I’ve done the Dark brotherhood, thieves guild and mage guild so far.

The last quest in thieves guild is hard work. Actual work and that’s the part I don’t like, add to that the way you get it done is based on a random generated task (that repeats itself!) and you get a lot of “wasted” (as in duplicate work) time.

The guards comments are the best: “Favor the bow? I’m more of a sword man myself” and “If I catch your hand in my pocket, I’ll cut it off”. And the general population will tell you if you have a disease.

But the best part is the books. I’m looking forward to reading them off-game (they’re available as an epub on the net). What are your thoughts about that btw?

@ Alphast:

I’ve been doing Brotherhood missions, and so far a lot of them have been really straightforward “kill that guy” missions. I guess they call them side-contracts because they don’t have over-arching plot (there are also plot driven ones in there). Being a stealth sniper thief, I have been breezing through them. Usual contract goes like this:

– arrive in town by night
– locate targets house
– pick the lock
– sneak in unseen
– put a single arrow in the sleeping target
– leave

Does not sound very exciting but it makes you feel like a bad-ass. I have not finished their quest-line yet but it’s getting interesting. Thieves guild has a pretty interesting story line as well.

I usually join all the factions and do all their quests. I will probably join the college of magic and do their quests for shits and giggles. In Oblivion I became an archmage knowing like four spells, with no points in any of the magic schools and almost no magica to speak off. It was kinda amusing.

Until now, I have stayed clear of most of the factions. I recently registered to be a Bard in Solitude, but that’s it. I have never been a Warrior Guild fan in previous games (too much boring hack and slash) for my liking, so I remained a stranger to the Companions. I will definitely register with the Thieves Guild though, and maybe the Legion too. I mean, the Imperials are arse holes, but they do represent law and order and they do protect Skyrim from the Thalmor nazis (at least in theory). I have yet to find a good reason to get along well with the Stormcloaks, but why not?

Until now, what has annoyed me the most was to get through the whole quest given by the Greybeards to find out that some “friend” had beaten me to it. I should have realized that quest was way too easy for my level. Nevertheless, the “friend” in question is going to have a rough time when I find him/her (and please don’t spoil it for me).