pgir001 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Hmm Let's see.Boethia's Calling. Kill a follower? Dam I hate that one. Well, it wouldn't be so bad if Delphine were a follower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidbossVyers Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Daggerfall was, in theory, a lot darker, made less so due to now outdated graphics. In fact, many older games would be considered "darker" had they been updated to current graphics. For example, in recent Dynasty Warriors games, Xiahou Dun's famous eye eating scene is censored (camera moves away from the act), while you see it directly in Dynasty Warriors 1. Dynasty Warriors 1 has the same age rating as the recent DW games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relativelybest Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) I've only played Oblivion and Skyrim, and I would say Skyrim is grittier and has a more grim tone on average, but I wouldn't say it's darker per se. If anything I think I saw more disturbing stuff in Oblivion. There was this one part, I think during Nocturnal's quest, where I passed through a room that was just full of rotting corpses hanging from the ceiling. That actually freaked me out a little bit. Dagon's realm, while not exactly scary, also had a lot of dead people in torture cages and stuff like that. By comparison, the only corpses (not counting actual dead NPCs) I recall seeing in Skyrim were skeletons, inanimate draugar and a few people who were burned by dragons. And I'll never forget this gem from one of the assassins during the Dark Broherhood questline: "For example, this one time I had a contract to kill a little Nord girl at her birthday party. She asked me if I was the jester! So I said to her."No, I am a messenger of death." You should have seen the look on her face! Ha ha ha ha! Anyway, she won't be seeing age six!" Sheesh. Shivering Isle also had some pretty disturbing dungeons, IIRC, and there was one quest where you had to go around torturing people. Like, that wasn't even a moral choice kind of thing for evil players - it was a required part of the quest. In a weird sort of what, the most depressing part of Skyrim was when I started reading some of the books, because it seems all stories end with the protagonist dying in some ironic twist. It's like Tamrielian culture doesn't believe in happy endings at all. Edited February 11, 2016 by Relativelybest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lachdonin Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 It's like Tamrielian culture doesn't believe in happy endings at all. May have something to do with the fact that the entire Aubris is based off Anu's grief after his brother murdered his entire family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saurusmaximus Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 It's like Tamrielian culture doesn't believe in happy endings at all. May have something to do with the fact that the entire Aubris is based off Anu's grief after his brother murdered his entire family. There is also the fact that life is much more difficult there than it is here for us living here in the first world on earth. If you want proof, just look at how dark most our children's stories were prior to 1900. Many of them are downright depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyquest32 Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 With the daughters of coldhorbor or however its spelled, it could be at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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