Don't worry man 5k won't seem like much septims to worry yourself about by even level 10 or do.
― clay, Saturday, 3 December 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
This game has many more Septims than it has things to buy with them.
― Mordy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
I usually use the crossbow; scoped non-lethal takedowns― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
i have taken the crossbow in all but one of my 839257238942042 playthroughs of this game but the way it makes anyone it hits run around frantically going "OOG!" for a minute before falling down leaves some stealthiness to be desired
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no Tom I was going to tell you not to buy skyrim cos it's great but to love it you need to turn a blind eye to lots of exactly the kind of stuff you hate. But I was too late. At least tell us you got it on 360 not ps3? http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-ps3-skyrim-lag
― JimD, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
What stuff do I hate? I mean there's so much - what in particular? :)
Got it on 360 yeah. Gonna spend some time tomorrow just tooling around, pickin' some herbs, doin' some alchemy, chattin' to folk. Dialogue may be cloth-eared but it's such a rich world I think you have try and immerse yourself in it or you'll miss out. E.g. Empire vs. Stormcloaks, what's that about? Whose side should I be on? I figure I won't really find out without talking to people.
― ledge, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
Haha I was thinking "you'll hate picking herbs and doing alchemy and stuff" so maybe I'm just wrong. To be fair it's a game where you can mostly ignore any bits you don't like and still get by just fine (like I do with shields and blocking and armour and stuff).
Stormcloaks and imperials both seem like dicks to me, been refusing to join either. I'm a werewolf now though. And I'm considering the thieves guild.
― JimD, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
(actually the stuff I thought you'd hate would be the actual role playing. I think you're right that it's a world you do have to immerse yourself in cos it's also one where the illusion's easily shattered if you don't force yourself to play along with it).
― JimD, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
THIS. I have mixed (if mostly positive) feelings about the rest of the game, but the dart gun in Human Revolution is a huge, necessary improvement.
― Telephone Thing, Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
How are skyrim mods coming? Has anybody put out anything good yet?― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:17 (Yesterday)
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:17 (Yesterday)
The toolset's not coming out until January.
― Zora DB, Sunday, 4 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
OK, duh, of course there are modders who haven't waited and there was a nudie mod on day 2 after release (please). Child killing took a couple of weeks longer.
On the upside, there are lots of nice looking texture packs out.
I'm waiting until I've finished a vanilla play-through and made my own wishlist before I check out mods though.
― Zora DB, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=93W6mB0ZqCM#!
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1iKvl.jpg
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― horseshoe loves tom brady, Monday, 5 December 2011 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
idgi is there spoiler-free explanation
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2011 09:34 (twelve years ago) link
nb i am already tight with lydia
I gots an iPhone 3GS, can anyone recommend some good games for it? Preferably free, just because I can't be bothered dicking about with credit cards. Underwhelmed with Angry Birds, is thus really what people were going apeshit for?
― Osoby, Monday, 5 December 2011 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
Yay. Amazon delivered Skyward Sword to me on release day, even though I chose the cheapest shipping option. Unfortunately it was a present for my girlfriend and I had to wait til her birthday! Finally got to (mostly just watch her) play it yesterday and really liking it so far. It managed to distract me from Skyrim for the whole day, which is no small feat.
― CraigG, Monday, 5 December 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
ledge, no spoilers really: you can use enchantments from captured souls to create magical rings and name those rings. lydia is a pain in the butt; constantly running head on into battles or falling off cliffs or ruining stealth attacks but you can't really ditch her because she's a de facto mule who doubles your carrying capacity. She also whines "I am SWORN to carry your BURDENS" every time you use her this way. Basically, killing her and turning her into a ring would generally make life a lot easier, especially when you're later into the game.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
is it a ring that can carry half of your shit, because that would be WORTH IT ZOMG
I have taken to using Lydia and my horse as bait/distractions so I can run up behind mobs and flamechop them in the back of the head. Oh, also I discovered that my horse can outrun the ice troll on the 7000 steps ^_^
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
holy crap lydia will carry stuff for me?! not that carrying capacity is a major bottleneck for me any more.
also her running head on into battles is probably an asset, she's saved my skin multiple times. and then i accidentally burn her up with my FLAME ON. i don't really do stealth tho.
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
lydia > lydia ring since that ring takes up a spot you could use for other excellent ring abilities
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
I just found some leather boots of lifting so that's all good.Yeah ledge: your companions will pack mule and you can use them to carry stuff. Talk to them.Companions only die for real if you accidentally administer the killing blow; if they're being attacked from outside sources, they fight till they're almost dead and invariably the outside attacker stops with them and goes after you. So be careful with the FLAME ON cuz you can kill her really really dead.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, i restarted at level 21 when i realized my stealthy, bow-based tank mage had spread out his perks WAY too much and was starting to be a pain in the ass to play. Ninja mage this go round, level 9. Amazing how I could put in 40 hours, restart and IMMEDIATELY get back into it. This game is a gem.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
one of the funniest things in the game to me is when Lydia jumps directly in front of my fire blast and then screams "HEY I'M ON YOUR SIDE"
it's like, "then stop jumping INTO my flames, crazy person"
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
I just restarted too, like forks a victim of my own diverse folly. Strangely, doing a similar stealth/magic combo, though thus far he seems more dickweed than ninja.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://skyrimpatchnotes.com/
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
refresh for more
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really do stealth
apparently sneaking is a primary skill of my race (khajit) :/
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
n.b. inverted look on by default \m/
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
omg those patch notes, lol
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
protip: stealth/archer is basically overpowered
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
- Increased cost of Zerg Spawning Pool to 200.
:D
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
lol the magicka one.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
apple cabbage stew mmmmm
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I assume there's already an alchemy repository out there, so we don't have to start a new one
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
i like skyrim a lot and am happy with my character but i kinda stalled out after killing the first dragon and havent really been back to it
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
alchemy repository
u mean like a wiki? yeah
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Companions only die for real if you accidentally administer the killing blow
I've done this to four different wingmen now.
Oh I dunno, I'm doing this and I'm kind of ok but still run into trouble pretty regularly.
Er dude this is just a system wide setting on 360. It knows what you prefer and autoselects it for every game (same with triggers for making cars faster/slower, etc).
― JimD, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Thx to my obsessive alchemy, I think half my capacity is in the form of potions. I gotta find some idiot to sell these to.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
four?!?
i guess i whacked lydia at some point during the fight with krosis and felt super bad about it. but i managed to beat the guy and didn't feel like reloading. so not that bad i guess.
xp
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
― Mordy, Monday, December 5, 2011 4:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
this is how i'm playing, and i don't agree (well it's not like i'd know tho w/o like nine playthroughs). you can do low-level clears pretty well as you creep around picking people off, but when you get to a set-piece one-on-one and don't have perks put toward magic or fighting it gets pretty damn hard
creeping around picking people off is fun as fucc btw, highly recomm'd
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
bought a 3DS with SM3DL and MK7. so good.
― cccccc, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
xp there's a rough patch between early levels and later levels where archery feels a little sluggish, but once you've got some kickass bow (ideally something that delivers damage in the 40-50 range --nightingale bow for instance, or an ebony bow -- plus extra enchant damage) and arrows at Orcish and above (really Elvish is where difference because apparent), you're a DPS machine. combine that w/ Lydia + give Lydia a staff of companion spawning and be preparing to pull up some atronachs when necessary and you've got tons of tanking and you just blast away.
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
differences becomes* apparent
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
in most respects i'm a stat whoring powergamer type but i just don't like rolling with a companion, even for the extra baggage carry.
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I cant handle npc fucking my shit up.. and they die all the time and makes me sad. I got the conjure dremora lord before I finished the game and that was the shit right there.. dude pops up in full bad ass armor and flaming double handed sword and will kick the shit out of anyone in his way,. then disappears after a minute or two.
― mayor jingleberriez, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
i really wanted to get bound bow spell but apparently you need conjuring 50 to get it and i have like conjuring 21
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
i've run with bound sword every now and again, if i don't feel like wasting charges. the wikis say it's equiv to a pretty nice sword but it takes a couple seconds to pull up. also i don't think casting is silent w/o perks so backstabbing with it is tougher.
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
I used the bound sword a ton of times because I usually rolled with a magic sword of some sort and would use the bound sword on things I didnt want to waste charges on and didnt want to add weight
― mayor jingleberriez, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
oblivion w/spells
― cccccc, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link