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Are yall woke yet? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Isn't Ulfric optional? I don't think the civil war is required for the main quest.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    could be, honestly not even sure - it's been a while since last visit to Skyrim, and even then it likely was just random exploration and sidequests! :P

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I think that I've only started the questline only a few times, and only for the empire, I think. I'm not even sure if I've finished it or ever met Ulfric.

    Is the questline good? I fear that it's too main questy, and Bethesda can't write a good main quest to save their lives.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    or ever met Ulfric.

    He sits with you on the cart at the beginning.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I think that says a lot about how memorable he is.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    To be fair he's gagged and and apparently in the middle of silent tantrum so he's not very communicative in this scene, though even later when he's back on his throne and even during Stormcloak questline he's not very memorable too, you mostly talk with Galmar Stonefist who is more expressive. I guess it's explained officially by him being apprentice to Greybeards and wielding some degree of Thu'um, you just don't flap your gums carelessly when you can demolish everything around you accidentally.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Don't the greybeards still have quite a bit of dialogue? Also, both the player & Miraak are quite talkative, from what I rember, though it makes sense why the latter wouldn't care much about collateral damage.

    I think that Bethesda should just stop shipping main quests with their 1st party games. I think that there are even mods to disable them, which should be somewhat telling about players' opinions.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Don’t the greybeards still have quite a bit of dialogue?

    No, actually not, except Arngeir who is the most proficient in Thu'um, even they risk releasing the power. Or maybe they just got used to silence after decades of maintaining it. It's actually indicating Ulfric talent and control he managed to become warlord and politician despite it.

    both the player & Miraak are quite talkative

    Yes but it's because both of them are actual Dragonborn for which dragon language is no problem, but Greybeards including Ulfric are normal (if talented) humans, for them learning and controlling Thu'um is much more difficult.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I believe I've been to Ulfric's throne room few times, but can't remember why, probably some sidequests take you there as well? I do think I've done the war-quest but for the life of me I can't recall which side I was on, or if it was good/bad/meh.

    Usually in this kind of games I tend to do few runs to see each side of mutually exclusive paths, but... well, it's been a while, like a decade according to steam.

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