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Avatar 720 wrote:I married the shopkeeper's sister from Riverwood on my mage. Whenever I come home to our house in Whiterun, I keep finding that damn Bosmer who followed her around in RW sneaking around outside my house; I even caught him inside once.

It'd add a whole new level to the game if you could accuse your spouses of adultery.

Well, do you need to collect elf blood yet?

you now have the perfect sample

Nerivant wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:I married the shopkeeper's sister from Riverwood on my mage. Whenever I come home to our house in Whiterun, I keep finding that damn Bosmer who followed her around in RW sneaking around outside my house; I even caught him inside once.

It'd add a whole new level to the game if you could accuse your spouses of adultery.

You're a good man.

That elf would be nine times deader than a doornail if I caught him doing that to my wife.

Then again, my wife is a werewolf, so there's that.

I think i'm too good sometimes.

I married Aela (assuming that's who you're referring to with the Werewife comment) on my first playthrough, and she's shown almost dog-like loyalty.

Grey Templar wrote:
Well, do you need to collect elf blood yet?

you now have the perfect sample

I'm an Altmer myself, but he'd be my first port of call for blood.

That's if I haven't already killed him and raised him as my undead minion.

Avatar 720 wrote:
I married Aela (assuming that's who you're referring to with the Werewife comment) on my first playthrough, and she's shown almost dog-like loyalty.

Yeah. The best thing about marrying her is if you ask her for work, she instantly switches from her "I love you, dear" voice to her "you're damn right I'm giving you a job, now go eviscerate a cave bear" voice. It's fantastic.

Ah, the 'I love you voice'. My aforementioned unfaithful other half yesterday used her 'love' voice before telling me sternly to go away because I accidentally flicked over her whilst crouched and it brought up the pickpocket option.

EDIT: I also have reason to believe her 'shop' is doing better than my meagre share of the profits is telling me.

Thats the thing about these games.

you arn't sure what the designers put in and what they didn't.

"Is she being unfaithful?" "Is she skimping on the profits?"...


Paranoia is annoying

I like that the wife has her little shop (but how can she be at a shop selling stuff when she's always at home with whats-his-name .. and, Lydia is always in my house 24/7. I wish I could set up a nannycam...

But, it's cool that I can sell her stuff to though, comes in handy for unloading junk when I've drained the cash out of all of the other shop keepers around town.

Well, went Imperial finally and I must say that the Heavy imperial armor looks good. Its not the leather helmet stuff that the standard soldier wears, its actual steel and the uniform itself is a nice shiny metal with bright red. Actual roman legionesque instead of a cross between a roman soldier and a 30's football player. I decided that if I want stormcloak armor they're easy enough to kill.

So far I'm the thane of Whiterun and Morthal, killed some vamps without getting any diseases from them. Got a disease from a standard wolf and went into a shop and the NPC said my character looked sickly (after fighting the vamps). Cured diseases just to be safe because being a vamp in Oblivion sucked.

Love the fact that you can level up without having to sleep, but my weapon damage still fluctuates. Sometimes my steel shortsword will do 10, sometimes it says it does 13. Same with the orcish sword I use, it goes between 12 and 15 for some odd reason.

Also notable is the change in my shield's armor. Does the game switch difficulty levels depending on how well you perform or is his maybe a glitch?

I'm a werewolf now, but I don't wanna be :(

Of all of the diseases to catch, lycanthropy is one of the better ones because you don't have to change into a werewolf.

The voices crack me up. There are the nords that sound like someone is trying to hard to sound like Arnold S. Then there is . when did Jerry Lewis do voice-overs for video games?

Not that I would make fun of him to his face! You see what he did in the cave?!? Holy Feth! Can I have him through the whole game?

I think the Nords sound like a bad Canadian accent crossed with something European.

Soladrin wrote:

Spoiler:

Talking to dragons is even funnier, they keep throwing in random made up words

SPOILEr spoiler. spoilerspoilerspoiler.

Spoiler?

Spoiler.

JohnnoM wrote:guys, im probably gonna get it very soon and have a few questions:
1. Whats best race/"class" together, e.g redguard battlemage.
2. Best difficulty to start at?
3. Is it relatively easy?

1. If you want to be a battlemage, you'd prolly want to be Imperial and focus on Destro, Heavy armor, Resto, Block, and One Handed weapons. Imperials get bonuses to all of those skills and you'll want to focus you leveling to be about 60% mana 40% health (gain 60 mana every ten levels and 40 HP every ten levels) With the Mage or Apprentice stone. This is what I run and, while I tend to blow through my mana really quick, Anything that is still alive after a barrage of Dual Ice Storms is usually easy to cut down with my axe.

I only use frost spells (RP choice) so when I fight vamps, or Ghosts (or snowy Sabre cats, or Ice Wolves, or Snow Bears, or anything Dwarven, And any Draug above Restless) so I'll have to switch to sword and board to take them out.

Generally what I've found works with the battlemage though is the old Ork Philosophy " Chop the shooty ones and shoot the Choppy ones". Any Mages? Whirlwind Sprint to them and start hacking away. Any Footsloggers? Turn them into a popsicle. Archers? See mages.

I'm guessing the answer is no, but is it possible to join the stormcloaks and the empire? like play through 1 storyline, and then do the other? Or would I need 2 different characters for that?

I think that you could possibly betray one side for another, but I will have to say that the most likely answer is no.

However, if you have any burning questions I just go to the Elder Scrolls wikia.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Wiki

I'm staying purely impartial. I do regret, however, the lack of choice of joining Alduin and becoming his vassal, aiding in the destruction of his enemies.

Bethesda, y you no like dragonz?

Avatar 720 wrote:I'm staying purely impartial. I do regret, however, the lack of choice of joining Alduin and becoming his vassal, aiding in the destruction of his enemies.

Bethesda, y you no like dragonz?

I feel the same way about Oblivion. Would have been nice to have an option to join the Mythic Dawn Permanently.


They could just call the good guy ending Canon and let us be crazy evil if we want.

Bethesda can't do non-canon endings. Remember Daggerfall? Eight possible endings. 8 Canon endings.

They'll have to for the next fallout.

Unless NCR, Caesar's Legion, Mr. House, and Yes Man all won the second battle for Hoover Dam.

I disliked the Legion for trying to kill me. I like me. As punishment i took that nasty lady's hat.
The Stormcloaks however are really racist...
I figure i'll just kill both sides.

Is Fallout in the same format is Skyrim, where it's just a big open world with ten-thousand-million quests?

Iur_tae_mont wrote:They'll have to for the next fallout.

Unless NCR, Caesar's Legion, Mr. House, and Yes Man all won the second battle for Hoover Dam.

unless they put it somewhere else, like far away from Vegas so no rumors got around, or have the game happen before the events in new vegas

Well, apparently Dragons really hate Dawnstar, as do Giants. Just took a trip there to offload some stuff onto the Blacksmith, and another dragon attacked (seems to be 1 each time I go there), ate half the residents, and a Giant decided to waddle in and help out.

I was left with my Atronach tanking the Giant, Lydia tanking the Dragon, and me throwing spells around depending on how I felt, because everyone else who came close got launched into orbit or eaten.

lol, can just see this happening:

"hey man you need Heellllpppp...." as he flies away.

Avatar 720 wrote:Well, apparently Dragons really hate Dawnstar, as do Giants. Just took a trip there to offload some stuff onto the Blacksmith, and another dragon attacked (seems to be 1 each time I go there), ate half the residents, and a Giant decided to waddle in and help out.

I was left with my Atronach tanking the Giant, Lydia tanking the Dragon, and me throwing spells around depending on how I felt, because everyone else who came close got launched into orbit or eaten.

I happened to be visitin my "children" in the DB santuary, came outside after talking to momma, to be ambushed by what I thought was just a giant and a dragon... The dragon kinda helped me kill the giant, but about the time i got the dragon down to half life, his twin brother dragon popped in to see who was picking on his "younger brother".. I stomped them both, got good scales and bone from them both

Yeah. On my Imperial mage, I was originally going to side with the Imperials. Then I ran into some Falmer, and they insulted me. So I killed them. I think I may have to go with the Stormcloaks on this one, sorry Empire. But hey, that's what you get for working for douches.

I went Imperial.

While the Empire may be weak right now, the Dominion will falter and we shall rule once again!

Since I'm the Dragonborn, and therefore, the bestest, can't I join the Empire but take it over from Colonel Tigh, and rule the world with a Daedric Armored Fist? It's not like the Emperor is around to tell me no anymore.