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

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.

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!

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...

I love the Companions and their Warren Zevon ways.

I intend to marry Mjoll the Lioness.

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.

looked up "skull keys" and i don't think so

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

yes that is a sensibility i want to spend 80+ hours in

"Oh that thing yeah I got it in my backpack just a second."

lol, they saw that coming with the dragonstone, huh

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...

that's what your house is for!

~undroppable~

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

the bard quests are currently bugged and those musical instruments are never removed.

thanks for playing skyrim

noooooooooooooo

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)

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.

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.

Lydia is awesome except for her uncanny ability to leap in front of my flames/fuck-off massive ax

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.

this is the buggy intersecting quest fyi

http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Season_Unending

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.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/21/skyrim-lydia-death/

lol @ some of these screenshots

lol poly, I'm still lvl 10!

Ice wraiths are annoying as fuck.

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.

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.

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

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

yeah i use that and the various raise dead stuff a ton actually

There needs to be a vg thread for non skyrim players.

you mean like a support group or something

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...?

i am down because it just makes all these dickhead racist nords hate me all the more

(actually i dont think it makes any real difference, at least so far, wrt the way people react to you)

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!

plz no spoilers but everyone keeps telling me I look pale and sickly; is this because my character doesn't ever sleep?

What race are you?

Imperial

u has a disease

damn u, Lydia

Go to a shrine and purify yourself every once in awhile.

yeah, it's easily done

the honest gamer review that noted how stupid the interface can be (how can i not find out if i'm sick? "this spell works on level 10 or below"? how do i know what level this wolf is) is dead on in many ways.
even though i love this game dearly it is kind of a not so good GAME and the best sandbox i've ever played in.