What makes your favourite dungeon? : V

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:53 pm

A pivotal question in the success of the Elder Scrolls series, what is it that you think makes for your favourite dungeon experience?

I'm intensely curious to here the opinions of others on this topic, as i'm in the early stages of having my own attempt at it. I've narrowed down the location and decided upon a Dwemer theme that features many factions, however i remain sceptical about everything else.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:44 am

Blackreach, it saddens me that it gets less special after a while though.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:14 pm

What is it about Blackreach? Large cavernous spaces? Mystical colours?

An area so large is quite an undertaking due to landscaping, but there could be ways to simulate large spaces while making much of it inaccessible.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:26 am

I like the ones that tell a little story, particularly if you sneak and eavesdrop on the dialogue. Ok that gets old once you've been through the same dungeon a few times, but it's nice to have the effort the make dungeons about something a bit beyond a bunch of creatures and a chest at the end.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:33 pm

I can't remember the name of it but it's a Nord ruin where you go to get the horn.

The view was awe-inspiring, but what I really remembered was the theme of using the whirlwind shout in that area. Not just to get through the sequence of gates before they closed but also in platforming to a semi-hidden room across broken bridges (the reward at the end was a bit underwhelming but it was fun getting there).

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:47 pm

Generally dungeons with a story to them, or with some sense of originality, some distinguishing feature; I loved jumping down into the depths of the Sightless Pit, or battling two frost trolls whilst precariously perched on an icy bridge in Steepfall burrow.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:55 pm

It's always said, but blackreach.
Not only did it wow me the second I walked in, but there's something sad, lonely about it idk.

As for cave, the eldergleam sanctuary.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:27 pm

I found Blackreach to be a little disappointing - but I think that was because I heard so many people say how great it was it got a bit too over-hyped in my head. If I hadn't heard about it before I saw it I think I would have been more impressed.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:10 pm

The story(-ies), length, how it looks, but more importantly how I feel when I am finished with them. I think Forelhost may be my favorite dungeon as of now, though I can't remember all I have been in. I have likely not been in all of the dungeons yet either.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:03 pm

For me, size and enemies. Gotta be at the right size and have the right enemies within to make me like it so much.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:56 pm

It's always said, but blackreach.
Not only did it wow me the second I walked in, but there's something sad, lonely about it idk.

As for cave, the eldergleam sanctuary.

Agree fully.

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Eldergleam get's a lil more sad after getting sap from the tree and the spriggans start killing the people who visit the sanctuary…

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:48 pm

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Eldergleam get's a lil more sad after getting sap from the tree and the spriggans start killing the people who visit the sanctuary…

You do know the people ARE the Spriggans, right?

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:33 am

You do know the people ARE the Spriggans, right?

what? I didnt know. How they became spriggans?
Best dungeon ever? Any dungeon that has no bugs, no ctd and interesting stuff. Like Yngol Barrow.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:06 pm

what? I didnt know. How they became spriggans?

It is an illusion the tree did. The tree made it so the Spriggans look like Humans and wanted to use the Humans to make you feel bad so you will leave and not harm the tree but once you did harm the tree, you kinda tick it off and it canceled the illusion.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:36 am

A good story behind the dungeon, deadly traps, challenging foes, hard puzzles, and a long and non-linear dungeon makes the perfect dungeon for me!

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:51 pm

BlackReach i wouldn′t mind living there if i was the dragonborn.
My character when discover′s it will live there

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:15 pm

Shriekwind Bastion. An utterly horrible place that reeks of death and despair.

The cupboard full of shoes has to be the most inexplicably disturbing thing I've seen in the whole game.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:11 pm

It is an illusion the tree did. The tree made it so the Spriggans look like Humans and wanted to use the Humans to make you feel bad so you will leave and not harm the tree but once you did harm the tree, you kinda tick it off and it canceled the illusion.

Errm, how do you know this? More than two spriggans spawn, though, and you can see

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their dead bodies afterwards

Although your take on it is quite cool.

I like Shadowgreen Cave, that's pretty cool.

But also Bloated Man's Grotto for Hircine's quest, with the red moon n' stuff.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:27 pm

I hate all dungeons because they are much to difficult for me to complete and I end up lost or dead!! Therefore I much prefer.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:08 pm

I hate all dungeons because they are much to difficult for me to complete and I end up lost or dead!! Therefore I much prefer.

Welcome to the forums!

I'd suggest turning down your difficulty. From memory the default setting is 'adept'.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:43 pm

My difficulty is at novice so I don't know what to do!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?1111

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:48 pm

The Labyrinthian. The simple fact that Bethesda adds a dungeon that was featured in Arena makes me cry tears of joy.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:38 pm

You do know the people ARE the Spriggans, right?

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Noap. Let a powerful companion tag along with ya to save the people, and they're still people after you kill the spriggs. (Though they end up shunning you because you hurt the Eldergleam.)

Anyhow, Blackreach. Just 'cause of the lore behind it, the size, and the fact that you can waltz in completely oblivious to an army of different enemies behind you. And the prettyness. That's a plus.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:30 am

Trees and plants, water. There is this dungeon I remember playing and really enjoying it, but I can't remember the name. It′s basically a place where there is like a middle part that you keep on climbing while fighting lots of spriggans and bears and when you reach the top , there is a spring with a small piece of land with a tree and a treasure chest, finally to return to the entrance you take a dive from up there into another lake near the entrance. I don't know why but when someone asks me about my fav dungeon that one comes into mind. If any one knows which one I'm talking about, please tell me the name. Thanks.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:20 am

I really liked Frostmere Crypt with The Pale Lady quest. That under ground forest was/is creepy.