Karlach and Lae’zel ugly??? They have Chosen DEATH!!!

      • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        21 days ago

        The thieves guild and nightingale quest lines weren’t bad. As far the civil war storyline goes, I once played a mod that I swear must have been either written by a child or written as parody of anti-racism. Because it added dialogue options with Ulfric which were walls of text about how racism is bad and Ulfric basically goes, “huh I’d never considered that” and stops being racist.

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            Maybe I’m just remembering it nostalgically. It’s been like a decade since I’ve played it. I feel like Skyrim is full of shit like that where they stuff radiant quests in or where the combat was bizarre looking and stilted. But I still enjoyed it at the time.

            • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              I’m pretty sure the popularity of the stealth archer play style is specifically because engaging with the projectile physics and OHKOing everything is more fun than actually playing the combat lol.

              I also liked the game a lot. For the most part the radiant quests are easy enough to ignore, but the fact that you have to do a bunch of them to finish the theives guild really rubbed me the wrong way. I distinctly remember having to add and drop radiant quests over and over to ensure that the ones I was picking up were in the right counties - it had this annoying “you have to finish X jobs in Y city to unlock the main quest there” thing that was super frustrating.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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              21 days ago

              I think because the radiant quests were generic and meaningless, a lot of people’s brains edit them out of the memory and just recall the cool stuff.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      21 days ago

      I am an Elder Scrolls enjoyer and I can say with decades of experience in the setting that Skyrim had the weakest story of the mainline games.