I remember when I first started you did Firemoth Island, then I got dropped in Seyda Neen. I was emotionally invested in the campaign played through off of that chapter (had no idea the rest of the game existed LOL) then finished it and was "now what", spent the next two days walking across Tamriel because I was lost and confused.

Yes, please. The new one isn't terrible but it's not connected to any of the plots in the game so it's just kind of meh. It would be great to have the opportunity to play through the intros that I missed, or just do the Morrowind one again for nostalgia's sake.

ZOS also needs to implement something like The Questing Guide add-on. Make it so that the player can toggle on and off all the additional main-story line quest givers that have been added over time with the additional chapters.

I've got multiple Vanus Galerions in some of the mages guilds at this point. It's a bit of a mess.

The new tutorial is my favourite one since Coldharbour, but I still think Coldharbour was better.

I like that the new tutorial leaves it completely open where you were before and how you got there. I hated that my warden had to start on a boat to Vvardenfell because it made no sense for her to do that. I hated it enough that when Greymoor came out I deleted and re-made the character because that tutorial was a better fit and it was still bothering me that the start of her story was all wrong.

With the new one there's all kinds of possibilities because all you're told is you came through a portal. Your character could have done it themselves (either deliberately or by accident), someone else could have done it to them, they could have no idea what happened. The Coldharbour tutorial was the same, all it told you was you were sacrified by the Worm Cult, it was up to you to decide how and why that happened.

I also like that it gives you a choice of where to go next, but I think that could have been incorporated into the Coldharbour tutorial. All it would need is a conversation with Lyris or the Prophet about how you'll need to visulise where you want to end up and brief intros to each area like the current tutorial has to help players choose.

Regardless of where you choose it would provide an introduction to the main story at the appropriate point (the start of the game) and resolve all the lore disrepencies where people and storylines assume your character's soul is missing, without losing the current benefit of being able to choose where you start.

ZOS has been fiddling with the start of the game since the game began, and they have never gotten it right. It has been retconned so many times that it is hard to keep track. It is obvious that the story is broken, but the number of times they have broken it has become buried under layers of partial changes.

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the one in coldharbour was the best because it's directly linked to the main quest and you start in your own faction zone.

I wouldnt be a new players in 2023 tbh. this is a total mess to follow the quest in the order, in particular when you meet lyris titan at fighters guild when she's still emprisonned in coldharbour -_-

I wish they'd fix that too. All they'd need to do is have the initial quest starters be a generic NPC or a note somewhere and then the main characters don't appear until you've started the quest. The game already has the ability to change which NPCs are visible and where they are based on quest progress so it wouldn't need anything new.

They could even condense it down to one NPC for everything - make them a herald or a town crier or something and have them offering news and oppertunities from all around Tamriel. Or maybe part of the Fighter's Guild offering tips on contracts they can't take on because they're still tied up with the dark anchors. They tell you about the currently available opportunities (chapter and DLC quests you haven't started yet), you pick the one/s you want to do and then the relevant NPCs appear.