OK picture the scene, A weary traveler enters the local Inn for the first time and he orders some food and has a few ales. The Inn is alive with the locals drinking and singing. You're in a Stormcloak sympathisers town and you so happen to support the Empire, so after a few drinks you call over the bard, you say "Rejoice me in tails of woe", or some nonsensical ramblings. You say "Play me the The Age of Aggression", and the Bard does.

My point is you and the bard should be leaving the Inn with a host of bruises. Nords who support the Stormcloaks really wanna kill anyone associated with the Empire. Another way of putting it is (this is an English anology so sorry if you don't get it). The Empire are West Ham and the Stormcloaks are Millwall. A West Ham fan goes into a Millwall bar and starts singing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles". Outcome? Your gonna die.

I suppose this is other thread saying there should be consequences for you actions, remember the Matrix? Cause and effect.

Sadly, like most of your actions in Skyrim, it has no consequence(s).

wut iz consequences

The game you're looking for is a table top game, where the moderator can adjust to the actions of the players. This game has to remain playable, so actions you have and consequences of those action must be limited. We're a long way off from a world where you can do what you want, and expect the world to respond to it.

It's not even that. Just when you're in a Stormcloak bar and you request music, "The Age Of Aggression" shouldn't be an option.

If you are upset by what a bard sings then you need a drink.

I didn't say I was upset, I just found it an odd song choice considering the company.

If not upset then maybe worried. Same thing. Let us have some wine and mead, stranger!

Yes and Fallout 1, New Vegas, The Witcher, Deus Ex and more don't exist, huh?

But when you’re in stormcloak territory don't they play the stormcloak version of that song and not the imperial one?

There are two versions of the Age of Agression. I guess you didn t bother to listen to the whole song. The bards always play the appropriate one. Crafty ones.
The imperial version get Ulfric head on a spike (and driving back the stormcloacks), the stormcloack version talk about him being a hero (and driving back the imperials)

Obviously I didn't listen. Could this thread be locked now please, I think it served it purpose.

Thanks.

Deus Ex and The Witcher aren't open-world games. It is 1000x easier to have a linear game world with consequences, because you don't need to worry about the player coming back to somewhere they've already been (until you're ready for them to do so). This doesn't mean these games aren't great, it just means that comparing them to any open-world RPG is ludicrous.

Never played the original Fallout, so I didn't want to comment on where that fits in, and New Vegas ends when you finish the main quest, making it a lot easier to change the game world without having to worry that the character will come back after the world has been dramatically changed.

I did not listen either. Let us drink some more!

Yes lets.

For me it isn't. They play the "age of Oppression" which is the Stormcloak version of the song.

Bards are considered Neutral.

The Stormcloak version is called Age of Oppression.

OH NO YOU DONT GET OFF THAT EASY MISTER FLAME ONNNNNN!!!!!
jk bro

As you wish.