I´m just being Curious George here
As you know I don´t play Skyrim and since I´m not a main quest kinda guy I probably wouldn´t do this one anyway. But out of you guys, who hasn´t done it yet even once?
I end up doing it most playthroughs; I like fighting dragons, the Shouts are epically fun and it has some really cool moments here and there. It seems to me that the main reason most people don't do it are because they don't like dragons, but as I quite enjoy those fights I don't really have any reason not to do it.
Haven't beaten Alduin yet. Khan'll get around to whooping some World-Eater bum sooner or later.
Of course I’ve done it! I’m far too curious to skip big chunks of content, no matter what people say on teh interwebz. I still trust my own judgment the most.
As it happens I love Skyrim’s MQ. Even my characters who are not Dragonborn start the MQ just to get dragons in their games. The only exceptions are my early Fourth Era crew, and I’ll probably give them some dragons to play with some day, too.
I must say that dragons are much more fun for me with the subwoofer making the floor shake and the big TV lighting up the whole room with fire. Dragons on my laptop are not quite as exciting. Skyrim’s MQ is probably what will finally push me to hook my PC games up to the sound system and TV.
Also the UPS guy just came, and I’m pretty sure he brought my new headphones. That could change everything!!
Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin!!
Just wanna throw this out there, I´m not against any MQ in TES games. I just often have too much other things to do
Though I must say since Oblivion I´m afraid wrong things will be destroyed and wrong people killed. Like the Mages Guild in Bruma, I´d hate to see that place and its people go.
But good thing that not all gamers think like me! Imagine all the work with the MQ go to waste because no one wants to start it!
I have still never done it, and have gone so far as to start using my own custom alternate starts so I never have to do any part of it.
I think Todd Howard is afraid that people won't do the main quest, and that is why Skyrim makes such an effort to push you into doing so. Once you were out of the Tutorial in Oblivion it was easy to ignore it, and once you were out of the Census and Excise Office in Seyda Neen in Morrowind it was even easier. Heck, in Daggerfall you could ignore the main quest even in the tutorial dungeon! But in Skyrim you cannot get into Dragonsreach without being pushed into more of the main quest, and you cannot buy the house there until you complete that part. Likewise, you cannot do either side of the Civil War without doing that part of the main quest as well.
Wow. And I thought Oblivion was bad with its "OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO HURRY AND DO THIS NOOOW!!!" Too bad the Skyrim MQ limits even what houses you can buy
Arrgh. I'm so used to seeing mirocu pull up or start Oblivion threads I just assumed I was in the OB forums.
Voted "Yes" when I should have voted "No", I still have not done the MQ. Can't change my vote, apparently, but it's okay. I am in the process of doing the MQ and within a couple months I should have it done, or most of it done.
I've done the main quest only once. After that I refused to progress to the point where the dragons start appearing. I actually found the main quest pretty good but the Dragonborn and Dawnguard DLC's to be more enjoyable to be honest. They also clarified a few mysteries like what happened to the falmer and added to the vampire lore extensively.
I have not completed the MQ in Skyrim, nor in Oblivion for that matter. I did complete it in Morrowind, which is the first ES game I ever played. The odds are high that I will complete it eventually in Skyrim. After that, I'll probably buy the DLC and check them out. Then perhaps I will revisit Oblivion and all of its DLC as well.
Have not done, never planning on doing it, have implemented a mod to ensure that I cannot even accidentally do it!
None of my characters so far have finished the MQ, but Ravos is nearly there. I imagine when I start playing him more again, after he's passed to 4e 202, he'll get it done. I had one other character who had went down but died midway through the questline...
Most of my characters stop before Bleak Falls. To me that's the best place to leave it...
I decided I'd like to finish the Main Quest on Xbox with Master Baytor, but the random dragon attacks get old. Annoying. I think they occur once every 3 days, but to a gamer like me, who grew up with RPGs in which dragons very rarely show up, like a 1 in 100 chance, seeing them every 3 days is too much.
I think I would prefer to see them more rarely too if I played Skyrim. That way it´s much more of a big deal when they actually do show up and I think that´s only a good thing. Feels more epic, ya know
Go for it, Renee! And finally your poll vote will be true!
The reason you get so many Dragons is that they made each shout require three dragon's souls, so you need to kill a lot of them. To compound the problem, they put way to many shouts into the game, some of which are useless, as a cheap spell is more powerful.
My opinion is that the period up defeating Alduin should have enough dragons to be a real menace to the people, but after that it should slow down considerably. The total number of dragons should be limited, too, to be consistent with their story that Alduin was raising them from their graves. Those dragon mounds should tell you exactly how many there are.
My Breton Genevieve and her alter ego Sjulki have done the MQ, and so have Pala the Nord, Fleur the Orc, and Thulia the Imperial. Galen Voth (Dunmer) didn't, but he was created to do the DB and the Civil War, and then retire. Ra'vish (Khajiit) became Archmage and didn't do much else. Silwen the Bosmer archer, did the Thieves Guild. Gol gro-Molag might, but his job is to build a longhouse and settle down with Borghak. If she insists on doing it, he'll most likely go along with her. The Tamriel Topless Team (an altmer Player Character with as many followers as AFT supports) haven't, as there's too much single-person action, and they don't like that.
In Ravos' game I'm getting so sick of all the dragons... Today I fought three dragons. One I killed in two shots of my bow
An elder dragon is responsible for the death of my 5th horse and I have so many dragon bones/scales it's ridiculous. Ravos never needs the shouts and only uses dragonrend for convenience.
I would rush through the MQ but that's not my way. I'm almost there after about 130 hours but it might take me another 10-15. Hopefully it dies down after that. I actually enjoy the dragon fights but only on occasion...
Wow, 2 shots from a bow, that's all? Interesting.
What sort of perks does Ravos have for Archery?
Have played several iterations of Buffy and have not completed the MQ. The farthest we went was hunting for Esbern down in the Ratway. By that time, Buffy had seen several mammoths killed by random dragons and was not at all happy.
So we did some more study on UESPwiki and discovered something that all of you who have been playing a long time likely already know. Random dragon spwans stop while Delphine's 'kill da dragon' quest is active. While that quest is active, they only spawn and hang out at their dragon walls. That point is also far enough along to render the Dragonborn DLC available. Woot! New Game!
Since then, our pattern is to pick up the horn from Delphine, tell her we don't have time for her nonsense and be on our way.
The thing is, Skyrim is a land rich with the lore of dragons and I like having a FEW dragons in the game. And Buffy, with her hefty magic resistance and powerful bow can kill them just fine as long as she can keep her distance (easy to do). Generally, the Graydudes conclude that, although she may carry the spirit of a dragon (Phantom) within her, Buffy does not carry their blood - she is not dragonborn.
Since progressing the MQ further (even completing it) would only mean plenty of random dragon spawns, it is not likely we'll ever complete it. The exception might be an 'out of body' experience to complete it (just out of curiosity) just before restarting the game anew.
Another way to look at it, I suppose, is this: Buffy's only encounter with Alduin is when he saved her life at Helgen. How does that make him a foe?
Buffy's still going to see mammoths die when they discover they can't levitate after all.
My latest character (who's destined to become an NPC in the TG mod) was walking across the tundra west of Whiterun when she saw one drop about 30 feet onto the ground and fall over dead in the distance. This was just at the range where they become visible, so it probably spawned in mid-air and then fell to its death. It's not the first time I've seen this happen, and it doesn't seem to be confined to mammoths, as elk and wolves have done the same. Rabbits may well do it, but you'd never notice them at that distance.
NPC's appear to do the opposite. I've met a few people sunk half-way into the ground, still alive. Embedded creatures always seem to have emulated ostriches and are dead with their heads buried. I've not encountered a mammoth in that position yet.
Back to topic:
Latest character is avoiding walled cities. She did go into Whiterun to deliver a note to Danica for Igrod the younger, as she wanted to buy the land for Windstad Manor, but she hasn't been to Dragonreach. There's a bounty due to her, but she's not collecting it.
I haven't stopped the MQ at Delphine's quest with any of mine. They've either done it all, or stopped much earlier, typically avoiding the need to kill any dragons. Either they want to avoid dragons, or they want to sort out the whole dragon issue properly.
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