Madness lol
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced
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Madness lol
Mines 244 hours, you da boss
I'm on 270 lol
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Well, I've been running Hearthfire since release yesterday and here's my impressions:
The Good:
- The houses you can build are huge.
- Running around finding building materials does take a while, and can provide a small amount of enjoyment to begin with.
- Finally feels like you've made your mark on the landscape and bought a huge property a la GTA vice city
The not so good:
- You can't actually 'design' anything. You just buy and put together a house that has a pre determined shape and size. Like a Lego set.
- Keep going inside and outside of the house to make nails, hinges, and wood becomes VERY laborious after a while.
- If you buy absolutely everything on offer, you can end up with a lot of clutter in the house, which looks at bit dis-organised.
To sum up:
If it was any more than 3.49, this would be a huge rip off. Being as your not actually designing a house, just building it like they have intended you to, it leaves a bit of a sour taste. Nevertheless, the houses on offer are absolutely huge compared to the vanilla game and feel like a worthy abode if your character is high level.
The Good:
- The houses you can build are huge.
- Running around finding building materials does take a while, and can provide a small amount of enjoyment to begin with.
- Finally feels like you've made your mark on the landscape and bought a huge property a la GTA vice city
The not so good:
- You can't actually 'design' anything. You just buy and put together a house that has a pre determined shape and size. Like a Lego set.
- Keep going inside and outside of the house to make nails, hinges, and wood becomes VERY laborious after a while.
- If you buy absolutely everything on offer, you can end up with a lot of clutter in the house, which looks at bit dis-organised.
To sum up:
If it was any more than 3.49, this would be a huge rip off. Being as your not actually designing a house, just building it like they have intended you to, it leaves a bit of a sour taste. Nevertheless, the houses on offer are absolutely huge compared to the vanilla game and feel like a worthy abode if your character is high level.
You forgot all the quests and misc. quests it gives, too.
I'm on 803
Haven't play for a few weeks, going to start a new game soon.
Roll an unarmored Redguard Al'kir Warrior or an unarmed Khajiit, very, very fun!
I'm on 803
Haven't play for a few weeks, going to start a new game soon.
I think we ought to start a elder scrolls support group.
I'll start,
My name is Craig and i'm skyrimaholic.
All jokes aside, I am finding it very difficult to get into any other game after playing skyrim. Games like Batman 2 and Borderlands 2, both which I loved the originals, I just can't get into.
Its a real problem.
Hi Craig, my name is also Craig and I'm a nearly recovered Skyrimaholic, I've been clean for over two weeks now and I have to say I'm josing pretty bad. I've tried replacing it with Dark Souls, Borderlands II and even as far as Heroine/Crack/Crystal Meth, but none of it has made a slight bit of difference, kicking this addiction is incredibly hard!
P.S my name is actually Craig, props on the awesome name!
I got a few questions.
I bought this on release for the PC but on yesterday got round to play it. I'm finding the quest log difficult to understand and the UI, well, it's crap. There any mods out there that simplify those things?
What's the best way of making gold? I'm selling my loot but seem to blow it quickly on skill ups and other assorted things.
Then mods. I take it Skyrim HD for visuals are the top one out there? What other mods are handy?
cheers folks
PS. My name is Rob and I will be an addict soon.
I bought this on release for the PC but on yesterday got round to play it. I'm finding the quest log difficult to understand and the UI, well, it's crap. There any mods out there that simplify those things?
What's the best way of making gold? I'm selling my loot but seem to blow it quickly on skill ups and other assorted things.
Then mods. I take it Skyrim HD for visuals are the top one out there? What other mods are handy?
cheers folks
PS. My name is Rob and I will be an addict soon.
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Have a look at theses mods.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/3863
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/4929
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/3863 - UI
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11135 - Quest Log
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/607 - Textures
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/8655 - meshes and models
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9286 - essential mod IMO, turns the game into a proper RPG not a watered down hack and slash for the console kiddies.
A small taster:
ONE HANDED WEAPONS
All specialization perks were bad, which made all weapons essentially play the same - with swords being slightly superior, due to their higher speed.
Solution:
I removed most generic perks that apply to all one-handed weapons, and incorporated "Weapony of the Third Era" and "Heavy Armory".
This gives you access to Katanas, Tantos, Scimitars, Clubs, Wakizashis, Shortswords and Longswords - on top of the vanilla Mace, Waraxe and (Broad)sword.
TWO HANDED WEAPONS
Problem:
Essentially the same as the vanilla One-Handed. Boring.
Solution:
Due to the aforementioned incorporation of "Weapons of the third Era" and "Heavy Armory", there are more weapon types as well - Glaives, Yaris, Spears, Longmaces, Halberds, Battlestaves, B4ST4RD Swords, Nodachis and the vanilla Greatsword, Warhammer and Battleaxe.
Since a one-handed weapon user has two hands to worry about, two-handed weapons allow for greater specialization, offering 2-3 possible perks for each weapon type and all of the vanilla generic perks.
Again, all weapons have distinct stats and play very differently.
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I'm on 803
Haven't play for a few weeks, going to start a new game soon.
Impressive. I have 190hours in BF3 also, both games came out only a year or so ago. I work in IT so I'm stuped at a PC 39 hours a week at work. I try to limit myself to maybe 20 hours a week or I get bad back and shoulder problems.
I keep meaning to try that Quest mod, as I agree completely with the developer. Will it affect my saves though? I already have a heavily modded gamme which I'm 37 hours into and would hate to lose it all.
That T3nd0s mod looks very interesting too. I'll book mark it for my next play through, when I'll probably play as a sneaky archer again.
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Fastest way to make gold (without loopholes or cheats) is to make potions and make jewellery. Getting iron ore and using the transmute spell to turn it into gold helps. There is a tome in a bandit camp near whiterun. (It's also full of iron ore too) The spell is adept alteration.
