Saw a mudcrab the other day.

[nano_moose]

Trapped in Skyrim playthrough, send help.

(The leader of the Thieves' Guild is voiced by Stephen Russell, and his name is Mercer Frey. It's like some sort of fandom singularity.)

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[squeemu]

Okay, so I wanted to ask you this back when I first saw your post and then I promptly forget FOREVER until now.

My definition of forever is maybe inaccurate, but whatever.

Skyrim vs Dragon Age: go. (Basically, there were a lot of parts that annoyed me about playing through DA, and I want to know whether Skyrim has the same things that bothered me. Except I don't know if I can put my finger on what it is that bothered me about DA. There just seemed to be a lot of... running around that I didn't care about. The ratio of running around to plot was not satisfactory. And I didn't like the fact that if you wanted to learn about the huge world they'd built up, you had to read about it instead of getting most of it through the storyline/missions.)

[nano_moose]

I can tell you right now, if you dislike lore, The Elder Scrolls is probably not for you.

...Okay, here's the deal. The developers of Skyrim wanted to make a world that felt like it had a very deep sense of history, and more than that, of history that has been fought over and magically warped and misrepresented and lost and found and misheard and badly translated and lied about. There are several metric fucktons of reading involved in building a vague timeline of Tamriel's past, and that's if you believe the sources, which are almost never one hundred percent reliable. You might find a crisply written, concise and clear report on why Talos Septim, the Ninth Divine, was not truly a mortal ascended to godhood - commission the High Elves, who have a vested interest in Talos' divinity being questioned and probably also have racially-motivated dislike for a man who became a god (because humans are inherently inferior to them). You might also find the badly-spelled, semi-coherent rambling of a man saying that Akatosh (the Dragon God of

[nano_moose]

Really, the main difference between Skyrim and Dragon Age is that Dragon Age is about the characters, and Skyrim is about the setting. In Dragon Age, the most memorable moment is probably in a conversation - a heartfelt declaration of love, a wistful reminiscence about lost friends, a goofy argument amongst your party members. In Skyrim, it'll be standing at the top of a mountain and casting a spell to part the clouds so you can see from one end of the continent to the other, or arranging your home just right, or walking into the deepest reaches of an abandoned city and finding a second city beneath it in a huge cavern filled with giant glowing blue mushrooms. In Dragon Age your weapons are bought and sold for better versions. In Skyrim you can smith your own damn weapon and enchant it to your liking once you have the gold, the materials, the skill and the equipment (which you'll need to explore for). In Dragon Age, the dwarves are the last bastion against the dark hoards with a strict caste-based society and a lot of political murk.

[squeemu]

I need to ask someone who isn't so good at making the things they love sound so awesome. YOU DO THIS TO ME EVERY TIME, NANO