User blog:DragonbornMAGE/What our decisions really mean.

We've all been in that situation in Skyrim (or any Elder Scrolls game really) where a decision between being good, or bad, had to be made. Alot comes in to play as to which side we choose, and it comes down to what we expect from the game. Even our day to day feelings come in to play, our day to day views on what is right and what is wrong. As soon as that decision is put in front of us, we take that pause, to think, to imagine, what might happen if we make the wrong, or hell, even the right decision.

You see, we all sub-conciously make the decision as to whether or not we'll be a good or bad character before we even start the game, but that decision haunts us the entire way through to the end of our character. I, myself, can remember playing on my "evil" character, and when I had to commit a crime (murder) I actually stopped myself, and thought of how it would affect the character's family, and how it would affect my character. Why do we do that? Why do we actually think about these things, rather than just doing them?

Well, that's simple, it's because of that attatchment to the game that we get, the feelings that come up when we do something, even something as simple as selling our favorite piece of armor. Most of the time, we just act in video games, say like in Call of Duty, we see an oppurtunity to be bad, and we take it! We don't think, we just take it! Yet when we play an Elder Scrolls game, we just stop for a moment, whether it be for one second, or thirty. Those feelings stem from our personal attatchment to that character and his/her life.

We're given the oppurtunity to be bad, without any real life consequences, so in all honesty, it kind of shows what kind of person you really are deep down. It's kind of like a game developer saying "what would you do if this same situation were presented to you in real life?" So you make the decision as if it were real life. Maybe some of you aren't like that, but if not, you can't call yourself a true fan of the game, in this case, Skyrim. What lead you to read this? Your fascination with The Elder Scrolls.

I understand this wasn't exactly an "amazing" blog post, but just a little something to get you thinking. I guess what I was trying to say in this was the fact that we all are attatched to our characters, mainly the ones we put so much time into. What if one day, you woke up, and that level 35 character that had JUST started to get really good, was gone? You'd hate that right? You'd be upset. That's because of that deep down emotional bond with that character, but that character, yah, that's you. That's you in the realm of Tamriel. That's you swinging that sword, launching that arrow, casting that spell, murdering that innocent man, stealing that citizens last bit of coin.