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The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn |OT| Did you think you were the only one?
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Last I saw her she was crumpled in a corner in my shack, an arrow in her back. The arrow as burdening me down.
Blue Ninja
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Great to see you pop in, Ghal. Still playing?
Jamesways
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That's definitely how I play as well, all about aesthetics. Especially when you get your smithing, alchemy, and enchanting up to hit the armor max as already said.
I'm with you, I really don't care for the look of a lot of the higher level armor.
My last lady wore leather bracers and boots with Stormcloak or Winterhold guard armor for light (no helmets) and switched to Blades armor for heavy (again no helmet). Blades armor looks so good on females IMO.
I've started a brand new character after fully maxing out a male and female Nord already.
I found a site that has the console sliders for loading screen characters. I've always liked the look of the Imperial female in the loading screen, so I'm literally playing her now.
Will probably only stick to the civil war story for her, live in Solitude for a while then build a house and settle down. I really should have done that with the last one, it's great advice to just build a character specific to certain questlines.
And I just love the early leveling up in this game. I've done the game breaking deals for super one-shot weapons that never need soul gem filling and it does get boring after a while.
I have to say, this is still my favorite game, even with all the faults. I've put hundreds of hours in and still love getting lost in it.
You monster!
Jamesways
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I made Mjoll the Lioness a Blade in my last game. Even while fighting dragons Aerin follows along like a puppy saying his silly "Never seen Mjoll this upset" lines and getting set on fire.
And Camilla keeps thanking me for bringing back the Golden Claw.
"It's a fine day with you around."
curlycare
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After my first character's wedding with Mjoll I found Aering wondering around in my house. When he left home at nightfall I followed him thinkin how I would get rid of him. Then a sabrecat saved me from the dirty work and attacked him. I just stood there and did nothing..
Yeah, more dialog would be awesome.
Like now with Camilla, It would be kinda neat if both Sven and Faendal acted different; like oh I see you got Camilla, I'm happy for you. Or something else.
He just recycles, Riverwood is nice, for a Nord Village.
And he even showed up to my wedding.
Him and Lydia. >.<
Like now with Camilla, It would be kinda neat if both Sven and Faendal acted different; like oh I see you got Camilla, I'm happy for you. Or something else.
He just recycles, Riverwood is nice, for a Nord Village.
And he even showed up to my wedding.
Him and Lydia. >.<
You know what I was thinking, while I think Hearthfire is a great addon, it would have been so awesome if you could start your own city, I don't mean like Riverwood or Falkreath, I'm talking Whiterun, Solitude, Markarth and Riften style.
I really liked that part in Assassins Creed 3, it started out small and grew as you helped people and progressed in the story, but in a game like this it could be on a much larger scale. Imagine your completed place and when you walk around your own city, the guards will be all like, hello my lord.
Would love for something like that for the next Elder Scrolls game.
I really liked that part in Assassins Creed 3, it started out small and grew as you helped people and progressed in the story, but in a game like this it could be on a much larger scale. Imagine your completed place and when you walk around your own city, the guards will be all like, hello my lord.
Would love for something like that for the next Elder Scrolls game.
I've done a horrible horrible thing.
I divorced my wife using console commands.
When I returned from hunting I met her on the path to the house (Hearthfire Manor place) and she just walked past me, didn't say anything.
Oh well... I just wanted to test it out. Since there is no real divorce thing.
But I think there was at one point though, otherwise the console commands wouldn't work.
I'm going to marry a male character to see how that is.
I divorced my wife using console commands.
When I returned from hunting I met her on the path to the house (Hearthfire Manor place) and she just walked past me, didn't say anything.
Oh well... I just wanted to test it out. Since there is no real divorce thing.
But I think there was at one point though, otherwise the console commands wouldn't work.
I'm going to marry a male character to see how that is.
Blue Ninja
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Shit, I spent my entire Dark Brotherhood playtrough feeling like there could be more to assassinating people, and only just found out one of the perks on the Pickpocket tree allows you to poison people. Why did I not learn of this sooner. :lol
Blue Ninja
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I never really invested points in the pickpocket tree, most of my characters were badass warriors who could kill people with their voice. This is the second time I've actually done the Dark Brotherhood questline. :lol
Haha good to know.
Jamesways
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Man, I love being a sneaky archer in this game. The first character I did was a Nord bruiser, hackin' and slashing everything, maxing out both one and two hand.
I find being an archer so much more fun.
Archery is fun. The bow gameplay is pretty awesome.
Skyrim has no locational damage, headshots are meaningless.
Also, with sneak attacks, one-shot kills with bows are quite easy even in early game.
Sneak-archer playstyle is quite overpowered... aside from bosses and dragons.
Jamesways
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You bet you can. Especially if you use a perk in a sneak tree, bows do 4x more damage when sneaking.
But with default smithing leveling, you can get them up there pretty good.
With the Enchanting and Alchemy gear loop, you can create game breaking bows pretty quick. Even without using Restoration potions.
Edit- beaten while typing this...
Jamesways
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Nordic Bow all the way. Love the look of it. And the Nordic arrow quiver too.
Always end up sticking that these, even though there are many more powerful arrows.
It's a lot of fun now starting over and being completely underpowered in almost any fight. Getting wrecked by bears, sabercats, ice wraiths, etc makes you really think about strategy and utilize the sneaking shot more when you can.
Took over 30 min to clear the Alik'r warrior cave sneaking around and trying to get them all single file.
Still love this game, even after putting over 600 hours in.
Always end up sticking that these, even though there are many more powerful arrows.
It's a lot of fun now starting over and being completely underpowered in almost any fight. Getting wrecked by bears, sabercats, ice wraiths, etc makes you really think about strategy and utilize the sneaking shot more when you can.
Took over 30 min to clear the Alik'r warrior cave sneaking around and trying to get them all single file.
Still love this game, even after putting over 600 hours in.
Blue Ninja
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I enjoy crossbows more than regular bows. They just pack quite a punch.
Probably gonna play a Bosmer with bow and shortsword next, though, and get him into the Companions.
Probably gonna play a Bosmer with bow and shortsword next, though, and get him into the Companions.
It is utterly ridiculous how the normal crossbow has more damage than the Daedric bow. Sure, it has low reload speed but it has never been an issue for me, since one shot from it kills for sure almost always...
I was considering making a thread about this, but I haven't posted enough to be allowed to make threads so I thought I'd ask here. Is Skyrim good on the PS3? I don't have an Xbox and I doubt my PC can handle a game like that, so it's the only way I'd be able to play it, but I'd just wait if the PS3 version is really bad.
What kind of PC do you have? Skyrim is not very demanding game (at least not if you don't care for fancy graphics).
This one: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?DocID=PD026485 ?
Now i'm no expert but quick checking implies you should be able to run Skyrim with that laptop. Perhaps with roughly medium settings (so it would look about the same as the console versions, IMO). Assuming that it does indeed have this GPU.
Anyone want to verify what i said?
Too bad there's no demo for Skyrim.
Ouch. It is no good then.
Can't help you with PS3 Skyrim, i have the 360 version. A friend does own the game on PS3 but he hasn't played in ages so i don't think he knows.
Blue Ninja
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From what I've heard (and seen), the PS3 version still isn't perfect, but the most glarring issues have been fixed.
Only spouses live in your houses. others go to their starting places/homes.
That's a damn shame.
I can one-hit a giant.
Bummer. Thanks for the help.
Do you happen to know what the remaining problems are?
Deified Data
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A new adventure begins...(to tide my over until Dark Souls II)
Caius is a former Legion Chaplain and Healer, ousted from the only life he ever knew for his refusal to abandon Talos worship. He was excommunicated, put in chains, and carted to the North for a life of hard labor...but the Nine would have other plans. He'll be forced to choose between his loyalty to the Empire and his loyalty to the Nine. Wielding maces and restoration magic.
Caius is a former Legion Chaplain and Healer, ousted from the only life he ever knew for his refusal to abandon Talos worship. He was excommunicated, put in chains, and carted to the North for a life of hard labor...but the Nine would have other plans. He'll be forced to choose between his loyalty to the Empire and his loyalty to the Nine. Wielding maces and restoration magic.
Deified Data
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Nah, just started with the default Helgen scenario, all I've got there is stuff I found in Helgen Keep. Also I don't think my character could ever murder a Vigilant in cold blood. Now I'm rocking this, courtesy of the "Cleric Armors of the Nine Divines" mod:
Very Warhammer-y. I think it was ripped from The Witcher.
Planning to start Skyrim again. But i'm not willing to re-install the game since there is no real need... except i'm not sure about the scripts. Have a bunch of mods but i can't recall if anything modifies vanilla scripts, aside from Unofficial Patch. Or does even it modify them? I'm worrying there might be something that may break or something if i install a bunch of new mods.
Anyway, i remember asking something about them before but i can't recall what i asked, nor where, nor what was the answer, except for a fragment that involved deleting the scripts folder.
Does the game regenerate them or what, if i do delete the whole folder?
Simplest way to deal with this would be just to remove everything do a clean install but i'd rather not have to tweak every single graphics setting again. Though i guess i could backup the settings file and replace the one the game generates by default?
As i noted in the Skyrim modding thread, i was kind of intending to do a survival playthrough since some other interesting mods i'd like to use are still work-in-progress so i'll have to wait for them. Something else in the meantime. I don't, generally speaking, like to use WIP stuff, too buggy, often too complicated, or impossible, to upgrade.
Anyway, i remember asking something about them before but i can't recall what i asked, nor where, nor what was the answer, except for a fragment that involved deleting the scripts folder.
Does the game regenerate them or what, if i do delete the whole folder?
Simplest way to deal with this would be just to remove everything do a clean install but i'd rather not have to tweak every single graphics setting again. Though i guess i could backup the settings file and replace the one the game generates by default?
As i noted in the Skyrim modding thread, i was kind of intending to do a survival playthrough since some other interesting mods i'd like to use are still work-in-progress so i'll have to wait for them. Something else in the meantime. I don't, generally speaking, like to use WIP stuff, too buggy, often too complicated, or impossible, to upgrade.
Blue Ninja
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If you start a new game, you should be fine.
Jimmyfenix
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So i have been dipping my toes into mods for Skyrim but can the wizards of gaf recommend me some mods ?