Daggerfall You didn't start in a prison :wink_smile:

I like starting in jail. Make your own reason why your there. It works. You could start out anywhere and it would be the same outcome, making up why you started there. I hope its the same for TES V!, TES VII, TES VIII, and so on.

The tradition of being a prisoner?
It kills the replay value for me.

I do like the prison/prisoner starts. Choosing where to start would be great, but it would be too much work for the developers to create engaging/compelling start for the main story for each start location. When I want to start elsewhere I install a mod...

Well, the poll results show that Bethesda made the right decisions.

I lol'd. They sure know.

Honestly, I don't think it matters where you start. It matters where you go.

Sadly, for people like me :thumbsdown:

Love the prison start. In fact, it's probably my favourite part of the game. Getting your bearings in the world and having to work hard to get decent equipment after you've randomly appeared from jail is extremely exciting and engrossing.
Besides, it's not like it always the same old thing. I dunno about Arena, but the starts in Morrowind and Oblivion were extremely different. One, you just hopped off a boat into a small seaside town, whereas in the other you emerge from sewers after fighting through them for half an hour, ending up outside the major city in the game.
This sounds different yet again, seeing as how it looks like you're going to escape from execution with the help from somebody in the game.
I don't see what there is to complain about! :goodjob:

What do you think, Luke? Do you think this tradition is old? Or worth preserving?

As for me, I think it's still a good intro. It gives you an insight into how a country is doing. You see beyond the surface that the leaders of a country portray, and into the realm of what is wrong.

Haha, that sounds like an excerpt from a famous speech or something.
Nice quote.

I really don't care one way or another. It has never been an issue to me. :shrug:

has anyone consider you start there cause it means you wouldn't have any items and what not, if start somewhere else your gonna be kinda, "I'm a giant nord, why am I wearing nothing but comoon clothes?" prison kinda gives itself a reason for you not to be geared up. Tell me one way it could be that you start with little, other than being knocked out and having your stuff stolen cause I think of many ways to debunk that. Of course I don't like the prison, but that's the only way its gotta makes sense.

I'd prefer we start out in the prison and be lead to the town square for our execution...

How in the world does it kill the replay value?

Would you be kind enough to add an I don't care option? Seems that I'm not the only one that doesn't care one way or the other that we start in prison.

Well then, you must be an argonian, right?

does it matter I doubt you will be there for less than 30min

I get so damn bored in the prisons that I can't go through it again.

Then too how, would you start off the game?

Lol



As for starting in prison, I don't really care. Didn't Todd say it actually started with you being led to your execution though?

Is this a troll? The boat in morrowind was a grand total of 5 minutes. The prison in Oblivion was like 15, more if you were taking your time / clueless.

The prison starts have been the best of any game I've played personally. How many other RPGs do you magically go from being a farmer to the strongest guy around over night? Thats pretty lame in my book.

I think he meant the repetitiveness of the prison. Sure, it's just 15 minutes, but you stop caring about old Uriel after a while

In Skyrim, there is no need for a starting dungeon, because there are no more classes. You escape your execution and you are on your own. I think it would take about 5-10 minutes to go through the sequence.

Yep.

In the Elder Scrolls universe, the Path Of The Hero begins in some form of prison. That's just the way it is?.

That's why you get a save game before exiting the tutorial and can change race/gender/skills/attributes.