Originally Posted by
gigawuts
Well, there's a lot of quest-related bugs that can occur. The reasons vary but the general cause is "this shit is complex and we couldn't plan for everything." So I've always felt they designed the game with the console in mind. Quite a few times I had to look up some commands and ID's for forcing a quest to the next stage, or wiping my progress and starting from scratch. One time my game would crash every single time I tried to load a dungeon, and I had to go there to progress through a quest. After a few hours of trying and failing everything else there was to do, I looked up that quest's info and just forced the quest ahead 2 stages. Then I proceeded as normal.
It's unfortunate, but it's the price we pay to have such an enormous and complex game world. I love it all the same.