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[cormack12]

There's a theme that you can do whatever you want and create your own adventure in Skyrim, and that's largely because a lot of the content is underwhelming and the world (being region based), is very drab in general.

However, I would follow the story until you get your first 'shout' (you'll know when this is), I'd continue along until you have to go to the top of the mountain and get a bit familiar with the local area. You'll end up in a town called Whiterun, definitely follow the side questlines for The Companions. The thieves guild questline in Riften is also worth doing. The Mage quests in Winterhold are hit and miss and probably depend on if you want magic in your off hand. I would definitely do the Dark Brotherhood questline as well when you get to it. And then there are the Daedra quests, which were my absolute favourite part of the game. You will probably have to do some exploring to trigger most of them (from memory). And when you're doing all these you'll probably naturally progress the story as well.

There's a lot to find and like in Skyrim, I just think the setting, dungeons and general 'fetch' quests are a bit boring and suffers because you get so overpowered early on and the world is all too 'samey' - it lacks diversity. When 90% of the landscape is the same it's hard to keep motivated to explore or to not use 'fast travel'. Especially when you eventually see areas like the Champions Oasis, the underground area with the grass sprites and the frozen ice lakes in the ?North-West, where you

Spoiler

open that portal for the guy near the dwarven sphere

. For their worth the fetch quests are at least partially disguised by 'rob these artifacts from x person', but there are still 'farm x amount of y object' for non important NPC's too.

 

[Spades]

I hope you're playing the edition with all the DLC on disc !

I'm not - but I've seen that version for £10. Should I get it? Is the DLC endgame stuff or is it things you can do any time?

 

[Fezzan]

I'm not - but I've seen that version for £10. Should I get it? Is the DLC endgame stuff or is it things you can do any time?

For dawnguard I think you have to reach level 10 before you can start it and for dragonborn you have to get into the story a little bit before the quest open up.

 

[DeathByBacklog]

Any tips for someone playing this game,

Watch out for arrows to the knee.

Never did finish this game. I hoard too damn much. Then my character was moving like a snail.

 

[Sarcasm]

Watch out for arrows to the knee.

Never did finish this game. I hoard too damn much. Then my character was moving like a snail.

Than store it in your hideout..(make sure it is safe to if it isn't one of those homes you can buy or heathfire home you build)

 

[120v]

like a lot of people are saying, do the first few main quests first, but don't be afraid to go off and explore some dungeons and bandit outposts on the side. skyrim rewards you for going off the beaten path... just don't be too aimless at the very beginning

the game does a good job of explaining the mechanics for you, so if you want to experiment with the crafting don't be afraid to try it out. if it doesn't click with you then you can just ignore it and come back to it later if you so choose

as for playstyle, the game also does a good job of accommodating whatever type of class or class hybrid you want to play. so it's pretty much anything goes

don't be afraid to do pretty much whatever you want to do. steal, lie, and murder if you want. just don't get caught

 

[Tigress]

Go and play it without any prior advice. This is how you play Skyrim.

Oh, and killing chickens is fun

 

[mzupeman]

The game can be extremely overwhelming if you look at it in a, "how much is left to do" sort of way. I mean, I put in about 90 hours with this game in the first year of release (that's a lot for me), and I was probably only a third of the way through the primary campaign, and still had a TON of side stuff I could have done.

My advice, is to just sort of treat this like you're living the adventure. Walk on foot instead of fast traveling. Take in the sights. Find new places along the way. Explore. Just be an adventurer doing your own thing. In the 90 hours I played, there was ALWAYS something new to do. If you just view the game as stepping into another pair of fantastical shoes and living it out... you should have one hell of an experience. My opinion, of course.

 

[AuthenticM]

I'm not - but I've seen that version for £10. Should I get it? Is the DLC endgame stuff or is it things you can do any time?

You can do it at any time, except for Dawnguard which requires you to be a certain level I believe. But it doens't take long.

Dude, get it. The DLC is well worth it. It's the best content in the game, hands down.

 

[Spades]

You can do it at any time, except for Dawnguard which requires you to be a certain level I believe. But it doens't take long.

Dude, get it. The DLC is well worth it. It's the best content in the game, hands down.

Nice; I'll pick it up tomorrow.

 

[paragonpro]

Amazing game, and the way to play is just to go where ever you want to, and do quests as you come across them. That game got the most play time of anything I owned on the 360 from 2011-2013

 

[strafer]

You can do it at any time, except for Dawnguard which requires you to be a certain level I believe. But it doens't take long.

Dude, get it. The DLC is well worth it. It's the best content in the game, hands down.

Dawnguard can be done at level 1. You can go to the place right away instead of waiting for the Orc to show up.

 

[KKRT00]

My advices.
- Dont play without expansions
- If You have any PC, play it on PC, just adding few gameplay mods will improve the game significantly and Skyrim basically runs on tosters

 

[barit]

Put buckets over shopkeeper's heads and rob those noobs

Seriously the amount of crazy things you can do in this game is just mindblowing

Try to follow the main questline for awhile until you get your dragonvoice then you can begin with the real exploring

 

[DOBERMAN INC]

If you're playing it stealthy use a bow for 90% of combat, it removes you from the relatively poor melee combat and is much more fun.

Buy as many arrows as you can as early as you can,then when you're in an unknown area fire them at the walls/trees ect before you approach, this causes anyone close to your position to make themselves known, now that you know where everyone is and their number you can then pick them off or whatever course of action you would like to take next.

Lockpick as much as you can, even if you don't want the contents of the chest,unlock doors and then exit straight away too, this helps hugely later on.

 

[Windom Earle]

Skyrim without mods is hard to swallow these days. UI and load times are just too annoying.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

Don't let the guards bait you OP.

They will call you names, make fun of your lack of sweet roll, and generally make you want to slay them, but you must resist, for an outcast has no place in the cities of Skyrim.

 

[exmachina64]

You were planning on buying ESO but never played an elder scrolls game?

???

If anything, enjoy skyrim and skip ESO. Then when you're done with that play New Vegas for an actual good game.

This man speaks the truth.

 

[Harmen]

GAF, I've just started Skyrim for the first time. I'm really looking forward to playing ESO when it hits consoles in a few months, so I thought I'd fire up Skyrim to get myself into the lore of the Elder Scrolls world.

Any tips for someone playing this game, and my first in the series, for the first time that will make it as enjoyable as possible? It feels a little overwhelming right now and I'm already getting the feeling of what to to do next!

I felt overwhelmed at first as well. I do reccomend doing some initial story missions to get some useful main abilities and properties and from that point on, just wander around. Exploring the vast worlds in these games is awesome and there are plenty of great sidequests/dungeons.

 

[Majanew]

Fantastic game. Looks and plays great on 360. Enjoy!

I played as a two-handed warrior and mostly carried an axe and a mace, and was unstoppable.

Also, turn the music off and crank your sound system (hopefully you have that or good headphones) and just let the sound of environments and sound effects set the mood.

 

[Benjamin1981]

So jealous that you can experience Skyrim for the first time. It's magical. I put like 500 hours into it on multiple versions of the game and if there was a remaster i would buy it in a heartbeat and play another 200 hours of it.

Also vanilla 360 version is fine. Don't listen to the pc haters. If you really like the game after 50 hours and you still want more you can get the DLC.

 

[gossi]

Worth noting that Skyrim has very little to do with Elder Scrolls Online. And this isn't a driveby threadshit - I have 400+ hours in both titles. (also ESO isn't coming to 360).

 

[zma1013]

I play Skyrim the way it was meant to be played, by spending hours and hours sorting load orders in mod managers.

 

[John Kowalski]

read the books, all of them

 

[Sotha_Sil]

I would avoid the radiant quests as much as possible (Jarl's being the worst offenders). They're pretty easy to spot.

I enjoyed many of the named side quests, especially the Daedric ones. The best way to experience these is to just explore the land and cities.

Definitely play the Dragonborn expansion. It's excellent.

 

[Currygan]

Go and play it without any prior advice. This is how you play Skyrim.

best response


although in the very first tower I entered there was a level 21 Orc who just relentlessly hacked at me and I didn't even have a spoon to defend myself, so ended up kiting him around a kitchen table for like 25 minutes

 

[3phemeral]

Follow the main line for a while until you get a grip on the systems.

I sort of did this. But at some point, I just got distracted by randomly exploring. Found a few caves I wasn't supposed to be in yet and that's where I really learned how to take advantage of the mechanics.

I still go back and play occasionally because I love the atmosphere.

 

[timothyonfire]

Or dear

Well at least it's not ps3

Oh man, I lost so many save files during the PS3 debacle, such a sour experience.

 

[Kinokou]

I was in your position 2 months ago. It's fun.

But question for everyone else, does the steam workshop have a mod for managing multiple characters with more ease? I tried looking, but it's very clunky to navigate.

 

[KKRT00]

I was in your position 2 months ago. It's fun.

But question for everyone else, does the steam workshop have a mod for managing multiple characters with more ease? I tried looking, but it's very clunky to navigate.

Use Skyrim Nexus for mods.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/47704/?

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I also recommend this site:
http://skyrimgems.com/index.html

 

[Quavillion]

OP The issue here is that you are going to fall in love with Skyrim. When ESO releases for your platform of choice you are going to be like "WTF is this? This is not an Elder Scrolls game... What the hell did I just buy?!"

 

[Grief.exe]

I'm going to do this reply in gifs

I'm really looking forward to playing ESO when it hits consoles in a few months

It's perfectly fine on 360.

1. Play on PC

2. Download some funny mods. Turn the Moon into the one from LoZ Majora's Mask, ride around on the cast of My Little Pony: FIM, wear Dark Souls armor and fight the late great Macho Man Randy Savage as the World Eater Alduin

The above pretty much has been my play-though. Also, my character is Big Boss

 

[KKRT00]

1. Play on PC

2. Download some funny mods. Turn the Moon into the one from LoZ Majora's Mask, ride around on the cast of My Little Pony: FIM, wear Dark Souls armor and fight the late great Macho Man Randy Savage as the World Eater Alduin

The above pretty much has been my play-though. Also, my character is Big Boss

Are You TheVampire's brother or what?

 

[Sarcasm]

I can't find the skyrim thread (I found the modding one), anybody got it?

 

[GreatestHits]

1. Play on PC

2. Download some funny mods. Turn the Moon into the one from LoZ Majora's Mask, ride around on the cast of My Little Pony: FIM, wear Dark Souls armor and fight the late great Macho Man Randy Savage as the World Eater Alduin

The above pretty much has been my play-though. Also, my character is Big Boss

You were warned, OP, not to ask GAF....

I can't find the skyrim thread (I found the modding one), anybody got it?

You mean the OT?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=450948

 

[injurai]

Lost 30 hours that first weekend... whew what a game.

Even in spite of Bethesda technical shortcomings.

 

[Maddanth]

Reading all these posts is making me want to give this game a go. I never played it, and even tho I have plenty to play on Ps4, xb1, wii u, I think I'm gonna pick it up? What do u guys think? Is it worth playing?

 

[Anteater]

just dive in and play it however you want, explore and enjoy

i played it on ps3, ran like dog shit and i still enjoyed it

 

[BouncyFrag]

If some random person invites you to a drinking contest, you should take him up on it.

 

[GreatestHits]

Skyrim without mods is hard to swallow these days. UI and load times are just too annoying.

Gotta pick wisely. Skyrim with a dozen of the top mods is banderas.gif. I only installed ones that weren't done by noobs that are like LOL PERFORMANCE WATS THAT and my performance is within 3 frames of what it was (I like more NPC's on screen). Load times are the same

 

[norm9]

I went the opposite direction after escaping the opening sequence. Twenty odd hours later and I still haven't encountered a dragon yet.

 

[cyberheater]

Prepare to be disappointed by just about everything.

What a stupid post. Skyrim is awesome.

 

[Spades]

I'm about 5 hours in and loving it so far.

 

[Hahs]

Play the main quest, take your time - listen to all dialogue. Try to read (in-game) books - they're full of lore and Elder Scrolls history.

On your second play-through (if you decide)

Take you character creation to another level.

I took my creation a few steps further and created more back-story for my character to fit the context of the plot/economy/religions/politics. I used this to sway my decisions and interactions with the rest of the world...for more immersion & continuity.

EDIT: Bible---- http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page

 

[Gilly]

Go and play it without any prior advice. This is how you play Skyrim.

Absolutely
The best part of Skyrim is the exploration and discovery the less you know the more enjoyable it was, at least for me.

 

[The Lamonster]

I used to play Skyrim, until I took an arrow to the knee.

 

[Emulated Hype]

GAF, I've just started Skyrim for the first time. I'm really looking forward to playing ESO when it hits consoles in a few months, so I thought I'd fire up Skyrim to get myself into the lore of the Elder Scrolls world.

Any tips for someone playing this game, and my first in the series, for the first time that will make it as enjoyable as possible? It feels a little overwhelming right now and I'm already getting the feeling of what to to do next!

Read some of the in-game books about the History of the Empire. Ignore all of the talk about the civil war and the Thalmor initially.

Skyrim time jumped 200 years whereas the previous games were only spaced decades apart at most, so it isn't the best game to learn the lore.

 

[Hahs]

Read some of the in-game books about the History of the Empire. Ignore all of the talk about the civil war and the Thalmor initially.

Skyrim time jumped 200 years whereas the previous games were only spaced decades apart at most, so it isn't the best game to learn the lore.

There's also some really good Skyrim wikis out there too if you really want to delve into the lore - google away!

 

[oldschoolpinball]

as much as I love this game I would really really love a remastered version on one of the new consoles

 

[RyanDG]

I went the opposite direction after escaping the opening sequence. Twenty odd hours later and I still haven't encountered a dragon yet.

The dragons are such a huge part of the game, I can't imagine playing that much without at least wanting them in the world. Part of the reason why I think tying the introduction of the dragons into completing a set number of main story quests was kind of backwards. I really think the dragons should have been tied to a set number of in-game hours, which would be met either by completing the initial intro quest line or just exploring the world for a set number of hours.