Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Candyman5]

Lol looks like I'm not the only one already planning their character for the next (and the next and the next) play through....

This time I'm more of 'good' warrior type Nord (my dude looks like Ned Stark from Game of Thrones) and I'm thinking next time an evil mage would be a blast and give a nice different experience....

This game = value for money.

Yeah it is, this game has so many different ways to approach it that it is awesome. Right now I'm a one handed blade user with a shield but also use destruction and conjuration. A little restoration with the healing spell. I wear heavy armor and occasionally shoot a bow.

I'm balanced but I'm not great at one thing.

It should be against the law to make a game like this. It effects social skills, work habit, sleep schedule, and train of thought. Lol.


Sent from me, duh.

[Skyboxer]

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Ok.. so in some of my travels just now I decided to go through some water. I swam (gathered some fish) and what do i see running around?.. I freaking goat! LMAO! he's was running around on the bottom. Then he tried getting out of water but couldn't get to land. I killed him and took hide. Couldn't let the poor sucker just drown lol

[Mabster]

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If you like fighting

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Theres a woman at the bar in Whiterun run that'll fight and give you 100 gold if you win

Stupid wench.

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I'm a Khajiit and she still wanted to fight barehanded. Hello? I've got claws?

[Mabster]

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Ok.. so in some of my travels just now I decided to go through some water. I swam (gathered some fish) and what do i see running around?.. I freaking goat! LMAO! he's was running around on the bottom. Then he tried getting out of water but couldn't get to land. I killed him and took hide. Couldn't let the poor sucker just drown lol

LOL, I had a similar experience that was completely opposite...

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I was out on an island in Lake Ilinalta and a slaughterfish swam way up onto land and started biting my feet. I bit back with my mace of course. Apparently he had also swallowed a garnet in his land travels as I found one on his body when I checked it.

[Leon]

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Ok.. so in some of my travels just now I decided to go through some water. I swam (gathered some fish) and what do i see running around?.. I freaking goat! LMAO! he's was running around on the bottom. Then he tried getting out of water but couldn't get to land. I killed him and took hide. Couldn't let the poor sucker just drown lol

Same thing happened to me, but it was a rabbit. Just getting his exercise underwater, avoidin them predators.

Now, about another certain animal....

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Met this talking dog named Barbas and he's leading from one end of Skyrim to another. Apparently, he wants to reunite with Clavicus Vile. Vile seems like a (relatively) harmless chap but you never know with these Daedra. In the meantime, I'm enjoying the dog's company but I don't know if I'm doing the right thing by helping these two.

[Jistic]

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I'm a junkie! Got two games going. One on PC one on 360.

First on the PC I wen ultra everything and not even a hiccup. It's gorgeous.

So on PC I'm playing as a Breton Necromancer. If you haven't summoned a zombie from a corpse you simple should try it once. Its awesome. Try it once! My Necromancer carries no weapons at all, no shields, no armor. Ever fight I summon a creature, buff my character, and go destruction. Once the bodies start to fall I start reanimating and they do my bidding. I just run around and shoot fireballs, lightning, etc. Now here's the REALLY cool part. I had to kill a giant spider at one point. For the hell of it I tried to make it my zombie not thinking that it would work...well it did! Giant Zombie Spider follower!

The game is a completely different experience than with my Kajiit assassin and I love that. What's even cooler and unexpected is the beginning of the game was a little different for each character.

I just like the fact that I can play it two ways, neither being the typical big Nord with a warhammer and heavy armor. Not that there's anything wrong with that but in some games I feel like to have a chance I have to be that guy. Not in Skyrim.

Oh and had my first random Dragon moment last night. Walking through the plains I see a huge shadow above me and this screeching noise. I look up and sure enough circling around me is a dragon. Man my heart started beating. I tried shooting some arrows at it but it was too high. After a few minutes he disappeared over the mountains into the clouds. So f'ing cool.

Also....Don't mess with Giants lol! I died once and the death cut scene was me flying about 1000 feet in the air.

[kingkilla56]

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I started over. The redgaurd heavy warrior grew thin on me at level 12 so I re-spec'd and went High Elf/one handed warrior/ rouge / mage, and joined the dark brotherhood and thieves guild. May be spreading myself a little thin but I found the blessing that lets you be invisible. Cant wait to start killing and thieving while noone can see me mwahhahahaha

But man was that redgaurd a beast...literally lol.

[SoxFan01605]

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Just wrapped up an all night play-session (consisting of two separate characters-I started over and decided to be a Nordic beast). I've done virtually nothing (in terms of quests) but I'm a forging and looting mofo and I'm loving every minute of it. I just keep running around hunting animals for hides and looking for stuff to mine and loot and then going back to tan and trade so I can forge, forge, forge.

I'll probably start knocking out some quests (I do have several built up just from talking to people) and progress the main story a bit tonight, but I forgot how these games can suck you in through exploration alone. Add in the details (like the forging and mining) and it's easy to lose a whole night just playing around.

[Kearnzo]

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Just wrapped up an all night play-session (consisting of two separate characters-I started over and decided to be a Nordic beast). I've done virtually nothing (in terms of quests) but I'm a forging and looting mofo and I'm loving every minute of it. I just keep running around hunting animals for hides and looking for stuff to mine and loot and then going back to tan and trade so I can forge, forge, forge.

I'll probably start knocking out some quests (I do have several built up just from talking to people) and progress the main story a bit tonight, but I forgot how these games can suck you in through exploration alone. Add in the details (like the forging and mining) and it's easy to lose a whole night just playing around.

Smithing tip:

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Your smithing goes up the same amount no matter what you craft, be it an iron dagger or dwarves armor. Granted, you get a bigger return selling armor, but you'll use less materials making the easy stuff. Personally, I've made a TON of iron daggers, which only need one ingot and one leather strip, and my smithing is almost level 80.

[fishepa]

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Where can you get a list of potions to make with alchemy? Am I supposed to just randomly add things together?

[trobinson97]

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I don't usually get up early on Sundays, but Skyrim called to me in my sleep.

Fish, you can buy recipes at alchemy shops. You can also eat raw ingredients to find out effects.

If you don't wanna go that route, here's a list:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Alchemy_%28Skyrim%29

[Jistic]

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Where can you get a list of potions to make with alchemy? Am I supposed to just randomly add things together?

I'm sure online you can find it. But just eat every ingredient and it will tell you it's effect.

[trobinson97]

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Nirnroot question:

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Has anyone seen a quest for collecting these? I just want to make sure there isn't a quest anywhere to collect them before I turn my into poisons.

[jmood88]

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I just had a random dragon attack me while I was near a giant camp and it started fighting the mammoths.

[WTF]

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I wish there was a way to break down regular weapons, and smelt them into raw materials. That would be awesome.