You should embrace them.
They can be quite fun. :3
If you insist, I feel as if Skyrim took a different turn, but maybe not so much of a good one, at least in the nature of the previous titles in the series. It took a more serious approach, but almost
too serious. It's too dull, too grey. It diluted the lore and shine of the series. Oblivion, and even somewhat Morrowind were quirky and colorful, interesting, 'magical', almost.
The characters in Skyrim are all very boring and dull to me, everyone is so monotone and melancholy. Nobody has any personality or depth, I mean, yes you're a wartorn warrior, but that's kind of just 'there' and apparent, only really shown by a suit of armor and a distant and boring personality and limited dialogue.
In Oblivion, characters were fun, and memorable. They all had lasting effects on my memory, in Skyrim I fail to see much of anything memorable other than what the character
was not what they
did. The closest thing to quirky or silly I remember from Skyrim was maybe Cicero.
Remember Aldos Othran from Oblivion, who was a drunkard, singing about cliff racers? Even the distorted and insane residents of the Shivering Isles. Morrowind had a talking scamp that was a merchant. There's an incredible amount of content and things to do in Skyrim, yes, but none of it has any depth- to me. Even the guilds, I feel were lacking in content as opposed to Oblivion. As well as the quests in general. Probably my favorite quest from Oblivion was Lifting the Vale, where you go through Pale Pass, and find a man's journal about his failed attempt to traverse it. I remember being
interested in the lore of Sancre Tor, wanting to read about it, wanting more dialogue options.
A lot of Skyrim seems to kind of just be 'there' and placed in front of you. Not much elaborated upon. Even the conflict between the Gray-manes and the Battle-Borns wasn't even something I had been interested in. It was thrown in my face the second I went into Whiterun, I had no idea what was going on, I chose a neutral stance due to lack of information or reason and I never heard anything significant from it afterwards. There were rumors about someone's relative being kidnapped or something, but it never seemed
important. It was just mumbles and pass-by dialogue.
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