Better yet: Planetfall allowed you to take a nap in the middle of a fight.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm hesitant to ask but is the ps3 much better than the 360 or about the same?
― CaptainBurlapSax, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
i have wondered the same thing
― river wolf, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
with certain games, the graphics are tighterin general, the only reason you'd need both is if you're into console exclusives.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
I was 100% convinced that the voice actor for Paarthurnax was Peter Cullen, the optimus prime dude. But I finally remembered to look it up just now and...it's-a bloody mario!
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Voice_Actors
― JimD, Thursday, 8 December 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
Woah, and it turns out Cullen was the original mario anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cullen
― JimD, Thursday, 8 December 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
so skyrim is half price in gamestation in the uk? should i? i fear i'll never have the time it apparently deserves, though if it was really good maybe i'd make the time!
― SandboxGarda (HI IT'S RONAN), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's very good indeed and I can totally see how it could take over someone's life, but it doesn't need to be that way. I've been playing it in hour chunks in the evening, and the dungeons seem designed for that kind of play. It'll definitely give you twenty quid's worth of fun.
― NotEnough, Thursday, 8 December 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
btw can I just say the Companions are AWESOME so far and I will be crushed when I discover they are secretly evil bastards bent on eating the world
also I just bought a house! squeee!
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Was holding off from the companion missions, they seemed a bit suspicious in a libertarian kind of way, but ok I'll try and bro down with them. Got into the Thieves Guild but only 'cause I want to improve my lock-picking. And maybe I can take them down from the inside...
― ledge, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
I love the Companions and their Warren Zevon ways.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 December 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
I intend to marry Mjoll the Lioness.
― JimD, Thursday, 8 December 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
preeeety sure i just stumbled into a dungeon that is some sort of main storyline quest thing by accident and am now worried that i am going to throw some game breaking wrench in the gears. its the one with the various skulls as keys. if anybody can confirm/deny that i am about to bungle the storyline plz speak up.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
looked up "skull keys" and i don't think so
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
cool, it just kept popping up those text captions "YOU HAVE FOUND THE KEY OF WAFATHURIA" that only seem to happen when you are doing some big deal sorta thing, and considering i just sorta stumbled across a cave or whatever i figured i was on the verge of screwing something up.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
i went thru a whole dwarven ruin (i was sent there to assassinate someone) and when i finished it there was a mechanism that required a piece to start it up. i didn't have the piece tho, and when i looked online it seemed like you got it from a different quest. i have yet to break a quest from doing something out of order.
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
altho tbf some of my favorite rpg moments are always the *cue dramatic music as lord whatever walks towards you* "I seek a champion and stalwart fighter! Long have I hungered to once again grab my ancestral sword and stride into..." "Oh that thing yeah I got it in my backpack just a second."
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
xpost goole and i were talking last weekend about some supposed game-breaking bugs to do with the whole civil war thing happening out of turn so now i am paranoid i think.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
also i just finished the big write up in game informer on this south park rpg they are doing and there is just absolutely no way that it will not be an epic clusterfuck of hilariously bad proportions. i mean when you have a show that is built around fairly wonky aspect ratio and foreshortening and perspective uh do you not see where that is going to be a problem. without even getting into the impossibility of sustained funny in video games.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
yes that is a sensibility i want to spend 80+ hours in
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Oh that thing yeah I got it in my backpack just a second."
lol, they saw that coming with the dragonstone, huh
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
nothing like picking up an undroppable quest item that weighs like 12 pounds when you have no idea what to do with it. i guess that's what the internet is for...
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
that's what your house is for!
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
~undroppable~
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i am still carrying 2 undroppable bottles of alto wine that are quest items from the part where you get shitfaced and wake up after trashing a temple. also some bard assholes unique lute. its reeeeeally annoying
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
the bard quests are currently bugged and those musical instruments are never removed.
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for playing skyrim
noooooooooooooo
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
really, there's nothing like a boss fight with a bastard dude wielding a 2H sword to make you see the value in blocking, esp. when your sidekick is an archer with spatial issues (my daerest Aela: you suck in enclosed spaces, please utilize one(1) sword more XOXOXOXOX)
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
lydia is the way to go if you can ignore how annoying she is, esp since she's a fairly decent archer and is awesome at dual wielding staffs or staff plus badass onehanded sword. and getting the hell kicked out of her while i hide behind her.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
i think i was gonna end up divorced if lydia said her burdens line one more time, so i had to trade her in for roggi knotbeard, who is shiiiiiit. always on the floor, seconds into any fight.
― horseshoe loves tom brady, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Lydia is awesome except for her uncanny ability to leap in front of my flames/fuck-off massive ax
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
also my life has gotten much much better in boss fights after learning the slow time shout, its pretty fucking awesome
xpost yeah note to future bethesda developers sacrifice reality or whatever and plz have my companion shut their fucking piehole when i open the companion menu "talk" to them about tactics etc.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
this is the buggy intersecting quest fyi
http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Season_Unending
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like I'm way behind a lot of you guys (only level 15 so far), but I had fun making the journey to Winterhold last night. Lydia was as useless as ever.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/21/skyrim-lydia-death/
lol @ some of these screenshots
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol poly, I'm still lvl 10!
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Ice wraiths are annoying as fuck.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't played in 2 weeks. i'm hitting the same thing that happened to me with Fallout 3: i play intensely every day for 5-6 days, something comes up for half a week that prevents me from playing, and then i just can't return.
― Z S, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
I have only been playing like ... twice a week ... but every time I play I'm like why don't I do this nonstop all week.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
i think im level 22?
the other protip for companions that run in front of you is lots of conjuring magic or other offensive stuff that doesnt target
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh, I just started dicking around with "Conjure Familiar", it seems really great/helpful in pulling mobs and getting them to focus on something else while you barbecue them and then chop chop their necks like a wicked clown
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i use that and the various raise dead stuff a ton actually
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
There needs to be a vg thread for non skyrim players.
― Jeff, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
you mean like a support group or something
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
lol
I'd been avoiding the raise dead stuff because I didn't want to become a MONSTER NECROMANCER but considering that I went and ate some guards in Whitehall I should probably stop worrying about that...?
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
i am down because it just makes all these dickhead racist nords hate me all the more
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
(actually i dont think it makes any real difference, at least so far, wrt the way people react to you)
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
it's kind of funny how the guards veer back and forth between "WATCH YRSELF, IMPERIAL *spits on ground*" and "zomg you kill dragons! SQUEEE!"
oh and I finally ran into the "I was an adventurer like you once..." guard!
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
plz no spoilers but everyone keeps telling me I look pale and sickly; is this because my character doesn't ever sleep?