User blog:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajacks? The Redundant Civil War.

Hello again fellow Kvatchies and Dragonborn's, 'tis I, the 97th Madman. And recently I have beguna new ranting  series, where I rant on stuff in the Elder Scrolls, and I am working on a title. In homage to a family guy episode, I shall call the series, "You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's?" If you have a better title, please state it below.

But that's not why you are here. You are here to read my rants and enjoy it too. And you know what really grinds my wabbajack's? The civil war in Skyrim.

Now here me out on this one. Many people will argue that the Civil War is vital to Skyrim to either crush the lawless Nord uprising or vanquish those faithless Imperials for the glory of Talos. Now that's all well and good. In fact I agree. Depending on your side, something must be done about the other. And at the end of it all, with Peace restored, you get this lovely message. "The Thalmor wanted this, you know."

.......WHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTT?!?!?!?!

That's it? That is the lasting impact the Civil War had? Granted the battles you had were nothing to write home about and the number of men you had to fight was probably a hundred on each side total. I can understand the game engine not being able to support thousands of npcs, something in which I am looking forward to in the Elder Scrolls Online with battling the players for Cyrodil, (Ebonheart Pact all the way), and I can roll with that. I didn't expect anything major anyway, but that is the problem. Unless you advance the questline yourself, the two sides just awkwardly sit at their camps and do nothing! Given the apparent turmoil in Skyrim, it doesn't look like its a crumbling nation on the verge of collapse from fighting. In fact, the civil war barely matters!

At the end of it all, no one freaking wins. Yeah a few guys are dead ad faith in Talos has been restored, so nothing really, but that's it! No one benifited from it, besides the new Jarls and the leader of whichever faction you chose, and no one cares! Skyrim is just about as peaceful as it always has been!

This is BS, it really is! The civil war offers you nothing for your troubles, besides maybe the guards calling you Ice Breaker when they should be bowing down to the almighty dragonborn who has graced them with their presence and saved Skyrim an infinite amount. All you get, "The Thalmor wanted this." Well, NO SH*T SHERLOCK. WE COULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT WITHOUT WASTING OUR TIME WITH THIS CIVIL WAR BULLCRAP! I mean, everyone knows that the Thalmor are the bad guys right? So why not fight them instead of eachother? I get that the Empire would not want to anger the Thalmor, but Skyrim doesn't care about the Empire anymore! Well, at least in my Skyrim it doesn't. Apparently, if you do either side of the Civil war quest the Thalmor suffers a set back because they don't want the Nords united under one banner. Could we see a little of that please? All the game has to do is when the battle for Solitude or Windhelm is all said and done and you are about to leave, have some Thalmor dude just come up to you and say really ominously, "This is not the end. MArk my words..." Wouldn't that be a lot better than just...whatever the ending to the war quest was? It just kind of ended, with no real wrap up, and grinds my wabbajacks even more to find that since no new DLCs are coming for Skyrim, so no oppurtunity for a real impacting event can take place. If anything, this quest should be to fight the Thalmor instead.

Yeah, and this better be in the Elder Scrolls 6, because so help me, if the Thalmor are completly dropped, you will all here about it!

Now, to conclude. Now I like the idea of a Civil War, in fact I think it necessary for the story. But it was just done all wrong. There is no impact shown by the civil war. In fact, people seem fine with it. It hardly affects the common folk at all. I want to see the things war can really do to the common people. For instance, have a hold declare martial law, or have more people on the streets, even so far as to them having to leave their town for another. Have conspiracy in the court, have Jarls plotting and scheming besides having them sit on their @$$'s the whole day. If you are going to do something on so large a scale as war, have it be a war, not a tiny riot of anarchists unhappy with the empire and wanting to take over the town.

Thank you for readinf, and keep an eye out for more wabbajack grinding in the future.