Skyrim - How To Enjoy It The Most?

[Omaeka]

this is your opinion good sir, doesn't make it a rubbish game! It got it's good reputation from somewhere eh

In all fairness the reputation has came mainly from the base game, as not many gamers know how modable it is. Which tbh is completely undeserved, the engine is awful, graphics are awful, animations are dodgy most of the time, quests are awful besides Sheogorath and the storyline is absolutely pants.

However, chuck some mods on it, looks beautiful, has interesting quests (Moon and star being the best imo, being a Morrowind vet meeting who you do and seeing what you do... nostalgia!) has better skills and much better crafting, smarter AI, smarter more flexible companions and so on.

If it was a closed off engine, the game would be pretty bad, and it's the community who don't get a penny that turned it into something special.

 

[Breeze]

i have to alt+tab to it twice to get it back up, then sometimes the desktop cursor stays up in the game along with the game cursor and it gets annoying

I used to have that issue. All I had to do was click the left mouse button after the second alt-tab. It has been now fixed in a update.

It's a superb game with the mods taking it to another level. I'm still on my first play through having started when it was first released. There's is just so much to do especially once you add the various mods.

 

[eggyoke]

I find some people just don't take to Elder Scrolls games because they don't know how. Unlike most games that give you very strict linear things to do, ES has always been about exploring the world and finding random events, stories, items, locations etc. Kind of like a single-player MMO without the restrictions.

It is the equivalent of a sandbox. You choose to do the things you want and go nuts with your imagination, the game will then react to your play style and provide content that feeds it. That being said I would never buy it on a console because it's just not the same. The PC just increases the freedom inside the game hugely.

The one area I felt that Skyrim lacked compared to Oblivion, is in the guild storylines. In Oblivion they felt much more impactful and personal, that may have been down to the new conversation system in Skyrim, I'm not sure. But it's certainly something I'd like to see them improve in Elder Scrolls VI.

 

[Dave]

i have to alt+tab to it twice to get it back up, then sometimes the desktop cursor stays up in the game along with the game cursor and it gets annoying

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36125 is what you need - after installing this mod I had no more troubles with the double cursor.

 

[Darujhistan]

The only people who tend to like it are casual gamers. The game is just so dumbed down and the story unimaginative, but that goes for most of Bethesda's recent games.

What utter twaddle.

 

[Beerbaron]

What bugs are you talking about? No word of a lie, I have barely encountered any bugs... And that's in the 100's of hours across PC and console I've put into Skyrim.

My arrows have such a delay. I can fire 5 arrows and nothing. Then when i access the menu or inventory and re-enter the game all 5 arrows fire at once.

Buildings often wont appear. I can walk right through the buildings. When it does appear i get stuck.

Changing the refresh rate makes the games first sequence on the horse and cart unplayable.

Im sure it wasnt this buggy when i first played the game.

My PC spec is more than enough:
Win 7 64bit, i7 3770k, 16gb ram, R9 290.

 

[hairyfeet]

I like driving home with nord mead belting out of my car if that counts

 

[Baron C]

Load the game, go through the intro bit then just head North. Your bound to run into something.

Personally, I got bored with the game very fast. Then again sandbox open world get dull for me fast.
So I'm actually not looking forward to Witcher 3.

 

[adolf hamster]

What utter twaddle.

amen brother

My arrows have such a delay. I can fire 5 arrows and nothing. Then when i access the menu or inventory and re-enter the game all 5 arrows fire at once.

Buildings often wont appear. I can walk right through the buildings. When it does appear i get stuck.

Changing the refresh rate makes the games first sequence on the horse and cart unplayable.

Im sure it wasnt this buggy when i first played the game.

My PC spec is more than enough:
Win 7 64bit, i7 3770k, 16gb ram, R9 290.

yeah that sounds like something dodgy going on, never got anything like that with 500 hours logged on pc and near the same logged on ps3.

the last issue you can fix with a mod called alternate start, completely gets rid of the opening sequence. but the first 2 are straight up bugs, have you tried good old fashioned re-install and remove any mods unless theyre causing it?

 

[eggyoke]

My arrows have such a delay. I can fire 5 arrows and nothing. Then when i access the menu or inventory and re-enter the game all 5 arrows fire at once.

Buildings often wont appear. I can walk right through the buildings. When it does appear i get stuck.

Changing the refresh rate makes the games first sequence on the horse and cart unplayable.

Im sure it wasnt this buggy when i first played the game.

That sounds more like driver/software problems too me. Never seen any of that in my 400+ hours playtime.

 

[topher]

Is it worth getting the legendary edition from steam or just stick to normal skyrim?

 

[Matson]

For the price id go with the ledgendary...if you enjoy the main game you will wish you had all the extra content.

 

[G-MAN2004]

Install Morrowind instead.

 

[Squink]

Is it worth getting the legendary edition from steam or just stick to normal skyrim?

I ummed and ahhed for a while, but in the end just went for the cheaper basic edition. The dlc seems to have housing, the ability to adopt a child and a new area on the map. All of these seemed fairly superfluous, except for people who've already spent lots of time on the game and who already love the Bethesda open world franchise.

So far I've only seen one bug that was easily resolved, the graphics seem really good to me and I'm enjoying sneaking about with a bow, casting the occasional destruction spell or swinging a sword. Haven't seen the need for mods or dlc yet, though I've probably played just under 10 hours.

 

[eggyoke]

I ummed and ahhed for a while, but in the end just went for the cheaper basic edition. The dlc seems to have housing, the ability to adopt a child and a new area on the map. All of these seemed fairly superfluous, except for people who've already spent lots of time on the game and who already love the Bethesda open world franchise.

Hearthfire was a simple and cheap DLC to make housing more interesting (including adoption.) The other two, Dawnguard and Dragonborn are worth getting the legendary edition for alone. It's not just new land, it's a ton of quests and new armours/weapons and abilities and a lot of lore.

 

[BuffetSlayer]

Just play it and see where it takes you. I would not go into it with an agenda, just enjoy the story and play how you want to play.

I have put about 300 or so hours into Vanilla Skyrim. I have not bothered with mods at all. I ended up being a super stealthy, heavy armour wearing archer with supreme 2 handed ability as well! I basically have the smoking armour that some nasty god fellow gave me that poisons enemies close by, an ebony bow with glass or ebony arrows along with wuuthrad and some gauntlets of suregrip (cant remember what level though).

So yeah I am pretty much unkillable for the game minions!

 

[matt_fsr]

One way I found quite fun to play Skyrim is as a stealth-mage.

Strong reliance on Illusion magic, particularly fury (early) and frenzy (later) to make enemies attack each other, while you cast an invisibility spell and sneak off.

Makes the game a bit challenging in some areas, such as against Dwemer machines and high-level NPC's, which is where conjuration as a backup magic helps for a distraction.

Early on, be prepared to run away like a girl if you're wearing robes, spamming spells backwards... can make for a good laugh, and some epically funny deaths!

 

[SeraphX]

Play it vanilla the first time out, 2nd play though, get some mods and experiment with graphics, textures and ENBs and anything else you like the look of.

 

[cheesyboy]

Is it worth giving Skyrim a go if you only expect to put ~15 hours in to it? Can you get a worthwhile experience?

(I only game for approx 10 hours each month, and don't like to be bogged down in the same game for too long)

 

[agnes]

Is it worth giving Skyrim a go if you only expect to put ~15 hours in to it? Can you get a worthwhile experience?

(I only game for approx 10 hours each month, and don't like to be bogged down in the same game for too long)

No, not really, well you can. But you won't get far at all and will be missing loads of content. Ideally, 100 hours is the magic number for a decent play through.