Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

next time i play i plan on taking the route on the OTHER side of the mountain!

the problem with these games for me is all the character customization - how am I supposed to CHOOSE

this one kinda lets you ease into it since you don't have to pick anything to start (except race)

the climb to the monastery is WOW

Just started this as a redguard called Claude. Are you all joining the imperial legion or the stormcloaks?

haven't started those quests yet, but planning on stormcloak, i suppose.

lol hrothgar references. this game is just one huge geat homage, isn't it

I was all set to side with the rebels (underdog radicals generally appeal to me) when I realized that they're basically nativists...

It is a testament to this game's awesomeness that I am irritated at having to turn it off and go to the bar for football. Fucking saints, why can't they have a bye this week?

Crunchy the nord relies mostly on war axes, FLAMETHROWER HAND and zombie raising.

i turned up the difficulty by one level. average fights are better now but dragons just destroy me.

also some of the npcs are bugged. I snuck into the alchemists shop and she kept welcoming me to buy things while she slept. I stole all her shit.

how do i get fireball-hand other than the scrolls? do i have to go to magic school city?

this is just sitting there begging me to play it :////

ive already decide im gonna play a pure caster for the first time

i'd love to try a pure caster but i just love archery too much

this is pretty amazing so far; in the dungeon that mordy mentions i made that magic transition from playing a video game pushing a sprite around on a digital map to YOU ARE DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE ANCIENT EARTH WHEN THE VIKING ZOMBIE PULLS ITSELF SLOWLY FROM ITS MOULDERING CRYPT, EYES AGLAZE WITH INFERNAL LIFE, JAW AGAPE WITH A HATEFUL SNEER, RUSHING TOWARD YOU SWORD OUTSTRETCHED roll for initiative

i just killed a solid hour reorganizing my inventory. you can micromanage the shit out of this game if you want to.

and it's fun to micromanage btw! very good ui!

is there a way to change the order of items in the inventory? for example, can you lump all of your shields together, all of your boots together, etc?

it auto-orders your equipment into like weaponry / apparel / books / ingredients / scrolls / misc, but you can't reorder it by like boots or shields (at least not that i've seen so far)

The start of the Dark Brotherhood stuff is fun

guess who just figured out there's a sprint button?

my dark elf is named turd burglar. this game is fun as a mufucka.

took me a long time to figure out how to dragon shout

this is pretty amazing so far; in the dungeon that mordy mentions i made that magic transition from playing a video game pushing a sprite around on a digital map to YOU ARE DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE ANCIENT EARTH WHEN THE VIKING ZOMBIE PULLS ITSELF SLOWLY FROM ITS MOULDERING CRYPT, EYES AGLAZE WITH INFERNAL LIFE, JAW AGAPE WITH A HATEFUL SNEER, RUSHING TOWARD YOU SWORD OUTSTRETCHED roll for initiative

^^^

This fuckin' game

Takes a while to get started but once it does jesus christ it's addictive

I'm playing as an Argonian named Corky

had to take a break. burnt myself out by playing too much. but so good.

Most of tonight's session was me going round the Jarl's house collecting all his goblets and plates and foodstuffs to sell back at the market. Turned out it wasn't really worth the effort. But the view from his balcony is lovely.

i was just doing that too. the whole soul gem/enchant thing seems annoyingly complex.

first hard freeze, the end for tonight methinks.
but damn if i don't already have level 9 and about twenty possible quests.

btw, who else is playing this on a higher difficulty level? I went one below toughest.

throw yr hands up if yr gay married

you can get married in this?
Beginning to think that this is just what i thought Fable iii should be.

i haven't progressed far enough to get married but Corky's def. gonna get a lavish gay wedding

i'm not sure i get the enchant thing, still. i have the soul trap spell, and empty gems. but everytime i cast soul trap on an enemy and then kill it, it says "gem not large enough" or something like that.

eh.

PC version keeps crashing to desktop. no errors or anything - game just disappears. Am starting to get pissy about it. Does QA even try anymore?

there is one crash that can be fixed by changing sound settings. Think I saw it in Bethesda forums.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/11/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-tweaks-improve-graphics-disable-vsync-change-fov-and-more/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/14/thulsa-broom

http://penny-arcade.smugmug.com/photos/i-PPTPkRk/0/L/i-PPTPkRk-XL.jpg

man i GOTTA buy a house, if only for my books.
compulsively collecting every one i find. there's some good reading in them! i need them for when i retire.

Guard examining spider corpse on roadside

walk up and pick up spider's leg and wave it around a bit, looks a bit like dead spider is dancing

guard snaps 'put that down'

cosign -- and for all these fucking dragon bones + scales

xp

lol getting married. man i hated that girlfriend shit in san andreas, ringing me every five minutes, why would anyone consider this?

i'm thane of that one place (at work right now, can't remember location names), but everyone's still treating me like shit! "you disrespect the law, you disrespect me", says the lowly guard. "I'M THE FUCKING THANE MAN"

http://i.imgur.com/UPkWF.png

lol what a choad

ordered btw!

doing a pretty bad job on the "not sounding a hipster" front there!

i'm not a *thing*, but *is thing*

classic move

if that motherfucker was for real he would've gone thru this when daggerfall got rereleased as GOTY edition for all those fucking newbs to pick up so fuck him long live Battlespire