billyro Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Everyone really is miserable. Start off a new game in Oblivion and everyone you meet stares at you in disgust!Hopefully, the facial expressions will be fixed in Skyrim so not everyone hates you just because you are currently a nobody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcrin Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Yeah but I hate unavoidable bittersweet endings. Like what happened with the Dark Brotherhood... WHY?!!? We're the player, why can't we have the option to fix anything if we do it right? For example, why wasn't it an option to blow Bellamont's cover before he did it himself?! Such is the nature of railroaded plots. Truly letting the player do what they want is impossible if you have to script everything in advance. We could construct an infinite number of ways any given questline could have gone... What if we murder Ungolim ourselves before joining the Dark Brotherhood (if he weren't unkillable until that quest, that is)? What if Lucien Lachance doesn't get tracked to Applewatch? What if we dress up Vicinte Valtieri as a clown and force him to perform at parties for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeopoldCrank Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Well... We don't know that they are miserable, just that their life sucks. Skyrim could be an entire province of optimists :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrmaad Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 But it does open the door to a spinoff Ayleid world series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brothersanguine Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 The deterioration of the Tamrielic empire makes complete sense after the events of Oblivion. I'm pretty sure that the Elder Scrolls say something along the lines of 'as long as our joined blood sits on the throne, something something empire something held together.' I'm pretty sure it's one of the load screens. And since Martin Septim was the last of the Septim bloodline when he sacrificed himself to keep Mehrunes Dagon from merging nirn and oblivion, there are no dragonborn to occupy the throne of Tamriel. The fall of the empire was the lesser of two evils. I wouldn't be surprised to see the empire completely collapse during the events of tes5. I also wouldn't be surprised to see the Protagonist of tes5 rise to become the King of Skyrim and possibly even the emperor of Tamriel, being the only known Dragonborn. I think we'll see Tamriel hit rock bottom, then climb back up during the conclusion. Or, at least, the event that starts the rise of a new tamriel. I Can't wait to see what happens. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghogiel Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Dunmer were never happy folk now were they. Kind of wonder how there is going to be another elder scrolls game unless its a prequel though... I guess it could be another squeal that takes place ANOTHER 200 years in the future, Skyrim might be the last. There are a 100 things going on in Tamriel right now. Akavir or Summerset are only touched on in lore, ripe for a TES game to explore them. There are wars and all sorts going on, Black Marsh is invading Morrowind, Plus we have no idea how Skyrim ends, so it could easily set up the next game or 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 The dunmer kinda got what was coming to them, decades of enslaving other races, bitter feuds and fighting themselves. As for the Mages Guild... It clearly had many problems of its own, or weren't you paying attention throughout Oblivion? The leaders of each school were either obsessed with their own greatness, impeded by their own concerns, or were just incompetent. There's a reason why a level 4 player with novice level magics could arise to be Arch Mage, they were the most capable of the lot. Even the Mages Guild on Summerset Isle decided that they didn't want to be affiliated any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwannaddl Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 (edited) The Mages Guild disbanded? The other stuff I can understand but yeesh, after all the trouble I went through in Oblivion to purge the damned guild. Looks like those silly necromancers are at it again. Either that or the last Archmage/Sheogorath went mad with power. I do hope they address what happened in the Shivering Isles. It would be hilarious if some of these problems really is the old champion's/Sheogorath's fault. Edited September 1, 2011 by justwannaddl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adronson Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 200 years is a long time, in the big scheme people (and elves) just keep on with their lives. In our world, Europe was devastated two hundred years ago by the Napoleonic wars, but that don't seem to bother a lot of people today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fayvion Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Buying a new computer purely for this game.The following actions on release date -1. Dump girlfriend.2. Ctrl-Shift delete world of warcraft.3. See you in 6months. (Mods Duh!) Ps. Not feeling to bad about the mages guild, aslong as you get to run your own fraction/guild like in the knights of nine. Lord of a castle/state to womb loyal subjects, drink the nectre of the gods. Reenact a Vald the impaler possibly, while we wait our entrance apon valhalla.Slaves would be sweet, mwuhahaha... to far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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