Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

i'm not a *thing*, but *is thing*

classic move

if that motherfucker was for real he would've gone thru this when daggerfall got rereleased as GOTY edition for all those fucking newbs to pick up so fuck him long live Battlespire

did he play the fucking awful redguard adventure game? hell no little bitch.

I has a house

50 grand for a house seems prohibitively expensive; how did you scrape up the cash?

isn't it 5000 for a house? at least in [name of town that i can never remember where you first become thane]

you might be right, i may be misremembering.
5K is still hefty but doable.

I should buy this game so I can offer ya'll good subprime loans on your thatchroof cottages

I have trouble spending money in this game, at least on items. The prices always seem like a bit of a ripoff, considering you can usually get the best item in the store for free through questing. I suppose I should be saving my money for training and spell tomes.

$$$ trade your cash for daedric artifacts $$$

i'm also always wondering what to do with shit like dragon scales. if i had a house i guess i'd keep it there, but as an already highly-encumbered dude trudging around skyrim i pretty much just sold them immediately or probably not a good price.

The prices always seem like a bit of a ripoff, considering you can usually get the best item in the store for free through questing.

this is like every swords and sorcerors game ever? like in diablo II, only a fool would buy his weapons from the blacksmith!

I got some daedric something or other from the god of the hunt and I have no idea what it is/what it does.. I should google it or something.

i bet it's badass

it involves turning into a wereworlf if you have lycanthropy.. fuck that noise. I ran into a couple vampires earlier this morning and freaked out that I would get vampirism..

they got rid of them for oblivion but when you became a vampire in daggerfall you belonged to a particular house of vampires w/ varying benefits and disadvantages. it was very Vampire: the Masquerade'esque

are there whores

vampire whores?

no just whore whores

i'm sure there must be tho now that i think about it i can't remember running into any yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j50u0zUeCmU

i got turned into a vampire.
weaker in sunlight
"possessed of an unearthly thirst"
Took a cure disease potion.
the end.

no shit? that's all it takes to get rid of vampirism these days? the alchemy field has really made some strides over the years...

i think you can also go to a shrine.

in the old days you'd have to find a vampire hunter and get him some ingredients so he could make a cure for you.

ok i have this now due to crafty trading at gamestop

stupid being at work

how the hell have they created the flowing streams of water in this game? shit looks incredible.

TBF that vampirism/cure thing was the same in Oblivion.

Yeah this is a slow starter huh

I got a pretty dope staff valued at 1800 gold twice cuz the staff fell off the body after I killed the dude, then appeared in the inventory of the body too. sweeeeeeet.

jjj: yes but once it gets all four wheels on the ground, whoa nellie

I thought that was a joke because it starts with your execution being interrupted by a dragon burning down a castle

yeah but that intro part's not all that fun, it's basically just a tutorial. the game really picks up when you go into your first dungeon.

Or at the very least when you get out into the open world.

it was that dungeon that got me and the realization that what i thought was gonna be a five minute bullshit excursion was actually a really well crafted trip into the bowels of the earth and each new room opened up into a fresh, unique exciting chunk of architecture

I'm having to curb my competionist tendencies with this, and it feels odd. Usually in a town like Whiterun I'd make sure I'd exhausted all the sidequets before pressing ahead with the main...but the more I clear the more it generates for me, I need to force myself to let go and just move on.

yeah you can't complete all the quests, it'll just generate more. its usually pretty obvious which ones are the main scripted quests and which are the generated ones though.

Already I'm treating this as the last-thing-before-bed relaxing random mission type game that Morrowind was so good for. I'll do the main quest if it's the low-hanging fruit of the minute, otherwise I'll do whatever. Give me a thing and I will do it.

i.e. last night it sent me on a big long mission to find THE SEPTUM OF GOR-BLAGUÜL or some such and at the very end it said "FAIL, SOME GUY BEAT YOU TO IT, NOW GO HERE INSTEAD". Ordinarily I'd be razzed off but with Skyrim I'm not invested in the individual goal so much as the overall experience.

I dunno, I'd find that annoying! I guess it depends how immersive it all is tho.

pickpocketed a guard and got away with it.
wandered out of the city and hey, here's three massive guys he sent to kill me.
Which they do.
Like fifteen times.
Until I just take off running and they get hung up on a bug that keeps them trapped in a small area. So i jump up, fire magic at them to kill them and fall back. and do that like fifteen times.
Some of the glitchy combat makes this not very fun sometimes.

i thought they only send the guards when you don't get away with it. otherwise... how does he know it was you???

i have no idea! but when i ganked the thugs there was a contract on me from a guard in their pockets saying "kill that dirty thief"

does it not tell you if you got caught? that'd be sweet

oh man the possibility that sometimes this game pretends you have successfully pickpocketed someone but then sends powerful assassins to kill you for it is the single best thing i have read about it so far

They were RIDICULOUSLY overpowered; three guys in heavy armor who appeared as soon as i walked out of town, said "We're here to teach you a lesson", surround me and then bang the shit out of me.
Seriously, I kept dying for like ten minutes until I finally leapt over the top one and just lit out running off the side of a cliff on some omar shit.

Already I'm treating this as the last-thing-before-bed relaxing random mission type game that Morrowind was so good for. I'll do the main quest if it's the low-hanging fruit of the minute, otherwise I'll do whatever. Give me a thing and I will do it.

i haven't had much spare time so i've kind of been playing it this way too, and really enjoying it! after thinking about enchanting again (i was whining about it earlier), i realized that the combination of me being a really low-level enchanter and the fact that only filled gem i had was something called a "Petty gem" probably resulted in the really weak results. i'll probably continue to enchant shit, in the hopes that a few weeks i'll be enchanting everything with Inflict Diarrhea

i like that this game is happy at any time to kill you. idk if i am just pushing forward too hard for my level, but i got killed a bunch of times on the thousand steps. fucking troll asshole. i am level 5 btw.

also as an added bonus that def taught me to follow RPG tradition and remember to save often.