[Nerfnow!!] Classic Fantasy vs Modern Fantasy
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More actual open world options that don't railroad players into suffering through self insert OCs would also be nice, too. While I never did figure out what the fuck that random guy in the cave was for in Morrowind the game was still shitty enough to fail you if you killed him and you had to reload. Seeing as how I had already completed the main story without ever even going near the cave it had me question why bother having such an npc be that vital to things if they clearly weren't vital in the slightest.
Part of the problem there then is having competent writers who can deal with players going that far off script as players often do.
You generally weren't locked out of main quest progression if you killed essential NPCs. There may have been an exception or two, but you could still pick up on the next step if you managed to find the thread.
Vivec made sense, you needed him to sort the God weapons and take out the big bad, but the guy I'm talking about was some, imo, random elf in a cave I had never met before in any playthrough. Killed him for whatever reason so "the threads of fate have been severed" screen came up prompting the reload. I still have no idea who the fuck that elf was or why he was important enough to warrant that when I could still go and complete the game and leave his hermit ass alone in the cave forever.