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Can't wait for this or Reckoning (first game from Curt Schilling's 38 Studios) |



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Seriously useless. But excited. Using a new engine also. |



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Psyched! Was wondering if they were going to use a new engine or recycle the same one again.. |



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PSYCHEDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
new engine, I read. |









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did anyone ever play any of the kings quest games by sierra? 5 was great. |



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Kings Quest/Space Quest /Indiana Jones/Day of the Tentacle so backed. |



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DISCOVER THE FATE OF ATLANTIS YOU WON'T |









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i just got an exclusive preview quest demo CD of this...its incredible |






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im an hour into it... Total cult dungeon crawl |



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oh... you were serious. How'd you get that? |



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you have to talk to the old lady by the river in the shivering isles...she gives you a code you can enter on their website for a preview disc... |



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I don't think I even go to the shivering isles |



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i'm completely lying here...
if there was a demo of it out, it'd be everywhere.
I barely played shivering isles too because my HD shit the bed and you had to play that expansion directly off the HD instead of the CD |



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Been goofing around in Oblivion lately on my new machine. Tons of graphical mods on it.
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I have morrowind sitting upstairs. |















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I think I remember this image from my 2nd Edition AD+D players guide.
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"Smell it. Enjoy.
It's like God's vagina.
What, you wanna bathe in it?
I wanna live in here." |






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For those of you who are drooling about the graphics and will prefer to play this on Xbox 360... one can obtain a graphics card far superior to that of 360's on a PC..
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Hopefully this is the best game ever. Morrowind and Oblivion could have been the best games ever but it seemed like the creators didn't put as much into the story and funness as they put into the cutting edge style of gameplay, especially Morrowind. Don't get me wrong. They're awesome games but it kind of seemed like frosting the best cake ever with just a very good frosting. |



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It's gay that the PC is getting phased out for gaming. Especially when WOW is earning billions of dollars. It just doesn't make sense. |



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It's gay that the PC is getting phased out for gaming. |
Agreed. Steam is the new PC gaming.
I miss the old days of walking into an Electronic's Boutique and seeing a whole wall dedicated to PC Games. Now you're lucky to get one tiny shelf in the back. And it's all shitty games. |












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fuck I wanna watch that new video but my phones not having it. Is there in game footage? Cuz the last trailer was useless. |



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There is actual gameplay this time and it was running on 360. Looks like a huge improvement. |



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Pc Gaming is dead. I'm going to take my life with it. |















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Just upgraded my video card and power supply for this. RPG=meant for PC |



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Just upgraded my video card and power supply for this. RPG=meant for PC |
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This is coming out a month after Dark Souls. I am going to live in a cave for a while. |









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meh. looks like oblivion. reality simulation. |



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I have morrowind sitting right in front of me. |



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it looks awesome. I hated the fighting of elder scrolls. |



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it looks awesome. I hated the fighting of elder scrolls. |
I also hate when older scrolls stand up on my shelving unit and start fighting. The young ones just watch from afar. |






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Nothing really. Wasn't sure if you're Frankovhell as well |



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I've never even hear of Witcher...was it PC only? |



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I've never even hear of Witcher...was it PC only? |
PC only. The Witcher 2 is coming to 360 though. |



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The Witcher 2 is the best RPG since Oblivion and has far better storytelling. The world isn't as "open" but it doesn't hold your hand either. I didn't know it was coming out for 360 but that's good news because I know you'd like it Andrew. |









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im psyched this new one will actually have monsters you fight oppose to rats and skeletons, nonetheless its fun anyways. |



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The Witcher 2 is the best RPG since Oblivion and has far better storytelling. The world isn't as "open" but it doesn't hold your hand either. I didn't know it was coming out for 360 but that's good news because I know you'd like it Andrew. |
Brutally hard at times, but agreed, one of the best games in...forever. Well worth the video card upgrade.
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"5 major cities" ??? WTF is this shit. BRING BACK DAGGERFALL |






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Can't talk now, roaming an entire continent in Ultima IV from fucking 1985. Lemme know when technology catches up to 1985 standards, I'll get excited. |



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Can't talk now, roaming an entire continent in Ultima IV from fucking 1985. Lemme know when technology catches up to 1985 standards, I'll get excited. |
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Cant fucking wait. playin the witcher 2 in the meantime |



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look at the image gallery on that link....i just fap'd to it |



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this game looks SOOO BAD. only posers would play it. fantasy dumb. |



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duel wielding spells sounds pretty cool , can't wait to quit my job and play this all winter. |






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it actually looks like Eddie (maiden mascot, ya fag) |






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Still debating getting it for PC or PS3. Bethesda said it would be more oriented towards consoles. I don't know how I feel about that, but I do like the idea of melting into my recliner to play it. |



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get it for 360 if you like shitty graphics |
Cards in PC are better. I think this argument is silly, although if it's made for 360 it might run smoother. I want to see comparison videos soon |



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PC is the obvious choice. They're just saying that it'll be better for consoles so that I won't download it. |



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if fallouts and oblivion are any indication, they look infinitely better on PC. you can crank the settings, and the consoles just don't have the memory for the draw distance and better textures. ALSO remember that most games run in 720P which is ONLY 1280x720, usually you run PC games in at least 1600x900. there's really no comparison, the only difference is the way a TV projects it's image versus a computer monitor. TV projects in large format which makes "small" resolutions appear larger, but pixels are still easier to see in console games. |



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although if it's made for 360 it might run smoother. |
i think they just mean the menus and control scheme will just be more "accessible", not really tuned to run better on anything. |



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A bunch of game devs have said that the control scheme is better on console than PC. PC controls for Oblivion were just fine, and when it comes to dual wielding and other commands, I have enough buttons on my mouse to handle everything. And my ps3 controller works on my PC if all else fails. What. |



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i'd play on console if i had a half way decent PC but I have a terrible laptop... |
this statement CONFUSES AND ENRAGES ME |



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i'd play on console if i had a half way decent PC but I have a terrible laptop... |
this statement CONFUSES AND ENRAGES ME |
it does that to me too...i wouldnt play on PC..only console is real.
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One month away.
Fuck the Anthrax show, this is more important. |



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SO PUMPED...perfect release for winter...much less reason to go outside! |



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Just enough time for me to finish up Dead Island. |






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also...masterbating to new screen shots
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Apparently those screenshots are from the console versions. I wanna see some PC shots or get some minimum/recc'd specs for srsly. |



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YEAH WELL I USE AN APPLE LAPTOP AT HOME SO "PC" ISN'T REALLY AN OPTION NOW IS IT?
I prefer it on console honestly. The only games I prefer on PCs are ones where you're using a mouse to do things, ie diablo, warcraft, command and conquer etc. I never understood how people played those on console...
But I preferred games like doom/duke nukem/q3e with a controller hooked up to my PC; why not just play on console?
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I guess it's just a matter of preference. I personally cant stand playing ANY 1st person game with a controller.
Also, the video card in 360 is outdated, although they made it for the console.
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the PC version won't suffer any. don't worry. xbox is the old crotchety console by now but it won't detract from the experience. I'm thinking about getting the ps3 version only to add to my collection, i've noticed PS3 stuff is holding it's value really well. I'll still play it on PC though.
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I only just recently started playing Shivering Isles for Oblivion and its hard as a mother fucker! |



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surprisingly, there is no DLC or expansion crap that you have to pay for. it just comes with cool boxes, an art book, and a sweet bookend.
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oh nm...im thinking of a different game.
im not into zombie killing games |
I actually just bought this 2 days ago and Im liking it alot. Its an open world rpg like oblivion and you kinda find survivors along the way to get quests and what not. Its holding me over until skyrim cuz deus ex was kinda boring. |






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the PC version will have a HUGE community of turbonerds with endless free time to create mods and add-ons, just like morrowind and oblivion. consoles can't do that shit. |



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the PC version will have a HUGE community of turbonerds with endless free time to create mods and add-ons, just like morrowind and oblivion. consoles can't do that shit. |
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I just caved and pre-ordered the collector's edition for PC. |



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^^^^ that video..."this movie's gonna be good!" WTF? |



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I'm one of those turbonerds :/ |
what have you made? is there some sort of noob modding guide for the bethesda tech out there? i might get into modding for skyrim. ideally some sort of 2-4 player co-op mod, which i know was worked on for oblivion but i'm not sure how far the project went, or even just adding content. |



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Should have got AoW1 instead. |
steam sales coming up sooner or later. |



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Narkybark was Game Genie's programer. |



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One and a half weeks.
Also, I'ma change my name to Skyjim. |



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OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm gonna get so fat and lazy this winter.
watch the game completely suck for some reason. |



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There is no way this will suck. Bethesda is too good. |






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Just my luck, my computer just shat the bed. |



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Just my luck, my computer just shat the bed. |
That's what happens when you illegally download music. |



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So I've never played any of Elder Scrolls games, but I've always heard they've been good. Is it like a FF-type RPG or no? I generally don't get into RPG type games, but this one looks friggin ridiculous. |






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It's not like a jrpg by any means. Think of it as a fantasy movie and youre the main character and can do what ever you want.
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good new gameplay preview here too. sounds like a much better oblivion, psyched.
[URL]http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/18/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-preview/[/URL]
[quote]My coffee is stone cold. I don’t even know how long I’ve had it, I’ve been so completely lost in Skyrim. I’ve been granted a generous chunk of time to play the very latest build of the full game – no restrictions on what I can do or where I can go. And I’ve only just finished creating my character.
At the start of the game, you’re being led to your execution. I’ve skipped to just after you get out of that, when you’re given one last chance to choose your race, gender and appearance before being let out into this vast and frosty world.
Bethesda don’t want to spoil the main quest, and neither do I. The reason to be excited about Skyrim is your own story: the unique string of discoveries and adventures you run into. And because it’s unique, I can tell you mine without spoiling yours.
Mine was the story of a scarlet-plumed Argonian with manic staring eyes. As I say, I spent a long time in character creation. Argonians are lizard men, and they’ve had a major overhaul in Skyrim: they look more monstrous, leathery, dinosaurian.
As in every Elder Scrolls game, you start as a prisoner with no history or status. But the war paint, scars and dirt you can add during character creation make it feel different this time. They’ve made it easier to make a character who looks desperate, bedraggled and fierce. Every race looks leaner and meaner: previously adorable wood elves have piggy, dead black eyes. Previously goofy orcs look fierce and tribal. Once aloof high elves look withered and cruel. And dark elves- wait, no, dark elves always looked like jerks.
My scary-eyed Argonian starts the game in a cave. At the other end, a dazzling light shines through chunks of blue ice, and as I step towards it, a prompt appears: ‘To Skyrim’.
Morrowind let you off a boat, into a misty fishing village overlooked by a giant tick. Oblivion let you out of a sewer, onto the shores of a shining lake. Skyrim lets you out of a cave, on the snowy slopes of a huge mountain. The craggy landscape stretches before you, half lost in the clouds. It’s one hell of a sight. I turn around and set off in the opposite direction.
This is what I love about Elder Scrolls games. I love not doing what I’m told, avoiding what I’m pointed at, and going where I shouldn’t. Anyone wanting to take the well-trodden path in Skyrim can head down that slope, discover the small town of Riverwood, and kill a boss spider in a dark cave. But we’ve seen all that in the E3 demo – I want to see the rest of the world.
A few minutes up the hill, I find a walled-off Nordic town I’m not allowed into. I hop on a few boulders and climb in anyway. Through a pair of heavy doors, I find subterranean torture chambers, and dead adventurers rotting in tiny cages. Only one seems worth looting – a robed guy with a book in his cell – but it’s locked.
Lockpicking is no longer a tumbler-tickling nightmare: you just swivel one pick to what you hope is a sweet spot, and try turning the lock with the other. It’ll turn a little if you’re close to the sweet spot, but turn too far in the wrong position and the pick snaps. It’s a system that works well in Fallout 3, and it feels slicker here.
Persuasion, by the way, isn’t a minigame at all this time. Certain dialogue options have ‘[Persuade]’ in front of them, and your chance of success – which isn’t shown – depends on your skill. I never succeeded at one.
The wizard has nothing much on him, but the book is worth it: it teaches me Spark, a streaming lightning spell. I try it out on a ribcage: a crackle of white energy leaps from my hand, jolting it across the room, and doesn’t stop. The roaring current keeps flowing as long as you hold the button. It’s an addictive feeling of power.
Back out in the wilderness, I decide I need a destination. The map, when I bring it up, is beautiful: a bird’s-eye-view of the world, in full 3D and rotatable to view its geography. Parts of it are swamped in mist because, apparently, it’s actually misty there at this moment.
I pan beyond the mountain I’m climbing now and look for the nearest city in this direction. Off to the east, the snowy slopes give way to milder forests running along a meandering river, and a few miles later the river leads to a city. I’m going to Riften.
You can’t fast-travel to cities you haven’t visited already, but I want to walk it anyway. I haven’t gone far up the slopes when it starts to snow – lightly, then heavily, then a full-on blizzard. A cold haze creeps over everything, and I can barely see where I’m going. I stumble on some carefully piled rocks, and follow a trail of these as best I can. Until I come to one that’s splattered with blood and decorated with human bones. Ah.
My compass indicates some kind of thing nearby, so I head to it. I could use a thing about now.
The thing turns out to be Orphan Rock, a huge mass of stone jutting out from the mountainside. Scrambling through the snow, I find a way to the top and peer out into the storm. All I can make out is what looks like a huge carcass to the east. I jump down to investigate, and realise it’s a horse: dead and twisted next to an upturned cart. I ‘search’ its ‘inventory’ and ‘collect’ some horse meat, then freeze at the sound of steel. I scan the wreckage for movement, and realise there’s a large, shaggily dressed warrior making his way around it, battleaxe drawn.
So about the new dual-wielding system. In your inventory, you equip an item or spell by pressing the button you want to assign it to: left or right. There are virtually no restrictions on what you can mix, so I’d mixed a flame spell in my left hand with the new lightning one in my right. And in the heat of the moment, it’s pretty natural to just hold down both.
The crackling torrent of fire and electricity takes even me by surprise. A separate stream shoots from each hand, but they’re so thick and chaotic that it often looks like one vast beam of lightning and flame. I can barely see the warrior through the dazzling blaze, but when my magicka bar runs dry there’s only a corpse. At which point, a long sharp object zips past my head.
Archers. Two of them, and I have no magicka. I will solve this by standing exactly behind a tree until I do. This is what they did for a cover system in fantasy times.
Unfortunately, the warrior has a friend with a sword and shield, and he knows his way around a tree. I need something else to attack with, so I bring up my Favourites menu. Your inventory in Skyrim is like a web browser, in that you can bookmark items and bring that shortlist up in-game. Time is paused while you choose, so it’s not like a hotkey system – a difference I was glad of in this tight spot. I’d bookmarked my best onehanded sword, and I had two of them, so I hit the left and right buttons to put one in each hand.
Melee combat is slightly more satisfying than in Oblivion, but light blows still feel a little unconvincing, and heavy ones still a little clumsy. My enemy was excellent at blocking, but I had a crucial advantage: I wasn’t going to ever stop attacking for any reason. Eventually he just couldn’t block all the blows from both my swords all the time, and he fell to his cuts. At which point, I had a full bar of magicka and my fire and lightning spells re-equipped. Charge!
I am not a skilful man, so it took my whole magicka supply to keep my dual streams on the first archer long enough to burn him to the ground. Back to the favourites menu: two axes! Against a man with a bow, this fight goes better – it ends when I bring both axes crashing into either side of his head with a special dual power attack.
Suddenly I’m alone in the blizzard, among the corpses of both the attackers and the travellers they evidently ambushed. I put my axes away and set off towards Riften.
The blizzard doesn’t let up, and it’s getting dark. I start looking for another thing. My compass suggests there’s a boxy thing with lines in it to the north and a triangular thing to the west – I’m not yet familiar with what these icons represent. I head for the boxy thing, and by the time I arrive it’s night.
It’s a small shack, lit by lamplight from the inside, and pretty glowing insects buzzing around outside. I try to catch one. ‘Sparkfly thorax collected’. What?! No! I didn’t mean- nevermind.
Inside, I find the journal of an alchemist who lived here for a while. I use his apparatus to try mixing a few potions of my own: any two ingredients with a common effect will make a potion, but you have to eat one raw to find out any of their effects in advance. In the case of Nightshade and Death’s Bane, I decide to forego the taste test and just experiment. They produce a strong poison, which I apply to a sword I will forget to ever use again.
Finally, I shut the door and decide to see if I can sleep through this storm – or at least the night.
The next morning the sun is shining, I have a bonus to my health and magicka for sleeping in a good bed, and it’s only a short trudge through the snow before it gives way to an autumnal forest: silver birches with rustling yellow leaves. Soon I reach a camp of half a dozen large tents, erected around a fire with a roasting spit. Imperial guardsmen are milling about in their Roman-looking armour, so I trade with their quartermaster and then try their cooking apparatus.
Cooking is a new feature where, as soon as you bring up the interface, all the imperial guardsmen around you draw their weapons, start shouting, and then run up the hill behind you while you gently stir a pot. Wait, I’m not sure that’s meant to happen.
I join the guards, but I can’t see what they’re reacting to. Following their gazes, I head up a hill outside camp, then finally see it: a Redguard woman in leathers on a high rock, raining arrows down on the camp below. I draw a newly purchased warhammer, itching to try out two-handed weaponry on someone relatively defenceless.
She draws a battleaxe. She runs at me, storming down the hill. I draw my warhammer back. She draws her battleaxe back. I swing. She swings – and an arrow hits her in the side of the neck, sending her flying off my screen and tumbling gracelessly down the hill.
Guys! I was having a dramatic hands-on preview moment!
Back at camp, I get the hang of cooking, then blacksmithing: both are basically lists of things you can produce that pop up while your character looks busy in the background. Cooking turns raw food items into stews that give you long-lasting buffs, such as a venison stew that steadily regenerates your health for five minutes or so. Blacksmithing turns metal ores into armour and weapons, but better item types are locked off until you get the right blacksmithing perk. I also had a go on their grindstone: you can sharpen weapons for extra damage. Elsewhere, you can use enchanting shrines to add spell effects to any weapon, and even destroy magical weapons to learn their enchantments and apply them to something else.
While I tinkered, a guard mentioned that the legion are always looking for help. It turns out you can actually join the Imperial Legion in Skyrim, and they’re one of a few non-guild factions.
Near the camp, I find a ruined temple of some kind, half-overgrown. I’m about to investigate when a halfnaked man runs up to me and gets my attention. Since this isn’t Oblivion, that doesn’t mean my head is sucked into his for a creepy conversation where his face fills the screen – I’m just turned to face him, rooted to the spot but free to look around while he talks.
“Here, hold on to this for me! I can’t keep it, but I’ll be back for it later.”
Since the item in question is a Battleaxe of Souls, I accept. Before the guy can even run off, a hunter appears.
“Have you seen a thief anywhere?”
I look round at the thief, then back to the hunter, and consider the axe in my inventory. “… no.”
“Damn. Well, if you see him, let me know, he has something of mine.”
As soon as the conversation ends, the hunter sees the thief and draws his bow. Not wanting to be left out, I draw my new battleaxe and crush the thief with an overhanded power attack. I look at the hunter, then back to the stolen axe I just used in front of him, and crush him with it too.
I’m still a long way out of Riften, and it’s taken me an hour to cross a patch of snow that looks tiny on the map. There are, however, a few horses here at camp. On the one hand, they’re not for sale and everyone’s watching me. On the other hand, woo! Horsey!
You now steer horses the way you steer yourself – they don’t use the vehicle-style controls of Oblivion. It’s not a dramatic change: horses are still just a reasonably fun speed boost, but one I badly needed to reach Riften.
I make excellent time galloping along the leafy riverside road, and I even stop to say hi to some Rift Guards who’ve made camp by the river near the city gates. This, it turns out, is a mistake.
The Rift Guards are a separate faction to the Imperial Legion, so they don’t much care about the bounty on my head for stealing this horse. But when I get back on my horse, they’re suddenly furious. He’s stealing the horse he rode in on! GET HIM!
This sort of lunacy will be a familiar tale for anyone who horse-rustled in Oblivion. But in other ways, the crime system is more advanced: each city is its own faction, so crimes in one don’t get you in trouble in the next. And if you can kill everyone who saw you commit a crime, you’ll get a notification that there are no surviving witnesses, and your bounty has been cleared.
Right now, though, this is bad. I gallop on to Riften inside of a minute, but arrive with arrows whizzing past my head and sticking in my horse. Two guards at the gates charge at me on sight. I try dismounting and putting my weapon away, the way you usually surrender to the guards in Skyrim, but they don’t relent. As much to escape their blades as any actual desire to be here, I burst through the city gates.
It gets rough. Guards are streaming in from every side street as I barge through the busy market in the centre of town, jump over fences and weave between bystanders. This is not how I wanted to see the city. I leg it through a gate in the walls.
Outside, something bizarre is happening. The Imperial Guardsmen chasing me for the first time I stole the horse have run into the Rift Guards furious with me for the second time, and they’re both much more furious with each other. A small war breaks out in front of the city walls, and for once I’m not under immediate attack. When there’s only one guard left among the bloodied corpses, I walk straight up to him, weapon sheathed: please, please arrest me. He arrests me.
In Oblivion, a few of your skills would atrophy as you rotted in your cell. In Skyrim, this doesn’t happen, but your progress towards your next point in a few skills will be reset. It’s a much milder penalty – I don’t even notice which skills I’ve lost progress in.
Finally exploring Riften without being stabbed, I find a remarkable city. A river runs through it, and in places the cobbled streets give way to sharp drops to the water below, wooden walkways running along the houses at street level. Below that, a network of piers connects the doors of grubbylooking subterranean dwellings, their doors almost at water level. From the chatter around town, I hear there’s a network down there called the ratways, where the Thieves Guild hide out. Rift Guards with ominous helmets that conceal their faces growl as I pass. In all kinds of ways, it reminds me of Vivec, Morrowind’s intimidating capital.
When I ask art director Matt Carafano about the other cities, he says they’re all unique. “We worked really hard to make those feel distinct. So Riften is a rundown lake town, but it’s set in the beautiful fall forest area. Whereas Markarth is built in an ancient dwarven ruin in cliff sides, so it’s very different. Solitude is more like a castle city, kinda influenced by an imperial style. Windhelm is an ancient Nordic fortress, so it’s full of really old Nordic architecture. And you have the city of Whiterun in the centre, which is a more classic Viking – almost mountain-style – city in the tundra.”
Back in the market, a shifty-looking man runs up to me. He’s impressed that I saw through the corrupt guard at the north gate, but he thinks killing him was a little harsh. I… what?
I deduce he’s a thief with some kind of scam going with a guard. That guard must have been killed in the fracas I caused at the city gates, and he’s assuming I rumbled his scheme and did it intentionally. That’s wildly untrue, but he’s so impressed with my instincts that I decide to accept the credit. He’s offering me work: he wants a vendor in town brought down, so he needs me to pickpocket a valuable ring, then place it in the vendor’s private chest. He’ll create a distraction while I work.
My new friend shouts to all the shoppers and vendors to gather round, and they do. My mark sits on a crate in front of some barrels, and as the thief rambles about a dragon elixir he’s discovered, I sneak up behind the vendor and rifle through his pockets. The moment I take the ring, he screams “Thief!” and the guards flood in. I am new at this.
I didn’t know it at the time, but in Skyrim, your chance of successfully pickpocketing something depends partly on its value. Rifling through someone’s inventory is no longer a crime – at least, not a detectable one. But when you take something, the chance you’ll get away with it depends on your pickpocketing skill, the weight of the item, and how much it’s worth. People pay more attention to their valuables, this rule implies.
I don’t resist arrest, but I’m not willing to serve time for this. As in Oblivion, you wake up in jail with a single lockpick, somehow secreted about your person. Unlike Oblivion, it was actually enough. Before long, I’m out – no skill-progress reset. Man, I should be in the Thieves Guild.
I decide to find the Thieves Guild. Not losing my skill progress pays off: soon I level up, and finally decide to rest. This is where Skyrim goes from exciting to a thing we need a new superlative for – not the resting, but the levelling up. Your skills improve as you use them, and improving enough skills increases your character level. That lets you choose a perk: a tweak to one of your skills that makes it more effective. So you have an element of choice, but you can’t pick a high-level perk for a skill you haven’t practised much: they have requirements.
The selection is literally dizzying. I have a sort of buzz in my brain as I scamper around the menu reading up on all the options I’ll never unlock in the time I have left. I have two perks saved up – you’re not forced to spend them as soon as you level – so I put them both into Destruction magic. The first halves the cost of all low level destruction spells, including my fire and lightning ones. The next enables dual-casting: when you equip the same spell in both hands, you can fire both at once for a single, disproportionately more powerful beam.
I blunder into a few dwellings before I find the ratways. They turn out to be a string of incredibly tight tunnels, dank and filthy. Almost immediately, I come out into a larger chamber and find a gaggle of thieves. Excellent!
They demand all of my money. Dammit, I forgot that was the problem with thieves. Renegotiating, I suggest that I keep all of my money, and they instead take all of the fire I’m now shooting from my hands. It’s a tough sell: some of them feel I should take one or two of their arrows in return, and one thinks his fists should be part of the deal. There’s only one thief left when I run out of magicka, so I bring out my warhammer and crumple him
Dead, he’s more generous: I’m suddenly the excited new owner of the Gloves of the Pugilist.
+15 damage on your unarmed attacks wouldn’t be much in another RPG, but Elder Scrolls games are stingy with stats. These gloves are a big deal.
It’s not long before I get to try them out. My first punch smacks a huge chunk off of my attacker’s hitpoint bar, so I try a power attack. I grab him, he disappears off screen, there’s a sickening crunch and I drop his limp body to the dirty ground.
Until now I haven’t seen many finishing moves, but with the gloves I’m doing them almost every fight. I stride through the ratways taking on all-comers, letting them close on me and then breaking them. I even discover you can mix spells with hand-to-hand combat: the funniest setup is to use a lightning spell in my left hand and keep my right as a fist. I shock people from a distance, then simply knock them out.
I’m coming to the end of my time with Skyrim, and increasingly anxious that I’m not going to find the Thieves Guild before Bethesda haul me away. The ratways are long and intricate, and all I’m finding are big chambers dominated by tree roots and rampant undergrowth. Eventually I find an even bigger area with a lake of fetid water in the centre, a jetty with tables and chairs on the other side, and a fire glowing behind it.
I creep around the edge of the chamber and see people sitting in some of the chairs. I realise it’s an underground tavern. And the people here all seem rather… thievey. Since the first rule of the Thieves Guild is that you don’t tell everyone who wanders into the Thieves Guild that this is the Thieves Guild, I check with Bethesda – yep, this is the Thieves Guild. I’ve found it at last.
Unfortunately, no one in the entire establishment wants anything to do with me. It suddenly occurs to me that the guy I failed the quest for earlier – you know, the thief – might have been a Thieves Guild member trying to recruit me. Whether because I messed that up, or simply because I don’t have an ‘in’, the Thieves all treat me like dirt.
I have about five minutes left. I put my gloves back on.
Before playing it, I wasn’t totally convinced Skyrim would be a huge leap forward from Oblivion. It is. For all the similarities, it feels like a new world, rendered at a new level of fidelity. More importantly, the new systems completely blow open the possibilities for evolving your character. I can’t stop thinking about all the possible combinations of weapons and spells I want to try together when the game comes out – pouring out lightning and fire at the same time was a feeling of power I never had in Oblivion.
And even more tantalising, the perks you can unlock open the way for ridiculous high-level characters. An archer who can slow time while he aims, knock people off their feet with his arrows, and run like the wind between shots. A conjurer who can bring his defeated opponents back to life, two at a time, to fight for him as zombies. Or a thief who can steal the armour off your back, pick a lock right in front of the guards, and even slip a poison into your bloodstream unnoticed.
I can’t shake the obsession Skyrim has left me with. I’m pulling screenshots up on my monitor just to feel like I’m playing again. I’m scribbling character builds on napkins. I’m replaying only the snowiest bits of Oblivion. And I’m wondering what the hell November is doing way over there.[/quote] |



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This game rips off Daggerfall. |



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Game leaked.
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This game rips off Daggerfall. |
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new Horn of Valere song is going to be entirely Skyrim based...the drummer and I are both totally obsessed.
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HoV lineup right now is all original...Adam, the other guitarist is back from Iraq for good. Jon the drummer has always been wanting to get it back together but we were always making excuses not to do it...but we're practicing this month for the first time since 2005. |



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not sure about bass or vocals yet...not sure if Jay Christraper will still want to do it now that he's down in Providence. I can pull off the vocals...bassists will be tried out once we've got a few rehearsals under our belt. |



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I made a fb pot the other day about how someone should book a black metal show with bands from like 6-7 years ago. that'd be great.
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there are scrolls...that are old. and once I had to steal one. then fight a huge dragon/eagle thing...and got sweet armor in return.
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Only practicing in Imperial City is real. |
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I got the biggest house you can get in Oblivion. It has a huge basement, would be awesome for shows.
Too bad it's much harder to get a house in real life. :(... all I did was kill ghosts to get a mansion. |



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that house is OK but everytime you try to sleep fuckin BAM! ghosts up your ass.
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I got the biggest house you can get in Oblivion. It has a huge basement, would be awesome for shows.
Too bad it's much harder to get a house in real life. :(... all I did was kill ghosts to get a mansion. |
I got that house too. Still had to pay the 5,000 though. Then fuck up a demon in the basement. |



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I had a random little cottage on a lake that a queen gave me for helping some Orc warrior chick discover her heritage. Humble, yet quaint. and no ghosts. |
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I hope they use different voice actors in this game. Got so sick of the oblivion actors. they could have switched them up a bit. Funny thing was when you got a bum asking for money he sounds all homeless and drunk, then when you ask him for info, the voice sobers up and sounds normal. FUCK YOU FAKE BUM YOU AIN'T GETTING A COIN |



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I hope they use different voice actors in this game. Got so sick of the oblivion actors. they could have switched them up a bit. Funny thing was when you got a bum asking for money he sounds all homeless and drunk, then when you ask him for info, the voice sobers up and sounds normal. FUCK YOU FAKE BUM YOU AIN'T GETTING A COIN |
haha, yeah they ARE using many more voices and cohesive dialogue systems. todd howard said something about that somewhere. there's no longer set dialogue options for a bunch of people, but each NPC has seperate voices and responses. |



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only killing trolls with magic inside a painting is real. |
I poisoned my longblade with turpentine and killed them that way. Had to do that quest 3 times because it kept glitching and the portal back wouldn't appear. |



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GOD I CANT FUCKING WAIT FOR THIS GAME.
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can we go online and go on quests together, Ross? |
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I'm ok with noline shit...I rarely play games online but it would be cool to roll with a buddy on xbox live and wreck shit.
Like going through the Oblivion Gates, those levels got hard and pretty intense...would have bee fun as shit with a real life partner (LOL AT LIFE PARTNER) to wage war by your side. |



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Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter. |



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I have a dragon costume that pleases the 9 divines when I wear it and dance at the chinatown gate. |



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I got a new fucking card for this game. Better look good. |
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My current card (Slag's old one) handled everything fine up until now. I bought Sonic Generations the other night and it wouldn't run. Needs a card that has 512MB and CUDA or whatever. |



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FACT BOMB |
This is true, but a ps3/360 costs less than a mid range card does these days. In my opinion the cost of graphics hardware is what is killing pc gaming these days, not piracy. Some serious pc gamers are now buying 2, 3 or 4 top of the line cards to run in sli, or crossfire mode, plus the upgraded power requirements that come with it. Some pcs now have multiple power supplies just to power the graphics hardware. It's just costing too much to stay current on the pc. This combined with the ability to play games on your HDTV has made consoles more attractive. |



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Some serious pc gamers are now buying 2, 3 or 4 top of the line cards to run in sli, or crossfire mode, plus the upgraded power requirements that come with it. Some pcs now have multiple power supplies just to power the graphics hardware. It's just costing too much to stay current on the pc. This combined with the ability to play games on your HDTV has made consoles more attractive. |
I think a lot of that is overkill. PCs are easy to pour money into, but for a baseline system that can run everything very well these days, you don't need to spend over $400 for a complete system. I dropped $280 the other day for a brand new AMD processor, mainboard, and 8GB performance RAM. I can turn around and sell the 4-year old Intel hardware I have for almost that much! I think with PCs, the biggest barrier is knowledge of system building. |



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I think a lot of that is overkill. PCs are easy to pour money into, but for a baseline system that can run everything very well these days, you don't need to spend over $400 for a complete system. I dropped $280 the other day for a brand new AMD processor, mainboard, and 8GB performance RAM. I can turn around and sell the 4-year old Intel hardware I have for almost that much! I think with PCs, the biggest barrier is knowledge of system building. |
Completely agree it's easy to go overboard. My mainboard was probably about $280 alone when I first bought it. That being said, pc hardware has always driven game development and vice verse. Eventually, even with 4 dedicated graphics cards and 16gb of ram games will start to get choppy again and you'll have to stomach lowering your settings for the latest game. |



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$280 for a motherboard is dumb. |
Motherboards are usually the one thing you don't want to skimp on. True these days you get over charged for a bunch of useless features you never use, but nothing is more obnoxious than chasing down system issues that are the result of a cheap board and shitty quality control.
It's only dropped about $80 since
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131644 |



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Doesnt matter. Will probably look great on 360. It's too bad its not a sega genesis game |
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The overclocking I have set to a moderate level. Overclocks on demand when needed and ratchets back down when not needed. Could probably run it much higher but I'm on air cooling with the stock AMD cooler right now. I may go back to water cooling just for the the sake of getting rid of the high rpm fan noise. The clear cmos button is a nice touch, removing the battery and jumper is old school and requires opening the case. Just don't push it unintentionally. Don't have any USB 3.0 devices yet but probably will someday. I don't upgrade my system that often so this one was built with the intent to last at least 5-7 years. The integrated sound card replaced my SB audigy 2 pci card that I've had for years. Running one PCI-e Radeon HD 5850 card right now. |



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For those of you who are drooling about the graphics and will prefer to play this on Xbox 360... one can obtain a graphics card far superior to that of 360's on a PC..
FACT BOMB |
This is true, but a ps3/360 costs less than a mid range card does these days. In my opinion the cost of graphics hardware is what is killing pc gaming these days, not piracy. Some serious pc gamers are now buying 2, 3 or 4 top of the line cards to run in sli, or crossfire mode, plus the upgraded power requirements that come with it. Some pcs now have multiple power supplies just to power the graphics hardware. It's just costing too much to stay current on the pc. This combined with the ability to play games on your HDTV has made consoles more attractive. |
This is exactly why I dont PC game anymore. i used to build rigs and be all into maxing out FPS's . The more they kept upgrading cards and graphics and adding more requirments of power supplies. It just seems really silly. The technology needs to intergrate all this stuff better. Its now like having a car with 5 motors and 3 gas tanks. Its a pain in the ass to learn about and Im lazy these days. A ps3 on a nice huge hd1080p tv looks just as good, costs less, and i can lay down and play on my couch. Win. |






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you didn't read my post.
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AWESOME video of the barbarian choir and voice acting:
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I'm gonna pick so many herbs when I get this game. Calcinators and alembics all up in this bitch. |






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Ayo girrl, I can make you a salve that'll make ya pussy moist, ya hair silky and fortify yo illusion skill by 20 points for 120 seconds. |



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Skyrim, Tamriel.
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didnt pick it up at midnight last night...they better not have sold my pre-ordered copy!
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Fucking awesome so far. I had to start over though because a whole villiage was trying to kill me and I have no idea why. I'm always a Nord, but I'm not sure if I should be something else.
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I know its going to take me 3 hours just to make my character hahah
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It seems my hypothesis was correct. Brockton gangstas be too busy gettin' they DUTY on, SON! Was able to have them hold a copy for me. No sleep after the O'Brien's show tonight. I'm gonna get me some porphyric hemophilia. |



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I don't like that you can't see your character in the inventory menu, like when switching armor. Menu is a little clunky but better than oblivions. Remember how you used to have to scroll through like 8704043043 random books to get to your repair hammers in the "misc" section? This game rules. |



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I feel like my life has come full circle with this game. Only being a nerd that all of the cool kids wont fuck with cuz Ill kill them and getting laid intermittently while sitting on your ass playing rpgs is real. |



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that pisses me off too.. no athletics. I was jumping around the whole time until I realized it.
great game so far, though. it's like an upgraded version of oblivion. If you've done the "Golden Claw" mission (one of the first ones you can do), you get to fight the Undead and waltz through a snowy cave with waterfalls. pretty epic. |



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Combat in this still looks horrible and button mashing, with no skill involved. They basicly just copied oblivion and added the fallout death scene thing. Original. |
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They're called Redguards, all the same IP FARIL |



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Haha, I don't know why that came out so dark. |



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Combat in this still looks horrible and button mashing, with no skill involved. They basicly just copied oblivion and added the fallout death scene thing. Original. |
I dig it. |
yeah, i like the combat a lot. it's not dark souls caliber, but still far better than oblivion's. they added enough to keep it interesting. shield bash, dual wield anything, perks make it a bit deeper. there's a good sense of "weight" behind swings and spells. i've missed a heavy swing with a two-hander and fallen off a cliff more than once. |



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Try one of the Souls games and you'll see why we like the combat so much. Combat here is pretty much what I expected it to be, same as Oblivion essentially.
I do have to complain about the PC UI though. HOLY SHIT ITS ATROCIOUS.
I'm not speaking about the looks either, I'm speaking about maxed-out mouselook that's still really slow, keys that don't react once reassigned (neither the new key nor the old key will allow me to pick up a book, for example). The menu system also seems very counter-intuitive to me. I like not being able to use my CURSOR to choose items on screen... meh. Will take some getting used to. |



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They're called Redguards, all the same IP FARIL |
In Skyrim, negros are called Redguards?
All the same ip bobnomaamrooney.
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how come Nords walk like this....
and Redguards walk like thiiiissss... awww yeah |



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I do have to complain about the PC UI though. HOLY SHIT ITS ATROCIOUS.
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the WSAD menu switching just pissed me off. i had to switch to a controller...works far better. |



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this game's fun to watch. my roommate shot a hawk with a bow and arrow. that was pretty rad. then there were zombie wolves. |



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I bought the game this afternoon. So far I have enjoyed stealing a horse and riding it off of a mountain. |



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I have the collector's edition strategy guide. It's HUGE and is like a highschool science book. |









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Got drunk last night (forever alone) and played this. Dangerously fun. I looked at the clock and it was nearly 5am. damn you bethesda |






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Level 16. Turning into badass nord cleric |



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I've been killed a bunch of times but digging this game big time. |



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I am a level 7 Negro Kitty. I have a woman that follows me around. If I walk up to her, she says "erhhh" or something similarly smart.
Why does this game not make use of the "shout, shout, let it all out" song? It would make the perfect 80's montage music for the trek up greybeard mountain.
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that pisses me off too.. no athletics. I was jumping around the whole time until I realized it.
great game so far, though. it's like an upgraded version of oblivion. If you've done the "Golden Claw" mission (one of the first ones you can do), you get to fight the Undead and waltz through a snowy cave with waterfalls. pretty epic. |
I also don't like how they dumbed down the speech and bartering system; however, the whole smithing thing is pretty cool, although I havn't really utilized it a whole lot. I've barely done quests, I've just been roaming around at random, robbing and killing people in the wilderness. |



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I love that the redguards arn't welcome in Whiterun. I'm way behind you guys in this because I had to record scratch tracks for slars drums all of yesterday. |



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Level; 16 Nord named Andrew.
stoned for the first time in months just to play this.
might not make Absu tonight. |






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Andrew in 3 months:
"So I don't have a job anymore, just got level 70 though. Still pooping in socks to save time..." |



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Lvl 20 Wood Elf werewolf assassin named Forss Fagerstrom, not much sleep. |



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I fucked up so hard last night and didnt save in a good spot...I'm straight up STUCK in this house, no way to get out and the enemies are beating the shit out of me. If I go back to my last 'real' save, I lose like 2 HUGE missions I did last night...
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this is Andrew the Nord:
found this hot hunter broad sun bathing
DO A RITUAL ABOUT IT
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Why do all of the children in Skyrim look the same? |



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they really do...and all they want to do it play tag. |






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Andrew, your character looks like a milkdrinker. |



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all the children look the same because its a metaphor or something.
like... get this man... we're all just that same child inside. the one that wants to forget about the cruel, harsh, cold world and play tag forever and stuff and junk.
WHOA. |



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Andrew, your character looks like a milkdrinker. |
LOL. I AM!
I'm gonna be a huge milk drinker tonight and make the combat super easy just so i can get out of this damn quest im stuck on. |



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DO A RITUAL ABOUT IT
Haha is that the mission where the kid wants you kill the lady that runs the orphanage in riften? I killed the wrong lady first.
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DO A RITUAL ABOUT IT
Haha is that the mission where the kid wants you kill the lady that runs the orphanage in riften? I killed the wrong lady first.
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yeah!
you killed the nice lady? that sucks cause she gives you a side quest. |



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Yeah I walked in and that vapid cunt was telling the kids how worthless they were and then told them to go to bed. I went into sneak and saw a lady go into the room and went to sleep. Crept in and slashed her with my dual wielded scimitars. Oops. Cool story, bro. |



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i want to punch myself in the face right now...FUCK BEING AT WORK. how am I going to do this 5 days a week?
this game is ALL I THINK ABOUT. |



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You gotta get the collector's edition strategy guide. |



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Traveling for work this week. No skyrim til after midnight on Friday. |



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I dont like using strategy guides or anything...the ONLY reason I'm gonna puss out on this mission is because at the beginning of the mission I was supposed to give this dude a couple piece of my gear to use on the quest and I fucked up doing that so when it came time to get my gear from him and fight people, he didnt have anything for me so I'm fucking weaponless stuck in this mansion and the only way out is with this key that I cant pickpocket..I have to kill this wizard with no weapons, armor etc...
ONLY MAGIC.
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What, are you going to Hammerfell? |



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Crept in and slashed her with my dual wielded scimitars. Oops. Cool story, bro. |
careful next time you sleep bro! |



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i've gone to sleep and woken up in different places twice so far. |



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I dont use guides either, but this one is so detailed and awesome. Not going to use it for missions |



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i want to punch myself in the face right now...FUCK BEING AT WORK.
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skyrim withdrawal + ears ringing from never blow out the eastern candle = fuck today |



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I've demolished the bathroom at work twice today. |



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i've gone to sleep and woken up in different places twice so far. |
a bug?
I did a drinking contest mission that ended up with me blacking out and waking up on the other side of the world...it turned into a huge ordeal. |



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nope. the drinking contest was one. finish that questline, it's a good one. another one was for the dark brotherhood. they are DARK in this game. |






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http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11
look at the info for the DX9 sharpen filter. HUGE DIFFERENCE. i have no complaints how it looks on the PC. some components are "outdated" like people wishing there were footprints on the snow, etc. come on... |



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the WSAD menu switching just pissed me off. i had to switch to a controller...works far better. |
The controls for PC are very buggy. Don't try changing them from the defaults or shit gets all mixed up and stops working. The UI also doesn't get updated when you rebind keys. I can't believe game devs still get away with doing this. Seriously how hard is it to display the updated key bindings? |



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Martins playing a non JRPG? |
And on PC? LOLWUT |



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http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11
look at the info for the DX9 sharpen filter. HUGE DIFFERENCE. i have no complaints how it looks on the PC. some components are "outdated" like people wishing there were footprints on the snow, etc. come on... |
The game overall looks very good and runs smooth for me on max settings. It's just when close up to certain things it doesn't look that impressive. You can tell they limited it to run better on consoles. |



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Is there a bemefit to sleeping and why do I need to eat when I can replenish my health with magic? Probably noob questions but I've only played for four hours and I'm a level 3. |



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Sleeping and waiting are just good for getting to a specific time of day faster. I think. |



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Is there a bemefit to sleeping and why do I need to eat when I can replenish my health with magic? Probably noob questions but I've only played for four hours and I'm a level 3. |
sleeping in an owned bed gives you the "rested" effect which i think means you learn skills faster for a while. waiting is just for something like getting to a shop when they're not open. as for cooking, raw food doesn't give you much health, experimenting with recipies and cooked food gives you a lot more buffs (like increased stamina or magic regen for a while after eating a steak) |






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Once I figured out I could use magic to replenish health I thought it was silly to carry around a ton of food. |



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Yea. You're a milk drinker. |



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I use alchemy a lot...whats up with cooking? I'm not sure I ever did that even in Morrowind or Oblivion. |



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It's borrowed from Fallout, equally useless in this game unless you're playing on max difficulty which probably requires you to eat. |






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Is there a bemefit to sleeping and why do I need to eat when I can replenish my health with magic? Probably noob questions but I've only played for four hours and I'm a level 3. |
in the last one you had to sleep to level up, so it was very important. all it does in SKYRIM is heal you. if you wait, you heal as well, so its pretty pointless. you dont need to eat, but if youre a mage then its good to have some potions to heal with so you dont have to use your mana on healing. |



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Also, this game has overtaken my life as predicted. I just sent aril an MMS while taking a shit of me holding a large roll of toilet paper that looked like a cheese wheel to me. Value: 1
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in the last one you had to sleep to level up, so it was very important. . |
"YOU SHOULD REST AND MEDITATE ON WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED" |



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Barely want to be at work right now. I just wanna go around dual wielding maces killing forsworn or the silver hand or continuing to not head up to meet the greybeards. |



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It's definitely not a waste to pay the greybeards a visit. |



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Greybeards - prepare to walk up a mountain for 2 hours.
Barbas the dog is a stellar tank. Fuck finishing the quest, I now have two followers. |



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I mix it up like crazy...random quest to random quest stopping in between to fuck up a cave I discover or help some dude out here and there.
the quest menu is way better on this than on the past ES games... |



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Let me guess... someone stole your sweet roll? |



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It's definitely not a waste to pay the greybeards a visit. |
yea, in oblivion I didnt really follow the main quest, but that shit was epic as fuck. I got raped by that ice troll though :( |



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Greybeards - prepare to walk up a mountain for 2 hours.
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yea but you need the whirlwind dash to clear certain dungeons I bet. |



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Greybeards - prepare to walk up a mountain for 2 hours.
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yea but you need the whirlwind dash to clear certain dungeons I bet. |
YEP took me a while to figure this one out where I needed to use that. *HINT*Colored pillars *HINT* |



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yea, in oblivion I didnt really follow the main quest, but that shit was epic as fuck. I got raped by that ice troll though :( |
I have a companion I got from the jarl in whiterun. She's proven most helpful. We fucked that troll up good. She's also really helpful when fighting dragons because she's a great archer. Highly suggest, even though she acts like a dumb bitch and goes uhhhhh if you get too close. |



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I never take on those companions...
I guess I should...i usually tell them to stay put. |



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yea, in oblivion I didnt really follow the main quest, but that shit was epic as fuck. I got raped by that ice troll though :( |
I have a companion I got from the jarl in whiterun. She's proven most helpful. We fucked that troll up good. She's also really helpful when fighting dragons because she's a great archer. Highly suggest, even though she acts like a dumb bitch and goes uhhhhh if you get too close. |
yea thats what I did. bitches names Lydia. she walks between me wwhen i talk to people so i cant see who im talking to. |



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elder scrolls games are always a circus with NPCs and companions. I wish they took a queue from Fallout: New Vegas where the companions actually worked, it was easy to give them orders, and they had their own backstory, quests and conversations. the only thing that took a step backward in skyrim is the companion system. |



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I haven't yet been able to give companions orders but then I just now realized it's probably that same key-switching nonsense so it won't work anymore. |



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I never take on those companions...
I guess I should...i usually tell them to stay put. |
you should take them, theyre really helpful. its one of the new aditions to the ES games that I really like so far. and you can make them do stuff, like wait places for you or attack random townspeople. |



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for the record, I'm still super bummed about no athletics
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for the record, I'm still super bummed about no athletics |
i'm kinda glad they cut it out. everybody runs, seemed like a pointless skill. i was psyched sprinting made it in. |



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i logged almost 20 hours this weekend. pretty sure it's my favorite western rpg since i dunno, your mom |



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for the record, I'm still super bummed about no athletics |
i'm kinda glad they cut it out. everybody runs, seemed like a pointless skill. i was psyched sprinting made it in. |
no way, leveling up your jump was not only awesome for the obvious reasons, it was also really helpful when you got ambushed by a minotaur to be able to just jump onto a rooftop and run away. I am glad about sprint as well. |



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was taking the long way to some quest and came across a sleeping dragon. I woke it, it killed my Lydia and then ii killed it, only to be COMPLETELY RAPED by some demon thing called Krosis. This guy is an asshole. I ended up dying like 8 times cuz his fireball kills me in 2 hits (and i had just used a bunch of items to increase frost resistance to kill that frost dragon) and then I just grabbed the shit outta his chest and ran like a bitch. My companion is suspiciously back at my side now. |



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KROSIS, fuck that guy. I had to run. did you get the power words from the wall the dragon was sleeping on?? |



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i havent found this sleeping dragon yet...
should I just cancel my gym membership? I usually go after work but all I want to do is fucking PLAY.
its like a drug. better than drugs. I played this over absu/beers last night.
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re: Krosis and other dragon priests
SPOILER TO KILLS Get the Priests to come out of their sarcophagus, run and rest for 1 hour. Come back and theyll be laying down in their tomb with the top off and are triggered just like any Draugr, so you can sneak up on it and get a crit sneak hit/kill |



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^ what a cheapo. I can't stand gamers that do that shit. I bet you were one of those game genie fags |



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hahaha. Krosis is too dumb to replace the lid on his sarcophagus. |



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Silver has better attack power against undead. |



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OMG!! PLAYING SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |



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so this is worth buying? thinking about going out of my video game hibernation for this. |



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Yeah Aril, cheating on easy mode sums up how I live most aspects of life. |



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KROSIS, fuck that guy. I had to run. did you get the power words from the wall the dragon was sleeping on?? |
yea but I can't use it because it says I don't have dragon souls even though I JUST killed a dragon and got its soul.
oh and my companion ran off a high cliff and then reappeared. I got tired of her stupid face so I torched her. I wish I had her now for this dragon though :/ |



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KROSIS, fuck that guy. I had to run. did you get the power words from the wall the dragon was sleeping on?? |
yea but I can't use it because it says I don't have dragon souls even though I JUST killed a dragon and got its soul. |
Yeah, I got the ethereal thu'um and killed two dragons. Still saying it requires dragon souls. What gives?! Seriously wish I could've fit my xbox in my luggage. |



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i think when you're in the menu, you press X to spend the dragon souls...not sure if the interface shows you that, i had to mash some buttons 'til i figured it out. i didn't visit the greybeards yet. |



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Coming out of my OCCCUPY REAL LIFE video game habit denial and ignoring you fucks to say that I am currently downloading this. May your souls burn in eternal purgatory and that you continue your never ending half - fuckwit chortling ways . |



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I have climbed the highest peak in Skyrim. Game over.
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I left off last night in a good spot. Got an army behind me about to storm some vampire leaders cage. Saved it just before entering and went to bed.
I WILL GO TO THE GYM TODAY AFTER WORK....then fuck up some faggy vampires. |



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Everywhere is out of the GTX 570 I want (for this and Battlefield 3 prettiness) and it's pissing me off. |



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XBOX USERS:
So I may be stuck in Pennsylvania for thanksgiving from Weds night to Saturday! *GASP*... I'm staying at my uncles and he has a 360 he never uses *THANK THE UNHOLY GOAT*...
my question: i saved my Skyrim game on the hard drive...can I transfer it to the a memory unit and just bring the disc and the MU to my uncles or do I have to bring the whole HD?
ITT: SERIOUS ISSUES.
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Wouldnt be an issue if it WERE ON A COMPUTER!
Ooohhh! |



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yeah, except whenever a new game comes out for the PS3, I put it in and play.
When a new games comes out for PC, I put it in and it tells me my videocard isn't good enough so then I replace that. Then my RAM isn't fast enough so I go to replace that and.. oh shit, I have to replace my CPU and MB cause they don't support the faster ram.
FUCK COMPUTER GAMERS.
I don't have the time/money to keep up with the joneses. I just want to play the games. and my that I mean watch 24/7 cut scenes. |



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YUP |



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Wouldnt be an issue if it WERE ON A COMPUTER!
Ooohhh! |
maybe if it was on a LAPTOP, sure...dont most of you PC gamers use desktops or is that old news? |



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Fuck you.
And besides, all the best computer games came out in the 80s and 90s. Like metal.
my video card runs this game on high settings (looks better than 360) and was 130 bucks. instead of wasting money on faggy ipads, you could be playing games on a computer, the way they are meant to be post PSX. |



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any laptop that could run new games costs twice as much as a better desktop, so desktops. rev has a good point, you really need to know a lot about PC hardware and how long the shelf life of a typical setup would be. i just upgraded my computer for the first time in 4 years and not because it wasn't performing, but because i stabbed my motherboard with a screwdriver. another reason PC isn't much more reliable than a red-ringing xbox. i still went through 3 xboxes all the same before i got rid of it. |



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i'm never going to stop defending PC/Computer gaming, maize eaters. you guys all sold your souls a long time ago. |



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pc gaming is making another comeback. skyrim is getting fantastic numbers on PC. SUPPROT |



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When I die, all I want my gravestone to say is:
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Jim: so why did you say this:
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bringing an entire desktop setup to my uncles would be easier than bringing my xbox disk and a tiny Memory Unit ? |






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does that imply downloading it to my uncles computer? |



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only cornering me proving a point that console gaming is easier is real. |



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I think you've done the opposite...
what are the chances my uncles computer can even run this game?...all this tech mumbo jumbo you guys are talking about required to play this game.... |






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meh. probably slim chance. and you can't just pop in the xbox disc either. |






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In a case such as that, if you had a laptop that could run it, you could play it ANYWHERE.
As you can see, pros and cons. |



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PROS AND CONS
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Fuck you.
And besides, all the best computer games came out in the 80s and 90s. Like metal.
my video card runs this game on high settings (looks better than 360) and was 130 bucks. instead of wasting money on faggy ipads, you could be playing games on a computer, the way they are meant to be post PSX. |
I never understood the iPad appeal. It doesn't run flash, yet it is supposed to act like a computer? FAIL. |



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and you can't just pop in the xbox disc either. |
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I'd take your hard drive just in case. It ain't that big and is worth taking if you're going to be there for a while. |



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and you can't just pop in the xbox disc either. |
what do you mean? |
meaning you'd either need to download a torrent for the PC version, buy it on Steam, or buy the retail PC DVD version. xbox discs only work on xbox. |



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I've always been into PC gaming but I'm enjoying this just fine on xbox 360 so who gives a shit? ....back to skyrim.... |



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Better graphics +use of a mouse + BETHESDA ORIGINALLY MADE ELDER SCROLLS GAMES FOR COMPUTERS ... That's who cares. Argument will never eeennnnnddd. Nevvvvvarrrr!!
Playing this game on xbox is like owning a rereleased Les Legions Noire album on CD. DOES NO COMPUTE |



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and you can't just pop in the xbox disc either. |
what do you mean? |
meaning you'd either need to download a torrent for the PC version, buy it on Steam, or buy the retail PC DVD version. xbox discs only work on xbox. |
oh I know that..but my uncle has an xbox so I can use that while I'm there...
Jim: I didnt realize you had all the LLN stuff on original demo tapes and not just mp3s we downloaded from DC++ LOLOLOLOOL |



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lol.
Only a sole moevot copy is real |



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you got me andy boy. BAD ANALOGY |



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Andrew, how was it baked? I know you rarely smoke now.. |



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i love the way the menu works in this Vs Oblivions.
Morrowinds was the worse.
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Andrew, how was it baked? I know you rarely smoke now.. |
i NEVER smoke these days...
I have a one hitter and I literally pack the tiniest bowl, take 2 solid hits and I'm friend for at least a mission, usually two missions.
I'm still technically off the pot though. When I smoke that shit while out partying it just puts me to sleep. |



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How do you guys like the lock picking now? I love it. Fucking fun. Also, it seems like it is easier to obtain lock picks too. |



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I like that you can just get lockpicks anywhere, but I liked the system better in Oblivion.
When the dragons talk to each other, the language sounds like Jabbas language.
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It's getting easier to pick high level locks. At first it was damn near impossible to do a master lock, but I like that they give low level characters the opportunity to try. And where are you getting lockpicks? In Oblivion, merchants had a ton of them. Now they only have a few, if you're lucky. |



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Just about every bandit (especially the silver douches) carry them. In oblivion, it was usually the goblins who had them. |



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lock picks are everywhere!
but the whole system seems pretty much the same as in Oblivion to me minus the vibrating thumb stick which I kinda liked.
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hahah what the shit? whats that?
maybe playing on PC is better. |



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the vibrating thumb stick which I kinda liked.
its way easier. |
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nude mods!
i got a sweet mod that changes the night sky to a high res real stellar photography background and keeps the constellations in the game there. another good one lets the game executable use 4GB of ram. |



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if you can modify a game, chances are high that you'll see nude skins eventually. I made the first nude stripper mod for GTA: Vice City, it had a ton of downloads haha |



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It's getting easier to pick high level locks. At first it was damn near impossible to do a master lock, but I like that they give low level characters the opportunity to try. And where are you getting lockpicks? In Oblivion, merchants had a ton of them. Now they only have a few, if you're lucky. |
merchants didnt sell lockpicks, the only place you could buy them was from the thieves guild itself, or find them in random places. |



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Just about every bandit (especially the silver douches) carry them. In oblivion, it was usually the goblins who had them. |
Or you could have talked to shady Sam. He usually had 60 for sale. |



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Yeah, my memory sucks. I had the skeleton key and then no care whatsoever |



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I love how all of us are fucking stuggling when we're at work. |



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Girls wish we cared this much about them amirite |



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All I can make out from that pic is "SUBJECTIVITIES" |



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SKYRIM IS GREATER THAN YOUR KEYBOARD?
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Damn, I had to sneak that picture because theres too many people around. That book is HUGE |



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I never understood the iPad appeal. It doesn't run flash, yet it is supposed to act like a computer? FAIL. |
then yo7u have never had one in your life. I love my iPad.
What world are you in where flash is a good thing?
FLASH SUCKS! |









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Haha I get so pissed when she does that shit.
Complaint about companions: they can mirror you when you sneak and draw your weapon but they can't follow when you jump on something. |



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This game is great so far. Makes me wanna rim the sky. |



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I had one of those down nights last night where I got like NOTHING done in this game even though I played for like 3-4 hours.
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it wasnt that really...basically i took up the game invading a vampire cave for some mission....
I laid the smack down and completed that mission but then, without warning, I'm 3/4 of the way through another random mission and the sun comes up and I'm a fucking vampire...I had no idea so I had waited a bunch of different times and was deep into my vampirism so its a huge pain in the ass to un-do it so I went all the way back to my save from the day before and just skipped the vampire cave...that wasted like 3 hours. after all that BS I did like 2 tiny wack ass misc quests before I had to fall asleep. |



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NOTHING WORSE THAN AN UNPRODUCTIVE DAY IN SKYRIM.
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Lol. At least you were mentally stimulated. Too bad there's no vibrating thumb sticks to make it physically stimulating. |



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kid, youre obviously jelly of the vib thumb stick...you didnt get that sensation with your stupid mouse. |



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I finally figured out that I don't have to be all 'you wanna mess brah?' with every fucking falmer I came across. They're just belligerent Stevie Wonders. |



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What? I have a vibrating anal mouse. |






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finally hoofed it to meet the greybeards. BADASS. |



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it wasnt that really...basically i took up the game invading a vampire cave for some mission....
I laid the smack down and completed that mission but then, without warning, I'm 3/4 of the way through another random mission and the sun comes up and I'm a fucking vampire...I had no idea so I had waited a bunch of different times and was deep into my vampirism so its a huge pain in the ass to un-do it so I went all the way back to my save from the day before and just skipped the vampire cave...that wasted like 3 hours. after all that BS I did like 2 tiny wack ass misc quests before I had to fall asleep. |
does being a vampire suck that bad, it takes a lot for me to reload a save...if i sunk 3 hours into it by then i'd just play with the cards i was dealt. |



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it doesnt suck but it hinders your other questing and I havent even scratched the surface of questing....certian people wont talk to you, you get chased out of towns and shit...
Its the type of thing you wanna do after you've done like everything else in the game...then just wreak havok cause youve got nothing to lose.
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it doesnt suck but it hinders your other questing and I havent even scratched the surface of questing....certian people wont talk to you, you get chased out of towns and shit...
Its the type of thing you wanna do after you've done like everything else in the game...then just wreak havok cause youve got nothing to lose.
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yea in oblivion I love jumping from rooftop to rooftop and vampirizing niggaz. it sucks when you wanna fast travel and its day out though. |



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Fast travel? You fags fast travel? |



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You shouldn't be in here! |



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Fast travel? You fags fast travel? |
I knew you were gonna say this. |



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I've lost all respect for you fast travelling maize eaters. |



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HAHAH I fast travel occasionally...when its a quick "give this letter to so and so" type of mission.
I always walk when its near by or in an area i dont frequent. |



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I only fast travel. No time to waste pissing on wolves. |



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walking a couple miles from A to B never works out the way you plan. |



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only riding a horse off of a mountain is real |



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sometimes a seemingly easy stroll from this town to that cave or whatever can turn into the most frustrating non-stop barrage of stupid attacks and its so hard to stop and rest with no enemies around out in the wild.
I swear the higher your level goes up, the more random attacks take place which I think is wack. it should always stay the same. |



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Only having maxed out Block perks and becoming the Juggernaut is real. |



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bears and cats sometimes make noise from far away so they can be easy to spot, but they're also sneaky motherfuckers. i find myself sneaking around if i have low visibility. remember if you know how to treat giants, they will help you. the attacks aren't really random but it depends on the area you're in (i.e. fields around whiterun, versus deep forest/away from roads) |



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how do you treat giants? i havent fucked with one yet...i keep steering clear when i see them in the distance. |



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i remember in Morrowind you'd be strolling along and one of those stupid flying taradactyl looking things or like a fucking RAT would attack you and you'd fucking DIE (early on)...a fucking RAT! I'd be whacking it with a fucking mace repeatedly and it'd still kill me.
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they're extremely territorial. don't walk under their feet. don't fuck with their mammoths. don't take their stuff. put your weapon away if you walk through their camp. i noticed at one of their camps there was some purple tree that they let me harvest some goo from. |















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Ok i caved, and got this sooner than i planned because I happened to be right next to the gamestop and figured i would renew my 5 dollar reservation. Its a great game, more addicting than i thought it would be. My only issues are predictably with the combat system. Its needs a lock on feature when you are close up. 3rd person is feels retarded even though i prefer that viewpoint usually. I wish there was some way to dodge and have it take stamina. Also does hitting someone in the head do more damage? |



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the combat is no dark souls for sure. it is different. i don't like 3rd person in this game. it's possible to dodge attacks but you have to predict how their swing is going and you don't get a speed bonus, you just have to be damn good. head damage does do more. i guess there's a reason you can't lock on, you are just supposed to land your hits and you don't get any help. i could be wrong, but dodging might be a perk in one of the skill trees. i know decapitations are in the "two-handed" skill tree. i think there's a quick dodge in the "sneak" skill tree but i'm not sure what it does. |



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All of these answers are in the book. |






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Barbas the dog is a stellar tank. Fuck finishing the quest, I now have two followers. |
Am I the only one abusing Barbas this way? 3 man party with indestructible doggy tank that never dies = ez mode.
Although the dog gets annoying as hell in close hallways.
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haven't met that dog yet. probably tastes great. |



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any follower I pick up always ends up walking in front of me and eating fiery death. |



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The award for best Anti-Girlfriend videogame goes to Skyrim. |



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Oh snap, I killed Mirmulnir and now I'm Mother Fuckin Dragon Born. |



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Oh snap, I killed Mirmulnir and now I'm Mother Fuckin Dragon Born. |
Fas ro dah muthafucka. |



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I keep noticing it looks like enemies are yielding to me but I just kill them. Is this also explained in the guide? |



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I've noticed that as well. You mean they'll say something like "I can't best you," and stay on there hands and knees? I slice those fuckers up anyways. |



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yea is there a way to accept their yield? Not that I would do a faggy thing like that, but a friend of mine... Lets call her Lisa S. No thats too obvious. L. Simpson was wondering because shes a dick head and thinks life is precious. |



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Anyone who thinks life is precious has no place in Skyrim. |



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But I don't know a way to accept their yield short of just... going somewhere else. ha. |






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Anyone who thinks life is precious has no place in Skyrim. |
ive killed so many people and stolen so much shit and no thieves guild or dark broz :( game needz moar WMDs |



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A couple dark cool story bros have tried to take me out already and the thieves guild is in Riften. Could definitely use a holy hand grenade or two. |



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Finally Boston bound. Skyrim awaits. I've been such a shitty hero traveling for work. |



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I've been such a shitty dragonburns fast-traveling for work. |
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Thank goodness - Lydia won't shut the fuck up about you! |



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Slaughtering snobby Thalmor elves ffw |






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i like how they formed the civil war and imperial conflicts. i chose to join the stormcloaks but don't support everything they stand for. such is life. |



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Attn AndrewBastard, BlessedOffal
Click Ark's link a repeat the first sentence plz. |



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Attn AndrewBastard, BlessedOffal
Click Ark's link a repeat the first sentence plz.  |
Yes, but be sure not to read the comments after, as most contain complaints about how badly broken the PC interface is, and how the game appears to be another console version ported to PC as far as interface, display, and graphics are concerned. |



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there's no doubt a few console genes that screw up the PC version. it's not THAT bad, not at all. i've noticed some quirks especially with the crafting windows. |



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I've gotten used to the interface on PC. Looks way better than on console even before any tweaks. And I got a really good deal on it :! |



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Sabretooth tigers are annoying as fuck! Especially if there is more than one chasing you down. |






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just go to shroud hearth barrow, you get a shout that will make animals not attack you. |



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Leveling up skills is addicting. Ive been decapitating people now. Its awesome |



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just go to shroud hearth barrow, you get a shout that will make animals not attack you. |
I actually chose the power at the start to control animals but haven't been making use of it much. I'm trying to level up my conjuration so I can just summon a tank whenever I need one. Right now I can only conjure a familiar which is way too weak to do anything. |






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just go to shroud hearth barrow, you get a shout that will make animals not attack you. |
is that the same one that gets them to help you, i haven't figured out how to use that yet. |



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Spells that haven't been invented yet INCLUDE:
I'm trying to level up my conjuration so I can just summon a tank whenever I need one. |
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PS: the nude patch sucks. The boobs and ass dont jiggle. DO NOT SUPPORT |



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I just started using destruction and conjuration magic. Pretty fun when dual wielded with melee. I still love sneaking with the bow though. and now I dont have to bother with a heavy ass shield. |



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Sniping with a poisoned fire-damage bow with 3x damage while sneaking feels so good. Until some high level dude hits me with a giant mallet. |



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Leveling up skills is addicting. Ive been decapitating people now. Its awesome |
yeah my dude did like this gnarly jump-stab finishing move a-la brad pit in Troy. was epic. |



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so I'm lik e25 hours into this and have yet to see a single sign of any of those "standing stones." WTF |






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Can't wait for this or Reckoning (first game from Curt Schilling's 38 Studios) |
also, churt schilling has a game studio? lolwut |



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so I'm lik e25 hours into this and have yet to see a single sign of any of those "standing stones." WTF |
That's because you fast travel.
...ohhhhhhhh! |



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Can't wait for this or Reckoning (first game from Curt Schilling's 38 Studios) |
also, churt schilling has a game studio? lolwut |
Yea. He's a huge rpg nerd. I applied to his company but never heard back. The game they're making looks sick. |



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so I'm lik e25 hours into this and have yet to see a single sign of any of those "standing stones." WTF |
That's because you fast travel.
...ohhhhhhhh! |
I mainly meant that because once I had logged over 100 hours in Oblivion and found damn near all the locations I didnt see the need to take 45 minutes walking from one place to another. I only use it occasionally now. I even cheated and looked up where one of the stones was and looked for 30 minutes and found nothing. I AM FAIL |



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I climbed the mountain to the Gray beards and got my new yells. Now I'm on the quest they sent me on. I got rocked by giant spiders and a fire floor before I gave up last night. I hope I'm not moving to fast through the game withought improving my abilities. |



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A "tank" meaning any character strong enough to take the AI's focus off of me and attack them instead for an extended period of time. Right now the AI will attack the summoned wolf I have but it gets hit like once and dies. |



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A "tank" meaning any character strong enough to take the AI's focus off of me and attack them instead for an extended period of time. Right now the AI will attack the summoned wolf I have but it gets hit like once and dies. |
i hanvt come across any " ""s " as of yet. |



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I climbed the mountain to the Gray beards and got my new yells. Now I'm on the quest they sent me on. I got rocked by giant spiders and a fire floor before I gave up last night. I hope I'm not moving to fast through the game withought improving my abilities. |
Run into the left corner, watch the small spiders die. The big spider is a bitch, but can be taken down with a spell easily. You can run from it too. But the horn aint there. |



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I wish I had 2 tvs so I could dual wield Skyrim with Dr. Who |



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The horn isn't there? Fuck me. Lydia got taken out by two wizards for nothing. ....but I aint mad. |



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For the guy looking for the tank:
Go to Falkreath. Walk outside town and find the talking dog, Barbas.
Don't complete his quest.
You now have a completely invincible dog that draws aggro like mad and doesn't count as a follower. So not only is he the perfect tank, but you can still bring another follower along to make a nice little party.
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At one point I went outside and walked into the kitchen. Didn't realize there was a dragon outside. I heard the commotion and ran back into the living room to find I was completely unharmed, whilst the doggy and Lydia had fought the dragon without me and killed it on their own.
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Was outside whiterun doors and saw a party of 4 people walking, went to talk to them and realized it says "hired thug" they proceeded to gang bang the shit out of my poor corpse. I decided to get lydia to help me after that.... |



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yea those hired thugs are bitches though, when you see em coming just sneak attack. the dark broz ass's are even easier. |



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Lydia died during the first battle I took her into :| |



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yea those hired thugs are bitches though, when you see em coming just sneak attack. the dark broz ass's are even easier. |
The spook assasins looking for the girl? Yeah i gotta kill them. I plan on being in the dark brother hood though cause im going with that sort of character. I'm only level 8. |



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Good news though, because I just found the "Cats of Skyrim" book. Secret power: 100% sadness ward |



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Im gonna get the gf all drugged out on turkey and box wine til she passes out so I can play Skyrim all night. |



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Im gonna get the gf all drugged out on turkey and box wine til she passes out so I can play Skyrim all night. |
Oh its worse when your GF wants to PLAY the game so she wont leave you alone. |



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my ex loved watching me play oblivion but didnt ever want to play which was cool.
I havent met this lydia bitch yet. Level 23 as of last night. Got a lot of work done and started a quest helping some dude find ancient Daedra artifacts from the Oblivion days. HAIL DAGON.
Layed the smack down on a dragon and found a silly sword: sword of cowardess or some shit...everyone i hit with it flees from the fight for 30 seconds hahah...its kinda stupid. |



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Any of you guys see the sanctuary yet? I had to get sap from a tree. It was beautiful. I took screen shots.
Ark, I upgraded it with the detailed faces and bodies patch. Do that up, they look way better. Only problem is that I had the nude patch and they dont agree. So right now the women have boobs that look like dirty skin with no nipples, and they have giant gaping assholes. LOL |



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I did the sanctuary...took me a while to figure out that I had to cut at the roots to get past. |



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the ol' eldergleam tree? i didn't expect that place, that was awesome. haven't tried the n00ds yet.
i'm level 23 too. my girl likes watching RPGs. she only ever wants to play when there's butterflies or leeks to collect.
anybody who's done the companions quests, what's the first companions quest? they say they've given me work, but i forgot which quest they gave me! the only thing about the journal is it's not as detailed as it was in oblivion so it's easy to forget where you got quests from.... |



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I dont even see a journal!? I've looked before... in oblivion you could re-read the conversation you just had, couldnt you?
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Yes, I've been werewolfing it up for some time. I can't remember what the first mission was. lvl 20 here. I've yet to see any ebony or glass weapons yet. |



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I found one ebony war axe...
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Lydia died during the first battle I took her into :| |
Lydia's been my main bitch, FOR AT LEAST THREE MONTHS.
In all seriousness though, she hasn't died on me. I only got about 16 hours in due to not being home this week but she's proven to be a badass companion thus far. |



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FUCK LYDIA. Theres better people that fight with you.
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I'm sure you're right. She's workin' out for me for now though. One day I'll dig a ditch and bury the bitch. |



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Going through mage college (UMass Skyrim) missions so I can get J'zargo (a cat that's a master of destruction lol) |



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i need a mage companion.
andrew i guess the "journal" is just the quest log. i wish there was more detailed journals/logs like morrowind. |



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If you want a mage companion, you can also get one by completing the Black Star quest. I recommend you do this quest RIGHT AWAY if you do enchanting or use enchanted weapons. After you complete it you get either the black star - a refillable, reusable black soul gem or the Azuras Star - same thing, but it's a white soul gem. - black traps humanoid souls, white traps animal/creature souls
If you choose the azuras star ending (turn in at the altar) you get to keep the mage woman there as a companion.
I cannot say enough - do this quest EARLY as the higher level you get - the final fight of the quest can be IMPOSSIBLE. And the soul gem can be a huge game changer for people looking to do enchants. With a common soul gem, for example, I can enchant my armor for +2 health. The same enchant with the black star gives me +33 health. And it's REUSABLE.
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I'm sure you're right. She's workin' out for me for now though. One day I'll dig a ditch and bury the bitch. |
Be aware - I've read online of at least two reports that it is possible
to have your house robbed by NPC's. Since learning this, I dismissed
Lydia and now she guards my house in whitecarl full time. Creepy thing
is, she has her own bedroom there but she hangs out in mine instead.
I think Lydia is into the inter-species sex thing. Once you go negro kitty,
you never go back.
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Yes. Although I share an apt with 2 hipsters in Riften |



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petition to change Allston's name to Riften? |



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Im gonna get the gf all drugged out on turkey and box wine til she passes out so I can play Skyrim all night. |
everyone missed the point
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I started buying houses after I read the warning from bethesda that the only
way to guarantee your shit doesn't disappear is to buy a house. I dunno if it's
intentional or a bug, but bethesda even put a warning in the manual this time
around saying that using containers you do not own can cause your shit to
disappear. I'm not taking that risk. I've probably got 10,000 in weapons
stashed in my house.
Also, having your own alchemy lab in your house, shelves filled with all
your books, a blacksmith next door, all my crafting goods, etc... is more
convenient to me than jumping town to town to get stuff done.
Now I just wish I could get an enchanting lab in the house, so I can stop having to run to Anise's cabin to get my enchanting done.
Also, DO NOT SELL YOUR CRAPPY WEAPONS WITHOUT ENCHANTING THEM FIRST.
Even using crappy lesser and petty gems, you can create an iron dagger
worth 10G, enchant it with a petty gem, and it will sell for 700G instead of
10G. In other words, take 100 iron ore, 100 leather/strips, and you can
craft 100 iron daggers, raise your skill like 50 points, enchant them, and
sell them for about 70,000G depending on your speechcraft. All for around
1000G in materials.
If you've been skipping or selling your shitty iron daggers and such, you're
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I havent met this lydia bitch yet. Level 23 as of last night. |
WTF, isn't it one of the first quests in the main storyline?
You shouldn't veer off so quickly. The first few quests (graybeards, courier/black star quest, etc...) give you perks
that can be pretty integral as you level early on. For instance, the
black star wouldn't be nearly as useful once I was in elite armor and
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Trying to think of what happened.
I BELIEVE that when you do a shout outdoors the first time or something,
a courier brings you some sort of letter. Whatever it is, it puts Azura's temple
on my map. If you go there, you meet a mage who sends you on a daedric
quest chain that ends with you getting a daedric artifact - black star or Azuras
star.
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Lydia quest is started I believe the first time you visit the Jarl in Whiterun.
When you arrive in town his soldier lady (lydia) tells him they saw a Dragon.
He asks you to follow her and help her fight the dragon since you have the
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I think I did that Lydia quest and then decline her invitation to join me?
I have tons of random notes from couriers I haven't read yet. |



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Trying to think of what happened.
I BELIEVE that when you do a shout outdoors the first time or something,
a courier brings you some sort of letter. Whatever it is, it puts Azura's temple
on my map. If you go there, you meet a mage who sends you on a daedric
quest chain that ends with you getting a daedric artifact - black star or Azuras
star.
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Actually, I think I'm confusing a bunch of quests together.
SOMETHING put the temple on my map. And when I walked there it started
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I think I did that Lydia quest and then decline her invitation to join me?
I have tons of random notes from couriers I haven't read yet. |
Accept it. Even if you don't want her as a follower, she's like a free guard
dog for your house once you buy it. She's not a typical follower, she's a PRESENT. ;)
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ok question for xboxers: you can have 2 preset weapon sets on your d-pad left and right by going to favorites and holding either left or right, but when I try to set two things, say flames and sword, to one direction it just does either one or the other, not both, so when i click left or right on the d pad it will quick switch to only one weapon instead of dual wielding. this seems like either Im doing something wrong or its just a huge game design flaw, because if you cant quick switch to a dual wield then whats the point? you quick switch to say a sword and you still have to open the menu to select a shield? WTF |



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ur doin it wrong.
It's not for switching item sets. It's for, say, switching quickly to a weapon
with a Soul Trap enchant in time for the killing blow. Or say you're dual wielding
maces. You set your bow to left d-pad. Now you can hit one button and whip
out your bow, take a shot, then hit the same button and rush back in with your
maces in hand.
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I love getting a quest for something I've already done.
Questgiver: Go get me this artifact in some dangerous cavern.
Large Negro Kitty: You mean THIS artifact right here?
QG: Wow, you really are the shit, my man! Here, take my money! |



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Trying to think of what happened.
I BELIEVE that when you do a shout outdoors the first time or something,
a courier brings you some sort of letter.
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Guards are telling me to stop shouting, it's making people nervous. |



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only the BLACK HANDPRINT letter is real "WE KNOW" |



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only the BLACK HANDPRINT letter is real "WE KNOW" |
Haha I got that soon after I slaughtered the nice lady at the orphanage. |



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Darkwater Pass, so sketchy. |






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so i've learned some new words and killed a bunch of dragons but I can only use 2 shouts. what's the deal? i'm too lazy to look it up online |



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so i've learned some new words and killed a bunch of dragons but I can only use 2 shouts. what's the deal? i'm too lazy to look it up online |
Had the same problem. Ark addressed it above but in the magic menu under shouts you hit x on the shout that's locked to spend a dragonsoul. |



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you have to collect dragon souls (by killing dragons) and then you can 'spend' them by hitting x. once you have a soul, go to shouts and highlight it and hit 'x' or whatever button it says to spend it on whatever shout you want to use.
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Haha Drinking contest quest starting in whiterun funny as shit. Wake up across the world in some strange city. Got mad that the priestly types were making me clean up my mess that i made while black out drunk in their house so i proceed to pickpocket the head womens key and go into the inner secret area and steal religion artifacts, get caught , kill the priests, run through city laughing. This game is fun. |



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