Personally I think it's good that they keep something as it should be

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I like it - makes sense to me seeing as you don't have any possessions or money.

The prison start thing has a nostalgic value to me, so i'm in for it

No surprise there, just means I can use the back story I made up for the speculation thread regarding this.

I'm not at all surprised if we start in prison again, and the truth is, I don't mind. It's become a tradition of sorts, and if Bethesda wants to stick to it, its fine by me, as long as Bethesda doesn't impose an element of backstory upon my character by saying what I did to deserve prison, it doesn't hurt the game for me.

The way I see it, there'd be something wrong if we didn't start as a prisoner...long live the tradition!

sure.. sure.. why not.. except the KING WAS MURDERED thing -_-

Oh yeah huh? Another Oblivion parallel - you're a jail bird and the king has just died.

ehh - well hopefully at least one of those will be easy to mod out (the jail part).

I mean why? Last protected dragon whatchamahoo and your in jail - why not at some blades hideout?

I remain a nay sayer.

You mean tradition in that it needs to be in a few games? If that's the logic, then being on a boat and getting off was an earlier tradition.

Hehe, I doubt you can even have a tradition after 4 games, seeing as you are only in an actual prison for one, being commisioned by Uriel was more of a tradition than Prison

I`m fine with a Jailbird start, as long as they don`t make us go through "that" irritating type of tutorial again..and again...and..

I don't mind at all starting in a prison. And you didn't have to go through the tutorial dungeon in Oblivion more than once - just save before you exit the sewers, and you could create a new character from there.

I also refer to the spin-offs, but I do find your point correct.

Since you're in, you have to get out and that makes me suspect things.

The wall just said you were "a prisoner", not neccesarily "in prison". The Nerevarine was a prisoner, but they just threw him off the boat and he was free.

^ I don't like it, but if it's handled like MW (as in, it's very glossed over and hardly reinforced), then I can tolerate it.

Hell yeah, I'd hoped they would keep on with the "prisoner" theme.

Guys, guys, guys! You're all wrong! We're obviously starting off as a prisoner of love! Sheesh...

This isn't really a big part of the game, and I doubt being in prison will affect the story to much.
I'm not for or against it, and I think of you are taking it a bit more serious than needed.


All I can say is that we don't even have the full story on how the game starts,
Many of these arguments are leading off into their own things.

And now I am here babbling about the arguments. Oh woe is me!

All you guys can do is:

A. Hope for a new beginning, and that its different.

B. Deal with it and RP a reason or just ignore the whole prisoner thing.

C. Mod it out.

D. Not care and wait patiently to play the game.(well ok maybe not patiently)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

Nope, but I sense there'll be some sort of tutorial, or should I say my bet is as good as yours or any, gathering from what they did in OB and FO3 I don't think it's going to be like being dropped off followed by an "ok thanks bye", much like MW was as you say. And by the way, I think you can assume there'll be some kind of imprisonment, since I think the words " lone prisoner" (if it doesn't resemble "prison" enough) give me another gut feeling than the word "captive" and such. This makes me feel like you'll be left to rot alone in a prison cell.

Oh man, this thread is absolutely hilarious! :rofl:

Starting in prison is not a tradition, but being a prisoner seems to be.



One can meta-game all they want that you weren't a prisoner in Morrowind, but the fact of the matter is that you were.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8008/8f8092acea954c94b0557b3.png

The letter you are to give to Caius:



Starting in prison is not a tradition, but starting as a prisoner was obligatory in 2 of the 3 main TES games before Oblivion came around, and in the last one (Daggerfall) it was a possibility.

You can say what you want about starting as a prisoner is intrusive on your roleplay, or other things like that, that is fine, I can understand why people can see it so, it means you have to pull a fast one if your supposed to be a saint or otherwise incredibly moral person. I personally don't have a problem with it. I have several character who are good as the sky. People have to remember that you can get arrested for most things, entirely without malicious intent.

Ex: I'm planning on having an Argonian Agent from Black Marsh, I could be arrested simply for crossing the border into skyrim.

I like the whole "prisoner" thing, in part because it's so open to interpretation. There are a thousand and one reasons a character might be a prisoner, and a thousand more ways a prisoner might escape or be freed.

They've got to start the game somehow...