User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-1840877-20121101092852

Yep, agree entirely. The grey and gray morality is what made the Skyrim Civil War so much better, because it stepped away from the usual "good vs. evil" scenario you get in other games.

You know what's something Bethesda did that I think was really clever? When you walk into Solitude to join the Legion or Windhelm to join the Stormcloaks, you're confronted with something that might make you think twice about your choice. Walk into Solitude for the first time, and you see Roggvir being publicly executed simply for opening a gate; walk into Windhelm, and you see two Nords harassing a Dunmer woman with no-one -- not even the guards -- doing anything to stop it. It's like both events were put there to make you stop and think, "Wait, am I really doing the right thing by joining the Imperials/Stormcloaks?", which really does help drive home the moral ambiguity of the conflict. Genius, Bethesda. Simply genius.