house. It looks as if you make a house from fairly raw materials and build it with a high amount of detail.  (Seriously...in the video below the Dovahkiin is making nails....nails!)

According to Bethesda's press release houses can range "from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with armory, alchemy laboratory, and more."  It also looks like you'll be able to adopt children, but since you can't yet kill children in a Bethesda game I see no reason to do that.

I guess that sounds all well and good but right now I'm living in a giant vampire castle with hot blood dolls to feed from whenever I want. Not sure how you can beat that.  I do like the idea of expanding the crafting in Skyrim in such a way, and I can certainly see this being expanded to the point of building entire communities in later Bethesda titles. What about the ability to create a town and be your very own Warlord in Fallout 4? Yes please.

Hearthfire will be available for download for 400 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live on September 4.

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    Thebradman
    12 years, 3 months ago

    Ah, the quiet, simple life in the Skyrim countryside...

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    bigbazz
    12 years, 3 months ago

    HMM....Im interested tell me more.

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    Bob Webb
    12 years, 3 months ago

    I'd say it'll be less than an hour after the expansion comes out that someone with the PC mod that lets you murder children will build a mansion, fill it with kids, then record a video of the slaughter.

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    Sir Kibble
    12 years, 3 months ago

    "What about the ability to create a town and be your very own Warlord in Fallout 4? Yes please."

    You just made me go from "Cool!" to "HRRRNNNG" in one statement.

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    Aged Milk
    12 years, 3 months ago

    You should consider looking into this if you have fallout 3 on the pc Joseph.
    http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/7070

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    Trusis
    12 years, 3 months ago

    The most importent question now is

    CAN I FARM like I do in harvest moon?

    I've been putting dawngaurd off since its like $20, I guess I'll wait a while for this too.

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    sammonoske
    12 years, 3 months ago

    If you are on PC.. complete waste of money. Already mods for everything in that video.

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    Jacob
    12 years, 3 months ago

    Lamest Add-On i've seen in years...

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    roughplague
    12 years, 3 months ago

    it's not some huge epic add-on that will drag people back into skyrim like hungry dogs after a tender steak, but it's something that'll be neat to have the option of doing. personally I enjoy games like the sims where you can be the arcitect and create something custom of your own, playing sims as a game after that, not so much.
    I'm interested, but probably won't be THE thing that drags me back in the world of tamriel.

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    CrossOutlaw
    12 years, 3 months ago

    want to kill children? there's a mod for that....seriously

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    Castor
    12 years, 3 months ago

    Joseph I know Brad is busier than usually lately, but tell him to get Trailer Talk back on!

    Or you do it, looked forward to that series a ton.

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    Soha
    12 years, 2 months ago

    "It also looks like you’ll be able to adopt children, but since you can’t yet kill children in a Bethesda game I see no reason to do that."

    I was going to say the exact same thing.