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Can anyone else say time to start an orcish killing spree?

TIME TO START A KILLING SPREE!

Plan on running around with Heavy Armor, Two Handed, Smithing, and Enchanting, any suggestions for anything after that?

So anyone else making a khajiit werewolf?

corpsesarefun wrote:So anyone else making a khajiit werewolf?

Now that's just silly.

And a bit odd.

And really Silly-Odd.

This game has been pretty awesome so far, been blasting people away with my magicks lol.

I think its been decent, but annoying as well, Its not really "open ended"

For example, if you kill half the people it totally feths the game, and I went with the empire guy at the start and then about 15 mins in thought "feth it ill go with the rebels instead!" stuck one into his back, got him down to 1% health, and he refused to die.

Then he got back up 10 seconds later on 100%, was incandescent with rage, chased me for 13 miles over the foothills and then got his uncle to try and kill me as well!

So I started again.

Its been way more fun since I started doing what Im told, not stabbing all and sundry, and basically following all the quests like a good lad.

It's a really fun game, but its hardly "non linear"

My only bugbear so far is the save system.

What in the nine hells where Bethesda thinking, a game where multiple play throughs are extremely likely, and they keep the silly, count up the saves through all the characters like Oblivion had, but make it worse by having all the characters on the same list on a tiny screen.

Why they couldn't take a leaf out of Bioware's book and do it like Mass Effect, where you select a character then load a save.

Heck it could have been quite cool, a little screen with a snapshot of your character design, with their saves beside them.

This way you have to be perfectly aware all the time, one slip up when playing into the early morning while droopy eyed and hours of work, if not a whole character could be lost.

Not a devestating issue, but bloody annoying.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:My only bugbear so far is the save system.

What in the nine hells where Bethesda thinking, a game where multiple play throughs are extremely likely, and they keep the silly, count up the saves through all the characters like Oblivion had, but make it worse by having all the characters on the same list on a tiny screen.

Why they couldn't take a leaf out of Bioware's book and do it like Mass Effect, where you select a character then load a save.

Heck it could have been quite cool, a little screen with a snapshot of your character design, with their saves beside them.

This way you have to be perfectly aware all the time, one slip up when playing into the early morning while droopy eyed and hours of work, if not a whole character could be lost.

Not a devestating issue, but bloody annoying.

Sad but true.

However since I'm playing on the xbox (haters gonna hate) I'm just going to make seperate profiles for all my characters.

Toastedandy wrote:

Not practical too bother?! An animation for travelling up a mountain would of been extremely easy too do, given the amount of investment that has gone into this game.

Easy? Sure. Way too time consuming to justify it? Definately. There are so many paths to get up mountains in the game as-is, that anyone actually looking for a sheer rock-face to scale is just being silly. Besides, if you just scaled everything, you'd miss a lot interesting stops on the way. Scaling fort/tower walls and building with a grapple or something would've been an excellent addition though, and would've been great for players making a thief or assassin. I would've liked to see better siege mechanics for fort battles, as well as actually having to conquer cities instead of just all the forts around them. Siege towers, Onagers and Ballistas ho!

Seriously though, I think that's one thing they could've done -way- better. I was so... underwhelmed by the battles and Legion camps. It's like they just pulled a Kinect and tossed it in as a last minute idea.

I joined the Stormcloaks because the Legion just sounds like a bunch of racist interloping bastards.

I'm a Drow, so I feel kind of awkward when they say "Only Nords in Skyrim!", but whatever.

I'm pretty sure playing as a melee character with weapons and armor is a lot more fun than being a Wizard. The spells look unbelievably amazing, but I just feel that being a Nord with heavy armor and a two-hander would feel more rewarding.

Hang on...
You can choose between the Empire and the Stormcloaks?
When does that happen?

Basically the first bit of the game asks you to go with either the Stormcloak Nord that was riding in the wagon with you, or the one that was helping the Imps out.

And look at it this way- most of the things like climbing, seiges and such? Those will probably start showing up in the next couple Elder Scrolls titles. They've still got, lets see- Elsweyr, Black Marsh, Valenwood and Summerset Isle to go, as well as the possibility of going back to Morrowind (after the Ministry of Truth crashed, and Red Mountain erupted, that place really changed), High Rock or Hammerfell.

And the wierd thing is that the save/load screens were like that back in Morrowind, Morathi. God, that game got almost everything right. Wish they could do a re-release of it, taking the story, menues, all that, with the combat and physics engine of Skyrim. Morrowind's lack of regenerating Magicka and Health, though, and the ability to effectively teleport and travel in the 3rd dimension.

I honestly don't remember that bit...
Was that the bit before you enter the keep?
Was that what those two asshats were arguing about?
That explains a lot...

Seems when you hit level 10 you suddenly become more powerful. Good thing too lol.

Anyone know how to get rid of the quiver? Ive dropped all my arrows but it's still on me.

Perkustin wrote:Seems when you hit level 10 you suddenly become more powerful. Good thing too lol.

Anyone know how to get rid of the quiver? Ive dropped all my arrows but it's still on me.

Unequip them...

I just want Co-op, why is that so much to ask for?

Co-Op? That isnt necessary in this game. Jeez, next youll be wanting an ElderScrolls MMO

KingCracker wrote:Co-Op? That isnt necessary in this game. Jeez, next youll be wanting an ElderScrolls MMO

Nah, just two player coop. It can't be that hard to do.....

Besides, I would want a Dragon Age MMO before a Eldar Scrolls MMO; Dragon Age is more Grim Dark!

KingCracker wrote:Co-Op? That isnt necessary in this game. Jeez, next youll be wanting an ElderScrolls MMO

This isn't Fable, this is Elder Scrolls, its better.

Although I was disappointed to find out that when you join the legion you don't get any special policing powers, although I like the conquest of everything.

In fact I may just have it so that I choose an Imperial citizen and have him marry a nord just so that I can say my character has conquered Skyrim and mean it literally and metaphorically. Yes, my character will be a complete dick and I will laugh whenever I think of how her parents would feel before realizing that they were killed by my hands. Muahaha, muahahahaha!


I also have to give them credit for having a quest called "The Screams of Windhelm", which is a sneaky little reference that made me chuckle. No I am not that far into the game, I just worked from 7am to 3:30pm and from 7-9 we don't have too many customers, but we do have game guides. Actually wait, that may have been the guide's characterful name for the section of the quest, not sure. It involves Windhelm though.


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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I'm not catching levels of things, but I have walked into things that took me out in a single hit, or I needed to change tactics on and use lots of health potions to beat.

Giants and Mammoths are definately above your comfort zone at the beginning, instant kill from either as a lvl 5.

On a side note..

Spoiler:

I am thinking like Werewolves (cheers Soladrin for that info) being a vampire is in the game. I found a ruined tower with a group of Vamps in, after some close scrapes, it would seem my character is infected, had a couple of odd messages since the tower when its nightfall. No other signs yet, but I will let folks know if I go full vampire.

Apparently Lycanthropy actually cures Vampirism, as far as it goes Lycanthropy is much more socially acceptable only because you can choose to transform once every 24 hours game time. However changing into a wolf in front of a guard counts as a major crime. Vampirism should be sucking your health down if you go out into the sunlight. Otherwise you should be getting some new spells and resist frost while getting a weakness to fire.

purplefood wrote:Hang on...
You can choose between the Empire and the Stormcloaks?
When does that happen?

Hold on, you can join the Empire again?

THEY BROUGHT BACK MY FAVORITE FACTION!

YAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Now I feel bad that I can't afford the game...

Also, I heard that the dark brotherhood is still playable. This is true, yes?

Happygrunt wrote:

purplefood wrote:Hang on...
You can choose between the Empire and the Stormcloaks?
When does that happen?

Hold on, you can join the Empire again?

THEY BROUGHT BACK MY FAVORITE FACTION!

YAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Now I feel bad that I can't afford the game...

Also, I heard that the dark brotherhood is still playable. This is true, yes?

It is.

The brotherhood is back and badder than ever.

So, finally got it, and started playing. Against all my prior expectations, I decided to go with a wizened old man slinging magicka around like it was beads on Mardi-Gras. He's even Imperial. I never go Imperial! But when I watched a Let's Play, and saw those Imperial battlecasters slinging fireballs at Alduin, I was like dang.

My one concession is to have a big-ass hammer that I hit folks with when my magicka runs out.

Oh, and Conjuration is absolutely astounding in this game. You actually reanimate dead bodies instead of just summoning random corpses from thin air. As in, I just (re) killed that Draugr, and now Im'a gonna make it fight for me.

The Crafting system is really deep, too, requiring you to sacrifice enchanted items to learn how to make them. So very glad they brought back Enchanting as a skill.

Prolly my favorite part is how drastically they shifted the plot forward


The events in the 200 years between the Oblivion Crisis and Skyrim



gak got crazy since the end of the 3rd Era.

Iur_tae_mont wrote:Prolly my favorite part is how drastically they shifted the plot forward


The events in the 200 years between the Oblivion Crisis and Skyrim

Spoiler:

the Summerset Isles conquered Valenwood and Elswyr, seceded from the Empire and are now called the Aldmeri Dominion

They invaded Cyrodill, reaching the Imperial city and pretty much said, "We've made our point. Who wants to Negotiate?

The Aldmeri Dominion had Talos REMOVED from the pantheon of the Divines.

Black Marsh left the Empire. Followed by Black Marsh conquering Morrowind.

The Empire is now: Cyrodill, Skyrim(barely) Hammerfell( who are not happy with the Agreement between the Empire and Aldmeri and continued to fight the Dominion for 5 years after the war had been declared over), and High Rock.

gak got crazy since the end of the 3rd Era.

I'm sad by what happened to morrowind, I loved the Dunmer, oh well, we'll take it back from the invading n'wah

metallifan wrote:

Toastedandy wrote:

Not practical too bother?! An animation for travelling up a mountain would of been extremely easy too do, given the amount of investment that has gone into this game.

Easy? Sure. Way too time consuming to justify it? Definately. There are so many paths to get up mountains in the game as-is, that anyone actually looking for a sheer rock-face to scale is just being silly. Besides, if you just scaled everything, you'd miss a lot interesting stops on the way.

I think you misunderstood me. I'm not asking for them to add another game mechanic, just too attach an animation script to the character, so when he is walking down an 80 degree slope, it doesn't look the same as walking in a straight flat line. Which would not take more than a week for 1 professional to do.

Although that scaling fort walls would be fantastic, but that's more of ubisofts forte.

Karon wrote:I'd just like to comment on how absolutely beautiful Skyrim is compared to past titles. It really is a sight to behold.

The dragon fights are by far my favorite. I've killed around 5-6 of them (I'm around level 16, just finished the quest where I have to go up to High Hrothgar to see the Greybeards) and they really are random. I've had some that fly above me forever, breathing fire, and some that drop right in front of me and try to eat me.

My little trick that I use to take out dragons "quickly" is when I hear one, duck into a stand of trees... for some reason, they cant strafe me through the trees, so they drop in, and i can hit em with a shout, some magic and my axe.. etc. until it dies. So far, I think I have 5 or 6 "shouts" but I have killed 8 or 9 dragons.. its quite fun, but it does interrupt my questing some times :(

So far, I have come across and joined the Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Mage people, the Companions (who make you a werewolf)... My guess is that the Companions have taken the spot of the Fighters Guild from Morrowind and Oblivion.


Does anyone happen to know if you can be a werewolf AND a vampire at the same time?

I have been playing it for only 2 hours. Parents didnt allow more :(
But I decided to join Imperial Army. My best friend is in it ^^ (ie, the Imperial that helps you at the start)

Karon wrote:

I'm a Drow, so I feel kind of awkward when they say "Only Nords in Skyrim!", but whatever.

Shock horror

I should be getting the game in about two weeks, it feels like an age away though

I was infected, but didn't want my character to go that way and got it cured at an alter of a Goddess in Whiterun.

Losing 35 health during daytime was too much of a burn, and I couldn't find any new spells or abilities, so maybe I wasn't full yet.

Eitherway its gone.

Plan on playing a Vamp with a another character set up to be that way from the off, at least I know where to go now to get infected.

So I'm guessing you can't... but does anyone know if there's a way to redo your perks? I kinda spread mine out all over the place and now I'm wishing I concentrated more on specific stuffs

I went mad with my perks, but not TOO mad. They're mainly focussed in Smithing (damn the complete lack of any materials for intermediate-level equipment), One-Handed, Ranged, Light Armour, and Stealth, which equates to about points in each given my level.

Also, Hagravens are a bloody pain in the arse, especially the ones in the . I only just managed to kill them with an elven bow and ancient Nord arrows + various poisons, in conjunction with beating on them with an axe when they came too close and desperately healing myself between Fire Breath dragon shouts.