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* MemeticBadass: Lydia quickly became one. Though housecarls in general are pretty tough, Lydia is the one almost every player has.. She can survive being hurled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJhDoX9yf3o&feature=related off a mountain.]]
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* CompleteMonster: The Dominion. Fascist regime? Check. Forcibly conscripting two major races into slave labor where they're routinely horrifically abused? Check. Continuously harassing Empire-controlled nations, even ''after'' a peace treaty (that was ridiculously one sided in their favor), purely out of prejudice? Check. [[spoiler:One of their high ranking officials ''trying to destroy the world just to see if he could'']]? Check.
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*** The new design for the elves is heavily based on their appearance in Morrowind, especially the Dark Elves. Compare: [[http://videogamewriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/gldsnt_dunmer.jpg Morrowind]] [[http://deltagamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/642696-dunmer_super1.jpg Oblivion]] [[http://cdn.gamerant.com/wp-content/uploads/Skyrim-Playable-Races-Dark-Elf-Dunmer-2.jpg Skyrim]]

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: It's more of a case of who ''hasn't'' played the trailer over and over again just to hear the music.
** And then it was revealed that what we heard in the trailer was only ''part'' of Skyrim's main theme. [[http://soundcloud.com/bobbysolace/skyrim A user on the Bethesda forums pieced the two snippets together to give us an idea of what Sons of Skyrim might sound like in full]].
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3u9e0hwjWo second trailer]] features a slightly different mix. It's still awesome (''especially'' the overlapping dragon shout).
** And even moreso when the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvs18Y43cvA actual theme]] was released. Most likely it's only a live recording, and not the final cut.
** Finally, we have the actual, [[http://youtu.be/S44YlJFh8Sw ACTUAL full theme]]. Probably.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: It's more of a case of who ''hasn't'' played the trailer over and over again just to hear the music.
** And then it was revealed that what we heard in the trailer was only ''part'' of Skyrim's
The main theme. [[http://soundcloud.com/bobbysolace/skyrim A user on the Bethesda forums pieced the two snippets together to give us an idea of what Sons of Skyrim might sound like in full]].
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3u9e0hwjWo second trailer]] features a slightly different mix. It's still awesome (''especially'' the overlapping dragon shout).
** And even moreso when the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvs18Y43cvA actual theme]] was released. Most likely it's only a live recording, and not the final cut.
** Finally, we have the actual, [[http://youtu.
theme, ''[[http://youtu.be/S44YlJFh8Sw ACTUAL full theme]]. Probably. Sons of Skyrim]]''.


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** Let's just say the whole damn soundtrack and be done with it. They've even gone and lifted some [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Crowning Musics Of Awesome]] from the previous games without so much as a remix.
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*** Especially since Marriage is ''completely'' avoidable.
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** Attacking Lydia, Dragon Shouting Lydia, siccing Lydia on a dragon, watching a giant launch [[ButtMonkey Lydia]] into the air.

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** Attacking Lydia, Dragon Shouting Lydia, siccing Lydia on a dragon, watching a giant launch [[ButtMonkey Lydia]] into the air. And then, [[MemeticBadass watching Lydia get back on her feet.]]
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** Attacking Lydia, Dragon Shouting Lydia, siccing Lydia on a dragon, watching a giant launch [[ButtMonkey Lydia]] into the air.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMKJ9fDM2mo "VOICE AT-TACK!"]]
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** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM. Although this a much less common issue now, since Steam's been well established and doesn't have any of the bugs it once did (not to mention the automatic patching being a godsend for a series and genre known for being full of glitches on launch). It does require you to be logged on in order to play a nominally offline game, and one with no multiplayer mode to boot, however.

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** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM. Although this a much less common issue now, since Steam's been well established and doesn't have any of the bugs it once did (not to mention the automatic patching being a godsend for a series and genre known for being full of glitches on launch). It does require you to be logged on in order to play a nominally offline game, and one with no multiplayer mode to boot, however.
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*** This is a special case of FanDumb, as the Steam version of the game actually runs without Steam with no complaints whatsoever - just don't open Steam to get to the game!
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* GoddamnedBats: Necromancers. It isn't that they toss frost spells or summon skeletons, that's easy. It isn't that they come in packs, though that is more worrisome. No, the frustrating thing about necromancers is that they can ''revive each other''. And you always seem to miss ''one''.
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** Alva
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* DamnYouMuscleMemory: The interface is mostly the same as the gamebryo games (Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas), which can lead to a hapless player tripping themselves up. For instance, in the gamebryo games the Z key allowed you to grab and move items, which was quite useful for tidying up after you [[WreakingHavok inevitably knocked stuff off the shelves in your house]]. In Skyrim? Z controls your Shouts. Unrelenting Force in an enclosed space = stuff everywhere.
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* BetterThanItSounds: Meta example. The music director proposed that Skyrim's main theme be sung in dragon language by a barbarian choir. The reactions of the dev team? FlatWhat. The finished product? CrowningMusicofAwesome, as below.

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* BetterThanItSounds: Meta example. The music director proposed that Skyrim's main theme be sung in dragon language by a barbarian choir. The reactions of the dev team? FlatWhat. The finished product? CrowningMusicofAwesome, CrowningMusicOfAwesome, as below.
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* BetterThanItSounds: Meta example. The music director proposed that Skyrim's main theme be sung in dragon language by a barbarian choir. The reactions of the dev team? FlatWhat. The finished product? CrowningMusicofAwesome, as below.
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** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM. Although this a much less common issue now, since Steam's been well established and doesn't have any of the bugs it once did (not to mention the automatic patching being a godsend for a series and genre known for being full of glitches on launch).

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** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM. Although this a much less common issue now, since Steam's been well established and doesn't have any of the bugs it once did (not to mention the automatic patching being a godsend for a series and genre known for being full of glitches on launch). It does require you to be logged on in order to play a nominally offline game, and one with no multiplayer mode to boot, however.
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* EvilIsSexy: '''Astrid''', [[spoiler: "Matron" of the Dark Brotherhood]].
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** Try to listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFMkDYVe4l8 this theme]] without imagining yourself standing in a Norse lord's hall.

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** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM.

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** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM. Although this a much less common issue now, since Steam's been well established and doesn't have any of the bugs it once did (not to mention the automatic patching being a godsend for a series and genre known for being full of glitches on launch).
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*** AscendedMeme: The carrots now weigh .1 pounds.
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** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM.
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...Except that Steam is pretty much the best digital distrebution site ever. I use it for nearly all my PC games nowadays


** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM.
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** The fact that you're pretty much required to play the game on STEAM.
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* CoolVersusAwesome: A recent trailer has a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Nord]] fighting a dragon.

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* CoolVersusAwesome: A recent trailer has a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Nord]] fighting a dragon.
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** Finally, we have the actual, [[http://youtu.be/S44YlJFh8Sw ACTUAL full theme]]. Probably.
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--->Dragonborn Dragonborn\\

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--->Dragonborn --->Dragonborn, Dragonborn\\
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Dovahkiin, Fah hin kogaan mu draal

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Dovahkiin, Fah fah hin kogaan mu draal
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*** Not only did almost no one use them, but the Oblivion implementation was detrimental due to how level scaling works, since you ultimately would level far too quickly making the game much more difficult.
** People are still complaining about the lack of polearms. For reference, out of the five games in the series, only Morrowind had polearms, which were extremely unpopular due to them being horrendous weapons (two handed weapons that did less damage than most one handed weapons).
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*** Which leads to a bit of FridgeBrilliance: Elves are ''not'' human, so it makes sense that they have facial bone structures and features that are noticeably off the human norm.
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** While [[http://images.eurogamer.net/2011/articles//a/1/4/1/1/5/7/0/NorthernCoastAuroraPanorama01.jpg.jpg this screenshot]] contains some amazing SceneryPorn.

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