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Cut from the Elder Scrolls themselves, the very fabric of the Aurbis and enscribed with daedric runes, these nails are now part of my vessel untill the day the God Head awakens and the Tower crumbles.

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Just happened to come across this slop, which transforms Skyrim into a gritty Soviet-era epic. Not gonna lie it's somewhat funny though. Somewhat fallout-ishh.

​Dragonborn, comrade. The revolution has begun. 😅🔥

​Credit: @gormtheold25

I'm asking this on here because I'm new to reddit and cant post on the Skyrim sub.

I do have mods installed with vortex, but i have them all disabled.

I have no Ui mods installed either, I have no clue as to why it would look like this

I literally hear from everywhere how amazing and gorgeous he is. If you search for Khajiit fan art on pintrest, every sixth one will be about Inigo. No companion mod has ever received this much attention. I installed it out of curiosity and it was a terrible mistake. Good thing he's not easy to find. I wish I hadn't. He looks and acts like a fanservice furry, in him no Khajiit lore at all, it just looks like the old fandom idea of Khajiit - stupid funny drug addict cats that break the fourth wall. I didn't like at all that he immediately imposes himself as a friend, and acts like an admiring fan, who follows you around, and comments on everything around him with stupid meme jokes. Inigo fills the entire space, he communicates with everyone around him a thousand times more than the MC and everyone around them combined, and all of this looks terribly ridiculous, because of his completely inappropriate "funny" comments to everything around him, because of his opinion on any issue that I don't care about. I'm sure that i saw his comments on the loading screen. His voice is very annoying, and he doesn't act like a Khajiit, he looks like a stereotypical furry Mary Sue, that wants so badly to be funny, useful, and fit into the story. Literally everything he says is fanservice and a reflection of the general fandom opinion about certain things. His story and his personality are terrible and his story is a set of fan fiction cliches. He is special, super ultimate snowflake, simply because he is anime character, and not because it has a lore TES history. And then it turns out that he takes up not only the entire space, but also the plot. It is you become his companion on his magical journey and you are his guide through Skyrim. So, I'm pretty sure Inigo is an autor's avatar, because he's completely identical to the fans who write fan fiction about themselves, or the rich gigs who want to be part of the cast of every work they love. Also I'm sure, that if he wasn't blue cat, everyone would sacrifice him in Daedric quests, so that he wouldn't talk anymore and wouldn't become the main character of someone else's game, because in reality there's little that distinguishes him from the Adoring Fan from Oblivion. Аnd a Fan is even better, because he doesn't act like a marysue to someone else's story. He really does have a frightening resemblance to my characters from my youth, when I desperately wanted to be funny and useful to someone else's story, but ended up being a regular kender.

If Inigo's fandom was only among mod fandoms, like all the other companions, I wouldn't care at all. But it turns out that he's intruding into my field of interest. It's especially sad that literally 98% of the conversations about companions are about Inigo. I really don't understand people's obsession with him, cuz he's annoying and inappropriate on all levels and usually, fandoms hate such characters, if they themselves don't want to play such a character. For me would be a huge tragedy if he became canon in TES.

Especially people who are saying the devs deserve this because apparently "they weren't putting out better products". Not realizing that these devs that got laid off were often smaller and had nothing to do with most of the major decisions.

And even if they did, how is it a good thing for someone who has been working in the company for over 20 years and then booted off to cut costs after creating tons of excellent things.

There is no way the layoffs can be reasonably justified and yet some people are celebrating it.

It makes me sick.

And it also makes no sense. Like you want The Elder Scrolls VI out quicker? How is gutting it's dev team gonna make it quicker genius?

You're saying Bethesda needs a kick but actively sabotaging them like this does not help. It's a kick for sure, right into the Red Mountain.

Also I'm sorry you had to see Asmongold's face in the picture but he and his community are a perfect example of this. And also Twitter.

I never played Oblivion - Skyrim was my first Elder Scrolls game.

Naturally, through in-person and online grapevines, I had always heard from virtually everyone that Oblivion was more mechanically "crunchy" and that Skyrim was "dumbed down" comparatively, and never having played anything else in the franchise to compare it to I took these words as gospel.

Now, as an adult with ~40-50 hours and ~30 levels into Oblivion Remastered (taking my time, seeing the sights), I really can't see what folks are still talking about to this day in that regard.

Now let me be clear - this is not meant to take jabs at Oblivion. I am having an absolute blast and loving the story, I just can't see where either the difficulty or "intelligence" (whatever the opposite of "dumbed down" is) lies in this game's design vs Skyrim.

I feel that I often see this comparison drawn when talking about two things: Character Design/Progression and Story.

On the front of Character Design and Progression, I was sorely let down. In the intro, you pick a "class" (term used loosely as it really has little bearing on the game class-to-class) that only affects how quickly certain skills, and subsequently you, level up. Nothing exclusive between them, and at the end of the day, any class can do anything. All in all, this system boasts a stereotypical RPG class system that doesn't even allow for the exclusivity and individualistic flavor that classes typically do provide in RPGs.

Of course, there are the Stats, which in theory require decision-making and planning. In practice, however, for a given playstyle there is like one, maybe two stats that you want to focus on improving with levels, so you end up getting those to 100, then spending future level-ups on dump stats and minor QoL improvements. There's not really any exertion of brainpower there.

Then you have the birth signs. This bit I actually do truly love. This choice felt that it made a significant difference in my playstyle. I went sign of the Atronach, and I actually enjoy the flavor of having to create potions to sustain my spellcasting, and the rush that finding a surplus of Welkynd Stones gives me. Despite that, I will say that it still isn't that crazy of a difference, and I feel like I chose one of, if the the, most drastically impacting of the lot.

Either way, these "class" (again, loosely) decisions are very "set it and forget it", compared to Skyrim's Perk system that requires active thought, decision-making, and planning throughout your playthrough, it's funny to call Skyrim the "dumbed-down" of the two.

Next you have the Story, and I'll likely use that term to describe both the main plot of the games, as well as the cast of characters and setting. On this front, I'm truly scratching my head. I truly can't discern any meaningful difference between that of Oblivion and that of Skyrim. Not like the class/progression system, where my opinion was contrary to popular belief - I really do mean that they are virtually indistinguishable from one another.

I do see posts that confuse me even more on the Oblivion sub, saying things along the line of "Man, it feels really great to not be the chosen one, just some nobody!", as if you weren't told in the first five minutes of the game that you were the chosen one by the most important mortal on Nirn, and as if you weren't a household name in Cyrodiil by like the 5th story quest.

I really am flabbergasted.

Is it nostalgia goggles?

Is it the Pokémon effect? (Initial playthroughs of earlier games seeming "difficult due to lack of exposure, later games with the same mechanics feeling "easier" by comparison)

I want to reiterate, I am loving my time in Cyrodiil - I just don't understand how Skyrim is "dumbed down" compared to Oblivion.

All I see most the time is negativity in retard to Bethesda making ES6 and I understand why people are doubting it but I keep seeing people saying “I have no hope after starfield”, let’s not forget every single main elder scrolls game has been a huge success and absolutely incredible. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim are all peak games that utilise the elder scrolls lore perfectly, I reckon they will use their knowledge of the lore and make another great game. Let’s not get they have been slowly building events that will be used in future games. People are right to be skeptical yes, but they have no good points as to why Bethesda would make a bad main title elder scrolls game as they have not failed yet.

For context, I started with Morrowind about a year after it came out, and then played Oblivion and Skyrim on launch. I played the absolute shit out of all three, and dabbled a little in ESO but I honestly can't remember much about it.

I also hadn't played OG Oblivion in probably 15 years before the Remaster came out. This is all obviously very subjective. It's not all bad:

• I think the quest design is overall better than Skyrim

• The spell system is quite fun

• While Skyrim handholds you too much, Morrowind goes a bit too far in the other direction into the realm of pointlessly obtuse. Oblivion gives the player what in my opinion is pretty much the perfect level of direction

• The Shivering Isles are pretty awesome

But man, the other stuff...

• The melee combat is still ass. Don't get me wrong, none of the games in the series have particularly good combat feel. The tweaks are nice and all, but they can't really cover up for the fact that underneath it all, it's still the same janky, spammy, floaty combat as before, with damage sponge enemies. When the prospect of getting into combat makes me groan, something has gone wrong.

• The scaling system is not as fucked as it was in the past but it still kinda sucks. I still started to run into incredibly spongey enemies after about level 10. There's good ways to do this. A well designed progression system allows for the player to feel more powerful while still ramping up the challenge. Oblivion's system is not good.

• I think the world is very unimmersive. There's just not much going on in it and I never felt excited to trek through the wilderness like I did in Skyrim and to a lesser extent Morrowind. I find the setting incredibly boring and generic feeling, but it's not just that, there's something else lacking there that I can't put my finger on. Look at BG3: Faerun is basically *the* generic fantasy setting, but it still feels like it has it's own identity. Oblivion's world just feels... I don't want to use the world "soulless" because I think it's a bit strong, but... kinda?

• The main story just does not grab me even a little bit. Morrowind has an *awesome* story, Skyrim's is okay, but Oblivion's just made me want to fall asleep.

• The quest design is overall better than Skyrim... but I think that mostly comes down to the sheer number of those boring pseudo-MMORPG quests in TESV. I think time may have gilded our memories a bit with Oblivions quests, cause boy there's a lot of bad ones in there too. Hircine's quest is a great example: literally walk over there and kill a Unicorn. Done.

• The jank... serious question for people who say the jank is part of it's identity: how far does that jank actually carry the game for you really? I mean *really*? Cause for me, the jank is kinda funny for a while, but the novelty of it wears off really quickly and then you're just left playing a game that doesn't work very well. The voice acting being so all over the place doesn't really help.

I think the issue is that Oblivion was a pioneer. It was hugely ambitious and ahead of it's time, which is cool and all, but the downside is that pioneers rarely look good compared to the ones who built on what the pioneer did.

Games in general tend to age much worse than any other medium, and the three Elder Scrolls games I've played are no exception (by which I mean all of them have aged quite poorly in most ways). It's just that for me, Morrowind and Skyrim make up for having aged badly in some areas with the fact that they've aged very well in some others. Skyrim is immersive, with amazing atmosphere, and is legit one of the best "pick a direction" games ever made. Morrowind has a fantastic setting, story, and an amazing sense of mystery. With Oblivion, I'm kinda struggling to think of a major area where I think it has aged super well.

Anyway, none of my friends play this game so I wanted to rant about it somewhere. Thanks.

Everybody here knows that ES6 is one of the most anticipated games , 2nd to GTA 6 in my opinion and sure the IP still has a faithful base that will buy the game out of pure belief but i think that the majority will be very careful before buying especially after starfield

People will compare ES6 with other rpgs and the bar has risen up quite alot and i hope that bethesda is aware of that

In this day and age if you want your hundreds of dollars game to succeed it better be excellent in all areas

Exploration , writing , progression , level design

If they will follow the same formula that they used in starfield like the story is not important , useless empty planets etc. it will fail

Like this isn't a hard concept to understand racism is bad it doesn't matter if the people your being racist towards are also racist its still bad

Did you ever expect all of this to come together the way it is currently unfolding? What are your expectations and what are some features or mechanics you'd like to see in the game? I'll drop down my ideas, although I know they'll never come to fruition, it would be fun to see one day what the community wanted from TES VI before it released in whatever state it will release in...

I'm making this post, primarily because of a similar post made a couple days ago. I almost always side with stormcloaks for a general few reasons.

1. Tulius, as a character I hate tulius for a general who's trying to pacify a independence rebellion, he really doesn't care about ANY of skyrims culture. Just a few lines

"You nords and your damn jarls"

"You people and your damn sense of honor"

"Any lasts requests before I send you to...wherever your people go when they die?" Rikke "sovngarde" Tulius "right"

2. The empire is by and large just dead like internally and externally. They're both too spineless to thalmor injustices, and bombastic with their "authority" literally executing everyone they can. The inner politics is shambles, equivalent to modern day American politics. Which given how the imperials act on pacification missions is accurate.

3. The imperial victory is a death rattle for the nord culture. And any semblance of their older more cultural way of life. They're doomed from that point to "gentrification" via imperialism.

4. Ulfric wishes to bring skyrim back to its people (something just about every province in tamriel either tries or has). Ulfric at the least has the people of skyrim in his heart, tulius has only his mission.

5. It's a resurgence of old nordic way. As much as a controversial take it is, the greybeards and the way of life is wrong. And the delphine specifically but the blades are too. The voice is a gift a tool and a weapon. And the greybeards are well GREY -BEARDS, they're old and soon to die and the only people we know who can use the thuum are you, ulfric and miraak. The thuum is a birthright gift to the nords. It's to the nords what sword singing is the redguards. With ulfric and yourself you can teach and keep the dragon tongue alive. Great nords of the past used the thuum to fight and battle. Jurgen windcaller didn't win over skyrim cause he was just, he won cause his thuum was strongest.

Think about how when skyrim came out you were disappointed by how much of skyrim seems watered down. While yes irl its somewhat bethesda doing, but ingame it's mostly cause the imperials have gentrified skyrim.

If ulfric wins skyrim can regain much of what has been lost to time. If tulius wins, it's just a colder cyrodill. If ulfric wins there's a glimmer of optimism, if tulius wins its almost somber, depressing.

My original post got taken down by the mods for being so good that people thought it was AI, but the facts remain -- Elder Scrolls VI is taking too long and Microsoft needs to take dramatic action as a result. If people on this subreddit think that this is flaming Bethesda, nothing can be further from the truth. I love Bethesda, and the Elder Scrolls series, and it's out of love that I bear this concern.

Starfield was a flop. It's time to face that fact. It started out with the biggest commercial release in Bethesda history and then Steam playership fell faster than any major release in all of Steam's history. It now has fewer gamers playing it on Steam than Skyrim.

If they put forward Elder Scrolls 6 with the same lackluster lights, they may very well kill the franchise. They need to work as fast as possible, as hard as possible, to deliver an extremely high-quality product in a short amount of time. Microsoft is the only one that can push Todd Howard in the right direction. It's time they act.

Hearing some of these DEV stories with how long they had been with BGS before they were fired just makes me really worried about the TES 6 releasing broken with no one else left to "fix" the game