"oh, he wrote a story about dragons so his perspective may be skewed".
Pretty silly, considering the Shruikan problem alone. I've also seen a fan's tweet that they had a hard time killing dragons in Skyrim because of Inheritance and Paolini respond with how much he gets into it himself.
I've seen a couple of headlines around with Paolini's name, probably a publicity team trying to stir up interest and recognition more than anything. I think a NYT one was "He wanted a job with dragons, so he created one". C'mon NYT. He did not create the job of author who writes about dragons.
killing Paarthurnax locks the Dragonborn out of receiving the Radiant quests that point towards unclaimed Word Walls, and given that Dragon Shouts in Skyrim play a major role in combat, siding with Paarthurnax is the most valuable choice from a pure gameplay perspective. Ultimately, fans hope that Bethesda will introduce more layered choices in the next Elder Scrolls title, which is currently in early development.
I only played a little Skyrim back around its release, and I remember trying to role play as more lawful-good and avoiding quests that aided the demon things. If players want to role play and make choices that make the game more challenging, power to them. Even if they choose to role play someone who is bad and should feel bad, it's their playthrough. If they take bits of lore and expand on that in their heads so that Paarthurnax must be brought to justice, that's cool too.
Neither Galby nor Shruikan got the chance to even try to atone for whatever sins they committed.
It could be argued that Galby atoned through running a safe empire and maybe? was still trying to expose the eggs to potential partners. Binding Murtagh and Thorn doesn't support me there though. I'm hung up on the idea that Shruikan could have been an awesome secret partner to the other pairs, particularly the idea that he could have been the one to send away Saphira's egg so he wouldn't be forced to mate with her.
why did that one guy decide to turn himself into a nuclear bomb in the EGG HOUSE (thus killing the dragon eggs that didn't get chosen to go in the stupid vault) which also killed a whole bunch of Riders and only ONE Forsworn?
EGG-BREAKER. This is Paolini working backward from his assumptions instead of developing them. It is preferable that baby dragons trapped in their eggs be destroyed instead of fall into the hands of the foresworn! Because Evil! Nevermind that the eggs would still only hatch for the people they chose, or that 13 dragons were also rebelling against the Riders. The Good Guys thought it was worth committing an atrocity just to take out ONE guy! That shows how evil that one guy must be!
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Pretty silly, considering the Shruikan problem alone. I've also seen a fan's tweet that they had a hard time killing dragons in Skyrim because of Inheritance and Paolini respond with how much he gets into it himself.
I've seen a couple of headlines around with Paolini's name, probably a publicity team trying to stir up interest and recognition more than anything. I think a NYT one was "He wanted a job with dragons, so he created one". C'mon NYT. He did not create the job of author who writes about dragons.
killing Paarthurnax locks the Dragonborn out of receiving the Radiant quests that point towards unclaimed Word Walls, and given that Dragon Shouts in Skyrim play a major role in combat, siding with Paarthurnax is the most valuable choice from a pure gameplay perspective. Ultimately, fans hope that Bethesda will introduce more layered choices in the next Elder Scrolls title, which is currently in early development.
I only played a little Skyrim back around its release, and I remember trying to role play as more lawful-good and avoiding quests that aided the demon things. If players want to role play and make choices that make the game more challenging, power to them. Even if they choose to role play someone who is bad and should feel bad, it's their playthrough. If they take bits of lore and expand on that in their heads so that Paarthurnax must be brought to justice, that's cool too.
Neither Galby nor Shruikan got the chance to even try to atone for whatever sins they committed.
It could be argued that Galby atoned through running a safe empire and maybe? was still trying to expose the eggs to potential partners. Binding Murtagh and Thorn doesn't support me there though. I'm hung up on the idea that Shruikan could have been an awesome secret partner to the other pairs, particularly the idea that he could have been the one to send away Saphira's egg so he wouldn't be forced to mate with her.
why did that one guy decide to turn himself into a nuclear bomb in the EGG HOUSE (thus killing the dragon eggs that didn't get chosen to go in the stupid vault) which also killed a whole bunch of Riders and only ONE Forsworn?
EGG-BREAKER. This is Paolini working backward from his assumptions instead of developing them. It is preferable that baby dragons trapped in their eggs be destroyed instead of fall into the hands of the foresworn! Because Evil! Nevermind that the eggs would still only hatch for the people they chose, or that 13 dragons were also rebelling against the Riders. The Good Guys thought it was worth committing an atrocity just to take out ONE guy! That shows how evil that one guy must be!