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

Mage school is DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE tho

Tolfdir is a bit of a feeb but yeah this is shaping up v nicely. I'm going down the warrior/mage line too, except fuck sneaking + bows, I just wade in there with my two-handed. Works great against a single opponent, especially a mage, you can just keep stunning them so they don't have time to attack. Not so good when a whole bunch bum rush you at once. Hmm maybe archery might be useful after all...

Got this mage guy Mercurio (or something) following me round, he's annoying because he keeps steaming in while I'm trying to stealth about, but then he's rock hard and wins the fight anyway (he took down a frost troll yesterday in like 4 seconds, while I was still getting my bow out). But it means my levelling is really slowing down! "Jeez dude, let me have a shot at it, I'm trying to bump my skillz" etc. Might need to just ditch him for that reason.

lol that actually is one of the reasons why I sneak everywhere; instant magic passive leveling when there's a mob in the room! Also, now that I've started casting Soul Tap on things I'm getting a lot of free leveling that way. Though I'm still only level 16.

Haha plz be more specific

I was directed to it by one of the mage school quests, to dig up more info on that giant hypno-orb. I'd look up the name but all of the gaming sites are blocked by my company (boo).

I ended my session last night after I got caught between a frost-spewing cave troll thingy and Lydia spraying flames and lightning from dual-wielded staves.

i ended my session last night after not being able to sneak past a guard for 30 minutes straight. i think the problem is my armor (all heavy) making noise. my new strategy for tonight will be to remove all armor, use an invisibility potion and sprint across to the lake, naked.

It is kind of hilarious how Lydia gets all "WE'RE ON THE SAME SIDE!" after she leaps in front of the flames blasting out of my hands, but if I let her get behind me she will without any thought or compunction whatsoever happily blast the hell out of me with lightning.

Want to try another follower but having trouble letting Lydia go...

I'm just afraid I wouldn't find another follower as hilarious, although I'm tempted to try the woman that keeps insisting that you can't truly know a Nord woman until you punch her in the face.

guys just putting this out there - maybe there should be a skyrim thread? i like reading the video game thread but i would also like to play skyrim someday without knowing a bunch of stuff that's going to happen

Yes please.

I have no problem with that but I've been trying to be intentionally vague to avoid massive spoilerdom

I am sworn to carry your burdens - Skyrimming for fun and profit

haha whoops

thank you

well at least we are all responsive to requests. locked mine, should i lock yours too dan?

oh ha i just read it, never mind

yes that was totally me mocking u

sandbox needs a de subjectivisten board so i can start a skyrim thread in it

Ik was van plan om een Nederlandse SKYRM thread te starten, maar toen nam ik een pijl naar de knie

good man, now i just need to find sandbox I love TMI and see if I can get tuomas to make a guess about what Skyrimming might mean

there was a twitter joke about getting your asshole licked in an airplane

you dorks should get your own skyrim thread

pls bring back ilx proper based stet

oh I'm two posts too late : /

cozen, explain the Soflam to me please. do i just stick it down and forget about it, and it will laser targets automatically?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-07-telling-tales-skyrim-and-dark-souls-article

this was pretty good i thought, altho gets a wee bit carried away. i agree with the general thrust. i touched on part of this during the massive essay i posted on the dark souls thread that may have broken ilx

infinity blade 2 is devouring my precious free time

ILX DIED

loll

I killed ILX because it was being so bitchy about carrying all my shit.

haha

not to turn this back into skyrim thread but that eurogamer piece seems to miss that for a lot of players (and i think particularly for players who have been involved in this series since before oblivion) a lot of these references and lore do resonate, especially when they remind players of things they did and things they learnt about in other games. sure, the septim family is just nonsense fantasy garble - unless you freed Tiber's descendent Uriel Septim IV from Jagar Tharn in Arena, or used Tiber's Numidium at the end of Daggerfall.

someone posted a great piece on old ilx that really sifted through the lore and spoke a lot about Vivec and really i think made a great case for the kind of world building Skyrim is doing

the callbacks are cool but that's a small piece of the whole. "world building" is too generous a term when they have just cut and paste a bunch of thin fantasy tropes. but i think the interesting part of the article is to do with how the world is delivered rather than the content.

tbh, considering that Skyrim is the first Elder Scrolls game I've actually been able to play without completely losing interest within the first three hours, I think focusing on the lore entirely misses the point of the game, which is all about the leveling/skill improvement system and the hilariously awful AI

I am certain that in another game I would be eternally livid that my follower kept engaging traps on my head but in this game it is incredibly funny and charming.

I think focusing on the lore entirely misses the point of the game, which is all about the leveling/skill improvement system and the hilariously awful AI

yep, same here. don't care about the lore at all! that point in the eurogamer article about never, ever reading the content of any of the books is otm.

if the 'lore' is not evident in the world and people and actions that you do, but in a bunch of text-objects lying around that you have to read, it's not well done

I have no problem picking up lore without reading the books. I've heard about the relations of gods, of the various peoples to each other, histories of towns, the founding of Skyrim, the role of the Empire, etc just by talking to people and doing things. The books are just to give you even more, not as the only gateway to the lore.

I'm an elder scrolls noob, having spent about 3 hours with a borrowed copy of Morrowind on the xbox back in the day, and the world seems plenty rich and lived in and "real".

http://battlefield.wikia.com/wiki/SOFLAM

The SOFLAM is semi-autonomous and will designate targets even when unattended.

this is not my experience; it may be semi-autonomous but its cone of vision must be so narrow as to be useless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVr5uQsifo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbIkM1z4YwU

shit gets real at 5:10

wtf. apparently Duke Nukem sold well enough that there's DLC now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F5T9RWRkl0

Also, almost done with Duesex.

Waiting for the Steam Sale to pick up tropico 4, which already has more dlc that 3 did. I wish they got the original announcer for the series tho. He had a much warmer and sardonic delivery than the newer guy.

I have Tropico 4 and Arkham City on Gamefly but haven't even touched them in two weeks due to Skyrim.

Yeah, I'm holding off on Skyrim until the mods start flowing. I remember the Oblivion experience, and how much more fun it was when people could yank around a few more things to my liking, like adding companion animals to the game and this little fun bit:

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/876/death20star1wr0.jpg

That's no moon...

wtf. apparently Duke Nukem sold well enough that there's DLC now:

It makes some sense, if DLC was just Gearbox cleaning up the mess that they inherited, I'd imagine that they'd want to put out something fully by them.

Anyone here unlock/softmod their wii? I'm thinking that I might as well do this

yes, hard drive mod is well worth doing
good tutorials here http://gwht.wikidot.com/

I was looking at this one recommended at the Wiihacks forum