Whatever it is, hopefully we get to hear an awesome voice present like Patrick Stewart in Oblivion, or Liam Neeson in Fallout 3.

Why does the character have to start in prison? In Daggerfall you didnt, thats 25% of the games that dont start in prison.

I think the devs will decide how it is best to start the game, and it might be a prison start or might not be.

I'm kind of hoping for Michael Dorn to be the voice of a dragon. Assuming TES dragons can talk. The fact that the Empire gave them asylum would seem to indicate the ability.

Spreading the rumour that werewolves have returned!

"Werewolves? Where? Wolves? Men that are wolves? Many wolves. Everywhere. Many men. That is enough for M'aiq."

Skooma Abuse

Mass murder,Skooma abuse, prostitution

You started on a boat in MW (and it didn't even look like a prison ship either. No cells or anything)

releasing a bunch of mudcraps into a town or city, nasy creatures. :nono:

killing a quest related NPC. :violin:

killing the adoring fan, horribly. :whistling:

driving the cliffracers back into morrowind. :hubbahubba:

walking through cyrodiil's invisible borders. :sadvaultboy:

selling skooma and moonsugar to infant-khajiit's

abusing NPC, just because they come back to life after you shoot 40 arrows through their head. ^_^

jst my ideas..

This is getting stale...yes, you were on a boat. And once you advance enough in the main quest, Caius Cosades gives you the "http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Decoded_package" explaining the Emperor's plan. Note this line from said package:



Note the large, bold text? There it is in canon lore: Your character begins the game by being released from prison. That's how you get on the boat, where you're still a prisoner. Notice what the guards call you while ushering you off at Seyda Neen?

I got bored and broke into prison for the free food and accommodation and just to see how I'd get out again. Don't think they'll go the prison route again though.

Sentenced for two years because of over-using the poll-function.

I have to admire the "Levitating after the Levitation Act was passed" idea.

But seriously, I imagine that one side of the civil war distrusts you and imprisons you. Of course if the PC has a choice of sides to help, which I consider unlikely (Ken Rolston is gone y'all) you can be distrusted by both sides. This essentially becomes "wrong place, wrong time." Then you can fill in the reason for being there yourself.

Or be imprisoned for wearing a cape when the engine doesn't support wearing capes, sure. But Bethesda doesn't do 3rd wall jokes.

You're doing it wrong!

I kinda hope that we start off on a town litlery we just wake up in a damaged house or somthung that said i did like the start of morrowind somthing like that could be cool too but if we just wake up ina hapuse a soon as the door opens there needs to be a cut scean or somthing

I hope not.
It was a major dissapointment to see [in da prison] begining in oblivion.
That kind of begining is used in dozen of rpg's, and is one of the "bad mainstream" things .
Something totally new and creative would be a refreshment :nod:

Where in prison because of beeing criminal scum, what else ^^

btW @Gabrihel
GDI svcky, Nod's the way!

Definitely this after too many rounds of mazte and smoking too much skooma!

A witch stole y our clothes and you got picked up for indecent exposure.

Why does everyone insist a witch had to be involved? Being a Nord, you just http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tribunal:Forstaag_The_Sweltering and stripped down to cool off...

In all actuality, who say that this could be the truth and that the Player is really a secret agent of the Emperor whom use this to cover up his/her identity?

But really, I would not consider Morrowind's Intro like that of that stupid Prison Intro the simple fact that there is really no harden proof that the Player was in prison in the first place. Not to mention the player still start out in the boat that isn't really leaving an impression that s/he was in prisoner, nor the fact that everyone greeted ya as an immigrant rather than a "prisoner". Even after leaving the office, the "impression" of prisoner, if any, is gone and did not really impact the said Player because such setting does not exist to force it upon the Player.

Of course, you're right- in fact I don't even think you were a prisoner in Oblivion, your actually starting in a prison cell was just a ruse to confuse the player.

:facepalm:

Well the most notable npc nord was robbed and stripped by a witch :violin:

'Cause we've been.. NAUGHTY. -glares-

The thing about it is about how one can have a background without forcing it down the throat. There is really no hard impression of such prison in Morrowind intro anyways and the fact that the decoded message cannot even be read without the need of a translated. Oblivion screw this up and with such things like prison bracelet, another prisoner, and a whole cell.

I think it deserves a variation on the theme. You're not in prison, you're locked up in a mental asylum because you think you're a mud-crab. (Why are they all talking about me?)