Skyrim Anyone?

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Barninho

In Cryo Sleep
It's just more to do with my style of levelling. What you say is true but initially I was trying to do it all, switching between different styles depending on my mood.

Now when I make a character I specialise in just a few skills that are going to be key and try and ignore the skills that aren't essential to my playstyle. I find this makes for a much more powerful character as you can unlock perks early that are really game changers.

With the Orc its all about Two-Handed, Heavy Armour and Block, I will be taking some time to hammer Blacksmithing and Speech just levels up when you sell stuff so that's going up too. I never use sneak for example as I don't need any of those perks for the way I want to play. With a different character I might concentrate on sneak as a main skill. It's also important this guy is an Orc as his racial powers are complementary to the style of play.

Then I try and find a companion who brings something else to the party. At the moment I have a guy who can induce a wolf familiar and is an archer.

Obviously in the end game it may not matter much, but I would never have beaten that dragon pre level 6 with any of my other attempts, and I am literally ploughing through the enemy. I think it's important to have a plan like this, as your character will be more formidable early.
 
Kasatka

Kasatka

Active Member
The dragon tactics are such that any character style can defeat them... archers and ranged mages can zap em, melee combatants wait till they land and flank them, support mages can buff guards and allies, conjurers can summon assistance, assasins can backstab them or you can just ignore them and run away :P
 
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Snap Wilson

In Cryo Sleep
My only complaint is the horse, which somehow managed to get worse between Oblivion and Skyrim (really, couldn't they have just stolen Red Dead Redemption's horse riding?) The horse riding looks so godawful I abandoned it soon after buying it. The game's strength (to me) is it's immersion and the damned horse took me right out of it.

Other than that, this game is wonderful. I loved Oblivion, I love the Fallout games, and yet I never had the time to finish any of them. I think I will actually finish this one.
 
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Barninho

In Cryo Sleep
I never said there was any style of play that couldn't beat a dragon. What I said was that a specialised one will do it quicker. If you don't specialise you won't have backstab at level 6 for example.

Totally agree about the horse. Well shit. I don't bother with them either. It's not the animation that bothers me though, it's the getting off the horse really slowly when you're attacked. I also went over a cliff with a horse, and interestingly no matter how high the drop it only seems to kill the horse.
 
Xarlaxas

Xarlaxas

Active Member
I'll leave this here vis-a-vis the UI debate as it articulates most of my issues with it.

Yeah, horses are a bit awful, I'm starting to wonder if I'm not faster than them with my ridiculous stamina.

Really enjoying the game though, in spite of some little issues.
 
Kasatka

Kasatka

Active Member
Werewolf is fastest when sprinting... get enough stamina regen on it and you can quickly sprint to locations.
 
Xarlaxas

Xarlaxas

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That doesn't surprise me! I got myself cured though as I never really used the werewolf abilities and got tired of having people asking about my hairy ears! I also wanted to take advantage of the sleeping in a bed bonus/sleeping in a bed with your wife bonus.
 
Kasatka

Kasatka

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Except it IS a blatantly console port - sub-menus are more of a console thing as you can only fit so many shortcut keys and stuff onscreen at once. The 4 button binding is incredibly console based. The presence of a "shortcut" menu to favourite stuff you use, again so you bind them to triggers i am presuming on console, is a very consoley thing to do.
On pc you are more likely to see an info pane and then multi-tabbed approach, but that doesn't work unless you have the fine control of a mouse and keyboard.
It's a bit of a let down by Bethesda, but then tbh i don't play their games unmodded which is why i got Skyrim on PC in the first place.
 
Xarlaxas

Xarlaxas

Active Member
It's also blatantly a console port because they said it's a console port, consoles were the main development platform for Skyrim, and it shows most in the UI and the graphics (though I quite like the latter).
 
Kasatka

Kasatka

Active Member
Totally - on PC with everything maxed on a big HD screen it looks sweet. And once mods come out to improve the textures even more, it'll look uber-sweet.
 
Zhar

Zhar

New Member
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But seriously, how are you all experiencing the magnificence of this game?
Everyone else must agree that orc is the master race.
 
Huung

Huung

Well-Known Member
So. My girlfriend saved over my save, and I've lost about 40+ hours of gameplay. Little annoyed, but the console means I can rectify most mistakes... I'll just have to spend forever completing all the quests again (even if I do that via the console). Fun times ahead.
 
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