Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

guys I actually paid money for an iPhone app that helps with alchemy (basically just give it your inventory and it'll tell you what's available)

That's a real AA level confession.

haha that's only cos if yr on pc it's a bitch to flip to the free webapps amirite

Started this in earnest last Friday. On Monday night, when I was wandering around Blackreach picking up 30 specimens of Crimson Nirnroot, I decided I might have a problem and took the day off yesterday. Came back with a vengeance today though. Neverending. Beautiful game. I never get into these sorts of things but I find myself really looking forward to side quests. I've also found that the whole Winterhold College sidequest is a pretty big quest in an of itself. Would be kind of awesome if it tied in with the larger narrative.

yeah, it's when the sidequests' sidequests have sidequests that you start to wonder at how big this game is and what an achievement it is despite all the bugs and other stuff people are bitching about online.

enh

never mind the quality, etc

i mean obviously i'm never going to play this but basically my idea of it is that it's like reading a pretty decent d&d sourcebook except every fifteen pages someone snatches it from you and hits you in the face with it and then you have to grab the book back and find your page again

also grinding

'smithing' and 'alchemy' should be banned from videogames

you all suck

btw can I just say, ravage magicka potions are amazing

i mean obviously i'm never going to play this but basically my idea of it is that it's like reading a pretty decent d&d sourcebook except every fifteen pages someone snatches it from you and hits you in the face with it and then you have to grab the book back and find your page again

More like every fifteen pages page there is a malapropism which is more a cause for wry amusement than annoyance.

Spent some time in the alchemists shop in Solitude using their alchemy table, except they closed shortly after I started. For the next (game) hour the shopkeeper and her assistant could be heard complaining in the background - "Please leave. You need to leave, now. Leave before i call the guards. It's time for you to go. You need to leave, now" &c &c.

xp invisibility potions my current fave "where did you go OW where did you go OW "

magicka posion are pretty funny when you completely drain some guy.

one thing that needs to be tweaked is fear/frenzy poisons. by the time you are making them you can't help but one shot the only levels they effect.

invisibility is fun but it should at least drop you out of aggro.

i feel like sneaking should be much harder in this

I know invisibility doesn't really stop guards coming up and whacking you on the head but can they identify you if you commit a crime while under the effect? Can you still rack up a bounty?

i mean obviously i'm never going to play this

Cool! Catch you in the other threads.

had an interesting thing happen last night. so i've made a bunch of insane gear. walking somewhere, i came upon a group of bandits who were traveling. this seemed unique to me; bandits are usually stationed at a location. i just walked up to them, thinking they were one of the stormcloak/imperial random encounters.

i got pretty close before they became hostile. using said insane gear i ripped through three of the four really fast, one-hit killing at least one of them. the last one went into the flee/cowering routine without me hitting him at all! he was saying something like "i cannot best you". never happened before.

That happens if you do a fear spell, sounds like the same effect happens if you terrorize a guy

Can't get past some sort of fireball trap in Labrynthium. This might be when I finally give up on this damn thing and get my life back.

have you tried shout-sprinting past it

I keep shout-sprinting right into the fireball.

Also don't forget to use wards.

I got the steady ward tome right before entering the fireball hall of hell. I tried it and I just died closer to the gem stones that seem to control it. Will pull it out and shout sprint and see what's up.

i don't remember where that is, but if you are running into those pillar things with a soul gem on top that shoots fireballs, you can shoot an arrow at the gem to knock it out, and can usually creep into a spot to do it w/o it going off

I think I ended up using a blizzard scroll or something

slow time shout + fast healing maybe

I don't remember how I got past them actually, I think I was able to sneak past one and then sprint past the next one? I don't remember exactly what I did because I don't remember having a problem getting past them.

^^ yeah this actually - i think i did labyriwhatever really really early on, so maybe it scales up? although i wouldn't think that the traps would

I bet that first shout you get would probably dislodge it too

I know the bit you mean. I did unrelenting force and knocked the gem out of the top.

is this the thread for single guys

No.

soon maybe

pretty sure this is the one you are looking for

skyrim : lj :: dark souls : dj martian

lol so single.

I used the ethereal shout and just casually strolled through.

btw I can play really well for a while and then get completely stuck on some bullshit little thing like this. probably why i never get very far in RPGs.

soon maybe

― goole

Only if you ban girls from thread and if you try that I will dual-wield firebolt you to a crisp, n'wah.

/rpg

not sure if you can you be single and dual wield

when I firebolt wield with my left hand it feels like a stranger is firebolt wielding.

try it with a frost spell and you will never need to leave the house again

Talos wept

i'm a level 19 Nord with a one-armed Orc Axe and I can't make a dent in Morekai or whatever. Frustrating..

glitch! he got stuck on the staircase and didn't do anything so I just pelted him with arrows from above. <3 u Bethesda

I got attacked by a random nord for no reason last night, coming away from the "gate to the rest of tamriel that you can't go through until the DLC comes out". Maybe she thought I was invading skyrim or something?

she didn't have a name or a job like most other denizens, just "Nord"

Ran past Markarth as a werewolf and scared a couple of guards, went back there hours later and I had 1000 bounty. How did they know it was me?? I was incensed.

Just started my first dwemer dungeon and I there's something about it which I'm finding really effectively creepy, in a way no other bits of the game have been.

Yeh, the steampunk Dwemer dungeons are pretty spooky. I'm still confused how my arrows manages to do any damage to a mechanical ball of metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEMD28MMtNg