Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

FWIW, I haven't owned a dedicated game console in 20 years, so I've missed out on a lot, too. They never catered to proper wargaming and RPG as the PC market did. The surprising issue is how long Microsoft has milked a system with 512 mb system memory (and Sony a system with only 256 mb) now that memory is cheap.

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reaaaaally wish they would add this for the consoles in a patch. it just seems so obvious.

You mean like how it seems obvious that your follower shouldn't stand in doorways blocking your exit, or the alchemy shop woman shouldn't still be surprised you're an alchemist after you've been in there 1000 times, or...

yeah, but those things seem like more complicated technical problems (collision detection, NPC routing, NPC AI logic, etc), whereas adding categories to the favorites menu seems like something that should take a professional programmer approximately 4 and a half minutes to implement.

killed a Hargraven... got to a massive tree in the middle of a hippy spa. some spriggans appeared and then I ran for it....

Spriggans are hard as nails right? or is it cause I am a lowly level 9.

Spriggans are a pain at lower levels. I did the same thing and ran like hell.

I tried to get married this evening. The minister at the temple scheduled the ceremony for the following day from dawn till dusk, so I waited in Riften until about 5am. Got togged up and headed to the temple only to find my fiance running out in a state of some distress. I went in and found the corpses of Lydia and another follower sap who I sacrificed to some god lying in the pews. I think I'd be upset too.

How do you meet a potential wife?

iirc You do some stuff at the temple of Mara in Riften which gets you the Amulet of Mara. Ask the male priest in the temple about traditions of marriage, and then if you wear the amulet various NPCs will ask if you're interested in them. It helps if you do a minor task for your intended target.

I got married to tonight too, to Mjoll the Lioness. Hubba Hubba. Didn't get so much as a snog out of her though, she just ran off back to my house and decided to give up her life of adventuring (with me) so she could set up a little shop instead. I got a new conversation option with her though: "would you mind cooking something for me?". Unbelievable!

Oh man I'm stuck in some quest where I have to sneak into a party unarmed but I seem to have failed to give my inside contact anything to sneak in for me! This will sorely challenge Queenie the Orc

You can always just roast some dude with flames and steal his shit.

But anyway, whatever was in your inventory when you started the mission is in a chest in the larder near the kitchen.

Yeah I found the chest but there's nothing in it. Or maybe just a dagger. Will try flaming a guard.

The stuff you gave the dude in the tavern is in the chest; everything else is being held for you by Delphine and you don't have access to it.

Anybody beaten this yet? I captured a dragon and rode him to Alduin' fortress/nest/whatever, but then I died in battle. Am I near the end? If so, I kind of want to hold off on this so I can run around and do more things. Also, recommendations for other fun escapades? I'm archmage of the college and I'm head of the thieves guild. Anything else along those lines of long-ish quests? I collected all the blood for Septimus and the blue orb light thingy said he'd be back or something but that hasn't really played out. I've only clocked 46 hours! It can't be over yet...

yeah you are close. i am not even sure if you can go back from dragon ride land until you finish.

Might load a saved game from before the capture then.

Have you done the black hand assassination stuff? Probably my fave quest line.

I haven't! I've not even discovered all of the major cities yet, I don't think. Where do I start that quest?

Walk around windhelm, someone will mention that some kid is performing the black sacrament, you'll get a misc quest to see what all that's about. Set it as active then follow the indicator to the kid's house. Voila.

Yeah, I'm definitely going back to a pre-dragon capture save point and just running around the world for a while. I even enjoy clearing bandits out of ruins, which is the kind of silly side-quest I never have the patience for in games like this.

The quest that begins when the lizard dude in Solitude tells you to turn out a lighthouse light is awesome.

Marriage is yet another source of "hilarious" inappropriate NPC dialogue. "Hello my love. Back from another adventure already?" No, I... you saw me in the other room two minutes ago. You idiot.

"i am swoooooooorn to carry your burrrrrrrrdennnnnnns"

that one never gets old tbf

I like J'zargo. "J'zargo only has so much room to carry things."

Marriage is great. I just turn up occasionally and ask for money.

The quest that begins when the lizard dude in Solitude tells you to turn out a lighthouse light is awesome.

I haven't been to Solitude, but is it the lighthouse where you investigate the owners' deaths? Frostsomething? Absolutely terrifying Lovecraft vibe going on.

I love this game. I'm completely ignoring the main quests and the Stormcloaks vs Imperials stuff atm. Mainly just enchanting shit.

It's a different lighthouse, i think. The frost one is great, though.

I finally took sides and demolished the Stormcloaks. Something worth bearing in mind is that if you do it later in the game, it's probably a little too easy. I could take down an entire fort on my own without resorting to health potions. There are some pitched battles that would have represented a great challenge had i done them at level 20, rather than 40. I imagine that would have closed off a lot of tangential threads early though.

yeah I'm at lvl 21 now and the difficulty feels really well-balanced. I can breeze through most of the more boring fetch quest dungeons but still find enough of the bigger battles a challenge.

I keep getting attacked by dark brotherhood assassins when I'm just strolling around. I think it's cos I pissed off Maven Black-Briar by tipping her off that I was going to steal her horse before I went ahead and did it.

Yeh, I keep getting assasination attempts. I need to figure out how to stop that. I suppose joining the dark brotherhood would be a start.

so if you go to reddit.com and search 'bundoran' you'll see my mate brian standing at the lover's stone irl, apparently

Your mate Brian looks kinda female?

blackreach: wow!

^^^^ ya rly

I kind of want to go back and spend like 40 hours just running around there killing falmer

it felt like i did spend 40 hours in there, being lost, collecting crimson nirnroot, ocd mining all the countless ores, juggling inventories to try to carry all those ores between me and roggi. it came close to breaking me. i think i actually went insane for a while.

just wandering around i got to 24/30 of those plants. and then i'm like, the last 6 are gonna be a huge bitch to find aren't they

I found a geode vein! But it just gave me corundum ore ;_; But yeah I've just got into Blackreach, done the main Elder Scroll thing, plan to spend some quality time there.

Apparently the nirnroot regenerate in ten days.

also there are like 50 down there. like i said, i was there a long time.

the geode veins were great tho. i got a stack of black soul gems.

btw can I just say alchemy just took an incredibly disturbing turn for me

i kinda wish there was a hardcore mode in this, like new vegas. the healing boosts from food are kinda useful for the first 5 levels and then it's like, leave the cabbages, i am too heroic for food now

xp how??

I discovered... HUMAN FLESH

you know the trick of eating one of yr alchemy ingredients to get the first property? well apparently it gives me pause to do this in a game when I've just picked up a chunk of flesh next to the tortured body of a dude I've been reading about in journals

there are human hearts too

why those aren't harvestable from every dead person i'll never understand

anybody join those cannibals? i felt bad bringing the priest to the feast so i turned on the cannibals and killed them all.

ha maybe it's his wife xps i just speedread his facebook tbh

I was all "whatever" when that chick ran up yelling zombie philosophy at me. Haven't followed it up at all.

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