If you do, do you believe it's a good or bad thing? As you are the Dovahkiin, but do you feel like you get too much attention, or maybe not enough?

No, but as I run around trying to save the world, I do get the feeling that someone else is controlling my actions. Pushing my buttons in a way I guess.

I try and act like a normal person on most of my characters by not doing the MQ, but on the one I did the MQ with, I felt powerful, but not really treated any differently

You're the first dragon born in 200 years, of course you're going to be the center of the universe.

I feel at times the characters seem to home in on the player character.
I understand this is to get the plots and action moving. At times however it does feel as if everyone knows you and your real self more than you as a player do.
Which is odd and a tad forced, how many times can you be told you're special, especially by such wide and varied things.

Only after a Dragon battle

Yes I do, but I guess that stems mostly from my character being a large, menacing Orc wielding a massive war hammer, and people tend to notice me when I come stomping into town in my heavy armour. Being the Dragonborn and all that is just a bonus. I'm a vicious Orc warrior first and foremost - I slay Dragons for fun and because they tend to be in my way, not because it's expected of me.

What I DO sometimes feel though, is a certain lack of due respect from certain NPC's, seeing as I could easily crush every bone in their fragile bodies - it seems some people around Skyrim tend to overlook the 300 pounds of steel clad, grim beast-eating greenskin lumbering over them with a hand resting on the hilt of my trusted hammer, casually picking my fangs with the business end of a VERY sharp Orcish dagger.

Unfortunately, yes. Which is a bad thing. Not because you`re the Dovachin (sp), but because of aspects of the game that make no sense.

Yes, those Birthsign stones are what i`m talking about. They stand in the world doing nothing at all for anyone else in the gameworld except wait for you to touch them. How? Why? how is it that while people know they`re there, NO ONE has ever questioned them? imagine if at stone henge there was a stone that you could touch and it gave you some kind of special power, but nobody else used it or bothered to ask why it`s there- ever?

It`s like walking too far out of your neighbourhood and bumping into a strange wall and being told to `Turn around`. Only YOU notice.

It`s even worse with the stones though because Hadvar tells you to look at one and even notices what you pick, yet none of them ever use it or explain why its there or how it helps anyone else. Previous ways of getting your Birthsign were so much better and immersive.

But Bethesda don`t care because they believe keeping it as it was would somehow make the game `too spreadsheety`?

This is a `Player is the centre of the world` anomoly. Everyone`s brain has been altered not to notice the complete wierdness of this.
FAIL.

And I don`t even need to find anything else as this is one of the biggest screwups in my view.

It's just the fact that in every guild you join you're also the most important thing in the world, I won't give examples because of spoilers, but you really don't have to work for anything

that's probably the reason why every NPC talks to you everytime you pass by, you are the center of the universe

I do, I don't like it.
I like it when I'm just some nobody that isn't really that important, who is fighting for her own agenda and not the worlds.
Pulling a "you must save thou world!" card on me feels cheap, especially when the world doesn't really 'react' to the way my character is supposebly portrayed.

Yes, but you don't get to the Cloud District very often.

Well, this is only as bad as the fact that NPCs don't loot bodies, don't do quests themselves, etc. In short, they aren't controlled by a human player. I suppose they could set it up so that each NPC had a birthsign, but what would that really achieve?

I agree that the previous ways of getting birthsign were better, though.

kinda, and i don't like it either. you see in oblivion you actually had to save the world to be named champion of cyrodil. in skyrim, you kill one dragon, with the help of like five other guards and you magically absorb the dragons soul and become known as the Dragonborn. idk, to me its just a little cheesy. i miss fighting daedra i guess.

You legend. xD

Not sure about this.... When I became leader of TG no one but Delvin acknowledges that you're the "Boss". That's a come down.

I hate feeling like my character is the 'chosen one', but at least in Skyrim, every NPC doesn't automatically start calling you a hero like they've been following your exploits on TV.

The one thing I really don't like is how quickly my character gains trust and responsibility. One minute i'm a new recruit in a faction, the next i'm given all the important jobs and soon find myself running the show. It's too unbelieveable and feels like the factions are purely there for the player, rather than real organizations I have to work my way up in.

actually my thief does quite a lot since those rich people has a lot of stuff to steal in their fancy houses

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/648748815401110972/F2C78FDA7380379A83E27E032F19BC6337E7473D/

I'm the freaking Archmage of the entire universe!

My character just wanted to make a new life for himself. He's kind of delinquent, but trying to improve by the time Skyrim takes place. His dad was a smith, so that's his trade too. This whole dragonborn business is something he only embraces later. I get the first quest from Baalgruuf, end up killing a dragon, but afterwards, I try to avoid "destiny". It's kind of a way for me to go off and experience the rest of the game, then wait for the main quest later.

As someone who has saved Skyrim from destruction by dragons my character still gets disrespected by snot-nosed brat kids and can't do anything about it because they are "Essential NPC's".

http://youtu.be/pRsekFYkCDM

I know what's really inside the Elder Scrolls: The game code to all the TES games!

That's right, we're all puppets! Now, why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?

This. I'm okay with all the attention I get; the only problem I see is that I get this attention too early. People who know I'm Dragonborn should respect me - and they do - but when I travel to a town on the other side of the map where no one has even heard of the Dragonborn yet, it's weird that they think I'm their savior and whatnot. It's like every single person in Skyrim is waiting for me to solve their problems instead of doing it themselves.

Like this mine infected with spiders - there were maybe three spiders in there, a couple of men from the village could just build an impromtu barrier and shoot them all with arrows. It's entirely possible. I'd love to see this happen - I come to the mine and refuse to help them, then I come back sometime later and hear they managed to do it themselves; or that the infestation was too big, the spiders came out and killed the townsfolk.
But I guess this is more about seeing consequences of your actions than not being the centre of the universe. Or maybe both things at once.