Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Em....so apparently the Silver-Blood is supposed to give me all my stuff back? I'm going to try to side with Madanach instead of killing him, though walk-throughs say I should get my stuff back either way...

Ok so thanks to this wiki

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:No_One_Escapes_Cidhna_Mine

I left the city, waited 24 hours, then entered again and went back to the same spot. Dude gave me all my stuff back and got the Jarl to pardon me.

For the time that i was stuck in that glitch, tho, the Silver-Blood was an unkillable NPC, so I probably should have just used him to level up my destruction spells. But where's the fun in that?

from my sister re: my nephew:

> I thought I would share the "list" Simon has been making over the last few days.
As background, Skyrim is a video game set in a medieval world, sort of like online
role-playing. You can pretty much get away with anything, as it is a game for
teens and up. Simon has spent his computer time lately playing on this, being what
he calls a "nude assassin," which is a regular Skyrim guy in the most minimal
clothing, i.e., a loincloth. The other characters in the game will talk to you,
and I often hear them asking Simon's character "Why aren't you wearing any
clothes? Aren't you ashamed?" which I think he enjoys. Anyway, he seems to spend
all of his time in this game committing crimes and running around looting, which I
like to think is because he can't do these things in real life and not that I am
raising a little sociopath :) He has created a list, "The Nude Assassin Policies,"
of which I share some here (verbatim, capitalization his):
>
> 1. As a nude assassin, you may never get married (this is mentioned several times)
> 2. If you put on any other apparel except for your hat you are no longer a nude
assassin
> 3. You may not pay a fine you may only go to jail or run
> 4. No learning at the college of Winterhold
> 5. No being fancy
> 6. If somebody has something "valuble" that you want and your pickpocket skills
are low WHO CARES TAKE IT
> 7. NO ROBES because you are nude
> 8. If you accidentally get a servant you must "dispose" of them
> 9. If they offer gold DO IT
> 10. Anger someone with a dagger or knife then finish them off with something like
a battleaxe

What if you consider the concept of a Nude Assassin inherently fancy?

I'm at Level 53 and after a long time spent doing misc quests have jumped back into the main one, taking over the Empire, etc. Only problem is that I think maybe the main quests were designed for someone at a lower level. I equip a fire sword and run in and it takes only like two hits to take out an Imperial Guard. I can single-handedly slaughter a whole fort of those guys.

Not that it isn't fun! But it feels like the levelling in this game is a little out of balance. Maybe i need to set the difficulty a little higher....?

Most of the skills offering levelling shortcuts, even if its just pounding the hell out of a plot-centric (and hence immortal) character. But game the system, and you'll unlock god mode with all the pluses and minuses that entails.

Never craft just for the sake of leveling crafting skills. Never cast for the sake of leveling magic skills. Never sneak for the sake of leveling sneak.

FWIW, when I last played (February?), I ran through the main quest and then became a pretty serious illusionist mage before 30% of the game was completed. Detect Life or Detect Dead to see through walls, Invisibility to sneak into a firing angle, then double fisted Frenzy or Mayhem to cause the whole mob to kill each other off, leaving one heavily wounded survivor to mop up. Usually the most I saw was the flaming outlines from the detect spells running around and falling. Rinse and repeat. Amusing to watch the temporary insanity of factions, but strictly for drunken kicks.

but the BEE-FAN-SEE shout is my favourite shout in the game.....

Started playing this now, and have done my usual Fallout3 trick in wandering off the beaten path - doing stuff i'm not supposed to - getting into battles that I'll never win. For instance I'm only level 4 and I got involved in some mission that involved killing some pirate leader. The mission was off the map and required a boat to get there. I had no chance to defeat the guy, he was way tough and there was no way back to the main map until I'd killed him.
After many attempts I did it though, just waded in, used all my potions, etc

I like riding horses particularly.

Hey, I played this game!

I liked it a lot!

The game got too strong, though, once I got Level 50+ I could be taken down by two Forsaken arrows. I don't know why that happened! I was a super-powerful Conjuror and things were going great, but as soon as I upgraded my Enchantment and Smithing to wear heavy armor, ironically I became far more vulnerable. Maybe because 10 of those levels were gained through grind-y Enchantment and Smithing exercises?

My favourite parts were the feelings of intense guilt that accompanied some of the Daedric quests. I felt so guilty after taking this too-cute-to-live Markarth warrior dude out to, well, disembowel him.

Yeah ive recently been getting in some crazy fights where an arrow will just wipe me out. I just learned how to do Dragonscale armor, and it looks so awesome, that I threw away all my Glass armor and just wear that now. But yeah it feels like the difficultly is ramping back up at times. I was fighting a bunch of bandits in a cave last night and some guy with a huge axe just came up and chopped my head off.

I had never used a horse until last night when i was given Shadowmere. They are pretty awesome! Got to say the Dark Brotherhood storyline is kinda confusing, one day I'm assassinating the Emperor the next some random farmer for 200 coins.

at some point i recall downloading some dlc that said I could make my own house, anyone know where I do this in game?

no idea, i never bothered with that

there are a few enemies that seem to scale very severely, the forsworn bosses for some reason were always tough. even if they went down easily their damage against you insane.

the dawnguard dlc adds a bunch of upper-upper level enemies so you have something to beat up on at level 50+

The housebuilding stuff has a bit of a weird trigger, I think you need to go to the orphanage in Riften? Then they ask you if you want to adopt kids, you say ok, they say tough you can't cos you have no house, and hey presto, you're off housebuilding. Actually there might be other ways to start that because this is how mine happened but surely that's too odd to be the official way? Kinda feel like I maybe just missed the original trigger and it shoehorned me in this way instead.

haha bethesda! *shakes fist*

for ref:

http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Hearthfire

OK, I'm a year late on this one. After finishing Dishonored, thought I would give it ago. Fun, but I find I'm spending most of my time in 3rd person. I only switch to 1st person to fight. I'm also regretting my character selection. I'm always a sucker for a cat race, but I don't really like the style of combat for them. I'd rather just bash/magic things.

Open up console and type showracemenu and you can re-create your character from scratch at any point. A word of warning though: seems like your levels get all kind of messed up when you do this...

I do the same thing w 3rd person. It just feels normal to me, every RPG I've ever played was 3rd person.

sooo new expansion for this? i'll probably check it out.

My new favorite past-time is clearing out dungeons by slowing down time right before a fight, then jumping around like the Matrix throwing a zillion dual-cast fireballs at everyone. It's so awesome when you take out a 2 or 3 at once.

I ended up starting a new character before I got too far with my cat. The save system sort of sucks on this when you have multiple characters going.

I think it's bizarre that sometimes you can just take the lower priced items off the shop shelf. And then sell them back to the shop keeper.

Also, I like pausing in battle to eat a cabbage. I love the visual.

The save system sort of sucks on this when you have multiple characters going.

― Jeff, Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:00 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^this

I haven't played in ages, and I think that I may have lost my original character

So i got to level 60 and was stuck with a bunch of endless Dark Brotherhood and Thief's Guild missions and spent some time looking online at the main missions quest and realized i had completed the main quest and hadn't even noticed! I guess the huge dragon fight and the showdown at the Throat of the World was epic but i'd imagined there would be some crazy cutscenes or something. Especially how the game opens up with one, it's very cinematic and awesome. Now it feels like I'm vastly overpowered in this huge world where i can just find fetch quests and time wasters, and there's really nothing to work towards. I think the last 'new area' i discovered was Black Reach but there's probably plenty else I've missed out on. Black Reach is WAY awesome.

So i started a new character. I didn't use bows & arrows at all in the last one, and they look hella fun, so I'm doing that with this. I also have a bunch of graphics/armor mods and Dawnguard so this should be a different, and more visually awesome experience.

Overall, a very great game. I sort of wish there were more cutscenes or otherwise dramatization rather than 'Go to NPC, work your way thru limited dialog, find gizmo/kill bad guy in dungeon' over and over again. At times it felt more like a giant checklist than an actually immersive world. I think the Fast Travel option kind of ruined it a little for me, turning what could have been a cool, unique half hour of encounters and travel into a 10-second LOADING screen. I keep thinking back to the last game i finished, GTA: San Andreas, and in a way, it felt more like a roleplaying game than this.

oh good to know i can "finish the game" and keep playing, i started what i think is the final quest and then decided i wasn't ready to finish yet so i went back to a previous save point to do random quests for a while.

I think the Fast Travel option kind of ruined it a little for me

i was thinking the same. my second character hasn't been a lot of places yet, and for a while i tried to make a point of traveling most places overland. definitely improved the experience imo

it's funny how the magic goes out of it once you finish the main storyline and keep wandering around. i haven't played skyrim but had the same experience with red dead redemption.

In red dead I keep trying to unlock all the hunting achievements.

ha i did some of the thief questline w/ a non-thiefy character after the finishing the main, just because i was bored. it gets pretty narratively broken. "you're gonna have to prove yourself, scrub" "I JUST SAVED THE WORLD FFS"

yeah that shit drives me up the wall. like i'm king of the mages guild and dudes still give me attitude, like THIS IS MY MOTHERFUCKING MAGES GUILD man suck my dick and then the guards still get all pissed when i bust out the flamethrower hand. i'm your boss! you can't arrest me.

Hah having started a new character after beating the game and my first Giant fight there are 2 giants just relentlessly killing me. This one fight is taking me close to an hour, whereas when i got super leveled up it would be over in seconds.

hi, I'm a female dark elf named stares a lot, do you come here often

when I started out I picked up everything that wasn't nailed down. this backfired when I got to the blacksmith's place in riverwood. I accidentally stole a sword (didn't know stealing was an option). he and his wife got mad and attacked me. I fled and they gave chase, I jumped in the river and floated downstream a couple of miles. when I got out of the water I was hoping I could sneak back into the village, but they reappeared and continued attacking me, so I got all stupid-fool-you're-forcing-me-to-kill-you on them.

returned to the village and the blacksmith's nephew had no recollection of the massive fight that broke out in front of him, treated me the same as he did before. however when I ran into their daughter the next morning, she said "I will hate you forever."

later when I went to see jarl at whiterun, I felt a little twinge of guilt when he went on and on about how honest and righteous the blacksmith was. I thought, oh you must mean the guy I left stripped and dead along with his wife down by the river?

Last night i checked out the number of hours spent on this game, particularly the saved game where i eventually got bored of everything and decided to restart from scratch. It came to 170 hours, and that was all in the past month. I truly have no life!

btw it was going for $25 at amazon over the weekend

sooo...

http://uesp.net/wiki/Dragonborn:Dragonborn

is this game worth buying vanilla for 360

If you've waited this long, you might consider waiting for a version that includes some DLC.

Heard the DLC wasn't any good though

god help me i d/l'd hearthfire over the holidays. despite maximum aspie fiddliness, it is kind of fun.

but it does bring a frustrated tear to the eye that developer time was spent on what surely be the most pointless gameplay mechanic ever

http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Baking

Braided Bread × 1

Restore Health 2 pts
Fortify Carry Weight 5 pts for 30 secs

i mean

Jazbay Crostata

Heavy into this now. Wish the character models weren't so muddy.

I could probably play this for years because I can't remember what the main quest was. I just keep doing random ones, or just going down through the Miscellaneous ones.

I just did one where I had to follow the stupid talking dog and he kept getting stuck.

I would play this if i hadnt pretty much broken it with a zillion mods. It all started with Sharpshooters and Post Processing Injector (both general graphics mods). Then I installed CBBE cos i figured hell i am a full grown man playing an rpg and fighting wizards with magic i might as well have a Frank Frazetta-style armor bikini goddess as the main character. Then all the custom armors started clashing w each other and it would look like Witchypoo's (my green skinned, purple haired dark elf) feet were missing. I really like the Magicka Sabers, which add lightsabers to the game, but it would always pause for an awkward second before unsheathing them. The Flying Broom was a good idea but kind of lacking in execution.

I played through w this second character and eventually was just destroying enemies on Master difficulty completely naked with bound weapons in one or two hits. Maybe some day i will get the Mario Bros. mod and pull this game out again.

Great fun! Go into mods after you finish this!

A year late, but I finally heard this from the year-end music ep of the RebelFM podcast. I'm surprised how much I like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9TdDCWN7g

somewhere between '60s/early '70s English folk and 4AD

yeah, it's somewhere way the fuck up in this thread and i most likely put it there as a post v much in character

I finally tried this and ended up playing like 32 hours in a 2 day period. I had to have my little brother put a family control timer on the xbox so I can't play more than an hour a day. smdh.gif

I want to start importing Fallout stuff into this. My wood elf thief needs a pipboy