Skyrim is a serious sick and twisted game! : V - Skyrim

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:37 am

Also, I can name a huge list of quests in Skyrim where I get to actually help people.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:05 pm

Also, I can name a huge list of quests in Skyrim where I get to actually help people.

Name five! Go!

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:18 am

It's what makes Skyrim beautiful! Strife and conflict is the ultimate happiness!

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:12 am

Name five! Go!

Help that one guy deliver supplies to the greybeards.
Deliver a Sword from Whiterun Smith to that one guy in the Castle.
Deliver ingredients from person A to person B. There are a lot of these.
Collect Sword for this Person. A lot of these as well. I know one in Whiterun, Windhelm, and Riften.
Help the Dunmer Shopkeeper in Windhelm return an item he didn't knew was stolen.
Help the guards of Windhelm catch The Butcher.
Help this one kid in Whiterun to get a bully off of him.
Help this one guy stop a Necromancer that is defiling his ancestors.
Help this one drunk in Winterhold figure out what happened to his wife (Sad story)
Help one of mages in the College do their experiment or get a staff back.
Etc.

All of this are general good deeds you can do that actually helps people.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:21 am

Good list

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:44 pm

Last I remember, first quest is "plant evidence". Ok, but next quest is that honey fortress, and genocide was what I did. Nothing major happened. I came back later to finish off every possibly left guards for crap and giggles

1st quest plant evidence
2nd quest extort money
3rd quest steal stuff from safe on Goldenglow Estate, no killing required
4th quest poison barrel at meadery, 1 mad mage who will probably have to die but it isn't a quest requirement etc etc

none of the Radiant AI Thieves Guild quests require killing
The TG is the worst questline the OP could've used as an example. Mercer Frey is the only person you have to kill

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:05 pm

Tonight was the first time that I got disgusted with Skyrim. Every major quest I have done with Skyrim involves mass murder. Now granted I don't expect a rpg to be peaches and cream, But I also don't expect to mass murder on every quest. Not only that but the dragons fly in and mass murder the towns people. You cant go anywhere in Skyrim with out killing some one.

I honest to god feel like the game is a FPS with swords and the dragons are apaches. I honestly think Bethesda could have done a better job with the game and made it feel more like a rpg. I man for the love of god the whole game involves taking orders to kill some one. Usually I get all wrapped up in Bethedsda games because the lore is so good. But I just cant get into Skyrim.

I totally get that FPS are the in thing and the craze now. But if your going to make a rpg, you should stick to rpg elements and let the fps crowed kill each other off.

Greg

P.S. if you want to know my played hours I think I am around 109 on steam and I am @50 on the 360.

There are actually quite a few handfuls of side-quests you can do that don't involve mass murder. I think there are a few storyline-based quests like that as well.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:06 am

One thing I think you should know. Tamriel (The land you play in) is known as "The Arena" due to all the bloody conflict.

(Note, this is the explanation for why TES1: Arena was called Arena and not Tamriel)