You are able to ignore him:
ok, crazy grandpa tole you to save the world, but who cares. so bring that amulet to who ever wants it and forget about it.

oh and here is an inserting vid of how to speedrun Oblivion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfmdl9-tnSU

Yeah an average Joe or Jane who without the help of this grand single player storyline does have the chance to be someone who is recognized by others as....not the hero...but just someone who is recognizable for what ever reason...you are a great crafter and sought after for that...you are a great leader in PvP or PvE and sought after for that...I don't need or want to be recognized by NPC's in the game saying "Rahl, you are my hero" this makes me feel queasy just thinking about it because for me that is the entire reason I don't login to SWTOR anymore and a whole host of other MMO titles.

When will MMO developers understand this? Maybe right after TESO starts to fail after about 6 months in....

But you can never not be 'the guy'

Problem is that developers cant see that "players" can make an impact on the world on their own.

For instance I was playing warhammer online in the beginning and I was playing on the destruction side and we were vastly outnumbered getting grinded every day. People were starting to lose hope and the small playerbase we had on oure side started to fade away.

Then I started sending letters to all the guild leaders on the entire server requesting a meeting at specified time. Almost every guild on the server showed up and we had a ventrilo server set up. I explained I was tired of getting the [censored] kicked out of me and I wanted revenge. We elected an "unofficial" destruction commander which got the name of all the other guild leaders.

despite order side outnumbering us 4 to 1 we didnt lose much the next 3 weeks. We simply obliterated their side because everyone had healers and tanks. Watching their masses all around us having no effect at all. Awesome experience.

To this day that has been my most enjoyable experience in any MMO because of the impact I had on the game.

This is the kind of experience I am chasing in every MMO I play. Not a singleplayer story where I am the "special one" like millions of others.

At least in the old republic you didn't start off as "OMG THE CHOSEN ONE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN STOP THE BIG BAD EVIL MONSTER". You start out as a smuggler whose ship was stolen, an imperial noble about to become a sith, a freed slave aboutto become a sith, a random bounty hunter or soldier etc.

The issue here, which is the same issue TESO has, is that EVERYONE is an imperial noble, or a smuggler whose ship got stolen, or a freed slave.

Now in TOR we solved this by having a two seperate rp characters. Our mainstory one and our sidestory one. We'd do a story quest as the slave who became a sith and is travelling the galaxy trying to collect artifacts of sith sorcery for his master, then rp as a completely unique character when we're done.

The thing is, I can forgive TOR for this because the stories were often GOOD. And there was MUCH more variation and options for background than there are here. What's TESO's excuse?