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The discussion revolves around the excitement and experiences surrounding the game Skyrim, highlighting its impressive graphics, expansive gameplay, and the nostalgia for previous titles in the Elder Scrolls series. Players express their anticipation for the game's release, sharing their system specifications and performance experiences, with many managing to run the game on older hardware, albeit with lower settings. Bugs and glitches are a common theme, with players reporting issues such as quest bugs and rendering problems, yet they still find the gameplay enjoyable. The conversation also touches on character development, with players discussing their builds, skills, and strategies for leveling up. The social aspect of the game is highlighted, with mentions of marriage options and interactions with NPCs. Overall, the community shares a mix of enthusiasm for the game, frustration with technical issues, and appreciation for the freedom and depth of gameplay that Skyrim offers. The discussion reflects a strong engagement with the game, showcasing both its strengths and weaknesses while fostering a sense of camaraderie among players.
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I was about to plan something very cool to describe the game to you but I doubt anything I could plan would do the game justice. With this out of the way, I'd suggest you go straight to YouTube and watch gameplay videos.

To those who do know of the mighty Skyrim: Can't wait for next month, can you?!
 
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I'm right there with you on this! I played Oblivion for several months! Really looking forward to this epic of a game! Something like 150 unique dungeons maps! I just hope my laptop can handle it! Gaming graphics are now becoming scary good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSRtYpNRoN0
 
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I know right! I was scared my aging 8800GT wouldn't be able to make it through but quite surprisingly, I'm able to run it on "high" but with minimum details on shadows and no AA. And I turned off the other kind of filtering as well. To be honest, in the past, I don't think these settings changed much. I was just happy I could play everything on max settings, back in 2007/08!

I'm not quite up to speed with things these days, but you remember Crysis, right? (I mean who wouldn't?!) Apparently, it was ahead of its time and the hardware that could run this game on max settings was not on the market yet. Is it now? I used to think that if I can run Crysis, I could run anything! :D

ANYWAY: I started playing. Loving it so far. I'm not too happy with certain movement mechanics (character looks effing retarded when swimming, for example) but this a huge improvement engine-wise. So much more fluid than in Oblivion or the recent Fallout games, which I didn't play, precisely because of the mechanics. Yes, I'm fussy like that. :P
 
I already know I need a new graphic card, which in turn means I probably need a new power supply. Hopefully later this month I will be able to afford both, I had some unexpected expenses that put me in red. For now I installed Morrowind, as Oblivion is too fresh in my memory.
 
Morrowind was a more free engine; I miss float spell/potions.
 
Yihaaa! 1GB ASUS HD6850 card is here, 750W Corsair power supply is here, Skyrim is here - turned out place I am getting my hardware from added some high profile games to their software section, so I got everything together (and cheaper than from other places). It is all too cold to open boxes now, but if I will disappear from PF later today - you know what happened :biggrin:
 
Argh. After installing Skyrim from DVD (which took much longer than expected) it immediately started to upgrade itself - it was half an hour ago. I WAN'T TO PLAY, NOT WATCH STUPID STEAM DIALOG WINDOW
 
A bit off topic perhaps, but I mush share my joy with you - I manage to run Skyrim on my computer, which is pretty old - it's a 3.0 GHz Prescott CPU with a Radeon HD 4670 graphics card and 2 Gb of RAM. Of course, I play on low settings, but I adore the Elder Scrolls saga, so graphics isn't really an issue. The gameplay is absolutely fantastic. :smile:
 
My old graphic card used to run Elder Scrolls, until it took an arrow to the knee.
 
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holy quest bugs
 
  • #11
Pythagorean said:
holy quest bugs

its been very buggy and the patches they send out brake more than they fix. still a great game though.
 
  • #12
I third that, there are bugs, but it's still great... Actually, there are some pretty stupid bugs, for example, I finished the Malacath quest yesterday, and I didn't get the rewarding warhammer! And on uespwiki the only tip was to try to load the game from the last save and do it again! This didn't work :D
 
  • #13
Greg Bernhardt said:
its been very buggy and the patches they send out brake more than they fix. still a great game though.

yeah, can't stop playing. I always do this, especially right around finals. Must beat main story line before officially returning from thanksgiving break.
 
  • #14
I am in Falkreath and I need to help people three times. Thing is, I already did all local quests before jarl told me to do so - but the counter is at zero. I guess another bug. Sigh.

I am playing Polish version, so names are different, which at time means I have troubles consulting wiki. I can't switch to English version, as it hungs (not immediately, but soon enough). Besides, switch requires 1.5GB download.
 
  • #15
Level 22, but haven't played in a week since the last update broke my ability to pick locks. Will try again next update.
 
  • #16
I have a level 25 High Elf (Pure Mage). All of my gear is enchanted with "decrease cost of destruction spells by 25%", which has significantly reduced the game's difficulty. I have moved the difficulty to Expert and it has made things more challenging; Master is very difficult.

I haven't had time to play for a couple weeks because of finals. :frown: I'm looking forward to the winter break.

My wife made a Khajiit but doesn't play it very much. When she does, she just goes from town-to-town talking to everyone to hear about their lives. She still has not completed a single quest after 12 hours of gameplay. However, this is the beauty of the series; one can do what one wants, and that's what she enjoys doing. :smile:
 
  • #17
Borek said:
My old graphic card used to run Elder Scrolls, until it took an arrow to the knee.

:smile: The guards are funny. I laughed out loud when I heard, "Let me guess, someone stole your Sweet Roll."
 
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Dembadon said:
:smile: The guards are funny. I laughed out loud when I heard, "Let me guess, someone stole your Sweet Roll."

http://9gag.com/gag/1041960
 
  • #19
My character's name is "blabla", since I was too excited to think of a decent name when I first played, now I'm level 26 and too lazy to start all over again. :smile:
 
  • #20
I am a level 39 Bosmer - mostly using an ebony bow, plus an enchanted ring (+28% for archery) and an enchanted helmet (+33% for archery). Add to that over 80 in stealth and you know how I play. At least half of the opponents doesn't survive first arrow, especially as the damage is multiplied by 3 for a surprise attack.

Truth is, I suck at combat.
 
  • #21
Anyone married in the game? :biggrin:
 
  • #22
No, although apparently I was close after a drinking contest. But this quest is waiting.
 
  • #23
I married Mjoll The Lioness from Riften. Riften has hot chicks. Too bad you can't marry more of them.
 
  • #24
radou said:
Anyone married in the game? :biggrin:

I'm supposed to get married tomorrow ... if I remember to show up between dawn and dusk, which can be hard with all those caves and forts around full with bandits and treasures ...
 
  • #25
Greg Bernhardt said:
http://9gag.com/gag/1041960

Wow! That person must be really into the series; it looks like a real tattoo.
 
  • #26
Pythagorean said:
Morrowind was a more free engine; I miss float spell/potions.

I do not miss cliff racers.

Edit: Sorry for the double-post, can merge with previous post.
 
  • #27
Dembadon said:
I do not miss cliff racers.

I second that, specially on lower levels.

Actually, if someone asked me what's my favourite (starting from Morrowind, since I never played Arena and had Daggerfall installed (!) but never played it seriously), I can only answer in terms of a few relations - Oblivion is definitely a good game, but compared to the other two, well, they're simply better. I thing Morrowind could be my favourite, but Skyrim is very close to Morrowind, if you ask me. Maybe it's because of the music exploring track which apperas in both of them, it adds up to the atmosphere greatly. :biggrin:
 
  • #28
Yeah clif racers were annoying.
 
  • #29
In a way system is dumbed down with each new release. At least that's how I feel.
 
  • #30
Borek said:
In a way system is dumbed down with each new release. At least that's how I feel.

It's like this with many videogames. If the companies make them easier, then more people will be able to play them, so they can make more sales. Sometimes the changes are improvements, but other times they remove complexities that were actually fun.
 
  • #31
I agree with posts #29 and #30, Oblivion and Skyrim seemed to have went in a more "interactive" direction, in a simplistic way. But yes, I guess that's a necessary condition for acheiving a mass product.
 
  • #32
Dembadon said:
It's like this with many videogames. If the companies make them easier, then more people will be able to play them, so they can make more sales. Sometimes the changes are improvements, but other times they remove complexities that were actually fun.

You are talking to an ex-Editor in Chief of a monthly magazine about computer games :wink: It started in early nineties.
 
  • #33
I am a sneaky destruction mage/archer(conjured bow) at lvl 34 or sth.
I still have not my desired sneak lvl (70) its around 55 i guess. It takes ages to level up. I sneak everywhere kill everything while sneaking and still... My archery which is in the high 80s levels faster. So weird.
I started the main quest after 58 hours. I first wandered around a bit and finished the guildes.

The funniest thing is that I didnt know that you can run till level 20.
I also couldn't really figure out how to have an active quest toggle till around that level.
Until something was impossible to find and I ended up looking that up. Now I still don't use it very often cause I realized that If its on I don't really look around and just follow that arrow. Spoils the fun for me.

My follower is Illia and she is awesome. I am really dissapointed that I cannot legally marry her (she is not marriageable in the game) She is also only wearing morokeis mask and jewelry. Har har

edit: And I am going to play now although I wanted to go to bed earlier :D
 
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  • #34
Several of my co-workers have recommended this game to me. After reading some of the comments, I don't know if I should. I waste enough time as it is. :rolleyes:
 
  • #35
Well, if you decide to, give me a call. I just started to go into real estate in Skyrim.
I could offer you a nice house in Whiterun at super low rents.
The furnishing is pretty simple, but it would allow you to set foot on that beautiful continent.
 
  • #36
I may waste my time but certainly not my money. I don't play games in order to pay rents. LOL.
 
  • #37
I need 25k to buy a house.

I think I already have about 20k in hard cash, but it is in another city, so I will check tomorrow. Time to bed.
 
  • #38
Thats in Solitude.
I just bought that too. The house updates are really expensive too. I spent more than 30k and I am flat broke now (+ still missing some upgrades). I might have to sell my party clothes :/

(borg I was just trying to be funny, I don't think you can trade stuff :) )
 
  • #39
xiMy said:
Thats in Solitude.
I just bought that too. The house updates are really expensive too. I spent more than 30k and I am flat broke now (+ still missing some upgrades). I might have to sell my party clothes :/

(borg I was just trying to be funny, I don't think you can trade stuff :) )
Sorry about that. I don't know anything about the game but, I have heard a lot about the online gaming scams. When someone tries to sell me something online, that's my first reaction.
 
  • #40
:smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x9Qw1KSyIs#!
 
  • #41
Physics engine has its quirks.

What is much more irritating is the fact that sometimes some object are not rendered. Say you have several items on the table. You pick first - and all other disappear from the view, but they are still there. You pick the next one - and the remaining ones reappear,

Yesterday I was fighting bandits in the cave and they killed me as they were invisible because of this (or a similar) bug.

Funny thing: we had a party here on Saturday and a colleague of mine saw I am playing Skyrim. Turns out he was involved in making of Polish version and he sent me a glossary English-Polish used for consistent translation of place names, names and objects.

Can't say I was surprised, we were working together as computer game journalists, and we both did work on localization of games in the past. I just didn't know he is still involved.
 
  • #42
radou said:
A bit off topic perhaps, but I mush share my joy with you - I manage to run Skyrim on my computer, which is pretty old - it's a 3.0 GHz Prescott CPU with a Radeon HD 4670 graphics card and 2 Gb of RAM. Of course, I play on low settings, but I adore the Elder Scrolls saga, so graphics isn't really an issue. The gameplay is absolutely fantastic. :smile:

Have you tried taking the settings up a notch? I thought I could just play on low but as it turns out, I can play on high (with some stuff on medium) without any significant drops in performance. According to this, you should be able to play on medium/high as well. :)

Borek said:
Physics engine has its quirks.

Indeed. Can't say I've encountered the "object bug" before, though. My main gripe is with mountain climbing. It's weird enough that the character can run up them but then it gets annoying, because at times you can't move through certain parts and you have to move to the side and then forward again. Rinse-repeat till destination is reached.

radou said:
My character's name is "blabla", since I was too excited to think of a decent name when I first played, now I'm level 26 and too lazy to start all over again. :smile:

Press the '~' button, type in 'player.showracemenu'. Save before doing this though, as this will probably have certain implications, some of which you may not be too happy about. (stuff like resetting perks or something of that nature)

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For those running the game with 2+GB RAM, there is a patch here which might interest you.

If anyone's interested in increasing their archery skill to 50 with relative ease (i.e, without taking cover and shooting giants), there is this dude in Riverwood, who has a crush on some woman. If you hand a the "fake letter" to the girl, he'll become your follower. Now, this guy can teach you archery to level 50. As with all followers, you can change items with them, including money. What you can do is level the skill up, take your money back and repeat till you're level 50.

To increase the smithing skill, which is essential to make some of the high-end armors, making daggers (iron are the most common, no?) is a good way to go.
(found both "tips" on another forum)

My armor skills are quite low. I can't think of any other way to increase it than to let me be hit by some weak enemies...

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I haven't been playing Skyrim too much this month, as I've been busy with other things, including the new Trine and Fifa! As a sidenote, I've been quite disappointed with Pro Evolution Soccer for the past few years. Fifa 12 is the first football game I'm playing since PES6, which I played regularly for ~5 years or so.

Anyway, my character is a Redguard called Caleb (couldn't think of a cool name; stole this one from a book I liked), is level 18-ish and is a battle mage of sorts. Uses light armor, single-handed weapons and destruction spells. Obviously, I'm still unsure as to what kind of character I want...

Also:
I'm getting a new mouse and controller tomorrow. :D
 
  • #43
Speaking of way to easily get some increase in skills - look for Angi's camp SE to Falkreath to get free +6 in archery through the competition with her. I think she has a book that will give you 7th level up when you read it.

Go to the bards academy and talk to the people - you will be asked to bring back two musical instruments. Once you get these instruments back you will be told "I can teach you a few tricks" and you will get several skill increments. In Polish version there is a bug and even after that instruments were still in my inventory - I had to get rid of them using console.
 
  • #44
bug is in US version too, still have 10 worthless pounds cause I don't want to search through the list to find their numbers :P
 
  • #45
Borek said:
Speaking of way to easily get some increase in skills - look for Angi's camp SE to Falkreath to get free +6 in archery through the competition with her. I think she has a book that will give you 7th level up when you read it.

Go to the bards academy and talk to the people - you will be asked to bring back two musical instruments. Once you get these instruments back you will be told "I can teach you a few tricks" and you will get several skill increments. In Polish version there is a bug and even after that instruments were still in my inventory - I had to get rid of them using console.

I haven't been to Falkreath or the Bard's Academy/College yet but will go there soon enough. Thank you for the tips.

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Here is a guide to change race/appearance but not stats! I'm not too happy with how my Redguard looks. I might go for a female character this time 'round...

On Fallout New Vegas, I managed to create a character who closely resembled me. Even found my goofy glasses as well! :D
 
  • #46
Well, I picked it up two weeks ago right before a two week vacation. I played it non-stop and my wife is ready to kill all of the people who recommended it to me. :-p I'll definitely have to ease up on the playing time now that my vacation is over.
 
  • #47
I am going for a short vacation in about two weeks from now, and I want to proceed as far as possible before leaving. That can end in divorce as well.

Yesterday I reached level 51. But with 201 hours behind it is getting a little boring, I am already overpowered. I killed a dragon with two arrows. Archery at 100, ebony bow, enchanted items that increase archery (+33%, +40%, +45%, I am just too lazy to prepare a set of three +45%) and a 337 poison damage (not that difficult with alchemy at 100 and another set of enchanted items).

I guess using and additional potion to further increase my archery and additional potion to increase effects of enchanted items even one arrow could be enough for that kill. That was a weak dragon, still - a dragon.
 
  • #48
Borek said:
I am going for a short vacation in about two weeks from now, and I want to proceed as far as possible before leaving. That can end in divorce as well.

Yesterday I reached level 51. But with 201 hours behind it is getting a little boring, I am already overpowered. I killed a dragon with two arrows. Archery at 100, ebony bow, enchanted items that increase archery (+33%, +40%, +45%, I am just too lazy to prepare a set of three +45%) and a 337 poison damage (not that difficult with alchemy at 100 and another set of enchanted items).

I guess using and additional potion to further increase my archery and additional potion to increase effects of enchanted items even one arrow could be enough for that kill. That was a weak dragon, still - a dragon.

Interesting. I still have a lot to learn about the game. I didn't realize that you could poison arrows. How do you do that? I wandered over a mountain into the Labyrinthian area yesterday and got destroyed by Frost Trolls. I'm looking for some payback. :biggrin:

EDIT: I found a description for how to poison arrows and other equipment.

I have a similar character (High Elf) that is focused on archery, sneaking and some alchemy. I'm at level 25 but sneak is already almost 90. It's freaked me out the first time that a character couldn't see me standing two feet away. Most characters don't survive the first arrow and skeletons just explode when I hit them. :smile:
 
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  • #49
Borek said:
I am going for a short vacation in about two weeks from now, and I want to proceed as far as possible before leaving. That can end in divorce as well.

Yesterday I reached level 51. But with 201 hours behind it is getting a little boring, I am already overpowered. I killed a dragon with two arrows. Archery at 100, ebony bow, enchanted items that increase archery (+33%, +40%, +45%, I am just too lazy to prepare a set of three +45%) and a 337 poison damage (not that difficult with alchemy at 100 and another set of enchanted items).

I guess using and additional potion to further increase my archery and additional potion to increase effects of enchanted items even one arrow could be enough for that kill. That was a weak dragon, still - a dragon.

Are you playing on the "master" difficulty setting? I actually haven't played the game very much in the past month or so, and I am still in the twenties. My character is a glass-cannon. I'm quite powerful but can't take very much damage at all.

I was quickly reaching the point where I could round-up 8-10 guards from town and drop all of them with a single Fireball spell. I have also done the same with the Firestorm spell, but I have to use "Become Ethereal" shout so I don't kill myself. :biggrin:

I can't do this on master setting...yet. :devil:
 
  • #50
That was on average (whatever it is called in English).
 

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