If you can’t be arsed with the civil war then you can devote yourself to the main plotline and deal with the pressing issue of the dragons alternatively, you can completely ignore your destiny as Dragonborn and focus on taking back Skyrim for one faction or another. While each side battles over the cities of Skyrim, elven inquisitors roam the lands rooting out and executing followers of the “false religion”… and then dragons appear.īasically: things aren’t going well, and it really feels like it.Īs this is an Elder Scrolls game, it’s entirely up to you how much you want to involve yourself in any one aspect of this.
The Nords hate the way they’ve been treated post-war and want their independence, while the Empire can’t afford to let such capable soldiers go should the war against the Dominion kick off again. The Nords are not best pleased by this development, and a civil war has erupted across the realm of Skyrim. The Empire has weakened significantly after the events of Oblivion, with a brief and wholly one-sided war against the Aldmeri Dominion leading to an uneasy truce that’s banned worship of the god Talos and resulted in the Empire becoming a sort of resentful puppet state for elves with superiority complexes. 200 years have passed since Oblivion (in game time, that is – much as it might seem that way, Skyrim hasn’t been in development for quite that long) and things have changed a lot. The first big change is to the world itself, in a story context.
That said, it’s still a Bethesda game and it’s not without a few glaring issues, but we’ll deal with them in time. Huge, massive, gargantuan, towering, titanic, and many other words you’ll find in a thesaurus. Bethesda have clearly learned a lot from Fallout 3, incorporating a lot of its better features into what is probably the best Elder Scrolls game yet. The world is better defined there are more interesting things to do there are better characters, superior mechanics, more varied quests. Yes, Skyrim really is that far improved over Oblivion (although in the interests of total disclosure I should point out that I thought far less of Oblivion than the rest of the planet). You may be able to create otherwise, but for me it has got to be pee-covered year-old cabbage, every time.
In un-modded Oblivion it was practically impossible to create a character that didn’t look as though he was grown in a bucket that had previously been used for storing unwashed cabbage and kept next to a pub toilet. There’s no way Skyrim can be that much better than Oblivion, right? We’ve seen the screenshots, watched the videos and heard the bluster – but it’s surely smoke and mirrors.
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