Oblivion was my First Game and i spend Months on my Character while doing all the Quests and finishing the Main Quest just to find Martin saving the day while im feeling like an Idiot on the side, yet Cyrodil is cheering me on and giving me an Armor for actually doing quite NOTHING. :banghead:

How was it in Previous Elderscroll Games, did you always played the Game by building your Character just to have some Dude do your job in 20 seconds flat. :shakehead:

Dont get me wrong, i Love Oblivion and it was the Best Game EVER, but i just Dont like wasting my Money/Time/Energy on a Game to have some Minor jump into action and do the Job for me. :homestar:

I really Hope theres meaning to the word Dovahkiin... DRAGONBORN when im playing Skyrim by the time i finish the Game and Alduin lies Dead under My Feet. :toughninja:

At the end of TES IV you stop a daedric invasion and then safely get the Martin to the temple, that's hardly "nothing." Martin's sacrifice may be what ultimately saves the day but you do a ton of leg work and rack up many heroic feats in the mean time.

I don't really see how someone else can save the day this time.

well we did save him from an attack which made it possible to defeat dagon but i would enjoy it if someone ran out and suicide bomb alduin (if he is the final boss it may be like daggerfall and you do a bunch of fun puzzles) history is written by the victors...(sorry i couldnt resist)

don't say that, now esbern is gonna sacrifice himself XD

no you're right, not gonna happen. This time YOU, the player, are the dragonborn. You are the hero, the One, sort of like that. Back in oblivion, you were the sidekick, running errands and fetching stuff for Martin. This time you have esbern as a guide, or teacher, but you are the hero. Just as in morrowind, where you were the nerevarine and ended up saving the day.

Well atleast this time I can Morph into a Dragon and Kill Alduin, then Skyrim can have a King/Emporer in the end while im being Crowned the Hero of Skyrim

The whole point of the game was that only someone of the septium (sp?) line could close the gates to oblivion. Your job was to make sure he was able to do this.

Although you are 2nd in the hero line after Martin, this also means that you are 1st in the 'Living Hero Line' as Martin died (tut some hero lol)

Thats reward enough for me.

Refuse to vote in such a dumb poll. You are the one who slays Mankar Cameron remember, you do more than anyone else to save the day.

I loved the ending of the main quest in Oblivion, but I can't imagine Bethesda thinking that because it worked well it one game, it should become their new formula. I just want an ending that fits the story.

And considering how much people complained about the "sacrifice" at the end of FO3 taking away their ability to "keep playing after then end", I'd guess people would have been similarly unhappy to get the spotlight at the end of Oblivion....

I'm hoping the plot will be better than just another "kill the Big Bad villain" at the end of the main quest. Also, I don't see why Alduin has to be a villain in this -- has Bethesda been hinting that he's the boss in "Skyrim"?

Hum...I could just kill Alduin and NOT die:shrug:

It would be cool if Alduin wasn't the boss and everything ended peacefully though

Since ive heard that you will find out that you are Dragonborn during your travels, does this mean that you wont have some Amulet shoved in your face witch indicates that you must start the Main Quest right now.

That was my first thought in Oblivion when i escaped the Prison in witch it was kinda Dumb, i just want to get out of Jail in Skyrim and the World is Mine to Explore without that feeling of something Important that i must do First.

Killing the ultimate boss in previous TES games (at least Morrowind and Oblivion, I don't know about the rest) have not been a challenge of power or strength. It has been a challenge of something unique and important. In Oblivion it was
In Morrowind it was The bosses were never meant to be defeated by numerously bashing them with a big sword, if that's what you mean. (I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but I assume this is it. If it's not, then oh well )

I assume Skyrim will be the same, and that Dovahkiin will not defeat Alduin by mere strength or amount of hits. I think it will be something else, like previous games. Most likely some unique feature or thing connected to you as a Dragonborn.

I would extremely suggest adding ****SPOILER ALERT**** in OP...

For what? It's been 5 years since Oblivion came out so if people haven't played through the story by now that's their problem. We can't tiptoe around everyone forever. And if you meant the stuff about Alduin and Esbern and all that stuff it isn't really spoiler material since that's all been officially announced info.

I can't vote/comment in this thread because I don't understand what is being asked in either. Engrish FTW.

I haven't played Oblivion yet it ruined my game!


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Just kidding... yeah, guess you're right.

Biased poll is biased. In Oblivion I didn't feel like a sidekick at all.

So you would've rather turned into the flaming dragon and sacrificed yourself? But then you wouldn't be able to continue the game... I think Beth did it for a reason.

I agree, I didn't realy like the fact that someone else completes the quest for you too

How would you rather have it? Would you rather you sacrifice yourself to remove Dagon from Nirn? I'm sure that game over after the main quest would have went over wonderfully. :rolleyes:

I personally thought of Martin as a tad bit annoying and someone that I was dragging around until the end when he steps up and becomes a man to save the day. He impressed me, but at the same time it didn't seem out of character for him. And the fact that we couldn't light the fires in the first place ment we couldn't give ourselves up to summon Mr Golden Dragon of time.

How dare they break from 99% other video games and have someone other than the player be the hero? Bloody hell I loved that part about the main quest. We weren't the only person out there trying to save the day. Me and Martin were quite the team. He was the brains that worked behind the scenes, and I did all the hard labor. And in the end he proved to have enough guts to come out on stage and save the day. We're both hero's. None of this one man saves the world bs. Without someone crazy enough to run straight into hell without blinking like us and someone clever enough with enough book smarts to open a portal to that Paradice the world would have been blown away.

Thats kind of what i thought and meant, me going with Magic and Sword while trying to Kill the Boss Myself Well i would hope that you could Morph into a Dragon in Skyrim and Defeat Alduin, then you just Morph back to being Human.

without you stopping the daedric invasion and escorting martin to where he sacrificed himself the daedra would have won. you are just as much a hero as he was.

Also, killing the god of time is about as silly a thing to want as you can get. What kind of crazy mass killer who calls himself a "hero" would remove past, pressent, and future from all of existance? Half of the spirits only came into form after Akatosh took form, because it was easyer for them to come into being once they could have a past and a future. Remove time, and well the universe unravels. The past becomes the pressent, the future happens now, and right now could be anywhere from five seconds ago to 100 million years into the future where we don't exist.

It sounds rather bad.