Zero Punctuation: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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I can say with certainty that the only thing that has been kept consistent from the 5 games of the Elder Scrolls series is that you are a hero who is special that goes around adventuring and becoming stronger and who solves the problem put forth at the start of the game. Also, its a primarily first person rpg. Other than that, major changes have been made over time to the gameplay, graphics, story, characters, setting, enemies, sidequests and just about everything. If you want to go into specifics, please go right ahead.Dexter111 said:
No game is perfect, least of all large-scale rpgs. I personally got into the Elder Scrolls series around Oblivion and thought it was a nice game. Good, but not even close to great. I then played the shivering isles expansion which I enjoyed tremendously. After playing through oblivion, I was curious about other games in the series and lo and behold I found morrowind. An awful looking game with bad physics(implying of course it had any physics), barely any voiced characters, hilariously awful animations and a bad menu and weapon switching system. But despite all this, its still one of my favorite games of all time. Why? Well, what you seem to have forgotten is that which constitutes a good game: A good or great game is one in which the good aspects make you overlook its flaws and enjoy it regardless of them. I very much enjoyed morrowind because of the design of the world, the writing and the sheer freedom provided. So this part of your post really confused me, because surely games you enjoy have flaws and in conversation you probably attempt to talk them away while emphasizing the good parts, don't you? And if you say: "My favorite games don't have flaws." Then you are simply delusional.Dexter111 said:
What is your point? You seem to be saying that you dislike skyrim and then you point out how they finally decided to start making the dungeons better and more unique. Do you not like the fact that they finally decided to make their dungeons better?Dexter111 said:
And your proof for this is...nothing. Hm, interesting. Also, are you saying Skyrim is doing this or another Elder Scrolls game? Because I could have sworn you just posted a link talking about how Bethesda has been working to improve their dungeons.Dexter111 said:
You just pointed out how they improved their level designs and now you're saying all they've done is improve the graphics. You really shouldn't poke holes in your own arguments, its unhealthy.Dexter111 said:
Also, please tell me what new features they have added since 1994.
I don't even know what to make of this part. You can't honestly tell me you've played skyrim and thought it was bland. It sounds like you're playing a completely different game, to be quite honest. It genuinely sounds like you went inside and outside one house and one cave a few hundred times. Also, if you truly want to boil it down, most quests in video games are "fetch" or "kill" quests.Dexter111 said:
I would actually like to side with yahtzee and agree with a phrase he said but a few videos ago. Something along the lines of "We don't want multiplayer twats walking in and ruining our nice little singleplayer game." I personally equate the Elder Scrolls series to a series of storybooks in which you write your own story. If you don't enjoy story and immersion and lore in a game then I don't think the Elder Scrolls Series is for you. You seem to enjoy other people more than a good story, so maybe you should just play TOR or some other MMO.Dexter111 said:
As long as we're making stuff up or assuming things like you did with this statement, maybe we can pretend The Witcher 2 and RAGE were both good games. Also, I would once again like to bring up the link that YOU, YOURSELF POSTED THAT SAID BETHESDA HAD IMPROVED THE QUALITY AND UNIQUENESS OF THEIR DUNGEONS. http://www.made2game.com/articles/Features/The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim/26218/The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim-hands-on-What-a-difference-a-level-designer-makes/Dexter111 said:
You can't imply that Skyrim's dungeons and world aren't hand designed or good when you previously posted a link that contradicts you.
Also, for the part in which you say that parts of those two games have more content than skyrim does: Ok, I'll bite. Tell me what content these games have. Please then tell me if they were well done and if they added anything to the games, either story or gameplay wise. And you might as well also write me an essay on it followed by a nice 3 course meal.
Then go play those games. Obviously the Elder Scrolls series is not for you.Dexter111 said:
They aren't really bad guys, more like anti-heroes. You're assassinating bad people. In the world of the Elder Scrolls, it seems like you have to be a gigantic douche to have someone turn the Dark Brotherhood on you.Kanatatsu said:
Also, they share a common objective with the Stormcloaks, but I'll let you find out what that is by playing their quest line.
I dont' need a potions lesson after playing 85 hours.... They. Don't. Work. The patch deleted resistance. Werewolves get vampirism, mass hysteria.Ryvaken said:
Yahtzee, you devil! i think this might actually be one of your best reviews to date. i havent commented in probably well over a year. its nice to see you still havent lost your spunk (its just in your hands!). and i gotta agree. the best way to end Shooter Season 2011 is be more like Skyrim.
Crap, forgot about the prisoner thing. Yeah, its true that you start these games as a prisoner. If by dual hand casting you mean using both hands for a spell, that's different than what was done in skyrim and oblivion. In skyrim, you can use both hands for a spell at the same time to overcharge them into a costlier, but more powerful spell. You already know how you can only equip either a spell or a weapon, which is what morrowind and I suspect daggerfall did, but you could only have either a spell or a weapon in your hands. I really enjoy Skyrim's system of switching between both hands for spells and weapons: as in having a sword in your left hand and a fireball spell in your right. Oblivion's system just equipped a spell, similar to equipping a piece of armor and allowed you to cast it regardless of what you were holding or doing. But see? That's three games with very different casting systems. I really think you are oversimplifying things when you talk about game mechanics not changing at all. I mean, if you boil it down, yeah, you swing swords and cast spells. But that's basically any fantasy game ever. If I said in Half Life 2 you just shoot guns and walk around I would also be technically correct, but I'm ignoring everything else that's going on, similar to how you are ignoring the details in Skyrim.Dexter111 said:
Also, are you implying HP/Mana bars and a compass need to be changed? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Bars are a perfectly fine way of showing you status effects without having to go into menus or pause the game to figure out how you're doing.
Well, yeah. If, of course, by "same game concept" you mean "Fantasy RPG set in the land of Tamriel wherein you play a character." I don't see a problem with the concept, but the actual games are quite different, in spite of having the same concept.Dexter111 said:
I'm pretty sure they had level designers before, just not very good ones (especially the ones in Oblivion). I've played upwards of 100 hours and I can honestly say no two dungeons have been exactly alike. If you're complaining about the dungeons and caves having the same theme, I'm going to have to stop you right there, criminal scum.Dexter111 said:
Of course, they're going to look similar, otherwise it would be silly to walk into a dragr tomb full of stone nordic carvings and then walk into another dragr tomb full of wooden anime carvings. They need to feel similar because they were made by similar people. Now, the layouts for every dungeon are different, that's just fact. Some of the dungeons might feel the same because of the theme, but hey, its either that or silly, glaring stupidity. I guess if I can sum up the four basic types of dungeons they would be: castle ruin, nordic ruin, cave and dwarven ruin. But between these four basic types, there are also loads of subtypes and details between the subtypes. Hell, at times these dungeons run into each other. That's not even counting all the things you can find by trekking out in the wilderness.
Obviously I don't believe they hand plant every blade of grass. I just disagree with your implication that they arranged the whole game by putting down a big "X here" stamp and then didn't even bother to look at it.Dexter111 said:
That doesn't mean the developers pressed the "Make the game button" and fucked off to twiddle their fingers. Also, to be fair, the mapping in Oblivion was quite bad, there wasn't much flow when you went between two already mapped areas, it always seemed to snap into another territory, but I never felt that way when I traversed around skyrim, so I don't think the oblivion map really applies.Dexter111 said:
I completely disagree with your supposition that less work went into Skyrim's creation than W2 and RAGE. As for the few different city types, there were always different city types in Morrowind and Oblivion. You're being a little deceptive here: Every main city in Skyrim is unique. There are some similar looking towns in terms of their style that varies throughout the landscape, but that's kind of dependent on where you are, although there is always an underlying theme between all of them: they're nordic. They were built by either ancient nords or current day nords, so of course they have to look similar.Dexter111 said:
I understand complaining when everything looks the same, but to complain that everything doesn't look different is kind of silly.
I can't find one. Neither could you. So maybe we should not assume that Bethesda made skyrim on a glorified MSPaint until we either see direct evidence or the game designer flat out say how they made it.Dexter111 said:I also included that video just because it describes rather well how a "brush" tool for plants, trees and rocks etc. works too as that is what is being used in most of these "Sandbox" games, I could obviously not find a video of a Bethesda developer creating a level for Oblivion or Skyrim... if you can find any you're welcome to show it
Don't get me wrong, you sound like a fair, upstanding gentleman who obviously knows his way around video games, but its just so very strange to find somebody with a perfectly opposite opinion of a game. I truly enjoy skyrim, from its art design, to gameplay, to sound, to story, to even giants that can catapult me up to the sky. In fact, it has become one of my favorite games of all time from the sheer amount of fun, immersion and story that the game has presented to me. I have argued with friends about character motivations, story elements and even the large number of grey moral choices that the game presents. The gorgeous sweeping landscapes, the interesting tomes and notes from those long or recently dead... To find somebody who calls it bland and boring is just something that strikes me dumbfounded. My experience was so positive and enriching that to hear(or see, in this case) somebody saying things that are literally opposite to things I had experienced is just beyond my ken.Dexter111 said:
Missingno? Is that you?!
That last line made me laugh so much, combined with the little Yahtzee with his face in his hands it was beautiful. Skyrim does have a few glitches, my biggest niggle is that the shops and inns have the same layout whichever town you're in, but I'm still having mighty fun with it.
Bows and arrows are the way forward.
That last line made me laugh so much, combined with the little Yahtzee with his face in his hands it was beautiful. Skyrim does have a few glitches, my biggest niggle is that the shops and inns have the same layout whichever town you're in, but I'm still having mighty fun with it.
Bows and arrows are the way forward.
All this glitch nonsense must be on the PC. I have the 360 version, played for over 48 hours, and have yet to see anything more than a dead headless witch standing up. Maybe I'm just awesome.
You mean time that could of been equally wasted porting Oblivion models without consent or making yet another Sephiroth outfit/sword?Elmoth said:
You know that's where the bulk of modeling effort goes to outside nude skins. The number of unique models tends to be pretty scant, unless it's mild pornography, otherwise it's just porting stuff from other games.My hope is guys that worked in Oblivion days, like Martigen, Quarn, and for the custom modeling section Skeleton_K, come back. I'd love to see a new version of MMM, and we could stand to get one of those big old Unofficial patches.
Yahtzee is right: most of the potions, scrolls, and status aliment spells are pointless. That's what happens when you have a real-time action RPG instead of a turn-based one - it's easier to just spam the attack button or the same two spells over and over until whatever in front of you dies.
Combat remains my least favorite part of the TES series.
Combat remains my least favorite part of the TES series.
I just watched his oblivion one for some perspective. Skyrim suffered from much of the same problems as Oblivion that Yahtzee pointed out but he let slide in this one. I'm chalking this up to Skyrim being a reprieve from his shooters.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/75-Oblivion
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/75-Oblivion
While it's predictable, it also kind of makes sense. You have a game that lets you do pretty much whatever you want, EXCEPT a few things. You tell a human they can't do X, and they'll try do it. Then Bethesda has the cruel sense of humour to make kids jerks who are also invincible.Jennacide said:
Example: Fallout 3 has a place called "Little Lamplight", it is tied to the main quest and it features a bunch of shit-talking little kids (and no adults) who are by FAR the most annoying NPCs in the game. Yet they are untouchable. You can't even land a bullet or blow on them, it's like trying to shoot/beat up a ghost. Well, in my mod for Fallout 3, I made them not only killable, but made it so you can complete the quest without them.
As for the female nudy mods... Well, it's the internet. I'm surprised those aren't already here.
I haven't played Skyrim yet (waiting for the Creation Kit), but more realistic damage values and killable kids is definitely high on the priority list for my mod. I hope this game doesn't steal as much of my time as Fallout 3 did.
There is nothing cruel about it though. Bethesda wanted to play it safe since games have come under a ton of scrunity lately. Fallout may of allowed child murder before, since you could kill anything, but that was when it was a niche game and went completely unnoticed. After fiascos like Fox News and Mass Effects 'explicit alien fornication' Bethesda hedged their bets, and I don't blame them one bit.Slayer_2 said:
Its changed a lot. In Arena/Daggerfall you could create a spell that could wipe out a whole village in one blow,Dexter111 said:
Morrowind limitted this, but you could jump so high that you would fall down and die (And unlike Skyrim, that would take like 50ft). And run ten times faster than a horse. But you couldnt quite make damagespells of total destruction and doom.
Oblivion limitted this, you could still create the same damage spells as Morrowind, but now you were kinda limitted on other points such as running and jumping.
Then we had Skyrim, no creating spells. Whatsoever. No running faster and no jumping over tall buildings, still. They took a trip back to the roots of Morrowind by allowing mountainclimbing. Kudos for that.
Call of Duty 1 - Duck behind cover, shoot stuff with rifle.
Call of Duty 2 - Better graphics Duck Behind cover, shoot stuff with rifle.
Call of Duty 3 - Better graphics, now you can instead of ducking behind cover, actually hug cover.
Call of Duty 4 - Same as other 3, but in mdoern times! Grenade launcher are now inbound.
Modern Warfare 1-2. Like 4, shorter campaign. Kind of in the episodic sense. But it was back to familiarity.
Black Ops - Modern Warfare 2, but made by another company. With a whole different story.
Modern Ware 3 - End of story, follows mostly same gameplay with no real major changes to Call of Duty 1. Except perhaps the loss of dedicated servers.. Although that isnt exactly excluse to this game, nor is it gameplay. Nor was it actually MW3.
Now I must admit, if you played Call of Duty changed from being a semi-realstic for the time WW2 shooter, to going to a semi-realistic for the time Modern Shooter. To going completely batshitcrazy B-actionmoviestyle with the story and abandoning most senses of logic it had
And if you only played as a meele fighter Arena through Skyrim. I can see your point, only thing to really change then is the enchanted gear. Because of the magic, but then again. If you since Arena have played a warrior scared to merchants and enchanting and everything magic (God you're boring) Then you wouldnt have noticed much of a change besides graphics.
I once again disagree with you saying all the dungeons are the same and have no point. Same theme =/= the same. And if you're telling me you can't see the point to them, did you completely forget that plot point about you gathering dragon shouts? Because with many dungeons, that's what's laying at the bottom. Not to mention how most dungeons have an associated quest or contain a little story. I think what you did was just scratch the surface, because when I think back, I recall nearly all of my dungeon visits to be memorable and different.Dexter111 said:
For example,
there is one in which you find the remains of a little adventuring group led by a murderous, crazy guy who was looking for an artifact of power. When you visit his camp outside the ruin, you notice its been abandoned for some time as snow has piled up around it. Retrieving his book, you realize he left to go down there with some goons about a few weeks to a month ago. Going down into the ruins, you find dead dragurs, dead hired hands killed by traps and undead, etc. You're basically following this guy's story. Upon reaching a certain point, you find him collapsed on a wall, in a pool of blood. In his hands, he holds the notes to finding a long lost necklace of great power, which if you found the book related to it, you already know about. I found out about this quest by reading a goddamn book I found laying around in the game world. Anywho, this quest spans 4 unique nordic ruins and actually collides with another quest for the mages college. I would talk about it more, but its on to the next one.
Another quest I remember fondly is about a little town in the middle of nowhere full of suspicious nords. They say that the burial mound to the north of town is cursed and haunted. Me, being the adventerous type, decide to investigate. I go down into the ruin, whereapon I see a goddamn ghost past the bars of a door. After I do a little lever puzzle to open it, I follow his path down as he shouts something about "THE LIVING ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!" The ruin is full to the brim with traps and is much tighter than most other ruins I've visited. After fighting down, I find a door that can only be opened by a dragon claw jewel, so I turn around...only to find an elven ghost staring me in the face telling me I will not leave this place. So, the battle begins...and then ends as I strike his ass down with some magic and power attacks. "Wait a minute" I think to myself... "Ghosts don't bleed..." After a bit of snooping, I find a room that wasn't there before and discover a nice little bedroom/study room packed with food and potions and stuff like that. A bit more snooping and I find a journal. Within it, the dude details how he made up a potion to scare the townsfolk away (scooby doo style) by making him look like a ghost so that he could continue his research of nordic ruins in peace. After a certain point, however, he loses the key to the door and goes completely insane, thinking his is the ghostly protector of the tomb. Upon returning to town with the proof that it was old elf jenkins dressing up like a ghost to scare people, I am rewarded with... the dragon claw key to the door the elf went crazy over. The following dungeon past the door was also loaded with traps and real enemies, as well as fun little lanterns you could drop unto pools of oil to light those dragur up.
Lastly, it appears as though I am running out of space, so I'll make this one quick: this dungeon started with a goddamn skeletal dragon surrounded by skeletons "Jason and the Argonauts" style and ended with killing ghosts to free an ancient undead dragon priest who decides the best way to repay the dragonborn for freeing him is to give me a nice little dose of murder. On the way, you see ghostly projections of the Archmage from the nearby Winterhold College leading a team of mages to find an artifact (The same one you're supposed to find). This appears to be from several years ago and you notice that their numbers dwindle the father you get into the dungeon. By the end, you find out a nice chunk of backstory about this place, the archmage and you even get yelled at by a magical, mana draining voice and dodge fireball traps and more.
Another quest I remember fondly is about a little town in the middle of nowhere full of suspicious nords. They say that the burial mound to the north of town is cursed and haunted. Me, being the adventerous type, decide to investigate. I go down into the ruin, whereapon I see a goddamn ghost past the bars of a door. After I do a little lever puzzle to open it, I follow his path down as he shouts something about "THE LIVING ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!" The ruin is full to the brim with traps and is much tighter than most other ruins I've visited. After fighting down, I find a door that can only be opened by a dragon claw jewel, so I turn around...only to find an elven ghost staring me in the face telling me I will not leave this place. So, the battle begins...and then ends as I strike his ass down with some magic and power attacks. "Wait a minute" I think to myself... "Ghosts don't bleed..." After a bit of snooping, I find a room that wasn't there before and discover a nice little bedroom/study room packed with food and potions and stuff like that. A bit more snooping and I find a journal. Within it, the dude details how he made up a potion to scare the townsfolk away (scooby doo style) by making him look like a ghost so that he could continue his research of nordic ruins in peace. After a certain point, however, he loses the key to the door and goes completely insane, thinking his is the ghostly protector of the tomb. Upon returning to town with the proof that it was old elf jenkins dressing up like a ghost to scare people, I am rewarded with... the dragon claw key to the door the elf went crazy over. The following dungeon past the door was also loaded with traps and real enemies, as well as fun little lanterns you could drop unto pools of oil to light those dragur up.
Lastly, it appears as though I am running out of space, so I'll make this one quick: this dungeon started with a goddamn skeletal dragon surrounded by skeletons "Jason and the Argonauts" style and ended with killing ghosts to free an ancient undead dragon priest who decides the best way to repay the dragonborn for freeing him is to give me a nice little dose of murder. On the way, you see ghostly projections of the Archmage from the nearby Winterhold College leading a team of mages to find an artifact (The same one you're supposed to find). This appears to be from several years ago and you notice that their numbers dwindle the father you get into the dungeon. By the end, you find out a nice chunk of backstory about this place, the archmage and you even get yelled at by a magical, mana draining voice and dodge fireball traps and more.
Look closer at what you're doing than not at all. Read books. Go for hikes. Also do those things in skyrim. You'll notice more care went into this game than you would like to admit.Dexter111 said:
I thought I could respect you for knowing your stuff, then you end this passage with a smiley face. And your argument is strawmanning me in a way. I admitted the stuff looks similar, and I offered that because it was all built in the nordic way, it would look similar. I'll admit to you that yes, a lot if not most of the inns look the goddamn same. And some towns have eerily similar layouts. But you must recall, a lot of this was commanded to be built by The Empire, who I'm pretty sure have stringent building policies. I never said it all looked the same, so you're just putting words in my mouth there. I will once again press the point: These be nordic empire lands. The smaller towns will be similar because they lack materials and money that larger cities have. They are built not for style, but for necessity. I see this and understand this. I really don't see what the problem is. I'll concede that there are building which look the same (mostly inns and watermills), but if you actually take a longer look, you'll see the differences.Dexter111 said:
Those are watermills. Windmills use wind and watermills use water. I think I've seen maybe like 2 windmills while most towns have watermills if they're next to a river. Only makes sense though, might as well harvest that water power if its there.Dexter111 said:
Also, Whiterun is completely different than Solitude, both in style on the inside and outside. They are both different than Markarth, Windhelm, Winterhold, Riften and Morthal. I unfortunately haven't visited Dawnstar or Falkreath yet, but if the other cities are anything to go by, I'll bet they're different as well. As for the smaller towns, yes, they appear similar, especially with their inns and mills, but the homes have differences.
There aren't an infinite amount of dragons. Counting the ones whose soul you can drink, there are about 60. Then there's Alduin and Odahviing and Paarthurnax. So about 63. And these dragons are another random encounter which genuinely spice up the game even more. Hell, I was exploring Winterhold College once and went out onto the roof and a goddamn dragon did a flyby on me! I ran inside because my magic wasn't as powerful as my swords and did some tasks inside. When I went out onto another tower, the dragon was still there, circling the college. He proceeded sit on a building a breathe ice on me. I once again ran inside and healed up, did a task and then went into the central area in the college, and the dragon was still there, waiting for me. He landed, we dueled and now there is a nice little dragonbone decoration in the field of the mage's college. Now, I can give a bunch more unique dragonfighting events like I did with the dungeons, but I won't. Because I don't have the time to type it all down.Dexter111 said:
Hell, if I wanted to, I could probably type up an entire thread's worth of random encounters, dragon attacks and dungeon experiences, but I quite honestly don't have the time and I'm fairly sure if I did, you would still not be convinced that more care, love and time went into this game than a press of the "generate random game" button. If this is all really the work of a random generator, then it must be an amazing one because it can craft an experience better than most gaming companies can.
Yes there is a lot of flak from anti-game lobbyists, but if you played Fallout 3 you'd know that someone had fun with making those kids as annoying as possible. In reality, those anti-game lobbyists are like a mouse attacking a battle tank, they really can't do much, gaming is a business that brings in billions, and it's quickly widening it's audience. Soon it will be as common as TV or rock and roll, other forms of media that were hated upon equally. Some people are just resistant to change.Jennacide said:
Regardless, I find the children mods are popular because they're easy to make, and they "fix" the game, at least in some people's perspective.
almost every complaint about skyrim boils down to "you can't break the game like you used to, waaaaahhhhhh"Nikolaz72 said:Its changed a lot. In Arena/Daggerfall you could create a spell that could wipe out a whole village in one blow,Dexter111 said:
Morrowind limitted this, but you could jump so high that you would fall down and die (And unlike Skyrim, that would take like 50ft). And run ten times faster than a horse. But you couldnt quite make damagespells of total destruction and doom.
Oblivion limitted this, you could still create the same damage spells as Morrowind, but now you were kinda limitted on other points such as running and jumping.
Then we had Skyrim, no creating spells. Whatsoever. No running faster and no jumping over tall buildings, still. They took a trip back to the roots of Morrowind by allowing mountainclimbing. Kudos for that.
Call of Duty 1 - Duck behind cover, shoot stuff with rifle.
Call of Duty 2 - Better graphics Duck Behind cover, shoot stuff with rifle.
Call of Duty 3 - Better graphics, now you can instead of ducking behind cover, actually hug cover.
Call of Duty 4 - Same as other 3, but in mdoern times! Grenade launcher are now inbound.
Modern Warfare 1-2. Like 4, shorter campaign. Kind of in the episodic sense. But it was back to familiarity.
Black Ops - Modern Warfare 2, but made by another company. With a whole different story.
Modern Ware 3 - End of story, follows mostly same gameplay with no real major changes to Call of Duty 1. Except perhaps the loss of dedicated servers.. Although that isnt exactly excluse to this game, nor is it gameplay. Nor was it actually MW3.
Now I must admit, if you played Call of Duty changed from being a semi-realstic for the time WW2 shooter, to going to a semi-realistic for the time Modern Shooter. To going completely batshitcrazy B-actionmoviestyle with the story and abandoning most senses of logic it had
And if you only played as a meele fighter Arena through Skyrim. I can see your point, only thing to really change then is the enchanted gear. Because of the magic, but then again. If you since Arena have played a warrior scared to merchants and enchanting and everything magic (God you're boring) Then you wouldnt have noticed much of a change besides graphics.
tough luck, sorry you can't abuse the mechanics any more.
My favorite part was how he joked on how the authorites of Tamirel keep imprisoning the Elder Scrolls heroes.
Couldn't Bethesta go with something slightly more inventive next Elder Scrolls game? like having the hero be a recently freed slave?
Couldn't Bethesta go with something slightly more inventive next Elder Scrolls game? like having the hero be a recently freed slave?