Elder Scrolls Topic

[Superfluous Crow]

Between Morrowind and Oblivion, Morrowind was the only game that made me feel like I had a real character and a place in the story, as opposed to just being some glorified errand boy/player-world interaction tool.

[Elemental_Elf]

At the end of Morrowind, you become Dunmer Jesus. Awesome.

At the end of Oblivion, you become a glorified gofer who watches the real hero save the day.

[Superfluous Crow]

I disliked Oblivion when I was playing it, but decided to read the plot summary just to be up-to-date for Skyrim. After reading that I was kind of glad I didn't play through it to the end.
(of course a purely personal opinion!)

[Elemental_Elf]

I disliked Oblivion when I was playing it, but decided to read the plot summary just to be up-to-date for Skyrim. After reading that I was kind of glad I didn't play through it to the end.
(of course a purely personal opinion!)

I played through the darn thing, can you imagine my disappointment?

[Matt Larkin (author)]

At the end of Morrowind, you become Dunmer Jesus. Awesome.

At the end of Oblivion, you become a glorified gofer who watches the real hero save the day.

Well, you're the hero history forgot. The one that gets Martin to the point he can make his famous sacrifice. Not as satisfying, but still a relevant player in the story.

Now I didn't love the last battle, as it was spent guarding someone else, which is not at all what my sneaky archer was built for--and the game had encouraged me to build whatever kind of character I wanted up to that point.

[Ninja D!]

Oblivion was nothing it was supposed to be and hooribly flawed. It was still fun when it was what we had but I think we've now reached a point where we can say; Morrowind and Skyrim are awesome. I wonder why they never released Elder Scrolls 4?

I finished up all the Companions stuff this morning and started a new character. I'm going pretty much pure mage, though he will carry and sometimes use a shield. I thought that would be cool. The shield is of pretty limited usefulness and will become less useful as I level but I consider it more a part of the character than the build.

[Elemental_Elf]

Bethesda is updating Skyrim sometime in the near future.

Of the issues they are fixing, I find this bug horrifying:

"Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player's wedding dead"

[Ninja D!]

That's awesome, I wish I could opt out of that fix.

[Superfluous Crow]

They should write quests around their bugs :P
Bethesda: "it's true guys, it was part of the plan all along. The flying mammoths? Aldmer superweapons. The head buckets? disguised brain parasites. Crashes? Well, we don't want to spoil too much, but there is this one quest where the world ends if the player doesn't stop the villain in time and we wanted to make sure the player could truly identify with the consequences of this disaster"

[Elemental_Elf]

I had an odd occurrence the other day.

I was in Whitehelm. I decided to mess around and see how many people I could kill before the guards overwhelmed me and either forced my capitulation or killed me. Well I managed to kill about six people before being hauled off to jail. Once inside, I immediately picked the cell door's lock and escaped. Several guards spotted me and gave pursuit. After a heart-pounding chase, I ducked into a house to take a breather and let my stamina regenerate. Well, after a few seconds, a Guard burst into the house... And began swimming in the air! Because she believed herself to be swimming, she could not draw her weapon or interact with me. So I stood, mouth agape, as she she darted and dashed around me like a majestic seahorse. Eventually, several other guards realized where I was and bolted in. Unfortunately for me, they did not create a school of guards. No, they draw their swords and beat my face into the ground, leaving me broken and dead in someone's living room, with a guard gracefully swimming around my corpse, mocking my inability to swim in midair.

[Superfluous Crow]

I'm sure there is a perfectly logical reason for above (great) story!

[Matt Larkin (author)]

I'm sure there is a perfectly logical reason for above (great) story!

Yes--that was the quest about the mermaid turned into a guard, trying to get you to return her to her true self. You have to bring her seven mudcrab chitins during the full moon. Then cast Transmute.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

That's awesome, I wish I could opt out of that fix.

It happened if you schedule your wedding (which takes place at dawn the next day), but your follower dies between now and then. From what I've read, it also means you fail the wedding quest and don't get married.

[Ninja D!]

Canceling the wedding DOES seem reasonable if someone shows up dead.

[Ninja D!]

I actually really hate that you can't use your weapon or any sort of magic underwater (or even partially in water) in Skyrim. I think that's lame.

Anyways, I had a very strange glitch this morning. I was near Riften. If I were to turn around, I probably could have still seen the main gate clearly. It was after dark and I was going somewhere. I don't remember where I was going or what quest I was doing / had active. There were some things flying around so I figured I'd gather some of those alchmy ingredients that you can only get at night. First I snagged one of those glowbugs. Nearby, I saw a glowing moth. I went after that. It landed on a bush so it could be a nice, easy target for me. I activated it and nothing happened. That's fine, it happens sometimes. I probably just missed the spot by a hair. I did it again. And again. And again. Each time, I got nothing. It must have been on about the fifth try that, all at once, the moth vanished and was replaced by a dead rabbit, which fell straight to the ground, and I still had nothing added to my inventory.