» Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:30 pm Point the third: You can't really call it roleplaying when you wind up 'roleplaying' the exact same character. From what I've seen ingame, and heard from trusted other sources (and can check in the game guide), you essentially start with the same character; You get to pick the face, race, and gender. Wow. Talk about character control. And unless you expend an insane amount of effort, you wind up with the same character; a multi-weaponed, high level magic using tank. No real choice, no consequences of choice.
I can't express how false that is. Really, honest to goodly terribly false.
I have four characters I have played a fair bit with (two much higher than the other two) and all of them are different based on the concept and character I envisioned for them.
In fact I found it terribly easy not to end up with beige magewarriortheives. This often happened with me in Morrowind, but in Skyrim my mage is, well, a mage. My good but eccentric philanthropist character is mostly pure warrior clerk who knows some of restoration cantrips (as he thinks of them). My vampric arcane duelist is nothing like the other two - he is the only sneaky one and still not a thief. None of the four are thieves in fact.
But maybe I just ended up with a special super version of the game.
Point the sixth: Can't be Duke Nukem; there's no babes and bazoooms!
And unlike the Duke Nukem franchise TES don't have a game as crap as Duke Nukem Forever.
