The civil war (taking towers/sacking city)

Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:28 pm

The Storm Cloak/Imperial civil war quests in which you capture towers and eventually sack one of the main cities are horrible.

NPCs spawning from nowhere, allies constantly getting in the way of your fireballs (if you're a destruction mage). About 50% of the enemy NPCs are invisible; this glitch seems to occur when you run up ahead of your allies. So if you try to get the encounter over with you have to deal with invisible/invulnerable NPCs that are able to attack you.

Not only that, but the whole idea just seems boring to begin with. Even if there weren't allies getting caught in my spells and invisible enemies, the task of killing a certain number of enemy NPCs that are spawning from nowhere is tedious and boring. This feels like a World of Warcraft quest. If you had to do this once, twice, maybe even three times, then it wouldn't be so bad. But you have to do this several times.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:22 pm

Morrowind > Skyrim.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:03 am

Morrowind > Skyrim.


This is a new and salient point, and has not been belabored ad nauseum. Please, my good sir, tell me more!
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:19 am

Morrowind > Skyrim.


Contro(ll)versial post (see what I did there?) to get thread attention eh? Never thought I'd see the day....

I didn't mind taking forts. I guess I just have better aim than most people here because I've only ever hit a handful of allies with spells or arrows in those battles :shrug: I liked to try and not just rush in, but hit up the flanks, etc. of the enemy to try and at least make it seem like the Legion used tactics :P
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:02 pm

This is a new and salient point, and has not been belabored ad nauseum. Please, my good sir, tell me more!


Very well said.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:02 pm

This is a new and salient point, and has not been belabored ad nauseum. Please, my good sir, tell me more!


Put down the thesaurus/dictionary [censored]. You probably don't even know what those words mean.

Now prove me wrong by looking those words up and posting their definitions.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:07 am

I happen to enjoy those quests. Breaks up the monotony a bit.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:20 pm

Put down the thesaurus/dictionary [censored]. You probably don't even know what those words mean.

Now prove me wrong by looking those words up and posting their definitions.


I was going to, but then I remembered that no, I wasn't going to at all. But keep reading those picture books, and you know what, sport? One day, when you're all grown up, you can know big words too!

In a vague attempt at staying on topic, I liked the siege quests, but I can understand how other people didn't. I felt it seemed a lot less pathetic, at least, than breaking the Siege of Kvatch.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:48 pm

I was going to, but then I remembered that no, I wasn't going to at all. But keep reading those picture books, and you know what, sport? One day, when you're all grown up, you can know big words too!


No, you see, sport, I know what those words mean, but I don't think you do. I think you're a pseudointellectual with a PhD in Google.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:05 pm

Hmm... I wonder why I'm locking this thread?
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