To be fair, at launch, you couldn't quest as anyone but the Vestige, and titles like that are helpful when you can't call the player character by name.
I'll let Finedrin out when he shows that he's learned his lesson.
Oh! That. Yes. There's a bit of classic writing advice about not using names too often in dialogue. If you listen to an actual conversation between two people, they rarely say each others' names as often as characters do in fiction. I've rarely found my own dialogue to be worse after removing names.MaleAmazon wrote: »Yeah, but I mean more that they say "vestige" way too much. Like "Vestige, come here" instead of just "come here". They would of course know the name of the player, and simply replacing it with "vestige this, vestige that" is lazy IMO. Now, I guess they can´t synthesize the player name - although Codsworth saying my character´s name out of the blue in Fallout 4 blew me away, to be honest...
The whole soul/no soul thing bugs me, but I can't fault ZOS for that. They wrote the story assuming the main campaign would work one way (you play it from beginning to end), had that changed on them just before release (you play your faction from beginning to end, then jump to the next faction, then the faction after that, meaning that you're getting story about not having a soul after you get your soul back), and then had it radically changed again a few years later (One Tamriel, meaning you can have a soul or no soul at any given moment).MaleAmazon wrote: »It´s kind of funny though, since a few quests in the game, like the Lodorr one, is predicated on the character having no soul... guess someone didn´t think ahead then. But I don´t fault them - to be honest I think the "you have no soul" explanation for why you can use wayshrines, resurrect etc, is a really good in-game explanation for mechanics.
And after all that the Altmer have done so much for the Bosmer! This kind of attitude is why the Bosmer are still living in trees. Honestly.MaleAmazon wrote: »The only "proper repentance" in the face of Altmer snootiness is a quick dagger / lightning bolt to the face.(I assume Faruin was snooty. Maybe I should inform myself before passing judgement, though.)