The Worst Elder Scrolls Game is Actually Great

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  @JustBackgroundNoise · 4 months ago (edited) · pinned

  This playthrough was originally streamed over on Twitch <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/justbackgroundnoise">https://www.twitch.tv/justbackgroundnoise </a><br>You can also watch the VODs here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrogNYqt_DpBxmgqsv0TNCFO4Jkg8tBHv">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrogNYqt_DpBxmgqsv0TNCFO4Jkg8tBHv</a><br><br>Also, any odd text appearing in the video is 100% intentional and not just because pressing &apos;T&apos; in Premiere adds a text layer.

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  @LeinaDZiur · 4 months ago

  The idea that Clavicus Vile is so old that the concept &quot;Vile&quot; is named after him is a really cool one.

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  @incognitor · 4 months ago

  That was refreshing. Cyrus was refreshing. I miss having protagonists who have actual personality and agenda, who don&apos;t let anyone boss them around. Cyrus talking back to everyone was great.

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  @dotflann · 4 months ago

  I love how Khajiit sound speaking their language

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• JD

  @jdsquane8044 · 4 months ago

  &quot;Blood drawn straight as iron, tempered by death, we rise as swords&quot; is the hardest shit anyone has ever said in TES

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• LU

  @LumosX · 4 months ago

  Woah, different languages, distinct ethnographic subgroups, actual sload, airships, this is like a completely different setting from what modern TES is.

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• AR

  @AROAH · 4 months ago

  What a career path to play the Redguard guy so well that you’re later cast as every male Redguard.

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• FO

  @food_dude_sd · 4 months ago

  “Well met, stranger!”<br>🦅 <br>💥 <br>“Magnificent”

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• EA

  @EastBayJata · 4 months ago

  Cyrus is a criminally underrated character for how great he is. I&apos;m glad someone&apos;s bringing attention to Redguard

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  @FartingSpider12 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOben_G8ry0&amp;t=5577">1:32:57</a> I think finding out that Cyrus is the younger sibling is such a potentially huge recontextualization because it makes you reconsider his deeper motivation for his actions. A big brother protecting his little sister is easy to imagine; it&apos;s his baby sister and in all likelihood he&apos;d feel a deep responsibility to protect her or something akin to paternal love. But a little brother protecting his big sister seems more likely come from a place of admiration or idolization as he doesn&apos;t have the obligation to protect her that would come from him being the older sibling (he might not even believe she <b>needs</b> to be protected). It also reframes him killing her husband and running away. I could imagine an older brother killing to protect his little sister and being confident that he did the right thing, but still deciding to distance himself from his little sister because he&apos;s afraid she wont understand (In this scenario it&apos;s also easy to believe that he has always been the talented criminal that he appears as in the game) But if it&apos;s the little brother that did it then I can imagine that maybe he&apos;s afraid that he acted rashly and he feels guilty; maybe he ran because he doesn&apos;t want the older sister he admires so much to hate him for it, and perhaps it wasn&apos;t until after this event that he even became a criminal in the first place. <br><br>Not to say that all of these motivations and events are mutually exclusive to one or the other of course but in terms of expected family dynamics, things seem more or less likely depending on which one is the older sibling. At least in my mind anyway

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  @HeavenlyHavoc · 4 months ago

  Crazy that bethesda seemingly leaned on the talent of Just One Guy to be The Redguard voice all the way until Skyrim when they decided Redguards just sound the same as Imperials. Great work Michael Mack, we will always remember you as the one black voice actor who worked for Bethesda

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  @spingebill2009 · 4 months ago

  In a perfect world, we&apos;d get more Elder Scrolls spin-offs like this. And it wouldn&apos;t take 15+ years to get a new mainline game.

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