Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

there's plenty of stuff where it's absurdly easy and consequence-free to be evil

ah great... i also tried to kill the shopkeeper but he kept coming back to life, i bludgeoned him in the corner for ages. it didn't feel as good as i hoped though, it actually felt like his cottage was a small insignificant part of the world and i had just committed a sordid insignificant act of violence.

After playing about 50 hours of this obsessively over a few weeks I completely stopped. I should really go back and just beat it.

^^^me, p much

I finished the main quest on Sunday after leaving skyrim alone for a few weeks. Skyrim was great fun, but after 111hrs, I'm bored now.

I'm on about 160hrs and I'm not bored yet. Very much in the endgame though, so the fun's coming from trying out stuff I didn't bother with for the rest of the playthough (at the moment that's pickpocketing and magic). Finished everything but the dark brotherhood and daedric quests, probably going to be the first game I ever hit 100% achievements on, want to get that done before ME3 on Friday and then I'll put it away until there's some DLC I guess.

would you say that this game is a good value

I would!

I only get to play sporadically for an hour or two at a time, so generally I just pick a quest and try to clear a dungeon or two associated with it.

i was being facetious! skyrim is an incredible bargain. i only played it about for about 3 weeks before accidentally ditching it (for now - i'll probably go back sometime), and even that was well worth the $.

take the black star, not azura's star. learn from my mistakes.

I keep putting off reading the elder scroll because I want to just keep poking around collecting stuff

also I think I boned myself moneywise by not levelling speech

i never put a perk into speech at all and i have like half a million gold

money in rpgs is always really fucked up and skyrim is no different!

how are you managing to sell shit to ppl? every merchant I go to has like 200 gold

I'm doing the same thing as Dan. Missing three shout words to max those out - once I do that I'll probably read the scroll.

I'm trying to figure out if I want to find the priest that that one daedra in the house wants to chomp on or not; I've already accidentally indebted myself to over half the daedra anyway so I really shouldn't be balking at this dude but I am having MORAL QUANDRIES

it's a fun little sequence. Not as cool as the drinking one, or the dog.

omfg speaking of THE DOG

I really want to kill him, but he makes fighting dragons a lot easier

still THE LITTLE SHIT MUST DIE

the drinking one was fantastic tho

I spent months on this thread complaining about the dog! He made mid-game leveling much much easier. Now that I'm mowing shit down like nobody's business I don't miss him at all.

I ditched the dog p much immediately. really irritating if yr a thief/sneaky type. plus now that I have shadowmere, I have all the tank I could ever hope for

ok money, let me think:

obsessively check every chest and burial urn. it adds up. even indoor furniture has non-owned gold in it

only pick up stuff that has like a 10/1 cost/weight ratio, and for heavy shit like armor it should be way higher than that. (early on, scrounging enchanted weapons should be done to disenchant and not sell but that's finite).

sell stuff to ppl who have stuff you want, that way you buy stuff from them (giving gold) and then dump your crap on them and get it all back plus their orig money stock. both of these transactions level up speech. i buy a lot of filled grand soul gems to stockpile at home for enchanting, cos they're a bitch to fill -- and then mage-merchants will buy any jewelry, so that's a big back-and-forth right there

in the later game the money rewards for miscellaneous crap scales to ridiculous levels. you took this book across town for me! here is your reward (2000 gold)

the applications for speech/barter were really unimaginative imo. i had a daydream of being able to buy a shop, plunk all your unwanted crap in a SALE chest, and every now and again items 'disappear' and the money from the sale goes in another chest to pick up.

a more tedious way, but that's useful when leveling something like smithing quickly: just fast travel between two (or more) places that are far enough apart that it's a new day when you get wherever. Buy ingots, make daggers, offload potions and buy ingredients (in my case), move on. if one of the stops is a place you have a home or easy access to an alchemist station, make a bunch of expensive potions (I use a nerdy iPad app), and continue the circuit. as long as I made a fortify smithing potion (which is what I bough ingredients for), I leveled that pretty fast, and alchemy got leveled with it (tho more slowly). i didn't ~make~ a whole lot of cash, but I kept an even keel I think when all was said and done (that is, once I had legendary dragon scale armor with legendary weapons).

with smithing, enchanting and alchemy there's not much you have to buy in this game, so the money just kind of piles up

kinda want some über nerd to go all in and make a character that trains no crafting skills and just goes all in on a mercantile lifestyle. gather everything, hunt everything, mine everything, load up speechcraft, thieve and loot, and save those crafting perks for other trees.

then just level the crafting trees "passively" (disenchantment, tasting stuff, armor/weapon improvement only), and see where that gets you. cause isn't one of the downsides to leveling the crafting trees that they also up yr overall level, which makes enemies scale up when maybe you haven't honed lyfe skills?

like if ppl have beaten the game with pugilists and pacifists, you should be able to do whatever right

also btw only just learned that the power key and the shout key were the same dang thing (which explains a lot of shouting misfires in combat)

http://www.bethblog.com/2012/03/15/new-features-highlight-1-5-update/

huh

NEW FEATURES

New cinematic kill cameras for projectile weapons and spells
New kill moves and animations for melee weapons
Shadows on grass available (PC)
Smithing skill increases now factor in the created item’s value
Improved visual transition when going underwater
Improved distance LOD transition for snowy landscapes

the smithing value thing seems a bit silly honestly. unless you have a fence unlocked the effective difference between an item worth 1200 and 3000 is nothing

one of the bugfixes tho:

Lydia will now offer marriage option after player purchases Breezehome in Whiterun

humina humina

sigh. i am sworn to carry your burdens

GUYS

SHADOWS ON GRASS

prayers: ANSWERED

haha

Conjure Dremora Lord

fuck yeah!

i found a staff p early on that does that---so fukkin handy

been reading the song of fire & ice series and am absolutely forlorn for skyriminia, altho i deathly afraid as to how hard it'd crash on my ps3 (has there been a real, conclusive patch yet?)

*i previously played it on pc, but that pc is gone and now i suffice with a half-rate laptop that can't even play homeworld 2 without stuttering.

I've only had one crash in over 150+ hours on PS3. Lotsa bugs, but only one absolute lockup. One or two patches already and another should arrive soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSLPH9d-jsI

great song forks

Yeah i am not so into it

your girlfriend is pretty foxy tho

dumb q but how do you guys know how many hours you've played?

I just know through http://raptr.com/Jimdoo/games

got $32 in trade for skyrim at gamestop today. fkn right. dead island is p great so far.

holy hell, dead island is an embarrassment

i've been keen on getting back into skyrim... just 3 months after having completed every quest line sans the college's. i miss just trottin around the woods.

whaaaaat dead island is so much fun. i mean, it's a broke-as-fuck eurotrash game but that's part of the charm.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/12/tech/gaming-gadgets/elder-scrolls-skyrim-kinect/index.html

I'm ambivalent on this. I used voice commands on occasion in ME3, and it worked a charm on occasion, it also didn't recognize what I was saying half the time. Way easier for ordering your teammates to use their powers though.

"You have your full arsenal of Shouts available using Kinect without having to stop, go to a menu, pick the one you want to use, and go back in the game and use it," he said. "You just say the Shout, and as long as you have the ability, your character will just use it on the fly."

look i'm not gonna sit in my apartment yelling FUS RO DA at the screen ok. i'm pretty deep down the rabbit hole but i have my limits.