-snort-

The guards actually have a rather large (for TES) vocabulary of things to say, unlike the bulk of townspeople. If I hear that lady say "Short spoons, handsome man in Falkreath" one more time.....

There's this attitude some non-Skyrim gamers have that all guards say is "arrow to the knee", but I rarely hear that line. They actually have dozens of things to day, and some of them are location-specific.

I like the restoration line. Seems like the guards are the nicest to my Khajiit. Everybody else is like "what do you want cat." Even some of the people she's helped! What a slap in the face!

Lol "what do you want cat?" I gotta play a cat-person at some point, that would never get old!

Apparently they said it so much when the game came out they had to patch it to where their other dialogue came up more.

So I've heard.

Then again, the "Arrow to the knee" line is hilarious. I didn't hear it too often so maybe it was everyone else?

I hear that "arrow to the knee" line so often I'm sick of it. It was funny at first but it really gets old after the ten-thousandth time of hearing it

I do not hear it very much either. I hear the other remarks more often, like: "this dull old blade can barely cut butter", or "why don't you brew me an ale."

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 30 2012, 02:49 AM

My favorite one? "Conjure me a bed" lol

Oh if onlyyyyyy! I'd do that all of the time lol

I still can' beleve that arrow in the knee became a meme and popular on the internet. It even was used in a CSI television show! I guess Skyrim got even more (in)famous due to that line.

I saw it like no less than three days after the game came out here XD

I used to be the King Of Beasts. Then I took an arrow to the knee.

And so the sad tale begins, because KoB's friend made the statement above, and KoB's head exploded.


Naaaw, I've still got a head in between my shoulder But I really do hate arrow in the knee jokes, and I hate the line itself too. It got real old.I used to be the King Of Beasts.

This post has been edited by King Of Beasts: Dec 31 2012, 07:56 AM

There was one mod, I think it was a PC mod, where if you actually DID get an arrow to the knee, a menu screen would pop up and say "You took an arrow to the knee. You can no longer adventure. What would you like to be?" and the choices were town guard, shopkeeper or beggar XD

To me this battle line was new, because this is my first Khajiit character ever. One bandit said: You are like my aunt's cat, I killed that too" or something along those lines

Yep, I hear that a lot with my character. Then she kills them.

I don't get it either. Everyone says it's funny, but I still don't get the humor. *shrugs* It just sounds painful to me.




Yeah, you know?

My favorite guard quote is: Let me guess...Someone stole your sweetroll. There's this one actor that says it almost in a mocking way..he's the one that always kills me.

My least favorite guard saying is: "So you're in the Companions? So you what....fetch them mead?" That's the only line I can think of that bugs the compassion out of me.

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Jan 2 2013, 12:07 AM

It's funny because as the main character, how many times have you been shot in the knee? The face? Set on fire? Frozen? Snatched up and tossed around by a dragon? Fell off a cliff? Gotten hacked and slashed at? Yet you're STILL an adventurer XD

And that always irks me. I HATE that line so hard lol

Seconded; this little (slightly sweary) gem of a video basically encapsulates the response I always want to give them. They may have been adventurers, but they were not adventurers like me!

The plus side of that line did result in my friend Tim making an amazing 'Whiterun Guard with an Arrow in his Knee' costume a while back.

The other day I found an awesome easter egg from 'Fall of the Space Core', the silly piece of mini-DLC you got to celebrate the release of the Steam Workshop, on one of the loading screens; just the Space Core itself with the line; 'Space is the thing you see above Tamriel when you walk around at night looking upwards.' For a Portal 2 fan like me, that line was an absolute joy.

^That's the video I saw waaaaay back when lol

Why discuss the arrow to the knee line! Why do you torment me so?! -KOB's head explodes-

SPEW! Really have to assume that a single-handed taking over of Skyrim would be an easy day's work, all you need is a handfull of arrows and a bow.