I'd rather live in Tamriel

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

Probably a silly question but it's all make believe...

If you could exchange lives with your main, would you?

I know I would.

phaneub17_ESO

You still need to eat, sleep, make a living, feel pain, deal with monsters on top of it all. You could be minding your own business and another random person Blade of Woe you from behind.

Braffin

If the deal contains all skills of my main, including immortality and instantly forming a new body out of nothing if necessary, I would.

Otherwise I think it's better to enjoy this world's amenities in safety.

emilyhyoyeon

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

You could be minding your own business and another random person Blade of Woe you from behind.

This applies to Earth as well to be fair

tomofhyrule

Give up my life now to be a tusk-faced, sweaty Orc tank with biceps bigger than my head? Abso-[snip]-lutely I'd take that.

Yeah, I'm one of those people who really wants to go full-in on immersion when I'm playing an RPG. I can't go in on an MMO like ESO as hard as I do for something like Skyrim, but I'm still spending hours planning out backstories and looks to get everything right in my head. And yes, even as a kid, I always wished I could wake up in one of my games as the main character and experience it in real time.

...I suppose it's a good thing that VR in the style of Star Trek's Holodeck isn't a thing. I'd never leave.

FantasticFreddie

My main makes a living as a craftsman and healer, not a bad life, really.

Katheriah

I don't know, it feels like Tamriels existence is threatened a bit too often for my taste.

danno8

I think if you really stop to consider what life is like in Tamriel and how that would translate to a "real" world based in our reality then you might not want to live there.

Consider that every town you visit is in life or death peril, there are bandits, murderers and cultist, monsters, demons and wild animals all out to kill you around literally every corner of the world, constant threat of worldly destruction every few months or so. No thanks to all of that.

Now if you are talking about the beautiful, idealistic locations, simplistic lifestyle, a dabble of magic to make things easier and more interesting then sure that part seems nice.

What is often missing in these fantasy imaginations is the grind and pain of real life. It seems great while we sit in comfort behind our computer keyboards and screens in our climate controlled houses, but that all goes away once you are whisked away into fantasy land.

Kendaric

Trade my boring life with some of my characters? I wouldn't even hesitate for a second if that was possible.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

You still need to eat, sleep, make a living, feel pain, deal with monsters on top of it all. You could be minding your own business and another random person Blade of Woe you from behind.

True, but given what I can do in ESO (current skills) I know I'd actually stand a chance.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

Braffin wrote: »

If the deal contains all skills of my main, including immortality and instantly forming a new body out of nothing if necessary, I would.

Otherwise I think it's better to enjoy this world's amenities in safety.

Yes... all skills... and soul gems.

Aztrias

Sure if i was like the Vestige and I just respawn after death.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

You could be minding your own business and another random person Blade of Woe you from behind.

This applies to Earth as well to be fair

Happens far too often.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Give up my life now to be a tusk-faced, sweaty Orc tank with biceps bigger than my head? Abso-[snip]-lutely I'd take that.

Yeah, I'm one of those people who really wants to go full-in on immersion when I'm playing an RPG. I can't go in on an MMO like ESO as hard as I do for something like Skyrim, but I'm still spending hours planning out backstories and looks to get everything right in my head. And yes, even as a kid, I always wished I could wake up in one of my games as the main character and experience it in real time.

...I suppose it's a good thing that VR in the style of Star Trek's Holodeck isn't a thing. I'd never leave.

Same. I LOVE the immersion.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

Aztrias wrote: »

Sure if i was like the Vestige and I just respawn after death.

Yep, you get everything the Vestige does... but could you give up your life now?

Michae

delenn35 wrote: »

Aztrias wrote: »

Sure if i was like the Vestige and I just respawn after death.

Yep, you get everything the Vestige does... but could you give up your life now?

If the deal's like that then yes, of course. Everybody here would be better off without me anyway.

TaSheen

delenn35 wrote: »

Aztrias wrote: »

Sure if i was like the Vestige and I just respawn after death.

Yep, you get everything the Vestige does... but could you give up your life now?

Absolutely - to be young, gorgeous, and in my favorite world of all? Absolutely!

[Yes, all my girls are gorgeous and young - because I'm neither, so I get to make them that way on purpose.]

Castagere

Braffin wrote: »

If the deal contains all skills of my main, including immortality and instantly forming a new body out of nothing if necessary, I would.

Otherwise I think it's better to enjoy this world's amenities in safety.

This 100%
If I could be my main with all my powers then yes.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

Michae wrote: »

delenn35 wrote: »

Aztrias wrote: »

Sure if i was like the Vestige and I just respawn after death.

Yep, you get everything the Vestige does... but could you give up your life now?

If the deal's like that then yes, of course. Everybody here would be better off without me anyway.

Really? I honestly am not sure of the last part here.

FeedbackOnly

🤔 idk have you seen the prices of just an apple at grocer? It might be hard to make a living.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

🤔 idk have you seen the prices of just an apple at grocer? It might be hard to make a living.

I have enough gold for an apple, but that's just me.

Take me outta here and let's go to Tamriel.

FeedbackOnly

delenn35 wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

🤔 idk have you seen the prices of just an apple at grocer? It might be hard to make a living.

I have enough gold for an apple, but that's just me.

Take me outta here and let's go to Tamriel.

Got to think about long term prospects. How long will your gold feed you? How will you make a living? Have you seen quest rewards? Being an adventure doesn't pay well

Are you guaranteed housing? What about lighting and Heating? What happens if you get sick?

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

delenn35 wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

🤔 idk have you seen the prices of just an apple at grocer? It might be hard to make a living.

I have enough gold for an apple, but that's just me.

Take me outta here and let's go to Tamriel.

Got to think about long term prospects. How long will your gold feed you? How will you make a living? Have you seen quest rewards? Being an adventure doesn't pay well

Are you guaranteed housing? What about lighting and Heating? What happens if you get sick?

I've thought about this and I have many houses and many ways to bake my apples... but that's just me.

I would much rather live in Tamriel. I would give my life up in an instant to swap with my main, but that's just me.

I don't begrudge anyone who would choose their life right now... and in fact, I would be jealous.

Tamriel has given more to me in the past 7 years than this real life has.

SatanicSister

I wouldn't trade my family for all the magic, fame and glory in Tamriel.

Tenthirty2

This is me being real for a minute, no BS.

This is a tough choice for me.
I can't say IRL is amazing, but I have some things here I'm not willing to compromise on, ever.

My main is a projection of my inner self into virtual spaces, how I appear and exist in other worlds.
I've had essentially the same main (and name) through all Bethesda games, or any game whenever the option to create my own avatar is provided.
Would I love to be her? Absolutely. She is everything that I am not IRL.
And it's an odd realization, but I don't feel she and I are necessarily "separate"
We share the same mind obviously, she just has a WAY better container for her brain than I do

But for all the power, beauty, holdings and millions of gold she has, there are some priceless treasures I have IRL that she does not.

So, if I can pull a "Mora" and edit the deal I would add in that I could bring certain loved ones with me into Nirn.

Otherwise, no deal. I'll stay divided.

Giulietta

I absolutely would- as my main or pre-break-main (they differ mostly in fur color, gender and mag/stam-specialization) but not as any ordinary being. All of mundus seems to unstable / dangerous to my liking.

Finedaible

Just look at Saint Jiub.

He had a heroic life paralleling your own grand adventure in many ways only to end up being ganked in his own home in Kvatch by Dremora and was Soul Trapped into the Soul Cairn for eternity.

Dreaders123

I think for most folks it would boil down to if Stuga is also there.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

Tenthirty2 wrote: »

This is me being real for a minute, no BS.

This is a tough choice for me.
I can't say IRL is amazing, but I have some things here I'm not willing to compromise on, ever.

My main is a projection of my inner self into virtual spaces, how I appear and exist in other worlds.
I've had essentially the same main (and name) through all Bethesda games, or any game whenever the option to create my own avatar is provided.
Would I love to be her? Absolutely. She is everything that I am not IRL.
And it's an odd realization, but I don't feel she and I are necessarily "separate"
We share the same mind obviously, she just has a WAY better container for her brain than I do

But for all the power, beauty, holdings and millions of gold she has, there are some priceless treasures I have IRL that she does not.

So, if I can pull a "Mora" and edit the deal I would add in that I could bring certain loved ones with me into Nirn.

Otherwise, no deal. I'll stay divided.

You can be her... you can be everything she is and has, but you must leave her behind.

Could you?

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

SatanicSister wrote: »

I wouldn't trade my family for all the magic, fame and glory in Tamriel.

I would... my family don't care about me.

I don't need the fame nor the fortune.

Just to know that I tried.

My family couldn't even care about that.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

Finedaible wrote: »

Just look at Saint Jiub.

He had a heroic life paralleling your own grand adventure in many ways only to end up being ganked in his own home in Kvatch by Dremora and was Soul Trapped into the Soul Cairn for eternity.

I need to look this up.