I'm sure most seasoned ES players know that neither Tiber Septim or Wulfharth who make up Talos were exactly benevolent people in life especially towards the Elves.
All of this. So much this.
My number one gripe with Skyrim.
I think there's a world of difference between Moral Ambiguity and lack of fleshed out writing. I think Skyrim has much more of the later than it has the former.
I like the moral ambiguity in the game, but there are certain parts where certain choices should be a lighter shade of grey or darker. For example, you have to rescue some prisoners from a bandit fort, you can either go there, kill the bandits, and release the prisoners. Or you can go there, kill the bandits and prisoners, then lie and say that the bandits killed them. More choices in the actions are character takes should be included in the next TES game, and possibly, with more computing power, we can create our own responses, and some kind of advanced algorithm decodes it and... Agh, im not making sense. Just give us more choices.
I was referring mostly to the whole unmaking tamriel thing, it's as generic evil as you can get. Also with only a few exceptions most of the thalmor NPC's you can interact with act stereotypically evil I'm surprised there wasn't a mwahahaha shoved in there somewhere.
I read that article a while ago, made me love altmer
Yes.
I thought the Civil War was going to be a blatant "good guy bad guy", and I'm glad it wasn't. Both sides have positives and negatives, and honestly it took me awhile to determine what side I finally wanted to be on. I liked that aspect of it.
I like that you don't know if Saadia is telling the truth, or if it is the Alik'r who are telling the truth.
I like that both the Blades and the Greybeards have valid reasons for what they want done with Paarthurnax, and that either choice has it's basis in justice.
There is so much of this in Skyrim, I have such a hard time with people saying there is no emotional investment or impact upon the world. Skyrim is by far the best game in the series for these types of moral decisions.
If there is too much grey, I don't do the quest (f.ex. civil war, Saadia)
I want to feel good about what I'm doing.
So my answer would be no, I don't like moral ambiguity.
On the other hand, I like ambiguity in the sense that the truth is hidden, and my actions may be wrong, but I don't know it yet.