Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-75.32.228.163-20130813170420/@comment-6948756-20131113134359

Skogarr wrote: Now, for something completely different, did any of you find the main quest annoying? If you ask me it was cliche as hell. "Oh, you're Dragonborn, save the world, bite Alduin's ballsack". Plus (breaking point for me, things like that annoy me as hell), looking for Esbern requires you to talk to Brynjolf and do the first quest for Thieves Guild. I wanted to do the Thieves Guild  questline after the main quest, from the first quest to the last. Same thing with Dawnguard and Collage of Winterhold. Technically, you don't need to start the Thieves' Guild. You're allowed to just start running through the Ratway. Also, you can skip your initiation for the College and head straight to Septimus.

Either that, or something is just wrong with my game that lets me do it.