Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25563616-20141022060550/@comment-1600847-20150115201813

180.181.142.191 wrote: Emperor Maximus wrote: 70.192.153.254 wrote: My favorite thing about oblivion was that you were just a regular guy (or girl) that was going to serve your sentence in peace then boom, the ruler of the lands shows up and asks you to go along with him. I also really liked this, because in both Morrowind and Skyrim you were the hero from the prophecies, destined to defeat great evil and unite the land, which felt a bit too 'We want to make this RPG epic, so we're going to make the player an epic hero'. In OBlivion, you were an ordinary person who, by their own courage and great deeds, would become legendary. It made your character feel a lot cooler, because they were doing all these feats of strength by themselves, not because a prophecy said they would. I really like the idea of that, but I don't like it how Oblivion handled it. It makes no sense that just because the Emperor saw you in his dream allows you a possible enemy of the state run of with the Emperor and the get given probably the most valuable amulet in Tamrielic history even though you might just sell it. It strains credebility to point where it seems stupid. About the chosen one thing in Morrowind, what really makes you chosen. The Dragonborn has his shouts that make him special but the Nerevarine has...

Well to be fair, Uriel had a knack for picking out heroes... he was spot-on with the Hero of Daggerfall and the Nerevarine, after all.