Regarding "Village of the Lost" (spoilers)

Peaches0w0 · January 2022

the public dungeon as a whole was fun. but the ending to the final quest was extremely tasteless in my honest opinion. I struggle with severe depression. and because of that I've grown to have a mind set of never giving in to the daily struggle and always find a reason to move on. Having a quest tell me to literally kill myself with literally no alternative because of some "noble sacrifice" is not only crass and in poor taste but is honestly really really REALLY dumb.

Like we get back up right afterwards and we could have used the life energy of literally any of the other daedra. a simple "no there must be another way" option where you face down one extra boss would have been much better than taking away player agency and forcing them to commit sudoku (yes I know it's a math puzzle)

Mushroomancer · January 2022

So, I looked up the quest because I couldn't remember what you're talking about, I probably never even did the quest in the first place.
What I found is that apparently there used to be an alternative where you could either kill the lady that asks you to sacrifice yourself or even go for a peaceful solution involving the destruction of a sigil stone against a daedric lens (whatever that's supposed to be, sounds like made-for-Dremora glasses). For some reason though, those options were removed at some point and are now unavailable.
I will agree that it seems just weird and kinda in poor taste, but since I can't find any info about it, does the NPC in question know that you're the Vestige? Because that's the only thing that would make it slightly understandable, you know, the Vestige is basically a reusable sacrifice. As for why they can't use the Daedra, maybe it has something to do with them not having proper souls? Don't know, just an idea. But yeah, it's just odd that they would remove alternative endings from a quest for seemingly no reason.