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[Monkeydog]

/>two hours later im being dragged away so lindsay can start her game. we're both kajits(sp). i love the dual weilding, but its frustrating that you cant block with a dual weild, and that you have to 'equip' magic in one hand before you shoot it.

how do you charge the magic between both hamds like was done in the e3 demo?

It's a perk in destruction I think.

I am enjoying Skyrim...it's just...I don't enjoy it as much as I did Morrowind. Although I'm enjoying it more than I did Oblivion, so that's a good thing.

[Donkeymog]

It does look pretty. But the textures on distant terrain always have this weird gleam to them. Hopefully I'll be able to tweak the ini to minimize that.

[Vicious Parker]

Speaking of the Khajiit, they actually... well, they look good now. Or at least, better than they've ever looked. Better than that bastardization of them from Oblivion.

[kspr]

somebody who shall not be named saved over my khajit, so now i'm an argonian. they look a lot better too.

[kspr]

who's done what so far? i killed two random encounter dragons and got a neat firebreath shout.

[toysintheattic]

I haven't been playing for very long, but there didn't seem to be a "are you sure you want to be this character?" kind of thing. So I have to do that whole opening again if I want to start a new character?

[Monkeydog]

Yep. The only thing you get to choose is your race/how you look. Everything else is based off how you play the game.

[Vicious Parker]

According to Steam, I have been playing for 16 hours. I'm about to do something major in game, at least for me it is, so I wanted to take a few minutes to reflect. So far, I've discovered 30 or so locations, explored around 15 dungeons, bought a house next door to the girl I want to marry (in the game, don't hate me dear), learned 6 shouts, seen 4 dragons, killed 2, learned to tolerate the broken key bindings until they are fixed, and been wowed by the environment multiple times, in spite of the graphics not always being great. I have joined the Companions, a sort of fighters guild, killed a man pretending to be a ghost, killed an orc who wanted a great death, saved the life of a redguard noble, rescued an unfortunate Argonian (who is still the only one I've seen so far), watched a vampire literally turn someone to dust using magic, and then killed her with my bow, told a homeless man his sister was dead, and delivered food to some monks at the top of a mountain. But in all of that, and all of the other things that I've done, there is one thing I still have yet to do...

I'm finally going to go to another major city in the game. I have been to a few small settlements, but I have lived in the city of Whiterun. In all that I've done, I have not yet been compelled to visit another city. In fact, the only reason I'm doing it now is because I noticed how close I was getting when trying to complete a minor objective. It's intimidating, in the best possible way. I think I'm going to be spending a lot of time with this game.

[Donkeymog]

It all sounds really good but I'm kind of glad I'm holding off playing this for now. It sounds like the kind of game I've always wanted from Betheseda, but I think I'll enjoy it all that more if I wait until the mod community/patches have addressed the UI and keybinding issues. Can't wait.

[kspr]

theres an argonian working the docks near solitude.

Spoiler

are you a werewolf yet?

and whats the keybinding problem?

ive killed 8 dragons, learned 6 shouts, upgraded 2 of them, been to all the major cities except in the east, joined the mages guild, and killed two bands of people out to assasinate me for some as of yet undiscovered reason.

Edited by Vicious Parker, 14 November 2011 - 02:14 PM.
Added spoiler tag

[Vicious Parker]

For some reason they don't seem to have done much play testing involving the PC version and the menu system. Firstly, as you will likely see if you read enough about the game, the menu system is balls on the PC. Given, it's exactly the same as the console version, but it wasn't optimized to take advantage of the mouse in any way. And the issue with key bindings is that if you re-bind any of your keys (as PC gamers so love to do), it totally borks the menus. They are set up to be used with the default system, and they don't adjust according to how you bind your keys. That is to say, if you change some of the keys, the menus literally don't work. If I were a less forgiving person, this would be a serious deal breaker for me. I very much want to change some of the keys, but I can't yet.

[kspr]

ooohhhhh i thought it had something to with door keys...

im getting murdered by ghosts trying to forge a special amulet. do ghosts even have a weakness? im really liking that bossfights actually feel like boss fights. there was another ghost boss that made copies of himself, and you had to find the original one to actually damage him.

[Stars]

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Spoiler

are you a werewolf yet?

This post has been edited by Vicious Parker: Today, 04:14 PM
Reason for edit: Added spoiler tag

I thought we already knew about that. Or was it just an unconfirmed rumor at the time?

[kspr]

is that orc wanting to die a random encounter? i ran into him, he killed me, and then whn i went back through, there was a group of three redguards redguarding it up behind the bushes.

edit: i found him again, and when i rested for an hour to autosave, he had moved a whole foot. ive also found that ive actually lost a few pounds because i need both hands to play :)

[Stars]

I finally have time to play Skyrim, but when gameplay starts, I have these thick bars of noise(?) going across my screen. Has anybody else run into this, and have you any suggestion as to getting rid of them?

EDIT: Trying to find what folder my screencaps get sent to so I can post a shot.
EDIT 2: And the Search command has failed me.
EDIT 3:
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I tried lowering the game's resolution, but that just made it worse.

[kspr]

is it a legit copy?

[Stars]

Yes. Picked it up new and shrinkwrapped from Gamestop on Friday.
Also the artifacts only appear during gameplay. The main menu and loading screen are fine.

[Vicious Parker]

look up some of the advanced tweaks people have found. i would suggest starting with turning of vsync, to see if that has an effect.

[Monkeydog]

Two questions.

1. Do you guys think Dragons could break the game? I always thought Dragons would only attack random areas and were basically unable to kill anything, buuuuut I fast traveled to Windhelm just now and he attacked the town, I ran out so I could have more space to fight him, and by the end of the fight I found a dead Dark Elf laying right next to the dragon. Someone I don't know, and I doubt they are an important character, but it makes me wonder if dragons could kill quest important characters. Which would kinda suck. I haven't been back to Windhelm because I doubt it killed anyone in the town...but I'm not sure.

2. Has anyone done the Blood on the Ice quest in Windhelm? It's probably my favourite quest so far, but I have read that it's littered with bugs. I think I can't actually do the second part of the quest because it's broken. :(
I was just wondering if anyone else has done it/had problems.

Also, Invince, if you're wanting to leave Whiterun try Windhelm or Riftin. I've spent a lot of time in Riftin because that's where the thief guild is located, and Windhelm because quests keep sending me there for some reason. Both are neat. I spent most of the beginning of the game not straying far from Whiterun until I decided that I needed to join the Thieves Guild (and if you are a light armor wearer, the thieve's guild armor is awwwwwwesome).

Which brings me to one of my problems with this game, I wish that Guilds/Factions weren't just limited to one city. Maybe I'm wrong, but this appears to be the case so far. Which means there's only one fence for the Thieve's Guild, and I like stealing, a lot, and she has limited money.

Also another problem I have with the game, is it just me or is the difficulty to this game very odd? I mean, I can take on a dragon by myself but the second a bandit or two team up on me I'm screwed. I was playing on adept and this problem just frustrated the hell out of me, and I lowered it one tier, and now just about everything is a one hit kill for me. It's annoying.

[kspr]

the quests are dynamic, so if you dont get them from one person, you get them from another. there is a speech perm where you can sell stolen goods to normal merchants.

also Torfdir at the mages college is Mr Herriman from fosters home for imaginary friends.