Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Mabster]

Nothing in Skyrim comes anywhere close to Vivec or Imperial City in Morrowind and Oblivion. Those are huge.

[sydrogerdavid]

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Having a lot of fun with this game again. The one thing I am surprised this game doesn't have is one big city. All the cities seem small. With a game of this magnitude, it feels like there should be a massive city with tons of people, buildings, castles, etc.

Well, I've read numerous times (don't remember where) that Skyrim is considered to be the wilderness or the frontier of Tamriel. So given the circumstances, it only makes sense that there isn't a huge city.

[sydrogerdavid]

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Still no bugs to date in the Dragonborn DLC. I don't even see any small things leading up to a crash either. I've finished a few minor quests and just really started getting into the main quest. I've probably played over 10 hours so far.

Now, I am using a level 20 character than hasn't even retrieved that horn for the Graybeards yet. If you guys played Fallout NV on PS3 with the DLC, you'd know that once you reach a certain file size, the game will slow down to half a frame per minute and become unplayable. I won't know if that is the case here by the time Tuesday roles around.

The only thing that I have come across is when you either come back to Skyrim or Solstheim. When you arrive and have autosave on, the game will freeze for 10 seconds while it figures out what's going on. Nothing huge, and I don't foresee it becoming a problem.

By the way, this DLC is the best DLC I've ever played compared to Fallout 3 and NV. There is so much to do and so many new weapons and treasure. I'm making BANK! Had about 20,000 on Tuesday, now I'm up to nearly 70,000. Although, that could just be because I'm playing a whole lot more with this character than I had before. I'm saving up for building a new house on Tuesday.

I'll keep playing up till Monday and see if I'll run into bugs. I recommend that if you haven't already, delete the game data and start fresh with the latest updates from the start. I'm still playing with the same data I first installed back in April, never had a problem.

[VTPack919]

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Nothing in Skyrim comes anywhere close to Vivec or Imperial City in Morrowind and Oblivion. Those are huge.

Ugh, I've been lost in Vivec soooooo many times.

[VTPack919]

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Still no bugs to date in the Dragonborn DLC. I don't even see any small things leading up to a crash either. I've finished a few minor quests and just really started getting into the main quest. I've probably played over 10 hours so far.

Now, I am using a level 20 character than hasn't even retrieved that horn for the Graybeards yet. If you guys played Fallout NV on PS3 with the DLC, you'd know that once you reach a certain file size, the game will slow down to half a frame per minute and become unplayable. I won't know if that is the case here by the time Tuesday roles around.

The only thing that I have come across is when you either come back to Skyrim or Solstheim. When you arrive and have autosave on, the game will freeze for 10 seconds while it figures out what's going on. Nothing huge, and I don't foresee it becoming a problem.

By the way, this DLC is the best DLC I've ever played compared to Fallout 3 and NV. There is so much to do and so many new weapons and treasure. I'm making BANK! Had about 20,000 on Tuesday, now I'm up to nearly 70,000. Although, that could just be because I'm playing a whole lot more with this character than I had before. I'm saving up for building a new house on Tuesday.

I'll keep playing up till Monday and see if I'll run into bugs. I recommend that if you haven't already, delete the game data and start fresh with the latest updates from the start. I'm still playing with the same data I first installed back in April, never had a problem.

Just got the game again after owning on my old 360. I cannot wait to dig into the Dragonborn DLC. Should be a lot of fun.

[Graphik]

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Nothing in Skyrim comes anywhere close to Vivec or Imperial City in Morrowind and Oblivion. Those are huge.

They haven't made anything on the scale of Vivec since..well Vivec. That city could of been its own game with the amount of stuff you could do there.

[Graphik]

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Well, I've read numerous times (don't remember where) that Skyrim is considered to be the wilderness or the frontier of Tamriel. So given the circumstances, it only makes sense that there isn't a huge city.

Its cool that they are trying to keep the landscape realistic in terms of how close in relation they are to each other but like I mentioned in the Oblivion thread, they've never come close to reaching the diversity of Morrowind when it came to the land and its cities. I'm sure its a graphical resource/memory thing.

[VTPack919]

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Its cool that they are trying to keep the landscape realistic in terms of how close in relation they are to each other but like I mentioned in the Oblivion thread, they've never come close to reaching the diversity of Morrowind when it came to the land and its cities. I'm sure its a graphical resource/memory thing.

Definitely not. Morrowind was so varied and differed so much region to region. It's part of the reason I still love that game so much.

[Bellsprout]

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Been playing Dragonborn on my PS3 for the last 3-ish hours and I haven't had a single issue yet.

Runs smooth, some awesomely unique dungeons, just a great experience so far.

[Mabster]

Still no bugs to date in the Dragonborn DLC. I don't even see any small things leading up to a crash either.

Been playing Dragonborn on my PS3 for the last 3-ish hours and I haven't had a single issue yet.

How big are the save files you guys are playing with?

I think I'm planning on starting a new character anyway to clean up some stuff in the main game (mage college story line mostly) but it'd also be nice to be able too continue with my dual wield sneaky brotherhood powerhouse if I wanted too.

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[Mabster]

Ugh, I've been lost in Vivec soooooo many times.

The under works and sewers all look the same and the buildings are just copy/pasted 100 times basically. So confusing to get anything done in there.

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[Bellsprout]

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Level 32, 45:08 play time, 7405 KB file size

[JBH3]

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I was mad I couldn't kill off anyone in the Thieves Guild. With this one Nord character that I've played as I had no intention of joining the Thieves Guild, so I hoped I could clear the quest from my journal by just wiping out the entire Guild... but no... can't do that.

[LambertandHam]

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I was mad I couldn't kill off anyone in the Thieves Guild. With this one Nord character that I've played as I had no intention of joining the Thieves Guild, so I hoped I could clear the quest from my journal by just wiping out the entire Guild... but no... can't do that.

That and no Vex marriage option

[Sundown2600]

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Downloaded the Dragonborn DLC for PS3 and haven't ventured off into that world as of yet. Gonna finish the Companions Quest and Main Quest before I take the boat over there.