Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

even all of the fantasy world sex was not enough for Game of Thrones, so they had to borrow a little from Blind Date and the Bachelor. sorry about that wedding night, bachelor!

holy god played too many hours of this last night

I had to restrain myself from turning it on at 11:45 last night because I knew I would play until 3

haha i can echo both of those sentiments

echoechoecho

come on skyrim, drop in price you dick

need to bring bo'bahg into life

honestly though as someone who plays maybe A game a year, owns a mac, and has never owned a console, i've just been giddy being able to play something so good. the last sandbox game i played was GTAsomething, years ago, for a few days while at a friend's house. also WoW, i guess. i feel like i got to skip over years of bad gaming and had this dropped in my lap.

mostly its the size of it, there's just so much to DO, and theyve managed to avoid making it grind-y. like, it seems like you could finish the main story (barely begun), the guild quests (i'm doing thief+assassin), and just dick around leveling crafting skills and still have fun with it.

do these games typically have DLC/expansion packs?

this will almost certainly have DLC. From what I understand, someone's found Oblivion sketched into the code outside of the accessible game; sounds likely that they'll be adding that entire world as an expansion.

dang

of course i probably won't be able to play the expansion stuff, since my copy is cracked and in some weirdo wrapper, but maybe they'll have a legit mac version out someday

someone's found Oblivion sketched into the code outside of the accessible game; sounds likely that they'll be adding that entire world as an expansion.

wat. i just don't even understand.

the expansion i played for oblivion was pretty dumm. but i didn't like oblivion anyway so eh

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/29/skyrim-dlc-to-have-more-of-an-expansion-pack-feel/

Mordy: http://www.geekosystem.com/skyrim-explorer-travels-morrowind-oblivion/

The landmasses for Cyrodiil and Vaardenfell have been created and shipped with Skyrim. Nothing on 'em, just the lansdcape.

right but they could be populated or something

when do i get to meet some fucking sea elves already?

considering the number of waterbreathing rings i've spammed, should be soon /wakkawakka

am I missing out on anything by not going underwater?

I found a ship graveyard that looks cool but I have to go back to check it out; no potions or rings on my person at the time.

there are some alchemy ingredients that are found underwater. a lot of time the designers throw a chest down there too.

i know there was one quest that required i hunt for something in a lake. and there was a dungeon that had a 2nd exit through an underwater tunnel.

so, maybe? not much tho

haven't found much but i like the freedom it affords when running away from giants or just exploring
i'm argonian btw

I'm also argonian but so far I haven't had much of a reason to go underwater.

I am tempted to stay underwater to see how long it takes to drown

I have been trying to build up conjuration but it doesn't seem like making a flame atronach at the beginning of a fight before slashing dudes to pieces is a very quick way of getting anywhere with it.

magic is a slow business.

I wish there was some ship action.

did you find the stone that lets you learn magic 20% faster?

Yeah I've had it on for the entirety of my game.

aragonian dudes i dont know how to tell you this but the nords have been saying some pretty unflattering things about you behind your back xposts

ah

well, it's kind obv but it's a lot easier to lvl destro and resto than anything else ime

easier to lvl destro

Yeah, I'm trying to avoid destro this playthrough.

it took me about 10 murders to realize the dark brotherhood forever quests will never end

I did just enough of the Thieves Guild quests to get access to their appraiser and then peaced

i mean cmon its dark brotherhood forever

i know rite

i decided to let this tragedy stand last. sacrifices must be made :`(
http://i.imgur.com/7vTC1.jpg

last night*.

am I missing out on anything by not going underwater?

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, January 5, 2012 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

here I will note that I swam the shit out of the big lake in fallout new vegas and there was not a fucking thing under water there. =(

at least in skyrim theres soooooooome stuff. nothing amazing but better than 0.

aragonian dudes i dont know how to tell you this but the nords have been saying some pretty unflattering things about you behind your back
― blurgh (jjjusten)

The greybeardfs have sent me into a cave to get back a stone or something. SO I go through the dungeon, kill evberything, and this stone is si8tting right in front of me, and I can't pick it up! Stupid bethseda.

How early on is this? Were you trying to get THE HORN? There should be a note from someone who got THE HORN before you, you have to track them down and get them to give you THE HORN.

maybe the note got dislodged with careless shouting.

so just how camp is people's appreciation of skyrim, on the whole, as a fictional environment

why is there always a whiterun guard in my house just ...leaving... whenever I return back to my wife from a long adventure? what kind of shop is she running?

that and the dead naked lydia in the spare room make me thinks our marriage is not what it should be.

xp A restart solved it. Star of something? I got to take it somewhere to get fixed. Then I got the note telling me the HORN has been stolen, so that's something else for me to do.

Trying to get a half a broken amulet, and there's a bridge that won't come down. The lever just booby-traps some spikes at me. It's very frustrating. I don't want to have to go to a walkthru, but it's pushing me.

lol I didn't even notice my horse had been killed because it ran away and got into a fight with some other random creature I didn't know was there and I assumed it had done its usual "run from scary fight and magically appear at next destination" thing

lol i hopped on a horse at one point, it must have been left over after some bandit encounter or something? idk. i rode it around for a few minutes and then left it somewhere.

i played through the college of winterhold questline, and at the point where the magic anomalies are attacking the town, there was "my" horse, getting killed.

there were about 10 solid hours of gameplay between these things, swear to god, never saw the horse once in that time.

I went to the fruit n veg stall in Winterhold, asked the woman what she had for sale. "Some people call this junk. Me, I call them treasures." Ok good luck with yr treasure cabbages luv.

Winterhold Windhelm Whiterun. So many similar names in this thing.

yeah that's a problem

markarth, morthal

kind of lolling at the idea of there being characters in this game world who would be all "basic foodstuffs? that's junk!" but then I remembered we are in Nord country