Can someone give me a basic summary of what the first dragonborn intends to do in Solstheim?

Brainwash everyone and generally be a bad person.

Good to see Bethesda can still write.

mmhmm

There must be more to it than that. Have you completed it or are you just assuming?

LOL is it interesting though?

Well, they met my expectations; evil because evil who wants to destroy the world because he's evil because evil

Ol Hermy is the best part to me and is obviously manipulating things. Miraak seems very shallow. Maybe that is the point.

Yeah ironically Bethesda is so bad at writing that it's like impossible to disappoint us on the writing front, since we expect absolute [censored] from the get-go.
Their weakness is becoming a strength when it comes to combating the disappointment front.


On topic, I've only seen a couple let's play vids, but the dude is, at the very least, mind-controlling people into building a giant friggin' temple in his honor.
So yeah, I don't care if he's got the best motivations in the world for doing whatever the hell he's doing. Mindcontrolling people into building a temple for you as your FIRST act of business when returning to the world = comic levels of stupid evil.

So I take it that you have not completed it yet? (At least that's what lack of past tense tells me.) Also, how is Miraak shallow? From what I've seen in the Let's Plays he only says like one-liners.

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That's a little bit harsh, don't you think? I mean, wanting to rain nukes on the NCR was pretty much comic levels of stupid evil, as well, but the motivation made it interesting. How do you know something like this won't be the case for Miraak?

Funny, I thought they tried to do the "Ulysses-Courier" relationship with Miraak-Dovahkiin.

It's kind of embarassing really, especially since they have to resort to retconning Alessia and the established lore in general, as well as ripping off Morrowind again (more straightforward that Shivering Isles) in order to make things do with their new content.

I want and will play it, but I don't have a good feeling about this DLC.

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Because Obsidian has more talented writers than Bethesda. Maybe except for Kirkbride, but the guy was basically out after Morrowind.

And even if they are creative with their writing, it shows mainly in lore and books - conversations never were the forte of TES, and dialogue battles like Lonesome Road or Deus Ex HR that are necessary for it are simply not happening.

It's not retconning really. Alessia was only the first known dragonborn and with some of the new lore it can be seen that you can be dragonborn in more than one way. It makes sense that the imperials would not know about Miraak, he is rather ancient history.

That was all done in vanilla Skyrim already, you just had to connect lore dots.
A lot of things in Skyrim (like Akatosh not being invented by her, 8 totem gods, etc.) actually challenged the plausibility of Alessian historian.

Draconic nature = domination

Miraak's motives = domination

nuff said

Not really.

Nuking both was kind of the argument of "If we don't do it, then new nations with new ideas will never be allowed to grow."
With Miraak, what I mean is:

1) How is a temple dedicated to the worship of you in any way practical? What does this even accomplish?

2) Honestly, say I offered right now to build a temple in your honor and worship you. Would you want me to? I know I wouldn't because wtf that's so stupid, trivial and downright childish to actually want such a thing. And yet the main antagonist supposedly wants this.

I don't know about yall, but I'm irritated at being called a false dragonborn and can't wait to get this on PC, so I can beat his ass.

Yes, but if you just strip down the idea of nuking the NCR, it's stupid evil. It's not practical at all. That's what we see from Dragonborn right now: stripped down ideas. What if he's building a temple to be worshipped so he draws away followers from other gods that seek to do harm (HM comes to mind)? In a fantasy setting that's pretty logical.

Just a side note, he is also a kill stealer. Totally teleported out of nowhere and stole a dragon soul from me right as I finished the dragon off.

Seriously? We are bringing up FO topics into this and slamming it already?

@http://www.gamesas.com/user/693871-mjfjd/Oh..HELL no.. yes yes he's SO dead when I get the game.