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

Rule 34

i am watching my brother play this and it is like watching a backwoodsman maniac killer exist in real time, seems boring

It's a bit like all the Elder Scrolls / Fallout games in that there's an awful lot of trudging through wilderness and searching in barrels but it's enormously engaging to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiJ1or56wr0

haha wth

I have two enchanted elven swords that I named Galadriel and Finrod, and just picked up a bunch of two-handed perks. My follower is J'zargo, and he is ridiculous.

u r drizzt

kinda wish there was some online component to this -- but only so bethesda could mine cool stats like what the global race/perk choice breakdowns are. and what dumm names everybody is using.

That fucking dog! Stop trying to push me off cliffs.

dammit I have to get a dog

ugh you guys i dunno how you put up with followers at all. some quests assign one temporarily and i'm like, get the fuck away from me or go die (but please don't bug this quest to shit)

I have a follower because of things like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MTMwjYgJsFQ

er rather:

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

I have Lydia and the demon dog hanging with me at the moment. Demon dog literally knocked me off some dwarven ruin at the top of the world. Luckily I weirdly slid down about 400 feet instead of dying. He looked disappointed when I climbed back up 5 minutes later.

the fanmade humor shit for this is really uh something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYgKeUU35o4

i know this kinda stuff was out there for the fallout games and stuff, idk.

you made me watch that

shut up, you would have posted that shit at some point!

i am not down with nyan cat

man, the thing that gets me about this game is that there's hardly any non-thinking steamrolling in it aside from the wolf attacks; if you don't think/play intelligently when engaged in combat, anything can and will kill you and you constantly have to rethink/refine your combat tactics and properly execute them

I got my ass HANDED to me by the wispmother in Labyrinthian the other day but took her out last night after zoning into a rhythm of dodging her ice blasts and lighting her and her copies up with arrows, all the while managing to avoid Lydia's attempts to kill herself. I started thinking "woo hoo I am getting the hang of combat, check me out" and then promptly got rofflestomped by two duergar ghost zombies.

My absurdly unsophisticated "run up and bash with two-handed sword" method does me pretty well most of the time - although not against the boss at the end of that level tbf.

that seems to be okay with one-on-one encounters but if I get flanked or don't see the other mob lighting me up while I'm bashing away it's game over

also, I think I've said this before but I can't aim for shit, so sometimes I find myself hacking up the wall while a mob chops my neck

Oh yeah, all the time. I put this down to playing with a n00bstick.

it is massively satisfying to fire arrows into the face of an advancing mob and watch it go down in three hits

also firebolt is a FANTASTIC FANTASTIC spell, my only complaint is sometimes I can't find the corpse afterward because it's been blasted so far across the room

just finished the companions quest line and ended it by giving up werewolfism. i found the whole plot a little uninvolving tbh, and they advance it offscreen i.e. important people die while you are off grinding another dungeon for someone... and then you have to go grind another one to avenge them etc.

i'm repeating complaints here, but too many of these places and groups and stories are unrelated and uninvolved with each other, or with the main crisis plot. you are free as a player, but it makes everything too modular. the 'compansions' exist as their own story to be experienced at your leisure. an ancient order of proud warriors, don't you think the imperials, the rebellion, the jarls, etc, would have some interest in what this group does? wouldn't the leadership have some opinion on what's happening in the world? and you BECOME the leader! but you don't really lead. there's no decisions to be made after that. it's not a position with any meaning. afaik it's no benefit to other, later storylines to be the leader of this group. this kind of stuff just bugs me.

is it me or are the quests kind of unimaginative? go here, kill this, get this. maybe i've been mainlining it too much the past couple days. if you're at all anal about completing things on your quest list you will go insane.

i've found the thieves guild and started stuff with them, hopefully those are a little different. it's really the micro-level pleasures that make this game great. just traveling through the wilderness and seeing what's out there is great. all the fiddly details of ingredients and crafting are just really involving.

"involve" is my word of the day i guess

from what I'm seeing of the mage quests, I am assuming the thieves guild is going to go about the same way

goole are you doing the main storyline or just side stuff like the mage/thief/companion guilds?

If it feels like you're just doing side story stuff it might be because you're just doing side story stuff.

i've done them up to the point where you go up the mountain but i haven't gone further than that.

Go farther.

heh ok!

i thought some of the thieve's guild stuff was engaged and there's a few brothers quests that were pretty different from the standard quest-thing and engaging

engaging twice + typo anyway whatever

also firebolt is a FANTASTIC FANTASTIC spell

is firebolt an actual spell, or is just using fire and shock at the same time, left and right hand?

i haven't even tried mixing up magic. i have the doublecast perk (or whatever it's called) so whenever i double up on magic it's usually two fireballs, or two shocks.

firebolt is an actual spell.

dang, i was hoping that there was a spell-combining aspect of the game that i could still explore!

That would be pretty sweet but at least you can use two spells at the same time.

oh god, if there was spell alchemy I REALLY would never play the main storyline (not that I'm playing it now, lol)

just imagine combining Muffle and any Destruction spell; you could make things explode into flame/ice/lightning by CREEPING PAST THEM

somehow the depth of this has gradually put me less interested in playing it. maybe over the holiday.

I want clairvoyance and sparks so I can feel like I'm walking the pattern in Amber.

there should just be a generic "summon artronarch" spell and the destruction spell you equip should determine its type

or you could dual wield "summon artronarch" and get an artronarch that throws smaller artronarchs at your foes

guys fyi i am going to spend this evening playing a spiderweb software game

http://www.spidweb.com/images/Exile1/exile_shot.gif

yeah

protip for PC skyrimmers: if you're an archer, increase the actor draw distance to see bad guys way off before they see you and maximize sniping efficacy.

I keep forgetting that I took the sniper mode perk

also, it's a little silly that the fight with the ghost dog and the ghost wight sitting on the throne with its back to me took like 10 tries for me to beat, but the end boss was easily defeatable by sniping at him from a ledge and the boss back at the school was easily defeatable because there was a long stretch of time where he just stood there with his back to me and let me hit him with a bunch of firebolts

Is this the fight in the leviathan dungeon while you're trying to get this crazy staff? I've just finished that one last night. What am I meant to do with all these stupid dragon bones again?

Also, where are you guys getting all your cash from? I've only got like 1.5k, not enough to buy a house. I keep dumping stuff in my room at college, but I can't stay at college forever (I assume).

You gotta sell some shit man, get out of college and go to whiterun, shopping capital of skyrim! or even windhelm. and, uh, ask the shopkeepers if they have anything for sale.

Is this the fight in the leviathan dungeon while you're trying to get this crazy staff? I've just finished that one last night.

Yeah, me too. I thought it was really, really odd that the two fights before that (the wight and the ghost dog, followed by the two wights that will steal your artronarch from you) were waaaaaaaaaaay harder than anything I encountered in the boss room; in fact, the only thing that hit me in the boss room were a few stray blasts from his storm artronarch. I just stood up on the ledge and rained arrows and firebolts on them while Lydia kept their attention.

I am pretty sure the fight after that in the college bugged out on me but I'm not really complaining, lol.

yeah that ghost wight on the throne was a fucking nightmare, took me multiple times as well