8 Video Games Mistakes The Fans Corrected
1. Alternate Start/Live Another Life - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The opening to Skyrim blew our socks off in 2011 and even today is still a great cinematic moment in gaming. However, having quite a rigid opening to a game that has so many different ways to play is counterintuitive in the long run.
Skyrim, like many fantasy RPGs, is enhanced by your own ability to roleplay. But every time you think of a new build you’re faced with the fact that you’ll have to wake up in that wagon once more and there’s only so many times you can watch that prisoner exclaim “you’re not gonna kill me” and suddenly forget how bows work.
Arthmoor's Live Another Life mod for Skyrim doesn’t just let you avoid this scene but gives you sixteen different openings instead. It’s not just generic spawn-points, each is themed around how you want your character to come into the story.
Were you shipwrecked? Are you a necromancer lurking in Skyrim’s depths? Your choice affects your tale moving forward as well as your loadout. You can start as a vampire, apprentice of a guild or even as Erik the Slayer’s childhood friend giving yourself a companion at the start.
The Elder Scrolls franchise is all about forging your own path and creating your own story so seeing a version that allows this from the get-go makes the vanilla game’s opening feel strangely restrictive.