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| Greetings, heathen. Perhaps some fortuitous blessing of Kraden's grace hath led you to our humble Temple, or perhaps you are simply curious about this strange and wonderful cult. Should you be willing - and dare to hope - to achieve enlightenment, the door opens before you. Lo! Leave your old life behind! For once you step through, you become something more than just yourself. You become a Kradenette. Are you willing to make the rapturous plunge? Do you have what it takes? One of us! One of us! One of us! Already one of us? Make your presence known: |
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| UltaFlame | Dec 25 2011, 12:13 PM Post #421 |
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Thanks Poui.
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I find the lack of a satisfying end interesting. Yeah, nothing seems like you're accomplishing anything - but isn't that the point? You saved Tamriel... but the Empire is still in ruins and the Thalmor still run things. You freed Skyrim and gave it to the True Sons of Skyrim. ...Oh, but the Empire is in even WORSE condition now. You saved Skyrim from the Stormcloak threat! ...Yet, again, the Thalmor position is only strengthened. You're the leader of the Dark Brotherhood, and you assassinated the EMPEROR. ...The guy was pretty much powerless. Also, for all that you're not a viable thing again, you still have less than ten people to your cause. Etc, etc. Everything the Dovahkiin does leaves no satisfying end for him/her |
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| The Sin Thesis | Dec 25 2011, 12:22 PM Post #422 |
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http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/np4ry/id_like_a_quick_word_with_you_brynjolf_spoilers/ It's less that and more a limitation of the game. I.E. Imperial minions telling their Legate and famous war-hero to "Move along, scum." |
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| Saturos | Dec 25 2011, 12:43 PM Post #423 |
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Watch the spoilers, Luta~ I'm not sure if that would excuse incomplete storytelling... is that explicitly addressed in game, Luta? Does someone confront you after these events happen and tell you the consequences? Or are we putting something into the game that isn't mentioned? Does someone tell you how much of a fool you are after you put down/side with the Stormcloaks, because x is the result? I know Oblivion had the same kind of thing... some nice buildup and then nope, Spoiler: click to toggle But yeah... again, the gameplay is great, and the atmosphere is, but the characters/plot aren't that deep. Still good, though. :3 |
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| Artemis | Dec 25 2011, 04:47 PM Post #424 |
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It makes me sad that completing the missions has no real effect on the world. It really removes the realism. |
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| Crash | Dec 25 2011, 10:02 PM Post #425 |
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Wheey! I've became a human being!! I am very handsam!
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This is how all the Elder Scrolls games have gone, really. Spoilers for those ahead I suppose In Daggerfall, a Dragon Break occurs which means that everyone wins and everyone loses simultaneously despite this being impossible. So the Agent doesn't really accomplish the goal he set out to do, no matter what he did the same result was going to occur. In Morrowind, you defeat Dagoth Ur, but in doing so you also end the Tribunal's divinity. Vivec leaves and the High Fane, which was floating due to the Tribunal and the people of Morrowind's belief in them, falls, causing Red Mountain to erupt and destroy Vvardenfell. The Argonians then sweep in and take over the mainland of Morrowind. Despite Nerevarine's actions the Dunmer of Morrowind were still doomed. Same kind of stuff in Oblivion. Mehrunes Dagon is gone, sure, but the Empire is still in a very sorry state, etc |
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| Role | Dec 27 2011, 11:03 PM Post #426 |
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Fulminous Witch
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Wait, are you serious?! Oh, god, talk about insane exploits. Thank god there isn't multiplayer, imagine if everyone was running around with godsmith'd gear! |
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| The Sin Thesis | Dec 27 2011, 11:09 PM Post #427 |
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Yep, dead serious. There's youtube videos that'll show the whole process without any cuts, if you don't feel like doing it yourself. You don't need to bother with armor though. You hit the armor cap with plain old smithing-enchantment enhanced dragon scale. I made a new character, doing the challenge I posed to Delf, but with a female wood elf. I can't actually reverse-pickpocket poisons yet, and you can't pickpocket Draugr, so I have to avoid them or just kill them vanilla-like. This character, I shan't be smithing or enchanting. We'll see how this goes without god-gear. |
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| Hisui | Dec 27 2011, 11:24 PM Post #428 |
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Seccy "no fun allowed" Secundum
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Ulta-I never thought about it that way before. It really drives home the fact that Tamriel is a crapsack world. Oh, and don't forget the Falmer are gearing up for a surface invasion. [My best guess is that the trailer for Elder Scrolls 6 will be the Thalmor getting slaughtered by the Falmer, and then we see some Dwemer at the end, fighting alongside [or using] the Falmer. |
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| The Sin Thesis | Dec 27 2011, 11:56 PM Post #429 |
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Also, fun thing: As a member of the PC MASTER RACE I've gone and gotten retextures for all the NPC clothes, environments, the signposts (they're legible now) and weapons. Also smoothed out the faces (most noticeably the striping you see on the bottom lip of a lot of characters). My computer actually has to fight a little to keep up now! \o/ |
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| Delfeir | Dec 28 2011, 02:03 AM Post #430 |
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Adachi is not amused.
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Pretty sure that the Dwemer are all still very much extinct. |
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| Crash | Dec 28 2011, 04:27 AM Post #431 |
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Extinct or no longer in this dimension, one of the two! Though Yagrum Bagarn is probably still alive. In Skyrim you learn that Divayth Fir is still alive, and Yagrum lived with him. Plus thanks to his corprus he won't die unless he receives fatal wounds. |
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| Delfeir | Dec 28 2011, 06:19 AM Post #432 |
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Adachi is not amused.
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Divayth Fir is still alive? I must have missed that part. And yes, there is still a good chance that Yagrum remains alive, but that's hardly the kind of Dwemer invasion that Phaeron is suggesting... unless they are, in fact, merely between dimensions at the moment and could return at any time. I still feel like that would be a cop-out plot development, though - I prefer the idea of inadvertent extinction. |
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| bearface | Dec 28 2011, 01:55 PM Post #433 |
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So I ended up getting it for the holidays and I am indeed having a blast. There's obviously some lag in the PS3 version, but once you get used to it, it's only a minor annoyance. |
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| Hisui | Dec 30 2011, 12:09 AM Post #434 |
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It was mentioned that even the gods feared the Dwemer, and the entire race vanished leaving no bodies. That seems more like a racial relocattion to me. And if the gods feared the Dwemer, who's to say they couldn't rip their way out of the prison? I mean, they found a way to read the Elder Scrolls without going blind/insane/etc. [i.e. a projector] |
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| Delfeir | Dec 30 2011, 02:26 AM Post #435 |
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True, but much of the tale of the disappearance of the Dwemer was covered in Morrowind's main plot. You actually meet one - considered the very last of his kind, amputated below the waist with mechanical spider leg replacements and sick from Corprus. He doesn't know what happened to his kind specifically, since he wasn't with them at the time for whatever reason (it's been years, I can't remember specifics) but I'm fairly sure from everything you discover, it's strongly suggested that they activated an incredibly powerful machine in an attempt to harness godlike power and ended up being vaporised into ash. So with that concept in mind, they COULD very well have ascended to a higher plane or something like that, but it's also equally suggested that they were all killed in the process. Somehow, I feel it's a plot element that is better left unsaid - discussing this kind of mystery is probably more entertaining than just having an answer laid out to us. |
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| Crash | Dec 30 2011, 03:44 AM Post #436 |
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Yeah, either way I think it's safe to say they won't be coming back, and the story is better when you don't know which was the actual outcome (though I think annihilation is hinted more strongly). If Kagrenac's plans succeeded, why would they even want to return to Mundus/Nirn? As for Yagrum's survival, he was in another realm when they tapped the Heart. He doesn't really explain it further than that. |
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| UltaFlame | Dec 30 2011, 10:23 AM Post #437 |
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question! ...if a Dwemer yet lives, why is there no translation of Dwemeris? I mean, has he just been all "No, scruffy lads, MY LANGUAGE" at them? EDIT: and when Kagrenac used "Kagrenac's Tools" to attempt to harness the Heart of Lorkhan to create a living god it was at that exact moment that all Dwemer across Nirn dun got poof'd. |
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| Crash | Dec 30 2011, 01:14 PM Post #438 |
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He does translate a few things that are brought to him in the game, but due to his physical circumstances (he looks like this and has a horribly debilitating disease, which forced him to live in a place specifically built for those with Corprus) few even know of his existence and those who do wouldn't want to go near him for fear of catching Corprus. So odds are nobody has ever asked him to translate the entire language. |
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| UltaFlame | Dec 30 2011, 01:17 PM Post #439 |
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Thanks Poui.
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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/585375 |
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| Karasu | Dec 30 2011, 05:40 PM Post #440 |
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aaaahahahaha awesome. |
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