Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Azzuria wrote: »

The Pact seems to be the most realistic of all the factions. They -know- they don't like each other and are actively trying to -not- kill each other. No pollyanna, wishful thinking about 'forging' the future. It's purely an alliance of convenience and there's no imagining it's otherwise. The enemy of my enemy and all that.

It's amusing when you realise the Dunmer are the cause of the hatred. The Dunmer and the Nords hate each other because they've been fighting over Solstheim for generations. The Dunmer and the Argonians hate each other because of the Dunmer enslaving the Argonians for generations. But the Argnonians and the Nords have no problem with each other at all :P

I don't think the Nord and Argonians are close, they just have no active antipathy and share a mutual distrust of the Dunmer. I still think the AD is the least cohesive of all the factions, with the DC being at least somewhat stable and EP being the least likely to simply implode under the weight of its own racial animosity.

The Daggerfall Covenant's story and quests are much better than the other Alliances.

Akiainavas wrote: »

We need to see more of Skyrim - enough said

the most recent game was skyrim where u just explored the entire map. sure its in the future from now but its gonna be nearly the same. like cmon man dont u want to see things NEW that youve never seen before? skyrim will always look and feel like skyrim. Vvardenfell would be loads more exciting. skyrim is rather bland really

I joined Ebonheart pact. I kinda regret it but oh well... Aldermi has the coolests maps. So colorful. ( Even though I don't like high elves much)

AD. Because Elves and Cats... And also I enjoyed with the frog race quest in Skywatch despite of bugs. Wish they didn't remove it.

You forgot Coldharbour. My favorite because it means I am almost done. Since I am NOT going to grind my way through two more faction's zones worth of easy-mode content.

Obviously Ebonheart Pact!
I mean, everyone loves "search my guars" quests right?

Morrowind. Need I say more?

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I just came to say congrats on getting the poll bar colors to match with the alliances. So many other polls with alliance choices always mix them up Xd

DC was my favorite, Rivenspire in particularly, but the end of Bangkorai felt suitably epic. I felt chills when Septima Tharn called me out on being the vestige of coldharbour and said she'd discovered a way to kill me in Atherius. Especially because it completely surprised me that was her plan even though I was reading and trying to analyze her notes and hints throughout the lead up.

EP is the worst visually, by far. 80% of the story spent in a version of Valenwood that looks absolutely nothing like Valenwood. Greenshade is described as being covered in the oldest, most ancient forests in Valenwood, and in game you see this:



If the engine isn't capable of doing forests properly (and not a single area in the game does) they just shouldn't have touched Valenwood at all and used Elsweyr instead. Disgustingly bad environment design.

Visually I thought Craglorn was the best. Fantastic mix of environments and architecture, with some really unique ruins and fantasy vistas with all the skyscraper towers and that crystal pillar thing. It does a great job of making a new zone feel alien instead of always feeling familiar even at first glance (oh look, more Ayleid ruins). Some pretty awesome dungeon designs too, often using exteriors instead of "yet another delve". Orsinium is amazing as well, and these two zones make me wish ZOS had released less zones at launch so they could have delivered more unique zones via DLC. Instead they had to reuse loads of architecture and ruins designs in locations that simply shouldn't have them, and delivered environments that often felt way too repetitive (Valenwood and High Rock probably being the biggest offenders there).

AD is nr.1 ? What the actual? They have the most boring questlines by far, even though they simultaniously have some of the best characters. All the AD zones are also completely walled off giving usually only two options, either go forward or go back, whereas DC and EP have mostly open zones that allow you to go whichever way you want (like previous TES games are renowned for).

I personally think DC is the most enjoyable, having some great characters, good stories and varied and interesting zones. Alik'r was the only zone which was pretty rough to go through, but the zone at least looks amazing. EP have some really nice looking zones as well, and interesting storylines, but not really that many memorable characters other than the Morag Tong chick. I think AD have zones that are far too similar in terms of looks and stories being told, with only Reaper's March really standing out.

My overall favourite zone is still Wrothgar though, but it wasn't really on the list and I'm not 100% sure it counts as DC. Craglorn is pretty good as well in terms of story and content (though no really memorable characters other than the Time-Lost Warrior), but was a lot better when it was designed for 4 players (and when it was still challenging).