Hey let's catch up on some video gaming in the sandbox

BTW guys: EA made Tetis on the iOS a subscription based system
http://toucharcade.com/2011/12/02/the-new-tetris-boldly-takes-iap-to-heights-few-dream-of/
it would be funny if it weren't fucking nuts

EA would turn breathing into a subscription based service if they could.

I usually use the crossbow; scoped non-lethal takedowns

Got skyrim, level 6 after about 8 hours. Keep on forgetting to save, dying, having to retrace 1000s of steps. Keep on stumbling upon and attempting quests that I really should be a much higher level for, like labyrinthian. Fuck a multi frost troll attack.

Also, i'm a thane, and dragonborn, and I don't even have a house yet! I can't afford 5000 cash, don't they have mortgages?

I just want a house! I've got all this kitchen equipment!

How are skyrim mods coming? Has anybody put out anything good yet?

Don't worry man 5k won't seem like much septims to worry yourself about by even level 10 or do.

This game has many more Septims than it has things to buy with them.

I usually use the crossbow; scoped non-lethal takedowns

― 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

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

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.

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.

(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).

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

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.

How are skyrim mods coming? Has anybody put out anything good yet?

― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:17 (Yesterday)

The toolset's not coming out until January.

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=93W6mB0ZqCM#!

http://i.imgur.com/1iKvl.jpg

lol

idgi is there spoiler-free explanation

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?

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.

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.

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 ^_^

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.

lydia > lydia ring since that ring takes up a spot you could use for other excellent ring abilities

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.

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.

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"

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.

http://skyrimpatchnotes.com/

refresh for more

i don't really do stealth

apparently sneaking is a primary skill of my race (khajit) :/

n.b. inverted look on by default \m/

omg those patch notes, lol

protip: stealth/archer is basically overpowered

- Increased cost of Zerg Spawning Pool to 200.

:D

lol the magicka one.

apple cabbage stew mmmmm

I assume there's already an alchemy repository out there, so we don't have to start a new one

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

alchemy repository

u mean like a wiki? yeah

Companions only die for real if you accidentally administer the killing blow

I've done this to four different wingmen now.

protip: stealth/archer is basically overpowered

Oh I dunno, I'm doing this and I'm kind of ok but still run into trouble pretty regularly.

n.b. inverted look on by default \m/

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).

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.

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

protip: stealth/archer is basically overpowered

― 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

bought a 3DS with SM3DL and MK7. so good.

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.