In all my 700 hours of play I still have never joined the Stormcloaks. Not that I am an Imperial fanatic, but the Nord Supremacists just don't really speak to me as a group.
In all my 700 hours of play I still have never joined the Stormcloaks. Not that I am an Imperial fanatic, but the Nord Supremacists just don't really speak to me as a group.
Funny that I'm the opposite; haven't managed to get more than halfway through the Imperial campaign, finished Stormcloaks four or five times.
I'd honestly have preferred an option to become High King. For a series that has the freedom to a lot as it's main feature I'm very disappointed we didn't get that option.
I too don't like the Stormcloaks not that much. I mean I dig the whole manly viking/highlander but when they tell my Argonian character that they are so much better than me. It's satisfying to bash their heads in with Volendrung.
Though to be honest the Civil War Questlines were pretty dull.
I always go with Ralof into the keep, if for no other reason than to kill that bitch Imperial captain.
Because fuck that rancid used cuntrag.
This was the thing that always annoyed me about Stormcloaks being popular.
These factions represent something, they have a cause, a backstory, a philosophy behind them, but at least a third of players go Stormcloak for no reason other than "I met an Imperial lady who was mean to me, so I'll kill all Imperials regardless of what beliefs it means I am swearing allegiance to."
This was the thing that always annoyed me about Stormcloaks being popular.
These factions represent something, they have a cause, a backstory, a philosophy behind them, but at least a third of players go Stormcloak for no reason other than "I met an Imperial lady who was mean to me, so I'll kill all Imperials regardless of what beliefs it means I am swearing allegiance to."
To be fair, the Imperials did screw over Skyrim so bad it's in a civil war, the Summerset Isles so badly it left then went to war with the Empire, along with it's cats and hippie cousins and then the Empire screwed over Hammerfell so bad it seceded in the middle of an Aldmeri invasion...
So mean Imperial Lady and Incompetent Sentry may as well be a reason as good as any other... Same goes for "Racist Stormcloaks" regardless of how they treat you badly (at first) even if you are a Nord.
To be fair, the Imperials did screw over Skyrim so bad it's in a civil war, the Summerset Isles so badly it left then went to war with the Empire, along with it's cats and cousin and then the EMpire screwed over Hammerfell so bad it seceded in the middle of an Aldmeri invasion...
But that's not the reasons people use. Those would be halfway reasonable reasons to join the Stormcloaks, although I don't think they're the best ones.
You're basically complaining that someone on the losing side of a war that was forced to make concessions in a peace treaty followed through with those concessions. The concessions were even explicitly demanded so that the elf-nazi actual villains could use it to force that civil war to futher weaken the empire and lead to their next genocidal war being easier to pursue. Helping divide the only nation really capable of standing up to the elf-nazi threat even further isn't really doing any good.
The problem is that people are choosing a faction without any reason at all other than "I chose to pick a side based upon the first mean lady I met", and would have picked the Imperial side for the exact same reason if they reversed which side was mean to you in the opening cutscene without changing anything else in the balance of what factions represent what. (In fact, I firmly believe Bethesda made you face a mean Imperial specifically because everyone was going to pick Imperial and it wouldn't seem like much of a choice at all if it weren't for adding in that mean Imperial to swing people dramatically over towards the Stormcloak side.)