If you want an example made by Bethesda themselves, The Pitt was pretty damn grey. You had to choose between freeing the slaves, but destroying what could become an advanced society in the process, or help that society not only thrive, and maybe curing a dangerous mutation in the process, at the cost of continuing slavery.
Heh, you know what I thought was just as bitter?
Condemning the man, (the BOS guy), to failure & simultaneously ending all chances for his redemption.
Just damning him & his wife to infamy & a gruesome death when they had the
potential to be saviors.
You are personally putting a stop to that, a premature end.
Goddamn that's a tough pill to swallow.
Empire forced to do things by the aldmeri dominion.
You know, this is just about their biggest fuck-up IMO. So they go ahead and get their asses kicked by the Aldmeri right? After the whole 'all your spies' heads belong to us' moment, that idiot Reman gets trapped in his own city & has to bust out at great cost to his men. His capital sacked & occupied, he gets reinforced by the Nords coming down through Bruma & uses them to retake it.
And what does he do as thanks?
He relinquishes his sovereignty over Skyrim (& the empire) by royally fucking over the Nords & banning worship of their patron saint, having the Thalmor walk his streets & arrest his citizens.
Ulfric might be a shitty choice of leader, but I'd say the nords are justified in leaving the empire after the magnificent backstab Reman pulled & how they've already lost control of
3 5 other provinces.
-Morrowind got fucked up by red mountain & invaded/rekt by black marsh, can't really care about empire anymore
-Black marsh invaded/rekt Morrowind, don't really care about empire anymore
-Valenwood absorbed by Aldmeri, Elseweyr follows after the whole moon thing
-Hammerfell recks Aldmeri invaders, is given up by the same 'we surrender pls don't hurt us' treaty that backstabbed the nords
-No idea what High Rock is doing.
Nah, the empire isn't serving anyone anymore, no point to keep supporting them.
I can't find the post/website where I read it, but I liked someone else's idea:
Support the empire, --
assassinate the emperor--, become the emperor yourself off-screen. You are a dragonborn after all, by all reports a rather powerful one.
There's no reason you couldn't be another Talos & re-unify everyone.
And the player not being a mute is a vast improvement too...far more modern for gaming. Voice acting looks improved to.
Except adding the VA cut the amount of dialogue by 62%, (77% compared to NV). If you liked to roleplay, this is
bad news- you get fewer options & there'll be fewer conversations. And for what? So you don't get to fill in the character's voice in your head but are instead stuck with the
one they chose? (perhaps with modulations for pitch (hopefully))
Not to mention the bioware-ized paraphrasing. Though it looked a little more like LA-Noire to me, (we all know how that turned out..).