DJOGamer PT
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Elder Scrolls ... are all highly nihilistic, generally viewing no one as truly good.
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Oblivion and Skyrim are very "black & white"
That's even been one of the decline aspects long-time fans of the series been criticizing Bethsoft, for 2 decades now
And Morrowind isn't nihilistic either, the entire continent is drenched in tradition, and the conflict of the main quest revolves on the interpretations of a religious prophecy
Besides no one but God is "truly good", but just because someone or something isn't truly good doesn't make it nihilistic or evil (or that there is no good)
Fuck, not even the Elves in the LotR are truly good, with their fair share of petty conflicts and cruelties, but you wouldn't call the LotR nihilistic now would you?
Morrowind is simply trying to make Tamriel a grounded and believable place, and it does that by introducing flaws and contradictions like we find in or own world
but still often showed knights as either bullies or dunces
You're being unfair mate
Alot of them are also honrable and noble, and even amonsgt the dunces there are good men
KDC is great in regards to historical authenticity, it's like the videogame equivalent of Rome
These men were warriors, not sages or scholars
But fighting men struggling to mold themselves to a very complicated ideal (even moreso than the Samurai Bushido IMO)
Some could, others couldn't, and others were a work in progress...
The medieval romance has been a subject of mockery for centuries (re Cervantes) so it's almost impossible to find a depiction of knights and chivalry anymore that is anywhere close to idealized.
The majority of people by Cervantes time already had a retarded notion of what "Chivalry" meant for a long time
Cervantes wasn't mocking the ideal, he was poking fun at the highly popular genre of chivalric novels of the time (that by his own admission he loved), that had gotten very stale and clichéd and were also written by authors that ultimately didn't really get what a Knight was supposed to be
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