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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT| Het Kos Dovahhe
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Digital-Hero
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Devin Olsen said:
There are already mods out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvngfbiRh6o&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvngfbiRh6o&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/
Resolved today to progress the main quest, so I plot a course from Riverwood to High Hrothgar. At the foot of the mountain I need to summit there's a tiny village of like three houses, so I'm like okay I'll talk to the people and be on my way. A dude asks me to check out their barrow because it's haunted, so I'm like okay but I gotta go so I won't be long. Turns out I was long, but I cleared half the barrow and back in town I'm given the item that opens up the second half. On my way back to the barrow I see a villager I hadn't talked to yet so I'm like hey. He tells me his sister went missing while collecting ingredients just down the river. So I'm like okay I'll go find her remains and get back to you soon, I got stuff to do. Long story short I have now killed the first of three restless sons of a legendary archmage. Main quest will have to wait until tomorrow. Ace game.
The perfect Dark
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So I played 27 hours but I didn't find a dragon...where are they? I want to fight one :/
Do I have a chance with a sword?
Do I have a chance with a sword?
So I just played this game for 12 hours straight. Fucking so in love. I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of it yet. Magic is super fun, but I feel like I never have enough Magicka. Almost always have to switch to a sword to finish off my fights if I'm taking on more than 2-3 people.
The perfect Dark
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Oh...^^DopeyFish said:
There are so many sidequests ... I don't even want to play the main story
Not really what's bothering me. And I'd take blocks over super fuzzy shadows like that.Traced-Velocity said:
The daylight system is what I'm talking about. Instead of like in Oblivion and every other game that uses a daylight system, it only updates the shadows on a few second interval and really detracts from the visuals.
Zeliard said:
Yeah I've found some that give you 75% and 12% less to casting, but I want to be a heavy armor wearing battle mage. I'm hoping that once I get my enchanting up enough I'll be able to put some decent regen on my heavy armor. Right now I can only get it to go to 2%.
Confidence Man
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Mattdaddy said:Long hairstyles hang out from under your helmet.
Its the little things.
Some will also clip through hoods. :/ :/ :/
MustacheBandit_
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not sure if it is buried somewhere in this thread but i just now found out you can bind spells/weapons to keys. it has made the game a lot less cumbersome.
1.) Favorite an Item
2.) Hit Q
3.) Highlight item you want hotkeyed
4.) Press number (IE 1,2,3 etc)
1.) Favorite an Item
2.) Hit Q
3.) Highlight item you want hotkeyed
4.) Press number (IE 1,2,3 etc)
Playing this an unhealthy amount (17 hours), so I guess it's successful enough. However, cynical PC gamer rant time!
The loot and quest reward and merchant shop scaling is effectively no different from Oblivion. Everything is level-appropriate at all times. The bandits still wear crappy armor so I guess Bethesda heard the anecdote that everyone likes to use but missed the underlying point.
It just irks me since it's so unnecessary. For example, I check the blacksmith shop for ingots, and they're only selling materials for iron and steel and so forth. I get my smithing up to the level for making Elven, check back again at a higher character level and there are 100 ingots for making Elven armor in the shop. What the hell's the point? You have perk and smithing skill investment requirements of a significant nature to get to that point. You have the monetary investment required to buy the raw materials. Why does it all need to magically appear in the store as soon as it's arbitrarily level appropriate? The barriers to entry are already in place. Why are you still so damn scared of players getting anything too early? It keeps it from feeling like a reward for progress made, instead more like a handout.
The quests tend to be more carefully crafted, however most of them still involve going to a random dungeon in the woods and spending an hour or more clearing it out. Many times this just doesn't actually make any sense at all, and it makes the real quests unnecessarily similar to the shitty randomly generated quests you get from one line of dialogue that also send you to a random dungeon in the woods. Stop making me clear out an hour long cookie cutter dungeon as part of every single quest, Bethesda. Even these Thieves Guild quests...start out in the city doing something interesting, but oh wait, the city location's actually connected to a "grotto" just like in all the other quests that I need to clear out. It's starting to feel like a massive timesink.
The loot and quest reward and merchant shop scaling is effectively no different from Oblivion. Everything is level-appropriate at all times. The bandits still wear crappy armor so I guess Bethesda heard the anecdote that everyone likes to use but missed the underlying point.
It just irks me since it's so unnecessary. For example, I check the blacksmith shop for ingots, and they're only selling materials for iron and steel and so forth. I get my smithing up to the level for making Elven, check back again at a higher character level and there are 100 ingots for making Elven armor in the shop. What the hell's the point? You have perk and smithing skill investment requirements of a significant nature to get to that point. You have the monetary investment required to buy the raw materials. Why does it all need to magically appear in the store as soon as it's arbitrarily level appropriate? The barriers to entry are already in place. Why are you still so damn scared of players getting anything too early? It keeps it from feeling like a reward for progress made, instead more like a handout.
The quests tend to be more carefully crafted, however most of them still involve going to a random dungeon in the woods and spending an hour or more clearing it out. Many times this just doesn't actually make any sense at all, and it makes the real quests unnecessarily similar to the shitty randomly generated quests you get from one line of dialogue that also send you to a random dungeon in the woods. Stop making me clear out an hour long cookie cutter dungeon as part of every single quest, Bethesda. Even these Thieves Guild quests...start out in the city doing something interesting, but oh wait, the city location's actually connected to a "grotto" just like in all the other quests that I need to clear out. It's starting to feel like a massive timesink.
MisterAnderson
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So I'm very early on (about 2-3 hours in) if someone could help me out I'd appreciate it, minor spoilers:
Just beat the first dragon, got my shout. Went back to Whiterun and I could have sworn that the Jarl dude said he'd give me a residence or something in town but I don't know where to go to get my house. Maybe I mis-heard him but if someone could let me know I'd appreciate it.
OK a few questions please guys:
1)How is the game overall so far...particularly in comparison to Oblivion, Fallout 3 and the Witcher 2?
2)What is the best class to start with, if I have NEVER played a Bethesda game before and want to have fun and balanced journey?
3)How is the save system? Can you save anywhere? If not, how spread out are the save points?
4)Is the combat good?
Thanks in advance
1)How is the game overall so far...particularly in comparison to Oblivion, Fallout 3 and the Witcher 2?
2)What is the best class to start with, if I have NEVER played a Bethesda game before and want to have fun and balanced journey?
3)How is the save system? Can you save anywhere? If not, how spread out are the save points?
4)Is the combat good?
Thanks in advance
QuantumBro
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You have to buy it for 5000 from his assistant.MisterAnderson said:
OJdaKiller
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Just picked up the game but I have work for another 5 hours. I'm looking to get a little feedback on a potential playstyle that I used in Obilivion (and it seemed to work fine) but I never beat the game so I'm not sure if it's a legit route to go overall. Here's what it'd basically look like:
-Mage like character
-Pump up invisibility, one handed weapons/specifically backstab, and conjuration.
-When fighting conjure monster have them go into battle, go invisible, as conjured monster is attacking enemy go behind enemy and backstab, when enemy finally attacks you go invisible again..rinse and repeat.
As I haven't yet played Skyrim I'm not sure if they allow you go invisible in battle like they did in Obilivion. As I said, I never beat Obilivion but I remember this kind of cheesey playstyle working well in that game, but I'd prefer not to create a character style only find out it's bogus later on. Thanks.
-Mage like character
-Pump up invisibility, one handed weapons/specifically backstab, and conjuration.
-When fighting conjure monster have them go into battle, go invisible, as conjured monster is attacking enemy go behind enemy and backstab, when enemy finally attacks you go invisible again..rinse and repeat.
As I haven't yet played Skyrim I'm not sure if they allow you go invisible in battle like they did in Obilivion. As I said, I never beat Obilivion but I remember this kind of cheesey playstyle working well in that game, but I'd prefer not to create a character style only find out it's bogus later on. Thanks.
BlazingDarkness
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isamu said:OK a few questions please guys:
1)How is the game overall so far...particularly in comparison to Oblivion, Fallout 3 and the Witcher 2?
2)What is the best class to start with, if I have NEVER played a Bethesda game before and want to have fun and balanced journey?
3)How is the save system? Can you save anywhere? If not, how spread out are the save points?
4)Is the combat good?
Thanks in advance
1)Better than Oblivion and Fallout 3. Never played Witcher 2
2)There's no 'classes' so to speak, but I'd say the most balanced for new players is to go in one handed with a weapon and the other hand some form of destructive magic
3)Save anywhere. Also, has autosaves
4)Combat is a mix of good and jank. It's definitely not brilliant but it does the job.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Dat bow and quiver floating on players back.GhostRidah said:dat moon
Incitemaybe
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How strange, I met an actual child in the game haha
bearythebear
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I'm trying to play battle mage style with Flame(thrower) in left and sword in right hand. Also with Heavy Armor, and don't really many problems right now (9 hours in). Does it seem viable later on?
bengraven
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isamu said:OK a few questions please guys:
1)How is the game overall so far...particularly in comparison to Oblivion, Fallout 3 and the Witcher 2?
I was a bit disappointed by Witcher 2, loved W1, so no comment. Oblivion: much better, much more atmosphere, much more fun, many more secrets even early on. Fallout 3: better laid out world, maybe not as interesting side quests but I'm really early in the game so don't take that very seriously, though I can't wait to see Fallout 4 after the advances made with Skyrim.
2)What is the best class to start with, if I have NEVER played a Bethesda game before and want to have fun and balanced journey?
No classes. You just use the skills you use and they level on their own. For example, I usually spec a thief/warrior thief yet I've found myself having become a battle mage with heavy armor and strong destro and one handed weapons, despite not intending to. Which is awesome, btw.
3)How is the save system? Can you save anywhere? If not, how spread out are the save points?
Save anywhere. Saves when entering most cells. You can even set it up to save when you open up the character menu! And how often it does, like "save every 5 minutes" when you open the menu.
4)Is the combat good?
A huge improvement over Oblivion. Similar mechanics, but feels so much more brutal.
Thanks in advance
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CarbonatedFalcon
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EviLore said:
That's kind of disappointing to hear, as it's a deliberate design decision that isn't necessarily in the best interest of immersion. I'd be curious as to why exactly they chose to do that (regarding the scaling item shops.) Still, it's something that could be fixed with mods.
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