Do you play ESO and Skyrim?

Thealteregoroman

I was wondering if anyone else plays both games and try to connect their main characters. With ESO in the past and Skyrim in the future, do you ever try to make a connection between the two main characters in each game? Something like as if they are family/relative or like great, great, great ancestors? What about your main character time traveling to the time of Skyrim?

I find myself doing this......I don't know why. Is this normal?

Rohamad_Ali

I play both and have the same characters as here .

Turelus

Mostly ESO as I get bored in Skyrim without other people to share things with. It's a great game and I love it but just feels a bit dull sometimes always being alone.

Nestor

Yes. And Morrowind and Oblivion and Daggerfall and Arena and Battlespire and Redguard.

All the characters are part of dynastic families that go on through the ages. I don't worry over much about the time lines and whom is the ancestor to who. Although, in this game, I would imagine I am playing the original ancestors.

Shardan4968

I don't play both games at the same time but I can believe that my second character from Skyrim (Argonion) has drinked Hist sap with soul of my main in ESO. It doesn't change anything tho, because he is still other person with other mind, but it's funny to think like that.

Danikat

I've done this in other games. For example my main Guild Wars 2 character is descended from all my Guild Wars 1 characters (2nd game is set 250 years after the first).

But not with TES games. To be honest I'm not too sure what would have happened to my characters after the end of the game, whether they would have kids at all, and if so where those kids would be or what they'd do.

If anything I think it's more like they're reincarnations. Especially with ESO and Skyrim where I basically re-used the backstory I made up for my Skyrim character, but instead of going straight north from Elsweyr she wandered a bit more west and ended up in Highrock.

Betsararie

No hate skyrim

coop500

I do have a few characters that are migrated from one game to another, like my Argonian walks-through-corn.

I do play both yes, mainly when I miss the freedom of modding. (Mainly playing a fox race, tis very fun~)

SilverPaws

I play both my character from eso lives in skyrim too because she is vampire so doesn't die of old age.

MasterSpatula

My ESO main is the ancestor of my 2nd Morrowind character who is a cousin of my first Oblivion character. I have a Skyrim character who is also in the family, but I haven't worked out the exact relations to everyone else.

Ruse

-glances down at her signature- Yup. I've got an orc who is an ancestor of my main Skyrim character.

Thealteregoroman

SilverPaws wrote: »

I play both my character from eso lives in skyrim too because she is vampire so doesn't die of old age.

@SilverPaws that's pretty cool!

Thealteregoroman

MasterSpatula wrote: »

My ESO main is the ancestor of my 2nd Morrowind character who is a cousin of my first Oblivion character. I have a Skyrim character who is also in the family, but I haven't worked out the exact relations to everyone else.

@MasterSpatula DANG big family lol.

Thealteregoroman

Turelus wrote: »

Mostly ESO as I get bored in Skyrim without other people to share things with. It's a great game and I love it but just feels a bit dull sometimes always being alone.

@Turelus I don't know I am kinda the opposite..... I am guessing ESO will be A LOT bigger by the time a new Skyrim game comes out. At this point though it would be impossible to walk away from ESO though.

Anlace

I play both, but my characters in the two games don't have any connection in my headcannon. It's just nice to go do quiet things alone when something about ESO is stressing me but I still want to game.

Still haven't explored the new Bruma mod, looking forward to that.

GrumpyDuckling

Turelus wrote: »

Mostly ESO as I get bored in Skyrim without other people to share things with. It's a great game and I love it but just feels a bit dull sometimes always being alone.

@Turelus

Time to start stacking followers so you're not so lonely! For example, I experience the same feeling so I amp up difficulty to Legendary and start "recruiting" followers. I play vanilla (no mods) so it takes some "exploiting," but I've managed to snag all 8 of these followers at once, for my "Imperial Emperor" build:

1) Aela - main follower
2) Serana - extra follower
3) Cicero - extra follower
4) Dark Brotherhood Initiate (male) - extra follower
5) Dark Brotherhood Initiate (female) - extra follower
6) Karliah - Quest
7) Brynjolf - Quest (same as Karliah, they'll both follow you)
8) Frea - Quest (the first dungeon you meet her in, sprint past black book)

You can add more, but I prefer sticking to these 8 because they'll all sneak/crouch with me, and they're all strong in combat. You can throw in some pets, thralls, or atronachs too (with insane numbers if you give your characters summon staves), if you'd like.

Ardaghion

I have Skyrim but won't play it out of chronological order. So I need to finish ESO, then play Oblivion and later Skyrim!

MasterSpatula

Thealteregoroman wrote: »

MasterSpatula wrote: »

My ESO main is the ancestor of my 2nd Morrowind character who is a cousin of my first Oblivion character. I have a Skyrim character who is also in the family, but I haven't worked out the exact relations to everyone else.

@MasterSpatula DANG big family lol.

Lotta breeding can happen in 700 years.

Thealteregoroman

Anlace wrote: »

I play both, but my characters in the two games don't have any connection in my headcannon. It's just nice to go do quiet things alone when something about ESO is stressing me but I still want to game.

Still haven't explored the new Bruma mod, looking forward to that.

@Anlace I have, it's actually not bad at all!

Thealteregoroman

Ardaghion wrote: »

I have Skyrim but won't play it out of chronological order. So I need to finish ESO, then play Oblivion and later Skyrim!

@Ardaghion OMG that is going to take forever.....

Ardaghion

Thealteregoroman wrote: »

Ardaghion wrote: »

I have Skyrim but won't play it out of chronological order. So I need to finish ESO, then play Oblivion and later Skyrim!

@Ardaghion OMG that is going to take forever.....

Yeah, and one of these days I'll start playing Fallout 4! That I bought last year!

AlMcFly

In my mind's internal lore I've connected my character's lineage as ESO main being ancestor of Skyrim's. I consider my main character from Morrowind and Oblivion being of the same family as well, considering I've named all my videogame characters just about the same names for ~20 years, it's easier to imagine. I've even chosen human as my race in all of those games.

That's about the extent of it though. I've not gone crazy with it and written fictional stories about them haha.

AcadianPaladin

I get way deep into one game and stay there exclusively for years. After several years in Diablo II, I moved to Baldur's Gate II. Then to Oblivion from 2007 - 2014. Then Skyrim from 2014-2016. Then to ESO in 2016 through the present. I basically play the same one character. Naturally her skills have had to evolve and adapt from game to game but her personality remains the same.

Within the Elder Scrolls, she is a fragile magic favoring Bosmer who is able to time travel. Therefore, the time backdrop for differing Elder Scrolls games is no barrier to her.

In Oblivion and Skyrim, she played as a mystic archer. ESO does not adequately support that playstyle so she has evolved to the use of staves. She now plays as both a magplar healer and a magsorc dps.

Danikat

Ardaghion wrote: »

I have Skyrim but won't play it out of chronological order. So I need to finish ESO, then play Oblivion and later Skyrim!

Would this be a bad time to mention that there are 5 other games set between ESO and Oblivion?

Bouldercleave

Can't play Skyrim anymore. I've put WAY too many hours into it at this point.

BlueRaven

Yes, and the characters I created in Skyrim I recreated here in ESO.

coop500

Danikat wrote: »

Ardaghion wrote: »

I have Skyrim but won't play it out of chronological order. So I need to finish ESO, then play Oblivion and later Skyrim!

Would this be a bad time to mention that there are 5 other games set between ESO and Oblivion?

Correction, 4, Morrowind is Elder Scrolls 3, then we have daggerfall, elder scrolls 2 and finally we have redguard adventures or something like that, which is elder scrolls 1.

So as following.

Redguard adventures (I think?) Is 1
Daggerfall is 2
Morrowind is 3
Oblivion is 4
Skyrim is 5
And then ESO is it's own seperate thing before all of these I believe.

Tyrobag

coop500 wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

Ardaghion wrote: »

I have Skyrim but won't play it out of chronological order. So I need to finish ESO, then play Oblivion and later Skyrim!

Would this be a bad time to mention that there are 5 other games set between ESO and Oblivion?

Correction, 4, Morrowind is Elder Scrolls 3, then we have daggerfall, elder scrolls 2 and finally we have redguard adventures or something like that, which is elder scrolls 1.

So as following.

Redguard adventures (I think?) Is 1
Daggerfall is 2
Morrowind is 3
Oblivion is 4
Skyrim is 5
And then ESO is it's own seperate thing before all of these I believe.

This is the correct order:

Arena
Daggerfall
Battlespire
Redguard
Morrowind
Shadowkey
Oblivion
Skyrim

ESO came out most recently, but is the earliest in the time line.

Tandor

I play ESO, Skryrim, and Skyrim SE but with different characters entirely.

nine9six

I play ESO and Morrowind. I pepper-in some Skyrim from time to time.

Marto

Something curious I noticed when playing Skyrim again after a few years... is how tiny it is compared to ESO.

And by that I don't mean the size of the world, but the ammount of stuff in it.

Assets and props, apples, books, tables chairs. All the room clutter, while lacking detail graphically, looks more realistic and "lived in" in ESO. Armors, architecture, nature, and even music are all different depending on the area. Colors are more varied, and so is the overall mood of the game. ESO has a far more robust animation system, with characters turning 180° with an animation, rather than instantly. Argonian and Khajiit tails are not sticks glued to the body. Weapons have far, far more variation to their animations as well.

It's not just visually, either. Some mechanics are way more robust and interesting in ESO, like food and enchanting. Enemies seem to also be more varied. And although the whole "I jump over your head haha" attack is overdone, most enemies are capable of interesting moves, while Skyrim was more hack and whack stuff with a mace. User interface is also far more friendly. I'd love to have radial menu in Skyrim, rather than the clunky favorites that pause and stop the action.

Really shows you the ammount of effort, time and money that went into this game.