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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT| Het Kos Dovahhe
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Yup, can't stand waiting for this game a moment longer than I have to.FINALBOSS said:
Bam Bam Baklava
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FINALBOSS said:
I couldn't find anywhere that was doing a midnight launch.
Blue Ninja
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Depends what you want in the game. I don't want to get my ass kicked by the lowest of foes, so I turned the difficulty down. I still get trouble from bandit leaders and stronger mages.blahblah...blah said:
Spent more than five minutes trying to snipe a mammoth with my bow after it turned out slicing it with my sword didn't do much. Bows are crazy powerful in this game.
Sutton Dagger
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I remember someone saying that dungeons can actually be 'completed' in the sense that the map shows an icon next to the places that have been completed, but how is this determined? Is it based on killing all the enemies, or getting or all chests?
Shane86 said:
I don't know how bad/good the intro is but from what I could tell in the separate thread that was made for it it was a lot of people who don't know western rpgs and especially Bethesda games and were complaining about things like animation, voice acting etc.
A whole lot of yelling over nothing important. The intros always suck in these games.
Wallach said:
I imagine it's just modified damage/HP values but maybe there's something more.
Think I've got my character set, at least as far as the basic stuff. Dunmer, mostly spellcaster with a concentration on Destruction and Conjuration, and some sneaky thievery and light melee on the side.
Blue Ninja
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Just found an in-game book that gave me a lot more insight into the happenings of the Fourth Era. I'm definitely using it as a reference when I update my story section.
Augemitbutter
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are there any advantages if you choose to play on the highest difficulty setting?
Houston3000
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Oh
Telosfortelos
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Question: If using a one-handed weapon and a spell, both equipped in different hands, and you activate both hands, does your weapon power up? For some reason I was thinking going destruction and 1-handed would let me temp enchant with fire/lightning/frost, but now that I think about it I don't really know where I got the idea from.
Augemitbutter
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Wallach said:
i see. some other benefits would've been nice though.
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Another question for the guys already playing: Are the finishing moves forcing 3rd person perspective on you or can you do/see all of them while staying in 1st person mode?
I really would like the latter, while it isn't a personal game breaker, the switch really kills immersion a bit for me.
I really would like the latter, while it isn't a personal game breaker, the switch really kills immersion a bit for me.
Augemitbutter said:
It's hard to offer many incentives for it because you are free to change difficulty on the fly. They did something like this in FO3 where harder difficulties rewarded more XP. This was an iffy idea to begin with, but it was also exploitable. Guessing they learned their lesson on that one.
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Wow, Beth really added in some interesting lore. For the ones who want to know what happened after "Lord of Souls" before heading into the world:
So the Thalmor arose in the Summerset Isle, not Valenwood. They'd always been a minority faction there, but had seized more power during the Oblivion crisis. From what I can tell, the Daedra even destroyed the Crytal Tower on Summerset during the fighting.
When the Thalmor seized control of Summerset Isle, they renamed it Alinor. They'd apparently been preparing for this for years, because they had their fingers all over Valenwood as well. They eventually invaded Valenwood and rooted out all Imperial influence. The Aldmeri Dominion was reborn.
In 4E98, the two moons vanished. The Khajiit, who are heavily influenced by them, obviously didn't like that one bit. Two years later, they reappeared, and the Thalmor claimed it was because of their magic. Elsweyr, now broken into two parts, joined the Dominion out of gratitude. By now, the Empire consisted only of Cyrodiil, Hammerfell, High Rock and Skyrim.
In 4E171, a Thalmor ambassador arrived in the Imperial City with a covered cart. He had an ultimatum for the Emperor, Titus Mede II. The ultimatum involved ceding large sections of Hammerfell to the Dominion, disbandment of the Blades, outlawing the worship of Talos, and so on. The Emperor refused, and the ambassador upended the cart, spilling the heads of all 200 Blades Agents in Valenwood and Summerset over the floor of the Imperial Palace. That's how the war started, and that's how far I've read so far. I'll update later.
When the Thalmor seized control of Summerset Isle, they renamed it Alinor. They'd apparently been preparing for this for years, because they had their fingers all over Valenwood as well. They eventually invaded Valenwood and rooted out all Imperial influence. The Aldmeri Dominion was reborn.
In 4E98, the two moons vanished. The Khajiit, who are heavily influenced by them, obviously didn't like that one bit. Two years later, they reappeared, and the Thalmor claimed it was because of their magic. Elsweyr, now broken into two parts, joined the Dominion out of gratitude. By now, the Empire consisted only of Cyrodiil, Hammerfell, High Rock and Skyrim.
In 4E171, a Thalmor ambassador arrived in the Imperial City with a covered cart. He had an ultimatum for the Emperor, Titus Mede II. The ultimatum involved ceding large sections of Hammerfell to the Dominion, disbandment of the Blades, outlawing the worship of Talos, and so on. The Emperor refused, and the ambassador upended the cart, spilling the heads of all 200 Blades Agents in Valenwood and Summerset over the floor of the Imperial Palace. That's how the war started, and that's how far I've read so far. I'll update later.
Timber said:
Yeah I don't imagine it's anything too major but I'm definitely still playing on the highest difficulty. Even a change as basic as enemies doing and taking more damage can be effective in this sort of game, so long as it's balanced decently enough.
And Dunmer don't get a bonus to Conjuration but that's no big deal, and they get their usual nice early bonus to Destruction.
Carcetti said:
I did exactly that and I like it!
I usually use magic but also the bow or the sword.
I think with pure magic battling other magic users is a bit stupid as you just flame each other until one of you drops, so I usally go bow/sword on other casters.
Also since most spells in the beginning do not really have a long range you will have to have a bow against other long range attacks.
Bow also is pretty usefull vs. dragons.
But then... Just start playing and before you finish the first section of the game you will have the chance to try out all of the above, similar to the beginning of Oblivion.
Actually I'd say the most important thing in character creation is picking a race that looks ok to you. I guess I also could have made my Breton go Sword / Shield / Heavy Armor without any noticable trouble if I had found that I had more fun with that than casting.
Wallach said:
Conjuration is mainly for the fun of it rather than for any major combat effectiveness, though even then, summons can be useful distractions. Illusion is great as a support magic type but since my char is mainly going to be a spellcaster I'm going to ultimately play around with various spells anyway.
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Seriously,Lakitu said:
how fucking dare they hunt down members of the Blade.
Anyone got a horse yet? Anyone else feel riding is too slow?
I miss something like in Zelda where you can at least boost the speed temporarily
Also the horse dies super fast when dropping from even the tiniest height(
Seriously: If you get a horse keep it away from anything that is not the even road!
I miss something like in Zelda where you can at least boost the speed temporarily
Also the horse dies super fast when dropping from even the tiniest height
( Seriously: If you get a horse keep it away from anything that is not the even road!
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