Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

i still havent used any of my perks, which i know is stupid, but i am *paralyzed by options*

totally understandable imo. tho some of them are great. the archery perks really make archery fun. esp the one that slows down time when you zoom in. that one perk is really a chunk of my enjoyment of the game.

I am only a level five and I already have two spells. But I really don't have a knack on how to use them well yet. I'm not sure how precisely I have to aim or how close I need to be.

totally planning on nerding out to this tomorrow (day off)

i am magic tanking btw. Level 13. i'm basically healing/oakflesh, then flame or firebolt attack then switching to axe/shield up close or greatsword if i think i can just smack them the fuck down

Didn't want to scroll through this in case there are spoilers. But before I buy this, are you guys running into a lot of game-killing bugs? What I mean is stuff like getting stuck in walls, game freezes, etc. I'm still trying to figure out if I should just wait for a patch before buying as I've read there are many general bugs -- somthing along the lines of random horses obtaining Pegasus-like powers and other assorted wackiness.

only bugs i've run into were freezes (only 2 after many hours of playing) and they didn't corrupt my save or anything. i just reset the xbox and went back to playing.

My game has frozen a couple times. I had to reboot once.

I'm on ps3.

i know this is begging for trouble, but no freezes yet for me. 360

I don't think I've had a freeze yet or encountered too much physics weirdness even (360)

Man, this Let's Play guy I'm watching is so dumb.

in my head i keep calling this elder scrolls vee

2 crashes on the first day I think, none since

I had four thugs try to kill me for pickpocketing somebody in Riften, despite the fact that a dragon was destroying the city at the time, it turned into a bit of a ruck with the guards, and then three characters for a minor sidequest got set on fire and died, so I reloaded

the second time, an old beggar woman I'd previously given money to ran up to the thugs and started stabbing them, allowing me to hit them in the head with an axe and throw them in the canal

It's fair enough if people you've crouched next to suspiciously for ages later twig that you robbed them, but I hope people you've robbed with immaculate stealth don't get to just psychically figure it out and send dudes after you

I had a fight with a moody woman on a moonlit bridge in the wilderness; when she died northern lights appeared

I played Oblivion on a tiny standard definition TV so I still habitually call this game 'Skyrm' - pronounced 'Skyrm' because I couldn't read the text properly and that was what I thought it said every time they referenced it

No game-killing bugs. People get stuck against rocks and a crucial enemy got jammed in a mountain at one point, but the game seems fairly adept at sorting out its own bugs as they happen.

It's like the list of bugs was so insurmountable that they found it easier to write AI into the game that deals with the bugs as they happen.

just found a book called "Notes on Racial Phylogeny and Biology: Seventh Edition"

it speculates about which of the Elder Scrolls' races can mate with one another to produce offspring

there's an app for that

My housemate just now, in an email containing a sentence I dont think i EVER expected I'd ever read:

"I have no idea how they managed to get the buckets on their heads so easily, I must've spent about 5 minutes gently rubbing a mans bucket on his face without anywhere near as much success."

irl lols at "gently rubbing a mans bucket on his face"

Haah yeah that was what killed me.

THE FUCK

I have been playing this game for 7–8 hrs so scenarios such as bucket-face-rubbing have thus far eluded me but seriously WHAT

u see, when a dark elf loves a khajit very much, and they decide they want to have a baby...

<consults "Notes on Racial Phylogeny and Biology: Seventh Edition" to make sure this scenario is valid...>

Adam: see upthread if u missed it, apparently chucking buckets over merchants heads blinds them and you can pilfer from their stores.

Lord only knows what anyone was thinking to even TRY this.

hm. so the ai is smart enough to let you pickpocket someone, trick you into thinking you got a way with it, and then later get swarmed by a band of bloodthirsty mercenaries out for revenge. but if you throw a bucket on someone's head and steal all their shit, they have no idea who might have stolen their goods?

That is unspeakably awesome, and now your email quote makes sense xp

I had one hard-crash about 2 hours in where "Skyrim has stopped working" (PC, obv), but otherwise I've not seen any bugs, not even things getting caught in the scenery, so colour me surprised.

oh, and from upthread:
Do you have no be still when you do it, or can you be moving forward (or etc.) and then change direction?

Nope, you don't have to be still; you can use your power-attacks while moving. When doing the Golden Claw and that Draugr Overlord got out of his box at the end I decided to just full on sprint and him and over-head smash with the two-handed sword. It was pretty satisfying, even if it only did about 25% damage.

i was using the Whirlwind Sprint shout to cruise through Whiterun until a guard tracked me down and told me to knock it off because people were getting freaked out. i reluctantly agreed.

just found a book called "Notes on Racial Phylogeny and Biology: Seventh Edition"

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it speculates about which of the Elder Scrolls' races can mate with one another to produce offspring

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about time

this is something i have wondered about since morrowind's "ahnassi, a special friend" quest

i assume you guys have all noted that reading books will raise attributes sometimes, but have you run across the ones that trigger questlines? pretty awesome idea imo.

I need to become better at watching the HUD, I was killed last night because I noticed the one zombie running at me with a sword and completely missed the two with bows standing in the back shooting the shit out of me until I was suddenly low health

healing in WoW has ruined my ability to process visual game info

i bought a house just to store my books.
actually want to set aside time to read my ingame library! some of the writing is pretty good.
and there are SO MANY books... i swear i saw a volume 23 of one longer story.

Which reminds me that a friend posted this the other day.

Bah, I mean posted a link to.

had my first random WTF moment when a draugr came falling out of the sky, smashing against the top of menhir and sliding to the ground. I looted him and went my merry way.

well huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE4uzGaQDQg

lol, always love bethesda's ponderous pointless sitting animations.

Just finished the Molag Bal quest -- totally awesome and everyone should do it. (Plus it has a sweet prize at the end.)

this game is really p freaking awesome

some of these side quests (and not even -- just random caves + dungeons) are more exciting and well designed than some game's main quests

OMG that arrow YT made me burst out laughing, I wasnt quite expecting what happened.

How was that possible? You'd have to be some sort of trigonometry genius to figure that out.

ok, i'm a few hours into this, at level 5? or something, and it's awesome! i'm playing a thiefy type wood elf

i'm a huge complainer about all games as u all kno, and i don't have anything bad to say so far about this. the only time i was like whaaat was finding some gold pieces on a dead animal.

it's fucking beautiful. and the UI is so well designed. the controls make sense, it's kind of hard, the story seems interesting. love love love that the first few minutes throw a choice at you w/o letting you know it's a choice. the radically simplified no-class no-attributes character system is brilliant. freedom, man!

instead of following the dude out of the first dungeon i thought, well ok my character isn't from here and doesn't want to be in this mess, how bout i try to head south and see what happens? cleared a small cave with wolves in it, found a small keep called "bloodlet throne" filled with vampires that i had to leg it out of eventually, now i'm in a nice little house that has some kind of secret bandit mining operation underneath it.

The design of Markarth and the area around it is awesome

This has basically been my entire Saturday. Gotta hand it to Bethesda, they killed it with this one. So much fun. Can't wait to see what they do with the next Fallout.

Yeah me too.