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Hearthfire is by far the weakest expansion of Skyrim.
I really like the idea of owning a property but it's not implemented very well.

Buying a house with gold and customizing it is fun, but if you want to build your own house, gathering the materials might be very tedious and exhausting. Granted, it's still worth checking out because it adds some slightly important elements.

Final Rating: "Average" ~ 5/10.

Bom complemento, construir casas, comprar terras, adotar crianças, bandidos sequestrando sua esposa....

Home decor & adoptable children turn Skyrim into a bizarrely compelling fusion of Diablo and life sim. I doubt Bethesda will ever expand on this but someone else absolutely should.

Can't even have sex with your wife


what good is this dlc if serena cant move in with me ಥ_ಥ

I think getting to build your own house in Skyrim adds a lot to the role-playing nature of the game, as it allows players to choose where they want to live of three different options. However, it is stupid how you need to collect different materials and then how weird it is to create the different parts of the house.

This is not that great. It's a house builder add-on that doesn't really satisfy.

While it may be the lowest rated of all of Skyrims DLCs it's my favourite DLC of all time it just adds so much more to your life in skyrim having children building your own home etc a continuation on honourbell etc so much to love here.

A bit of fun, and a cool feature, but a bit too limited to be put behind a price tag. It doesn't nearly reach the limit Oblivion did with it's smaller DLC, but Hearthfire doesn't add much in terms of new content, and the main selling points, that being the ability to build your own house, and adopt children are very underdeveloped.
Kids basically serve no purpose, they stay static, never aging, never growing, they have no emotion towards having a parent who is barely around, and in a series that has basically set it's goal as making every character feel real, and have the player feel as real as those characters, it's distracting how little personality each kid has, and how indistinct they are from each other. Ironically, the new adoption shares a lot of the same flaws as the base games' marriage system. Throw some child beggar a coin, and they'll instantly ask "Can you be my mother" every time you pass them for the rest of the game, and if you accept, they do nothing but show robotic love towards the player, and on occasion give you a gift.
However, it's mainly built on it's house building mechanic, and while it is fun to have a bit more choice in how you decorate your home, it basically is just a standard home, except now you need iron ingots, and stone to build that alchemy lab instead of shilling out 3000 gold or whatever. In retrospect, something along the lines of the Fallout 4/76 building system would be a strong fit, but I do have to say, I am a bit happy it's this way because it's certainly saved us from a generation of videos where people go to their "home" that in reality is just a "perfect" base with no roof or or walls, or anything, just a floor with every workbench in the game on it. I am shit talking you. You know who you are, and just know when I see it I judge you. I hate you, and your ugly base. Build a roof. Stupid.

It's just housing addon with an ability to adopt children and move together.
The most important thing is it helped some modders.

Not really needed or interesting but it's there.

"Right here. If you can communicate this product you can make money of the product. Cuz look at Howard, he's the executive producer of the Hearthfire DLC. I like some of the Todd's games, what the fuck does he know about adoption?" - Kanye West, 2012

It's intriguing for like one house during one initial playthrough. Very barebones and tedious.

I loved the element of building you own house and that it wasn't an easy task getting materials making it feel more realistic and immersive. I liked the range of options for housing layouts but would have loved a bit more creative control on how the houses looked.

I played this on a save once and completely forgotten about it. I prefer the house mods. 😞

Lame DLC. The housing options are very limited.

Adopting a family and building a home is such a satisfying thing to do at the end of your playthrough.

The adoption and marriage parts are great but the house building can be kinda dull, plus, the house decorations make no sense??

the most broken and asanine DLC since horse armor

Games I Like That Everybody Else Dislikes

Adequate. Rightfully the Black Sheep of the Skyrim DLCs, the other two just being jam-packed with incredible content while this can't help but seem puny in comparison - doubly so given the huge depth of immersion in the base game and its other expansions compared to this. I'm not going to say this is bad, like at all. I still dig it for what it is. Being able to adopt is a well-integrated feature, and it gives you a few more places to stay in key areas with greater customization than the base game affords (which is a nice selling point for those mostly uninterested in using mods such as myself). But the customization that it does allow is, as everyone else has already mentioned, pretty simplistic. Definitely not going to shake a stick at more content for this great game, but yeah it could have been more.

Skyrim the Sims é real e posso provar (não é nada de mais mas gosto muito desse tipo de coisa em jogos de RPG)

Not really into life sim stuff so I played this solely for completion's sake and had a miserable time.

perfect because i could finally leave my dog somewhere safe


is it mid? yes. did i still build every homestead possible? perhaps

This is actually my favourite expansion. In fact my favourite part of Skyrim as a whole was to get married and have children, and move to a house in the woods. I think maybe it's because I'm gay.

The house building part is all right. And there's always giants about, not a safe place to raise my kids. It would be 5 stars if they would let me adopt all the children, and maybe get more than one husband.

Like Skyrim but with Minecraft

skyrim but animal crossing for the playstation 3