RE: LB about Skyrim:
I had a vague interest when I played the game the first time about helping the Nords fight off their conquerors the Imperials (who just tried to kill me). Then I caught wind of all the racism and "skyrim for the nords" and fuck that. Just fuck all that right to hell. Eat seven bags of shit and die, stormcloaks.
Also, what the fuck is with the state of the infrastructure in Cyrodiil and Skyrim? (cont'd)
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did you get to the part where it turned out the leader of the storm cloaks is the mind controlled thrall of elf nazi spies?
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@001zlnv No, I noped out instantly when the racism showed up. Doesn't surprise me to hear that though, fuck the Thalmor.
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yeaaaah there's no real choice there.
anyway the reason the forts are empty is that the empire is on a catastrophic losing streak.
morowind blew up, then oblivion happened and demons ate their troops, then they lost a war to the thalmor, then they got tied up fighting an insurgency in their founding Provence.
empire is doooooomed
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@001zlnv Yeah, but even if you never trigger the main quest in Oblivion and the daedra never show up, the forts of Cyrodiil have clearly not been maintained or garrisoned in decades. Which is, uhm, what?
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@001zlnv I can buy somewhat into Skyrim. The climate is clearly hell on any kind of roads or stonework buildings and it's very clearly largely In Decline. But yeah, Morrowind did a much much better job of giving you islands of stability and civilization in the middle of a harsh and unforgiving expanse of hostile wilderness.
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it also gave you a better reason for the factionalism.
you had imperial occupiers in a client state with an ethno religious regional government, that also had an underclass made up of escaped or freed slaves, and then ruins of dwemmer all over the place filled with magic plague monsters! tons of reasons to have weak imperial governance and discord.
then you get to oblivion where you're in the imperial capital, I could see it being a bit under garisoned if it was just a "there's no threats here why would we keep troops" but it isn't it's still weirdly neglected and filled with monsters.
Then skyrim has this weird time skip and seems to take place after the interesting stuff really happened.
I don't know... I kind of would like to see them just leave the empire totally behind if they do another game, and do elswhere or black swamp or something. just get back to the magical weird alien stuff that made morrowind great.
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@001zlnv They'll never do Black Marsh. It's too weird and too strange and they'd have to have Argonians everywhere with very few humans. Same with Elsweyr, it'd be cats everywhere and almost nobody human. No, next game will be Hammerfell or maybe High Rock. Maybe maybe maybe Summerset Isle.
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@001zlnv Honestly I'd rather they didn't do Black Marsh than they do it and fuck it up.
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@Soreth
yeaaaah you're likely right.
and that makes me sad