Elder Scrolls V - Part 4

[Quasimod0]

Really wish I had a pc powerful enough for skyrim. Mods would be nice. But it's great on xbox too

 

[CapedCrusader14]

I've played at least over 122 hours on Skyrim.

 

[Havok83]

Anyone try to play Oblivion after playing this game? Ive been kinda inspired bc Elder Scrolls has such great lore and I love coming across the references to Oblivion. Boy is it hard playing that game now. Its amazing just how much Bethesda improved things in every way. The graphics look downright awful. Low res textures, faces are unimpressive and not much detail in the interiors. I wasnt instantly impressed with Skyrim's visuals when I started it but am now after comparing the two. The quest management and organization is so much better now as well and Im digging the current user interface and layout.

 

[StrainedEyes]

I haven't gone back to Oblivion, but I am getting serious urges to go back to Fallout 3.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

After playing Skyrim i dont think i could ever go back to Oblivion or Fallout. Way too many upgrades made by Bethesda.

 

[Soapy]

I don't think I could return to any of Bethesda's previous games. Except probably Morrowind. Morrowind and Skyrim are very consistent in many areas. Oblivion really feels like a red-headed stepchild. And Fallout 3/New Vegas, while good, aren't nearly as stable as Skyrim, PS3 version notwithstanding.

 

[Benstamania]

Oblivion wasn't that good when it was new, so I have zero urge to play it now. Daggerfall is free on Bethesda's website (although I can't seem to get it to play on Windows 7...)... But yeah, what killed Oblivion for me was the tedious Oblivion Gates... Take ten steps.. RED! Ten more steps RED... Ect,ect.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Haha yea i always hated those damn things. Thats why i didn't do much exploring in that game at all.

 

[Soapy]

I don't want to derail this thread with Oblivion bashing, I'm happy to forget that game even existed now that we have Skyrim, but I'll just say that I totally agree about the Oblivion Gates. Tedious, boring, and not at all fun.

 

[Havok83]

How many years after Oblivion does Skyrim take place?

 

[ProjectPat2280]

how many years after oblivion does skyrim take place?

200

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I don't want to derail this thread with Oblivion bashing, I'm happy to forget that game even existed now that we have Skyrim, but I'll just say that I totally agree about the Oblivion Gates. Tedious, boring, and not at all fun.

Eh, i really liked Oblivion. It was my first real RPG i ever played. Never would of played Mass Effect or Fallout or Dark Souls if it wasn't for Oblivion.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Did anyone here craft a "back story" for their character(s)?

I like thinking that my character in Skyrim is a distant descendent from the Hero of the Oblivion Crisis. I dont know why i do that.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Yeah, I enjoyed Oblivion for the sidequests, forgot all about the main quest. I remember the pattern to doing oblivion gates was simple.

1) Cast invisibility spell
2) Run all the way to the sigil stone

Yeah, they were tedious and boring.

Edit: @Pat, yeah man, I've had back stories for both my characters. One was a true Nord bastard who's father was supposed to be a great warrior but he never knew him, who fought with Ulfric. Then after joining the Stormcloaks he became disillusioned with the war and the Nord ideals and fell out of love with Skyrim, siding with Parthunax and the dragons :P

My other character, R'Skarr Fireclaw, was a clan leader back in Elswyr until he had to flee when his tribe turned against him. He lives with the deep shame of being a coward and treats that with dubious and morally suspect behaviour :P

I'm having a lot of fun with the role playing stuff in this game and i'm not gonna lie, the fact that I've been reading a lot of George R. R. Martin probably has a lot to do with that.

 

[Havok83]

The Thalmor are a-holes. I saw a bunch of them randomly escorting a prisoner and the captian asked me if I worshipped Talos. I said yes and they instantly try and kill me. WTF? I would have thought they'd at least try and arrest me first. I tried this again and when asked if I worshipped Talos, I stood silent and she ordered them to kill me bc my silence prooved that I had something to hide. Needless to say, I blasted them all away with a few fireblasts and freed the poor guy

I thought it was strange at first that these people worship Talos a man like he's a god, but I guess he's analogous to Jesus for them and I can get that

 

[Soapy]

Yeah, I make up back stories for my characters.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

He may be a man and not a god, but he was also the first Dragonborn. He was hardly just some dude.

I'm still not sure how I feel about the Alderi Dominion. I'm not sure I like the idea of the elven superpower. I feel like it would have been nice to meet some characters or do some missions for some Thalmor that aren't total *****es, just to show a different perspective on the thing, because otherwise there is nothing even remotely positive about them. It just seems very one sided for Bethesda to do that, especially since i would have though Elves were definitely a fan favourite race.

I would love some of the DLC to focus on the Alderi Dominion more directly.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Tiber Septim was special though. I mean he understood that, that measly little prisoner he stumbled upon would be important to the coming crisis.

Edit. i was WRONG.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

When did Tiber Septim do that, in the first Elder Scrolls game? I never played that one.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

That wasn't Tiber Septim in the beginning of Oblivion, that was Uriel Septim.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Ooops. My bad you guys.


So who was Uriel Septim? The decedent of Tiber?

 

[socool]

When did Tiber Septim do that, in the first Elder Scrolls game? I never played that one.

I don't think it was actually in a game. They mention it in Skyrim which is the only reason we know. The Jarl of Whiterun's stewart says something like "No one's been called by the Greybeards since Tiber Septim himself."

 

[Matt]

Ooops. My bad you guys.


So who was Uriel Septim? The decedent of Tiber?

Yep.

 

[Soapy]

I'm still not sure how I feel about the Alderi Dominion. I'm not sure I like the idea of the elven superpower. I feel like it would have been nice to meet some characters or do some missions for some Thalmor that aren't total *****es, just to show a different perspective on the thing, because otherwise there is nothing even remotely positive about them. It just seems very one sided for Bethesda to do that, especially since i would have though Elves were definitely a fan favourite race.

I would love some of the DLC to focus on the Alderi Dominion more directly.

I like the Dominion. Well, I like them insofar as I think they're really interesting. And I'm sure a great many of them do have a more measured perspective, because all we're being exposed to in Skyrim in the Thalmor, right? They're supposed to be the most "extreme" sect of the Dominion if I'm not mistaken. But I'm sure the common folk in the Dominion are just as divided on the situation as the Nords are.

And I'm sure we will see more from their perspective in the future, because it seems to me like this whole Dominion/Empire separation is a setup for an MMO.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Either that or a future game set in Tamriel with a radically different government structure, ruled by the Dominion instead of the Empire.

I've been reading so much 'Songs of Fire and Ice' that it's hard to look at any sort of power struggle or conflict like the Empire vs Dominion in a one sided manner but i'd definitely like to find out more. I could imagine a DLC where you travel over to a dominion controlled region, similar to some of the Fallout DLC or like new Vegas with the Legion.