Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I downloaded Arena, but it says it's not compatible with 64-bit Windows. How do I get around that?

haven't tried it yet myself, but sounds like you need to run it through good old confusing Dosbox!

yeah just got it working through dosbox.

every used that before?
download here:
http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

Manual is included

I downloaded Arena, but it says it's not compatible with 64-bit Windows. How do I get around that?

what's arena? (I'm on iPhone and can't be bothered to google)

The first elder scrolls game

jesus, just going through the character generation screen and hard to believe someone has managed to create text fonts within a 4x4 pixel square!

I spent many a happy hour playing Arena back in the day, but I don't think it would bear repeating.

Listen out for the original, archetypal door sound!

yeah, its very slooow to move around and explore.

welp, i beat this finally. alduin was kind of nbd, but my character's final state was a little bit insane-o

after that, i whipped thru the civil war for the imperial side. i believe i had 'extra' stuff to do, since i negotiated the truce during the main questline. or maybe that just changes how the general talks about it? idk.

the civil war quests have quite a few massed-enemy-in-a-fort missions which are a lot of fun. lack of quest variety is one of the faults of this game.

god help me i've started a second character, to try things out differently.

what level did you max out with?

low 60 something

I completed the Sovngarde quest, while overburdened with dragon bones and scales and ebony greatswords and battleaxes and warhammers looted from Skuldafn that i was loath to part with. Didn't realise that for all that time I could have had the 'armour weighs nothing' perk which probably would have meant I could carry everything :/ . When I finished and was deposited back at the throat of the world, and realised I couldn't fast travel, I nearly ate my own foot in frustration. Climbed down the side of the mountain, and when I entered High Hrothgar Lydia came running in through the other door. I've nearly been so happy to see anyone in my life. *cough* videogaming life that is.

Got the 100k gold achievement after I'd sold everything. Now I've finally thrown my lot in with the stormcloaks.

I've nearly never been so happy to see anyone in my life

Unusual details in skyrim wiki articles:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Breezehome
Also of interest is an over-sized loaf of bread that can be found in a basket on the kitchen shelves. Being several times bigger than an average loaf, it may be of interest to collectors.

hoarders

"Why are you keeping your broken PS3 in 2025?"
"Big loaf of bread"
"k"
"Nah you don't understand mate, it's huge"

Elder Scrolls sale

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/skyrim_midweek

FAT GIANTS
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/dice-bethesda-game-jam/

Think there's a patch for the 360 version due today.

Divorce! I wanna divorce!

As a sneaky archer type, I would definitely +1 cool kill cameras for archery in the same way as you currently get them for hand2hand.

Just downloaded 360 patch. What will be fixed? What will be newly broken?

And......it broke

What the shit, this is unplayable now. Basically if you have a dog he is now 10 times better at blocking doorways than Lydia, vs earlier being able to jump over dogs when they (constantly) got in your way. I just wasted an hour getting stuck in caves. Guess I'm not bothering w/skyrim until the next patch.

Have y'all got dogs? They're as annoying a fuck pre-patch anyway. I'll wait until the mod that lets me ride them in a battlecat stylee.

Had a dog, it died, no great loss.

oh man, i had the I'm Sad thread open just before this, left and came back to see this and kind of thought i was still on it. i was halfway through trying to type out something expressing sympathy for the death of ledge's dog, but trying to figure out why it was no loss, thinking that maybe the full weight of the death hadn't hit him yet, etc. but anyway, delete that, and yeah, fuck your digital dog, who cares!

Haha the tragicomedy, it burns. Tarxyr the Khajiit is grateful for yr sympathy but he truly doesn't mourn the beast, maybe it's cat/dog thing.

In fairness, I did buy a dog, but I think I barbecued it with a fire spell in my first fight. I learned then that I shouldn't keep pets, although I should have known as much when I let my horse get killed by a dragon so I could run round the other side and stab it.

lol I haven't even found where the dogs are sold (mostly through distinct lack of looking/caring)

They're outside Markarth I think, but I don't think they add much value to your questing.

The Daedra dog was great in combat - impervious to everything, as far as I could tell. However, he behaved just like a regular dog and made dungeon crawls a nightmare. After about ten levels of questing with him I decided to finish his storyline because I just couldn't take it anymore.

I kinda miss him. He was a great target for the baddies.

I got rid of him quick. He's indestructible, but incredibly yappy.

He was amazing fighting dragons. He'd get right in their grill and you could just feather them from a safe distance.

lol that's like the opposite of Lydia, who basically gets toasted from a distance and spends the rest of the fight kneeling on the ground in pain and attempting to leap in front of your firebolts/arrows

Yeah I think they set all the companions to the same height or something, because not only can you not jump over your dog when he is standing in a doorway but also when you shoot over the top of him you hit and kill him. Stupid.

I decided to finish his storyline

New favourite dog murder euphemism.

But I didn't murder him! You have a choice, and I wanted to inflict him on his old master.

i'd recommend following any chatter herein

http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Patch

What the shit, this is unplayable now. Basically if you have a dog he is now 10 times better at blocking doorways than Lydia, vs earlier being able to jump over dogs when they (constantly) got in your way. I just wasted an hour getting stuck in caves. Guess I'm not bothering w/skyrim until the next patch.

― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Friday, February 10, 2012 1:22 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmm the bugfix list does mention something related-sounding:

Fixed crashes related to pathing and AI

AT GIANTS
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/dice-bethesda-game-jam/

Think there's a patch for the 360 version due today.

― JimD, Thursday, February 9, 2012 2:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

interesting! what the hell, let me expound

Seasonal Foliage -- kinda cool i guess
Flow-based water shader -- sure, why not
Spears -- FUCK YES WHY DON'T FANTASY GAMES HAVE SPEARS come on
Kill Cams for Magic and Ranged Combat -- cool do it
Stealth Enhancements -- which are??
Guards can relight darkened areas -- yeah ok
Paralysis runes -- great idea
Dungeon enhancements : handing structures and moving platforms -- uhh
Water currents in dungeons -- wasn't aware this wasn't the case?
Dark dungeons -- yes! those light spells are pointless
New commands for followers: Combat style, etc. -- how about "fucking move" amirite
Set favorite equipment settings for followers -- good idea
Adopt a child -- christ are you kidding
Build your own home -- dude play sims or something
…with a skeleton butler -- ...
Spell combinations: Use flame and raise zombie to create a fire zombie -- how about like, double guitars
Goblins -- i guess?
High-level Draugrs -- ok sure
“Waygates” for fast travel -- only giving a thumbs up if it's between your owned houses.
Epic mounts (flaming death horse) -- oh grow up
Mounted combat -- necessary for any pretense to realism (ie not really necessary)
Dragon mounts -- eh ok
“Soul bug” familiar -- what?
Kinect voice-activated shouts -- oh fuck off
Screen space ambient occlusion -- no idea
Enhanced underwater visuals -- ok?
Snow surface -- idgi
Fat giants -- a+ grate idea keep em coming
Ice and Fire arrows -- yeah sure
Werebear -- if you say so
Lycanthropy skill tree -- NO
Vampire Feeding -- as in, you see other vampires do this?
Become a flying vampire lord -- how about become not a virgin
Vampire Imp Minions -- what is it with the vampire shit
Mudcrab animation tweaks -- god who cares
Giant mudcrab enemy -- yes this needs to happen, boss level godzilla shit

Become a flying vampire lord -- how about become not a virgin

massive lol

a+ post

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?