Skyrim

[curly]

Who's playing? Awesome game I reckon. Served me well with the shit weather we've had the past couple days.

[JustNick]

Yup it's ferkin awesome.

[sil3nt]

Didn't like oblivion probably not going to like this. Doing my best to avoid it in case i do get hooked.

[Sable]

Skyrim is Oblivion with graphical tweaks a modified levelling system and stupid magic-less spells called 'shouts'. Boring. Fun for a bit but there's virtually no game-time compared to Oblivion.

[curly]

Didn't like oblivion probably not going to live this. Doing my best to avoid it in case i do get hooked.

Yeah I didn't like Oblivion either. But this one I cant get off it.

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Over 130 hours now.

[jrandom]

Didn't like oblivion probably not going to like this. Doing my best to avoid it in case i do get hooked.

I almost posted a thread about Skyrim yesterday. Spent a large chunk of the holidays so far playing it.

I didn't like Oblivion either. Played all the way through Morrowind back in the day and loved it, but the stupid Oblivion levelling system killed it for me. So I started Oblivion but then canned it.

Skyrim fixes all the game design issues, though. The levelling system works very nicely, you don't have to do any grinding, just play the game and your character progresses appropriately. And the gameplay is choice. NPC and monster AI is pretty damn good, and the landscape and dungeons are absolutely spectacular.

Hand to hand combat is a bit meh, melees are just click-click-click, pause, take potion, click-click-click, etc. Play Skyrim as an archer / thief character or a mage for the most fun. I'm playing through as a Wood Elf focusing on archery, light armour and sneaking.

Skyrim's definitely worthy of its Game of the Year awards.

[SpankMe]

I've never played an RPG before, but I got Skyrim for xmas and I've been playing it non stop since. Bloody addictive game. Thou I seem to be missing a character option. I can't find were to increase bust size

[jrandom]

I've never played an RPG before, but I got Skyrim for xmas and I've been playing it non stop since. Bloody addictive game. Thou I seem to be missing a character option. I can't find were to increase bust size

What manner of character are you playing through as?

And stand by, there's always a nude-with-big tits patch for these games sooner or later.

Edit: possibly not for Skyrim, though - it's DRM'd via Steam and won't run with modified files, apparently.

[bogan]

Spent a while making knives and enchanting them, made some mint armor, so now practically invincible. Finished main quests, got bored, played AC Revelations instead

Need custom spells like in morrowind, that made shit interesting!

[jrandom]

Need custom spells like in morrowind, that made shit interesting!

Can't beat flying over a town and nuking it with 5000 points of every possible sort of damage over a 500m radius.

I'm not sure that the game designers realised quite what could be done in Morrowind when they released it. They certainly went on to close a lot of the gameplay loopholes in Oblivion (and Skyrim).

[bogan]

Can't beat flying over a town and nuking it with 5000 points of every possible sort of damage over a 500m radius.

I'm not sure that the game designers realised quite what could be done in Morrowind when they released it. They certainly went on to close a lot of the gameplay loopholes in Oblivion (and Skyrim).

Yeh, that shit would be even better with updated graphics!

Gameplay loopholes are often the things that keep it interesting though, like the no mana cast cost for Skyrim, although that is deliberate. They should make an update patch for an instakil arrow knee shot, something to add a bit of hilarity to the gameplay, which was very good, but just lacking that little bit extra (like a parachute borne assassin for example ).

[Hoon]

I've been playing Skyrim solid for about 6 days now on the xbox. Lvl 41 Destruction dude. Maxed out sneak/speech/pickpocket, Destruct/Enchant skill is 80+. Working on my smithing now so I can make/improve/enchant my own dragon armor set to replace my glass.

I played Fallout 3 too and really enjoyed it. My main gripe with Skyrim is processing loot after an adventure. It takes longer to visit multiple merchants/trainers/forges/enchanting to get rid of the stuff as it takes to get it! A lot easier now that I have all the money I need, these days I just dump my loot in my house, sleep and go back out again.

[SpankMe]

My main gripe with Skyrim is processing loot after an adventure. It takes longer to visit multiple merchants/trainers/forges/enchanting to get rid of the stuff as it takes to get it! A lot easier now that I have all the money I need, these days I just dump my loot in my house, sleep and go back out again.

Skip forward 48 hours while at the merchant and he will have money again to buy more of your stuff.

[Scuba_Steve]

And stand by, there's always a nude-with-big tits patch for these games sooner or later.

Edit: possibly not for Skyrim, though - it's DRM'd via Steam and won't run with modified files, apparently.

Na theres a whole website/forums dedicated to modding Skyrim, including working on multiplayer for it.

I playout Fallout 3 too and really enjoyed it. My main gripe with Skyrim is processing loot after an adventure. It takes longer to visit multiple merchants/trainers/forges/enchanting to get rid of the stuff as it takes to get it! A lot easier now that I have all the money I need, these days I just dump my loot in my house, sleep and go back out again.

Must say I enjoy the fallout series too, still playing my way through 3 then next up new vagas, not much into the oblivion/skyrim side tho maybee it's I just prefer guns & nukes to swords & magic who knows?