Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

decide to destroy the dark brotherhood, we'll see how that goes

one adding some extra bookshelves to Breezehome so I could tidy the fuck up

skysims

i think it's kinda funny how there is gold everywhere. like every pot in a forgotten ruin has a few coins. and you have all this shit worth thousands. but nobody in business has more than a couple hundred at a time. you're like a walking liquidity crisis.

whiterun blacksmiths are doing pretty well, >2k between them every day. (took me an age to figure out you can buy from 'er outdoors, and she has a separate cash pile.)

thx for new display name

WoW years mean I'm slightly disappointed at merchant funding caps & their unwillingness to buy any old junk I want to clear out of my bags.

Only just getting into dropping stuff on the floor in Breezehome. Pigsty by next week.

put it in the endless chest

but i like leaving stuff on the floor. it gives the place an easygoing bachelor pad feel.

Got a free flat when I became arch-mage, why is everyone buying real estate

Gotta do something with all the money.

I hope to have vacation homes throughout Skyrim. I'm not renting a bed for a good night's sleep.

here's a design quirk i'm a little embarrassed to say just crossed my mind: unlike fallout or dragon age, i don't think there's any sex in this game? but you can get gay married! the chastity feels so odd considering how vicious and murdery some of the quests are. idk i'm not asking for anything that isn't there, it's just odd to think about how these elements get put in or not.

Can you imagine how bad the animation for that would be? That 30-seconds to sit animation is bad enough.

Plus, you'd probably get stuck.

MINIGAME!

*shudder*

"I am SWORN to put your penis in my vagina..."

"Let me guess, somebody stole your sweetroll"

really shd have left this one alone

A whole new line to explore in alchemy...

I'm sorry, I'm still lolling at the idea of Lydia rolling her eyes at my sexual advances and being super sarcastic about the whole thing

That damn dog would get in the way.

sorry, but all capacity for fantasy world sexuality was directed toward Game of Thrones. there's none left over for any other fantasy worlds. we'll just have to make due.

even all of the fantasy world sex was not enough for Game of Thrones, so they had to borrow a little from Blind Date and the Bachelor. sorry about that wedding night, bachelor!

holy god played too many hours of this last night

I had to restrain myself from turning it on at 11:45 last night because I knew I would play until 3

haha i can echo both of those sentiments

echoechoecho

come on skyrim, drop in price you dick

need to bring bo'bahg into life

honestly though as someone who plays maybe A game a year, owns a mac, and has never owned a console, i've just been giddy being able to play something so good. the last sandbox game i played was GTAsomething, years ago, for a few days while at a friend's house. also WoW, i guess. i feel like i got to skip over years of bad gaming and had this dropped in my lap.

mostly its the size of it, there's just so much to DO, and theyve managed to avoid making it grind-y. like, it seems like you could finish the main story (barely begun), the guild quests (i'm doing thief+assassin), and just dick around leveling crafting skills and still have fun with it.

do these games typically have DLC/expansion packs?

this will almost certainly have DLC. From what I understand, someone's found Oblivion sketched into the code outside of the accessible game; sounds likely that they'll be adding that entire world as an expansion.

dang

of course i probably won't be able to play the expansion stuff, since my copy is cracked and in some weirdo wrapper, but maybe they'll have a legit mac version out someday

someone's found Oblivion sketched into the code outside of the accessible game; sounds likely that they'll be adding that entire world as an expansion.

wat. i just don't even understand.

the expansion i played for oblivion was pretty dumm. but i didn't like oblivion anyway so eh

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/29/skyrim-dlc-to-have-more-of-an-expansion-pack-feel/

Mordy: http://www.geekosystem.com/skyrim-explorer-travels-morrowind-oblivion/

The landmasses for Cyrodiil and Vaardenfell have been created and shipped with Skyrim. Nothing on 'em, just the lansdcape.

right but they could be populated or something

when do i get to meet some fucking sea elves already?

considering the number of waterbreathing rings i've spammed, should be soon /wakkawakka

am I missing out on anything by not going underwater?

I found a ship graveyard that looks cool but I have to go back to check it out; no potions or rings on my person at the time.

there are some alchemy ingredients that are found underwater. a lot of time the designers throw a chest down there too.

i know there was one quest that required i hunt for something in a lake. and there was a dungeon that had a 2nd exit through an underwater tunnel.

so, maybe? not much tho

haven't found much but i like the freedom it affords when running away from giants or just exploring
i'm argonian btw

I'm also argonian but so far I haven't had much of a reason to go underwater.

I am tempted to stay underwater to see how long it takes to drown

I have been trying to build up conjuration but it doesn't seem like making a flame atronach at the beginning of a fight before slashing dudes to pieces is a very quick way of getting anywhere with it.

magic is a slow business.

I wish there was some ship action.

did you find the stone that lets you learn magic 20% faster?

Yeah I've had it on for the entirety of my game.

aragonian dudes i dont know how to tell you this but the nords have been saying some pretty unflattering things about you behind your back xposts

ah

well, it's kind obv but it's a lot easier to lvl destro and resto than anything else ime

easier to lvl destro

Yeah, I'm trying to avoid destro this playthrough.