Lydia is part of Balgruuf's family. She'd probably turn on you if you killed him.
Nice to see someone's having fun. Maybe, if you create your own merc band and take over Whiterun, the trap would work.
Lore-wise, she'd drop your burdens and turn on you if you killed her family. Which, it would probably be a massacre, since she'd probably be carrying all that awesome loot, and I'd imagine she'd probably use it on you. Imagine her coming at you with a high-level lightning staff you took from a dragon priest in one hand, and Dawnbreaker or the Mace of Molag Bal on the other, while wearing a set of Ebony Mail that you took from Boethiah's Champion and gave to her to carry.
No. Because they won't give me that kind of freedom even if Balgruuf wasn't an essential NPC. They'll just say ''THE THREAD OF DESTINY IS BROKEN, LOAD ANOTHER FILE'' or some corny shit if I killed him.
Greymane only comes to power if the Stormcloaks take the city. Balgruuf's soldiers will kill him if he tries to take the seat of Jarl. And even if he succeeds, what happens when someone kills him, and every other candidate for Jarl? Hell, with how dragons and vampires attack cities, it may not even be the player who kills Vignar. Some lucky dragon or vampire could do the deed.
No. I prefer that essential questgivers not die unless a story event makes them a target. Most of the RPGs I played did the same, and I had no problem with that.
Liking Skyrim is an unpopular opinion considering how loud its detractors are. Granted, the Skyrim fans outnumber the detractors, but the latter are louder and more autistic about arguing how bad Skyrim is.
Very loud. To the point where it's an accepted opinion in some forums. Even though, judging by the sales, Skyrim has way more fans.
If only he let those essential npcs die to the dragonborn. All of this could have been avoided.
My knee jerk reaction to reading criticism of MMBN is strong, but I can't deny it's a slog. The dungeons are subpar mazes with annoying puzzles, but everything else is still really solid or at least serviceable (story sucks but it's charming).
That ruined the series; with Awakening everything went downhill, they doubled down on relationship shit and it got more popular.
I don't like the way FE executes its shipping NOW where everyone can be shipped with everyone else regardless of actual compatibility. Older FE games (before Radiant Dawn) treated supports as ways to characterize because they had an interesting character dynamic to work with. You couldn't just pair up whoever with whomever. I'm using a Shadows of Valentia playlist as an example because it's a remake of an old game, but a lot of conversations in old FE are like this, not like in Fates onward where it kills the dramatic tension of the bigger plot.
