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She'll pop up anytime you load a new area. If not, she was probably murdered painfully and slowly by a pack of wolves, her final words being...
"Why Plasma? Why?"

Oh. I guess she died then.
Now I feel bad...

Thanks anyway. XD		2011-11-17 21:03:00

Author:
Plasmavore
Posts: 1913

Oh. I guess she died then.
Now I feel bad...

Thanks anyway. XD

Maybe a glitcch got her and she's now hopelessly wedged into a tree, starving to death. You could still go back and save her!		2011-11-18 05:07:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

So here's my character, an Argonian archer/assassion/conjurer:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595828491616720041/E07C020601F6603AB6C23CBF99822BBA4AA35A00/

I'd love to see some of your guys' dovahkiins. (hm, that sounds kinda dirty now that I look at it.)		2011-11-18 05:21:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

If Lydia has gone missing, you might want to try looking in the feasthall in DragonsReach, Whiterun.
That's where she'll default back to if you dismiss her 		2011-11-18 05:32:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

ive came across the stray dog today, but it kinda got a bit weird cause it started to talk to me

apparently its names barbos.

side quest spoiler

apparently he got in to an arguement with his owner and was banished

his owner being, vile one of the Daedric Princes.		2011-11-18 10:23:00

Author:
Ash_uk1
Posts: 255

Hhhhmmm new shout dlc soon

https://twitter.com/#!/DCDaecon/status/137411345053261824		2011-11-18 16:17:00

Author:
Ash_uk1
Posts: 255

Can anyone tell me how the controls are playing with a Dualshock? Because I'm a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series and the only reason I haven't picked it up yet it because I'm not sure whether I should upgrade my PC so I can play Skyrim there, or if I should pick it up for the PS3.

My computer can't run Oblivion without having to deal with lagg :c, so I REALLY would need to upgrade it if I would choose to get the PC version of Skyrim. Now I loved Oblivion on the PC, probably spent around 150 hours in total playing it, easily one of my favorite games ever. Now I have also played it on the 360, which in my opinion, did totally lacked the immersion of the PC version, and basically wasn't as enjoyable to play through. It felt like Oblivion was a game that was made to be on the PC

My question is; is it worth upgrading my PC just for this game (and maybe some others in the future) or is the PS3 version good enough to be provide a somewhat immersive and enjoyable experience?		2011-11-18 18:12:00

Author:
VenemoX
Posts: 197

My question is; is it worth upgrading my PC just for this game (and maybe some others in the future) or is the PS3 version good enough to be prove a somewhat immersive and enjoyable experience?

You should totally spend lots of money to upgrade your PC; Sony and Microsoft forced Bethesda to liposuction all the fun from the console ports in order to get a Teen ESRB rating. Instead of being able to battle and ride dragons you're forced to muck their pens instead! 		2011-11-18 18:50:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

I was gonna give Bethesda a second chance and buy this game even after the glitch cataclysm that was Fallout New Vegas. Then I hear that they STILL haven't fixed the major game breaking issue that plagues their intrinsically flawed engine.

Once your save file reaches around 6 mb, the whole game will become unstable to play and then things only go from bad to worse from there. Anyone who played New Vegas will know what I'm talking about. Intense lag, regular freezing, quests becoming uncompletable...

Read about it here.


http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1260142-gamesave-size-limit-lag-and-no-interaction-of-npcs/

I think I'll be investing my money in something else this christmas. 		2011-11-18 19:09:00

Author:
Ungreth
Posts: 2130

Maybe a glitcch got her and she's now hopelessly wedged into a tree, starving to death. You could still go back and save her!

But I don't know where she is! D:		2011-11-18 22:44:00

Author:
Plasmavore
Posts: 1913

BOOSH!


Mind the sweary words :3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=789lNhxE--A&feature=feedu		2011-11-18 22:52:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

So after reading earlier in this thread that followers can't die, unless by your own hands, I decided to go have some fun fighting giants and mammoths to put this immortality to the test.

Of course, I promptly positioned myself on top of a stone pillar out of harms way, leaving my faithful follower running around below to get pummeled by said giants and mammoths. But where it got really interesting is when I saw my follower go FLYING INTO THE SKY! She went so high she was all but a dot in the sky and then continued to rise until even the dot she was disappeared. After a while she finally fell back down a few hundred meters away and after catching her breath got straight back into the fight

This happened every time one of the giants landed a hit on her, is this something that happens to everyone's followers?		2011-11-19 02:50:00

Author:
SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

Is this something that happens to everyone's followers?

Yes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-hKxOhOQ3U		2011-11-19 04:38:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

Can anyone tell me how the controls are playing with a Dualshock? Because I'm a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series and the only reason I haven't picked it up yet it because I'm not sure whether I should upgrade my PC so I can play Skyrim there, or if I should pick it up for the PS3.

My computer can't run Oblivion without having to deal with lagg :c, so I REALLY would need to upgrade it if I would choose to get the PC version of Skyrim. Now I loved Oblivion on the PC, probably spent around 150 hours in total playing it, easily one of my favorite games ever. Now I have also played it on the 360, which in my opinion, did totally lacked the immersion of the PC version, and basically wasn't as enjoyable to play through. It felt like Oblivion was a game that was made to be on the PC

My question is; is it worth upgrading my PC just for this game (and maybe some others in the future) or is the PS3 version good enough to be provide a somewhat immersive and enjoyable experience?

The game is made for gamepads. I'm not joking.		2011-11-19 13:43:00

Author:
BasketSnake
Posts: 2391

The game is made for gamepads. I'm not joking.

Yeah, I've heard the same from some other people.
I'll probably get it for the PS3, thanks 		2011-11-19 19:49:00

Author:
VenemoX
Posts: 197

Yeah, I've heard the same from some other people.
I'll probably get it for the PS3, thanks

I wouldn't do that..
The PS3 has a problem where after the save file gets so large it starts messing up. It'll start lagging after like 6/8MB and get worse from then on with glitches, things disappearing, dragons appearing till it eventually becomes unplayable. It happened to mine too and apparently so many others I know.
The XBOX doesn't have that problem, and the PC isn't supposed to be messed up but one person told me theirs was messing up on the PC too. So I'm not sure about that.

But I just wanted to inform you before you paid for it on PS3. 		2011-11-19 20:47:00

Author:
Unknown User

This game is epic fun. So far, got my Khajiit guy up to level 15, played about 21 hours and loving it so far. Went to the College of Winterhold today and this is what pretty much happened.

Archmage: So we haven't talked before?
Me: No sir.
Archmage: Sir. How quaint.
Me: Yeah, well, I thought I should try and be polite, considering how I've just stolen every single item in your room and you haven't noticed a thing. Kthnxbi. 		2011-11-20 00:09:00

Author:
abyssalassassin
Posts: 717

I wouldn't do that..
The PS3 has a problem where after the save file gets so large it starts messing up. It'll start lagging after like 6/8MB and get worse from then on with glitches, things disappearing, dragons appearing till it eventually becomes unplayable. It happened to mine too and apparently so many others I know.
The XBOX doesn't have that problem, and the PC isn't supposed to be messed up but one person told me theirs was messing up on the PC too. So I'm not sure about that.

But I just wanted to inform you before you paid for it on PS3.


The game is made for gamepads. I'm not joking.

SO... what ive gathered from this.... Is that it is buggy on all systems, and most of them make the game uplayable, its also only the first week or so of the game's release.

Let me ask you ONE MORE QUESTION:

Have you ever played a Bethesda game before?		2011-11-20 01:16:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

I only "suffer" from the texture bug on my xbox. I played it on ultra on my pc but it runs better on my xbox so I'm sticking with that. I honestly don't think the games look much different. I've enchanted chef gear with 105% ish destruction magic reduction so I'm roasting dragons in chef's outfit.2011-11-20 08:22:00

Author:
BasketSnake
Posts: 2391

My Housecarl Lydia got smooshed by two Trolls

I can confirm that your followers CAN die!

It was a nightmare for me.... as she was my pack-mule, carrying all my stuff - so I had to pick her corpse clean and crawl back over-encumbered to the nearest town at half speed.

Ah-well... now I can try out some of the other followers		2011-11-20 11:00:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

SO... what ive gathered from this.... Is that it is buggy on all systems, and most of them make the game uplayable, its also only the first week or so of the game's release.

Let me ask you ONE MORE QUESTION:

Have you ever played a Bethesda game before?

Umm.. Don't know if that was sarcasm intended or not.
Yes, I played Fallout 3, I know Bethesda's games are buggy but this isn't a bug when it makes the game unplayable after you get further into it.
It eventually starts freezing during loading screens, lagging and the lag gets worse and worse as you keep playing.		2011-11-20 12:20:00

Author:
Unknown User

Umm.. Don't know if that was sarcasm intended or not.
Yes, I played Fallout 3, I know Bethesda's games are buggy but this isn't a bug when it makes the game unplayable after you get further into it.
It eventually starts freezing during loading screens, lagging and the lag gets worse and worse as you keep playing.

Yeah, sarcasm. But no intention to come off rude.

Yes. I have expeirienced the exact same bugs. Fallout New Vegas had this problem too, unfortunately D:		2011-11-20 15:47:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

I wouldn't do that..
The PS3 has a problem where after the save file gets so large it starts messing up. It'll start lagging after like 6/8MB and get worse from then on with glitches, things disappearing, dragons appearing till it eventually becomes unplayable. It happened to mine too and apparently so many others I know.
The XBOX doesn't have that problem, and the PC isn't supposed to be messed up but one person told me theirs was messing up on the PC too. So I'm not sure about that.

But I just wanted to inform you before you paid for it on PS3.


Not surprised, Bethesda has never shown much love to the PS3 system, ever. Actually, pretty much every Bethesda made game since Oblivion on PS3 has always had a ton of bugs/glitches. It's like the PS3 is the unwanted son of Bethesda, never received the nice hugs and gifts that the 360 got, poor PS3

If they patch that annoying stuff you mentioned, I'll get it on the PS3, otherwise, PC. I'm not planning on getting it until Christmas when I (hopefully) get some cash as presents.		2011-11-20 16:22:00

Author:
VenemoX
Posts: 197

Not surprised, Bethesda has never shown much love to the PS3 system, ever. Actually, pretty much every Bethesda made game since Oblivion on PS3 has always had a ton of bugs/glitches. It's like the PS3 is the unwanted son of Bethesda, never received the nice hugs and gifts that the 360 got, poor PS3

If they patch that annoying stuff you mentioned, I'll get it on the PS3, otherwise, PC. I'm not planning on getting it until Christmas when I (hopefully) get some cash as presents.

They did say they are working on a patch a while back. It will more than likely be fixed by then. If you go for the PC version you will be trading bad for worse though :/		2011-11-20 20:48:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Should be an update soon after Thanksgiving, maybe that Friday...probably the next week though.2011-11-21 00:11:00

Author:
Spider-Jew
Posts: 1090

So one of the new DLC shouts that are coming out for $3.99 soon has been announced.

This one is called Yugawriipped (Yu-gaw-riiped) which in english means "Stating Apples Obvious". When you use it, magical words appear infront of you, telling you that the 4 dollars you just spent gave you this, and that you'll never be able to get those 4 dollars back because it's DLC, and then it goes off on a tangent, insulting both you and your mother and just generally being quite mean, but of course, you can't do anything about it because they're just words. Oh and then you die and your save games get corrupted.		2011-11-21 01:33:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

So one of the new DLC shouts that are coming out for $3.99 soon has been announced.

This one is called Yugawriipped (Yu-gaw-riiped) which in english means "Stating Apples Obvious". When you use it, magical words appear infront of you, telling you that the 4 dollars you just spent gave you this, and that you'll never be able to get those 4 dollars back because it's DLC, and then it goes off on a tangent, insulting both you and your mother and just generally being quite mean, but of course, you can't do anything about it because they're just words. Oh and then you die and your save games get corrupted.

TAKE MY MONEY DARNIT!t		2011-11-21 02:53:00

Author:
ryryryan
Posts: 3767

My Housecarl Lydia

It was a nightmare for me.... as she was my pack-mule, carrying all my stuff
http://0.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/76/61/655efa6e4fe0167fe6431f7c1ffa223e.jpg		2011-11-21 03:02:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

Saves Whiterun
Becomes Thane of Whiterun
Buys a house in Whiterun
Fully furnishes it
Moves in with wife
Burns down Whiterun the next day in a Stormcloak take over
Except my house
It's good to be Dovahkiin
dowutIwan!		2011-11-21 06:10:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

How about we all share some information about our characters and maybe some pictures?

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/612717265858204666/4F41E7C0F550B7E700108DF3222597B0895AB17B/

Name: Cassius
Race: Altmer
Main Skills: One Handed, Destruction, Restoration, Heavy Armour, Speech
Allegiance: Imperial Legion
Backstory: Raised by Imperials, Cassius grew up embracing both his Imperial warrior side and his Altmer mage side. Later on in his life he ended up serving in the Imperial Army as a medic, and after taking part in many battles, he retired and became a travelling doctor. One day he found himself caring for a noble, but sadly could not save his life. Guards who were friends of the noble were furious and arrested him while he was crossing the border to Skyrim. They sent him to Helgen, to be executed alongside many other criminals, thus starting his grand adventure.		2011-11-21 06:18:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

Any tips on getting a good screeny like that? Having a hard time getting a good angle :/ That and Morokei likes to be invisible a lot.2011-11-21 22:45:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Any tips on getting a good screeny like that? Having a hard time getting a good angle :/ That and Morokei likes to be invisible a lot.

You can only do what I did if you're on PC.

1. Open up the console (~)
2. Type tfc (free camera)
3. Type tm (hides HUD)
4. Strike a pose
5. Press F12 (Default button for taking a screenshot with Steam)
6. Go to Screenshot Manager by opening up the Steam Overlay (Shift + Tab by default) (quitting the game will also bring this up)
7. Upload
8. ???
9. Profit!

You can also get rid of the HUD on console I believe, but don't ask me how. There is no way to use the console though.		2011-11-22 00:29:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

You can only do what I did if you're on PC.

1. Open up the console (~)
2. Type tfc (free camera)
3. Type tm (hides HUD)
4. Strike a pose
5. Press F12 (Default button for taking a screenshot with Steam)
6. Go to Screenshot Manager by opening up the Steam Overlay (Shift + Tab by default) (quitting the game will also bring this up)
7. Upload
8. ???
9. Profit!

You can also get rid of the HUD on console I believe, but don't ask me how. There is no way to use the console though.

Just an off-topic question. Does ''TGM, ''Movetoqt'' and all those other ''cheats'' work in Skryim? 'Cause they totally ruined my Oblivion and Fallout 3 experience. Now you may thinking ''why didn't you just ignore the cheats?'' BECAUSE IT'S TOO DANG HARD TO RESIST!! :C		2011-11-22 06:37:00

Author:
VenemoX
Posts: 197

Just an off-topic question. Does ''TGM, ''Movetoqt'' and all those other ''cheats'' work in Skryim? 'Cause they totally ruined my Oblivion and Fallout 3 experience. Now you may thinking ''why didn't you just ignore the cheats?'' BECAUSE IT'S TOO DANG HARD TO RESIST!! :C

I feel like I'm just pushing you down the stairs by saying this but...
Yes, atleast some of them do. TGM, TCL, TM, and TFC are ones I know for sure work. There are some Morrowind commands that don't work in Oblivion so I wouldn't be surprised if some Oblivion ones didn't work in Skyrim.		2011-11-22 08:07:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

I was hoping there'd be an in-joke somewhere in Skyrim - something like a Horse-Armourer - that'd armour up your horse for an exorbitant amount, and admit that it doesn't really do anything anyway.2011-11-22 12:40:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

I feel like I'm just pushing you down the stairs by saying this but...
Yes, atleast some of them do. TGM, TCL, TM, and TFC are ones I know for sure work. There are some Morrowind commands that don't work in Oblivion so I wouldn't be surprised if some Oblivion ones didn't work in Skyrim.

WHY BETHESDA, WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!


Better get it on the PS3 then.		2011-11-22 14:11:00

Author:
VenemoX
Posts: 197

WHY BETHESDA, WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!


Better get it on the PS3 then.

Buying inferior version because of optional cheats > wat.

Also, http://ppsh-41.tumblr.com/post/13145143504/entire-tamriel-landmass-built-into-skyrim

Intriguing.		2011-11-22 18:22:00

Author:
Unknown User

Buying inferior version because of optional cheats > wat.

Also, http://ppsh-41.tumblr.com/post/13145143504/entire-tamriel-landmass-built-into-skyrim

Intriguing.

My PC's horrible, I would have to buy a new one if I would choose to get Skyrim on PC.		2011-11-22 18:32:00

Author:
VenemoX
Posts: 197

Buying inferior version because of optional cheats > wat.

Also, http://ppsh-41.tumblr.com/post/13145143504/entire-tamriel-landmass-built-into-skyrim

Intriguing.

PLOT TWIST

Found this on Kotaku today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cAnQQcIncq0		2011-11-22 20:48:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

just wondering after playing skyrim for 40+

i still cant deicide who is "The better side" the stormcloaks or the imperials.

Who do you guys think is the better side?

the stormcloaks to me just seem like power hungry racists

and the imperials try to behead you		2011-11-22 21:12:00

Author:
Ash_uk1
Posts: 255

Skyrim may not be the best looking game but it has those moments that are just unbeatable. Here are some pictures I've took to prove my point:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613843458104538981/68B640704BAE486254F47B24F02C3D45C0F1CA6A/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613843458104539844/2337C16600D2F62C31EA29B3DECC5E94A08A26F0/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613843458104541168/651A011DEF7C284C82C8C95538F820D250E99DFB/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613843458104541984/D2F872D5E81D80E31BAA9ED242000471DDFE0D85/		2011-11-23 08:21:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

I agree with clay, there's just so much beauty to take in through the eyes.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595828491678975044/74B30E3DA8837AEA0F580F93F7AC6D70A636DB39/		2011-11-23 22:26:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

just wondering after playing skyrim for 40+

i still cant deicide who is "The better side" the stormcloaks or the imperials.

Who do you guys think is the better side?

the stormcloaks to me just seem like power hungry racists

and the imperials try to behead you Personally, I choose not to get involved in the war. The Stormcloaks are a freedom revolution, but the Imperials aren't really the bad dudes, they're just trying to keep order, even if it means doing whatever the Thalmor tell them to. I think Ulfric's shout-the-high-king-to-pieces-strategy might have been a bit drastic, but it was for a good cause. However, regarding the war, I don't do much. Ysolda and I kind of live the quiet life. Not that I don't go on wonderous adventures across Skyrim, but I'm sort of above war. I suppose if you forced me to choose, I'd pick the Stormcloaks. After all, the Thalmor (who basically control the empire) DID invade my homeland of Valenwood during the great war...		2011-11-24 00:58:00

Author:
Unknown User

I love the smell of Werewolves and Mods in the morning!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNuFNZijnCo		2011-11-24 02:01:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

Sadly I had no choice between the stormcloaks or the imperials. I was working my way through the main story when I had to speak to the leader of the Imperials, but he wouldn't speak to me unless I did another quest meaning I had to join them. So I would say you should pick a side before you try and finish the main quest.

Also I found a glitch to make my speech, sneak and all combat skills max out, and free training xD.

(PS3 version btw)		2011-11-25 11:59:00

Author:
tom230889
Posts: 117

Okay, So I bought the game, and Im astounded. The fights are fun: beating down skeletons is completely satisfying, atmospheric dungeons full of traps and treasure adds to it as well. I love how all of the fights can be deadly if you arent ready for them. (Playing on hard) Controls are solid, but take some getting used to. Weapons and collection loot is addictive, and can be hazardous, as the encumbered state really hinders progress. Not to mention the landscape is fantastically beautiful. My prioriety is to beat the main quest first, and then do some sidequests. In regaurds to talents and Perks, Ive yet to delve deep enough into them to give an opinion, other than a massive amount of perks and skills await.

Questing is easy and straightforward up until your supposed to find these "Greybeard" guys after killing the Dragon outside of Windhelm. (Im pretty sure thats the name)
Really stuck on the way to get there.		2011-11-25 22:24:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

Questing is easy and straightforward up until your supposed to find these "Greybeard" guys after killing the Dragon outside of Windhelm. (Im pretty sure thats the name)
Really stuck on the way to get there.

As was I, you have to follow the road east of Whiterun all the way around the mountain! You'll see a small village on your map on the opposite side of the mountain as you're currently on. You need to get there to begin your climb to the Greybeards.		2011-11-25 22:50:00

Author:
4wheel
Posts: 511

Or learn the spell Clairvoyance, and never be lost again 2011-11-26 08:40:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

Meanwhile, in the U.S.A. (https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/immediately-ban-deadly-videogame-known-skyrim-safety-americas-youths/YmY1bLQ5) 2011-11-26 14:01:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

Meanwhile, in the U.S.A. (https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/immediately-ban-deadly-videogame-known-skyrim-safety-americas-youths/YmY1bLQ5)

Oh boy.... Who peed in this guys cheerios? Maybe he died too many times from a frost troll?		2011-11-26 14:20:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

Banning the game is ridiculous enough... But he also wants every copy to be destroyed, every player prosecuted, to erase all evidence from the internet and create a database of player information. Either this is a very elaborate troll (as the statement that Skryrim was made by Blizzzard suggests) or there's one conservative religious fanatic somewhere who thinks he's the master of the effing human race.

Although some people definitely signed this for teh lulz. Check these names out:


Mehrunes D
Torrington, CT
November 26, 2011
Signature # 190

Dovahkii N
Beverly Hills, CA
November 26, 2011
Signature # 172

Moronwin D
November 26, 2011
Signature # 165

Dagoth U
Red Mountain
November 26, 2011
Signature # 154

Talos G
November 26, 2011
Signature # 150

Todd H (Todd Howard is the producer of the game)
Cyridill, Tamrial, CA
November 26, 2011
Signature # 147

Champion of Cyrodiil C
Bethesda, MD
November 26, 2011
Signature # 143

Mudcra B
November 26, 2011
Signature # 134

Hail Sithis !
November 26, 2011
Signature # 123

Dragon B
November 26, 2011
Signature # 122

Lucien L (Lucien Lachance from Oblivion)
Boise, ID
November 26, 2011
Signature # 113

Sheo G (Sheogorath from the Shivering Isles DLC)
Boise, ID
November 26, 2011
Signature # 108

Emperor Uriel S
Beverly Hills, CA
November 26, 2011
Signature # 102

Thalmor S
Whiterun, IL
November 25, 2011
Signature # 96

Dova K
November 25, 2011
Signature # 92

UlfricStormcloak S
Olmsted Falls, OH
November 25, 2011
Signature # 91

Night M (the Night Mother)
November 25, 2011
Signature # 90

Fus Ro D
Fontana, CA
November 25, 2011
Signature # 88

Mehrunes Dago N
November 25, 2011
Signature # 68

StopRightThereCriminalScu M
Huston, TX
November 25, 2011
Signature # 63		2011-11-26 15:07:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

Meanwhile, in the U.S.A. (https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/immediately-ban-deadly-videogame-known-skyrim-safety-americas-youths/YmY1bLQ5)

"Christian Morals on which this nation was built";

Ok, stop there.... The Pilgrims were puritanical religious fundamentalists, who fled europe because they were sick of all of the religious tolerance and their inability to force people to obey them.
The first thing that the pilgrims did when they got off the boat, was to hang a woman for being a Quaker.

It's good to see he's carrying on that Christian message of judgemental intolerance.... I'm sure it's exactly what Jesus would want to happen in his name - in fact, read the bible, I'm pretty sure that's exactly the message it teaches 		2011-11-26 18:47:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

"Christian Morals on which this nation was built";

Ok, stop there.... The Pilgrims were puritanical religious fundamentalists, who fled europe because they were sick of all of the religious tolerance and their inability to force people to obey them.
The first thing that the pilgrims did when they got off the boat, was to hang a woman for being a Quaker.

It's good to see he's carrying on that Christian message of judgemental intolerance.... I'm sure it's exactly what Jesus would want to happen in his name - in fact, read the bible, I'm pretty sure that's exactly the message it teaches

I was wondering when you'd show up, macnme 		2011-11-26 19:04:00

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SnipySev
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StopRightThereCriminalScu M
Huston, TX
November 25, 2011
Signature # 63

Lolololololol.		2011-11-26 19:40:00

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Whalio Cappuccino
Posts: 5250

I signed it.2011-11-26 22:09:00

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Ayneh
Posts: 2454

I signed it.

What'd you put?

EDIT: Oh God. Whoever signed this one, I love you:


Cicero oils his mother E
Markath, DC
November 26, 2011
Signature # 184		2011-11-27 00:19:00

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CyberSora
Posts: 5551

What'd you put?
Adoring Fan.

And I got attacked by two dragons at once today. The other circled while the first attacked, but when the second dragon came down I hit it once on the leg and it died.		2011-11-27 15:44:00

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Ayneh
Posts: 2454

That petiton is rediculous. Im no lawyer, but I hope Bethesda sues the guy who made it in the first place.

Okay, so I finally made it past that ****ed frost troll gaurding the Monastery I was supposed to go to for Shout training, acutally, got quite farther. Im On my way to Winterhold to learn the Dragonrend shout. Absolutely loving the traveling on foot in this game. Horses die too easily and cost an *** and a half, So I walk or fast travel everywhere.
(Kind of hard, since I specialize in Heavy armour, Sheilds and One handed swords)
After you do some story spoiling things, Dragons seem to attack more and more commonly, and some attacks are just extremely inconvienient. Seriously, a Troll, a Sabercat, and now a DRAGON? ******* move, Blood dragon.... -_-		2011-11-27 19:23:00

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grayspence
Posts: 1990

That petiton is rediculous. Im no lawyer, but I hope Bethesda sues the guy who made it in the first place.

Okay, so I finally made it past that ****ed frost troll gaurding the Monastery I was supposed to go to for Shout training, acutally, got quite farther. Im On my way to Winterhold to learn the Dragonrend shout. Absolutely loving the traveling on foot in this game. Horses die too easily and cost an *** and a half, So I walk or fast travel everywhere.
(Kind of hard, since I specialize in Heavy armour, Sheilds and One handed swords)
After you do some story spoiling things, Dragons seem to attack more and more commonly, and some attacks are just extremely inconvienient. Seriously, a Troll, a Sabercat, and now a DRAGON? ******* move, Blood dragon.... -_-

Did you use fire for the troll? I also found it difficult when I first encontered it, especially when I backed off to heal myself and the bugger also regenerated. I died on my first two attempts, but thanks to the patience Demon's Souls taught me, I kept my cool. Then I remembered how a loading screen told me that trolls were weak to fire because it slowed down their regen, so put magicka potions on the quick select menu, equipped the flames spell and burned him to a crisp from medium distance while Lydia had the arduous task of melee-ing him. One of the few situations wherein I actually found that wench useful.		2011-11-27 20:19:00

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SnipySev
Posts: 2452

And I got attacked by two dragons at once today. The other circled while the first attacked, but when the second dragon came down I hit it once on the leg and it died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doBGglOUOiE		2011-11-27 20:40:00

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warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

Did you use fire for the troll? I also found it difficult when I first encontered it, especially when I backed off to heal myself and the bugger also regenerated. i died on my first two attempts, but thanks to the patience Demon's Souls teached me to have it didn't affect me much. Then I remembered how a loading screen told me that trolls were weak to fire because it slowed down their regen, so put magicka potions on the quick select menu, equipped the flames spell and burned him to a crisp from medium distance while Lydia had the arduous task of melee-ing him. One of the few situations wherein I actually found that wench useful.
Yes, took me quite a few tries. Nearly 6 if I remember correctly. I thought the whole game would have creatures like this, but the frost troll is there early in the game just to be a jerk

Actually thats how I killed him too! Destruction is another one of my alternate specs. I actually took a massive chunk out of his health using a fireball scroll, and then proceeded to burn him with Flames untill he died. Lydia wouldve been helpful if she didnt go down after the little bugger hit her once. Come on Lydia, Take it like a man! 		2011-11-27 22:35:00

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grayspence
Posts: 1990

If I recall correctly, the difficulty curve of the game is more like Fallout 3 instead of Oblivion in the way that the enemies' hardness is predetermined instead of evolving progressively as the player levels up. So there will be a few areas whose enemies will be too tough for low level players, MMO-style.

I hope I'm not wrong on this one. If the enemies level up proportionally to the player like in Oblivion I'll never be able to kill those freaking giants.		2011-11-27 22:49:00

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SnipySev
Posts: 2452

If I recall correctly, the difficulty curve of the game is more like Fallout 3 instead of Oblivion in the way that the enemies' hardness is predetermined instead of evolving progressively as the player levels up. So there will be a few areas whose enemies will be too tough for low level players, MMO-style.

I hope I'm not wrong on this one. If the enemies level up proportionally to the player like in Oblivion I'll never be able to kill those freaking giants.

Oh goodness, giants are a nightmare. If they were hostile instead of passive I would be flying 50 feet in the air on a hourly basis.

About the leveling system, I think Bethesda or some reviewer mentioned the Level of the monsters scaled with your characters level, but I could be dead wrong. I remember thinking "This has got to be at LEAST 4 levels higher than me" While I was fighting that frost troll on the top of the mountain. Unless Trolls are just full of HP, i dont think an enemy of level 6 could knock me out in two hits every time.

Actually, I think your right about certain areas of high leveled monsters. In a Yogscast playthrough Simon kills wolf in two arrows and then Louis comments that theyre a way lower level than he is. Wolves are dead In a shot for me now, instead of when I was level 1 and they were two shot kills. This could possibly vary with my One handed skill. Not entirely sure how enemies work.		2011-11-27 22:56:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

A friend told me they were like Fallout 3 in the way that the enemies' level never changes. It's suicide to face certain enemies when you're of a lower level but after leveling up considerably they become easy. But I didn't read that on an official source so I could be wrong.

Maybe it's a mix of the two? In my opinion choosing between those two options is a very black and white way of viewing enemy level up. If they evolve with the player the difficulty never escalates. And if the enemies's level is permanent then it can get very frustrating for begginners who stumble upon a dungeon that's too difficult for them.
If I had to choose, I'd go with the latter option. It's just stupid having minor enemies evolve with you, because they barely get easier to defeat and that kind of "kills" the impression that we're evolving into powerful badasses. In Oblivion it wasn't until midgame that I was able to kill mudcrabs with only one arrow, and it felt stupid being a super-powerful stealthy archer thief-assassin that needed 2 arrows to kil a puny crab.
Option 1 is more comprehensive for beginners and for the progression, and Option 2 gives a better impression of character growth. So I think the most balanced system would be one where the level of the weakest and strongest/rarest enemies is permanent, and the level of the medium enemies would be slightly adaptive.		2011-11-27 23:50:00

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SnipySev
Posts: 2452

Okay, so I finally made it past that ****ed frost troll gaurding the Monastery I was supposed to go to for Shout training, acutally, got quite farther.


Did you use fire for the troll? I also found it difficult when I first encontered it, especially when I backed off to heal myself and the bugger also regenerated. i died on my first two attempts, but thanks to the patience Demon's Souls teached me to have it didn't affect me much...


Yes, took me quite a few tries. Nearly 6 if I remember correctly. I thought the whole game would have creatures like this, but the frost troll is there early in the game just to be a jerk ]

Pfft, bunch of amateurs, I just stripped down and ran straight past him 		2011-11-28 00:11:00

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SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

Pfft, bunch of amateurs, I just stripped down and ran straight past him

The mighty dragonborn running away from a fight. Good effort 		2011-11-28 00:43:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

The mighty dragonborn running away from a fight. Good effort
Hey, I never asked to Dragonborn. Nah, I just really couldn't bothered fighting it, I already knew how the fight would go. I had good arrows, a good bow that also did 15 fire damage, plus some apparel that increased bow damage, so I'd just find somewhere out of reach from the troll and shoot it. I'd fought plenty of trolls before so the frost troll was going to be more of an annoyance than anything else, so I decided to skip the fight and keep going with the story.		2011-11-28 01:13:00

Author:
SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

Hey, I never asked to Dragonborn.

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu78/SnipySev/Dragonborn_Jensen.jpg		2011-11-28 02:44:00

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SnipySev
Posts: 2452

Wow, I was in a hurry - needed a companion to quest with, so popped into the local tavern in Whiterun to see if there were any mercs to hire.
Got into a drinking competition and before I knew it, was off on the most amazing adventure (Quest: A night to remember).
The reward for completing this quest is awesome.

Everyone Go Out Drinking NOW! 		2011-11-28 08:35:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

If I recall correctly, the difficulty curve of the game is more like Fallout 3 instead of Oblivion in the way that the enemies' hardness is predetermined instead of evolving progressively as the player levels up. So there will be a few areas whose enemies will be too tough for low level players, MMO-style.

I hope I'm not wrong on this one. If the enemies level up proportionally to the player like in Oblivion I'll never be able to kill those freaking giants.

About the leveling system, I think Bethesda or some reviewer mentioned the Level of the monsters scaled with your characters level, but I could be dead wrong. I remember thinking "This has got to be at LEAST 4 levels higher than me" While I was fighting that frost troll on the top of the mountain. Unless Trolls are just full of HP, i dont think an enemy of level 6 could knock me out in two hits every time.

Actually, I think your right about certain areas of high leveled monsters. In a Yogscast playthrough Simon kills wolf in two arrows and then Louis comments that theyre a way lower level than he is. Wolves are dead In a shot for me now, instead of when I was level 1 and they were two shot kills. This could possibly vary with my One handed skill. Not entirely sure how enemies work.
From UESP:


Various aspects of the game are leveled. This means that as your character increases in level, some enemies become more challenging but also the quality of the items you find becomes better. However, the leveling system in Skyrim has been altered from that used in Oblivion, in response to criticisms of Oblivion's leveling system.

Different locations in Skyrim have different inherent difficulties. In other words, some dungeons are designed to be too difficult for low-level characters to enter. More challenging dungeons are generally located at higher elevations, meaning that early in the game players may want to avoid mountainous regions. However, more difficult dungeons contain better rewards. In addition, some high-quality items can be randomly found even early in the game.

The level of a given dungeon is fixed the first time you enter it. Therefore, places that you enter early in the game will always contain relatively weak enemies, even if you return to the same dungeon at the end of the game.		2011-11-28 12:10:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

Apparently RPG means "Run Places Game"...because it feels like that's all I'm doing. I've played about 15 hours now as a pure mage and am not having that much fun.

Dragons are a huge disappointment, plentiful as gnats, and after you dispatch half a dozen it gets pretty mundane.

Followers are worthless, they can't keep up over land...and in dungeons have a wonderful habit of getting in your way and not moving.

My biggest complaint and what really kills this game is the "favorites" menu. This is the best UI design Bethesda could come up with?!? Playing as a mage is a chore as I constantly need to switch spells to summon something and then switch back to my combat spells...very tedious.

I'll have to try that drinking quest...sounds interesting.

* I like how my mage with nothing metal clanks like a drawer of silverware when running.		2011-11-28 14:02:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

Apparently RPG means "Run Places Game"...because it feels like that's all I'm doing. I've played about 15 hours now as a pure mage and am not having that much fun.

Dragons are a huge disappointment, plentiful as gnats, and after you dispatch half a dozen it gets pretty mundane.

Followers are worthless, they can't keep up over land...and in dungeons have a wonderful habit of getting in your way and not moving.

My biggest complaint and what really kills this game is the "favorites" menu. This is the best UI design Bethesda could come up with?!? Playing as a mage is a chore as I constantly need to switch spells to summon something and then switch back to my combat spells...very tedious.

I'll have to try that drinking quest...sounds interesting.

* I like how my mage with nothing metal clanks like a drawer of silverware when running.

Yes, I tried mage for a day. The livibility and constant magic switching is a massive pain. I would rather stick to my Sword and just have fireball on the side.

And I am SO trying that drinking quest xD		2011-11-28 20:22:00

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grayspence
Posts: 1990

Anybody know if you can max out every skill? Or does it get so slow to level after 50 that its just better to make a new character?2011-11-28 20:59:00

Author:
Bremnen
Posts: 1800

Anybody know if you can max out every skill? Or does it get so slow to level after 50 that its just better to make a new character?
From UESP (again):


Past level 50, leveling up happens much more slowly. The theoretical level cap (maximum level) is level 81, reached by increasing all skills to 100. With every skill mastered, the level progress meter will rest a little over halfway to '82', meaning it is not necessary to master every skill to achieve Level 81.

One implication of the leveling system is that although it is possible to create a character with 100 in all skills, it is not possible for one character to unlock all skill perks, unless a console command is used (player.addperk). In such a case, one may unlock every perk available, even at level 1. There are 251 total skill perks (including multi-point perks), but only around 80 of them can be unlocked by any given character.		2011-11-28 21:03:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

Haha. Wow thats very cool. I for sure thought the level cap was 50, but I was straight- wrong. Hopefully theres going to be good expansion DLC coming soon with more dungeons or another area to explore, because Im loving this game to bits!2011-11-28 22:37:00

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grayspence
Posts: 1990

My biggest complaint and what really kills this game is the "favorites" menu. This is the best UI design Bethesda could come up with?!? Playing as a mage is a chore as I constantly need to switch spells to summon something and then switch back to my combat spells...very tedious.
PC > Keybindings > Problem solved.




Haha. Wow thats very cool. I for sure thought the level cap was 50, but I was straight- wrong. Hopefully theres going to be good expansion DLC coming soon with more dungeons or another area to explore, because Im loving this game to bits!
You do realize we're talking about Skyrim, right? You know, the successor to Oblivion, that one RPG that got the Shivering Isles for DLC. Yeah.

And anyways, DLC is confirmed and being produced, so we shall get some soon!		2011-11-28 22:54:00

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Kog
Posts: 2358

You do realize we're talking about Skyrim, right? You know, the successor to Oblivion, that one RPG that got the Shivering Isles for DLC. Yeah.

And anyways, DLC is confirmed and being produced, so we shall get some soon!

Going off that logic we'll be getting companion armor, a bunch of houses, then a year later a Daedric realm

Actually I think a Shout DLC has been confirmed to be coming up. Would be disappointed in Bethesda but Xbox only gets the first two DLCs first, which means if the next DLC isn't a quest, I don't have to dodge spoilers for a month! 		2011-11-28 23:02:00

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Testudini
Posts: 3262

I cheated five levels using the ogmah book. Leveling my skills while questing is half the fun but I don't feel that broke the game for me in any way. My point is I'm now level 54 and I can tell you that you level up at a much slower pace. Best to choose the perks you want pre 50.2011-11-29 16:09:00

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BasketSnake
Posts: 2391

LOL I just finished the drinking quest last night! As you play through it and think about the events as they happen, it'll feel like playing a Skyrim version of the movie "The Hangover." I couldn't help but laugh at every part.2011-11-29 21:49:00

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4wheel
Posts: 511

I love playing as the full mage. I wouldn't have it any other way.
It's not *that* hard to switch between spells, also you can use the D-pad and the left joystick at the same time to fast scroll through your favorites.

It's a more difficult and cumbersome playing style, but I think it's more rewarding.
You can have WAY more fun messing with enemies through magic I feel.		2011-11-30 12:19:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

I one-shotted another dragon today. I'm just a little Bosmer with a bow how can I do this when it takes 2 arrows to kill just a wolf?2011-11-30 13:27:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

I one-shotted another dragon today. I'm just a little Bosmer with a bow how can I do this when it takes 2 arrows to kill just a wolf?

Lady Luck smiles on you.


Still playing the heck out of this game and am still LOVING it! The Theives Guild story line is amazingly written. Ranks up there with the Dark Brotherhood quest from Oblivion in my opinion.

Finished the Mage's College quest line over the weekend and it was ok. Not nearly as deep or fulfilling as the Theives one.

Really looking forward to playing the Main quest & Dark Brotherhood story lines next.		2011-11-30 14:00:00

Author:
Morgana25
Posts: 5983

Lady Luck smiles on you.


Still playing the heck out of this game and am still LOVING it! The Theives Guild story line is amazingly written. Ranks up there with the Dark Brotherhood quest from Oblivion in my opinion.

Finished the Mage's College quest line over the weekend and it was ok. Not nearly as deep or fulfilling as the Theives one.

Really looking forward to playing the Main quest & Dark Brotherhood story lines next.

Hmm. Seems as if Mages colledge isnt as good as I was hoping. Still, The theives guild sounds very exiting! 		2011-11-30 20:09:00

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grayspence
Posts: 1990

In case anyone is considering getting the PS3 version in the near future...I wouldn't recommend it. After the recent patch the game now frequently gets stuck on the loading screens (4 times in less than an hour!). I'm going to try turning off auto-save; otherwise I'll have to put this one back on the shelf and hope someday it will actually be playable.

Pity too, because the drinking quest and a couple others I started were pretty entertaining. Ysolda was none too pleased about the drinking...but the dialog choices made absolutely no sense (clearly another bug). Hey Todd Howard...can I haz mah $60 back please?!?		2011-11-30 23:47:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

In case anyone is considering getting the PS3 version in the near future...I wouldn't recommend it. After the recent patch the game now frequently gets stuck on the loading screens (4 times in less than an hour!). I'm going to try turning off auto-save; otherwise I'll have to put this one back on the shelf and hope someday it will actually be playable.

Pity too, because the drinking quest and a couple others I started were pretty entertaining. Ysolda was none too pleased about the drinking...but the dialog choices made absolutely no sense (clearly another bug). Hey Todd Howard...can I haz mah $60 back please?!?

Hmm... Not having any trouble on my copy. And are you sure your character wasnt just drunk and asking for more Booze money? 		2011-11-30 23:48:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

In case anyone is considering getting the PS3 version in the near future...I wouldn't recommend it. After the recent patch the game now frequently gets stuck on the loading screens (4 times in less than an hour!). I'm going to try turning off auto-save; otherwise I'll have to put this one back on the shelf and hope someday it will actually be playable.

Pity too, because the drinking quest and a couple others I started were pretty entertaining. Ysolda was none too pleased about the drinking...but the dialog choices made absolutely no sense (clearly another bug). Hey Todd Howard...can I haz mah $60 back please?!?

Ysolda is involved in a Miscellaneous quest where you have to get a mammoth tusk, she's interested in Khajiit caravans and becoming a merchant, and she's on the marry list. Sure those weren't just normal dialog choices?		2011-12-01 02:49:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

Ysolda is involved in a Miscellaneous quest where you have to get a mammoth tusk, she's interested in Khajiit caravans and becoming a merchant, and she's on the marry list. Sure those weren't just normal dialog choices?

Yup, I'm sure, everything was totally out of context. I had an option to pay 2K for a ring I supposedly got for some else, something about finding a financee, etc...and my character and Ysolda are married already. Just your typical run of the mill bug from a poorly tested code path. Oh, and I'm 99% certain the Khajitt/merchant thing was just meaningless background dialog for the mammoth tusk quest.

The good news is that I didn't have any problems with auto-save off...I just have to kee my fingers crossed. I do feel like a circus performer working without a net playing a Bethesda game w/o auto-save...I just try to remember to do a manual save whenever I complete a quest.		2011-12-01 03:37:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

Yup, I'm sure, everything was totally out of context. I had an option to pay 2K for a ring I supposedly got for some else, something about finding a financee, etc...and my character and Ysolda are married already. Just your typical run of the mill bug from a poorly tested code path. Oh, and I'm 99% certain the Khajitt/merchant thing was just meaningless background dialog for the mammoth tusk quest.

The good news is that I didn't have any problems with auto-save off...I just have to kee my fingers crossed. I do feel like a circus performer working without a net playing a Bethesda game w/o auto-save...I just try to remember to do a manual save whenever I complete a quest.

That's part of the quest. You're able to skip other parts of the quest (confusing but based on how it's structured, it makes sense). You go and propose to a Hagraven using a ring I think you stole from her. I remember laughing because I also married her and that was the only time she never acted like she'd slowly dig out her eyeballs for me.		2011-12-01 04:19:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

That's part of the quest. You're able to skip other parts of the quest (confusing but based on how it's structured, it makes sense). You go and propose to a Hagraven using a ring I think you stole from her. I remember laughing because I also married her and that was the only time she never acted like she'd slowly dig out her eyeballs for me.

Yes that quest is awesome! I had the person come up to me demanding money and had totally forgotten the beginning of the quest. Then I remembered how the quest started.

The Dark Brotherhood quest line in this one is epic! I love the weird Daedra ones too.		2011-12-01 08:16:00

Author:
Yomikibagami
Posts: 10

Lady Luck smiles on you.
More like Lady Buggy As Hell Dragons.		2011-12-01 11:50:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

i came across a confused ( or very drunk) dragon today i was walking around exploring and i started to hear a dragon, i started looking around, couldn't see anything so
i carried on walking around and i heard it again looked up and court a glim's of a dragon flying in to a tree for about 5mins it didn't move anywhere.
once it broke free of the tree it started flying backwards trying to shoot me with its frost breath. start randomly hitting trees and mountains through out the fight then it suddenly just flew off (hitting mountains as it did)

that dragon had oblivious had one to many i think		2011-12-01 16:56:00

Author:
Ash_uk1
Posts: 255

About the way you select weapons and magic using the favorites list, I think it could have been divided in two. Using the vertical D-Pad buttons (up and down) would browse the favorite weapons list, and using the horizontal D-Pad buttons (left and right) would browse another list on the right side of the screen containing only magic. Or instead the player would be able to choose which list he/she wanted to bound the items to.2011-12-01 17:28:00

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SnipySev
Posts: 2452

http://threepanelsoul.com/comics/2011-11-28-218.jpg
<3 Three Panel Soul		2011-12-02 02:22:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

That's part of the quest. You're able to skip other parts of the quest (confusing but based on how it's structured, it makes sense). You go and propose to a Hagraven using a ring I think you stole from her. I remember laughing because I also married her and that was the only time she never acted like she'd slowly dig out her eyeballs for me.

No, it doesn't make sense...because I didn't get a chance to do any of those things! And here I was thinking that you people sure are easily amused, but it sounds like I missed out on most of this quest...all I did was drink 3 times, woke up elsewhere, fast travelled back to my house, then ran through a short dungeon somewhere and was given a pretty cool staff.

I played 3 hours straight yesterday with no freezes/lock up. I think having auto-save off also really cuts down on the load times as well. Towards the end of the play session the sound had become all staticity...but at least the game still ran smoothly. Another patch is already in the works as well to fix stuff like the drunk dragons.

As for the interface, I'd like to see separate favorite lists for left and right hand equips that you could just cycle though by tapping left/right on the d-pad. Something similar to the approach taken in Dark Souls.		2011-12-02 16:19:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

HHhmmm apparently im not the only one en counting drunk and disorderly dragons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YaNZHfdCF_0

its in the same place i en-counted it to		2011-12-02 23:52:00

Author:
Ash_uk1
Posts: 255

No, it doesn't make sense...because I didn't get a chance to do any of those things! And here I was thinking that you people sure are easily amused, but it sounds like I missed out on most of this quest...all I did was drink 3 times, woke up elsewhere, fast travelled back to my house, then ran through a short dungeon somewhere and was given a pretty cool staff.

Whooosh! .... Let me familiarise you with one of the many consequences of drinking.


What are alcohol blackouts?

Alcohol blackouts are periods of lost memory during times of alcohol intoxication. Although the terms blacking out and passing out are often interchanged and confused, passing out actually refers to a loss of consciousness, while people who later blackout on memories were fully conscious and often carried out complex events during the time of their memory blackout.

The whole point of the quest is that you're accused of doing things you don't remember doing, such as marrying a hagraven. Your quest isn't bugged and you haven't missed out on a thing.		2011-12-03 01:13:00

Author:
Unknown User

As a hard drinking scot, I can attest to the accuracy of this quest.
I once won a cider-drinking competition . downed 3 litres of cheap nasty cider in under a minute.

I have no recollection of the rest of the night - but I woke up the next morning in a police cell being charged with reckless discharge of a firearm.
True Story		2011-12-03 03:18:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

Whooosh! .... Let me familiarise you with one of the many consequences of drinking. The whole point of the quest is that you're accused of doing things you don't remember doing, such as marrying a hagraven. Your quest isn't bugged and you haven't missed out on a thing.

*sigh* As I stated, the dialog was 100% wrong due to my character and Ysolda being married, clearly an unexpected code path...and I missed out on anyone else accusing my character of doing anything strange. IMHO this completely ruined the quest...and the proof of that is that I thought it was boring. QED.		2011-12-03 06:34:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

*sigh* As I stated, the dialog was 100% wrong due to my character and Ysolda being married, clearly an unexpected code path...and I missed out on anyone else accusing my character of doing anything strange. IMHO this completely ruined the quest...and the proof of that is that I thought it was boring. QED.

?A large amount of players consider it to be the best quest in the game
?The priest that talks to you demands you clean the church, then she tells you what to do. I take it you didn't bother doing hte first part.		2011-12-03 08:06:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

So apparently you can make daedric bows that do about 500dmg and daedric daggers that do x30 sneak dmg, or so I read. Havent tried it myself yet.
With something like that you could probably 1shot everything in the game..		2011-12-03 10:28:00

Author:
Bremnen
Posts: 1800

So apparently you can make daedric bows that do about 500dmg and daedric daggers that do x30 sneak dmg, or so I read. Havent tried it myself yet.
With something like that you could probably 1shot everything in the game..

Yeah, this is real. not sure about 1 shotting EVERYTHING but theres some really good weapons in this game. I think the only way you can get this is through making them, not sure if they can be world drops or quest rewards. With stats like that, I highly doubt you can find it anywhere.

There is also armor to go along with it. It looks incredible. There are youtube videos on it, it takes close to 100 smithing to make Deadric armor however. 		2011-12-03 14:16:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

?A large amount of players consider it to be the best quest in the game
?The priest that talks to you demands you clean the church, then she tells you what to do. I take it you didn't bother doing hte first part.

It's not like I skipped stuff on purpose, I got caught up in a conspiracy quest and warped home to disenchant some weapons/use stolen soul gems before the last part of the conspiracy quest where I thought I'd lose them. You'd think in all this time someone would have said something, I guess the error was in not talking to the temple priestess.

So instead I get a quest where I apparently went home sloshed, convinced my spouse to give me an expensive engagement ring for someone else, then when I stumble home days later, she's momentarily upset about not being paid for the ring...

Did you really have to go around and pick up trash to clean the church?!? It sounds like most of this quest was just dialog...not really great/fun stuff in my book, neither is picking up trash. This game is beautiful and I love exploring all the different locals, but the actual gameplay is pretty dull/mundane stuff a good 80% of the time. This is obviously my opinion and I don't expect you to agree, so don't get upset that I can't enjoy this game on the same level as others apparently do.

This game would be fantastc with better combat/ui and less fetch quests/barrels full of cabbage.		2011-12-03 17:14:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

This game would be fantastc with better combat/ui and less fetch quests/barrels full of cabbage.
I think we can all agree on that.		2011-12-03 17:28:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

I haven't had to fetch a single cabbage yet. I think I'm doing it wrong D: !2011-12-03 19:00:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Fetch Quests? MANG, I dunno what Skyrim you're playing, but the majority of quests I've played involve assassinating the world, using god lasers to open doors, stealing really expensive artifacts from people whose security is comprised entirely of men with tunnel vision, cheering up children who recently lost their uncle, and fixing someones mind by shooting it with a staff.

OH AND I FOS RO DAH'D A STRAY DOG OFF A HUGE CLIFF AND IT CAME BACK, ALIVE. THEN IT DIED TO AN ARROW TO THE CRANIU~M.		2011-12-03 22:29:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

Fetch Quests? MANG, I dunno what Skyrim you're playing, but the majority of quests I've played involve assassinating the world, using god lasers to open doors, stealing really expensive artifacts from people whose security is comprised entirely of men with tunnel vision, cheering up children who recently lost their uncle, and fixing someones mind by shooting it with a staff.

OH AND I FOS RO DAH'D A STRAY DOG OFF A HUGE CLIFF AND IT CAME BACK, ALIVE. THEN IT DIED TO AN ARROW TO THE CRANIU~M.

Good for you, really...I'm happy you like the game. Travel to point X, defeat or collect Y...it may not always be about retrieving an item but it's all the same. It's almost pointless exploring until you get your level up, because the loot is based on your current level in most dungeons. But it's not productive for me to point out this games flaws so I'll leave it at that and won't post anymore...enjoy your rpg.		2011-12-03 23:17:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

Yeah, this is real. not sure about 1 shotting EVERYTHING but theres some really good weapons in this game. I think the only way you can get this is through making them, not sure if they can be world drops or quest rewards. With stats like that, I highly doubt you can find it anywhere.

There is also armor to go along with it. It looks incredible. There are youtube videos on it, it takes close to 100 smithing to make Deadric armor however.

I know what im making today
just need to get something that fortifies smithing..



Anybody notice that it takes like 4 or less quests to do anything? Like becoming a werewolf, becoming arch mage, getting azuras star, getting the skeleton key, etc. Expected some of the best items in the game to be a little harder to get than that..
The mages guild, companions, dark brotherhood, and thieves guild quest lines dont seem long enough to me.		2011-12-03 23:20:00

Author:
Bremnen
Posts: 1800

I know what im making today
just need to get something that fortifies smithing..



Anybody notice that it takes like 4 or less quests to do anything? Like becoming a werewolf, becoming arch mage, getting azuras star, getting the skeleton key, etc. Expected some of the best items in the game to be a little harder to get than that..
The mages guild, companions, dark brotherhood, and thieves guild quest lines dont seem long enough to me.
They are all pretty short, but the Thieves Guild has a ton of side missions that you have to do to bring it back to it's former glory. (Which is about 2-3 missions for each city.)		2011-12-04 00:11:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

This game would be fantastc with better combat/ui and less fetch quests/barrels full of cabbage.

You don't 'have' to pick up those cabbages you know.

I can forgive skyrim all of it's flaws because of all it's monumental plus points.
It's basically Grand Theft Tolkien.

Also "no point in questing at lower levels" kind of misses the point. As your skills level through use.
You could play the entire game as a city dweller, just mining/smelting/smithing/sharpening/fortifying/brewing/enchanting/chopping/cooking and trading. And not have to do a single fetch quest - or any quests at all.... and you would still be levelling up.
Where you go and what you do is up to you.		2011-12-04 03:17:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

You don't 'have' to pick up those cabbages you know.

I can forgive skyrim all of it's flaws because of all it's monumental plus points.
It's basically Grand Theft Tolkien.

Also "no point in questing at lower levels" kind of misses the point. As your skills level through use.
You could play the entire game as a city dweller, just mining/smelting/smithing/sharpening/fortifying/brewing/enchanting/chopping/cooking and trading. And not have to do a single fetch quest - or any quests at all.... and you would still be levelling up.
Where you go and what you do is up to you.

This. This sums up the developer's main point. Skyrim's leveling system isnt like an MMO or a regular RPG. It levels and adapts to your playstyle. You could pump through the entire game and get to the maximum level without ever touching a quest of talking to anyone (excluding the Beggining, of course.)

If you have a problem with the quests, dont do them! Personally, whenever I want a break from a dungeon (Which at my point in the game, theres a ton) I go out and try to find rare monsters to kill, and look for word walls. its tons of fun!		2011-12-04 03:25:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

I started it yesterday, or better, I took off after having only witnessed the dragon attack on Helgan...then I moved to AC Rev, then after a week, finally to Skyrim...I must say that the game is really much better than I thought, much, really cool...
Is it possible to get every perk in the game or tis there a limit?		2011-12-04 08:25:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

This by far has to be the best game i have played i love everything about it especially the Dragon they are brutally awesome. I just took on a sstandard dragon and a blood dragon at the samme time over a bandit camp and it was one of the best experiences i have had in a game. They wipped out everything in the area leaving just me and them at the end to fight it off. It used up all my health and stamina potions and my companion died but it was cool.

@OmegaSlayer From what my brother has told me there is a limit to how many perks you can get. Not sure how many you can get altogether though.		2011-12-04 09:59:00

Author:
Lordwarblade
Posts: 761

Hahaha, has anyone else done the madman quest in Solitude? Easily my favourite quest so far!2011-12-04 11:43:00

Author:
SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

Is the madmen quest Pelagius? Because that was pretty funny2011-12-04 13:29:00

Author:
jeperty
Posts: 486

Is the madmen quest Pelagius? Because that was pretty funny
Yeah, that's the one, I couldn't remember the name. These sort of quests are my favourite.		2011-12-04 13:52:00

Author:
SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

I'm playing the game as a Deadric Plaything.
Basically, if a Deadric Lord asks me to do anything, I will make that thing my top priority.

You usually get some very cool unique items for the deadric quests, so this policy has proved quite profitable.		2011-12-04 20:29:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

For other PC users, I found a great mod that works in a way that it is extremely useful, yet not a cheat. This mod converts dragon souls to perk points. (Which, once you're a high level do not come often.) The normal version of the mod converts 10 souls to 1 perk point, but you can change that if needs be. Just install the dragon script thing it links, then go into the .ini of the mod and change the buykey to whatever you want, and it should work perfectly.

http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2063		2011-12-05 05:56:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

I'll just leave this here.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/584959		2011-12-05 13:21:00

Author:
SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

I got an amazing skills at getting lost...like 3 hours to reach Solitude from Whiterun, getting into like 4 dragon, dead an insane number of time, discovered half the world map...could have fast travelled to Ivarstad and moved from there...2011-12-05 14:26:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I got an amazing skills at getting lost...like 3 hours to reach Solitude from Whiterun, getting into like 4 dragon, dead an insane number of time, discovered half the world map...could have fast travelled to Ivarstad and moved from there...

If you go to a stable you can pay to be brought to any major city.		2011-12-05 16:02:00

Author:
Bremnen
Posts: 1800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ3QzYPZ68Q


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtBBNIwxk8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIoO3DakNQY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxGwq5ZkO-0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09Rgg4nHh4

:hero:		2011-12-06 00:47:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

I'll just leave this here.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/584959
Can anyone honestly say they didn't kill that chicken in Riverwood?		2011-12-06 01:31:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Been playing Skyrim for like two weeks now, completely hooked. It's amazing.2011-12-06 02:12:00

Author:
Stix489
Posts: 2080

been playing skyrim for like a two weeks now, completely hooked. It's amazing.

Stix!!!!! I love you.		2011-12-06 04:05:00

Author:
Whalio Cappuccino
Posts: 5250

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale! <32011-12-06 04:15:00

Author:
Stix489
Posts: 2080

If you go to a stable you can pay to be brought to any major city.

Yeah, but that kills the 80% of the amusement of playing the game.
The problem is that at level 10 it's too easy to be owned.
I couldn't complete the Diplomatic Immunity quest because I was too weak and had to get back to an older save, losing like 2 hours of gameplay.
Also, what's the stuff of cutting wood that every inn keeper say?
How do you do it?
I need to reach 5000 Septims to buy Breezehome and leave my stuff there.

Also, can you be, say like...in Dark Brotherhood and the Companions together and stuff like that?
First join the legion, then after the missions go with the Stormcloaks?

I don't have much time to play so I would like to know how can I get the most out of the game, since I will hardly have a second playthrough no matter how much I will enjoy it.		2011-12-06 07:38:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

Yeah, but that kills the 80% of the amusement of playing the game.
The problem is that at level 10 it's too easy to be owned.
I couldn't complete the Diplomatic Immunity quest because I was too weak and had to get back to an older save, losing like 2 hours of gameplay.
Also, what's the stuff of cutting wood that every inn keeper say?
How do you do it?
I need to reach 5000 Septims to buy Breezehome and leave my stuff there.

If you see a saw mill they have a woodcutting thing, or, theres one in whiterun outside of the general merchants store. To chop wood you need a woodcutters axe, go to the cutting block and interact with it (x)

You can get a lot more money by enchanting and selling stuff. Theres an enchanting table in dragonsreach in the court mages room. You can take a dagger worth 10 gold and enchant it to be worth hundreds
Also you can buy iron ore, smelt it, take the iron bars, make daggers and then enchant to save money on buying stuff and train smithing at the same time.

And:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=997RN-JK20s		2011-12-06 08:48:00

Author:
Bremnen
Posts: 1800

You can do multiple quest story lines at the same time. I've been doing Thieves Guild, Mages College, & Companions all at the same time. I'm not 100% sure if you can do both the Imperial Legion and Stormcloaks stories in the same game. I'm pretty sure it's one or the other but I might be wrong about that.

I've bought two homes so far. One in Whiterun and one in Markarth. Markarth's is really cool. Lots more stuff and storage. If you finish the Mage's College quest you can use that as a home for storage too and it's free. The Whiterun house is $5000 and the Markarth one was $8000 without upgrades. The upgrades really do make the difference though. You get a ton of alchemy and enchanting stuff at the Markarth one.

I'm 126 hours in and it's still blowing my mind!		2011-12-06 09:25:00

Author:
Morgana25
Posts: 5983

Yeah, I knew the trick, but I have less than 600 gold at the moment.
So yes, I have to build stuff and sell it and I need to buy a woodcutter axe 		2011-12-06 09:32:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I just need to do one more mission in Markarth to become thane (2 out of 3)... but I can't find who's giving out the last mission?!2011-12-06 10:16:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

I'm 126 hours in and it's still blowing my mind!

I bet!
I'm rarely impressed, but when I reached the shrine of Azura and watched at the scape I was quite mesmerized.		2011-12-06 10:53:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I would call out IGN for being sensationalist (something they are often guilty of) except for the fact that I have read many articles, user comments, stories etc on various gaming sites over the past couple of weeks:


In the weeks since the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released, it has become clear that something is badly wrong. Now the game's publisher Bethesda faces some tough questions, which it must face without delay, and with absolute clarity and frankness. Serious accusations from frustrated fans are growing in volume; that the company knew there was a problem before it released the game.

Trust in the Bethesda brand, one of the most beloved in the business, has been damaged by the company's release of a sub-par product. Doubts must now be raised as to Skyrim's status as the game most likely to scoop all those lucrative 'Game of the Year' awards. This erosion in trust can only be rectified by a full disclosure on what has happened, how it happened, and what plans the company has in place to correct the situation.

Here's what's been going on. PlayStation 3 players with larger save files of Skyrim - for example, those who have played the game in excess of 60 hours - have reported significant slow-down, almost to the point of unplayability. Media sites have visually demonstrated the problem of large saved games set against much faster virgin games. Experts who understand the PlayStation 3's architecture have weighed in on why the problem exists and why it may ultimately be unfixable in such a huge, open world. Players on Xbox 360 and PC versions have also experienced some problems, though not at the scale being reported for PS3.


Bethesda released Patch 1.2, which the company says "improves occasional performance issues resulting from long term play." More fixes are promised, but details are thin.

But the clue to the firm's nervousness about this crisis is in its official response. The word "occasionally" is in stark contrast to the ubiquity of complaints online, and various polls that suggest problem-rates as high as 36 percent. Of course, we can't know how many people are experiencing problems, another opportunity for Bethesda to add clarity to a confused situation.

IGN has reached out to Bethesda for comment. We want to know how this happened, how it can be fixed and, most crucially, if the company knew about the problem before it released the game to a public eager to drop $60 on what was arguably the most eagerly anticipated title of 2011. As of Noon, Monday (Pacific) we have received no response.

We have also reached to out to Sony Computer Entertainment America. We want to know how long the Quality Assurance guys spent playing the game, if they came across the problem, and what correspondence they shared with Bethesda on any lag issues on large game saves. We have received no reply, as yet.

When IGN reviewed Skyrim, it's surely significant that we were given free access to the Xbox 360 and PC versions prior to launch, but had to buy a PS3 copy from retail after it was released to the world. We are currently playing large-save files across a variety of PlayStation 3 models and will be publishing a follow up story.

The most important issue for Bethesda's many fans is whether or not the company knew there might be a problem. We cannot say for sure, but it seems inconceivable to us that no-one at the company came across these problems while play-testing the PS3 version.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the pressure to release across all platforms at the same time would have been immense, and that a delay to fix specific problems with one version would have been extremely damaging to the game's retail performance. Therefore, for Bethesda, Sony and their powerful retailer partners, there was a clear and significant motive in getting the game out on November 11.

We all understand that big games like Skyrim, or Bethesda's own previous hits like Fallout 3 or Oblivion, can come with quirks and bugs. It's part of the reason why we find these worlds so charming. We also understand that the talent that goes into creating these worlds is immense. But there is a big difference between a backwards flying dragon, and a game that is running so slowly that it's just no fun to play.

And it's even more damaging that the very people who are most affected by this problem are those who have invested the most time into the game.

This is why Bethesda owes the world a full explanation, the sooner, the better.


http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1214016p1.html

Skyrim was one of my most anticipated games but I have held off on buying it until Xmas hoping major issues will be fixed. If not then I guess no Skyrim for me, plenty of UNbroken games worthy of my money and I say this as someone who has Oblivion in my all time top 20 list with well over a hundred hours spent with that game, no issues at all.		2011-12-06 13:28:00

Author:
OCK
Posts: 1536

I've got the ps3 version. No patch at all (I can't get my ps3 online for a few weeks at least) and yes, I have moments where the fps crawls to a hault (usually near water or heavy fog effects) I've had a few of the other bugs too (quest items being messed up in inventory, dragons flying backwards occasionally, quests that seem to be broken, dragon bones bouncing all over the map regardless of where they were killed, flashing blue lights replacing textures in some dungeons and really long load times) and yes, they are annoying me a bit. I guess I should feel fortunate I can still play it though. My save files are huge, I keep a ton of stuff in game and I have at least 20 separate save files. I have 126 hours invested in this so far and don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I completely understand the frustration and anger from players. Heck I'd be terribly upset if I couldn't play it, but so far the bugs and issues I've experienced haven't kept me from enjoying the game. It's still an amazing experience that has me talking to the television more often than not saying, "wow!" and "Holy ****, I can't believe they did that!" more often than I'm complaining about the problems. If the game were any less emmersive or amazing I'd be screaming at Bethesda too, but I just can't be angry with them right now. I'm still in the honeymoon period with Skyrim and hope it lasts a long time 		2011-12-06 13:46:00

Author:
Morgana25
Posts: 5983

That problem goes back to at least Fallout 3 I remember getting increasingly frequent slowdown and crashes as the save file got larger.2011-12-06 13:55:00

Author:
Rabid-Coot
Posts: 6728

OCK, you know my stance against broken games, but...buy this and play the heck out of it anyway.2011-12-06 14:35:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I would call out IGN for being sensationalist (something they are often guilty of) except for the fact that I have read many articles, user comments, stories etc on various gaming sites over the past couple of weeks:


I've played about 40 hours now and go out of my way to not knock stuff over or re-arrange the furniture...

I'm starting to encounter frame rate issues after playing a couple hours and my save is just a little over 7 MB...White Run in particular now lags and freezes momentarily. I also have had problems with the sound cutting out after playing a while. Post-patch I can no longer play with auto-save enabled or the game gets stuck on the loading screens every 10-15 minutes. I've even lost an auto-save file after having to reset the PS3.

If the problems only start happening after playing for 3 hours I wouldn't mind...I can rarely play that long in a single sitting anyway...but apparently the time you can play gets shorter and shorter as your save file gets bigger. The PS3 load times are also pretty lengthy to begin with, just bopping into a town and visiting a couple shops to unload your loot you'll spend 5 times longer looking at load screens than actually interacting with the merchants...and with auto-save these times get longer and longer as your save file size increases. On a friend's PC version you don't even have time to read the tips!

It's pretty bizarre, you can walk for miles in the wilds of Skyrim with no loads and tons of beatuiful varied scenery but entering a store is a 10-30 second load, and another 10-30 seconds to leave. That's why I harp on stuff like the cabbages...cabbages represent a stupid drain of available resources...how much better would the game run if it didn't try to keep track of un-important things?

So far the PS3 version has been playable...but it certainly does have issues. At level 25 I'm starting to die more often so it's frustrating not being able to use auto-save. I'm still hopeful that the most serious issues will be addressed in a patch...but I wouldn't get the PS3 version until then.		2011-12-06 14:51:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

Been playing Skyrim for like two weeks now, completely hooked. It's amazing.

WOOOO STIX!

You're one of the bestest.		2011-12-06 15:01:00

Author:
Unknown User

My character just hit lv 30 and Ive already seen/done everything interesting in the game. 51 more levels not worth leveling. :/2011-12-07 20:21:00

Author:
Bremnen
Posts: 1800

My character just hit lv 30 and Ive already seen/done everything interesting in the game. 51 more levels not worth leveling. :/
Oh-ooooh! Ohohoho, you almost got me with that joke! Ohohohoho!		2011-12-07 22:27:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

Oh-ooooh! Ohohoho, you almost got me with that joke! Ohohohoho!

There may yet still be some cabbage in that one dungeon occupied by ancient nords/forsworn/silver-hand/ rouge mages, leading to that treasure chest with loot thats kinda good/worth-a-few-hundred-gold-but-you-already-have-better-and-dont-need-the-money-and-it-would-just-be-a-pain-to-pick-it-up-since-you're-close-to-being-overincumbered-so-you-decide-to-leave-it-there, and a shortcut out, that I havent seen yet.

OH LOOK, A DRAGON!		2011-12-07 23:51:00

Author:
Bremnen
Posts: 1800

There may yet still be some cabbage in that one dungeon occupied by ancient nords/forsworn/silver-hand/ rouge mages, leading to that treasure chest with loot thats kinda good/worth-a-few-hundred-gold-but-you-already-have-better-and-dont-need-the-money-and-it-would-just-be-a-pain-to-pick-it-up-since-you're-close-to-being-overincumbered-so-you-decide-to-leave-it-there, and a shortcut out, that I havent seen yet.

OH LOOK, A DRAGON!

Pretty much sums up any RPG.		2011-12-08 01:04:00

Author:
Whalio Cappuccino
Posts: 5250

That problem goes back to at least Fallout 3 I remember getting increasingly frequent slowdown and crashes as the save file got larger.

Exact same reason to not buy any Bethesda game for PS3, fallout 3 had those issues, new vegas did too (but its a very tiny bit less frequent with the lag issues) and skyrim did... seems they didn't fixed much of their game engine, or at least the performance part on the ps3 (and Im very sure that is the fact that the PS3 has a different OS and manages data differently than the XBOX or PC...). In conclusion, if you have a good PC, get it for the PC.

Still, Skyrim is an EPIC game, did 2 playthroughs and going for the 3rd!

ALSO, Bethesda announced that Patch 1.4 will possibly fix some of the lag issues for PS3, so stay tuned.		2011-12-09 21:34:00

Author:
Ragnarok
Posts: 898

Level 16, 35 hours of playing, 6 MB save and no problems.
Though I must say that I have lots of space in my HDD		2011-12-10 08:22:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I did get the slow down once my save went over 7mb when I was playing late into the night.
But the very next morning there was a patch - my problem was solved.

Not often I get lucky like that.		2011-12-10 21:30:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

I get some bad lag around cities, especially in Riften. Is anyone else experiencing this sort of localized lag?2011-12-11 16:08:00

Author:
booXely
Posts: 654

http://threepanelsoul.com/comics/2011-12-13-219.jpg2011-12-14 23:07:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

This is so fun
Love In Skyrim - A documentary

http://uk.gamespot.com/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/videos/sexy-times-in-skyrim-the-elder-scrolls-v-6347433		2011-12-16 15:28:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

Made a new character.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/612719639805721461/8847A53B88FE43C2DDC4452EBF2AA9090D567A8C/

I intend to kill people by staring at them.		2011-12-17 09:00:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

I'm curious, does anyone else collect rare, one of a kind objects just for the sake of filling up your house with rare items like I do? If I see a rare object I'll drop everything and go out of my way to get it, even if it's useless.2011-12-17 14:58:00

Author:
SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

I'm curious, does anyone else collect rare, one of a kind objects just for the sake of filling up your house with rare items like I do? If I see a rare object I'll drop everything and go out of my way to get it, even if it's useless.
Ooooooo like broken sword handles and soul gem fragments!?

Yes.		2011-12-17 16:37:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

I wish there were maids or something in Skyrim. Just someone to clean up after me. I have a tendency to sit at the head of a fully set table adorned with a fine banquet and then I just shout at it. Now every time I come back I have to wade through all the cheese, meat, and platters on the floor.2011-12-17 19:47:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Ooooooo like broken sword handles and soul gem fragments!?

Yes.
Soul gem fragments are rare? I went into a run down fort for a quest, admittedly it was a quest about soul gems, and their were fragments everywhere. So I just treated them like I would a carrot or cabbage. Do they have a use?		2011-12-18 00:08:00

Author:
SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

Made a new character.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/612719639805721461/8847A53B88FE43C2DDC4452EBF2AA9090D567A8C/

I intend to kill people by staring at them.

I can teach you how to master it for a total of 8000 gold, but I won't be a companion of yours, so you won't be able to get the money back


I'm curious, does anyone else collect rare, one of a kind objects just for the sake of filling up your house with rare items like I do? If I see a rare object I'll drop everything and go out of my way to get it, even if it's useless.

Yeah, but only with weapons, appareal and misc.
Though...my books have been swallowed by the bookshelf and disappeared O__O
I keep all the Books/letters in a drawer
All the ingredients in a chest
The weapons and misc in another chest


I wish there were maids or something in Skyrim. Just someone to clean up after me. I have a tendency to sit at the head of a fully set table adorned with a fine banquet and then I just shout at it. Now every time I come back I have to wade through all the cheese, meat, and platters on the floor.

LOL

On a side note...45 hours in the game, Level 30, Companions Quest finished, Winterhold Quest more than halfway, 1/3 of the main storyline, full daedric set, various quests here and there.
I want to complete all the Hold Quests then join the Stormcloaks, then the Daedric Quests before getting into the Thief Guild and the Dark Brotherhood.
I don't have the time to make a second character, but I will try to get the best out of my only playthrough.		2011-12-18 07:10:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I'm curious, does anyone else collect rare, one of a kind objects just for the sake of filling up your house with rare items like I do? If I see a rare object I'll drop everything and go out of my way to get it, even if it's useless.

I do the same thing. Probably because I'm a cleptomaniac.
I grab everything I see.


Soul gem fragments are rare? I went into a run down fort for a quest, admittedly it was a quest about soul gems, and their were fragments everywhere. So I just treated them like I would a carrot or cabbage. Do they have a use?

Aren't they used to fill up a weapons power bar? Or enchanting? Not sure which.		2011-12-19 01:36:00

Author:
Unknown User

Aren't they used to fill up a weapons power bar? Or enchanting? Not sure which.
Soul Gems are used for both filling enchanted weapons power, and making enchantments.

As for soul gem fragments, they are in the 'Unusable Items' section on the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Wiki, so I'm guessing they may just be for decoration.		2011-12-19 01:50:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

Completed the Winterhold quest.
The final boss went down with 3 hit of regular Daedric sword.
My character sucks a bit.
I don't think I will get every perk of a category, so he will never be sooo badass, never a powerhouse with a particular skills, but he's really well rounded.
Especially now, at level 33 I can walk Skyrim at ease killing a Frost Dragon without hassless.
Btw...did I ever mentioned my character is obviously a guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurl?		2011-12-19 07:03:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I recorded myself playing Skyrim!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZTmQCL0s8

Two Staffs of Magnus @9:55 (when I did the Winterhold quest to get the staff the dude dropped two...)
Interesting parts begin @13:30 (the beginning is mostly loading screens and me in my house, unless of course you want to see me scroll through all my items)		2011-12-20 04:57:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

I recorded myself playing Skyrim!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZTmQCL0s8

Two Staffs of Magnus @9:55 (when I did the Winterhold quest to get the staff the dude dropped two...)
Interesting parts begin @13:30 (the beginning is mostly loading screens and me in my house, unless of course you want to see me scroll through all my items)
Oh cool, some gameplay, let's watch!

Hm... two staffs of magnus, this will be coo- OH GOD. NO NO NO! MY EARS, MAKE IT STOP! OH GOD OH GOD!		2011-12-20 06:24:00

Author:
Kog
Posts: 2358

After 200 hours I haven't joined either the stormcloaks or the imperial legion and I haven't finished the companions or dark brotherhood quests. I just wander around exploring because I don't want it to end. I'm on a little break where I play other games too but I'm nowhere near finished with Skyrim. A funny thing happened when I killed and brought with me a dremora from Mehrune's Shrine into my house in Whiterun. I also had one vampire and Silus from Mehrune's Shrine lying on the floor so I could resurrect them for whenever I felt like it. After a few days I entered my house and they immediately were all fighting each other and with Lydia. I had to kill them all again. I stripped them and placed their items in a sack. A few days later when I entered both the dremora and the vampire were gone. Probably deleted by the game code.2011-12-20 06:40:00

Author:
BasketSnake
Posts: 2391

My Lydia is dead, I'm so jelly of you guys2011-12-20 07:00:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

My Lydia is dead, I'm so jelly of you guys

You're jealous? I already took her out to the woods and killed her myself.

She was so annoying. She killed everything before I had a chance to, so she was practically stealing my XP. Then if I left her at my house, when I came back, my food was missing. Then if I left her outside she leaves a note saying she's done waiting then I go back in my house and she's in my bedroom!!

Lol, Lydia's a pest. 		2011-12-20 07:12:00

Author:
Unknown User

Lydia is better than Farkas.
As soon as I finish the Black Star quest I'll change Farkas with Aela.		2011-12-20 08:05:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I'm curious, does anyone else collect rare, one of a kind objects just for the sake of filling up your house with rare items like I do? If I see a rare object I'll drop everything and go out of my way to get it, even if it's useless.

It's been a difining aspect of the Eldar Scrolls series for me.... to decorate my house with strange and unusual objects, curios and trinkets.
I've also got an extensive library - nearly complete;
As many different examples of weapon types as I can find.(I don't even use weapons - I'm pure mage)
A jar full of human remains... a "dwemer" corner... a Deadric corner...
And anything that glows or gives off a light gets placed somewhere visible rather than hiding it away in a crate.
Oh, and a big pile of coins.

What's annoying is that sometimes they don't spawn correctly when you enter the house and everything gets knocked around and I have to spend ages cleaning up and putting everything back the way it was.

I'm very anal about that kind of thing.		2011-12-20 13:14:00

Author:
Macnme
Posts: 1970

So, I got dragonscale for my Khajiit I posted earlier and decided to take some pictures with some new tricks I learned!

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/612720018381791917/3BB8C5B9EC82129C2D69257F4B162772D214100B/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/612720018381790005/ADC440C06E475B31D095838576F61BD4E47107E5/

Second picture is kinda dark. Gosh darnit.		2011-12-21 04:21:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

It's been a difining aspect of the Eldar Scrolls series for me.... to decorate my house with strange and unusual objects, curios and trinkets.
- A "dwemer" corner

Are those them **** ugly blind rat people that hog all of the Dwarven technology? I HATE THEM		2011-12-21 22:01:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

Are those them **** ugly blind rat people that hog all of the Dwarven technology? I HATE THEM

No, the Dwemer are the ones who made all the Dwarven technology
Dwemer = Dwarven
The ones you are thinking about are Falmer, or Snow Elves.		2011-12-21 22:22:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

-snip-
What's annoying is that sometimes they don't spawn correctly when you enter the house and everything gets knocked around and I have to spend ages cleaning up and putting everything back the way it was.


Same :/
I stole the statue of dibella to put in my House...
I always find it on the floor in a random place... sometimes even glitching through the floor.

..and dont even get me started on the troll head's :L THEY JUST WONT STAY STILL.		2011-12-21 22:29:00

Author:
samalot
Posts: 591

Physics in Bethesda games have always been kinda wonky. One time on Oblivion, I entered a room and every item in it just went flying. Was quite a sight.2011-12-21 23:11:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

Physics in Bethesda games have always been kinda wonky. One time on Oblivion, I entered a room and every item in it just went flying. Was quite a sight.

Not a physics bug, your character just looked at the wall and everything got scared away. Problem solved.		2011-12-22 01:55:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

I leave the Aretino Heirloom on the table on the ground floor and I always find it on the floor of the bedroom in Breezehome 2011-12-22 06:58:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

Ah! Common problem with spouses in Skyrim. You need to go to the Angolob ruins and learn the shout of obedience "DON MOV STOOF" and use it on your spouse.2011-12-22 07:07:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Ah! Common problem with spouses in Skyrim. You need to go to the Angolob ruins and learn the shout of obedience "DON MOV STOOF" and use it on your spouse.

Or you could use the MAKE SAM MICH! Works even better.		2011-12-22 07:08:00

Author:
Chump
Posts: 1712

I don't know...I learned it and used it a few times. She just hands me this pie thing and claims it's a whole home cooked meal. I burn it in the fire when she isn't looking so as to not hurt her feelings...but it wasn't even close to a sandwich 2011-12-22 07:13:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

I'm really not sure whether to buy Skyrim or not. I found Oblivion painfully slow and boring, and sold it after about 30 hours of play. While I loved Fallout 3, by the time I got around to New Vegas the novelty of Bethesda's open world gameplay had worn off to the point where the serious bugs really started to glare and have a major impact on my enjoyment of the game.

So I'm wondering...does Skyrim bring anything radically new to the table that would make someone (who hated Oblivion and who quit playing Fallout: New Vegas because of bugs and freezes) want to rush out and buy this latest offering from Bethesda?		2011-12-22 08:54:00

Author:
Ungreth
Posts: 2130

Whatever it might help you or not...
I played Oblivion 3 hours, Fallout 3...I started it 3 times, never played it for more than 10 total.
Bought New Vegas because I found it at 9 ? and never played it
Skyrim...56 hours of playthrough and no bore at all.
I'm afraid of the day it will end.

Also...who loves J'Zargo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LugNAEearls		2011-12-22 10:24:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

The Ender Scrolls: MineRim


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfdCtuHy9g&feature=g-u&context=G2c49715FUAAAAAAABAA		2011-12-22 19:48:00

Author:
Speedynutty68
Posts: 1614

Last night I unlocked a shout called "Marked for Death". I immediately equipped it in the hopes that when I hit R2 Steven Seagal would pop out and take down a dragon with some aikido...he didn't.

About 50 hours clocked in so far, loving the game but it does have it's flaws. Still, when considering the sheer size and scope of it all one can't help but be impressed. I was expecting Oblivion on steroids and that is basically what I got. I don't think it will be surpassing Dark Souls as my overall GOTY but it is still one of the best games of this generation and I plan on spending many more hours with it during the holidays.		2011-12-22 23:00:00

Author:
OCK
Posts: 1536

I forgot to check how many hours I played it, but...a they are a lot. 2011-12-23 06:50:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

So I was reading this... (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Mysterium_Xarxes)

...

And then I read this...


Possible bug or easter egg: If you burn or freeze the scorched page from the book, it'll change into the bucket. That...what.

It is time to scorch all miscellaneous objects in SKYRIM. I must find the hidden buckets...		2011-12-24 07:43:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

So I was reading this... (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Mysterium_Xarxes)

...

And then I read this...

That...what.

It is time to scorch all miscellaneous objects in SKYRIM. I must find the hidden buckets...

There's no way this can b-
oh dear god it is true		2011-12-24 08:34:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

Then I'm forced to share this (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/12/21/skyrim-conspiracy-theory-insects-point-toward-armageddon.aspx)
Interesting nonetheless		2011-12-24 08:38:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

Then I'm forced to share this (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/12/21/skyrim-conspiracy-theory-insects-point-toward-armageddon.aspx)
Interesting nonetheless

When does the Narwhal bacon?
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvahsh2Htu1ql14fa.jpg		2011-12-24 14:35:00

Author:
AbdiHMA
Posts: 86

I've been taking it slowly now that the initial awe the game used to inflict upon me has passed. Since Oblivion and Fallout I know that if I allow myself to get too much into a game like this I'll just lose my interest after 20 hours or so after I've explored every major area and there's only questing left to do.

Until now I've been pretty much uninterested in warhammers because they're all big and clumsy... then I find a Dwemer warhammer. Dwarves in general always interested me so instead of leaving the thing behind to spare inventory space I decide to give it a try . With a mighty, well placed swing I down an enemy that would take many sword or axe cuts to be defeated. I just instantly loved the way the hammer completely knocks weak enemies aside in one hit. It's like I can almost feel their ribs cracking through the steel. Or controller. Whatever. So now my favorite melee weapon is an axe :3		2011-12-24 15:04:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

Just thought I'd say I just got this...2011-12-25 12:21:00

Author:
Valeview
Posts: 1581

This game has gotten boring to me, it is indeed overrated but it's a great game I recommend buying it on PC if you have a decent graphics card.2011-12-25 18:00:00

Author:
RakasaPlus
Posts: 136

So I was travelling to Irkngthand to finish (I assume) the thieves guild questline and stumbled into Shearpoint along the way...

... and immediately got wiped out by a dragon and an crazy powerful undead mage. I thought the dragon was just a statue when I was walking up to it.
Are there any places with multiple dragons?		2011-12-25 18:28:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

This game has gotten boring to me, it is indeed overrated but it's a great game I recommend buying it on PC if you have a decent graphics card.

You clearly know little about this game if you think it is overrated, that or either you just dont enjoy RPGs, Bethesda literally puts more into their games than any other company, i have been a fan of theirs forever and their reputation isnt clean, but everyone who is a fan understands how much goes into their work, and i normally dont feel a great deal of respect for a compant that makes my games, but when im walking around in their world seeing how well they did and how much they out into it i get this odd feeling in my chest that i dont get for any other company, you are definitely entitled to your own opinion but 99% of anyone elsewould say this game is if anything underrated.

and Ayneh, i did that too one time, sometimes they just chill and wait for you lol, yeah those powerful mages will strike you down quickly though, i mostly sneak and hit them with arrown, im straight mage but love bows and swords, so my mage is a beast at everything XD		2011-12-25 18:43:00

Author:
Tyranny68
Posts: 390

You clearly know little about this game if you think it is overrated, that or either you just dont enjoy RPGs, Bethesda literally puts more into their games than any other company, i have been a fan of theirs forever and their reputation isnt clean, but everyone who is a fan understands how much goes into their work, and i normally dont feel a great deal of respect for a compant that makes my games, but when im walking around in their world seeing how well they did and how much they out into it i get this odd feeling in my chest that i dont get for any other company, you are definitely entitled to your own opinion but 99% of anyone elsewould say this game is if anything underrated.


The PC version is full of bugs. Even the modders do a better job at patching them than Bethesda and that's saying quite a lot since it's not their job. The Xbox 360 version has texture streaming problems when the game's installed to the HDD, and if it's not installed then the noise the console makes will drive you nuts. The PS3 version has a chance to get laggy and ultimately unplayable as the save file grows in size. The patch they released for that only postpones the issue.

This is one of the games with worst optimization, worst polish and most half-?ssed bug testing I've seen in my life. No matter how much work Bethesda put into it, it wasn't enough by a long shot. And this isn't new, considering how a bug in Fallout 3 made every NPC in Rivet City turns permanently hostile towards me without any provocation, and how my Oblivion game nearly got ruined because my character helplessly wedged himself into a wall. When it comes to polishment, testing and stuff like that, it's pretty safe to assume Bethesda is downright incompetent.

And no, there's no way in hell how a game can be underrated when it holds a 96 Metascore and there's memes of it everywhere. If anything, it actually is overrated, being basically a streamlined Oblivion with pretty graphics, slightly better combat and dragons. Oh, and a landscape that isn't basically the same grassy hills copy-pasted everywhere. That's what I liked the most.		2011-12-25 19:10:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

The PC version is full of bugs. Even the modders do a better job at patching them than Bethesda and that's saying quite a lot since it's not their job. The Xbox 360 version has texture streaming problems when the game's installed to the HDD, and if it's not installed then the noise the console makes will drive you nuts. The PS3 version has a chance to get laggy and ultimately unplayable as the save file grows in size. The patch they released for that only postpones the issue.

This is one of the games with worst optimization, worst polish and most half-?ssed bug testing I've seen in my life. No matter how much work Bethesda put into it, it wasn't enough by a long shot. And this isn't new, considering how a bug in Fallout 3 made every NPC in Rivet City turns permanently hostile towards me without any provocation, and how my Oblivion game nearly got ruined because my character helplessly wedged himself into a wall. When it comes to polishment, testing and stuff like that, it's pretty safe to assume Bethesda is downright incompetent.

And no, there's no way in hell how a game can be underrated when it holds a 96 Metascore and there's memes of it everywhere. If anything, it actually is overrated, being basically a streamlined Oblivion with pretty graphics, slightly better combat and dragons. Oh, and a landscape that isn't basically the same grassy hills copy-pasted everywhere. That's what I liked the most.

Let me show you something, if you have it for PC you are lucky... i have it for PS3 i will send you the link to something, though i still love and enjoy the game and can see that they put more into it than i have seen from any other game company i am also one of their biggest complainers and heavy hitters in the forums.

http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1277573-blood-on-the-ice-quest-not-appearing/page__fromsearch__1

http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1279028-we-seriously-paid-for-this/page__fromsearch__1

http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1280588-class-action-lawsuit-for-ps3-users/page__fromsearch__1

I love the game i do, i also hate the problems it has, it BY FAR is the worste on the PS3 console and if you had if for PS3 you would know.
dont get me wrong it is bad for PC, it is worste for 360 and it is absolutely the worste on PS3, here is a link to one of the major problems ps3 users are having.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUoDfO1pWto		2011-12-25 19:44:00

Author:
Tyranny68
Posts: 390

So I was travelling to Irkngthand to finish (I assume) the thieves guild questline and stumbled into Shearpoint along the way...

... and immediately got wiped out by a dragon and an crazy powerful undead mage. I thought the dragon was just a statue when I was walking up to it.
Are there any places with multiple dragons?

Shearpoint has the dragon AND one of the 8 Dragon Priests, you must collect their 8 masks then go to Labyrinthian and have the 9th mask 		2011-12-25 19:48:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

Shearpoint has the dragon AND one of the 8 Dragon Priests, you must collect their 8 masks then go to Labyrinthian and have the 9th mask
Danmit the screen was filled with fire and explosions the entire time, you have to do that another 7 times?		2011-12-25 20:43:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

He's a tough fight, I just sacrificed a follower while he took my arrows like a champ. Krosis is amazingly powerful though.
Also, he's the toughest, especially on Master. The others are all easier, but what level were you?

Edit: Also, try drawing the dragon away from the wall so you don't have to fight both at once. The others are all alone as well.		2011-12-25 21:01:00

Author:
Flamento
Posts: 352

I came by Krosis by chance once. I was showing my friend Skyrim, I wanted to show him a dragon, ended up showing him one amazing fight. Once everything stopped burning, I turned out on top Explosive fireballs ftw!


He's a tough fight, I just sacrificed a follower while he took my arrows like a champ. Krosis is amazingly powerful though.
Also, he's the toughest, especially on Master. The others are all easier, but what level were you?

Edit: Also, try drawing the dragon away from the wall so you don't have to fight both at once. The others are all alone as well.

Isn't one accompanied by 2 dragons?

The one guarding the gate to Sovngard.		2011-12-25 21:18:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Isn't one accompanied by 2 dragons?

The one guarding the gate to Sovngard.

You're right, but they didn't attack me while fighting the priest, only afterwards. Perhaps they bugged out?

Edit: Either way, Nahkriin went down pretty easily for me, the dragons can be avoided afterwards.

Double edit: When I say easily, I mean relative to the rest of the mobs. Everything is pretty intense, considering that I'm playing on master.		2011-12-25 21:32:00

Author:
Flamento
Posts: 352

After coming to a dead stop in leveling at 73 I felt like playing with two handed axes since I've played as a mage for 200 hours. I didn't want to start a new character, I want to continue exploring the same world but I also wanted those perks. I brought my xbox save over to pc, modded in all skills with perks and ported back to xbox. Works great. I wasn't leveling anything anymore anyways. I'm loving it. I never want it to end.2011-12-25 22:44:00

Author:
BasketSnake
Posts: 2391

My first try, he saw me coming and initiated the fight, causing the two dragons to take flight. I was dead before they got to me though. The second time I was smart and threw a quick few fireballs, KO before he could turn around. That time the dragons just sat there staring, not wanting any of this epicness 2011-12-26 02:31:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

My first try, he saw me coming and initiated the fight, causing the two dragons to take flight. I was dead before they got to me though. The second time I was smart and threw a quick few fireballs, KO before he could turn around. That time the dragons just sat there staring, not wanting any of this epicness

I just ran in, gung ho, like a true nord berserker. My legendary daedric armor and greatsword helped too.

It's an unfair fight as an assassin though, even when you sneak, the dragons can detect you 		2011-12-26 05:38:00

Author:
Flamento
Posts: 352

Ok, best glitch ever.
I was doing the Boethia's calling quest, travelled to Kniferidge and...Kniferidge wasn't there, whole location not loaded		2011-12-26 06:47:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

Ok, best glitch ever.
I was doing the Boethia's calling quest, travelled to Kniferidge and...Kniferidge wasn't there, whole location not loaded

http://i.imgur.com/vqYuG.gif

Amazing, did you fast travel?		2011-12-26 16:49:00

Author:
Flamento
Posts: 352

Ive searched everywhere, and I pretty much already know theres nothing to be done, but theres no harm in asking... Is there ANY way to fix the screen size problem on the PS3 version?2011-12-27 02:50:00

Author:
ATMLVE
Posts: 1177

@flam
no I didn't fast travel

@atm
what screen size problem?

Status...
I played 18 hours yesterday, except 10 minutes for 2 lunches and occasional freezes (a lot, more than a dozen), so I would say I played at least 16 hours.
92 hours of play time
level 42
Companions, Temple, Winterhold college main quests completed.
Reached the Wall (I saw David Gilmour battling a dragon) in main storyline
I'm in the Dwermer ruins in the Thief Guild seeking the "man" with my new armor (By the way, at moment the Thieve's Guild has the better storyline, topping in scope both Companions and Winterhold)
Almost every Daedric quest is completed. (The better side quests)
Then I'll proceed with the Greybeard, Blades and Bard Quests, move on to the City Quests and finally the Dark Brotherhood and Civil War (siding with the Stormcloaks) ones, I don't want to kill or have as enemy someone that has some available quests

I'm having fun dual wielding the Mace of BolagBol (strongest one-handed weapon I found) and Mehrune's Dagger.		2011-12-27 06:24:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

Here are my 2 characters:

Al-Khanjar
-Khajit Assassin/Theif at Level 48
-Illusion 90 for silent invisibility casting
-100 sneak and pickpocket
-Almost 100 enchanting and smithing for better dragon gear.
-Dark Brotherhood and Theives Guild fully completed(including special quests).
-Started both college quests
-Still haven't met Malborn in the Winking Skeever.
-Started civil war on the side of the imperials.
-Never use followers, they destroy my sneak style.
-Thane of Markarth, Riften, Solitude and Whiterun.
(100 hours)

Heimdall
-Nord berserker at level 28
-Finished Main Story
-Finished civil war quest line with the Stormcloaks.
-Harbinger of the Companions
-Started Theives Guild(Not corresponding to my RP as the character)
-Destroyed the Dark Brotherhood.
-Full Daedric Armor with Greatsword.
-Lost Lydia in Blackreach.
-Married to Aela the Huntress.
-Thane of Whiterun, Markath, Windhelm and Solitude.
(50 hours)


On a separate note there's a build that I've been contemplating for a while. Still working on it.		2011-12-27 08:38:00

Author:
Flamento
Posts: 352

I've got this for PC and PS3. Everything is better with PC, and the load times are never longer than 7 seconds.

Also, I have one character for each Main "class". 1 Breton mage, 1 Khajit assassin and 1 nord warrior.

EDIT: Over 400 hours of gameplay with my Nord. Khajit is about 20 hours and breton maybe 6.		2011-12-27 14:59:00

Author:
AbdiHMA
Posts: 86

The screen size problem; people without HD TVs have about 2 inches cut from all sides of the TV. I am unable to ever know how much gold I have, which direction Im going, how much weight Im carrying, and its always difficult to see how much health I have left.2011-12-27 17:48:00

Author:
ATMLVE
Posts: 1177

The screen size problem; people without HD TVs have about 2 inches cut from all sides of the TV. I am unable to ever know how much gold I have, which direction Im going, how much weight Im carrying, and its always difficult to see how much health I have left.
That really sucks. I don't suppose messing around with your PS3's resolution settings can give you a temporary fix?		2011-12-27 20:07:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

150 hrs in. I tread very softly. Level 25.

I do as I please. Lots of smithing and alchemy. I sneak a lot. I've been forced to runaway alot. Favorite moments: about 5 hours in I was hunting a deer at night. I was stalking it with my bow, (favourite weapon of choice), I came over a bluff and a distant fire caught my eye... I lost my prey and decided to check it out. As dawn rose over the mountains I stumbled into a giants encampment... dont ask how I didn't see them, They are deceptively quick said the dead man.

I lost my Lydia to a dragon attack. She was a faithful companion. It hurt as I stripped her naked of all my gifts of adornment. Darn dragon scared my horse away so I had to walk so many miles back to Whiterun. Exhausted, a group of mages hunted me down. I was carry like 3x my normal gear plus dragon bones etc. I was a deadman! Until I jumped off a waterfalls and floated for an entire night downstream back to shores near my home.

Bleak Falls Barrow where I slay my first Dragon... The way that thing pinned me down and chased me... I was scared for my virtual life. I don't like to die.

This game is amazing! I played Oblivion for a while, It grew very wearisome on me. Clone after clone after clone. Skyrim is a huge leap forward.		2011-12-28 03:20:00

Author:
Gravel
Posts: 1308

So I was reading this... (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Vilkas)

And then I found this.

If you kill Vilkas, you might find him outside of Dawnstar, frozen in the ground screaming "Skyrim is for the Nords!" So...that's what happens when Nords die in Skyrim.

Like the bucket glitch, I may have to try this too.		2011-12-28 07:07:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

Funniest thing EVAR, in a necromancer cove a necromancer raised a goat to attack me.
I had to pause and ROTLFMAO 		2011-12-28 08:46:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

150 hrs in. I tread very softly. Level 25.

I do as I please. Lots of smithing and alchemy. I sneak a lot. I've been forced to runaway alot.

This game is amazing! I played Oblivion for a while, It grew very wearisome on me. Clone after clone after clone. Skyrim is a huge leap forward.

Sounds like a fine way to play! I feel compelled to complete every inane fetch quest that comes my way, I need some objective and checking off quests is the only way I feel like I'm making progress. It bugs me that you can't finish quest lines completely, ex. companions keep giving out stupid/random quests.

My favorite moment was entering Breezehome to drop off stuff, seeing Ysolda chowing down on a wheel of cheese and deciding she could use some exercise. I zapped her with the wabbajack, she turned into a rabbit, so I transformed into a werewolf and chased her around the place. When the effect wore off she cowered in the corner saying, "I yield". It was pretty amusing, then I re-loaded because the place was trashed and while Ysolda cooks she won't clean.

Other than graphically, I don't think Skyrim is a huge leap forward...it's more like perfume on the pig. There is still very little variety to the enemies, skelly's, draugr, falmer, *yawn*. The leveling/crafting systems are flawed, the physics terrible, and the combat weak.

I found it very easy to level enchanting early on by collecting daggers and petty soul gems. This pretty much eliminated any reason to open chests/pick locks as nothing I find will ever be as useful as what I can create (the daedric quests being the exception having unique items that are sometimes interesting if not very useful).

Currently my character is running around with over 100k in gem stones with nowhere to sell them because the shops don't have any coin to buy stuff. But it's not like there's anything to buy, I'll probably put them in a barrel and make some cabbage thief's day.

Around 100 hours and I just have the war quests to finish. At this point my save is 14 mb and I can play for maybe 40 minutes (if the game doesn't lock up first) before I have to restart because of the severe lag. I'd love to know what they could possibly save that takes so much space, I've hardly kept anything, just the daedric items and masks, I don't collect stuff or move it, etc.		2011-12-28 15:20:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

I have severe lag every time I put weapons in the chest on Breezehome.
I smithed to level 100 but not enchanted that up yet.
I haven't even made the daedric armor legendary.
At level 42 I'm already quite powerful to kill a frost/blood dragon with 4 Iron arrows shot from the Nightingale Bow without having the need to avoid the breath.
I need 5/7 to kill an elder dragon.
And my perks are scattered on every ability, I don't think I'll complete a skill path with all the quests.
I'm already too powerful but I want moar.
I want to complete all the quests, then have fun around Skyrim, eventually killing all the Jarls and the such LOL
I have a very open character, that helps people to merry and sacrifices priests to cannibals at the same time.
I sport the ring of Namira LOL		2011-12-28 15:35:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I have severe lag every time I put weapons in the chest on Breezehome.
I smithed to level 100 but not enchanted that up yet.
I haven't even made the daedric armor legendary.
At level 42 I'm already quite powerful to kill a frost/blood dragon with 4 Iron arrows shot from the Nightingale Bow without having the need to avoid the breath.
I need 5/7 to kill an elder dragon.
And my perks are scattered on every ability, I don't think I'll complete a skill path with all the quests.
I'm already too powerful but I want moar.
I want to complete all the quests, then have fun around Skyrim, eventually killing all the Jarls and the such LOL
I have a very open character, that helps people to merry and sacrifices priests to cannibals at the same time.
I sport the ring of Namira LOL

I've focused on destruction, restoration, light armor, enchanting, and smithing...not a great choice as it turns out. I'm also level 42 and it takes a long time to kill stuff now with destruction spells. The master level spells are pretty worthless since they take too long to cast.

You should be able to increase INT or some other stat when leveling to make spells do more damage, but instead it just makes the enemies take longer to kill. Nothing can really hurt me at this point since I'm sporting a flawless light armor set and can spam healing spells with my left hand while tossing destruction spells with the right for 0 magicka.

It's not that fun but it's effective. I have about 6 unspent perk points...I may try some of the bound weapons. I don't like the summons because I only have the wolf, flame atronarch, and some exploding creature (wolf?) and the constant button remapping is too tedious.

I don't think you can kill the Jarls and such...I'm pretty sure I tried. You also can't hurt kids (not that I tried of course, even though the Jarl of Whiterun's brats are asking for it!). I started out playing a good character but after being stuck in a house in Markarth I gave up that idea and pretty much do whatever is required to complete a quest.

I originally thought it might be fun to take in the sights after completing all these pesky quests...but I no longer think so...it will just be more of the same stuff I've already seen/done. Where are the unique monsters (and giant mud crabs don't count)? The dragon priests were at least something different, but they were still just little dudes and not that cool.		2011-12-28 16:33:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

So today, I was exploring the wilderness(my favorite), and I came across two mammoths glitched on a rock.They were kinda half inside of eachother. Sudddenly, one floats up into the air a little ways and stops, then floats back down and two continue glitching. The party never stops.2011-12-28 18:44:00

Author:
ATMLVE
Posts: 1177

So today, I was exploring the wilderness(my favorite), and I came across two mammoths glitched on a rock.They were kinda half inside of eachother. Sudddenly, one floats up into the air a little ways and stops, then floats back down and two continue glitching. The party never stops.

Did you know that the guy running the Whiterun stables was a triplet? It's true...and he and a brother played a cruel joke and buried the 3rd brother up to his waist in the ground! The really silly thing is that their parents gave them all exactly the same name...go figure.		2011-12-28 19:17:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

While I was wandering I saw a Mammoth raised in the air like abducted from a UFO and then dropped to the floor and dead.
I LOLled.

To have a little fun and challenge I bring Aela with me
Even with a Legendary Dragonplate she's so weak now that 2 falmer hits puts her unconscious, so I have to play taking good care of not hit because I one-shot kill her.

As I said I'm not highly specialized, so my character won't be a powerhouse in anything, I don't use Enchanted/Flawless/Legendary stuff for me, and that makes things a bit more fun.
Also I can play in whatever way I want.
Maybe that's the reason why I still have fun
I'm in BlackReach now, I must take the Ogma Omnivium...then...I still don't know if I'll use its exploit or not, maybe I'll make 2 saves after having taken it, one to exploit, one not.
Anyway, the Bards' Quest (they're only 4) are very useful, they're really simple and quick (except the 1st) and when you go through the 3 radiant ones you are rewarded with a level up in EVERY ability, so I highly suggest them.		2011-12-29 06:37:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

To have a little fun and challenge I bring Aela with me
Even with a Legendary Dragonplate she's so weak now that 2 falmer hits puts her unconscious, so I have to play taking good care of not hit because I one-shot kill her.


Aela has skills in light armor, not heavy Also, she favors the bow over sword'n'board.

Jarls are essential and are therefore immortal

Started a new character, this time not following an archetype but doing what I want, how I want. My description gives away some main quest spoilers though, so the details will be in a spoiler tag.

http://i.imgur.com/fXjN8.jpg


His name is Kamakura Takeo, Takeo being japanese for hero. His class is based on the samurai, so I made a dunmer and customized him a bit. He is currently level 14, and hasn't done any of the main questlines. However, he is kitted out in full dwemer gear and is dual-wielding skyforge steel swords. I want to get him Blades armor and Katanas, but I don't want to kill my dragonbro Paarthurnax.		2011-12-29 16:25:00

Author:
Flamento
Posts: 352

Has anyone done the civil war quests on the PS3?!? The capture the fort ones were like slide-shows for me, like 1 frame every 3 seconds...totally un-playable as I couldn't aim my spells. I restarted, I slept for 30 days, nothing helped. I ended up turning the diffiultly all the way down and letting Shadowmere warp around and kill everything, boo Bethesda, boo!

* Why would Aela have light armor skills? She wears the ancient nord set, heavy armor.		2011-12-29 17:09:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

Has anyone done the civil war quests on the PS3?!? The capture the fort ones were like slide-shows for me, like 1 frame every 3 seconds...totally un-playable as I couldn't aim my spells. I restarted, I slept for 30 days, nothing helped. I ended up turning the diffiultly all the way down and letting Shadowmere warp around and kill everything, boo Bethesda, boo!

* Why would Aela have light armor skills? She wears the ancient nord set, heavy armor.

I didn't have any problems with the civil war at all. Both sides.[PS3]

Also, all information about companions is available on the wiki (http://www.uesp.net/) or this spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Aly8njaU3H1adGJYTlJaUnRxRUN2RnM5MkxPaU1mQk E&type=view&gid=0&f=true&sortcolid=-1&sortasc=true&rowsperpage=250).		2011-12-29 17:44:00

Author:
Flamento
Posts: 352

After playing it for ten hours I quickly realized I never should have bought this game (I got the PS3 version). Constant lag as well as gameplay bugs makes this game a pain to play. Dang, I could have spent those 60 bucks on Dark Souls and RDR GOTY edition instead. Seeing that Oblivion is my favorite game of all time, this is a huge disappointment.

FML..		2011-12-30 00:06:00

Author:
VenemoX
Posts: 197

I have the PS3 version, I have been experiencing minimal lag, even during sieges and such. As for bugs I have yet to see anything float, sky rocket, spaz out, or disappear. I feel lucky, yet cheated out of an experience that seems to be intertwined with the fabric of Skyrim itself.

EDIT: Thinking back, I did come across one particular tree who wanted to be unique and hover over the ground rather than be rooted in it. All the other trees thought he was crazy, but look at him now, slightly taller!		2011-12-30 07:27:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Well I finally decided to take a risk and buy this game. If I turn out to be within the unlucky percentile who suffer major lag, freezing, and game breaking glitches then I'm going to break into Bethesda HQ one night and take a huge steaming dump in their kettle.2012-01-02 16:05:00

Author:
Ungreth
Posts: 2130

Well I finally decided to take a risk and buy this game. If I turn out to be within the unlucky percentile who suffer major lag, freezing, and game breaking glitches then I'm going to break into Bethesda HQ one night and take a huge steaming dump in their kettle.

Tea kettle? Better hit the coffee maker too, probably not big tea drinkers. Keep us posted, I'm certain if you put any time into this game you will experience lag...I don't think it's anywhere near as rare as they try to make it out to be.

I finished up around 130 hours with all the major questline complete, and a 15 MB save file. I couldn't play anymore even if I wanted to as the lag kicks in almost immediately after fast travelling to just a single location. The frequent lockups are more annoying than the lag since you can't use auto-save you will definitely lose progress. You start to dread every load screen and pause as you are never sure whether you'll get control back.

I feel that I got my $60 out of this game...but it wasn't the pleasant gaming experience it could have been. I won't be buying anymore Bethesda games, I gave them a chance with Oblivion and Skyrim, but even without all the bugs I just don't find the formula very compelling.

I recommend not playing as a mage with just destruction magic...the destruction spells don't scale well. I played with bound weapons a iittle towards the end and there are some pretty cool kill animations and jumping on dragons heads that you totally miss out on if you don't play melee.		2012-01-02 17:21:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

I just don't get destruction spells. I find them simply pointless, as I can rip out a two handed weapon and devour my enemy in about a hundredth of the time it would take me to use spells.

Been playing for a while now, haven't had much lag. There is the odd slowdown when theres multiple enemies, but it's not quite the game-changing lag everybody makes it out to be (yet anyway).		2012-01-02 18:00:00

Author:
talbot-trembler
Posts: 1114

I just don't get destruction spells. I find them simply pointless, as I can rip out a two handed weapon and devour my enemy in about a hundredth of the time it would take me to use spells.

Been playing for a while now, haven't had much lag. There is the odd slowdown when theres multiple enemies, but it's not quite the game-changing lag everybody makes it out to be (yet anyway).

Must be nice. What I experience isn't just a sub 30 fps framerate like for example Blighttown in Dark Souls (which is still playable)...it's an inconsistant frame rate with intermittant pauses of upwards of 3 seconds. I've seen better animated power point presentations than the 3 capture the fort quests. Hands down the most broken game I have ever played and I've played hundreds and am not one to quibble about screen tearing and minor stuff like that.

I wonder if it's how you play...I was a quest completing machine, doing quest after quest with no sight-seeing. This might have resulted in my save reaching the un-playable state faster. Who knows, but game engine is clearly broken.		2012-01-02 18:24:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

Tea kettle? Better hit the coffee maker too, probably not big tea drinkers.
I wish I was posh enough to not know you can make coffee with a kettle.		2012-01-02 18:59:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

I wish I was posh enough to not know you can make coffee with a kettle.

I'm pretty confident that a Maryland based software developer has a coffee pot and or coffee machine and not a kettle. They can't be wasting time brewing a cup of joe with a kettle, they've got serious bugs to fix!		2012-01-02 19:16:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

What the hell?!

5 minutes into the game and it freezes, locking up my console. I hadn't even named and customised my character! I'm starting to think I may have made a grave error in buying this game after all...		2012-01-02 19:43:00

Author:
Ungreth
Posts: 2130

What the hell?!

5 minutes into the game and it freezes, locking up my console. I hadn't even named and customised my character! I'm starting to think I may have made a grave error in buying this game after all...

Sort of the same problem, I started a new character a few days ago, and when It got to the point where I was being untied, right before the character customization screen, it froze for a good 5 minutes before it started the rest of the cutscene/ dialouge/music.		2012-01-02 20:12:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

Sort of the same problem, I started a new character a few days ago, and when It got to the point where I was being untied, right before the character customization screen, it froze for a good 5 minutes before it started the rest of the cutscene/ dialouge/music.

I think that's just the initial auto-save, the 1.3 patch makes it take forever. First thing you need to do once you get past this is turn all auto-save options off...it's super-slow and tends to lock up the console.		2012-01-02 20:17:00

Author:
fullofwin
Posts: 1214

I think that's just the initial auto-save, the 1.3 patch makes it take forever. First thing you need to do once you get past this is turn all auto-save options off...it's super-slow and tends to lock up the console.

Autosaving use to cause crashes for me (which is just the game randomly closing) until I got the 4GB mod, so it's also a problem on PC. 		2012-01-02 20:33:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

Autosaving use to cause crashes for me (which is just the game randomly closing) until I got the 4GB mod, so it's also a problem on PC.

This proves to be an annoying occurance. Just yesterday I was exploring a theif hideout, (Specifically the one that scares the ****s out of you, giving you two suprise troll attacks) and right when i was about to wheel around and run for my life... Yup.... SOOOPERSUPRISEAUTOSAVEDERP :3 appeared and got me killed, because my menu got frozen on my screen, unpausing the game, but not my menu screen, rendering my character immobile, resulting in my character being a massive troll chew toy.... OH, and the worst part? Yeah, it froze and corrupted my save that I had, and forced me to go back to winterhold without finding about 6 rare scrolls and a spell book... yeah.

I ragequit and ran out of the room screaming TROOOOLLLLS for 5 minutes.		2012-01-02 20:51:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

Well after the game freezing and then encountering some weird sound bug where NPC voices crackled with static on my second attempt to play, I have finally got my game underway. Not a good start, but here's hoping that sort of crap doesn't happen to me too often.

Anyway, I just read a promo description of the game's storyline...


The Empire of Tamriel is on the edge. The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. Alliances form as claims to the throne are made. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened.

Does this sound a little too familiar to anyone else who read/watched Game of Thrones? 		2012-01-02 21:00:00

Author:
Ungreth
Posts: 2130

Made a new video, edited out boring stuff, added random words:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-cBA7zw3Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-cBA7zw3E		2012-01-02 21:45:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

Here's that Mysterium Xarxes thing war mentioned:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11rnKV_tUQM&feature=youtu.be		2012-01-03 02:48:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

Must be nice. What I experience isn't just a sub 30 fps framerate like for example Blighttown in Dark Souls (which is still playable)...it's an inconsistant frame rate with intermittant pauses of upwards of 3 seconds. I've seen better animated power point presentations than the 3 capture the fort quests. Hands down the most broken game I have ever played and I've played hundreds and am not one to quibble about screen tearing and minor stuff like that.

I wonder if it's how you play...I was a quest completing machine, doing quest after quest with no sight-seeing. This might have resulted in my save reaching the un-playable state faster. Who knows, but game engine is clearly broken.

We played it more or less the same. 110 hours into the game. Thane in all the Reach, all daedra artifact, main Companion, Thief Guild, Winterhold Quests completed, main quest completed, halfway in the Civil War and Dark Broterhood, lots of side quests completed.
I actually had very few lag and framedrops problems, but it freezes like hell.


What the hell?!

5 minutes into the game and it freezes, locking up my console. I hadn't even named and customised my character! I'm starting to think I may have made a grave error in buying this game after all...

Try this, delete the update and installation but not the save data and re-install them		2012-01-03 06:46:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I think it's in Rorikstead you do the quest where a man drinks potions to appear as a ghost to the villagers in a dungeon next to the town. I killed him but I ressed him with the dead thrall spell. He appeared as a normal man but once I exited the dungeon he was back to his "fake self" meaning a ghost. So now I have a ghost mage thrall with me and the spooky voices he does are aaaaaaaawesome.2012-01-03 06:53:00

Author:
BasketSnake
Posts: 2391

I think it's in Rorikstead you do the quest where a man drinks potions to appear as a ghost to the villagers in a dungeon next to the town. I killed him but I ressed him with the dead thrall spell. He appeared as a normal man but once I exited the dungeon he was back to his "fake self" meaning a ghost. So now I have a ghost mage thrall with me and the spooky voices he does are aaaaaaaawesome.

Ivarstead. And that sounds awesome! A ghost companion would be sweet 		2012-01-03 07:09:00

Author:
Testudini
Posts: 3262

On a side note...
My miscellaneous tells me to
Investigate the Boethia cultist, but I have already finished that daedric quest.
Retrieve the bounty from Skald, I killed the dragon but he doesn't pay me
I can't give the Eyes of the Falmer/Larceny Objectives to Delvin
I opened the chest with the papers of Frost, but the papers weren't in there and the quest didn't continue.
Veld died before I could take Maven's quill in the lake and the quest didn't updated.		2012-01-03 07:22:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

I wonder if it's how you play...I was a quest completing machine, doing quest after quest with no sight-seeing. This might have resulted in my save reaching the un-playable state faster. Who knows, but game engine is clearly broken.

One of the contributors to the lag was supposedly how you changed the world, such as stealing things from wardrobes and chests or knocking over tables and chairs. Every time you do anything it basically saves it that way, making your save file bigger. I have a pretty smooth framerate most of the time, but I only really do miscellaneous tasks and side quests. Whether this makes a difference I don't know.		2012-01-03 10:46:00

Author:
talbot-trembler
Posts: 1114

Another thing.
If the lag becomes too much, wait for 30 game days, so that most of the dungeons/location will reset.		2012-01-03 10:55:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

One of the contributors to the lag was supposedly how you changed the world, such as stealing things from wardrobes and chests or knocking over tables and chairs. Every time you do anything it basically saves it that way, making your save file bigger. I have a pretty smooth framerate most of the time, but I only really do miscellaneous tasks and side quests. Whether this makes a difference I don't know.

...I should REALLY stop Fusrohdahing dinner tables...		2012-01-03 15:28:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

http://www.ps3blog.net/2011/01/28/tips-and-tricks-ps3-rebuild-database-faq-recovery-menu/

This has been widely reported to have made a difference for a lot of players experiencing problems with Skyrim, and generally helps your PS3's overall performance anyway.		2012-01-03 17:14:00

Author:
Ungreth
Posts: 2130

Fallout 3: a game wherein guns are the weapon of choice, and more often than not the bullets magically manage to sever limbs, decapitate victims or even turn them into bloody explosions of minced meat.

Skyrim: a game 3 years older than Fallout where axes and swords are frequently used, and somehow they never manage to sever limbs or decapitate people. Decapitation? Only if it's a fancy official execution sponsored by the Empire!

BETHESDA LOGIC.		2012-01-03 22:17:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

Fallout 3: a game wherein guns are the weapon of choice, and more often than not the bullets magically manage to sever limbs, decapitate victims or even turn them into bloody explosions of minced meat.

Skyrim: a game 3 years older than Fallout where axes and swords are frequently used, and somehow they never manage to sever limbs or decapitate people. Decapitation? Only if it's a fancy official execution sponsored by the Empire!

BETHESDA LOGIC.

Tis true... I dont want to sound like an idiot here, but gore makes games like these. Without it it makes the animation feel cheesy.		2012-01-03 22:28:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

Besides, it feels like the slashing the enemies lacks a certain feedback, a sense of collision that should be there but simply isn't. It's because the enemies just don't react to cuts or impacts. They don't flinch not even when we're cutting them up.
Come on guys, this shouldn't be new. Dead Space's monsters slow down when we shoot them in the legs, hop around in one leg when the other is cut off and even drag themselves through the floor when both are gone. RDR's enemies fall and hobble when they are shot in the legs. Rage's mutants stagger, roll, trip, fumble, clutch their wounds when we unleash hell on them. And there's few melee-based games whose enemies don't at least get stunned when they are hit in the face. Not Skyrim's enemies. Their animations just continue like nothing ever happened, and only when their HP is depleted they remember they should resemble a pile of sliced ham and drop dead.

Come on, Bethesda! Let us know we're affecting something with our slashes and not just repeatedly waving a stick in the air.		2012-01-03 23:02:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyjvkfyhAnI






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVfqwDNqb4A
:eek:		2012-01-05 03:05:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

I am...deeply terrified:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bifmj1O3D24		2012-01-08 03:35:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

I am...deeply terrified:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bifmj1O3D24

I used to be scared of ice dragons, but now Im scared of this mod D:		2012-01-08 15:16:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990

After 230-40 hours I still haven't touched the dark brotherhood questline. I'm waiting so that I can ease into it once the DLC hits. I've found 5 out of the 10 (right?) treasure maps but I've only actually tried looking for one of them. Without spoiling anything..how many have you found? How many maps and how many treasures? I loved the treasure maps in RDR and I'll probably look for these sometime later. Through all of my playtime I've only looked up wiki's for quest bugs. I found 4 out of the 5 jars with bugs in them. It's fun to find stuff like that.2012-01-15 19:03:00

Author:
BasketSnake
Posts: 2391

So, this might be a stupid question, but how does everyone find out how many hours they've played? Only place I could think of was the statistics section and I couldn't find anything there.2012-01-16 03:48:00

Author:
SR20DETDOG
Posts: 2431

So, this might be a stupid question, but how does everyone find out how many hours they've played? Only place I could think of was the statistics section and I couldn't find anything there.
I think you see it when you save your game manually.		2012-01-16 04:05:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193


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