Anyone tired of vampires? I want to role-play different characters, but Bethesda got so obsessed with vampires, it's hard to avoid attacks from them, or avoid the whole irritating Dawnguard questline.
For example, I have been wanting to re-role a pure Nord warrior and go further into the Nord history, which feels aesthetically a whole lot like Viking culture, but legitimately can go only so far as Sovngarde. The Civil War questline is okay, but all you're doing is killing Imperials all day long.
I really don't like vampires, and I never liked being one. I know it's part of the previous Elder Scrolls gaming history, but what Bethesda did with Skyrim is they made a world so aesthetically viking that the "imported" vampire stuff from previous ES games seems a bit off sometimes in Skyrim's textured feel.
Just my opinions. What do you think?
I honestly think Dawnguard added more to the game than Dragonborn did...
I remember wishing (along with a fair few others actually) that towns weren't so 'safe' in vanilla Skyrim and that bandits or something would attack so that we could RP a town guard more effectively...
I enjoy being a vampire, but I LOVE exterminating them as a member of the Dawnguard. Sit back for a moment and take a look at the factions available in Skyrim...
The Dawnguard stand out as being a great faction for RP. They get crossbows and damn 'armored trolls'!
Honestly, I didn't like the whole Viking culture...
I don't know why, but for some reason I liked the setting of Oblivion better, it felt so neutral and fantasy like. I know most of you wouldn't agree, but for some of my RP characters, the Viking culture and Skyrim made me feel like my character didn't belong. I can't really put my finger on it.
I only mind them to the extent that they make me burn through my Cure Disease potions and kill NPC's I frequently interact with. Belethor, for example. Or Adrianne. Doesn't the position of "Town Guard" exist so that the civilians who have no combat prowess aren't forced to defend the town against powerful enemies with combat prowess? It bothers me that the civilians can't just leave it to the guards. I certainly do.
I hope I can clarify a bit. Oh, definitely, I think they did a great job on the vampire aesthetic. I'm just saying that *sometimes* one could argue that the vampire architecture and the vampires in general felt a tad off.
Coming off an epic victory over Alduin in Sovngarde made me nostalgic about the whole Nord culture, and then immediately after I finished that questline, I made for Dawnguard, and the quick atmospheric feeling faded into a nostalgic sense that I had looped through a portal into a Gothic-type fantasy world. Haha.
But, to recall that feeling of viking culture "euphoria, the main questline I felt was the most epic for that whole Skyrim feel. Makes me want to try out Ponty's Last Dragonborn build.