I'm put off by the concept of MMORPGs, due to the Hell is Other People factor tbrh. 10 mins on WoW back in the day was enough for me.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
If I could play it on a private server with a few mates it might be a diff story.
i tried eso for a couple of days. nice looking game but main problem i had with it is that it doesn't have the elder scrolls feel and the mmo part of it is kind of wack. so failing on those 2 fronts, its kinda hard to recommend
i did put boot camp on my macbook recently and installed skyrim and dark souls. looks really good, can't wait to start modding it
― am0n, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
this story is amazing
https://twitter.com/PatrickLenton/status/717163582115307521
― ive seen enough Good Wife episodes (s.clover), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
Most followers have "protected" status or something, but I always fight hard and expect them to just fill in the gaps with magic etc.—side note, is there a follower who just heals you repeatedly? that would be good. But I guess the dogs are not "essential" quest items or whatever. My loyal vampire hunting dog fought along side me for so long, but then, in the dwemer ruins, his AI pathfinding struggled to get out of the water. He just ran and ran and ran into the side of the underwater wall. I thought that leaving would cause him to teleport to me, like Serana always does, but when I went back I found him floating in the water.
... Just floating there...
I debated going to get the other vampire hunting dog I didn't choose, but it was just too sad, so I left.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 8 April 2016 00:28 (eight years ago) link
Huh. I thought you personally had to kill your followers/companions for them to die. Goes to show what I know.
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 April 2016 00:37 (eight years ago) link
I liked having a companion but he and any other followers in quests kept getting in the bloody way because im a distance fighter and I'd keep inadvertently shooting everyone on my team, to cranky shouts of "hey! I'm on YOUR SIDE!".
...my bf swapped the PS3 for the PS4 in my little cave recently so now I cant play Skyrim anymore and I am sadface :(
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Friday, 8 April 2016 00:49 (eight years ago) link
(unless I go and buy a PS4 copy and START ALL OVER AGAIN I suppose)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkS4ebfDYsU
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 2 May 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Started playing this again after F4 turned out to be meh. Going as a goth magic caster this time round since I didn't really do the magic stuff last time. Deep into it already.
I spent an evening whacking a load of mods on, using this video as a base (there's a handy googledoc with all the mods). It makes Skyrim look like it came out in the last 6 months, relaly beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sg8tqqrKtI
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
when's this getting HD remade
― self-clowning cozen of ILX (cozen), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
do steam folks get the remaster free or is it being treated as a 'new' game?
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
remake comes out in October.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
And yeah it's a free update for existing PC owners.
― JimD, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
My understanding is one has to have the base game and all the DLC for the free Skyrim remaster.
― gesticulating Pez dispenser (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 September 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
what, you can't simply walk into Markarth?
― wan bobolink (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 September 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
i have been thinking about playing this again. it was way better than any of the Fallouts imo.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 2 September 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
I think back to Bergson's formulation of comedy as "something mechanical encrusted on the living." Bethesda games, to me, are about "something living encrusted on the mechanical." For all their clunkiness, there are always little events that seem unscripted or spontaneous and therefore joyful. They're usually bugs, to be fair, but I'm glad Bethesda doesn't try to limit them by designing more limited games.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 2 September 2016 08:09 (seven years ago) link
Inspired by this revival, I loaded up an old saved game and just started killing everyone and everything I encountered, which quickly spiraled out of control and got pretty exciting just before the game inevitably froze up completely. Ahhh, there's that old Skyrim experience I'd forgotten!
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 September 2016 12:23 (seven years ago) link
no mods for ps4 version
― am0n, Thursday, 15 September 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/b31c4ced285e73f40c884d009c5a7da6-650-80.png
I only play strategy games and first person RP/adventure, where a 90° FOV on a desktop monitor is way more immersive. Consoles cost more than an adequate video card. Mods are icing for me.
TBF, the last console I personally owned was a Mattel Intellivision.
― gesticulating Pez dispenser (Sanpaku), Thursday, 15 September 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
i was hanging out w some people irl and someone mentioned Skyrim. then someone asked me if I knew about the best build. he said to put all your points into stealth and magic, so that you can sneak up to anything and do massive crit damage. you cast a stealth spell and then do the leveled up surprise attack. apparently dragons will go down in 2-3 hits. has anyone tried this?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 17 November 2016 04:33 (seven years ago) link
I bought this a couple weeks back in anticipation of getting a PS4 copy of the game:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MJNhHxZ7L._AC_UL320_SR300,320_.jpg
1200 pages of awesome.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 18 November 2016 05:18 (seven years ago) link
wow - what is that?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 18 November 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
My longest-played character has legendary stealth (making him effectively invisible while in crouch, even in broad daylight) AND some sort of life-sucking cloak that instantly chips away at enemy health whenever he's nearby AND legendary two-handed abilities + hardcore magically-crafted weapons that one-hit kill pretty much everything but a dragon. So leveling up hardcore on enchanting, crafting, one- or two-handed combat (depending on your preference, as I also have daggers that fuck some shit up), and stealth has proven to be a pretty solid plan.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
i have perfect stealth and it makes you far from invisible in daylight (on PS3 anyway) - but it does allow you to grind thru dungeons picking off everything at a distance (especially combined with Aura Whisper) so a bunch of my other skills have basically awesomed up in its wake
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
Huh. It's possible that have some additional enhancements that enable my daylight invisibility. It's been a while.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to make my dude as close as I could get to omnipotent and invulnerable. Which, unsurprisingly, took some of the fun out of playing.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
i dunno if Stealth at 100 is legendary or not tbf, and since i got it there i've stopped wearing stealth-enhancing armours, so maybe i cd be stealthier
anyway, i do love a good sneak and throat slash, so yeah
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
basically maxed out stealth, then armourer, then enchantment. but aggravatingly now it's taking a lot longer to level and i have hardly got any of the enchantment perks. next time i do this i'd grab them earlier i think
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's when you have to start using the legendary skills function. Bite the bullet, legendary out your hard-won level 100 stealth, watch it drop to 50 or whatever, and then use some secondary skills as a crutch as you slowly build that skill level back up and, in so doing, slowly crank your character level up, as well. AFAIK, that's the only way to effectively level up once you start getting really powerful because using 100-level skills doesn't contribute anything to your overall character level.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
i've been thinking about losing the armorer, it's pretty easy to build back and i've got a spare set of dragonscale gear ready to enchant when i've got all the perks. just can't quite bring myself to do it yet tho, feels a bit of a cheat somehow.
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
I kinda get that, but it does crank the game up a notch when a well-honed skill you've grown reliant upon is suddenly stripped away. It's a weird system of leveling, though, for sure.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
i never played this past the patch where you could go legendary and turn your perks in. i did have carefully worked out character development plans; alchemy, smithing and enchanting at 100 were always part of it. the interactions of those three at max levels was just unholy.
― goole, Friday, 18 November 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
i don't even really need the stealth at this stage! i wander about in the open and anything that comes at me gets fucked up sword and shield style pretty quickly so it's not like i can't do this but it's not like i need to really, just have a yen to make a ridiculously enchanted suit of armour
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 November 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
Its the Prima special edition guide for the new re release. Hard cover, 1200 pages, weighs a ton. Heaps of excellent info.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 November 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
BTW downloaded and installed the new versh from steam on weekend and tried to run it - ASUS laptop with NVidia GT720M.
It wont run - wont even fucking *start* - and I dont know if its a too low specced card, or some random windows or nvidia bug.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 November 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
too bad one can't transfer saved games from PS3 to PS4 - not sure I have the heart to start from scratch on the new version
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 21 November 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
Yeah same :/ I mean i wasnt massively far in, but ugh, it seems silly.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
Ugh this thread is making me wanna buy skyrim for the 3rd time.
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 08:09 (seven years ago) link
I got the new download working on my PC. Bye bye life.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 27 November 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
BTW this is lovely for stressed out days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPZtRmx1Dyk
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 28 November 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
I've picked this up again over the past week. I'm still shocked that, after playing it for hundreds of hours, there are still places I haven't seen and quests I haven't started and doors I haven't figured out how to unlock and stuff I haven't leveled up, etc. I think you could easily milk this game for a decade (assuming continued interest in doing so).
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 November 2016 05:49 (seven years ago) link
Picked up the remaster at Gamestop's Black Friday (Weekend) Sale yesterday. Trepidatious about playing it again.
― Gukbe, Monday, 28 November 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
£3 on steam right now
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 28 November 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
I got that and the 2k texture pack mod, feeling that the remastered edition might be a bit of a scam that should contain a mandatory warning on the box that it has been rendered obsolete by the witcher 3
I also got the mod that lets you have a cloak
The sunsets are very nice
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 28 November 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Did the OG game used to have rain and fog? It seems thats new, but maybe I'm just not remembering.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 28 November 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
going back round again to play levels I haven't previously and, albeit the Stormcloaks are mostly pretty racist, the game doesn't give you much reason to join the Legion imo, torturers, appeasers, general douchebags as they are. would appreciate a bit more incentive to join up early on, apart from that one guy who you escape Helgen with being hospitable. even he sits around going "I love massacring me some Stormcloaks" once he gets home.
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 08:42 (six years ago) link
actually I only want a better reason to join up for dubious reasons of character internal role-playing consistency, I'm fairly comfortable with the way the Elder Scrolls consistently portrays the colonial power as torturers, appeasers, douchebags etc
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 08:43 (six years ago) link
joined the Legion simply cuz they were the first ones to ask me to join
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link