Leave it to Bethesda to take the most loathsome, detestable character in the entire game ... and set her as essential.Thank you! I don't think there is a faction and characters I hate more then Maven Black-Briar and all of the Thieves Guild characters from Skyrim.Throughout my entire time in Riften I longed for the Legion in NV to show up and burn those dirty profigates on a tire fire and as well as burn down their sinful and degenerate town!
Cough, kids.
That was the point where the hype broke for me when it came to Skyrim. I was playing a sneaky warrior Nord who only knows healing magic and suddenly, I become the Head of the Mages Guild all because I killed the final boss of the quest-line with a sword I found in a ruin somewhere instead of using any mastery of magic against them. The Companions were even worse somehow; after 3 missions (give or take), their Inner Circle trusted the newcomer enough to reveal the Werewolf condition to aforesaid newcomer. Pacing seems to be a significant problem for Bethesda.
That's definitely a factor. In Morrowind the Guilds felt like jobs, something you do and go home to rest afterwards.
I get what you mean. I remember how many of the initial quests treated the low-ranking player like an errand boy in Morrowind rather than the savior of the guild.
They are, the higher ranks you get the more important your duties become. From helping keep a couple of Guars safe to deciding Morrowind's destiny, House Redoran helps simulate the rise from grunt to hero like all other factions.
Ah good old House Redoran... Even the rewards for doing your job as an errand boy there start out low until you become more important in that House. I like how the player estate for that Great House was a small village with guard towers and small houses around the main house instead of a mere mansion. Heck you could even recruit willing single women to live in so that your retainers can find love among the single ladies.
I find it interesting how Morrowind shows the journey from grunt to hero really well, in all their guilds and even the main questline. You start as a puppet for the emperor, a way to exploit the religion of the Dunmer to ensure greater power but later and later you become more influential and become the real Neverine.
I agree. Morrowind could show that journey from grunt to hero even for an older title. I think it's because Morrowind had some good progression and pacing to it in its writing. I remember it was once said that Morrowind did not fake urgency for the main quest like future Elder Scrolls games like Oblivion and Skyrim. So it could progress at the player's pace and at the player's choice which allowed it to scale up and escalate based on player input. I remember when you first meet Caius Cosades at an extremely low level, he even tells you to go explore, train and build up a reputation before accepting a main quest from him, giving you some spare cash to help with those listed activities.
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God, Don't even get me started on the Companions quest for that matter(Why the fuck are they forcing me become a werewolf when I don't want too? Why the fuck can't I tell their leader who is trying to put an end to all that?)
Saving the world from Dragons isn't enough?
Skyrim has so many problems.
. If it's not a bug, it's intentional!
It. Just. Works.
Weren't bugs also intentional, for that Bethesda feel?Features, you mean features
I believe that there was a reviewer on some professional "journalism" website (game journalism sucks btw) who said that he felt a sense of nostalgia because of Fallout 4's bugs, but on that same website their review of Fallout New Vegas criticized it for having similar issues
Yeah well, double standards and hypocrisy reign in journalism.