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General Gaming / Re: Skyrim Thread

« on: August 27, 2019, 06:13:22 AM »

One thing that kinda irked me was that I'm on the Nord's side of the civil war, and I don't like that side.  I wasn't sure where I was allowed to join the otherside, but the game early on was like "Hey, go join the Stormcloaks".  So, I kinda rolled with it?  That was also an early quest that pointed me in a direction that was 20+ hours away.

They do a good job of making it a grey area for each side. There is a point where you can switch, after you get the leaders to meet for a possible truce summit. There you "learn what the other side is like" and you have an option to switch. Not quite sure how to do that though as I have yet to choose a side. I'm deathly afraid of closing out any possible quests and actions so I am holding off on that until I have done near everything else I can.

I was originally leaning Imperial, believing order and unity coupled with internal reform would lead to the better outcome because it would take the entire empire to hope to stand against the elves and once they had withstood them in rebellion they could reinstate open Talos worship.

But part way through my inner Nord rose up and I felt I could take the entire Dominion on my own so I've swung to the other side, but the rampant racism of the Stormcloaks puts a bit of a sour taste in my mouth. I'm all for pride and nationalism, but you shouldn't hate on others as a showing of your national pride.

So I may swing back around by the time I make the choice.

That's actually my main issue with it.  My character isn't even a Nord, so running around with an army yelling "Skryim is for the Nords!" completely takes me out of the role play.  And honestly, recent real-life events just make it so unsavory.

There's a werewolf quest?  I would try that out.  Can I be both?  I had to look up if my vampirism was curable, which I'm glad it is (I think?), but I never fixed it.

And honestly, I don't like the stormcloaks.  I avoided a lot of those quests because of that.  Especially after you take one city and everyone is just super bummed at you.

Gotta watch the flipping between Werewolf and Vampire. To can become werewolf and cure yourself once. You then get one more time to be turned back and if you cure yourself again that is it. Vampire can turn you and you can cure yourself multiple times. There is a way to become a hybrid, and there are different stages of it depending on how you pull it off. Read a guide on it if you want to try.

If/when I pick up the game again, I'll look into that.  The game seems to be better with a guide, is the running theme I'm picking up on.

I played it after BotW, which is a much better game IMO, and that may have soured me a tad on the experience.  To be honest, while I was sinking hours into the game, it just started to feel like work.  I was just chipping away at random quests, occasionally getting in over my head, and jumping in and out of the story lines made them hard to follow.

There are a couple things I specifically disliked, like at the very beginning there are people telling you to visit the mage college to learn magic.  I'm thinking, "Ok, that makes sense, I wanna do some magic spells," but the freaking thing is at the opposite end of the map and I don't get there until many hours later, after having learned magic attacks.