Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Some of those (Dark dungeons, High-level Draugrs, Kinect voice-activated shouts, Ice and Fire arrows, Giant mudcrab enemy) already exist as PC mods. Frankly I'd prefer patch/DLC content provide more character animations and NPC voice snippets from the same actors, as these are the elements most difficult to mod up. Mounted combat (with associated animations) would probably the most useful to the modding community.

Probably the best patch would be one that allowed Xbox users to try at least a tested subset of PC user created mods (at their own risk). IIRC, on the PC version mods using .esp files are done in a scripting language, so there isn't a problem recompiling them for the Xbox processor.

mods on xbox is never ever ever going to happen i'm afraid

would be pretty cool though!

"Soul Bug familiar" - no I do not want a fucking Navi

Giant mudcrab enemy - attack its weak point for massive soul gems.

Skyrim and Portal: together at last! ???

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Fall_of_the_Space_Core,_Vol_1#Dovahcore_Helmet

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Fall_of_the_Space_Core,_Vol_1, rather

incidentally goole i lolled at yr post but o_O at this:

Dragon mounts -- eh ok

who the hell doesn't want to ride a dragon?

Fall of the Space Core mod, fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iX4tFDmrJ4
Be forewarned, audio recording level was way into the red.

Dear Valve, please stop dicking about making skyrim mods and get on with Half Life 2 E3, ta.

Anyway I freed our great land from the Imperial yoke. Battle for solitude pretty much an anticlimax given that I was effectively invincible. Is there a 'levelling up' discussion to be had? You wouldn't want enemies to level up with you precisely otherwise what would be the point, otoh it's no fun when 95% of the baddies are like so many paper dolls.

wasn't that a huge problem in Oblivion? (my elder scrolls aspie friend said they 'fixed' it in skyrim)

The game doesn't expect players to pursue more than one of the crafting skills. Follow two, or worse three, and the synergies break the game.

Numerous levelling fixes for adversaries are out there. Pluto's Improved Skyrim Experience seems to be getting the most plaudits, as it mostly works by making adversaries act smarter.

xxp: there's talk at Bethesda about making modding/PC mods available on XBox according to several recent articles.

oh fuckin awesome

apart from overhauling the character/skill/perk system to my own manic desires, an AI overhaul would be like the #1 thing i'd ask for

man i just read the changelog at that link sanpaku, all really cool :/

Is anyone here playing above Adept difficulty?

i started at Expert but shifted down to Adept after dying 100 times to a room full of braugh/skeleton dudes

I've played through nearly every dungeon (completing all but thief/DB questlines) at Expert, using a stealth archer/conjurer/illusionist. Ie: practically cheating.

Sneak/muffle/invisibility most of the time. I used to think sneak + archery was overpowered, but I've learned illusion is easily the most overpowered skill ladder. At early levels fury/frenzy is useful to prune groups of living adversaries, but once illusion gets to 90 (and every dead/mechanical creature is subject to its effects) the vanilla game as a challenge is over. Aura Whisper shouts silently detect nearby adversaries around corners without cost in magica. Mayhem doesn't require line of sight, so I could just let groups of adversaries slaughter each other till only one heavily wounded survivor remained. Works equally well sneaking around the base of fort walls at night. The game is more or less completed, and my unused armor skill is in its 20s.

Next playthrough will be with a proper Nord battleaxe slinger, who views magic with disgust. That should be more challenging.

magic is impressive, but now, Minsc leads! swords for everyone!

Finally. Unread books glow (Steam workshop).

:(

http://www.elderscrolls.com/?adam

classy move to redirect main page to that memorial

that's quite sad.

interesting to see how much of that art made it into the final game more or less intact. also to see how many of those drawn environments are cooler than what did!

found some other peeps that are having the same prob i am wrt dumb dogs but they came up with a solution which is pretty smart and makes me feel dumb which is the good old force push shout. havent tried it yet but it might be effective and frankly cathartic to bash lydia into a few walls.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-17-bethesda-skyrim-dlc-to-follow-different-model-to-fallout-3

oh god I figured out how to get skyrim to play on my flat screen no more productivity forever

ha that dlc interview is nearly content free

i'm roaring thru a 2nd playthrough and still have a gay old time

has anyone else found the group of hunters enjoying the hot springs with their clothes off?

sort of, but I found them dead outside the dark brotherhood o_O

just got this game... i made my character this completely depraved looking freak with a massive chin and a horrible moustache. he looks like an orc gary glitter. i tried to kill hadvar almost instantly but he kicked my ass.

my early impression is that it's hard to be really evil, i wanted it to let me slaughter hadvar in cold blood.

there's plenty of stuff where it's absurdly easy and consequence-free to be evil

ah great... i also tried to kill the shopkeeper but he kept coming back to life, i bludgeoned him in the corner for ages. it didn't feel as good as i hoped though, it actually felt like his cottage was a small insignificant part of the world and i had just committed a sordid insignificant act of violence.

After playing about 50 hours of this obsessively over a few weeks I completely stopped. I should really go back and just beat it.

^^^me, p much

I finished the main quest on Sunday after leaving skyrim alone for a few weeks. Skyrim was great fun, but after 111hrs, I'm bored now.

I'm on about 160hrs and I'm not bored yet. Very much in the endgame though, so the fun's coming from trying out stuff I didn't bother with for the rest of the playthough (at the moment that's pickpocketing and magic). Finished everything but the dark brotherhood and daedric quests, probably going to be the first game I ever hit 100% achievements on, want to get that done before ME3 on Friday and then I'll put it away until there's some DLC I guess.

would you say that this game is a good value

I would!

I only get to play sporadically for an hour or two at a time, so generally I just pick a quest and try to clear a dungeon or two associated with it.

i was being facetious! skyrim is an incredible bargain. i only played it about for about 3 weeks before accidentally ditching it (for now - i'll probably go back sometime), and even that was well worth the $.

take the black star, not azura's star. learn from my mistakes.

I keep putting off reading the elder scroll because I want to just keep poking around collecting stuff

also I think I boned myself moneywise by not levelling speech

i never put a perk into speech at all and i have like half a million gold

money in rpgs is always really fucked up and skyrim is no different!

how are you managing to sell shit to ppl? every merchant I go to has like 200 gold

I'm doing the same thing as Dan. Missing three shout words to max those out - once I do that I'll probably read the scroll.

I'm trying to figure out if I want to find the priest that that one daedra in the house wants to chomp on or not; I've already accidentally indebted myself to over half the daedra anyway so I really shouldn't be balking at this dude but I am having MORAL QUANDRIES

it's a fun little sequence. Not as cool as the drinking one, or the dog.

omfg speaking of THE DOG

I really want to kill him, but he makes fighting dragons a lot easier

still THE LITTLE SHIT MUST DIE

the drinking one was fantastic tho

I spent months on this thread complaining about the dog! He made mid-game leveling much much easier. Now that I'm mowing shit down like nobody's business I don't miss him at all.

I ditched the dog p much immediately. really irritating if yr a thief/sneaky type. plus now that I have shadowmere, I have all the tank I could ever hope for