I think it was supposed to be like that. Ruthless imperialists who at least respect the conquered, or racist-ass guys with the technical, but not moral, high ground. I love moral ambiguity. In Fallout, Caesar was undoubtedly evil, but had some decent points. Or even better, Ashur from Fallout 3.
As far as Bethesda games go, I never felt less important than in Oblivion. You mean my predecessor is the reincarnation of a god? And my successor’s great-great-great-etc. grandparent had one magical night with a dragon? And can spit magic out his mouth? My only regret is that I can’t fus ro dah the Adoring Fan off a cliff!
I’m not so sure about that - I was never swayed by Caesar’s viewpoints (even though I saw where he was coming from) and regarded the Legion as generally evil, with the NCR as flawed but well-intentioned and generally good.
I actually liked Mr House and his goals (even if the ending wasn’t great) and found a couple of the endings forced you to make decisions because the designers said so (to stop you having your cake and eating it too, basically) rather than letting you reach compromises.
OK, thought I’d come back and post an update. Skyrim is MUCH better than Oblivion. I’ve avoided it so far, but I think I could start this around 8PM and look up a few minutes later to see the dawn’s light streaming through the windows. I’m still kinda spamming spells, but it’s making more sense than Oblivion, and I think with time I’ll actually have some strategies. I don’t know that it’s as good as Fallout 3 or NV, but it’s worth sticking with.
Yes, I agree. Oh, there’s some things I miss from Oblivion but overall Skyrim is a much better game. And at that, I barely played Oblivion without heavily gameplay-changing mods; while I’ve played the heck out of Skyrim with mods that mainly just improve the UI and add stuff here and there.
Plus, IIRC, they dispelled any lingering moral ambiguity by giving you karma when you killed legionaries and deducting it when you killed NCR troopers.