Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Supafly345]

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Finally, that long forgotten feeling of excitement for a new game has come over me at last. Skyrim or the Summerset Isle was what I was hoping for, and I couldn't be more pleased. Mos def getting myself this for next christmas.

[Fathom Zero]

Didja ever get New Vegas? I can't remember.

And yeah, I'm excited. I had a ton of fun with Oblivion and Morrowind blew my freakin' mind. I hate the fantasy genre and even I like the Elder Scrolls games.

[Supafly345]

No, I don't think I am going to play new vegas. Every screen of it I can't really tell apart from Fallout3. Not that its a bad thing, but I probably would have played it by now if it was just an expansion.

[Fathom Zero]

It's what everyone wanted Fallout 3 to be.

I highly recommend it, especially since I've beat Fallout 3 about as many times over as you, I'd wager.

My favorite part of Skyrim's announcement is that they won't be using the Gamebryo engine anymore. Yay.

[Supafly345]

I'm playing fallout right now!

And yeah, it sounds to be as different from oblivion as oblivion was from morrowind. I hope to have a fancy new expirience exploring a snow-filled world.

[Fathom Zero]

I just hope I don't see people with weird dwarf skeletons and shit. And I want more traps and environmental things. Those were neat in Oblivion.

[Zomboid]

Yaaaaaay. I play the shit out of these games. Not as much as Supafly, but a lot. GOOD NEWS, HOMIES!

[Supafly345]

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[Dr. Boogie]

I never really got into the Elder Scrolls series, mostly on account of the leveling up system (and later, on account of the awful monsters-level-as-you-do system). I know regular xp schemes aren't exactly true to life, but I still prefer them to grinding skills and jumping in place.

[Immortal Goat]

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Yeah, that was about my reaction to it, too :love

[Supafly345]

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BEHOLD THE WONDER THAT IS SKYRIM

[executioneer]

it's pretty good but i'm starting to think i should turn the difficulty back to normal, i keep getting murdered by shit

[kahljorn]

the only thing i hate about these games is i never know what to specialize in :(

TOO MANY FUCKING CHOICES

AND NOW THEYVE MADE IT SO YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE EVEN MORE FUCK YOU SKYRIM

[AChimp]

I'm totally getting this game. ;(

[Pentegarn]

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BEHOLD THE WONDER THAT IS SKYRIM

:lol

It's like throwing a cloth over a birdcage.

[MarioRPG]

I'll admit I liked that video. it's the perfect crime.

[k0k0]

I am not liking how they took out a lot of skills, like acrobatics. I used to like being able to get it so high that I could jump up onto houses and shoot arrows at people from their own house.

[Supafly345]

I don't buy games new at full price, but I can say I'm amongst the most excited. Also my xbox is broke, so I have to wait anyway.

[k0k0]

Being a werewolf sucks! I mean, it's cool because you're a werewolf, but you can't use any potions or pick anything up. Which means when I fight hard shit as a werewolf, there's no way to sustain myself.

[Dr. Boogie]

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lol physics

[Fathom Zero]

It looks like just as much fun as Oblivion was.

[k0k0]

MeWYN2xiyRo

lol physics

Yeah, it's not just the guards. Every time a giant has killed me, I've ended up flying through the air.

[kahljorn]

do you splatter when you hit the ground?

cause that would be fairly awesome

[ThrashO]

I was huge into fallout 3. I logged +200 hours into the game, collected everything, did every quest, killed everyone it was ridiculous how much I played the game. I knew where everything was almost by heart.

Before playing Fallout 3 I used to watch my room mate play Oblivion, and when I played fallout it almost seemed like a sci-fi expansion to Oblivion.

Now my room mate is playing Sky Rim and it looks so fucking awesome. Mainly because everything about it reminds me of Fallout 3. It looks like (because it basically is) an enhanced and updated Fallout 3 engine, and I know when Fallout 4 comes out, If I've played the hell out of Sky Rim, it's going to make the experience not as awesome :(

I'm torn, because Sky Rim looks rad as shit.

[kahljorn]

your logic is faulty! If skyrim is badass even though it is the successor to fallout 3, then fallout 4 will be badass even though it is the successor to skyrim.

[Pentegarn]

Kahl's logic however, is flawless. I plan to get it once I have spar change for it, and so too should you

[k0k0]

Yeah, everyone who likes these types of games should get it. It's excellent. I'm a werewolf lizard (right now looking for a vampire so I can be a vampire werewolf lizard).

Edit: Nevermind, can't be both.

But I am still enjoying it. Although the graphics aren't as improved as I had once thought, they are very good.

[AChimp]

I apparently stole something from some guy named Fodnar (who I don't think I've even met yet) and he sent this death squad after me and while I was fighting them the peasants got mad at me and started fighting me, too.

I had to run into the middle of no where so I could murder them all without getting a crazy bounty put on my head. :(

[OxBlood]

I´m amazed at the ammount of stuff I can do in this game. I´ve played for around 25, 30 hours and I´ve only been to two major cities, one of which was Winterhold so it doesn´t even count since it mainly consists of the academy.

And...yeah, I can stop thinking about the GOTY for this year, there´s no topping this, not even Saints Row 2 can do that.

[Zomboid]

I apparently stole something from some guy named Fodnar (who I don't think I've even met yet) and he sent this death squad after me and while I was fighting them the peasants got mad at me and started fighting me, too.

I had to run into the middle of no where so I could murder them all without getting a crazy bounty put on my head. :(
Yeah, someone did the same thing to me, but I think that he had a different name. I had a bounty on me at the time for accidentally shouting at someone in Whiterun, so I had to float downstream to find a spot to murder them.

Also, I did not expect to use archery this much, but it's great.

[executioneer]

yeah like 50% of the things I kill now die with an arrow thru their head. sneak+archery, hooray!

[Fathom Zero]

I wanted archery to be better than Oblivion's and I was not disappointed. Love the bow I enchanted m'self.

[k0k0]

I am an archer also! I was going twin daggers at first, but after I got my first few bow sneaking kills, I just threw down my daggers and am bow only now. Even if they're super close to me.

I love doing my whirlwind sprint through the town and then backtalking the guards. I laugh every time the "Too bad! There's more where that came from!" dialogue choice pops up. They never do anything.

[kahljorn]

I love sneak attacks with daggers.

I pretty much one shot everything and my sneak is so high they cant even find me. bows are cool too though.

[Dr. Boogie]

Is unarmed worth specializing in? Because I tried it in Oblivion and it was a disaster.

[kahljorn]

umm well i dont think there is an unarmed specialization instead there's an unarmed perk in heavy armor which adds the armor value of your glovesto your attacks

[Zomboid]

I love smithing. I've got a pretty awesome set of Elven armor that I improved myself, and my giant battle axe has also been upgraded. I've started enchanting, too.

[kahljorn]

man i already want to make other characters

[Zomboid]

Me too. I'm kinda dabbling in everything, just to get a feel for it, but I want to play as a mage next. There are some reeeeally cool spells.

[k0k0]

I became a cannibal today. So now I'm a cannibal lizard werewolf. Only thing I hate about it is having to select to eat the corpse or not before being able to loot a body. More stuff to click through, but it's ok.

[Sam]

I'M A WEREWOLF CATMAN.

ALSO BEING A WEREWOLF ISN'T THAT GREAT AND I IMMEDIATELY REGRETTED MY DECISION TO BECOME ONE. :(

[k0k0]

Werewolf is a bit better now that I kind of figured it out. But I never use it because I like to sneak and shoot arrows more. I do sometimes just turn into a werewolf and kill a whole city, then reload.

[Sam]

The only time I used it I got fucked by ELVES.

[k0k0]

Just found out you can get married. I'm off to marry the leader of my cannibal group if I can.

[Zomboid]

I wanna marry that sexaaaay Huntress chick in the companions. WEREWOLF SEX! RRRRROOOOW!

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Look at the description. Sick.

[Sam]

Oh man brah, I could totally go for some werewolf minge, I'd even share it with my brahs, we could Golden Gate some broads, brah.

[Dimnos]

your logic is faulty! If skyrim is badass even though it is the successor to fallout 3, then fallout 4 will be badass even though it is the successor to skyrim.

Yeah. By the time Fallout 4 comes out they will have done even more bad ass stuff to it than this.

[k0k0]

I'm not happy with the dragonscale armor. It's worse than the exquisite glass that I'm wearing... and you can't upgrade the dragon stuff. So I wasted the smithing skill points for nothing.

[Zomboid]

There's a really cool quest near Dawnstar, in a lighthouse. Probably my favorite one so far.

Also, I got an ebony bow, upgraded my archer skills, and took the 3x sneak damage perk, so I kill a lot of shit in one shot (if I'm sneaking).

[k0k0]

My favorite quest so far hasn't really been a quest, but a moment. Where you're about to grab a treasure chest in this one cave and the floor falls out from under you. Then you're trapped in a cage at the bottom of it. Some mad torturer is outside the cage talking to you. I kind of wish I wouldn't have picked the lock when he turns around, then backstabbed him. I really was interested in what he was going to do.

I really love that Dovahkiin song. Every time I fight a dragon and it pops up, it makes what would normally be a meh dragon fight seem really fucking cool. It gets my blood pumping and I'm singing it for 10 minutes after I've killed the fucker.

[kahljorn]

my favorite part so far is when i made a new character who uses two handed weapons and i killed two people in a row with one hit then killed the last dude by stabbing him through his stomach :(

also on my other sneaky character when i had to fight this robot thing and it was destroying me so i would just run away, hide, come back and backstab him.. did that 3 times and it died.

[OxBlood]

What I like are all those Indiana Jones-Moments in the temple. Walk up to a door, notice the floorplate, carefully evade it, jump over the gap, approach the price...there´s a trap there, you know it, you can see the spikes in the ground, the arrowtraps in the walls but you´re ready, you´re too quick AND you´re prepared for all the undead that will pour out of their coffins once you snatch the treasure :) Top that off with a nice dragonpries-fight and another mask is MINE! :)

[Pentegarn]

I really want to get Skyrim but I am waiting till Xmas, either someone will get it for me, or I will get gift certs and buy it that way. I can't wait to join the bucket on my victim's head thief legion.

[Emu]

is this game less boring than oblivion because fuck that game

[Fathom Zero]

Significantly less boring. Though, the same in many, many ways.

[ThrashO]

yeah thats why I didnt play Oblivion. It looked too boring, yet I was attracted to Fallout 3 because peoples heads came apart in slo-mo.

[kahljorn]

i cut peoples heads off in slow motion

[executioneer]

yeah it's got the slomo finishing move shit in it

also, dragons show up at random times accompanied by ominous music

and giants that can kill you so hard your corpse enters the lower stratos

[executioneer]

AND ALCHEMY, OH GOD SO MUCH ALCHEMY

[k0k0]

Today was my first time in a situation where two dragons were in the same area. It was actually difficult for once fighting them, as one was a blood dragon and one was a frost dragon.

[AChimp]

I sworded a dragon to death and it showed me jumping on it's back and hacking away at its neck while it thrashed around and shit. :O

[kahljorn]

one time there was two dragons flying around and they killed each other for me basically. the one that didn't die's health was so low i just fucked its face

[Zomboid]

I sworded a dragon to death and it showed me jumping on it's back and hacking away at its neck while it thrashed around and shit. :O
Yeah, that happened to me for the first time the other day, and it was preeeetty awesome. I also thoroughly enjoy the decapitation kills with my battleaxe.

[k0k0]

Right now I'm doing the archer thing, but I just hit 100 skill in archery. You think I'd die super quick if I just now start working on one handed skill at level 38?

[executioneer]

maybe try softening up tougher baddies with a sniper shot or two first, don't just use melee on draugr death-lords or briarhearts

[k0k0]

Lately all I am starting to see are deathlords. I mean, they have scourges there too, but I can't even melee them without dying. I've been hiding in the shadows and shooting dudes up for so long that my light armor skill is only at 46 despite my level.

[executioneer]

Lately all I am starting to see are deathlords. I mean, they have scourges there too, but I can't even melee them without dying. I've been hiding in the shadows and shooting dudes up for so long that my light armor skill is only at 46 despite my level.
start payin' for training, then? you can train up to 5 points per level, which will also level you up faster

maybe get a shield / work on blocking too

[k0k0]

I didn't think about paying for training. I totally forgot that you could train. And seeing how I have 70k gold sitting in my pockets that just keeps building with every trip out of the house, I can definitely use it. I just hope that once I hit 50 or so, the enemies aren't scaled so high that I can't even kill them. I'm sure I won't hit that level for a while though.

[executioneer]

so has anyone figured out what the fuck "ravage" poisons do aka ravage health / ravage magicka / ravage stamina

it's not damage over time, that's "lingering damage"
there's also "damage regeneration" which just cancels all/part of the normal regeneration and just plain "damage" which just does damage once.

does ravage like reduce the maximum amount or something?

[Pentegarn]

I'M A WEREWOLF CATMAN.

ALSO BEING A WEREWOLF ISN'T THAT GREAT AND I IMMEDIATELY REGRETTED MY DECISION TO BECOME ONE. :(

Why, did this happen?

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[b_squared]

I'm gifting this to my son for his birthday on Friday and now I want to keep it.
He has been watching you tube videos of skyrim all week.
He mentioned two easter eggs he saw on you tube. One is a minecraft EG, something about a pickaxe on the highest mountain, the other is a starwars EG. I guess you find a skeleton hanging from the ceiling of an ice cave.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I just rented it. Hopefully its not that good

[executioneer]

i think i'm done w. skyrim for a while now, i beat the main quest + am now the head of like four different organizations

even though there's still SO MANY QUESTS TO DO

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I ended up buying it. I got attacked by some wolves that had some epic music when they were coming at me in the woods, ended up just being attacked by an assassin at the same time.

I guess the reason I've been getting killed and equestrianed to death is because it was on master difficulty.

[Guitar Woman]

I think I made a bad choice when I picked Archery as my go-to combat skill; even with a glass bow and 4 levels in the Overdraw perk it's like all of my arrows are made out of NERF foam.

It doesn't matter so much since I can basically stay hidden indefinitely and pick off every enemy with crit shots, but that gets fucking boring after a while, and of course I'm completely worthless against dragons.

Also, fighting with the Stormcloaks is more fun than I thought it'd be. The early quest where you sack Whiterun was fucking awesome.

[Guitar Woman]

Hey, so, does Skyrim scale its difficulty with your level? It sure feels like it. I'm trying to level up my magic disciplines, but every dungeon I visit, even on noob quests, is full of fucking insanely powerful shit that I have a hard time beating even with the weapons I'm good at.

I certainly will not resort to altering combat difficulty, since that's for pussies

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I read that there is some arrow glitch where you draw back your bow then arrows go right to the ground. I've hit a few things but most of the time they *plunk* to the ground five feet ahead of me.

[executioneer]

Hey, so, does Skyrim scale its difficulty with your level? It sure feels like it. I'm trying to level up my magic disciplines, but every dungeon I visit, even on noob quests, is full of fucking insanely powerful shit that I have a hard time beating even with the weapons I'm good at.

I certainly will not resort to altering combat difficulty, since that's for pussies
yeah it kind of does. it's not as bad as it was in oblivion, but it's still pretty annoying.

[timrpgland]

I have a level 39 orc only so far. He's focused on One handed weapons, smithing (100), enchanting, heavy armor and blocking (100). The rage power is awesome. Leveling up my other skills more now.

It's damn fun and better than Oblivion.

[AChimp]

Skyrim will adjust the difficulty of new areas that you visit to be at or slightly above your current level. Old areas seem to stay at whatever level you were when you first went there.

So, if you're looking to level up some crappy combat skills in new zones, you might have a hard time. :(

[executioneer]

so basically "go everywhere in stealth mode/while invisible, without fighting anything if possible, then actually clear shit out" is the ideal strategy?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Thats what I'm doing as a khajit thief person. level 20 with, smithing at lvl 65 so I could improve the thief gear.

[Esuohlim]

ARROW TO THE KNEE! ARROW TO THE KNEE! ARROW TO THE KNEE! ARROW TO THE KNEE!

Thank you Skyrim my facebook is now 54% more retarded than normal lately.

[kahljorn]

so i heard that FUS RO DAH thing is some kind of meme now

why

[executioneer]

because the draugr use it against you a lot idk

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I just found out about the thieves guild marks on houses and that some are protected and I shouldn't steal from them. oh wells

[kahljorn]

i didnt know that

:lol

[Zomboid]

I read that dude's book about that, but I've never even noticed those.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I guess there are different markings showing if a house is ripe for the picken, some houses are protected, some are shown as dangerous and other stuff.

I'm level 20 trying to do the thieves guild stuff first, I still have to go meet the graybeards.

I need to increase my alchemy so I can make those potions that let you temp increase your carrying load so you can quick travel.

[Zomboid]

Fuck potions. Potions are for pussies.

I have so much gold that I've stopped picking up items to sell. Once you hit like 60k, you kinda don't need to worry about it anymore. I've currently got something like 115k.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

After killing dragons and getting their bones when overloaded takes FOREVER to walk anywhere.

Killed a dragon at ancients ascent, then overload walked to falkreath....seriously took about half an hour of plodding on. Got through two beers just walking there. Felt like my thumb was going to fall off by holding up for that long.

[Zomboid]

Yeah, those bones were such a fucking burden. I started just putting them in my Whiterun house and then stopped after I had about 15 of each. I think that was enough to get both sets of armor. I might've had to go kill another dragon, but they pop up everywhere now anyway.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Any money I've gotten so far has been put into iron dagger crafting, I need to buy a house and do some important things. I've roamed around pretty much since starting the game.

I want to put perks into light armor forging but everywhere I read says to put it onto heavy to get daedric armor instead.

[kahljorn]

shouldnt it depend on whether you want to wear heavy or light armor?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I want to wear light armor but even all the other thief people I've talked to say to perk up smithing heavy armor then also perk up heavy armor itself to the point where heavy armor weighs nothing. Just seems like too many perk points to waste.

[MattJack]

Had a 40 thief, then had to format my PC :(

Now I'm going an odd hybrid orc tank mage.

Dunno if you guys have mentioned it in this thread, or know about it, but there are some really rad mods for the game. I've been "updating" my graphics because the game should look better to begin with, I think.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/ - Get some sweet mods.

[darkvare]

so what is this arrow to the knee thing all about?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Its one of the defaults guards line something along like

"i used to be an adventurer like you until I took an arrow to the knee."

Its kind of a specific thing to happen to someone but its a general line in the game

[Dr. Boogie]

Pretty much that.

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It makes it seem like the safety of the Elder Scrolls world is maintained by a legion of limping guardmen who are all the victims of history's most prolific knee-capper.

[AChimp]

Those guards can run fast for cripples. :(

BTW I found that tomb with the guy who has to locked in the cage and talks about how he's going to kill you as soon as he finds something. I waited around to see what happens because I read about it here... he eventually finds what he's looking for and then he fireballs the fuck out of you. I have like 90% fire resist and I still died in about three blasts.

I'm Level 48 now with maxed out heavy armor, block and one hander skill. 100 level block perk make people fly 50 feet into the air and lay on the ground like they just got run over by a semi.

[darkvare]

damn them arrows seem to be knee seeking missiles

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Finally started using daggers for sneak attack moves. My dagger has flame attack on it. Got the throat slit animation kill cam then his body set on fire too. fucking pimp style

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I think because I chose to play as a lady cat I gotta marry a guy now instead.

[Fathom Zero]

you could prolly marry another lady cat

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I read somewhere that you can't marry any cat people. Prob cuz they're jerks.

[executioneer]

it's because cat people run
run like the wind

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

that means we are all jerk winds

[Nick]

it's because cat people run
run like the wind
cat people screw
screw like the wind

[Pentegarn]

I finally bought it with my xmas samolians. Been playing it for the last 2 days. I am concentrating on a dark elf who relies heavily on destruction magic. I am a big fan of the kite and drop runes technique. Just killed some named undead doing that. Fighting dragons is no picnic so far though, I do the bolt and duck technique against them

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Finally restored the Thieves Guild to its former glory....now I can go meet the graybeards.

[Zomboid]

That shit took way longer than I wanted it to. Fucking annoying.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

yeah, I'm level like fucking 31 because of it.

[Pentegarn]

Interesting, I breezed through the Mage College quests and only hit 17 from that (now they have to live with a level 17 arch-mage, how's that taste?). I might go through the dark brotherhood stuff next since I absolutely loved killing Gersomething the Kind. That was a bit of hilarious. She was all "Blah blah blah you little brats nobody wants" and I was all "Hi bitch, meet a firebolt and icebolt spell at the same time" And the kids were all "Ding dong the witch is dead!":lol

[Pentegarn]

What I like best about disintegration: Turning a dragon into a small pile of ash

What I like least about disintegration: Some things get bugged when they are turned into ash and are supposed to not be, like the three undead from the Gauldur Amulet quest

[AChimp]

Almost level 59.

I've done pretty much everything now. I've got a couple more areas to explore, then I'm going to power through the main plot.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

What I like least about disintegration: Some things get bugged when they are turned into ash and are supposed to not be, like the three undead from the Gauldur Amulet quest

I only have one piece of that so far, I still have to go into the ruins in the north but don't have a key for the entrance.

Is it worth it?

[Phoenix Gamma]

Go it for Christmas.

This game is doritos. You try some, then the next thing you know, you've had way too many, and you look at yourself in the mirror and remind yourself that you're sitting at home eating shitty food instead of going outside and doing something worthwhile. Then you eat more shitty food anyways because you can't stop.

The game part of the game blows. Combat requires no skill on the player's part beyond having bigger numbers, and the game is as structurally stable as my grandmother. I'm not saying other games have perfect programming, I'm just saying I've never played a $60 game where I got stuck in the ground repeatedly in my first 3 hours of playtime before. Bethesda can't code for shit and I'm a little pissed that they get away with sloppy products over and over.

The story kinda sucks too. The only reason I've put in the 14 hours I have so far is because it's fun to exploit the silly mechanics. And because there were brief moments where legitimately cool battles have played out (I angered a large group of bandits. Then a dragon came mid battle. I had Lydia and those two farts who start the Blades with me, so it was actually a very large fight).

But as soon as a better game comes along, Lyndis' lesbian warlord adventure is coming to an end.

[Chojin]

stealth is actually done pretty well in the game imo. at first i seriously outclassed enemies and could stealth right in front of them, but now i'm back to hiding in shadows and running up behind people only.

the AI's reaction to bows is still pretty stupid though

THUNK
OH GOD THOROMIR'S DEAD WHO DID THAT
THUNK
OH GOD AN ARROW IN MY FACE THAT ALMOST KILLED ME
WHERE IS THAT GUY
...
hmm, must have been my imagination
*sees dead body*
i'm gonna kill whoever did this!
*reads a book*

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:lol

Its evrn worse when you have like a fire bow. Then it turns into

OH GOD THAROMOR IS DEAD! AND HE'S ON FIRE!

OH WELL. BACK TO STEALING SWEAT ROLLS.

[Pentegarn]

I only have one piece of that so far, I still have to go into the ruins in the north but don't have a key for the entrance.

Is it worth it?

It gives you 30 stamina, 30 magicka, 30 health, so yes, unless you have something better anyway

[AChimp]

Yeah, it's good until you craft yourself a +47% damage dual enchant amulet for one-handers and bows. :posh

[Pentegarn]

That shit (Thieves Guild) took way longer than I wanted it to. Fucking annoying.

Just wrapping it up myself and I thought it was a pretty interesting story anyway, though it is long. But that has always been the case in this series.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Yeah, it's good until you craft yourself a +47% damage dual enchant amulet for one-handers and bows. :posh

That's what I want.

[OxBlood]

I still can´t decide what character to play after I finish my Mage-run (kind of fed up with the restrictive new magic system)...

What to pick...archer or melee...and if melee...one handed, two handed or dual-wield...hm.

[Zomboid]

I've got a mage now, but my first guy used two-handed axes for melee and bows for long-rage. Reeeeally effective!

[kahljorn]

two-hnders are pretty ridiculous. i was one shotting shit constantly

[Zomboid]

Same here. I pretty much just wandered around and killed everything in one or two hits. Even more effective when you have enough smithing and enchanting skill to significantly boost the damage output.

[Guitar Woman]

So am I the only one who just wore the Nightingale Armor for the entire game? I replaced the gloves with some bracers that buffed my archery, and swapped the cowl out with one of those dragon wizard guys' masks, but other than that it never came off. That huge mask looks kinda retarded on my rake-thin vampire wood elf, like I could fall over from topheavyness at any second, but I value stats over aesthetics. It's a bit silly that people can still tell I'm a vampire through my full-body stealth outfit, but I can suck their blood through solid metal so I guess it's a fair trade.

Also, vampirism is a hassle as usual and none of the powers you get are very useful, especially since I already had a huge racial resistance to poison and disease. At least you can actually play the game as a vampire, though; it's not equivalent to being a paraplegic leper like in Morrowind. I guess I could look for a cure quest or try and find some special quests that only vampires get, but I think I'm done with Skyrim for a while.

Was lots of fun, can't wait for Fallout 4 to build on it. I also can't wait for the next Elder Scrolls game, since all the countries that haven't been focused on yet sound cool as fuck, especially Elsweyr. It and Valenwood are pretty small and right next to each other, so I bet they could even be put into one game.

[Pentegarn]

So am I the only one who just wore the Nightingale Armor for the entire game?

I have been and still am wearing the arch-mage robes. Since I lean heavily on fireballing everything I see I kind of need them

[OxBlood]

Same here, I wore them since I got them, along with the best Destruction-cost-reducers I can enchant...Casting 200Mana Spells with 350 Mana is just stupid...and no, I´m not Altmer, I´m Argonian ;)

[kahljorn]

with my stealth character im wearing a mix of assassins/thieves guild and some other things to boost sneak and sneak damage but on my heavy armor two hander dude i made almost everything ;/

[AChimp]

Beat the game. End boss is a joke.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

So am I the only one who just wore the Nightingale Armor for the entire game? I replaced the gloves with some bracers that buffed my archery, and swapped the cowl out with one of those dragon wizard guys' masks, but other than that it never came off. That huge mask looks kinda retarded on my rake-thin vampire wood elf, like I could fall over from topheavyness at any second, but I value stats over aesthetics. It's a bit silly that people can still tell I'm a vampire through my full-body stealth outfit, but I can suck their blood through solid metal so I guess it's a fair trade.

The first thing I did in the game was go thieves guild to get nightingale armor. I use the Krosis(sp) mask I got from killing the dragon priest near the place where you get the FALMER EYES.

It looks real dumb but it has +ARCHERY +LOCKPICKING +SNEAKING or something like that so its a fit.

Want to do Assassins guild next. Statwise the JESTER(or JOKER)equipment looks great but I don't know what it looks like yet and sounds like it looks terrible.

[Guitar Woman]

Krosis
That's my favorite mask too :D

Also that vampire cure quest was really easy. I was expecting an epic journey like what you have to do in Oblivion, but the hardest part was getting that wizard guy's AI to not bug out so that he'd actually show up at the summoning circle.

Beat the game. End boss is a joke.
Yeah he is; I don't think he even hit me. Even Elder Dragons are more of a pain than Alduin was.

[AChimp]

I was expecting some Yub Nub Jedi shit for saving the world, but all I got was a bunch of dragons saying "Thanks, that guy was an asshole. Well, see you later, I guess..."

[Pentegarn]

Want to do Assassins guild next. Statwise the JESTER(or JOKER)equipment looks great but I don't know what it looks like yet and sounds like it looks terrible.

It looks pretty much like Ciphero's (or is it Cicero? I forget) outfit I think.

My new favorite kill animation was when I decided to fight a giant with a dagger, it was a hamstring his leg then follow up by putting the dagger through his chin as he goes to a knee. Solid.

[Dr. Boogie]

Bifmj1O3D24

:love mod community

[zerothree]

I saw that Macho Man mod video on another site this morning, so rad.. It almost makes me want to play Skyrim... Almost.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I decided to make a thief named Robin Banks because my lesbian warrior just got too strong and basically decapitates everything and I got bored trying to grind to lv 50. I've fought two different dragons in almost every major town and they aren't even exciting anymore. I think the only challenge I had was when I accidentally stumbled into Krosis and a dragon at the same time.

It's a lot more fun to be a douchebag because you get way better shit than trying to be a good person. I did feel weirdly depressed offing that one princess at the wedding for some reason and felt really uncomfortable with myself when I was eating dinner. I know Robin Banks didn't give a fuck but why do I feel sad about killing someone after spending like 30 hours decapitating people? :(

[OxBlood]

Because that princess was your target and not just trash you wade through on your way to more riches. You knew who she was more or less and I guess she didn´t fight back ;)

By the way:
"It's a lot more fun to be a douchebag because you get way better shit than trying to be a good person."

I think this was written on a stone tablet in ancient times as one of the definite truths about nature and human society :)


My Orc-Dude is coming along nicely, having heavy armor and two-handed as my main skills means I never have to pay anything for my combat training, thank you, stupid Companions :)
My only problem now is that I need a lot of Daedra Hearts and I can´t get into Winterhold Academy cause I´m NOT gonna invest anything into magic with this character...so I guess I´ll have to use the museum-method for farming hearts...ah well, I´ve never been to Dawnstar before, might as well take a look at it.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

You can go to the Meruhns dagon shrine to farm for daedra hearts. The enemies respawn there every 2(maybe?) days. They drop daedra hearts.

[Zomboid]

I think that's what he meant by museum-method. I believe you have to go to the museum before they even spawn at the shrine; I know that when I went to the shrine randomly, there wasn't anybody there.

[AChimp]

I had daedra hearts coming out of every hole in my body. Once you reach Level 50 they seem to fall out of the sky. You only need like 5 of them to craft all the gear you need. After that it's a waste.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I went light armo crafting, won't need then unless I pay to level heavy armor.

[Zomboid]

Or make Daedric weapons.

[Pentegarn]

^^^

That.

I hate it but I need to delve to deadric if I want a deadric dagger with soul trap and life drain on it

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I just use glass war axe. do you need to craft daedric weapons? I thought those were all questable.

[Pentegarn]

I just use glass war axe. do you need to craft daedric weapons? I thought those were all questable.

Just a generic deadric metal dagger would have to be crafted or it might be able to be found if you are lucky. I haven't been so far all I have stumbled across is a generic deadric helmet so far. Questable deadric weapons are already fully enchanted with something or other. Unless there's some quest I don't know about that rewards generic unenchanted deadric weapons

[Chojin]

I did feel weirdly depressed offing that one princess at the wedding for some reason and felt really uncomfortable with myself when I was eating dinner. I know Robin Banks didn't give a fuck but why do I feel sad about killing someone after spending like 30 hours decapitating people? :(

I felt this way too after that mission. Was surprised to find good writing in a Bethsoft game.

[Zomboid]

Oh, man, the writing is usually just atrocious. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Any time they were talking about dragonspeak and stop to tell you what the corresponding dragonword is made me cringe.

That one quest where you collect blood from each kind of "mer" was kinda fun, and the payoff was nice. In general, the daedric quests were fun, actually. Fuck, though, you just know that every time you help a random person and they actually go with you on the quest, they're going to turn on you at the end for some stupid reason. It doesn't even make sense; you JUST watched me kill every fucking enemy in this dungeon, and then you think you can kill me at the end? What would make you think that?

Oh, and I have yet to do the Dark Brotherhood stuff. I'd planned on saving that and the mage guild for my second game, so when that chick somehow knocked me out and brought me to a room with three or four people and I had to kill one, I just killed her, saved them, and went to the DB hideout and murdered all of them.

[Chojin]

that's why i said it was surprising to find good writing. i didn't mean the entire game was masterfully written, just that event.

[Zomboid]

No, by "I have no idea what you guys are talking about," I meant, "Please tell me where this happened, because the details sound unlike any quest that I did."

[Pentegarn]

It is unlike any quest you did since you have to join the Dark Brotherhood to actually do it

[Zomboid]

you have to join the Dark Brotherhood
Let me fix that for ya :lol

[AChimp]

I destroyed the Dark Brotherhood and got 3000 gold for my troubles because I was like "FUUUCK the Thieve's Guild took so long that I don't want to start another one."

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I almost want to start a branch off save to do the dark brotherhood quests for the achievements. Then go back and zomboid them on my regular save.

[Pentegarn]

Let me fix that for ya :lol

Having your posts directly ripped off by others is a sign of just how damn good you really are. Thanks for the compliment

[Pentegarn]

I almost want to start a branch off save to do the dark brotherhood quests for the achievements. Then go back and zomboid them on my regular save.

You get a really decent amount of coin from doing them. If coin is not an issue though go for it.

[Phoenix Gamma]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/PGamma/hesdeadjim.jpg
Name one jester who isn't an annoying fuckpigTRICKQUESTIONYOUCAN'T.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

You get a really decent amount of coin from doing them. If coin is not an issue though go for it.

IM NO WHORE

[Pentegarn]

IM NO WHORE

We all know better than to believe that ;)

[Pentegarn]

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[Dr. Boogie]

Finally started playing it myself.

I'm starting to worry that my kleptomania in games like Skyrim and Fallout may be indicative of some other, larger problem. I've been playing a mage, but every time I go to a town, or shop, or house, or whatever, my thoughts immediately go to how I can steal everything that isn't nailed down. Even stuff I don't really need. I even get annoyed when stuff that's available to buy isn't on display somewhere where I can just grab it.

In other news, I'm starting to wonder if I should adopt a different combat tactic than "pour your strongest dual cast spell into your enemy and hope you don't run out of magicka before they die".

[dextire]

In other news, I'm starting to wonder if I should adopt a different combat tactic than "pour your strongest dual cast spell into your enemy and hope you don't run out of magicka before they die".
Nah, that strategy should work just fine.
You just need to enchant circlets, rings, and amulets to reduce the cost of the spells.

[Nick]

The Dark Brotherhood quest line is so much better than the Thieves Guide, you don't even know.

Only decent thing from the Thieves Guild is the Nightingale armor, which is pretty much the same as the Ancient Shrouded Armor anyways.

Unless you're not playing as a thieve or a character that uses light armor- then it's worthless.

[Pentegarn]

the3 nightingale sword and bow are nice too. But you don't mess with that faction for a good story, you mess with it for easy early game coin by doing sweep and rampage quests at the same time in a city

[Nick]

I did the Dark Brotherhood first. You get mad cash and some nice training to get you ready for the garbage the thieves make you do. Also Shadowmere is a bro.

[Dr. Boogie]

I put away my mage character because I maxed out Destruction and made some equipment that, all together, let me cast all Destruction spells for free. Dragon fights were lasting less than a minute.

I started playing a thief/assassin which has turned out to be great fun... when you're fighting humans. Everything else is turning out to be a bit of a struggle, particularly when I can't sneak. I especially hate fighting enemies face-to-face, dominating the fight for a little while, and then being done in because the enemy decided to initiate a scripted death sequence out of nowhere.

I decided to try and level up pickpocketing because I was curious to see how useful it was. I thought it might take a while, but then I discovered you can pickpocket the gold you spend on training. Every successful pickpocket was netting me almost 2 whole points. Maxed it out before I even left Riverwood. That kind of screwed me. During that quest when you and Dipshit McGee from the Companions get ambushed by silverhands, he would promptly get killed, then leave me to feebly swipe at a group until one of those scripted deaths occurred. The worst part was that they were too strong to stealth kill.

Some people are claiming the way to go with a build like that is to get Alchemy up to the point where you make great poisons, but how f'ing long is that gonna take? And outside of stealth, things still take forever to kill, even with these twin Legendary Skyforged Swords and the equally legendary elven bow I made.

Is my only recourse to just grind up enchant and make some sick shit to bolster all my non-throat cutting skills?

[kahljorn]

but how f'ing long is that gonna take?

15-20 minutes?
rob a few alchemy stores

[Zomboid]

I kinda tried making my own potions, and it was taking a while. Then I stopped playing because I got a few new games at Christmas, and I haven't played since. My mage was doing pretty decent damage, but it was pretty difficult to go from the warrior Nord in my first game, who ended up being pretty unstoppable, to having to actually try to evade attacks and use potions regularly.

[Pentegarn]

Should have gone with the unarmed badass build above

[Dr. Boogie]

15-20 minutes? rob a few alchemy stores

I made like twenty potions, but I didn't even go up a point. I think the secret lies in making expensive potions, but I don't have the patience to go looking online for the right ingredients.

I kinda tried making my own potions, and it was taking a while. Then I stopped playing because I got a few new games at Christmas, and I haven't played since. My mage was doing pretty decent damage, but it was pretty difficult to go from the warrior Nord in my first game, who ended up being pretty unstoppable, to having to actually try to evade attacks and use potions regularly.

I forget the name, but getting the perk that lets you stun enemies with a dual cast destruction spell helps a whole lot, especially when you're fighting dragons. And once you get your hands on some equipment that lowers the casting cost a lot, things really start to take off.

[Zomboid]

Yeah, I got about that far before I quit. Enchanting your own stuff helps a lot in that regard. Before I got to that point, though, it took me like an hour to get past this one fucking Wisp Mother.

[Chojin]

My character was a sneak/assassin build with minors in archery, 1h, and some alteration for mage shields because power armor is for pussies.

http://www.i-mockery.com/chojin/gambura.jpg

I stopped playing because I wasn't really interested in the main quest and because shit got way too easy. I have a 30x backstab and can usually sneak up on peeps so shit got ridic. Still, stealth is more fun than other scrolls games since you can hide again after being seen, and you aren't completely invisible at 100.

[Pentegarn]

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[kahljorn]

I made like twenty potions, but I didn't even go up a point. I think the secret lies in making expensive potions, but I don't have the patience to go looking online for the right ingredients.hm i remember gaining a shitload of levels just by clearing my inventory of all the shit i picked up. i could be wrong though i guess but i always had an inventory full of alchemy shit and it woudl be stored in a bunch of places and i had to sell most of my potions cause tht shit weighed a lot

it sucks they took out the mortar and pestle cause thats how i used to get rich in those games :lol

[AChimp]

Giant's toes and wheat combine to make a potion that gives you the most skillup. Plus you can just train alchemy every level.

It's pointless to pay for training on combat skills unless you're close to a perk you want or something, because you're constantly using those skills and they'll just level up on their own.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

that sounds like the worst breakfast ever though.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

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[Zomboid]

That was certainly...very, very enjoyable. And it was probably a real bitch to make.

[Supafly345]

Finally playing this, and getting kinda confused how suddenly enemies are able to 1 hit kill me. Normal enemies. I kill like 15 in a row who can barely hurt me, then one knocks me on my ass in a single shot. This happens from time to time, and I'm wearing ebony armor, with a decent level in it. I don't understand it.

[Pentegarn]

That happened to me once or twice, turned out the guy had an ebony bow and ebony arrows.

[AChimp]

I think there's something with 2-handed hammers that does crazy damage and ignores armor if you stand around and let them power attack you or something. I was pretty close to invincible for the last half of the game after crafting the shit out of some stuff and I still got one-shot a few times.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Those forsworn jerks that dual wield and spin when they attack almost got me a few times. They remind me of the Barb-icanes from Diablo 2.

>:

[Zomboid]

Yeah, those guys got me a few times when seemingly nothing else was really doing much damage. If you're playing as a melee guy and level up the right stuff, you can be pretty much invincible until that sort of shit.

I think Chimp's right about the two-handed hammer thing. I remember some random bandit had killed me twice with one, even after I'd killed all of her buddies without taking a scratch.