Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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

Almost got my smithing up to 100. What a journey it's been!

I would like to say that I lost much of my smithing skill by a stupid bug. Never go to Japhet Folly once you've completed it. You'll have to reload an old save. I lost about 4 hours of work.

don't you mean play

WORK

I was highly amused by the fact that when I first met the Dark Brotherhood leader who presented me with an unpleasant choice, the game allowed me to just open up and their ass instead, starting a whole new quest to wipe them all out. I never expected the development of counter-quests, rather than the simple binary of quest win/fail. Trapped their soul and stoke their armor, too.

Now am experimenting with resurrecting NPCs who've already been removed to the purple dead room. Fun with console commands!

open up and their ass

???

hot mead mod

open up on, rather

I lost another few hours of smithing/enchanting time because of a stupid bug. Goddamn Jarl wouldn't go to the castle where he was supposed to be so I could trapped the dragon. Had to load a previous save.

Are you playing on a PC Jeff? If so you can move the NPCs around with console commands.

I wish! Xbox. Also, I lost Lydia.

RIP

"Where are ya, Lyds? I thought you were sworn to carry my burdens? nyuk nyuk"

...hard to care. I'm going to have to trawl through the companion mods and see if anyone's written anything decent. I miss Veronica, Arcade and ED-E. Even ED-E has more charisma than Lydia.

Just reinstalled Skyrim after HD failure in October, installed Sky UI, Hypothermia, Imp's Needs, bunch of location enhancers & quests and an alternative start mod so I don't feel like my new character is a retread of the old one. I 'woke up' in the Imperial Fort in Solitude, which was very cool.

An hour in though, and I'm already a bit bored.

Beat the main quest last night. Sort of anti-climatic. I realized that really my favorite thing to do is to just walk around and level up while maxing out the various abilities. I wish there were places with more enemies though.

Anyone getting the expansion where you can fly frickin' dragons?

let me sheepishly raise my hand. yeah, it's ok.

the dragon flying bit is really badly done tho

finally been playing this and it's easily the best one that isn't morrowind. literally makes oblivion look like a beta. i've been a vampire for a while even though being a vampire mostly sucks (no clans or quests as there were in morrowind) and last night i did the quest to Join The Bard's College, which involved retrieving something from a dungeon because apparently all bards must be able to defeat hordes of undead (meanwhile i have demonstrated no ability to play any instruments) and when i got back they were like, great! we'll have a ceremony tonight to induct you. come back at dusk. this was at like 10 in the morning so i went down the street to an inn and slept until six, then returned, only to be told again to come back at dusk, so i waited for one hour standing in front of the guy who would shortly be inducting me into the bard's college and when i came out of the wait he drew his sword and yelled IT'S A VAMPIRE!

so i ran and hid in a supply closet and listened to everyone tromp up and down the hallways looking for me until they gave up, and then i thought, well, shit, i need to feed on someone to be able to pass as a human again, but i don't want to risk going outside because of the guards, so i'm going to have to feed on one of my fellow bards. or my soon-to-be-fellow bards. so i followed the sound of a lute to find that old woman (the one who tells you THE ONLY REASON I PLAY THE LUTE SO WELL IS THAT I'M OLD) standing in her room alone playing a song before bed -- crept in, closed the door, watched her finish her song, watched her lie down to sleep, and then ate her. came out of her room like HI GUYS SORRY I'M LATE, and then i went to the ceremony where they burned a giant effigy of a despised king and like half the town turned out to cheer and applaud me as i received my official bard papers. i stood in the dark with the flames flickering in my eyes and my face was a mask. good game.

<3

Still wish Bethsoft would just give in and give us another Morrowind though. If I want a mad-ass Dwemer pauldron on one shoulder, I WANT one. Givf.

ok so I know I'm a terrible father for letting my daughter play skyrim, but she's a khajiit and she discovered an entire town of khajiit today. being a catperson and living among other catpeople is like heaven on earth for her. she said, "I'm a kitty cat, and these are my peeps."