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[Microcline]

One of my largest problems with this game is that there actually aren't all that many enemies. I haven't seen everything, but the map really does feel a little empty to me sometimes, especially if the oly thing i ever run into is giants, mammoths or trolls. Bandits are okay, but generic to say the least. I've never played Morrowind, both because the graphics make me wince a little and that I've yet to find a copy, but if it has even twice the number of enemies I want a remake in the Skyrim engine for sure.

Even then most of the enemies feel the same anyhow.

Several of them are the exact same enemy except that they look different.

Can I see a citation for that?  I know that there are a few creatures with similar stats (for instance Alits and Guar), but even then the lore makes them distinct (Guar are generally peaceful domestic beasts-of-burden while Alits are aggressive predators).  Compare a tomb in Morrowind to a tomb in Skyrim.  In Morrowind, you could expect to fight ghosts (weak melee but immune to normal weapons), skeletons (basic melee, basic offensive mage, and archer varieties), bonewalkers (melee with nasty stat draining effects), and bonelords (melee with shield spells), and if the family had the magical talent to bind daedra you could end up fighting anything from a clannfear to a dremora lord.  Compare this to Skyrim where the only thing you fight in any tomb are legions of identical draugr.

I do think that they got the creatures in the Dwemer ruins right, though.  The animations for the steam centurions are downright beautiful, and once they're modded so that they can't be staggered and can appear in groups or with backup they'll be appropriately terrifying.  It's just a shame that it was only once that Bethesda realized that a dungeon needs to have more than one type of enemy.

[Neonivek]

Magic Errors and Ice Wraphs are surprisingly the exact same enemy except one uses ice effects.

This is ignoring upgrades

Wolves, Pitwolf, Icewolf, Familiar Wolf

Also I consider the ghosts to be a downgrade in Skyrim as opposed to Oblivion where they were an entirely seperate enemy type all to themselves.

[scriver]

Can I see a citation for that?  I know that there are a few creatures with similar stats (for instance Alits and Guar), but even then the lore makes them distinct (Guar are generally peaceful domestic beasts-of-burden while Alits are aggressive predators).  Compare a tomb in Morrowind to a tomb in Skyrim.  In Morrowind, you could expect to fight ghosts (weak melee but immune to normal weapons), skeletons (basic melee, basic offensive mage, and archer varieties), bonewalkers (melee with nasty stat draining effects), and bonelords (melee with shield spells), and if the family had the magical talent to bind daedra you could end up fighting anything from a clannfear to a dremora lord.  Compare this to Skyrim where the only thing you fight in any tomb are legions of identical draugr.

I do think that they got the creatures in the Dwemer ruins right, though.  The animations for the steam centurions are downright beautiful, and once they're modded so that they can't be staggered and can appear in groups or with backup they'll be appropriately terrifying.  It's just a shame that it was only once that Bethesda realized that a dungeon needs to have more than one type of enemy.

Interestingly enough the Dwemer enemies all happen to be from Morrowind as well. Or well the spheres and centurions were both from Redguard originally but under different names, but still. The set of creatures I mean.

[Gamerlord]

Me on Staff of Magnus Quest:

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Me: Oooh! Dragon voice speaking to me! I can unlock another level of Ice Form!
When I get there: Dragon Priest? !!FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!

Anyone else like this sometimes with those bastards? Bloody GIANTS are easier to kill, and one hit of them insta-kills me if I'm too close.

P.S. The most fun Shout in the game (IMO) makes you need to fight a Dragon Priest AND a Dragon. Ten to one the final boss battle will be easier than that.

[Microcline]

Magic Errors and Ice Wraphs are surprisingly the exact same enemy except one uses ice effects.

This is ignoring upgrades

Wolves, Pitwolf, Icewolf, Familiar Wolf

Also I consider the ghosts to be a downgrade in Skyrim as opposed to Oblivion where they were an entirely seperate enemy type all to themselves.

Sorry, when I quoted you I thought you were referring to the creatures of Morrowind.  Technically, I don't mind them reusing character models and scripts, especially for unique, one-time monsters.  I just don't like it when they use it to cover up an overall lack of content.

Also, I just found a thread about better endings for the Eye of Magnus questline.

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It was all a giant hazing ritual.  When you leave the quarters after being declared archmage, Savos Aren comes back and tells you that the joke is over and to hand over his robes.  Your fellow students make fun of you for thinking that you were singled out by the PSJJJJ and became archmage despite barely knowing the college and being appointed by someone with no affiliation.  Tolfdir takes the Eye back to Saranthal for the next student and Drevis goes to hide the prop staff in another dungeon.

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Or, if done seriously, Savos Aren is up to something suspicious and Arcano was sent by the Thalmor to investigate.  The result could tie together the threads about the disappearance of Artaeum, the nature of the Eye, the "solving" of mysticism, the creation of the Augur, and the disaster at Winterhold.  Also, they should drop the PSJJJJ calling you the chosen one immediately after meeting you.

I suspect that the second half of the questline was cut, but as I can't tell it's contents I can only judge the writing based on the first half.

[Neonivek]

Here is a question

Why can't the Aedra interact with the world?

I suspect that the second half of the questline was cut

Judging by the sheer amount of "Other world" references... Yeah they were probably planning on you going to the other realms or possibly back to Oblivion.

[Gamerlord]

Here is a question

Why can't the Aedra interact with the world?

It says in one of the books that since they created, they cannot change or something like that.

[Azkanan]

Here is a question

Why can't the Aedra interact with the world?

Main storyline of Oblivion, bro; Dragonfires.

Wait, that's Daedra, right?

Also on the topic of random encounters...

Oblivion: Wolf. Wolf. Wolf. Wolf. Bandit. Wolf. Wolf. Wolf. Bandit. Wolf. Bandit. Goblin. Wolf. Wolf. Wolf...

Skyrim: Dragon. Wolf. Wolf. Ice Wolf. Dragon. Ice Wraith. Dragon. Dragon. Bandit. Dragon. Dragon eating a bandit. Ice Wolf.
Skyrim Underground: Bandit. Daughr.  Bandit. Daughr.  Bandit. Daughr.  Bandit. Daughr.  Bandit. Daughr.  Bandit. Daughr.

Skyrim is much better than Oblivion, though, so I'm happy with that.

[Leatra]

Here is a question

Why can't the Aedra interact with the world?

I guess Aedra can only interact with the world when dramatic stuff happens. Rembember the end of main quest in TES:Oblivion?

[Microcline]

Here is a question

Why can't the Aedra interact with the world?

In the monomyth (the universal creation myth of the TES universe), the Aedra were tricked by Lorkhan into binding themselves into the creation of Mundus.  The Aedra became the Earth Bones, which can be approximated as the laws of physics of Nirn.  Because they are bound in this way, the Aedra have little power outside of their own domains.  However, they are still quite powerful as long as they are acting withing the scope of their (bound) abilities, such as Akatosh piecing together the timeline after a dragon break or kicking Merunes Dagon out of Nirn at the end to Oblivion to fulfill his pact with Alessia.  I suspect that I may have some things wrong and have oversimplified in some areas of this explanation, though.

[Neonivek]

So basically the Daedra have more ability to act and are only limited by the interference between Oblivion and Tamriel?

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Also have they ever explained why the Aedra Shrines only work for certain people and not for others?

[Duke 2.0]

Morrowind: Nix-Hound, Shalk, Kwama, Cliff Racer, Nix-Hound, Cliff Racer, Kwama, Kagouti(Fuck!), Cliff Racer, Shalk, Cliff Racer, Cliff Racer, Alit, Cliff Racer

I almost forgot about the Kwama. Those things were so cool to encounter. Just finding a cave where people harvest eggs for food from massive bugs.

[scriver]

Here is a question

Why can't the Aedra interact with the world?

The short version, because I am on my phone: You know that thing we experience as time going forward? That's Akatosh "interacting" with the world. How people die and are reborn? Arkay. And so on. Aedra can't interact with mortals in the same way as Daedra, because Aedra are the world.

[fqllve]

So basically the Daedra have more ability to act and are only limited by the interference between Oblivion and Tamriel?

Exactly

Also have they ever explained why the Aedra Shrines only work for certain people and not for others?

Gameplay and story segregation.

Actually, I think that was only in Oblivion. In Morrowind the shrines grant a blessing to anyone who can pony up enough cash. Oblivion is the only game with that fame/infamy mechanic.

[Neonivek]

Skyrim also have shrines that can cure "all" diseases (except for two obvious ones).

Yet they obviously cannot be used by anyone else as evident by certain sections.