Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

also who have I become

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/images/hist_goldminer.jpg

or maybe it doesn't pay that well i can't remember

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120123072448/elderscrolls/images/c/cd/Restoration_Overpowered.jpg

also, if you forage a lot of ingredients and find an alchemy table, there's an iphone app you can get that tells you the valid combinations to form potions.

i think one of my big problems (and i mean BIG problems - this is probably one of the biggest problems in the world) with these kinds of games is that something keeps me from looking up resources like that. like it's cheating or something. but then i can never figure out on my own how to combine ingredients to make cool shit, so i end up ignoring the whole thing altogether. same with minecraft/terraria.

Two key points:

1. Eat one of every ingredient you find to discover one of the four possible potions, and to get a sense for what it might be generally good for.
2. The Thief guardian stone speeds up Alchemy skill improvement by 20%, as do the benefits from a good night's sleep (+10% for Well Rested or +15% for Lover's Comfort).

i like when you eat a bunch of them at once, as soon as you exit the menu the character is going "gah! euagh! hunh!" from the ones w/ negative effects

I had to psych myself up for ages before eating the giant's toe. Character's reaction was not nearly 'yeuch!' enough.

just imagine the jam under that toe nail :X

prob smells like aged mammoth cheese

Yeah, just eat all the ingredients that you don't know the uses for. Then later on as your alchemy skill goes up and you start learning 2 or 3 or 4 uses for each one, eat them again. Selling potions is the best way to make money imo.

1) Look up a handful of really expensive potions
2) Figure out how to make them
3) Travel around collecting/buying ingredients
4) When you run out of money after spending it all on ingredients, make potions, starting w most expensive
5) Sell off all potions
6) Profit

Hmm curious as to how long it'd take me to make enough to afford a house

It really shouldn't take that long. I think I had a house when I was still crafting steel.

also sometimes it's good just to get rid of some stuff. embrace the fact that you can't keep everything and carry it around, and you don't need to. it's a good life lesson too.

once you've bought all the houses you'll soon find yourself carrying around 200 grand cuz theres nothing left to spend it on

Houses aren't all the same price either, if it feels really out of reach its possible you're looking at one of the high end ones. Can't remember the full breakdown but I think the one in solitude was the most expensive, and the first I managed to buy was the one in whiterun.

I think the Whiterun one costs 5000? That's a lot of potions to grind. Also, do I get the same price for my goods wherever I sell them or are some stores better than others?

My grinding consisted of smithing and enchanting daggers.

Kill a couple dragons, sell off the bones and scales, I made a ton of money that way

I think the Whiterun one costs 5000? That's a lot of potions to grind.

after a while just one of your potions will be worth more than that. the problem becomes waiting for the shops to re-up

You shouldn't be settling down in a house if you don't have 5000 anyways - you need to be out fighting dragons and plundering dungeons!

Nah, skip the dragons and dungeons and just cook dinner and read every book in Whiterun.

and go to bed early

become a bard so i can kill u

xp - might take a job at the farm if time allows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mFwYJaLD_I

So is it realistically possible to turn this game into a medieval version of the Sims? Would that be fun?

i don't have but i'm pretty the hearthfire dlc is exactly that. build a house, adopt a child, etc.

lol... lets try that again

i don't have it but i'm pretty sure the hearthfire dlc is exactly that

Features

Ability to build and customize your own house.
You must purchase the land and use raw materials at a drafting table and carpenter's workbench to create rooms and furniture for your house.
Equip your home with arcane enchanters, armories, forges, gardens, libraries, shrines, stables, taxidermy, and more.
Three plots of land are available for purchase, in Falkreath Hold, Hjaalmarch, and the Pale.
The structure of each house consists of stone, clay, and wood.
Ability to adopt up to two children, who will move into your house.
Interact and play games to raise your new family.
Allow your child to keep a pet after it follows them home. Some creature followers can also be kept as a pet.
If you wish to adopt children without moving into a new home, you may add a child's bedroom to an already purchased home in a major city.
Ability to hire staff:
Turn followers into stewards, who can supply you with housebuilding materials, furnishings, and staff.
A carriage driver who can take you to small settlements as well as major cities.
A personal bard to perform at your home.
New activities, such as baking, beekeeping, farming, and fishing.
Requirement to protect your house from various enemies such as bandits, giants, skeevers, and more.

I bought it this week, haven't played it yet, will report back regarding its fun quotient.

curious about dawnguard

remind me to never ever have children
i mean i get that this is just the avenue that his adolescent sense of mortality and angst is taking to manifest but holy shit that kid

the only thing frustrating about this game is the bugginess. it's easy as hell otherwise!

tbf, it was a glitch that set off that silliness

kid is either a brat or faking being a brat

tbf, it was a glitch that set off that silliness
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:03 PM

could u tell which quest he was doing? i couldn't make it out. also 99% of youtube is fake

that is the worst age on earth (not a boy, not yet a man) where some boymen on the edge of the bell curve still occasionally have freakouts like little kids, but it's so weird to see it coming out of someone who looks that old that upon witnessing the freakout you just want to quit your job and move out to the middle of the woods and stay there for the rest of your life in isolation.

this is how i usually play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e55P2XF38O0

child otm

"sword him"

My son just says "seriously?!" whenever he dies in-game through some glitch/perceived injustice, then he reloads. Kids need to learn how to die.

my kids take delight in committing some awful act in skyrim, then reloading to undo it. once my daughter killed her wife and threw the body onto the fire in the living room of breezehome. one of their kids walked in, strolled up to the body, cocked her head to one side, and said, "oh. what happened?"

i played dragon's dogma, i believe because of a mention in this thread. i think it was okay? i certainly liked it more before i sat through the terrible, long, final sequence. it is part of that genre of pretend open world rpgs, which tbh i kind of like. some of it was a bit broken, but the pawn idea was cute at least. certainly it was one of the worst plotted games of recent memory, with horrendous no budget voice acting/ translation out of the original french (i assume?). but most of the time it was actually fun to play. the giant monsters were a really nice feature although they got tired eventually and probably weren't hard enough. no real tactics, just doing he same shit over and over to whittle down a massive HP bar.

anyway, pretty good. i would neither recommend nor discourage

PS3 died just before xmas with me about 30% into this game - got a new machine now but cant describe how much losing that saved game hurts

You'll eventually lose game progress with one of the game breaking bugs. This will just get you used to the heartache.

mmo got beat up in beta reviews pretty bad.

xp noted... I feel 30% progress is the point where I might not have the courage to re-start a game (esp one as huge as Skyrim)

based on a day or two of beta testing, i thought the mmo succeeded in feeling more like an elder scrolls game than a mmo, but maybe too much so since there wasn't any clear advantage to working with other people. also having tons of other people running around doing quests in parallel with you but not actually interacting with you kind of breaks immersion, and these games were always mostly about immersion for me.

based on a day or two of beta testing, i thought the mmo succeeded in feeling more like an elder scrolls game than a mmo, but maybe too much so since there wasn't any clear advantage to working with other people. also having tons of other people running around doing quests in parallel with you but not actually interacting with you kind of breaks immersion, and these games were always mostly about immersion for me.

agree on the immersion part. in the single player I would get all anxious sneaking through dungeons and in the mmo I just ran around and really didn't care about stealth (even tho I had a stealth character)

how is stealth even possible as a plausible game mechanic when there's other ppl running around?

I just got Skyrim a few weeks ago (I'm v cutting edge with my gaming). I think I'm fundamentally missing some aspect of how to play this game, because I die constantly and it gets really annoying going back and redoing everything all the time. I read some stuff about levelling and now I'm wondering if I've fucked my character up already somehow, I'm that shit at it.