That difference is going to be the single biggest determining factor in trying to guess whether or not you’ll enjoy the first piece of DLC for Bethesda’s epic. Alternatively, maybe you spent 200 hours in Skyrim and are slobbering for more, or maybe you played just 20 hours and wouldn’t mind looking around again.
If you spent more than 200 hours in the homeland of the Nords like I did, chances are you’re pretty sick of the same old tundra.
That’s both Dawnguard’s biggest problem and biggest success all depending on what you thought of Skyrim, both the game as a whole and the territory it takes place in. For Hálfdan, the Nord huntsman fresh out of Helgen, things went, well, pretty much exactly the same. For Althir, Wood Elf Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, master of the Riften Thieves’ Guild, and Nightingale of Nocturnal, things went pretty well.