Elder Scrolls So why is Elder Scrolls lore so interesting?

[Indranys]

Everything indicates TESO will be an utter, unprecedented abomination in regards to the lore.

As for Skyrim, it's... surprisingly inoffensive.
Even more surprisingly it seems to strongly acknowledge and reference PGE material.
Yep. The first one.

Thanks bro.
Your statement really convinces me enough to try the game again.
But I still don't have much time to play the game though, I'll put it in the last order of my list then.
Damn a lot of 4x games to play too, man I'm playing Distant Worlds too much in my spare time it seems.
God bless my shitty MoO3 LARPing sessions, and now this game is even crazier...

 

[Jick Magger]

Everything indicates TESO will be an utter, unprecedented abomination in regards to the lore.

Obligatory wall of text incoming

Spoiler

 

[Bahamut]

that was entertaining

 

[Caim]

Everything indicates TESO will be an utter, unprecedented abomination in regards to the lore.

Obligatory wall of text incoming

Spoiler

It is so sad that such an unconventional setting like The Elder Scrolls being brutally assfucked like this.

 

[agentorange]

The only sad thing is how pathetically butthurt you aspies are getting over such a shit setting.

 

[oscar]

"The Elder Scrolls IP is very down-to-earth and gritty, so we had to take the traditional 'these are High Elves' fantasy visuals -- tall towers, white marble, landscaped terrain -- and merge them with the grittier and more medieval-realistic (there are poor High Elf farmers, etc.). It came together very well."

 

[Jugashvili]

Oh wow. They insert a toned-down color palette in Skyrim and some pseudo-völkisch architecture and all of a sudden the setting is OMG SO DARK AND GRITTEH. Never mind the fact that Oblivion was Disneyland, Morrowind was Crazy Mushroom Land and Daggerfall was cod-Medieval fantasy.

It's amazing how in the past two or three years or so almost every single major AAA franchise has jumped on the "dark and gritty, ergo adult and mature" bandwagon, even though their plotlines are usually everything but mature and they are obviously pandering to a teenager/kiddie demographic.

 

[Jick Magger]

Didn't you hear? Ever since Game of Thrones everything has to be grim and gritty and realistic. Anything that isn't is kiddieshit that is too childish for mature viewers who like mature things.

 

[Caim]

I'm sorry, but is that Orc standing there without pants, his bare ass gently being caressed by a passing breeze?

Because if so, it means that naked Orc ass needs not to be modded into the game.

 

[Overboard]

I'm sorry, but is that Orc standing there without pants, his bare ass gently being caressed by a passing breeze?

 

[DraQ]

Thanks bro.
Your statement really convinces me enough to try the game again.

Mind you - it won't be quite Morrowind lore-wise, but I expected a continuation of oblivion's lore rape.

The gameplay is dumbed down, though (although level scaling is less emphasized), so I recommend getting Requiem mod (although it may seem horribly unfair at first).

 

[Indranys]

Mind you - it won't be quite Morrowind lore-wise, but I expected a continuation of oblivion's lore rape.
The gameplay is dumbed down, though (although level scaling is less emphasized), so I recommend getting Requiem mod (although it may seem horribly unfair at first).

Yeah, I suspect as much.
I never play TES games with tons of mods though, only used texture mods for Morrowind back then.
But I'll try Requiem for sure, people call it the essential mod it seems. And that hypothermia mod is too irresistible for a LARPing fag like me.

 

[abnaxus]

Kirkbride recently was on Reddit

http://4x.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/1pv78e/ask_michael_kirkbride_anything_the_aftermath/

Would you care to offer some insight on what a more accurate aspiration for the Thalmor's realization of their goals would be, insomuch as it's even possible to write in a sufficiently concise and cryptic manner for an organization that operates on bureaucratically-saturated information overload in more or less everything they do?

The Thalmor is easily the most dangerous organization in the Aurbis. Moreso than Talos.

They cannot be understood. They are the Other and they hate everything that even smells like mortality.

And they're going to win in the end.

 

[Caim]

Well, he's sort of right.

Being decanted into a lesser form of that which came before you is a running theme in The Elder Scrolls. Eventually this decanting ends in being rendered into something such a low form of mortality that it stops being mortal, combined with unraveling of the Towers, ends up ending the world and returning to non-linearity.

 

[Rahdulan]

Just reading his responses makes me feel like I'm taking a glance at something I really shouldn't and I'll go crazy if I stare for too long. Also, it's refreshing to see someone worth noting actually call out Oblivion for that green meadows bullshit, even years after release.

 

[Jugashvili]

Yeah. That and the "LOL WE DIT IT FOR TEH EVULZ" Dark Brotherhood featured in OB and Skyrim.

I'm not really a fan of the Dark Brotherhood as it was depicted in Oblivion or Skyrim. That's a boring kind of evil, which is a shame, because a lot of their quests are masterfully done.

Turns out Kirk is a stand up guy

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

Kirkbride was largely responsible for that "something" TES has going for itself lore-wise

That's why they need to close Kirkbride in the basement, give him everything he wants (and by "everything" I mean fuckload of drugs) and implement everything The Man comes up with for TES VI.

 

[Luzur]

Just reading his responses makes me feel like I'm taking a glance at something I really shouldn't and I'll go crazy if I stare for too long. Also, it's refreshing to see someone worth noting actually call out Oblivion for that green meadows bullshit, even years after release.

hey, i still do it (and always done it), from time to time.

 

[DraQ]

Funny thing - I recently reinstalled Oblivious for one reason or another, started it up, took a look at the faces, , and uninstalled immediately.

So shit.

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

- Cleaning, eh? I have something for you. Here, polish my spear.

- But it is huge! It could take me all night!

THE HORROR NEVER ENDS.

 

[abnaxus]

Funny thing - I recently reinstalled Oblivious for one reason or another, started it up, took a look at the faces, , and uninstalled immediately.

So shit.

Are there still no mods that make the faces somewhat palatable?

 

[Caim]

Funny thing - I recently reinstalled Oblivious for one reason or another, started it up, took a look at the faces, , and uninstalled immediately.

So shit.

Are there still no mods that make the faces somewhat palatable?

A mod for the Oblivion engine that makes the people look less shit, and improves game quality overall? Sure, I know of one.

Spoiler

Skyrim.

 

[Cosmo]

Are there still no mods that make the faces somewhat palatable?

Here you go. But Oblivion hair is still awful.

 

[DraQ]

Oblivion faces are built-in metaphor for game's overall quality.

 

[Caim]

Oblivion faces are built-in metaphor for game's overall quality.

Oblivion is a large but mostly empty world with only a few closed-off locations with only one or two gates where tribes of disfigured mutants live.

Metaphor for Fallout?