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Skyrim

Started by kryyst, November 11, 2011, 11:30:40 AM

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Narf the Mouse

Quote from: beejazz;490625I've lost a few quest goals under miscellaneous. Anyone else having problems like this?
They might have been completed. There's a few "Meet this person" ones, at least in the beginning.
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Malleus Arianorum

Ok ok, Im interested.
 
Do you guys recomend the PC or Xbox 360 version?
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danbuter

PC. You will have access to all the fan-made mods. You will need a good graphics card (at least 500 MB).

PS3 has some major bugs right now, from what has been posted on Skyrim forums.

Haven't heard of any major problems on the XBox.

The fan mods make the game, IMO. In six months, they will have added a ton of new options that will never be available to consoles.
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thedungeondelver

Quote from: Malleus Arianorum;490632Ok ok, Im interested.
 
Do you guys recomend the PC or Xbox 360 version?

PC.  PC PC PC.  Mods, bugfixes, console commands.  Go PC all the way.
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Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Ghost Whistler

Skyrim is a good game, but mainly because it's a big game. Alchemy is pretty pants and the mobs that level scale are way overpowered.

360 has an issue where running off hd install can cause textures to not load properly making the game not look hidef.
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Doom

Definitely the PC version (spoken by someone who knows nothing of any other version).

So I finally get my l33t heavy armor no longer slows me down skill, and the very next ritual stone I find is is the Steed....armor no longer slows me down, anyway.

Hrm, gonna have to go get the strategy guide to avoid this sort of nonsense.
(taken during hurricane winds)

A nice education blog.

Pseudoephedrine

#96
Level 36 wearing all ebony. You can level up pretty quickly from alchemy and smithing, which has the side effect of keeping you flush with cash, and well-equipped with swank gear. Just keeping on making potions of restore stamina and iron daggers and selling them.

I got sidetracked while doing the Gauldur quests into doing the College of Winterhold quests, since you need to do the first one to get into Saarthal. It turns out that as soon as you finish one batch of fetch quests another set pops up, but I'm a packrat anyhow. I also did the Hangover-inspired quest line, which was hilarious. The Tongue remains unslain - controller started to run out of batt, so I shut it off for the night before getting to him. I still haven't done any politics stuff or advanced the main quest very far.

In Oblivion, the Ayleid ruins & the related collector quests were the best part of the game, but there's not a clear successor in this game, both for good and for ill. The base level of quality in a dungeon is higher than Oblivion, but it loses the peaks of dungeon design that game had. I keep on knocking over barrows and Dwemer ruins and mysterious bandit caves anyhow. At a rough estimate, I believe I've discovered about two thirds of the locations (including cities) in the game right now, and cleared between a quarter and a third of them.

Tomorrow, I'm going to Labyrinthian, reforging the Gauldur amulet, advancing the main quest, climbing to Volskygge summit, and finally getting around to killing the Tongue. Probably.

Edit: Today I spent 13,000 gp on various expenses.
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Doom

Something tells me those 'expenses' are training, I know I'm blowing close to 9k a level (and rising) to get my smithing up.

You make daggers? Have you found the spell that turns iron into silver/gold (transmutation, I think the name is)? I find that's a pretty good money maker, turning the latter into jewelry.
(taken during hurricane winds)

A nice education blog.

Narf the Mouse

Quote from: Doom;490733Definitely the PC version (spoken by someone who knows nothing of any other version).

So I finally get my l33t heavy armor no longer slows me down skill, and the very next ritual stone I find is is the Steed....armor no longer slows me down, anyway.

Hrm, gonna have to go get the strategy guide to avoid this sort of nonsense.
I'd rather have that Heavy Armour perk and the Warrior stone, than that perk and the Steed stone.
The main problem with government is the difficulty of pressing charges against its directors.

Given a choice of two out of three M&Ms, the human brain subconsciously tries to justify the two M&Ms chosen as being superior to the M&M not chosen.

Doom

Is warrior the one that gives 20% bonus EP?

That's nice, I admit, but in a game where everything auto-levels with you, getting experience faster isn't all that useful. The Steed also gives a bonus to carrying stuff (do you know if the speed bonuses stack? I'd really like to know).

I'm basically Tenser when it comes to loot, so carrying extra is still worth something. The other stones I've found haven't offered much, although I'll switch over to something that gives me better prices, perhaps.
(taken during hurricane winds)

A nice education blog.

Tahmoh

I think im gonna pick a copy up on friday when i get paid since everyone i know of is currently addicted to skyrim like it's a new form of crack or meth :)

Pseudoephedrine

Quote from: Doom;490790Something tells me those 'expenses' are training, I know I'm blowing close to 9k a level (and rising) to get my smithing up.

You make daggers? Have you found the spell that turns iron into silver/gold (transmutation, I think the name is)? I find that's a pretty good money maker, turning the latter into jewelry.

I blow it on all sorts of things, training, potions (I carry around between 40 and 60 pounds of healing, stamina and magicka potions most of the time), mats, paying off bounties, NPC quest expenses, etc. I wobble between 6K and 25K on any given day. I have so much money that it doesn't really matter any more. In Oblivion, I used to use it to bribe everyone into loving me, but you can't do that in Skyrim, so it mostly just sits around.

I make daggers because daggers are cheap to make, requiring only a single iron ingot and two leather strips, but give the same advance to smithing as more complex stuff. Other than leveling, I mainly use smithing to make and upgrade my own gear. I have the transmute spell, but I don't need it and rarely use it.
Running
The Pernicious Light, or The Wreckers of Sword Island;
A Goblin\'s Progress, or Of Cannons and Canons;
An Oration on the Dignity of Tash, or On the Elves and Their Lies
All for S&W Complete
Playing: Dark Heresy, WFRP 2e

"Elves don\'t want you cutting down trees but they sell wood items, they don\'t care about the forests, they\'\'re the fuckin\' wood mafia." -Anonymous

Pseudoephedrine

I'm halfway through level 41 as of time of posting. Killed the Tongue, finished the Winterhold mainline quests and am just finishing up the fetch quests. Didn't get to Gauldur reforging. Started knocking over Dwemer ruins earlier today. My favourite so far is the trash disposal one that drops you into the centre of the earth, but I'm still waiting for a questline to take me to Alftand. Also, I'm trying to find who has the key to the shrine of Mehrunes Dagon. Killed a dragon priest while knocking over the biggest barrow in the game and now I wear his mask, which gives me +100% magicka regen.

I think I overestimated my number of locations discovered. Based on some work today, I've discovered only a little over half the locations in the game. I'm clearing out the major mountain ranges dividing Solitude / Dawnstar / Winterhold from the rest of the province, and doing a final sweep around Riften to get mountain summits, barrows etc. Basically I'm trying to clear the eastern side of the map and then sweep over to the west in an arc through Dawnstar, Morthal and Solitude.

The Winterhold quests are the buggiest I've encountered so far. The perils of chronic exploration is that I've already picked up a couple of the items they want me to fetch, so triggers are not going off when they should. Nor can I dump the items because they register as quest items.

My build is still mainly a melee monster with a splash of archery and magic. Still using the same Skyforged sword (upgraded to Epic), which is pretty cool. I think of it as "my" sword, and fantasise about adventurers someday following my char's path, which leads me to seed dungeons with cool gear I have no use for. I dumped a glass warhammer I found earlier today in a chest in the heart of a barrow and imagined this band of future adventurers fighting their way through the ruin to find and recover the "Lost Warhammer of Rev".

Still having problems getting the shouts to activate. I have all of the freeze-solid shout's words, but still can't use it. I'm going to High Hrothgar to argue this out with the monks and see if they can help.
Running
The Pernicious Light, or The Wreckers of Sword Island;
A Goblin\'s Progress, or Of Cannons and Canons;
An Oration on the Dignity of Tash, or On the Elves and Their Lies
All for S&W Complete
Playing: Dark Heresy, WFRP 2e

"Elves don\'t want you cutting down trees but they sell wood items, they don\'t care about the forests, they\'\'re the fuckin\' wood mafia." -Anonymous

Pseudoephedrine

Also, I spent some time playing with the Atronach Forge and the Daedric Hand and couldn't get either to do anything interesting. Walkthroughs have nothing on either. :(
Running
The Pernicious Light, or The Wreckers of Sword Island;
A Goblin\'s Progress, or Of Cannons and Canons;
An Oration on the Dignity of Tash, or On the Elves and Their Lies
All for S&W Complete
Playing: Dark Heresy, WFRP 2e

"Elves don\'t want you cutting down trees but they sell wood items, they don\'t care about the forests, they\'\'re the fuckin\' wood mafia." -Anonymous

danbuter

This is my current character, Martine. She is a Redguard mage in the Skyrim game. She's modeled on being a voodoo priestess.

She uses the Topless Forsworn Armor mod (skimpy instead of topless variant - there are 2 mods in it). I'm enchanting the armor for magicka, magicka regen, and destruction buffs. She's a heck of a lot of fun.

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