Last 3 games I've been a prisoner. What gives? : V - Skyrim

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:31 pm

Being a prisoner again ? :biggrin:

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:31 pm

That's what I meant, lol. It would be interesting to see how they pull off being a prisoner in the next game.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:24 pm

I tend to think of it more as a tradition in TES, but that doesn't mean traditions can't be broken.

IIRC someone said pre release, that the whole "begin as a prisoner" thing was that it made it a whole lot easier on the player to create his/her own back story...a clean slate if you will. Starting as a prisoner does that job pretty good.

Yeah it's a tradition, but I'm sort of of the belief that traditions in such a series are a bad idea.
Fallout series? Vault Dweller had a dog as his constant companion, Lone Wanderer had a dog as his constant companion, and the Courier? The Courier had a....friggin' floating eyeboat thing. Even something as small as that I found so refreshing, cause it broke the mold, made the Courier unique and gave him more character. The Courier also broke the molds of being a good karma protagonist (feels more neutral karma since you HAVE to gain bad karma at some point; someone will ALWAYS view you as evil), using energy weapons (guns are better) and wearing power armor (not as useful for him as it is for others and the game seems to suggest going against the BoS this time) and again, it only made New Vegas feel that much more unique.

If they did a game where you didn't start out as a prisoner and chose an unorthodox setting again (Cyrodiil and Skyrim honestly don't feel "unique" but rather more like the "defaults" of Tamriel, a place like Black Marsh, Elsweyr or Summerset Isles would feel unique) with mechanics that seemed to lean towards a thief or mage playthrough then I definitely wouldn't complain.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:27 am

Well,you can still hope that in the new Tes we can have the Dwemer Spider Robot of Calcelmo's nephew always with us; i loved him nearly as the FnV eyeboat - as long as it lasted :biggrin:

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Edit: and i remember now that i even let him killing his own "creator" like Frankestein :bunny:

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:51 am

I love starting as a prisoner, I hope they never change it.

This is how I feel too. It's a great tradition and I don't have a problem imagining my story from there. I enjoy the Oblivion tutorial and do it everytime I play even though I have a save right before I exit the sewers....same with Skyrim. I have saves in places in the tutorial. I'm a tradition-lover! :tes:

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:42 pm

This is how I feel too. It's a great tradition and I don't have a problem imagining my story from there. I enjoy the Oblivion tutorial and do it everytime I play even though I have a save right before I exit the sewers....same with Skyrim. I have saves in places in the tutorial. I'm a tradition-lover! :tes:

Yes but it is worse in morrowind if you plan to play as a redguard due to the whole prisoner on a ship thing.

Wait, has anyone yet complained about that or would they not if they had played the other games in the series. I think it would go fifty fifty.