User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-67.181.35.151-20121102072407/@comment-3492791-20121102090314

That was simply born from neglect more than anything.

As i've said before, if the civil war got some love it could have been a really great questline to play through. Instead we got repetion after repetion after repetion (after repetion) trying to strong together the tiny parts of the questline they actually bothered with. The option to pick a side also feels completly meaning less considering that both sides are vitualy identical apart from who is yelling orders at you. The only two times they ever differed was the Battle for Whiterun and the initiation quests. (Seriously what was up with those? For Stormcloaks all you have to do is kill one Ice Wraith, but for the Empire you have to clear out an entire bandit gang from a military fortress).