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Kezzla
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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 07:41
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Quote: "The dragon fights are too easy."


I agree, I killed a dragon on my own with a bow and arrow. I was a bit like "what? really?"
Ice-trolls are more full on than the dragons.
but then i'm used to the dragons in Neverwinter nights where fighting one is a suicide mission at the best of times.

not complaining though, the game is epic and i'm gonna enjoy it for a long time.

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Rampage
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Turn the difficulty up to the highest.
You won't be complaining about the dragon fights then

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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 08:56
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Quote: "Turn the difficulty up to the highest. "


It is... I didn't realise at first, either. But I've had harder fights against giants, than the ones with dragons.

I feel like I should just scrape through a fight with a dragon with a sliver of health left at best. Not almost full health and never having had to use a potion to heal.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 10:15
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Quote: "lol x) I dont mind people commentating it at all, i just explain it and let them do their own decision on wether they like me doing it or not, iam not going to stop though

well, unless the mods gather up on me aswell, since then i dont have too much of a choice..."


I doubt the mods will act on anything that's just a wee bit annoying, otherwise I would have been banned years ago.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 12:23
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Quote: "I feel like I should just scrape through a fight with a dragon with a sliver of health left at best. Not almost full health and never having had to use a potion to heal."

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Dhargons are WAY to easy to slain, actually theyre just ANNOYING to slay, because they just tkae up a lot of time because they move around all the time, otherwise i would have slain them just like that :I thats kind of a letdown..


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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 16:58 Edited at: 19th Nov 2011 16:59
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Why? You never did anything annoying as much as I know.

Quote: "otherwise i would have slain them just like that :I thats kind of a letdown.."


Yeah, but you are dragonborn, the anit-dragonnuclearmissiledevice. And I agree, fighting tough soldiers is more challenging than the dragons but hey! The feel you get from it is great anyway

Quote: "Dhargons"


I like that word, I'm going to use it in relict if you dont mind

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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 17:25
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Quote: "Why? You never did anything annoying as much as I know."


The comment was meant in jest, though I do manage to make threads go off topic rather a lot. So rather than talking about how annoying I am/aren't/could be, I probably should find something Skyrim related to say.


Quote: "Yeah, but you are dragonborn, the anit-dragonnuclearmissiledevice. And I agree, fighting tough soldiers is more challenging than the dragons but hey! The feel you get from it is great anyway"



I suppose in terms of the story it makes sense for you to have an edge against dragons, though obviously having not played the game I don't know what the fights are like, but I'd hope for the fights to be badass, exciting and challenging. I think with you being dragonborn you'd have a pretty good edge against dragons, so you don't immediately become a shish-kabob as soon as you enter battle, but I think there's still room for challenge. However, it's good to know that there are enemies that are more challenging. Oblivion was awesome, but I knew I could pretty much kill anything.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 17:37 Edited at: 19th Nov 2011 17:39
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Quote: "Oblivion was awesome, but I knew I could pretty much kill anything."

Indeed, the balancing didn't work too well in Oblivion, however, in Skyrim the battles are way more challenging and actually need tactic, to some degree.

While I've been able to only attack enemies, without even blocking, Skyrim almost forces you to block, since you're pretty much lost otherwise.

Those green Spriggan thingies that are able to summon bears, killed me 6 times in a row for example, and I had to really think about my way of fighting, to actually win against them.

The fighting itself is way more fun as well; this time it actually feels like being some badass warrior, instead of the "I'll beat you up with a broomstick!" feeling in Oblivion.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 17:45
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Quote: "While I've been able to only attack enemies, without even blocking, Skyrim almost forces you to block, since you're pretty much lost otherwise."


which doesnt work so well if you go mage/warrior
cant have a spell out and block with the sword THAT SUCKS imo :I

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i didnt invent the word so no, i dont mind ^^


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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 17:59
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Quote: "Indeed, the balancing didn't work too well in Oblivion, however, in Skyrim the battles are way more challenging and actually need tactic, to some degree.

While I've been able to only attack enemies, without even blocking, Skyrim almost forces you to block, since you're pretty much lost otherwise.

Those green Spriggan thingies that are able to summon bears, killed me 6 times in a row for example, and I had to really think about my way of fighting, to actually win against them.

The fighting itself is way more fun as well; this time it actually feels like being some badass warrior, instead of the "I'll beat you up with a broomstick!" feeling in Oblivion"



That's what I like to hear. In all this talk of TES and my policy of not buying myself anything during the Christmas period has pushed me to reinstall Morrowind.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2011 19:31 Edited at: 19th Nov 2011 19:36
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Yes, the battles feel harsh and close to reality. Sounds are excellent and enemies pose an actual threat to you. My Khajiit is at level 19 now and I still find myself running away from enemies here and there.

Armor is balanced out a lot better aswell, I used to have HUGE benefits from my enchanted light armor in oblivion making me not switch through the entire game. I was way too fast for any foe to often even touch me with their blade, in Skyrim however, light and heavy armor has light and dark sides towards gameplay.

While the fights where rather dull in oblivion they manage to be pulse pounding in Skyrim, especially if you take on an enemie above your league.

They also removed some glitches (like the glitch that arches stould still all the time and you could just shoot them while strafing yourself) but well, you can still climb on a large rock and take them out from above, haha

Other than that, one of the best fighting systems I ever experienced...and I have a long history of playing games that involve swordfight.

On a negative side: You often have enemies breaking down in front of you begging for mercy ...however, you dont have a "run and dont cross my path again" option. I concider this rather dark and there should be a choice wether or not to execute this person. Especially if its a woman.



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Posted: 20th Nov 2011 02:22
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Quote: "On a negative side: You often have enemies breaking down in front of you begging for mercy ...however, you dont have a "run and dont cross my path again" option. I concider this rather dark and there should be a choice wether or not to execute this person. Especially if its a woman."


Really? I didn't know they did that. I guess i'm just to quick to kill them.


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If you take mercy on them and let them live though, they will recover their health and come swinging at you again. Just end their life there and then

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Quote: "If you take mercy on them and let them live though, they will recover their health and come swinging at you again. Just end their life there and then "


Thats the problem - if i spare them then i dont want them backstabbing me (well some might, especially bandits) i want them to run away, become friendly etc..


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Posted: 20th Nov 2011 03:58
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Quote: "Thats the problem - if i spare them then i dont want them backstabbing me (well some might, especially bandits) i want them to run away, become friendly etc.."

I don't care if they become friendly or anything but it does annoy me when they say "spare me" or "I give up" then they just come right back killing you.

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Quote: "On a negative side: You often have enemies breaking down in front of you begging for mercy ...however, you dont have a "run and dont cross my path again" option. I concider this rather dark and there should be a choice wether or not to execute this person. Especially if its a woman."

I spose' I'm pretty ruthless then.

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I met this Redguard hunter lady (or at least I think she was a Redguard) in the wilderness and, naturally, robbed her blind. She was oblivious to the fact that I had just robbed everything in her tent, so I parted with her amicably and continued on with my adventures, eventually completely forgetting about her.

Then I was attacked by a bunch of "Hired Thugs" and I killed them. One of them had the "Contract" on him, which revealed that the person who hired them to kill me was that Redguard hunter lady. I made a mental note to pay that hunter a little visit, but went back to doing the quest I was doing. When I was done that quest, a Dark Brotherhood assassin attacked me, who I can only assume was also sent by that hunter.

I went back to her, and she acted all innocent. I killed her anyway for sending people to kill me (I don't make a habit of killing women, but hey it was self defense). I was never attacked by thugs or assassins again (so far anyway).

I'm not making any of that up or even exaggerating. That's exactly how it happened in the game, and that's one of the reasons why this is the best game ever created. She wasn't even a named NPC, it was just a generic "Hunter" so I don't even think it was scripted. Or maybe I'm just being fooled by the illusion, but even then WHAT AN ILLUSION!

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Honestley, i think, Beth kinda screwed themselves in the long run because i just cant see what they must do to make Elder scrolls 6 a better game than Skyrim.


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Quote: "Honestley, i think, Beth kinda screwed themselves in the long run because i just cant see what they must do to make Elder scrolls 6 a better game than Skyrim."

Better graphics (not saying the current is bad), better/new story, glitch free, more higher level weapon types (skipped iron and steel in this game), destructible environments could be cool, and of course BIGGER!

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they need to develop a new engine for that as the current engine is a modified fallout3 which is just a tricked out Oblivion engine.
Beth might claim that skyrim is a totally new engine built from the ground up, but noticing small graphics details give it away. Also apperentley some console commands and cheats from fallout 3 work on skyrim.

The reason i am saying this is because unlike morrowind engine which generated blank terrain tiles infinatley beyond the edge of the world allowing the landmass to be built infinatley, Oblivion (i assume skyrim engine as well) engine is limited to how much landmass it can contain. They can make the world a lot bigger in the next TES but i am not sure if quality of the game would be the same.

I guess youre right they can make a better TES game than skyrim but skyrim is so amazing, its hard to imagine any game better


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Quote: "Honestley, i think, Beth kinda screwed themselves in the long run because i just cant see what they must do to make Elder scrolls 6 a better game than Skyrim."


new engine would mean an improvement ON ALL FRONTS

i HATE the camera thing when you get a "final strike superkill thingy" since its just ripped straight from fallout with minor tweaks
would prefer it to be FPS view on those flashy kills when i am in FPS view and 3rd when in third


the improvement list is huge, i have gotten stuck between rocks countless times, quests are bugging out on me etc

with a new engine the combat, NPC interaction etc would definitly be able to improve, A LOT.


but considering the engine they HAVE its amazing, really brilliant, but if they used another engine it would have been A LOT better


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Quote: " camera thing when you get a "final strike superkill thingy""


I too absolutely hate these scripted 'cinematic' camera actions you see in all modern games these days. Hopefully by the time I get Skyrim there will be a mod to disable them.

Quote: "glitch free"


I'm not sure that will ever happen. After they stopped updating Oblivion an unofficial patch was released that fixed over a thousand bugs, and there were still more. Perhaps because it's just such a complex game.



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Quote: "Beth might claim that skyrim is a totally new engine built from the ground up, but noticing small graphics details give it away."


They were always up front with the fact that this "new" engine was just the latest version of their old engine.

Quote: "i HATE the camera thing when you get a "final strike superkill thingy" since its just ripped straight from fallout with minor tweaks
would prefer it to be FPS view on those flashy kills when i am in FPS view and 3rd when in third"


Considering that there are already 1st person finishing moves in the game, I don't think it would be very hard to make a mod that stops the 3rd person finishing moves from playing, but still let the 1st person ones remain.

Quote: "I too absolutely hate these scripted 'cinematic' camera actions you see in all modern games these days. Hopefully by the time I get Skyrim there will be a mod to disable them."


Someone already made such a mod:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=33

I haven't used it, because I like the kill moves, but it does exist. I don't actually know how the mod was made, since we don't have the Creation Kit yet, but I am curious because there are some things I would like to mod myself.

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Quote: "Beth might claim that skyrim is a totally new engine built from the ground up, but noticing small graphics details give it away. Also apperentley some console commands and cheats from fallout 3 work on skyrim."


Oblivion and Fallout 3 both used the Gamebryo engine. Does SkyRim as well? It wasn't made by Bethesda. Also, debug commands are made by the developers to help them cheat to fix and regress bugs. Just because the commands are the same, simply means that it's a lot of the same programmers from the other game. That has nothing to do with the graphics engine.


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well i havent tried it, but apperentley the command to get a plasma rifle works in skyrim. And i didnt know the Gambryo engine was not made by beth.


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Quote: "That's exactly how it happened in the game, and that's one of the reasons why this is the best game ever created."

I hate to burst the immersive bubble but that sounds like a bug. Unless her dialog when you met her was different and she seemed annoyed by you, it sounds like the bounty system knew more about what you did than the NPCs, which shouldn't happen. Were there chickens about? LOL.


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Skyrim runs on the new Creation Engine that Bethesda made.

And I love the killing moves

I'd hate not being able to chop someones head off

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Creation Engineseems like a fancy version of gambryio engine but i might be wrong about it


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they merely named it creation engine to make it look good =P


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Quote: "I hate to burst the immersive bubble but that sounds like a bug. Unless her dialog when you met her was different and she seemed annoyed by you, it sounds like the bounty system knew more about what you did than the NPCs, which shouldn't happen. Were there chickens about? LOL."


I don't think it was the bounty system. My bounty never went up (it stayed at 0), and there was no "HALT CRIMINAL SCUM!" That's because she didn't actually catch me stealing anything, I managed to grab it all when she was looking the other way. The note on the thug also had her "name" written on it (just "Hunter" not really a name but whatever). I actually still have it in my inventory:



If you're wondering, Herakles is the name I use for everything (including my Skyrim character). I suggested the name to my father back when he first joined this forum because he couldn't think of anything else, and it was well before I was even remotely interested in joining. That's why I'm called Housewares on this forum and not Herakles. If you see a "Herakles" anywhere else on the internet, that's probably me not my father. Except the Nexus sites, because I don't have an account there at all. My father is known there as "Heraklesgod".

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yeah i got one of those too exept it was an actual person with a name opposed to a generic NPC and i dont even remember who or where he was from, but i am determined to track him down


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I got that, from a GUARD.... hmm


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Todd Howard has talked about a lot of this stuff in his talks before the game was released.
He did mention that if you steal from someone, kill a member of their family or attack them then they might send out hit squads or the dark brotherhood to put you down. He also mentioned that they might even try to take you on yourself. The fact they don't speak about it when you try to talk to them is just poor design I believe. I'm a good guy in this save so I haven't been in a position to experience any of this yet (I have brutally murdered every lone fisherman from Whiterun to Riften though).

The engine is also new and not just a reimagining of the old engine. The fact they use the some of the same console commands is just good logic, why reinvent the wheel and have your entire team learn new commands when you can just include them into your engine?

I for one am looking forward to the next Fallout with this engine.
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Quote: "yeah i got one of those too exept it was an actual person with a name opposed to a generic NPC and i dont even remember who or where he was from, but i am determined to track him down"


I got one from one of the Battle-Born family in Whiterun. Later that night I waited for him outside his house and confronted him in a dark alleyway. My plan was to ask him why he wanted me dead, then kill him.

Little did I know that Bethesda did not think this reaction system through properly, and I was greeted by a friendly "Hello there!" and had no other dialogue options whatsoever. He didn't even seem slightly annoyed at me, or even suprised/scared that a man he tried to have killed had cornered him in a dark alleyway.

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dungeon explore,
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whirlwind shout, crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl, whirlwind shout, crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl, whirlwind shout, crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl, whirlwind shout, crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl, whirlwind shout, crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,

whirlwind shout, "stop that shouting!" crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl
trader that only sells food and ingredients.
whirlwind shout, crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl
whirlwind shout, crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl
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whirlwind shout, crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl,crawl.

being a greedy dungeon looter really gives you a respectful perspective on the sheer size of this game.

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I keep a spare pair of strength boots - gives 35 extra points of storage, pretty handy as I'm a greedy thieving git as well .

There is a trick too if you have a companion with you, I think it's more honest than using god mode, but I won't divulge it out in the open, trickery is in this code snippet:



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i still have over a month left before i can get this game. ;o;

in the mean time playing Oblivion, i've become the Listener for the dark brotherhood, and i'm working on the mages' guild questline, but i don't know what other quest lines are good. any recommendations? </derail>

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Quote: "i don't know what other quest lines are good. any recommendations?"


All of them. The main quest is unoriginal, but still epic. The Fighters and Mages Guilds and the Knights of the Nine DLC are awesome for warrior and magic characters. The Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood are awesome for stealthy characters. And the Shivering Isles expansion was the best part of the game.

And that's not even counting the ridiculous number of side quests and quests added by mods.

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LOL! I just saw the funniest glitch!

I was fighting a dragon over a giant camp and the giant was bashing it while i was firing arrows at it from the top of a mound.
The dragon died but fell on top of the giants campfire.
It was stuck on top of it and well balance and couldn't finish falling which resulted in the dragon doing an insanely funny tap dancing routine while the rag doll effects spazzed out.

and yes it really did look like tap dancing, it even was doing hand motions while its legs were tappa tappa tappin. all it needed was a hat and a cane.

I get the feeling this will be very hard to replicate, but none the less, try killing a dragon over an obstacle that will hinder its fall, its pretty funny.

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Inspire
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Posted: 27th Nov 2011 19:41
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I'm deeply in love with this game. A couple funny things though:

1. When you kill a dragon in a town, its skeleton will just stay there. So every time I do this, I have to use magic to send its body flying far far away.
2. For those who did the Nettlebane quest:

3. I was attacked by hired thugs, and the note they were carrying said they were hired by one of the children in Whiterun who saw me commit a crime.

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Fuzz
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Posted: 28th Nov 2011 06:29
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Has anyone seen the live action trailer? It could totally be a movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1AenlOEXao

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th Nov 2011 10:01 Edited at: 28th Nov 2011 10:01
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Yeah they show the live action one all the time on UK TV. But notice how there's no Argonians or Khajits or other races in the trailer. Save money on the CGI budget there.

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 28th Nov 2011 20:50
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If the money was saved for that epic dragon, I'd call it well spent.

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Rampage
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2011 11:33 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2011 11:33
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For those that are interested. I really enjoyed this cover by this female specimen.


Regards,

Max
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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2011 13:28
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favorite comment for the above video

"I used to be a great singer too..

But then I took a KNEE to the ARROW "


dont hate people who rip you off,cheat and get away with it, learn from them
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Wolf
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2011 22:54
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I took an arrow to the atticceiling. It wasnt my brightest idea to shoot that thing up there...

oh yeah: Magical cover of course!!

The right man with the wrong engine can make all the difference, doctor freeman...
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2011 03:31
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Sons of Skyrim - metal cover



ShaunRWs Timer Plugin.
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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2011 04:53
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does anyone notice that Skyrim is quickly becoming a powerful cultural phenomenon on the internet? Skyrim seemes to be getting a lot more attention from the internet than oblivion, morrowind redguard battlespire daggerfall area and tes travels series.... well ok scratch all that, leave just oblivion and morrowind lol


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Kezzla
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2011 06:07
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yeah, ive noticed the whole "I used to ( ) but then I got an arrow in the knee" thing is really going viral.

I think its also that people have been doing nothing but playing Skyrim for 3 solid weeks now with very little sleep, its kinda taking over my life.
(i've done no programming or music recording since i bought it, which is really saying something)

but hey, you only get to first run something once, im gonna first run the hell out of it.

still blown away, and even more so the more i explore.

its pretty cool how steeply the quests escalate. i have a few on the go now where i just get my butt kicked too badly to even really get started until i'm much stronger (im a lvl 28 high elf mage and i'm still getting hammered)

on that note...

what sort of other characters are people playing as?
how are you finding the game in that vein?

im a mage majoring in alchemy,sneak,archery and destruction.

my guy is good as as sniper and reasonable mid range spell caster, up close and personal I struggle a bit.

still can't fight giants, mammoths or ice trolls and get away with it. most other stuff i can handle.

I've chosen potion making as my main bread winner(besides questing) starting to get good money for potions and have a lot of the recipes worked out. i miss being able to take alchemy equipment on the road with you. but hey, there's a set in every town anyway so its not too bad.

what have you guys got?

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heyufool1
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Quote: "what sort of other characters are people playing as?"

My first character was majoring in light armor, 1 handed (swords), sneak, and archery. However I kind of screwed the game up because I powered level blacksmithing in order to get the best unechanted armor and the best unechanted weapons. Now everything is way too easy at level 46 so I don't recommend even touching the blacksmithing skill. Because of that mishap I started a night elf destruction mage, been enjoying it so far. Definitely different attack style then what I did with my 2 swords and bow. I am still blown away every time I start it up at how large the game is. I'm looking forward to continuing easter egg hunting and looking for other Bethesda goodies throughout the world

"So hold your head up high and know. It's not the end of the road"

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