Oh no...

We'll have towait and see about the ending,i'm sure it will be good,but that's a matter of opinion really.....everyone is different.
As for the other games,i like them.I actually think they hold more weight now,knowing about alduins wall and whatnot.

What a fool you are.

all i know is this ending better not be like oblivion, the end boss should not appear at the last 2 seconds only to have someone else kill him off.

The oblivion ending was pretty good, with the clip of closed gates across cyrodil and Martin's speech. But then i thought it was kinda anti climix when straight after you walk out of the temple you just see a couple guys in the street and a 'hail citizen how can i be of service?' I'd assume a bit of celebration in the street like before the battle of Bruma prehaps?

I didnt mean the ending of Morrowind's story was a joke...the production value

My wording was wrong for sure.

One thing I do hope (I don't know if this has been confirmed or not) is that you can keep playing even after you beat the main quest line.

Alduin should be harder than a 25 man heoric Deathwing raid.
(Thats assuming Deathwing is gonna be hard!)

You can play after the ending for sure.

I'd trade an epic ending for an overall very original and memorable storyline.

Yeah, good luck with that

Yes. A thousand times yes. The ending to that game was perfect, from the final stand-off you thought you just MIGHT win (but was impossible), to the final scene on a river bank as a man fishes . . . Epic. The whole thing.


I take it you've never seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Heard of a Bolivian Army ending? Or read many westerns? Or looked at the history of actual cowboys and outlaws from the Old West? Happy endings are not a thing for the genre in general. Marston had been a criminal and done awful things. Sure, he tried to turn his life around, but it all caught up with him. You believed he had redeemed himself during the main quest, but for the genre "redemption equals death". Marston died for what he believed in, and he died along with the Old West. That may not stroke your ego as a player, but it is some of the finest story-telling put in a game so far.


As to the endings of Morrowind and Oblivion:
I never beat Morrowind's main quest. I played the game a dozen times, but I never got hooked on the main quest line. I doubt I even completed half the main quest.

Now, OBLIVION . . . well, Oblivion's entire main quest story was awful. Maybe not the exact plot, but the way it was framed and handled was horrible. For instance - your character in Oblivion did not matter AT ALL in the main quest. The entire plot of the main quest literally did not require your involvement in any way. Had you not been in that jail cell when the Emperor came through, nothing would have changed. Septim would have died in the sewer ambush, dropping his amulet. The surviving Blades would have taken it to Jauffre, the grandmaster of their order, to report the Emperor's death to their superior. Jauffre would have said, "Don't lose hope! A heir survives!" The Blades would have been dispatched to Kvatch to rescue Martin. They would have. Etc. Etc. Martin then does his big battle and self-sacrifice and the land is saved. Meanwhile, your character would continue to rot in the jail cell one over, unimportant to the world.

That is the DEFINITION of a bad game story, when you can remove the main character (the player) and nothing changes.

Will Skyrim's ending be epic? I hope so. As long a Bethesda never makes me a mere spectator again I shall be satisfied.

DUDE! you destroy the heart of lorkhan and end the blight over vvardenfell....thats pretty epic.

I’m probably in the minority on this, but I personally don’t care one way or the other about the ending of any game to be honest. For me, it’s ALL about the journey and adventure you have trying to get there. Most of the time the actual end is somewhat anti-climatic. I usually can’t wait to start a new character and begin the journey all over again! (Which explains why I have dozens of characters in Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas.)

I certainly hope so.

Spoiler Alert
I do think Morrowind's ending was a joke because it was so easy to kill Dagoth Ur. All you have to do to beat him is have a levitate spell/scroll/enchanted item, levitate over the lava, and he will fall into it. Definitely not my idea of epic.

One of the many reasons levitation was removed. :spotted owl:

Its a well known fact that the main quests/stories of bethesda games are lacking, to say the least. I have to have a good story/characters/atmosphere etc usually- but with Fallout and TES I can forgive them, because the rest of the game is so good, immersive and addicting.

No, I don't think it will be epic, because no Bethesda game I've ever played has been. Either they just don't care as much about the story, or they do and their writers are just awful.

To be honest, the endings to the last 2 ES games were pretty lacking, especially Oblivion's - almost no part in defeating Dagon. But one can always hope that Skyrim will provide for a more improved ending.

There is no ending...

If i ever became ruler of the world, the first thng i would do is outlaw the word "epic".

so for an ending to be good, you have to fight some big, strong, bad@ss boss? bs, a good ending to a good story is a stisfying conclusion

morrowind's ending was great, oblivion's was good, fallout3's was great

As long as it beats NEw Vegas' (well the NCR one anyway, that was soooo rough)

Please do, I'm starting to hate the words;

"Epic!
Beast!
Pro!"

etc...