Skyrim

[Ryex]

So Awesome!







That is all.

[Blizzard]

Better than Oblivion? Well, not that it's hard to achieve...
Better than Morrowind? :O

[Ryex]

At least as good as it's prequels.

personally I think the combat system has been greatly improved form it's prequels. it's still the same system but it doesn't feel clunky and awkward anymore. in Oblivion and Marrowind it was really hard to tell if your attacks would hit or not and the system in general had a learning curve that killed me. but in Skyrim the awkwardness is gone, it's still the same system but they've smoother out the quarks and added a few things that make it work much better.

[Blizzard]

That sounds good. I'll definitely check it out.
I played Oblivion almost 120 hours (IDK how I got that much together, that game was horribly repetitive) and I played Fallout 3 for about 60 hours. So I have to make sure I put some serious time aside when I am going to play this. I've had GTA 4 on my HDD for over a year and still haven't touched it exactly because of that same reason. ._.

[G_G]

Morrowind was too slow paced for me. No fast traveling, hard to make a decent amount of cash. WALK WALK WALK WALK EVERYWHERE. And your character move so slow.

[element]

HA
Killed 3 dragons already (so proud )

I love this game :p

[Blizzard]

Morrowind was too slow paced for me. No fast traveling, hard to make a decent amount of cash. WALK WALK WALK WALK EVERYWHERE. And your character move so slow.

You, my friend, obviously never used the Icarus Jump Technique that could catapult you over a quarter of the island without problems.

[Spoofus]

i personally like the new leveling system and the improved gameplay overall, Bethesda made good improvements for this game, i am satisfied with it thus far myself

[Vell]

bows and arrows so broken. Took out a giant and three mammoths at level 5. By the end I was level 7.

[Diokatsu]

most broken stats are enchanting and smithing. they make magic cost zero if you have four items that reduce a school of magic'd cost by 25%. so make a full set of daedric armor with enchanting lol. Also, 70 hours in, pretty bro. love the game, not as interesting as morrowind, but just as intricate. overall I'll say it's better.

Morrowind was too slow paced for me. No fast traveling, hard to make a decent amount of cash. WALK WALK WALK WALK EVERYWHERE. And your character move so slow.

morrowind was basically a tabletop RPG, but the rewards for the slow pacing was the absurdly cool environment.

ps 40 dragons kill omg :')

[G_G]

Thanks for the tip dio, I remember doing something similar in Oblvion, I enchanted 5 pieces of armor with 20% chameleon, and I was completely invisible. <3 I bought two copies of the game. I originally bought 1 for the console, my dad started playing it, I haven't used the xbox in a week now. So two days ago I bought the PC version and I'm loving it. It loads maps and saves way faster and its just overall nicer since I can change all the graphic settings.

[Blizzard]

in Oblvion, I enchanted 5 pieces of armor with 20% chameleon, and I was completely invisible. <3

Did the same. <3

[SBR*]

Is the storyline based on its prequels? I've never played any Elder Scrolls game and I can't find I and II on steam .

[element]

Is the storyline based on its prequels? I've never played any Elder Scrolls game and I can't find I and II on steam .

Well the last elder scrolls, oblivion, was made around 2004-2008. so I guess 1 and 2 will prob be platformers or something xD
I've never played any other elder scrools either but I can tell you that mostly only the races and game-style is the same. The storyline is very different, it was different in every elder scrools game I guess.

[Blizzard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls:_Arena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_II:_Daggerfall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_III:_Morrowind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion

[Ryex]

the first two are actually available for free legal download

[SBR*]

Cool, then I'll be buying it sometime . After I've finished SS and Mario 3DS of course.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Ryex. Ah, that's cool. I'll check a review sometime to see if they're good.

[Blizzard]

Got 4 dragons so far. :3 But I find it lame that dragons are easier to kill than mammoths or giants. I can kill a dragon without using a single potion, but if I go up against a mammoth or giant, I'm basically screwed if I don't have a bunch of potions for healing and magicka. ._. Currently my tactic is softening him up with a few fireballs (Firebolt spell), maybe a Fire shout or two and if I'm lucky enough to get him to land somewhere, I just finish him off with my sword. Not a particular challenge unless the dragon stays in the air where the battle becomes more tedious than a challenge (especially if I don't have many magicka potions ._.).

I once got a giant to fight the dragon for me and the dragon damaged the giant maybe only by half of his health. Basically after a few tries I ended up fighting the giant together with the dragon and the going after the dragon.

Still, dragon battles are fucking epic. I chased my 4th dragon across a whole mountain. That was actually the dragon that fought the giant first. It fled while I finished off the giant so I had to chase it over the mountain. :3 I even got a finishing move on my 3rd dragon. My character jumped on the dragon's head and kept pounding with his sword until the dragon died.

[Diokatsu]

yeah dude, i know how it feels, but the dragons do get harder later on. Elder dragons kick giants asses and it'll get better once you get Dragonrend

Battles are epic and glad people enjoy it.

[Blizzard]

Elder Dragons? o.o
<3

*goes off to play Skyrim right now*

[element]

I finished it

On to the extra quests!  (see you guys in a few months :V )

[Blizzard]

I do the main quest with side quests parallelly. I'm level 20 now, got 5 dragons and the last thing I did in the main quest is to climb up the 7000 steps. And I'm not planning on continuing it for now.

[SBR*]

For what platform are your Skyrim copies?

[Subsonic_Noise]

Mac
And I am on level 5 and killed 1 dragon and 3 giants.. great game so far.

[SBR*]

God, that game sounds awesome... Well, I might just buy it when I've finished playing TLOZ: SS.

EDIT: I'm not really much of a side-quest guy. Is there enough content in the main storyline? Or are the side-quests really tempting?

[Blizzard]

There are major side quest groups (e.g. the side quests for the "guilds" or city related quests) that have their own storyline. It may not be as epic as the main storyline, but they're still interesting and intriguing.

[AliveDrive]

Yesterday I had a D-Day....Off (am I pronouncing that correctly?) and I spent it playing Skyrim.

[legacyblade]

I dunno. The dark brotherhood storyline is pretty dang epic. But I haven't done much on the main quest (I like to wait till I'm a higher level so it's more challenging and gives better loot. I hate when the blade of woe is stronger than the sword of main quest reward )

[Blizzard]

I'm in the middle of the Companion side quest and the Magic College side quest. Companions don't seem too epic so far, but the Magic College storyline seems pretty good. o.o You have political conspiracies, ancient magic stuff and somebody who messed a bit too much around with summoning creatures from Oblivion. o.o;

[Vell]

The Companions are good once you get to become a WEREWOLF. DarkBrotherhood is always fun...

Did you join imperials or stormcloaks? And wait 'til you start finding Blood babies and Frost childs. Those dragons are hard, blood babies because they'll use both fire and ice, and frost dragons because even through my nord 50% frost damage reduction, one concentrated wave of ice blast from one did over 100 damage to me.

I have 400 health. @--@

[Blizzard]

I already got the werewolf. Currently I come across Blood Dragons, but they don't seem too tough either and I have only around 250 health so far. Well, I combine one-handed weapons with destruction magic and heavy armor (currently mostly Steel Plate with a bit of Dwarven) so that might be it. :=

[Vell]

Are you smithing? Also, I don't have any method of attacking at range, so I find dragons fairly... not challenging or difficult exactly, but they're fun. Although because of smithing my axes are both at 90 damage (dual wielding war axes YEAH) so power attacks from me destroys EVERYTHING. I tend to avoid power attacking because it's so much more fun to just be ATTACK!!!! and take all 10 enemies attacks.

I also fought two dragons at once, one time. It was -hard-.

Blood Dragons aren't much, no. Frost and Elder Dragons are far tougher, though. Also, I have Glass Armor, over 500 defense. @--@

[Blizzard]

Of course I'm smithing. <3 I made myself a few items today that increase my smithing capabilities together over 50%. I love to combine smithing with enchanting. You can get some crazy shit stuff together. And I made my first piece of epic armor. <3 Is there any stronger than epic? Until epic I thought flawless was the best.

I also killed my first Frost Dragon today. It wasn't difficult either. I guess because I have another 3 pieces of armor that grant me over 60% additional one-handed damage together helps here a lot. Plus obviously I have a full orcish armor set that is smithed up to at least flawless. I guess I was doing just the right things during level ups to keep the game difficulty manageable. But basically when the dragon lands, he's as good as dead. I just go a bit to the side and keep attacking its wing until it dies.

[Vell]

It goes up until Legendary. You can oversmith things to a ridiculous degree, in fact. Each one handed weapon you wield can get up to 120 BONUS damage added on top of its normal damage and then filtered through everything.

Basically you can a 6.3blah multiplier added to your smithing ability for improving things. Essentially give you a smithing level of 635 or so for improving weaponry.

It's ridiculous. @--@

[Blizzard]

[Vell]

same for enchanting. Requires a lot of work and some alchemy to make it work though.

[legacyblade]

Now that I know how overpowered smithing is, I would have worked on that in addition to enchanting, lol. Enchanting already makes me and my companions overpowered enough (Every one our weapons has extra shock damage made from a grand soul gem. And since I'm also a thief, I steal A LOT of soul gems to recharge stuff with. Even though I have almost no one-handed weapon skill, my dagger does more than my destruction magic, even though I have a high level in destruction, lol)

[Vell]

There's some enchantments you can find that increase your sneak damage done. You can get some ridiculous sneak bonuses, with perks and enchantments. Do enough to poke an enemy dead in one hit all sneakylike.

[Subsonic_Noise]

I have 3 or 4 items enchanted with grand soul gems, adding to one-handed combat, and an improved mace that also does fire damage... a normal npc dies with around 4 hits, a guard needs 10 at max.

[Blizzard]

I have 3 one-handed enchantments altogether over 9000% now. <3 I also found some necklace that offered me 15% better prices. I disenchanted it and made myself another necklace with first 21% and later 23% better prices. The merchants don't have enough money to buy off that shit off me so I usually just take their grand soul gems in exchange or other stuff, lol.

[Vell]

Crafting is broken. In general. Combining all three ofthem you can make yourself invincible. Although the maximum damage reduction is 80%, which you can reach with damn near any equipment you feel like, with smithing.

[Blizzard]

I think it's intentional, not broken. xD One of the charms of the TES series was that you could always find a way to overpower yourself totally. xD

[Ryex]

Ok this is just stupid. I have to get into the labyrinthian for the mage college quest line. there are THREE frost trolls and a DRAGON in from of it.
the dragon isn't a big deal but ONE frost troll can kill me in a matter of seconds. the cut right through my full set of superior dwarven armor and I can barely damage them in return. how the HELL are you supposed to kill ONE of them let alone THREE AT ONCE! the dragon actually made it easier because it can help me kill the trolls. or it was until two of the trolls ganged up on it and killed it quicker than I could.

[Blizzard]

Use status effects. Get something to freeze them or paralyze them and poison them and stuff. I also suggest you check through all your magic to see which ones you can use to make yourself tougher or stronger in attack. Potions are also helpful, especially the ones that increase your skills for certain amounts of time. You can also try to take on one by one troll from afar. e.g. Get a bow or use a spell to get one of the trolls to hunt you. Then climb up somewhere so they can't reach you and keep slowly attacking. In any case, try to take them on one by one. You can often do that by luring one of them and taking it on by itself.

I had problems with a frost troll when I was going up High Hrothgar, but in front of Labyrinthian I disposed of them rather easily. I even took on two of them at the same time at one point (I was level 24 or 25).

[Vell]

I have no issues with trolls. I stacked HP, so I'm durable. Also, how forged up are your weapons? And do you have the Gauldur amulet? That one is POWERFUL, I recommend doing that quest. Read the books, a number of them start quests or give immediate stat boosts.

[Blizzard]

I sold mine. Meh, I prefer other upgrades. I can manage Stamina and Magicka well and I have a health ring that is almost as powerful so I just sold the amulet. ._.

[Vell]

I'm playing the game less caring about numbers and more about getting immersed in the world. My character is a berserker enraged "charge in and murder everything" Nord. To that end, high power and high durability to charge in and DESTROY EVERYTHING WHILE SHRUGGING OFF ALL DAMAGE.

In addition, magical stuff? BOO FORGET THAT. I would rather CHARGE IN AND SLAY WITH MY WAR AXES, FOR WAR AXES ARE A TRUE NORD'S WEAPONRY.

EDIT: So I get any +HP's I can. I enchant any armor I can with +hp. I don't use magic at all, pretty much. so the Gauldur's +30 Stamina and HP is great. The magicka is okay.

[legacyblade]

I kill trolls by having a nicely outfitted companion and summoning a flame antronarch over and over. I've got the magica for it. When you're higher levels, being a mage makes you so badA**, lol.

[Blizzard]

I'm usually a Destruction and Restoration user so I'm more of a reckless Spellsword. I don't like bows because they are two-handed, but I'd like to have something long range so I basically use some magic for that and eventually shouts. I'm not a fan of the other magic schools, because they are kinda meh. Alteration is basically status effects and just takes longer to kill somebody while Conjuration takes away the fun in playing the game since your summons kill off everybody. I even avoid comrades. I actually used only little Restoration in Skyrim so far as opposed to Oblivion and Morrowind.
I like to kill stuff as fast as possible and deal as much damage as possible. I don't mind taking damage or a risk of dying. I actually die pretty often in the game for being so reckless. After all, since I have a weapon in one hand and the other is used for magic, I have no shield.

EDIT: It actually shows that on my enchantments. I have 3 enchantments to increase my one-handed skill and if you could add that enchantment on a helm, I'd totally do it. xD I got an Ebony Helmet today and I had to settle with +49 to Magicka instead. xD

[Subsonic_Noise]

The enchantment on my mace is actually quite tricky... it does fire damage, sets the target on fire, AND does additional damage on targets that are on fire :3
I don't think I need a new one all that soon lol

[Blizzard]

You get a really cool mace from the "House of Horrors" quest in Markarth. xD It does stamina damage, magicka damage (I think) and casts a Soul Trap for 3 second.

[Ryex]

ok Sub, I need to know where you got that enchantment because I WANT IT.

[Subsonic_Noise]

I think I got it from an axe called "axe of whiterun" or something... which I got when I accidently clubbed a chicken and got a group of people to follow me and try to kill me... then ran into a frost troll who killed them all, and I looted their inventories like a boss. Then enchanted a regular mace with it and a grand soul gem.

[Ryex]

I'm skeptical of this story only because it started with clubbing a chicken being a killing offence.

[Vell]

you can also get an Axe of Whiterun by becoming a Thane of Whiterun. It's not too difficult to do that, you can actually get one twice. It has a chance of being either a War Axe or a Battleaxe and the enchantment on it varies. There's a similar gig going for the rest of the major cities. You can become thane of Solitude, Riften, I think Dawnstar, Whiterun, and maybe one place more. Basically anywhere you can buy a house, and actually more places. Hrrm. Anyway when you become Thane of a town, they give you a weapon as a badge of your office.  I don't think you can get it off killing anyone.

And if you kill a chicken, it's a 40 gold fine. Guards' immediate reaction to anything is to attakc, unless you have your weapon sheathed.

[Subsonic_Noise]

  I don't think you can get it off killing anyone.

I did though Well, the frost troll killed them, but yeah.

[Blizzard]

I've had some tough luck today. I just started the subquest of the main quest where you have to go into the Thalmor Embassy. I just gave my best weapons to the guy and when I left the town to meet up Delphine, a dragon appeared. And I'm without my best weapons and armor! On top it was an Elder Dragon! ;_; I died and after I noticed that the dragon didn't reappear after I loaded the game, I went ahead and gave Delphine my equipment (the most useful thing being potions) to continue the quest. Due to a glitch the dragon appeared again just when I was supposed get going so I ended up fighting it with nothing else on me than a few pieces of cloth. ;_; Again, I died. Sadly I had quicksaved just in the moment where it was too late and I had to keep fighting the dragon like this. I went ahead and save a few more times, but it didn't really work out as at one point I accidentally hit a guard with a fireball so the other guards were after me and I had no chance to fight the dragon and keep the guards off my back at the same time as they were not allowed to make me pay the fine if I wanted to finish off the dragon. I ended up loading an earlier save game, but the dragon never appeared again. ;_;

[Vell]

The most annoying dragon glitch is when they don't become aggressive. If they're in a spot where it's not a "dragon spot" (marked with a dragon head on the map) they will sometimes fly around above you, roaring. But not attacking, and unless you hit them, won't initiate battle. MEaning 80% of the time that you can't do shit to them, in my case. Fucking melee. >:/ I don't have Dragonrend yet.

[Blizzard]

Level 59, 91 hours of play, 44 dragons slain, 45 words of power, 20 shouts. I've had enough of this game.

I used to play Skyrim. Then I took an arrow to the knee.

[Spaceman McConaughey]

I'm skeptical of this story only because it started with clubbing a chicken being a killing offence.

Well, funny thing about this game:
It is a killable offense.

[Vell]

EVERYTHING is a killable offense.

[Spaceman McConaughey]

EVERYTHING is a killable offense.

Also true.

[Diokatsu]

I don't even know if I can play skyrim anymore...i keep looking around for stuff to do but all the dungeons are basically marked as cleared...whelp waiting for the expansions...