[:plant:] TES: Skyrim

Given with all that info out there, I'm gonna leave this refreshingly brief and null of god damn HYPE that we've gotten already. And yes, there's a poll for you guys; to be aware of who's playing it on what. This thread also is to arrange for party chats mostly and the modding help for later. If you're double dipping, feel free to mention it as well.

Also if someone else is/was planning on a proper OT or NEWS for skyrim, feel free to make it. I plan to use this thread mostly for discussions anyway.

Free discussion GO.

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I'm reluctant to buy this.. weeks ago.

I'll probably cave in on my second paycheck week, after they patch some of the gamebreaking bugs. Getting the PC version.

I mean, I'm impressed. I never liked Oblivion that much but somehow this got me all excited-like. Will you forgive me if I delay my Xenoblade purchase for this?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

PC reqs are actually...sensible. I wonder what it'll look like on their recommended. Some people have made the claim that this is going to look relatively ugly because of the aging consoles, but I'm hoping it's just well optimized.

Then again, Bethesda. So who knows. Probably a buggy mess no matter which way you cut it. Dat day 1 patch.

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Minimum Specs

* Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
* Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
* 2GB System RAM
* 6GB free HDD Space
* Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
* DirectX compatible sound card
* Internet access for Steam activation


Recommended Specs

* Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
* Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
* 4GB System RAM
* 6GB free HDD space
* DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon 4890 or higher).
* DirectX compatible sound card
* Internet access for Steam activation

As for the poll, probably gonna double dip. Ugly circle version first, mods + wait until the damn thing stops exploding version second on a steam sale or something.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'll take ugly over an exploding face for sure. Fucking explosions, how do they work.

Also Term, I'll actually forgive you. I figure Xenoblade will take a while to ship/come into stock anyways.

ALSO Skills. Change your figgin sig, its embarrassing OLD by now. DARK DAWN SUCKED.

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I'll be getting this after I finish Dark Souls. So maybe never. Nah, but this is next on my list for the triple. Was never into Morrowind, was kinda into Oblivion, loved Fallout 3 in all its buggy glory. I'm liking the streamlined hud and menu and the general nordic setting, seems a touch less generic fantasy.

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Originally Posted by Philia

ALSO Skills. Change your figgin sig, its embarrassing OLD by now. DARK DAWN SUCKED.

Your face sucked but I haven't seen you change that recently

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Dark Dawn wasn't awful, though it was disappointing. Game ended too soon without and felt like i'd just been taken on one huge tangent.

On topic, PS3 is the only system i'll really consider getting it for, since my laptop barely runs Oblivion. As for when... who knows. I have a lot of games to get through, and there's a lot of other stuff coming out that'll probably get my attention first. Also still don't have the new Layton since Amazon is slow. I'll have to go look at PnP sometime soon.

FELIPE NO

Anybody see the concept art video? It has some of Jeremy Soule's new music for the game and holy shit I almost had tears in my eyes. Okay I did, but they didn't fall.

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PC master race here - can't way to play as the Dickingborn master of taking down winged, fire-breathing loli uguus and riding my little pony back to my tower of dungeon furry porn in matrix bullet time. Enjoy your bethesda console shit, peasants, as I sip a flagon of butterbeer from a gengar's asshole in my rainbow batmobile.

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Watch at this video! The graphicals are very realistical, they have a good job with this

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I'm not really bothered about Skyrim to be honest. Oblivion was fun enough the second time I played it but it dragged on towards the end and I only finished it after putting together a game-breaking suit of chameleon armour to do the arean etc. Fallout 3 was better but again, dragged on after a while.

I'm hoping the whole game isn't all snowy peaks and Hollywood norse because then they risk the same Fallout 3 boredom issue of all of it looking the same after a while. It's probably a game I'll pick up after Christmas once the price comes down to under £15 (On the 360).

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

LOL, I hope you guys are playing this. I'm wondering about something.

I just unlocked a perk for Archer's Overdraw for bows to do 20% more damage. I know there's a perk in sneak that unlocks x3 damage multiplier and then I just looted a good pair of enchanted gauntlets that allows 2H attacks to do 15% more damage. NOW my question is obviously... WILL THESE STACK?

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Yeah, got hit by those giants once and just flew skyward.. If that's a glitch, I don't mind keeping it 'cause it's hilarious. Redguard here and mostly focused on one hand/two hand/shield with a tad bit of restoration.

And yeah, just doing the main quest for now. God, the rest of the games I have right now will get some dust time.

I was speaking idiomatically.

LOL, its not a glitch, that's how I died too when I first encountered one. Skyward.

Thankfully, they really are stupid and cannot climb cliffs. So I spammed my bow at the thing and went up quite a bit in sneak/archery! The range on the archery is awesome and I definitely will go as an assassin this. I had a blast doing an archer/assassin/thief khajiit in oblivion. That's what I'm as in this game too and its working out really well.

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OH man. I'll probably get the circle box one. But it'll have to wait until Christmas. Hopefully the game's bugs will be fixed by then.

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So it has been week guys, how are we doing on the game? Any hilarious stories to tell? Interesting glitches?

Feel free to add what's your character bio so far.

Lv 29 Khajiit, Archer with stealth oriented skills including thievery. 100 Locations found, 55 dungeons cleared, and owned just one house. I only killed 6 dragons so far.

As far as questing, I only did 7 main/side and 29 misc. I have not joined a guild yet. Although I accidentally did a Dark Brotherhood quest.

As for followers and companions and the like, I saw they'll just fucking up and die and waste my time and gold and loot. Fuck that noise (literally since they can alert enemies to our position more often than I'd like. >.< ). But once I get a horse, it'll be that insane Nightmare horse or something. But that's me being hard pressed to do so because honestly, they do nothing but attract unnecessary attention.

So Lydia just stays home and cooks like a bitch instead.

Alright as for stories, I got not a whole lot but a few technical glitches that I can share.

*Cliffs are awesome for sniping but I find that after a while, enemies will actually run away from you. A while meaning in terms of levels or upgraded weaponry or the like who knows. I find this odd.

*Some places have an invisible wall where enemies cannot dare approach or cross it. Typical in dungeons or caves of the like where you stand at the exit of it, they won't approach you. Its rare but its there.

*In two of the favors quests (escort missions :\ ), I managed to oneshot the bosses just by standing before the entrance of the boss room before allies charge in like usual. Really simplified things in the midst of fighting with stupid AI.

*I wish I had pickpocketed from bandits sooner knowing that it also possible with the enemies too. (I guess I forgot lol.) The expensive pickpocket perk to unequip your enemies is starting to sound pretty useful in later levels.

*Racial insults were always funny but not when they kept saying the same damn thing. "You'll make a nice rug Khajiit!"

*Even though they show a dragon head icon on your radial (compass), you can still encounter these fuckers elsewhere completely unscripted.

And on occasion, when you head to that spot, the damn dragon wouldn't approach you unless there's more for it to attack. IE dragons seem to love attacking guards, giants, bears, sabre cats, mammoths before they even look at you. Use them to lure the fucker down and go from there. You'll hear highlighted stories like this quite often, watching a battle between a group of hardy enemies dueling it out. Or you die after slaying a dragon by some ground bastard.

*Also dungeons are definitely varied real nice. From a varied group of enemies to groups of quests involved to nasty traps to environments to themes of the dungeon. You'll be sure to be finding something new in every dungeon. I've visited over 60 of them so far and can tell you that at least.

*There's a silly misc quest to keep an eye out. A fugitive will run up to you out in the open to give you a stolen item. This is a leveled reward, and often quite nice. I kept resetting til I get to see him in later levels. I'm holding out for some invisibility enchanted equips.

*Unfortunately silly storage do not separate your items like your own merchants or menus. So its best that you just store them in each separate container like I did. Again, be sure to store in your HOUSE. Not outside, otherwise the contents will reset after a day I think.

*Dungeon isn't cleared til you killed all of the enemies. Including the ones that you don't trigger by stealth. Damn you Spriggan. Oh and by questing too.

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Oh yeah. Offensive magic is gimped in this game. :\ As in like alchemy and smithing enchanted weapons will just outclass your own spells.

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Lv 29 Khajiit, Archer with stealth oriented skills

Pretty much same thing here, though I'm only at level 17. One weird thing I hit was while doing the mage college place's first quest where you go outside and into an excavation site I had super-fast charging magic for a really long time. I took it as an opportunity to just stand there and get wailed on by some undead while using muffle and muffle. Both skills went from level 20 or so up to 45. I was worried there was going to be a level cap around 20 or so, so I've hardly been investing any skill points. Pretty happy to see I can dump them into some skills to try 'em out.

I really can't figure out if I like the game a whole lot or not. I do enjoy going from one dungeon to the next finding crap, but I think I waste too much time looking in every nook and cranny trying to find items that'll sell for the most. I really don't care a whole lot for the story; it just seems like there's too much mythology going on from previous games, and I just don't care about learning all of it. Also, gotta say I've never been able to remember fantasy-style names, so I can never keep any of it straight in the first place.

Oh, also, if you're planning on playing an archer, be sure to go into the advanced graphics options and turn up the view distance for character models. The game set my distance for drawing at around 15 feet, so that made it hard as heck to sneak up and snipe someone.

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The soft cap (points for perks) is at 50, the hard cap is at 81 or so when all of your skills are maxed out.

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Oh, also, if you're planning on playing an archer, be sure to go into the advanced graphics options and turn up the view distance for character models. The game set my distance for drawing at around 15 feet, so that made it hard as heck to sneak up and snipe someone.

Also, please use the poll RR. Not everyone obviously plays on the master race platform.

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In before someone else posts it: people don't want be sword.

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One of my favorite things to do while in a dungeon is to lure enemies into environmental traps. The best one personally is the switch on the floor that when activated will swing a spiked wall in your direction.

I always get a kick when the enemy approaches within the radius of the trap and I just step on the switch. BAM. Instant loot!

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Originally Posted by EMPEROR SHITWRECKER

One of my favorite things to do while in a dungeon is to lure enemies into environmental traps. The best one personally is the switch on the floor that when activated will swing a spiked wall in your direction.

I always get a kick when the enemy approaches within the radius of the trap and I just step on the switch. BAM. Instant loot!

Talking about traps, had to lure a certain boss immune to everything to a trap half across the dungeon. He died instantly..

By far my favorite trick late game is casting frenzy on mobs and they tear themselves to pieces while I chuckle behind corner.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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Your face sucked but I haven't seen you change that recently

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I never got into Elder Scrolls, I remember getting a free copy of Morrowind when I got my GeForce 3! LMAFO

However after much hyping and a damn sexy collector's edition (PS3, cause I'm tired of upgrading only to have a crappy computer at the end of the month...) I caved and bought it the day it came out. Therefore destroying any chance of having a social life....

I love how enemies react to each other throughout the world, like how often do you see a giant and a mammoth work together to fight a dragon? As you try to get your sword in the action only to have been launched in the air by a giant and watch the battle ensue. FREAKING GREAT!!!

You guys should check out the glitch videos they are pretty damn funny.

SUch as, I've just discovered that SKyrim is the digital hoarders dream:

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Read that they patched it and added DRM or something similar. Shouldn't be that much of a problem, except with the mods getting nuked. Ah well, they'll make other ones.

(this is why i bought the pc version lolol. MOD THAT SHIT AFTER YOU FINISH THE GAME)

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