Skyrim main campaign ending a major letdown

[IzisviAziria]

I've had Skyrim since last Friday when it was released. According to steam, I have put in 27 hours thus far, which is only slightly time than I spent at my job last week. Of those 27 hours, I think I have put about 2 of them into the main quest. That's including the obligatory 1'st hour where they have you arbitrarily chained to the main plot for a bit to set the game up.

I understand your disappointment, (didn't read the spoilers, just going off your sentiment) Oblivion was much the same way. The plot was mediocre at best and wasn't really worth a replay.

But that's not what Elder Scrolls is about. Bethesda knows this. We know this. I didn't put 600 hours into Oblivion to play the main plot, I did it dicking around with new characters, exploring, doing side quests.

If that's the major allure of Elder Scrolls games (and it is) then why would Bethesda commit a significant portion of their resources to it? Wouldn't make much sense.

tl;dr plot takes a back seat in Elder Scrolls games. If you don't the main story, go find a side quest to do.

 

[Baldr]

I actually enjoyed the Mages' College questline a lot better than the main quests.

 

[Liquid Ocelot]

I concur with the OP. It was ridiculous. You save the world from extinction, and no one gives a shit. No reward, no becoming High King, you get fuck all. I was pretty disappointed.

Even the Stormcloaks reward you for taking a fort for Christ sake! You're telling me a bigass dragon and the bloody Greybeards couldn't reward you with something? Fuuuuck that. You can't even loot the big bad.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Does it stop the random dragon encounters? I assume it would. If so, why even finish the main quest? The dragon fights are about the best thing going for the game.

It actually doesn't stop the dragon encounters. Those continue like nothing happened.

That's good, but also bad.

It's good because the random dragon-fighting-a-mammoth scenes are great fun to watch, but bad because story wise, it doesn't make sense.

No it does make sense. Alduin wasn't sustaining the dragons with his magic or anything he just knew how to resurrect dead dragons(assuming it wasn't a dragonborn that killed said dragon, since you destroy it's soul.) and once they are back to life they take care of themselves.

Paarthurnax or whatever his name is mentions that the dragons will spread all over nirn(the world) now. So dragons will likely be a permanent part of the elder scrolls games from now on. And some dragons might turn good like old Parth, but they have to fight their own nature to do that so a lot won't.

OT: I agree that maybe a little more fanfare would have been nice and more of a challenge. But then again I came loaded up to the eyeballs in potions with the best weapons and armour in the game, maybe if I just need to crank up the difficulty.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I actually enjoyed the Mages' College questline a lot better than the main quests.

Really? Aside from the final dungeon, I didn't find the Winterhold College quests to be that memorable. Preferred the Thieves Guild myself.

OT: Pretty much every major questline (Thieves Guild, Companions, Mage College, etc.) ending is kind of an anticlimax or left me feeling somewhat empty.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

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Finish the civil war campaign, that has a bit more substance and some decent choices.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I actually enjoyed the Mages' College questline a lot better than the main quests.

Really? Aside from the final dungeon, I didn't find the Winterhold College quests to be that memorable. Preferred the Thieves Guild myself.

OT: Pretty much every major questline (Thieves Guild, Companions, Mage College, etc.) ending is kind of an anticlimax or left me feeling somewhat empty.

Really? I thought that the Dark Brotherhood had an epic ending like the final quest of the Thieves' Guild in Oblivion.

 

[Baldr]

I actually enjoyed the Mages' College questline a lot better than the main quests.

Really? Aside from the final dungeon, I didn't find the Winterhold College quests to be that memorable. Preferred the Thieves Guild myself.

OT: Pretty much every major questline (Thieves Guild, Companions, Mage College, etc.) ending is kind of an anticlimax or left me feeling somewhat empty.

I was kinda hoping the mage college quest would lead to better spells, so I did all those quests first. Fighting Morokei at level 7 with not not many spells is pretty challenging, the whole save the world from a powerful magical artifact and the mysterious Psijic Order are much better than the Oblivion run around to each city and do some dumb task set by guildmaster who couldn't give a flip about helping you.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I actually enjoyed the Mages' College questline a lot better than the main quests.

Really? Aside from the final dungeon, I didn't find the Winterhold College quests to be that memorable. Preferred the Thieves Guild myself.

OT: Pretty much every major questline (Thieves Guild, Companions, Mage College, etc.) ending is kind of an anticlimax or left me feeling somewhat empty.

Really? I thought that the Dark Brotherhood had an epic ending like the final quest of the Thieves' Guild in Oblivion.

Haven't done the Dark Brotherhood yet, my bad. Sounds cool though, don't know when I'll actually get around to it.

Don't get me wrong, I think the Thieve's Guild questline had a pretty cool ending, it's just that afterwards it feels like nothing significant has changed. Same thing happened for the Companions and Mage's Guild and I don't particularly feel like those had a satisfying conclusion at all.

 

[kaizen2468]

Awful awful ending for the main quest. So boring, I was like dude wtf...that's it?