Imperial Captain in Helgen Starts International Incident.

Post » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:22 am

i dont what if your trying to rp an altmer that considers the thalmor a disgrace to the altmer people altho i suppose one could explain it away as mistaken identity but i always go with ralof so i can share a few words with captain pms.

its in the starting options, u can be an altmer horse thief too, players should have general starting options/locations AND some race specific ones, man Bethesda should hire me, they don't know what they are missing
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Ruben Bernal
 
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Post » Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:12 am

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, having all the races available to choose anyway, is a game that was designed to be played as a Nord, as that's the race that is more logical to be the Dragonborn. Like Morrowind, despite having again all the races, it was a game designed for the player to be a Dunmer, as it was more logical (not wrong).
No, Skyrim was designed to be played as a dragon of the size of setscale 100.
Morrowind was designed to be played as semi-God of the Tribunal with a Speed Attribute of 1000.

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Post » Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:18 pm

No, Skyrim was designed to be played as a dragon of the size of setscale 100.
Morrowind was designed to be played as semi-God of the Tribunal with a Speed Attribute of 1000.

Source: Bible of the Deep Ones
I mean that every TES game had its race that was more 'logical' to be played as, instead of others. Not that the others shouldn't be played of course, but the whole TES 5 is designed to be more barbaric, rough, and stuff. You can play as an Thalmor Altmer, like the OP suggested, but the way the game starts doesn't actually give you that role, being the Thalmor untouchables because of the White Gold Concordat it wouldn't make sense for you (if you chose to be an Altmer) to be there at all! So in the end, the game doesn't allow you be anything else than the Dragonborn, that's the only role you can have.

Though you can 'fix' it just by not thinking that way and adding your character your role and even forget about the main quest and so on. But again, it wouldn't work, because you have to infiltrate the Thalmor embassy and what the hell? How could a Thalmor sympathizer player could ever do that? You're forced not to do that mission, or trying to forget you never did it. The game isn't really full of choices. Older titles seemed to be better on this part. Maybe because all this Dragonborn stuff wasn't so oppressing if not existant at that time.
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Post » Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:31 am

I think it would be cool if you got to go up to the captain who just sentenced you to death for no good reason, then bite her ear off.

Does that make me a Bad Person? :unsure:
You get to kill her if you escape with Ralof.
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