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Post by pairesta on Apr 10, 2016 20:07:34 GMT -5
I told that dog to fuck right off. It still followed me, and botched the very next encounter by barking and alerting some bandits to my presence.
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Post by pairesta on Apr 27, 2016 16:27:35 GMT -5
So somehow my post Fallout 4 palate cleaner game of Skyrim, where I dipped back in and just played the thieves' guild and assassin guild storylines, has gone on for over two months, nearly as long as it took me to play the full story through the first time.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 28, 2016 9:45:55 GMT -5
Apparently, I can beat on the dude who escorts me through the caves out of town during the tutorial mission without harming him, or repercussions, to level up my weapon skills, sneaking and overall character level. It's tedious, though. Is it worth it?
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Post by pairesta on Apr 28, 2016 10:46:33 GMT -5
Apparently, I can beat on the dude who escorts me through the caves out of town during the tutorial mission without harming him, or repercussions, to level up my weapon skills, sneaking and overall character level. It's tedious, though. Is it worth it? I found a similar hack that I spoiler texted above on my second playthrough. Where you start out has plenty of locations you can go to and buff up on without being too terribly hard. It's not essential but might be fun to have an edge in one area or two. Maybe not topping out, but out of the teens that they start in.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 28, 2016 10:52:52 GMT -5
Apparently, I can beat on the dude who escorts me through the caves out of town during the tutorial mission without harming him, or repercussions, to level up my weapon skills, sneaking and overall character level. It's tedious, though. Is it worth it? I found a similar hack that I spoiler texted above on my second playthrough. Where you start out has plenty of locations you can go to and buff up on without being too terribly hard. It's not essential but might be fun to have an edge in one area or two. Maybe not topping out, but out of the teens that they start in. I figure I can just catch up on my Netflix queue or something while I thwack this guy. We're hanging out in a cave with a bear I'm supposed to snipe with a bow - it's like, 15 minutes into the game, but he's stuck in a riverbed, so it's pretty easy.
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Post by pairesta on Apr 28, 2016 11:36:25 GMT -5
I found a similar hack that I spoiler texted above on my second playthrough. Where you start out has plenty of locations you can go to and buff up on without being too terribly hard. It's not essential but might be fun to have an edge in one area or two. Maybe not topping out, but out of the teens that they start in. I figure I can just catch up on my Netflix queue or something while I thwack this guy. We're hanging out in a cave with a bear I'm supposed to snipe with a bow - it's like, 15 minutes into the game, but he's stuck in a riverbed, so it's pretty easy. Yeah, um, get used to stuck companions.
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Post by Celebith on May 16, 2016 12:12:59 GMT -5
Without getting too spoilery - I'm pretty early in the game and working to be mostly good. I haven't been stealing everything that isn't nailed down, or even much of anything at all. I made it to Riften as my second 'big' town and have started the thieves guild stuff. If I do their intro quests, am I going to mess up my ability to interact with people later on? I mean, I mostly want to be able to do all the fetch quests and stuff for the vendors, so I don't want them all to hate me and cut me off.
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Post by Celebith on Jun 18, 2016 3:51:55 GMT -5
I didn't see it mentioned above, although I may have missed it, but Dovahkiin Hideout is pretty handy - it puts trap doors in the floor of each domicile you can earn / own, leading to a basement which links all of your residences, and has crafting areas and tons of storage. It's a handy way to keep all of your junk in one place, even if you decorate all the residences and everything else. It's available in the steam workshop, too, but this link was easy.
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Post by Celebith on Jun 26, 2016 23:28:27 GMT -5
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Post by Celebith on Nov 10, 2016 20:34:35 GMT -5
I think that a recent windows updated caked my install. I get some error message (that I'm too lazy to copy here) that, internet research says can be solved by wiping some Skyrim .ini files, which I am also too lazy to do.
oh, bother
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Post by Celebith on Nov 18, 2016 1:05:16 GMT -5
I think that a recent windows updated caked my install. I get some error message (that I'm too lazy to copy here) that, internet research says can be solved by wiping some Skyrim .ini files, which I am also too lazy to do. oh, bother The latest Windows update fixed it! I still can't add all the mods I want to add (Holds, which adds buildings and otherwise beefs up some of the cities) but in all, I can't complain. Maybe I'll start again sometime with those installed.
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Post by pairesta on Mar 23, 2017 9:20:32 GMT -5
I've somehow undertaken a third playthrough, back to focusing on being Dragonborn this time.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm a hopelessly vanilla player. Starting a new game, I can be anything, play it entirely different and what do I do? I'm a blonde Nord again. Settled in Whiterun and Solitude, again. Adopted two daughters, even married Lydia again. (I was seriously making a play for Aela the Huntress at the Companions Hall, but you get Lydia so early in the game and she's got your back so thoroughly it's hard not to fall for her).
Anyways. The point of my dropping in is a neat little thing I witnessed. In this playthrough there's been a high civilian bodycount: either vampires or dragon attacks have wiped out a number of named civilians. In Whiterun both the female weaponsmith and the owner of the general good store were killed in a single vampire attack. A bit later in the game, I'm in Riverwood and there's a dragon attack right in the middle of town. It wipes out a good number of townspeople, (including, sob, Faendal) among them, the wife of the blacksmith. He sees her die, then goes into his house. I follow him and find him in his house and he's mourning for her and tells me to leave. Holy shit. The intricacy and level of detail of the game still staggers me.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Apr 27, 2017 21:07:58 GMT -5
I picked up the special edition for PS4. It is amazing what they did to make the environments even more beautiful, but HOLY SHIT they did not touch the NPCs at all and it's jarring seeing these "worse than I remember them looking 5 years ago" uncanny-valley robots wandering around a damn-near photorealistic world. Would you find it more or less jarring if, tomorrow when you went to work, everyone you interacted with in the real life completely photorealistic real world looked like an NPC from Skyrim and just kept repeating the same sentence and standing in the same place or walking in the same simplistic path over and over again, or chopping wood from a never diminishing pile of unchopped wood and piling it into a pile a split wood that never increased in size?
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Post by LazBro on Apr 28, 2017 8:04:33 GMT -5
I picked up the special edition for PS4. It is amazing what they did to make the environments even more beautiful, but HOLY SHIT they did not touch the NPCs at all and it's jarring seeing these "worse than I remember them looking 5 years ago" uncanny-valley robots wandering around a damn-near photorealistic world. I still don't think I've ever loaded that game up on my new rig. I need do that just so I can finally see all the high-res / graphics mods in action.
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Post by pairesta on Apr 28, 2017 9:40:19 GMT -5
Guys, I think it's really important for you all to know: I work for Belethor, at the General Goods store.
No, you can't chop any wood. I'm here all day doing that and won't get out of the way.
Yes, I know, Belethor was murdered months ago and his shop is closed. I work for Belethor, at the General Goods store.
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Post by sarapen on Nov 1, 2017 9:22:59 GMT -5
Well, I'm in the shit. Finally playing Skyrim. I actually continued a save I had from 2015. I bought a used copy of the game for my brother and was testing that the disc worked before giving the game to him. I got to that first village after escaping prison, saved the game, and then never ever got a copy of the game for myself. But a copy did fall into my hands for free just recently, so yeehaw.
Anyway, 2 years ago I apparently made an Imperial named Furiosa. She does look quite a lot like Charlize Theron so I assume I must have spent quite a while tinkering with the settings.
I recently killed my first giant by shooting it with arrows then running away. I guess giants are like bodybuilders and they can't run for shit, as that giant could only run like 15 feet before stopping in the middle of the road. I assume my character really built up her cardio before she went to prison since she runs at an okay long distance pace.
The only problem is that it took a lot of running and sniping to kill that giant and I ended up somewhere far to the north in snow country. I'd actually been hoping that I could find some passersby to distract the giant with but everyone I encountered on the road ran for their lives as well. Anyway, on my way back to the warm south I spied another giant and did the whole shooting and running thing again, but this time I successfully managed to get it to kill several innocent travellers on the road. Some of those were Whiterun guards so I even got to loot their uniforms and gear and walk around impersonating a police officer. This is great since I'd broken into the guard barracks the night before but had been unable to steal anything besides their wallets.
Oh yeah some bunch of mercenaries also recruited me since apparently I looked strong and trustworthy. Joke's on them, I stole all the petty cash they had lying around their bedrooms. They really should review their vetting process for new hires.
Normally I'm a big roleplayer but I can't seem to get into that for Bethesda open world games. I think it's because everything is possible for the player. The limitations of class and so on in other RPGs forces me to think through how my characters would act in a situation. I guess the role I'm playing in this game is just generic gamer dickhead.
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Post by Celebith on Nov 20, 2017 0:18:32 GMT -5
I finally finished the main questline (the first time I've done this with an Elder Scrolls game) and it was thoroughly underwhelming.
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Post by LazBro on Nov 20, 2017 9:21:00 GMT -5
I finally finished the main questline (the first time I've done this with an Elder Scrolls game) and it was thoroughly underwhelming. I honestly don't remember if I finished Skyrim. If I did, it didn't make much of an impression. Fallout 3 was warning enough to never finish these games.
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Post by Celebith on Nov 20, 2017 9:26:41 GMT -5
I finally finished the main questline (the first time I've done this with an Elder Scrolls game) and it was thoroughly underwhelming. I honestly don't remember if I finished Skyrim. If I did, it didn't make much of an impression. Fallout 3 was warning enough to never finish these games. I think my 'problem' with Bethesda's open world games is that I tend to over-prepare for the finale, so by the time I get to the end of the main quests, I'm burnt out / bored and overpowered. One kinda cool thing about the original Fallout was that if you spent too much time messing around getting super leveled up, you would get a subpar ending when you got to the cutscenes telling you how your actions affected each community.
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Post by sarapen on Nov 21, 2017 7:08:30 GMT -5
I finally finished the main questline (the first time I've done this with an Elder Scrolls game) and it was thoroughly underwhelming. I honestly don't remember if I finished Skyrim. If I did, it didn't make much of an impression. Fallout 3 was warning enough to never finish these games. The best ending I've seen for an open world game was for Red Dead Redemption. You can still hunt bears and track down bounties afterward to get 100% trophies but it all feels just a bit hollow. You actually do feel like the story had an actual ending.
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Post by pairesta on Nov 26, 2017 10:36:51 GMT -5
I finally finished the main questline (the first time I've done this with an Elder Scrolls game) and it was thoroughly underwhelming. Did you kill Parthunaax like the Blades asked you to? I can never do it. I found a mod where you can chose not to kill him and confront the Blades about it and argue your position so that they don't shun you like in the game version. Unfortunately it plays very much like the "I have to go now. My Planet needs me." scene in Simpsons, where they just stop talking and then a bunch of dialogue pops up for you to read. Anyways, yes to the underwhelming ending. There's still the civil war to contend with, if you haven't done anything there, but it does seem kind of hollow. The buildup is so much more fun than the actual resolution. This is most true in Fallout 4.
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Post by Celebith on Nov 26, 2017 12:08:54 GMT -5
I finally finished the main questline (the first time I've done this with an Elder Scrolls game) and it was thoroughly underwhelming. Did you kill Parthunaax like the Blades asked you to? I can never do it. I found a mod where you can chose not to kill him and confront the Blades about it and argue your position so that they don't shun you like in the game version. Unfortunately it plays very much like the "I have to go now. My Planet needs me." scene in Simpsons, where they just stop talking and then a bunch of dialogue pops up for you to read. Anyways, yes to the underwhelming ending. There's still the civil war to contend with, if you haven't done anything there, but it does seem kind of hollow. The buildup is so much more fun than the actual resolution. This is most true in Fallout 4. I didn't. The opportunity never really came up, although I probably wouldn't have anyway. I didn't play Oblivion and had no emotional connection to the blades, and fall more on the "reform" than "punish" side of the justice scale. I somehow managed to avoid the entire "rebuilding the blades" storyline. I did the civil war stuff, siding with the empire. The stormcloaks were tools of the elves and sorta racist, but I avoided it, since they're both kinda jerks, until it became necessary to advance the story. I probably could have just left it, now that you mention it. The big battles were a mess and I ended up attacking my own side too many times, but they didn't care.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Nov 27, 2017 14:41:29 GMT -5
Did you kill Parthunaax like the Blades asked you to? I can never do it. I found a mod where you can chose not to kill him and confront the Blades about it and argue your position so that they don't shun you like in the game version. Unfortunately it plays very much like the "I have to go now. My Planet needs me." scene in Simpsons, where they just stop talking and then a bunch of dialogue pops up for you to read. Anyways, yes to the underwhelming ending. There's still the civil war to contend with, if you haven't done anything there, but it does seem kind of hollow. The buildup is so much more fun than the actual resolution. This is most true in Fallout 4. I didn't. The opportunity never really came up, although I probably wouldn't have anyway. I didn't play Oblivion and had no emotional connection to the blades, and fall more on the "reform" than "punish" side of the justice scale. I somehow managed to avoid the entire "rebuilding the blades" storyline. I did the civil war stuff, siding with the empire. The stormcloaks were tools of the elves and sorta racist, but I avoided it, since they're both kinda jerks, until it became necessary to advance the story. I probably could have just left it, now that you mention it. The big battles were a mess and I ended up attacking my own side too many times, but they didn't care. Play the 'Dragonborn' DLC missions if you're still remotely interested. It's similar to Oblivion's 'Shivering Isles' expansion where they trade in the fairly stoic main-game questlines for some Lovecraft-ish weirdness. (Both expansions were highlights in my opinion.)
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Post by Celebith on Nov 27, 2017 15:07:33 GMT -5
I didn't. The opportunity never really came up, although I probably wouldn't have anyway. I didn't play Oblivion and had no emotional connection to the blades, and fall more on the "reform" than "punish" side of the justice scale. I somehow managed to avoid the entire "rebuilding the blades" storyline. I did the civil war stuff, siding with the empire. The stormcloaks were tools of the elves and sorta racist, but I avoided it, since they're both kinda jerks, until it became necessary to advance the story. I probably could have just left it, now that you mention it. The big battles were a mess and I ended up attacking my own side too many times, but they didn't care. Play the 'Dragonborn' DLC missions if you're still remotely interested. It's similar to Oblivion's 'Shivering Isles' expansion where they trade in the fairly stoic main-game questlines for some Lovecraft-ish weirdness. (Both expansions were highlights in my opinion.) I'm going to do the dark brotherhood and thieves guild stuff, and then do Dragonborn. I got the GOTY edition, which means that vampires were attacking everything as soon as I left the beginning area, so I finished up Dawnguard before I did anything else just to get them to cut it out. Also, probably as a result, I found Serana really early and she's been my companion / follower / whatever the entire time.
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Nov 27, 2017 15:52:04 GMT -5
Skyrim was the first Elder Scrolls game I really played and loved it. I had tried Morrowind on Xbox, but I could never get into it. Is Oblivion worth my time or will it be a disappointment after Skyrim?
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Post by Celebith on Nov 27, 2017 17:14:25 GMT -5
Skyrim was the first Elder Scrolls game I really played and loved it. I had tried Morrowind on Xbox, but I could never get into it. Is Oblivion worth my time or will it be a disappointment after Skyrim? I skipped from Morrowind to Oblivion, but Oblivion is 11 years old, and looks it. Hopefully Skywind (or whatever the Skyrim -> Morrowind total conversion mod is called) comes out sooner than later. Morrowind was pretty neat, and looked unlike most fantasy settings. It was fun, but I'm pretty sure I'd hate the interface now.
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Post by sarapen on Nov 27, 2017 20:25:50 GMT -5
The assassin's guild quests in Oblivion were fun as shit, though. I think everyone agrees that the best was the "And Then There Were None" quest where there actually was a murderer in the mansion - you. But yeah, I have no doubt it'll feel clunky as hell if you're going backwards from Skyrim.
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Post by pairesta on Nov 28, 2017 9:30:23 GMT -5
Skyrim was the first Elder Scrolls game I really played and loved it. I had tried Morrowind on Xbox, but I could never get into it. Is Oblivion worth my time or will it be a disappointment after Skyrim? I did exactly that and was very underwhelmed. As others have said, you feel that age in the game. My abiding memory of it is that it seemed eerily "empty" after the liveliness of Skyrim. Wandering around Skyrim, you'd regularly encounter not just monsters but territory guards, bards, a bellicose orc or nord to pick a fight with, a haughty noble to assassinate the shit out of once they were far enough down the road. In Oblivion you're ostensibly near the seat of the Empire but can go long periods without seeing anyone. I can see that back when it was fresh it probably was top notch; it's still a huge time suck game and all, it's just that it comes up empty after Skyrim.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Dec 7, 2017 21:57:14 GMT -5
Skyrim was the first Elder Scrolls game I really played and loved it. I had tried Morrowind on Xbox, but I could never get into it. Is Oblivion worth my time or will it be a disappointment after Skyrim? I did exactly that and was very underwhelmed. As others have said, you feel that age in the game. My abiding memory of it is that it seemed eerily "empty" after the liveliness of Skyrim. Wandering around Skyrim, you'd regularly encounter not just monsters but territory guards, bards, a bellicose orc or nord to pick a fight with, a haughty noble to assassinate the shit out of once they were far enough down the road. In Oblivion you're ostensibly near the seat of the Empire but can go long periods without seeing anyone. I can see that back when it was fresh it probably was top notch; it's still a huge time suck game and all, it's just that it comes up empty after Skyrim. Not to mention the terrifying potato faces.
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