Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvx0l_tVEw

Manslayer468 6 months ago

i love how no one ever kills aela :3 that makes me happy
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Symixable

Symixable 6 months ago

she was in the basement
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>:3

hands to yourself sneak thief!

Where should i go for post-Skyrim action? I'm looking for a modern RPG that you can play well in 3rd person (as well as Skyrim) with some cool visuals, lots of dungeons to fight through, etc. 'Good story' is not really that big a deal for me if the immediate graphical/sound experience is super awesome. High fantasy/dragons/wizards/etc. stuff preferred.

Must be PC

people seemed to like Kingdoms of Amalur ok in the end. i played Two Worlds 2 and that was decent. Dark Souls is prob not what you've got in mind but of course it is amazing. similarly Witcher 2 might not be quite the thing, but it reviewed very well, altho there have definitely been dissenting opinions around here.

dragon age origins is prob dated now visually but it's in 3rd person and in mechanics and story it's pretty good.

dragons dogma is good, its like a mashup of elder scrolls and dark souls

not on pc though, sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoBvCbIi7YI

What about Diablo 3/Torchlight 2?

Also you might consider Fallout 3 even though it isn't fantasy because otherwise it's a very very similar game from the same developer. Big open world, RPG, lots of exploring.

Or maybe Legend of Grimrock though that's not third person.

Or maybe Fable 2, which is dumb easy fun.

guild wars 2?

morrowind, modded up, looks dope and is super fucking fun

Witcher 2

morrowind, modded up, looks dope and is super fucking fun

― adam, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 6:24 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I can walk every inch of Vvardenfell in my head now, I spent so much time there, and this post *still* makes me want to reinstall.

skyrim DLC is on sale today. Still too rich for my blood though.

http://www.gamefly.com/download-games/browse/?ids=157950,150250,150210,5004487,5004821,5005400,5000122,5000737,5006021

Thanks, all!

morrowind, modded up, looks dope and is super fucking fun
― adam, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 6:24 PM (2 hours ago)

agreed. also i like how everyone avoided mentioning oblivion

when does elder scrolls online get released

I think this time next year?

:-(

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/07/16/behind-falskaar-a-massive-new-skyrim-mod-and-the-19-year-old-who-spent-a-year-building-it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gJiVKpLPYw

hahaha I can't discern anything at all about this by watching the video. There doesn't seem to be a narrative of any kind, but there's a sequence of talking heads of characters saying various things about Skyrim and then there's a montage—basically from what I can tell—of Skyrim footage and some other dialogue. The pacing of the video is somehow hypnotic, like each segment was given an arbitrary number of frames. This is the Lethal Weapon 3 of mod videos.

There are some Let's Plays out there if you're interested

This is the Lethal Weapon 3 of mod videos.

― fields of salmon, Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:31 PM

i lol'd @ the butch cassidy waterfall scene

@ 2:23

Honest (but possibly naïve about mods) question: can anyone tell me what makes this a "mod"? It looks like a random selection of gameplay footage from the actual game, and does not have any discernible plot or features. Why would someone choose to play this—Skyrim as envisioned by a 19-year-old asperger—instead of the one developed by an entire team of experienced and well-paid adults?

"Expect to sink over 20 hours in if you want to see it all. 9 new story-quests and 17 new side-quests across a world that’s roughly a third of the size of Skyrim. But it’s the incidental touches that most impress: all of the dialogue has been recorded, with over 30 people adding to the accent of the world. From what I’ve heard, they’re at least on par with the main game’s vocals. 40 new minutes of music have been specially recorded just for the mod as well."

Kid created an island that's basically a new continent. This is like free DLC.

OK that makes sense.

how do I get mad cash in this game - I desperately need a house since I seem to spend half of my playing time switching items with Lydia or deciding which ones I need to drop cuz I've reached my carrying limit.

did you do the quest for the trader in riverwood, retrieving the golden horn of something or other? that pays pretty well. also following the companionship storyline - their HQ is next door to the jarl's castle in whiterun. and searching every burial urn and dragur corpse in a dungeon tends to add up.

also, if you forage a lot of ingredients and find an alchemy table, there's an iphone app you can get that tells you the valid combinations to form potions. make a shitload of potions and go sell em.

dragon bones also fetch a pretty penny on the open market, if you're not planning to forge a dragon scale shield from them

also who have I become

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/images/hist_goldminer.jpg

or maybe it doesn't pay that well i can't remember

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120123072448/elderscrolls/images/c/cd/Restoration_Overpowered.jpg

also, if you forage a lot of ingredients and find an alchemy table, there's an iphone app you can get that tells you the valid combinations to form potions.

i think one of my big problems (and i mean BIG problems - this is probably one of the biggest problems in the world) with these kinds of games is that something keeps me from looking up resources like that. like it's cheating or something. but then i can never figure out on my own how to combine ingredients to make cool shit, so i end up ignoring the whole thing altogether. same with minecraft/terraria.

Two key points:

1. Eat one of every ingredient you find to discover one of the four possible potions, and to get a sense for what it might be generally good for.
2. The Thief guardian stone speeds up Alchemy skill improvement by 20%, as do the benefits from a good night's sleep (+10% for Well Rested or +15% for Lover's Comfort).

i like when you eat a bunch of them at once, as soon as you exit the menu the character is going "gah! euagh! hunh!" from the ones w/ negative effects

I had to psych myself up for ages before eating the giant's toe. Character's reaction was not nearly 'yeuch!' enough.

just imagine the jam under that toe nail :X

prob smells like aged mammoth cheese

Yeah, just eat all the ingredients that you don't know the uses for. Then later on as your alchemy skill goes up and you start learning 2 or 3 or 4 uses for each one, eat them again. Selling potions is the best way to make money imo.

1) Look up a handful of really expensive potions
2) Figure out how to make them
3) Travel around collecting/buying ingredients
4) When you run out of money after spending it all on ingredients, make potions, starting w most expensive
5) Sell off all potions
6) Profit

Hmm curious as to how long it'd take me to make enough to afford a house

It really shouldn't take that long. I think I had a house when I was still crafting steel.

also sometimes it's good just to get rid of some stuff. embrace the fact that you can't keep everything and carry it around, and you don't need to. it's a good life lesson too.

once you've bought all the houses you'll soon find yourself carrying around 200 grand cuz theres nothing left to spend it on

Houses aren't all the same price either, if it feels really out of reach its possible you're looking at one of the high end ones. Can't remember the full breakdown but I think the one in solitude was the most expensive, and the first I managed to buy was the one in whiterun.

I think the Whiterun one costs 5000? That's a lot of potions to grind. Also, do I get the same price for my goods wherever I sell them or are some stores better than others?

My grinding consisted of smithing and enchanting daggers.