Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I guess I should tell the boss that he shouldn't expect me the second half of November or all of December.

[LambertandHam]

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New Skyrim Details Emerge

• Killer Bees and insects confirmed (you can harvest bees from beehives).

As long as they aren't enemies. I foresee many minutes of running away shouting "OH GOD BEES!".

Game is sounding better and better. They seem to be trying to balance the line between Oblivion and other Elder Scrolls games when it comes to things like fast travel.

[ImReady77]

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Can't wait!!!!

[Candyman5]

I am so excited.


Sent from me, duh.

[SinisterAlex]

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Hmmmm PC or Xbox 360? That is the question.

[Jistic]

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NPCs can throw rocks if they are on a bridge above you.]

Thank God they got that in!

I've been saving most of my vacation all year, I seriously might take a week off in November for this game.

[fishepa]

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Thank God they got that in!

I've been saving most of my vacation all year, I seriously might take a week off in November for this game.

That just stood out to me in the list too. Weird, but okay.

[myghty]

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Man, with all these things in the game how long will it take to complete everything?

[trobinson97]

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It's like the Civil Rights board game, "Two Decades of Dignity". You don't win, you just do a little better each time.

[Kearnzo]

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Man, with all these things in the game how long will it take to complete everything?

From what i've read, completing all of the content is in the 300 hour range. But that doesn't include how much time I spend with my mouth agape staring at the horizon.

[bcruise]

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From what i've read, completing all of the content is in the 300 hour range. But that doesn't include how much time I spend with my mouth agape staring at the horizon.

I probably spent hours just wandering aimlessly around Cyrodil admiring the scenery and doing absolutely nothing else.... so, yeah.

[Vast]

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Sounds fantastic. PC upgrade purchased, so PC it will be.

Side note: Its upsetting that some games on PC are 59.99 even digital downloads. Grrr! Skyrim is one of them.

[Kaladesskel]

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Side note: Its upsetting that some games on PC are 59.99 even digital downloads. Grrr! Skyrim is one of them.

As the great Ringo Starr once said, "I like to be, under the sea, in an octopus' garden in the shade."

hope that helps.

Side note: Even if I did have an awesome computer, I'm still buying it for PS3 to play on my high definition TV and surround sound.

[Pete1210]

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I spent over 200 hours on Oblivion. I actually sold my first copy to stop playing. Then a year later bought the GOTY

Between Skyrim and BF3 I should not have to buy another game for a while.

[Flawless]

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Gamescom 2011: A Few Thoughts From Bethesda's Latest Skyrim Demo

Things like crafting, enchanting, and potion-making have all been greatly expanded in Skyrim, but what really caught our attention is the way you can forge weapons almost entirely from scratch. Sure, you could do something similar in Fallout 3 with weapons schematics, but in Skyrim you're working with much-less-refined ingredients. Here's an example: you come across a wolf that looks at you funny, so you clobber it to death with your mace/blunt sword/clobbering fists. Suddenly you have some raw animal hide that you can take to a tannery to convert into leather. Later on, you're off adventuring through one of those fancy new dungeons when you spot a shiny vein of iron in the wall. You pull out your pickax and chip away at it until you get a nice supply of raw ore. Then you go find yourself a weapons forge, and suddenly you're able to create a fancy new leather-hilted iron dagger and feel the calming satisfaction that you just became a blacksmith. Now those wolves will think twice before looking at you funny.

You don't always have to be crafting new items to improve your handiwork. When it comes to enchanting, you can actually learn a few things from being destructive. You start off the game as an enchanting newbie without any knowledge of the magic that goes into creating fancy magic-enhanced items. What you can do to fix that is find an arcane enchanter (a magic station, basically) and disenchant any item you have that carries with it special magical traits. What this does is destroy whatever item you had, but with the added effect that you learn the enchantment that the item previously contained. So if you find a pair of enchanted pants that give you higher attack rates, but pants just really aren't your thing, you can disenchant said pants and learn the attack boost enchantment for another item you may find more to your liking. Like that sweet iron dagger you just made.