TES [The Elder Scrolls] - Skyrim, Oblivion, and more!

There are more people than me with feels about Skyrim! Yay!

Post your bitching about Ulfric Stormcloak I mean thoughts about yaoi I mean racism/colonialism wank I mean appreciation. Console games, PC games, handheld/mobile games, novels, lore--all are welcome!

#this is a thing I sperg over #come sperg with meeeeeeeeeeee

 

Heya! I am the most horrible TES fan ever in that I only barely played Skyrim's xbox version on my ex's xbox (that's a lot of the letter x) and utterly SUCK at Oblivion, like I'm not even joking I am unable to play Oblivion beyond the first portal thingy because I suck so bad at it. Sadface.
I was utterly floored when I first played through Skyrim as a Bosmer, versus as a Khajit, how much RACISM there was and even utterly DIFFERENT kinds of racism.
Actually would have liked if the NPCs had treated the Dragonborn Khajit the same way they treated the OTHER khajits in the game, but that would have made a lot of the game a bit unplayable :I

 

I'm apparently a "horrible" fan too, Oblivion was nigh-unplayable for me for a while and it's still not my go-to. I'm currently modding the hell out of Morrowind on my PC so it will actually work idk. I tried playing it on the Xbox but I think I was too young and my brain just Could Not. If you ever feel like going back to Oblivion, there's a known Leveling Problem; one way to get around the suckface is to slide down the difficulty. At 1/4 or 1/3 I can actually play the damn thing.

My first playthrough of Skyrim was as a Dunmer (50% fire resistance is so useful against dragons!). I joined the Stormcloaks. I made a mistake, obviously. Also my Gauldur quest remains broken on that save even after all the patches, I think I started playing on like 1.3 or 1.4 and it just never got fixed. i'm not still mad what are you talking about I think this file I'm currently working on is my third playthrough. I'm level 56 and still haven't initiated the last third of the main quest. There's so much to do! So much world to save! And I have a fourth playthrough queued that's still only in the very first quest, I think.

I also find it interesting that the starting trope of literally every TES console game is "you are a prisoner and once you have made your escape you are suddenly The Hero."

 

that beginning trope is kind of hilarious to me especially with how oblivion handled it. Like in Skyrim its semi-believable if I squint at it with my head cocked at an angle and my old glasses on, but something about Oblivion's opening sequence (probably the dramatic dialogue zooms) makes me crack up so HARD and had me attempt to urder the damn emperor myself at some point because fuck it just fuck this dude and his stupid dialgoue zoom and his talk of visions and destiny.
Oh god if the leveling thing is a known problem I might just... yeah. Try to make it easier on myself. I never considered the game might be -too hard- I thought i was just -too bad at it-
oops.

 

IT'S FUCKING CAPTAIN PICARD WE DO NOT MURDER JEAN LUC

That's part of why I don't play Oblivion tbh--after Skyrim, the graphics are jarring. Especially the dialog-zoom. That, and the Loading... when you're just traveling in the overworld. And everything is in Technicolor vomit. Why. I don't understand. I mean, after the constant green-brown of Morrowind you want color, but... surely not that much? Glad they toned it down in Skyrim.

Also can we talk about how the progression of villains/conflicts in the game has gone from
(1) Evil human who harnessed a magical artifact to become immortal/powerful
(2) Evil human who harnessed magic itself to become immortal/powerful
(3) Evil ex-human who harnessed the heart of a god to become an immortal/powerful fake god
(4) Evil god

Spoiler: Oblivion plot

defeated by the avatar of a good god

(5) Avatar of a "good" god
Makes you wonder where they could possibly go with the plotline of VI (please let there be a VI) to outdo this. I love this lore way too fucking much.

 

Liked Arena but did not finish it. Loved Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion. Liked Skyrim but not to the same extent.

The Oblivion mod Oscuro's Overhaul is still my go to.

 

yeah Oblivion has some odd design choices and goign into it AFTER playing Skyrim which is just GORGEOUS its just kind of gross to look at lmao
pal, I play the German dub I have no idea the German voice of the emperor dude is annoying and horrible and I tried stabbing him like twenty times consecutively before giving up being murdered back by the guards pathetically.

 

Arg, more reasons to buy the PC versions of everything! I hate PC gaming (it's for Internet and porn, not vidya!) but I got PC Morrowind because I lost my disc and I heard the mods were great. They did not disappoint. I've heard Oscuro's Overhaul is great too. Of course, I should just play Morrowind instead of getting hung up on differences, but I could never really grasp the combat system for some reason?

@IvyLB I hope Jauffre's and Martin's voice actors weren't as annoying.

Spoiler: Oblivion plot

The only good part is that the Emperor dies no matter what. He doesn't make it past the tutorial anyway. At least his death is part of the plotline?

I keep googling for VI related news but it's literally all rumors. Apparently there might be a teaser at E3 and that's the most I can hope for or something. TES VI: Black Marsh/Argonia seems to be a popular April Fool's for gaming sites. The game will probably on XBOne too, which means buying a new console. Or a better PC because this one sure as hell won't be able to handle it.

#I don't want to spoiler for plot really #but I just think it's cool to preserve the mystery

 

I'm kinda excited for TES VI should it actually happen
I have absolutely no idea about what happened to elder scrolls online? After hearing it was a subscription mmo I lost all interest because money problems and gw2 is my go to mmorpg
but woah I'm super interested in the slightly less humanoid races of tamriel so an argonian centric game would be cool

 

Uh, do I need to warn for swearing? I am warning you now.

Skyrim is the only one I've been capable of playing.

But Ulfric - flames on the side of my face.

He's a fucking waste of space. Like, when I get to choose between the Empire that allows locals to enlist and generally is not as mean as usual Empires and is the buffer between us and the golden racist elves and some jacked up racist fucktruck with delusions, I will pick the Empire.

Might or might not have to do with the fact that I loved most things Rome when I was a little kid.

 

Yeah the Empire gets a giant stamp of -Not As Horrible As You Could Have Been- Stamp of approval
I'm still not entirely OKAY with them but that's the beauty of Skyrim's handling of racial tension, there is a lot of characters who are generally good except for their racism or are generally decent and then they SAY THE THING and you are reminded that this universe is full of people who are VERY FLAWED

 

As far as Empires go, they're pretty decent.

Then again, I do generally hate idiot rebels without a cause who try to upend everything while not thinking AT ALL, so that might be where my bias comes from.

This is quite ironic considering I come from a tiny country that recently belonged to a giant asshole country, but reality =/= fiction, also afaik the Empire hasn't tried to breed/extinct the Nords into oblivion. Did you see what I did there. I certainly did. :P

 

It's still a thing. Upside: great lore. Downside: doesn't work with TES-style play. TES is based on One Person being the hero. So a MMORPG is kind of the antithesis of that. They took a great concept and lent it to third parties and while the atmosphere is still cool it's not really TES-sy anymore. Or at least that's the criticism I hear; I also don't play MMORPGs because I've had nothing but bad experiences with them and I don't want my money going towards a subscription service. I think that's a valid criticism tho, especially since people are looking for an "authentic" TES experience when they play a game branded as TES, and cooperation among multiple, say, Nerevarines or Dragonborns or Heroes of Kvatch is just not a thing that is supposed to happen in an "authentic" TES experience.

THANKS MY LAPTOP IS NOW COATED IN DR. PEPPER I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY pffffthahahahaha

Surprised that no one (general no one) talks about how the Nords came into Skyrim (the territory) and systematically hunted the Snow Elves to enslavement, inbreeding, and erasure as a race.


The next TES console game should have the Dwemer coming back IMO. What a cool culture. They're like the Vulcans of mer, with five times the robots. (... Oh my god that's the glue that holds my VI fanlore together. HOLY SHIT goes off to plan massive fanfic)

 

The MMO has dropped the subscription fee, it is free to play now. (Though you have to buy the game for a AAA price.) Still have not played it myself, and don't plan to.

 

I'm anti-MMORPG in general, just because I've seen some shit. It doesn't seem like a good environment for me. I don't do online play in any game period just because the gamer Community is toxic as fuck. But that's neither here nor there.

Anyone else a compulsive hoarder in their games? Yes, this has a high gold value, I will keep it and then forget to sell it because I am an idiot.

 

Games, life. It takes spoons to sell things and all you get back is money . . . and space I suppose.

 

I am a HUGE SHAMELESS FANTHING.

I've played a bit of Arena and Daggerfall but the dungeons are HUGE and the games are insanely hard even with mods/patches to make it easier, but I've read ALL of the uesp and watched a bunch of people play them.

I have and played Morrowind too, got a bit farther but there are so many tiny annoyances that end up adding up until I wanna punch something. Also went wikiwalking and LP-watching instead.

I uninstalled it on my last computer because it + my huge collection of mods was taking up too much space but Oblivion was my main escape for several years. I also LOVED the Shivering Isles. Of course, I also modded the game until I had to use the console in able to quit without crashing. It was all lore-friendly stuff, but I was also at my mod limit. I love modding my game, I love that there's so much to the world that people can add things that improve the feel of the world without ruining it. There was a mod that added a bunch of little villages and they all felt like they belonged. Except for the lack of voiced dialog you'd never guess it wasn't in the vanilla game.

Pretty much same with Skyrim. I just hit my mod limit, all lore friendly stuff, a lot of immersion/realism mods. Can't play it right now because I fucked the install on one of them and now it crashes when it saves and I don't have the spoons to poke it rn but I think I know the culprit. The downside of heavy modding. But worth it!

 

The modding community for TES is wonderful. I cannot even begin to comprehend how they do it. (Tamriel Rebuilt, I'm looking at you. Holy shit, friends.) I feel you on the dirty mods un/re/install, because I'm shit at modding and don't understand how it works but I kind of want my Morrowind quests to not be broken thanks.

WHAT IF I JUST PLAYED MORROWIND it's right here on my computer see y'all in a week bye

 

This just in: when you turn the difficulty slider down and mod it to auto-regen health/magicka it's actually a game I can play. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

 

oh hell yes elder scrolls thread. i can't say i've ever finished an elder scrolls game because i tend to avoid the main quests as much as possible and go level by doing mundane shit like follow the same guard around in a circle for an hour to level my sneaking waaay beyond what it has any reasonable right being at such a low level. or pick flowers and turn them into poison and become the potions master. or kill mudcrabs. god i hate them so much. but yeah, i'm pretty much useless at these games. i sure do love them though. the side quests tend to be much more interesting imo.

i think the next one is rumored to be set in argonia, so that should be a total blast :D.