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I'm not sure I'd phrase it that way. Bethesda games tend to be very focused on telling the story of one particular area and game and going out of thier way to have the game refer to the last one as little as possible, because they don't want to invalidate anyone's personal experience by saying...

Going through Helgen, I was struck by how much Ulfric was mentioned, I suspect in an imperial playthrough the NPCs are not constantly worrying about the fate of general Tullis and pinning the empire's hopes on his survival. You fight an actual imperial torturer on the way out of Helgen, I feel...

Literally the first one I meet was a drug dealer, who when I questioned the legality of buying drugs off him, tried to kill me. At least I think that's what he was going to do. He said something about not having me go running to the guards and the conversion ended, but I was much faster on the...

Eh, that particular bit sounds like normal Bethesda "no one can do anything or solve anything without the PCs personal involvement" then anything more. I'm sure a bunch of the imperial holds have issues that are just as bad and just as unsolved.

That's actually sorta the problem, in that the imperial long game is way too long. Let's say that for reason, it takes them twice as long to train a soldier as the real roman empire, and that they can only train one legion at a time, also for reasons. IRL, Marius took 2 years to take an army...

That does not match what I've heard about Morrowind (or rather, I've heard the setting is great, but it's weighted down by an awful plot). Ok, so those two claims don't seem to align. Hammerfall only won because they had help from legionaries that were from hammerfall (not additional forces...

I calll em as I see them. It is a massive flaw in any narrative if you have to step away from the work itself and go dig through ancillary materials to understand the setting, which luckily I don't think is the case for TES. How many skyrim players do you think have played arena? So, how...

I'm pretty sure bethesda's intent with the setting was not "you have to have played this clunky Ultima Underworld clone from 25 years ago to understand the correct choice to make in the current game". Bethesda knows their games will attract people who's first experience with the setting is the...

The only other game in the series I've played is ESO, plus a rough understand of how the plot of Oblivion worked. For ESO, many of the threats you mentioned did indeed show up, and none of them required the entirety of Tamriel to band together and stop, few of them really even needed to be...

It's actually pretty timely, I'm just about to get around to playing skyrim, and I've been pondering the decision of who I want to side with for a while. That said, I think it's a mistake to phrase it as a matter of moral righteous, my understanding is that the game very intentionally paints...