Another one of those threads? Is your concern rp or do you really refuse to do a no no in a video game because it's bad in real life? Yes, I've seen people like that too.

I won't say anything new but if it's rp then roll a new character if you care so much. Thieves Guild already has more of a Robin Hood feel to it than anything like a villanous mafia organisation. They steal from bandits and rich people, you don't even get a bounty when you get caught.

Even sacraments are often some cultist cave parties where you have to kill some morally dubious guy.

It's just a game, events don't really have to cater to your tastes and your tastes alone. I for one am doing all the events, even though some are out of my comfort zone. I don't really like Cyrodiil pvp and yet I did all of the achievements on that one, it turned out pretty fun and it's a point of pride for me (if one can really feel pride from a video game ). And the truth is that TG and DB are some of my favourite content for this game and are pretty straightforward event wise. Go to a base, get quest, you get teleported to a location, do the thing, get reward. Done. Compare it to New Load Festival or Morrowind event where you had to manually go to the location of the quest and then go back, sometimes needing assistance of other players, with boss for example. Or when you had to cue up for a broken dungeon que. This event's pretty cool in that regard.

And if you're really worried about doing bad things in a video game then grow up. It's not real, and it doesn't have really any realistic quality to it. Dark Brotherhood people are cartoonishly evil, they only lack moustaches to twirl.

Say what?

madeeh91rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Never did any heist or sacrament thing ever.

Am I being punished for that?

Actually, the punishment is having to do those missions. They are awful. Perfect exemple of what stealth is NOT about.

Don't worry if you're not playing a Khajiit, it doesn't matter. You can have all the stealth you can, and even top that with an invisibility potion, you will be detecte the moment your toe brushes the light circle from the magic lanterns the guards are carrying.

Your map is useless, as many things are hidden in rooms that don't even appear on them. And the map doesn't update "for good" when you find those places. It's only for the duration of that mission, next time you come there, the map will have "forgotten" that you updated it.

Traps, holes in the ground and whatnot are placed so that they are the hardest to see, although that may be due to my own lighting settings.

And the worst of all : the senseless timers. Some guy went through the trouble of posting an add on a board in the thief's den, wait until someone took the heist, but suddenly you have exactly 5 minutes to get it, or he will run out of patience. In the case of assassination, you have all the time you need, until you killed your target. Even if no one has seen you ever, some magic 6th sense will bring some big bad tough guy around and you must rush the exit NOW.

Those missions are not about stealth, as stealth has no effect on them. They're just about timing. Basically, they are big, badly cobbled together quick time events.

Cinbri wrote: »

Michae wrote: »

Another one of those threads? Is your concern rp or do you really refuse to do a no no in a video game because it's bad in real life? Yes, I've seen people like that too.

I won't say anything new but if it's rp then roll a new character if you care so much. Thieves Guild already has more of a Robin Hood feel to it than anything like a villanous mafia organisation. They steal from bandits and rich people, you don't even get a bounty when you get caught.

Even sacraments are often some cultist cave parties where you have to kill some morally dubious guy.

It's just a game, events don't really have to cater to your tastes and your tastes alone. I for one am doing all the events, even though some are out of my comfort zone. I don't really like Cyrodiil pvp and yet I did all of the achievements on that one, it turned out pretty fun and it's a point of pride for me (if one can really feel pride from a video game ). And the truth is that TG and DB are some of my favourite content for this game and are pretty straightforward event wise. Go to a base, get quest, you get teleported to a location, do the thing, get reward. Done. Compare it to New Load Festival or Morrowind event where you had to manually go to the location of the quest and then go back, sometimes needing assistance of other players, with boss for example. Or when you had to cue up for a broken dungeon que. This event's pretty cool in that regard.

And if you're really worried about doing bad things in a video game then grow up. It's not real, and it doesn't have really any realistic quality to it. Dark Brotherhood people are cartoonishly evil, they only lack moustaches to twirl.

That what generation z keep say. Yet it was already numerous psychological researches about moral choices in video games and all claim same result - choices made by real life morality of person doing it, his conscious and subconscious desires and society rules. People who think that they can freely kill non-hostile civilians/children in video game because it just bunch of pixels and have nothing to do with real world - deeply inside they just unstable persons who without social restrictions and taboo would become yet another criminals.

I mean I do like going on killing sprees in the game and well, read my signature.

However one nutcase is not a reliable sample.

Uryel wrote: »

And the worst of all : the senseless timers. Some guy went through the trouble of posting an add on a board in the thief's den, wait until someone took the heist, but suddenly you have exactly 5 minutes to get it, or he will run out of patience. In the case of assassination, you have all the time you need, until you killed your target. Even if no one has seen you ever, some magic 6th sense will bring some big bad tough guy around and you must rush the exit NOW.

Timers are necessary to put pressure on you, otherwise both heists and sacraments would be pretty much impossible to botch.
Also, applying common sense to games is never a good idea, otherwise we should start with the basics, like why mobs don't flee when you beat them to near death or how you can mow down dozen of bandits but their comrades still come at you instead of running for their lives.

That said, I agree that the abundance of magic lantern, especially in narrow corridors, forcing you to wait in hiding spots is not particularly engaging

Neoealth wrote: »

madeeh91rwb17_ESO wrote: »

So yeah, I won't be participating in this scum-fest.
Which is a shame, as the black onyx was the one I wanted the most. I guess I'll wait for next event.

Such a heartbreak.

Oh noo such a heart ache boo hooo. It's your choice. Why don't you have a character that is a bad guy? If you care about good and bad in a video game where nothing is real, then you obviously care about rp'ing. So rp a character that is a thief and murderer.

I just do not understand this attitude, i see it every time it's the tg and db events, the same old complaints about not wanting to be a bad guy. It's not a sin to kill pixels on a screen for crying out loud.

Ah, but is it a sin to Enjoy it?

Not that I am complaining. I have a vampire templar who keeps wracking up kills on quests, so killing stuff as a job for thieves guild or dark brotherhood isn't such a huge leap of morality.

However, on the other hand I was glad to watch the Bethesda Con/get-a-free-mount/propaganda-day show. I know Exactly what games to NEVER EVER even consider playing. Ya got the 'german bad guys takeover the world' game and Doom, and all they are is mutilation up close in horrific detail. And you, the 'good guy' , are the one doing all the mutilation.

ridiculous

IMHO



Edited because the forums don't allow the use of the German descriptive word Na++ , even though the game company Promotes it and uses it in the game itself.

Hey, I'm not alone here. It's really a dark part of the ESO questline overall, too many crime-oriented quests, two DLCs (sic!) without any alternative for lawful characters. I know, that one can roleplay a character in such a way and I do so myself, but on lawful ones player is forced to ignore such content completely.

It would be great to see an alternative storylines for DB and TG DLCs.

redgreensunset wrote: »

Radiance wrote: »

A friend of mine feels the same way, I tell them they are only NPC's that will Respawn but it is about committing the Act itself they are uncomfortable with.

I suggest doing as I did and creating a character specifically for doing Bad Things. I used my Dark Elf NightBlade Vampire to complete the TG/DB storylines while my Saint-Like Templar Healer main has still yet to do so...

Tell me something, is your friend as upset by the rest of the killing in the game? What about those times, such as in the main quest line and in the AD one, where it forces you to sacrifise an innocent person? Or lik in Rivenspire where you kill a lot of innocent people who's been cursed with vampirism. It's not their fault, they just got caught in the middle. And the uber bad guy in that story line was just trying to save his wife's life, now here you are killing him. Why? And how do you justify that?
Otoh take one of the DB sacraments where you have to kill a druglord who's been very abusive to his own daughter and now she's performed the Black Sacrement to have the Dark Brotherhood kill him. Which of these scenarios are you the most evil? Which one do they find morally unjustifiable and why?

Or when during Glenumbra questline

Cinbri wrote: »

Michae wrote: »

Another one of those threads? Is your concern rp or do you really refuse to do a no no in a video game because it's bad in real life? Yes, I've seen people like that too.

I won't say anything new but if it's rp then roll a new character if you care so much. Thieves Guild already has more of a Robin Hood feel to it than anything like a villanous mafia organisation. They steal from bandits and rich people, you don't even get a bounty when you get caught.

Even sacraments are often some cultist cave parties where you have to kill some morally dubious guy.

It's just a game, events don't really have to cater to your tastes and your tastes alone. I for one am doing all the events, even though some are out of my comfort zone. I don't really like Cyrodiil pvp and yet I did all of the achievements on that one, it turned out pretty fun and it's a point of pride for me (if one can really feel pride from a video game ). And the truth is that TG and DB are some of my favourite content for this game and are pretty straightforward event wise. Go to a base, get quest, you get teleported to a location, do the thing, get reward. Done. Compare it to New Load Festival or Morrowind event where you had to manually go to the location of the quest and then go back, sometimes needing assistance of other players, with boss for example. Or when you had to cue up for a broken dungeon que. This event's pretty cool in that regard.

And if you're really worried about doing bad things in a video game then grow up. It's not real, and it doesn't have really any realistic quality to it. Dark Brotherhood people are cartoonishly evil, they only lack moustaches to twirl.

That what generation z keep say. Yet it was already numerous psychological researches about moral choices in video games and all claim same result - choices made by real life morality of person doing it, his conscious and subconscious desires and society rules. People who think that they can freely kill non-hostile civilians/children in video game because it just bunch of pixels and have nothing to do with real world - deeply inside they just unstable persons who without social restrictions and taboo would become yet another criminals.

Yeah, I'd also like a link to this study. Who conducted the study? What was the criteria, and the control factors, and the reporting method?

Violence/aggression in video games is a widely studied yet divisive topic that has no straight consensus; even the APA has varying conclusions. Some studies say that violent FPS games actually increase problem solving, as well as other cognitive skills, and are good stress relievers. However, no study I have found (including while obtaining my psychology degree) ever stated that people that play violent video games are sociopaths.

For the OP, my main is a lawful good that does not participate in TG/DB stuff and I do my best to make choices accordingly (when I can) for main quests. That said, I have a variety of characters and some are not so nice, so I use them for these events.

logarifmik wrote: »

Anyway, it's not about my opinion on the matter, right? It's about hero/villain dichotomy in the game. One day you're saving the Nirn for... What? For killing some innocent people here and there? Such approach in constructing narrative doesn't seem right. Completionist Vestige seems to have a bipolar disorder or something, or there is a literary hole instead of character.

Completionists cannot afford to stick to a coherent narrative for their characters: as far as crime is concerned, I think that the Thieves' Guild's ethic (the one depicted in game, at least) isn't compatible with the Dark Brotherhood's one, so you should really choose only one of the two (my characters tends to gravitate toward thieves more than murderers).

Besides, giving a legal aligned quest line (I don't know, siding with the Iron Wheel in Hew's Bane or something like that, though to be honest they're mercenaries and not that better than the guild) would require another set of achievements mutually exclusive with the ones we have now, and that would make completionists' lives even harder