Skyrim., Sitting here, slipping into an alternate realm... Options

[Tech_Rat]

So, I just picked up the Collector's edition of Skyrim for the PC. I have 12 minutes left before it finishes installing.

Anyone else pick it up? Been looking forward to it?

[Backgammon]

Yes just fit it, and took a week off work to play it (sort of... There's more to it than that, I'm not that far gone yet)

Making an Imperial warrior, about level 7 now. Couple of thoughts so far:

Holy monkey Jesus the landscape is beautiful. I mean, it's worth getting just for that. You could walk around and not actually play the game, it would be worth it. That's how awesome it looks.

Finally figured out how to shield bash. You have to hold the blocking button and then press that hit button. Sounds obvious now but took me a while to figure it out.

Look out for environmental helpers. Puddles of fuel on the floor can ignite. You can even use an arrow to shoot a lamp and make I fall and explode the gas. This is new in elder scroll games, so you have to adjust your thinking.

Perks, perks, perks. I was playing at expert, and before I started taking perks the game was too hard. Now, with basic perks, it's just right.

Crafting is fun. It's worth always sharpening or reinforcing your equipment.

Do not attack giants. Do. Not.

[Tech_Rat]

Yes just fit it, and took a week off work to play it (sort of... There's more to it than that, I'm not that far gone yet)

Making an Imperial warrior, about level 7 now. Couple of thoughts so far:

Holy monkey Jesus the landscape is beautiful. I mean, it's worth getting just for that. You could walk around and not actually play the game, it would be worth it. That's how awesome it looks.

Finally figured out how to shield bash. You have to hold the blocking button and then press that hit button. Sounds obvious now but took me a while to figure it out.

Look out for environmental helpers. Puddles of fuel on the floor can ignite. You can even use an arrow to shoot a lamp and make I fall and explode the gas. This is new in elder scroll games, so you have to adjust your thinking.

Perks, perks, perks. I was playing at expert, and before I started taking perks the game was too hard. Now, with basic perks, it's just right.

Crafting is fun. It's worth always sharpening or reinforcing your equipment.

Do not attack giants. Do. Not.

Being a truck driver, I have all the time I want to play.

Feh. Inferior race choice. Khajit poison master assassin, I am.

Yes. It is. It is beyond beautiful, and to enjoy it fully, I need to buy a new laptop.

Thanks for the tip, though I'm currently dual wielding daggers, or dagger spell.

Really? Hmmm... Poisoned dagger? Check. Fire spell? Check. Helping end the pain of the recently set ablaze? Double Check.

Really? So alchemy and stealth perks for me, then.

That alone makes this game time and above any other TES game thus far.

But... They're huge! I want to carve a home out of their bones...

[Faraday]

Do not attack giants. Do. Not.

Don't mess with their mammoths either.

[Backgammon]

Yeah found that out yesterday. The hard way.

[Tech_Rat]

Yeah found that out yesterday. The hard way.

In every review I've seen thus far... That's generally how people figure that one out. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Wonder if I can poison stealth kill it from afar...

[X-Kalibur]

My Breton mage (I want to say 14?) can kill giants by using a dual-cast destruction spell with the impact perk. The spells do decent damage anyway and the impact perk staggers them. Since they have a good number of HPs I generally stick to Ice Shards to kill their stamina and slow them down (and not eat my mana up). But I have over 350 magicka with +100% regen and a 15% discount on all my spells (arch-mage robes ftw!) so on apprentice and lower spells I can cast all day.

(Also have a dual longsword wielding Redguard and a Khajiit Archer (well, and daggers too, for that x16 sneak attack).

[Stahlseele]

You can actually become a Vampire in Skyrim . .
Sad that you can't start as a necromonger and become a lich later on . .
I really liked that about Might and MAgic. Even if it was nintendo hard to do it . .

[Tech_Rat]

You can also become a werewolf now. I've become a werewolf khajit.

[Iduno]

You haven't been able to be a werewolf or vampire in the newer games? I haven't really gotten into the Elder Scrolls game much except Daggerfall. I remember that curing yourself was a lot harder than becoming one, but not impossible.

[Tech_Rat]

Vampires were easily possible in both Morrowind and Oblivion, but no werewolves. There were mods out, but, eh. They weren't standard, so I was sad. But now, both are properly available out of the box.

[X-Kalibur]

There was an expansion for Morrowind that added in the ability to become a werewolf. Read - official.

[Tech_Rat]

There was an expansion for Morrowind that added in the ability to become a werewolf. Read - official.

Oops. Forgot about Bloodmoon. Thanks.

[Ryu]

You can actually become a Vampire in Skyrim . .
Sad that you can't start as a necromonger and become a lich later on . .
I really liked that about Might and MAgic. Even if it was nintendo hard to do it . .

Oh yes. And even if you could, how to decide if lichdom is the way?

[Stahlseele]

Lichdom is allways the way for me, if it's possible.

[Faraday]

Just thought I'd put this one out. Seems relevant.

[Seriously Mike]

I see yours and raise you mine.

[KarmaInferno]

I just got the game and have gotten to the point where I just joined the Companions.

I get told by the old leader dude that the mastersmith will have a weapon for me better than, "whatever that thing is that you're using".

I was using a Skyforged Steel Greatsword.

I got to the mastersmith, and he gives me... a Skyforged Steel Greatsword.

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-k

[Rastus]

Has anyone noticed just how hardcore your enemies tend to be? They always seem to pop off a one-liner right when I execute a finisher.

"You dare face a DUNMER?!" says a dark elf as I impale him on my sword and lift him off the ground.

"Nobody bests an orc!" hollers the orc, whilest his bones make sickening crunches as I chokeslam him to death.

"Is that the best you can do?!" yells the random bandit whom I just decapitated.

Seriously, the people in Skyrim are just too metal for death.

[Wounded Ronin]

Has anyone noticed just how hardcore your enemies tend to be? They always seem to pop off a one-liner right when I execute a finisher.

"You dare face a DUNMER?!" says a dark elf as I impale him on my sword and lift him off the ground.

"Nobody bests an orc!" hollers the orc, whilest his bones make sickening crunches as I chokeslam him to death.

"Is that the best you can do?!" yells the random bandit whom I just decapitated.

Seriously, the people in Skyrim are just too metal for death.

It's because they're medieval. We don't do that today because we were made soft by commercialism and customer service. When someone decapitates us we tend to be too surprised to comment.

[CanRay]

And here I was figuring it was all the metal armor they had on.

Honestly, the best we can spit out today is "F*** you" or something. Well, I'd say something awesome. I grew up on Metal.

[Shortstraw]

I used to play elder scrolls games but then I got an arrow to the knee.

[Rastus]

If we're going to meme it up this late in the year, we might as well kick it up a notch.

If you got adventure problems,
I feel bad for you son.
I dodged 99 arrows,
But my knee took one.

- from a shirt

[Critias]

Mrs. Crit's stuck at work overnight tonight (at least she got to wear Christmas scrubs, I guess?)...so I'm having a very Skyrim Christmas. Hey, at least the weather fits the season, right? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Adarael]

Maybe "HO HO HO" is a Thuum that summons wealth.