[PC/XB360/PS3] The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

[Silent_Scone]

I agree it does make it slightly more difficult to focus. For the first few hours I was just a jack of all trades

 

[Munson]

What? Just play it and enjoy it. FFS.

 

[Munson]

Did pretty much the whole Thieves Guild quests today.

The Mercer Frey stuff, and the following quests, were alpha. I'm now the leader of the TG. Epic.

Level 30 and starting to get pretty hard.

 

[Nickson]

Did pretty much the whole Thieves Guild quests today.

The Mercer Frey stuff, and the following quests, were alpha. I'm now the leader of the TG. Epic.

Level 30 and starting to get pretty hard.

Easy on the details Roy!

EDIT: Still waiting for my game to arrive :dapprove:

 

[Munson]

Hardly a spoiler.

 

[Darren S]

What? Just play it and enjoy it. FFS.

Chill, Winston.

D.

 

[Munson]

It starts to get pretty amazing when you begin to feel powerful.

 

[tyranical]

I'm pretty much done with Skyrim.

I did nearly all the quests I could find and just finished the main quest now tonight, level 55.

Good game but got a bit boring at the end as I could literally one shot any normal thing and was shooting down dragons in like 4 arrows...

 

[iain187]

I wouldn't like it if because at the start I picked x then later on I can't really do y - this game is massive if i had to start over and repeat parts to do all the various things, I wouldn't bother.

maybe your after a 'casul mode vs purist mode' where one person can just grind everything they want and the other person plays with 'traditional' characters... but I am guessing they have made it this way to appeal to the WoW/CoD 'lets grind all the achievements' school of thought.

 

[AK]

I might not go out on Friday and just play this, lol.

 

[Alex H]

I might not go out on Friday and just play this, lol.

Do it Gay Kay!

 

[Silent_Scone]

What? Just play it and enjoy it. FFS.

I am. Well now...been in Orlando for 2 weeks. Time to catch up with you fagz lols. I'm level 28 I think

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[Munson]

Baller.

Started getting into the Dark Brotherhood stuff now. Seems cool.

Also killed a bricked quest using the console. One of them is un-un-brickable, but it's a miscellaneous quest so f**k it.

 

[iain187]

Just laid down some beatings in solitude... After I was done I thought I'd pop into the Bards college... Is it worth doing?

 

[Silent_Scone]

3D and Jet lag has got to be a recipe for a stroke

 

[Alex H]

If anyone's struggling for a bit of Gold, there's a little glitch I found (still works after 1.3 update).

Spoiler

Head directly uphill from Sightless Pit and you'll find three skeletons guarding an altar. Kill the skeleton people and one of them will be carrying a copy of 'The doors of oblivion'. Take all his s**t and search him again. The book re-appears in his inventory, even though it says he's empty. Take book. Repeat. They sell for up to 50 gold each, only weigh 1 so you can carry s**t loads of them.

 

[Alex H]

Take a companion with you too for extra weight bearing help - you can only do the above once.

 

[Munson]

I wish shop keepers actually had some money. I have like a trillion dollars worth of gear, but no one wants it or can afford it. Close to 70,000 now but could be a LOT richer.

FFS.

 

[Wilkeh]

Hardly a spoiler.

I think he was referring to your erect member.

 

[Scutch]

I wish shop keepers actually had some money. I have like a trillion dollars worth of gear, but no one wants it or can afford it. Close to 70,000 now but could be a LOT richer.

FFS.

If you have the spare perk points, not far into the Speech tree you can gain the ability to sell all items to any vendor, and to make a one-off 500g investment with vendors, which gives them at least an extra 500g cash every time they reset. However, making this investment with the vendor in Riverrun means that he will always have 10k on him. Very handy.

Although, saying that, I don't know why you'd need more gold. I'm the same - I have 90k now and can create all my own weapons and armour etc. I don't actually need the gold anymore.

 

[Darren S]

If you have the spare perk points, not far into the Speech tree you can gain the ability to sell all items to any vendor, and to make a one-off 500g investment with vendors, which gives them at least an extra 500g cash every time they reset. However, making this investment with the vendor in Riverrun means that he will always have 10k on him. Very handy.

Although, saying that, I don't know why you'd need more gold. I'm the same - I have 90k now and can create all my own weapons and armour etc. I don't actually need the gold anymore.

That will be since you gained 98 skill in the loan shark perk....

D.

 

[Rasclart]

I entirely agree - and that's what I'm getting at. But Skyrim makes it almost impossible for you to do that. You class them as 'key perks' at that's exactly what they should be - the foundation of skill sets that makes up your character. But nothing would stop your character right now, right this very minute changing everything about what he/she is. You could ignore destruction and conjuration. You could sell all your bows and never fire another arrow. You might never go in sneak mode ever again and instead make your character some two-handed badass who has super-high smithing skills and alchemy to boot - to name but three abilities.

A lot of people might see that as a good thing, but I think it just waters-down your character development as a whole. It's unlikely that people will put 100 hours into Skyrim and then look back and say "I completed that with a character who was exceptional at archery, a conjuration mage on the side and with a bit of alchemy thrown in." Instead, it's more likely to be "I finished Skyrim with a Nord, who had maximum two-handed, topped out heavy armour, not bad archery, brilliant smithing, great alchemy, whoop-ass enchanting, exceptional picklocking, world destroying destruction magic, awesome illusion skills and my sneaking was getting there too". Really.

It just all gets meaningless.

D.

It is just a game Are we not losing sight of that? Surely if you want that sort of thing you play WOW or something similar?

It all boils back to making it appealing to mass gaming and geek gaming. There has to be a balance. I do not have the time to spedn 100 hours on this to be honest, so the variety of what you can do and the paths you can go down is pretty good in my eyes. As was said being forced down a path and the realising it was no good means starting over again. Which most people probably do not have the time or inclination for.

Gaming is changing I feel. More towards appealing to the casual gamer rather than the hardcore geek, they are a dieing breed. I would rather be out on my push bike than playing 8 hours solid of Skyrim and I think the majority are the same.

 

[Cookie]

After putting 55 hours into this I'm a little bored

Will come back to it after Xmas I think

55 hours on a game which cost me 34.99 is still a pretty damn good return IMO

 

[Christopher]

Cabbalanche!!!

 

[LIL B]

LOL

 

[Adam]

lol

 

[Cookie]

That is what games were invented for

 

[iain187]

whiterun stormcloak camp are like those imperials are f**king pesky prankers

 

[Munson]

Bloke needs a new CPU by the looks of things.

 

[MikeoftheQuays]

re: the specialisation issue - I love the fact that you're not pigeonholed at any point. If you wanna do something just go and practice at it and you get better at it. What's more liberating than that? You want to be a mage that wears heavy armour and throws round a giant warhammer? Fuckin go for it! It always annoyed me that there was arbitrary restraints on what you could and couldn't do in RPG's.

I still think there's scope for different characters too. I'm over 100 hours in, level 45ish and have yet to cast a single spell, wear a piece of heavy armour, dual wield weapons or use a double handed weapon. So there's room for 2 more play-throughs yet - A dedicated mage and a super-heavy tank type dude.

 

[Rasclart]

I used my first Magic last night on the quest to get the Dragonstone. I set fire to the levelled up Dragr (Spelling?) and then smashed his dirty face in with my Mace. GET SOMMMME!!

I quite like whacking stuff to be honest. I am a Nord (I think!!) if such a thing exists. Only on Level 4-5 I think but enjoying it. As I am leaning towards the above what quests or things should I be aiming for?

 

[Christopher]

Sounds like you're a Spellsword character (lol @ how g33ky that sounds)

Probably focus on Heavy Armour, Two-Handed and Destruction Magic.

Smash sh*t up then burn it to the ground.

I've only ever played as an Assassin and Thief, so I'm not sure if there's any tricks for fast levelling of those skills.

I'd encourage anyone to practice Smithing though. Just spam iron daggers and you'll get to 100 Smithing in about 30 mins.

 

[iain187]

if you have the money to afford all the iron ignots etc it took me ages to do it (smithing 100)

 

[MikeoftheQuays]

I mined all mine. And butchered countless wild furry animals for the leather too.

Took me ages too but then it should do really - Smithing is spectacularly powerful. Once you're getting to legendary status on your gear it renders all the crap you can buy/pick up complete junk unless it's got some powerful enchantment on it

 

[TimR26]

If anyone's struggling for a bit of Gold, there's a little glitch I found (still works after 1.3 update).

Spoiler

Head directly uphill from Sightless Pit and you'll find three skeletons guarding an altar. Kill the skeleton people and one of them will be carrying a copy of 'The doors of oblivion'. Take all his s**t and search him again. The book re-appears in his inventory, even though it says he's empty. Take book. Repeat. They sell for up to 50 gold each, only weigh 1 so you can carry s**t loads of them.

Take a companion with you too for extra weight bearing help - you can only do the above once.

I've got 1548 books stored in my home so far plus more to collect LOL

 

[silentsnake]

Traded it in for the 2nd time last night. Regret it, again. Need to move on though :dapprove:

 

[silentsnake]

Traded it in for the 2nd time last night. Regret it, again. Need to move on though :dapprove:

 

[iain187]

After putting 55 hours into this I'm a little bored

Will come back to it after Xmas I think

55 hours on a game which cost me 34.99 is still a pretty damn good return IMO

I'm at 56 hours and not sure where to go next either, i'll play after i go back through some other games

 

[Russ_16v]

Im 58 hours in and still love it! Im level 27, average stats, joined the DB, Companions (Am now a werewolf which is pretty cool) still to join the thieves and im not head of anything - I just spend so much of my time wandering, and taking my time, not doing all of one line of quests but i tend to keep alternating - and about 40 side missions open. Still enjoying it soooo much.

 

[Russ_16v]

Oh I will state that the way I play the game is not to rush to complete any particular quests or to get to be the head of any guild - I generally just wander about, try to fast travel as little as possible, talk to everyone I meet, stop in inn's and bars, it spreads the game out for me and as you can see by my low level (27) the game will last a very long time for me