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Since we have a whole forum all to ourselves, let's collect what makes Skyrim Skyrim in one thread. I'll repost my story from the main thread: I left Whiterun after talking to the Jarl about going to see the Greybeards and I get jumped by 3 thugs (who ultimately were sent by that lone witch in the cabin near Whiterun). It's REALLY REALLY irritating when that happens and the three guards at the gate I just walked out of stand there and say "Oh this aught to be good!" and just comment on the fight the entire time. I'm a god drat town hero, come loving help me you pricks. As a sneaky thief type there was no way I could handle 3 at a time so I basically had to run around enough until they got separated so that I could take them on one at a time. The worst part is that I should've had that housecarl the Jarl gives you (can't remember her name), but she wouldn't follow me cause I told the one guy from the Companions to wait for me at whatever cave I need to do my test in, so it counts that as already having a follower.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 12:48 |
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Not really Skyrim-yist, but I do love my main character:  Hell yeah. 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 12:53 |
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I haven't encountered any of the really/bizarre awesome ones (whether scripted or emergent or lets face it, bugged) yet but I enjoy reading about them, especially the unintentionally humorous. There's so many little touches. Last night I sat on my controller when I was idling in crowded bar and managed to draw my sword and everyone just the chorus of "hey!", "woah now" sort of responses until I resheathed it was amusing in itself. Oh, not sure if it was an animation glitch or not. I had to kick the poo poo out of a bard in bar for some quest and afterwards he's "OK, OK I'm cool", but appeared to be stuck in some kind of beaten to the ground animation and just pulling himself painfully back across the room to his usual spot and then business as usual, but still crippled on the ground. I need to go check up on him again today. I think I broke his spine or something.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 12:54 |
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Not mine, but too good not to repost from the main thread:
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 13:01 |
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Something happened to all my draugr  
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 13:08 |
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I was walking through to Dawnstar when I hit up some random ruin. A dragon swooped out and started loving me up so I ran up and jumped down into the pit. Skeevers killed me in there. e: "Hey mage, why don't you conjure me up a warm bed?"
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 13:14 |
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Very often Skyrim is beautiful, and the dragons can be easily framed as majestic. Sometimes the dragons are dumb-as-bricks-jerk holes who lose interest in you and go a fight a walrus. And in the midst of the forgotten dragon battle, you attract a random rear end giant.  These are all the assholes that conspire to get me killed on a regular basis (for reference: The dragon, the giant, the troll, and my partner.)  To the town of Dawnstar, I am so sorry.  Sometimes, even when the filters pop off, it still looks pretty neat. Also while this place was on my compass, I found jack. Does an NPC have a quest line for me to go treasure diving here?   You're okay, Skyrim. 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 13:14 |
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LGD posted:Not mine, but too good not to repost from the main thread: I'm glad to see everyone liked it.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 13:16 |
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I don't have any screenshots that are good enough to show so far. Instead I'll link to Dead End Thrills, a fellow who does screenshots of many games and is currently focusing on Skyrim. Make sure to click the banner to check out his Flickr account with even more shots.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 13:18 |
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Last night I raided a fortress that turned into a bandit-infested dwarven ruin that turned into a dwemer-controlled dwarven ruin that turned into a falmer-ridden dwarven ruin that had an elevator leading down to a massive half-flooded cave where a bunch of falmer had set up their little poo poo-huts among dwarven architecture which eventually changed back into a dwemer-controlled dwarven ruin where I beat the poo poo out of a Master Centurion. Here's some shots of that cave:    
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 13:21 |
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In non hilarious glitch news, I found a ghostly headless horseman one night. He was standing in front of Helgren and then rode like hell down the road. I tried to follow on foot but eventually a flame atronoch ambushed me. By the time I killed it, he was gone. 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 13:31 |
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 The worsed thing that has ever happened  This guy runs up too me and tells me to hold on to his axe until he wants it back, I'll bury it with you buddy.  and obligatory character pose, this is on a core 2 duo @3ghz, 2 gig ram, 5570 at 40+fps. Assassins Creed series has been replaced as the most amazingly game engine going. Jessant fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 16:42 |
| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:04 |
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Last night I was just loving around and stumbled upon some drunken revelers. After one of them gave me a beer I quickly turned against them and lopped the head off one of the party members. I expected the other two to turn against me, but the exact opposite happened! So I reloaded the game and tried it again and it kept happening, so I made a video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE_vtdi7QcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player Based on their comment after the decapitation of their buddy, I am not sure if he was an rear end in a top hat or the survivors are the assholes. Maybe they were all assholes?
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:05 |
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I had a glitch right when I got to the first village after the dragon attack, I was using the smith and the animation that plays behind the menu screen was hosed up. Instead of grabbing the hot iron rods by the cool end and hammering the glowing end, my dudeman had grabbed the hot end and was hammering at the cool end, except it wasn't just a perfect translation, the cool end was hanging off in space and he was hammering at the anvil by itself, while the glowing hot end was going an and out of the side of his model, all glitchy and poo poo. It was pretty silly.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:31 |
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Not mine but a classic that has to be seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oso_mmhvm-Y When giants attack.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:34 |
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Not much to post yet, but I liked this screenshot a lot. Is there a name for the "sunlight through windows/openings reflecting on the dust particles in the air" effect? It makes almost any picture worth framing: My character. That mohawk and face-paint patterns match really well, I just wish I could have darker red hair: 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:40 |
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Decided to get my rear end to Wizard College so I headed north as soon as I could. Stumbled across Imperial scouts getting murdered by ice wolves and later a pack of ice wolves being murdered by a mammoth. Then I saw a dragon and went to class. It was pretty sweet.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:43 |
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This game might as well be called Scandinavian Scenery Porn Simulator 2011.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:51 |
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 I'll just throw this in here, then.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:57 |
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Songbearer posted:This game might as well be called Scandinavian Scenery Porn Simulator 2011. Yep, exactly how I remember Oslo.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:59 |
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No shots, tough to take pictures when running for ones life: My son has Skyrim for the XBox and I have it on Steam. Before he went to bed, he saw my horse and wished he had one (he plays a lot less being only 9), so I kind of gloated a little bit. Shortly after he goes up, my horse and I travel along a river path headed to Windhelm when I see a lovely cabin. There is a garden of leeks on the outside, and all seems right. As I pass by the front, I see the front door is missing. I pop my head inside, while still on the horse, and I'm greeted by a bear! I'm a thief, and the bear has no pockets to pick, so I ride for my life along the river bank. Not being smart enough to go back the way I came, I soon discover that there is no more river bank to run along, only a massive waterfall. The bear was still breathing right behind my back, so I did the only thing I could, and try to get down the waterfall via the rocks that jutted out. I must admit that I NEARLY made it the whole way, but the last step was a doozy, and while I hit the ground hard, I survived. Sadly, my horse, that I did not own long enough to name, crumpled into a ball on the riverbanks and was shuffled off this mortal coil. Karma bit me in the rear end for sure.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 14:59 |
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Last night I was wandering toward my next objective in a blinding snowstorm when I came across a cool looking lighthouse. I entered the lighthouse to find dead bodies oh god blood everywhere aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hey what's in the cellar oh god more dead bodies oh god crazy poison worms oh god oh god magic frost goblins holy poo poo a giant super worm why am I bleeding to death *gag* *wheeze* *cough* Skyrim.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 15:01 |
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Palpek posted:Yep, exactly how I remember Oslo. It's too realistic for me. After that screenshot I had to have a lie down.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 15:06 |
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Ibanez Murderface posted:Last night I was wandering toward my next objective in a blinding snowstorm when I came across a cool looking lighthouse. Yeah I found that same place and it gets even more hosed up if you read the journals from the family members lying around the house
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 15:06 |
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I completely plundered one of the smaller villages, just broke into every house at night and stole everything the owners had, and even killed one of them. One of the guards caught me breaking into a house, gave me a 5 coin fine, then sent me back on my looting way. After I had cleared out the town, I left and walked a mile or two when a dragon attacked, and it was apparently a tougher one than usual because I was completely outclassed and had to run away. I quickly found out that it isn't easy to escape from a dragon that wants to kill you, and I was on the verge of death when I made it back to the town I had just cleaned out. There, the dragon swooped to the ground and started attacking all the guards while I cowered behind a building and shot arrows at it. With our combined effort, we killed the dragon. Thanks village guard for helping me kill this dragon after I destroyed your livelihood! I went into each house (including the one whose owner I killed) and left a dragon bone just to say thanks.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 15:17 |
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I tried hunting a mammoth to get a tusk for an early quest in Whiterun. I think you were expected to find or steal one rather than go hunting since the mammoths are hard as hell and their giant shepherds are even harder, but I managed to find two of them wandering free near a hut. So I did the sensible thing and shot them from inside the hut with arrows. It took something like 100+ iron arrows, but I plinked them to death by ducking in and out of the hut to draw them back to me and then dodge their attacks. I know it was basic geometry abuse, but being dressed in rags and fur and hunting mammoths with a crude hunting bow as a huge hairy barbarian gave me this weird feeling of playing an early human in the ice age. You know I ate their trunks right on the spot, gotta respect the animal totems and spirits and what have you.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 15:26 |
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The last 20 minutes of my playtime last night were freaking insane. I went into a clan house with the intention of stopping some bullying, and I ended up hungover in a different town, witnessing a murder, got invited into someone's confidence to expose a conspiracy, and commanded to do foul deeds for a dark god. But this is the skyrimmiest- I got a quest to go clear out a bandit camp. Shortly after I took out the first wall guards, we were both attacked by a dragon. Then the dragon got attacked by a giant! I did a lot of running.  On Sunday I was trying to chase down an elk that I'd shot for its hide for about 3-4 minutes. I accidentally flushed it into a pack of wolves, who finished the job for me. I probably should have thanked them, but I hit them with an axe and took their pelts too instead.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 15:27 |
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Oh yeah, I also came across a random little fort in the middle of the woods. Some dudes called the Silver Hand attacked me, so I slaughtered them all mercilessly and discovered their captive werewolf (whom I also slaughtered) and tons of werewolf heads on pikes and holy poo poo what is wrong with these people 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 15:39 |
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The amount of eyecandy in this game is staggering, especially seeing how smooth it all is:      obligatory character shot: 
Police Automaton fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 16:33 |
| # ? Nov 15, 2011 15:49 |
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I love doing the "oh look a dungeon" deal in TES games, just wandering into whatever I happen upon. I did this last night and found myself in a strange ice-dungeon with no apparent inhabitants. I wander through, picking up things here and there, marveling at the cool blue light. I find a large hall with a body, clearly killed in a trap; the traveler's journal helps me solve a puzzle or two and avoid his fate. A glowing sword rests in a pile of snowberries. I find a key and travel on through a few more puzzles, then suddenly find myself faced with OH MY GOD A GIANT UNDEAD WARRIOR WHO IS WAY WAY WAY TOO TOUGH FOR ME! Fortunately I'd finished A Night To Remember, because I never would have made it out alive without the Sanguine Rose. Finally I find the undead warrior's helm, a powerful piece with a lot of frost resist!
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The start of the game was the coolest I ever looked, Iron horn helm and furs with a 2-handed weapon. I don't look nearly as cool or nordic running around in my super upgraded Dwarf or Orc armour now. Well okay maybe I still feel cool when stuff like this happens.  This is the second time I fought a blood dragon, but the first time I lived. This time I also somehow didn't notice the dragon approach until I heard a thump, turned around and got a face-full of this.  It freaked me out so much I decided to spring for some protection. Sorry Lydia, we are going to have to let you go, you've been made redundant.  I'm not sure if it is the constant danger, or the fact there is nothing worse than this bard's singing, but my character often has the Thousand-Yard stare. 
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Ibanez Murderface posted:Oh yeah, I also came across a random little fort in the middle of the woods. Some dudes called the Silver Hand attacked me, so I slaughtered them all mercilessly and discovered their captive werewolf (whom I also slaughtered) and tons of werewolf heads on pikes and holy poo poo what is wrong with these people It turns out that the Silver Hand doesn't like those very much! There is a quest line with them and that spot if you associate with the right people. I was doing it last night. As it happens, I am a werewolf. Badfinger fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 16:02 |
| # ? Nov 15, 2011 16:00 |
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Badfinger posted:It turns out that the Silver Hand doesn't like those very much! There is a quest line associated with them if you associate with the right people. I was doing it last night. As it happens, I am a werewolf. I am making a beeline for the werewolf dudes as soon as I graduate from mage college and become a real boy!!!
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 16:02 |
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Just in case anyone doesn't know: if you want to take a screenshot without the UI, open up the console (tilde) and type tm. The downside is that it also removes the console, so you have to type tm again, blind, to bring everything back.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 16:36 |
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Ibanez Murderface posted:I am making a beeline for the werewolf dudes as soon as I graduate from mage college and become a real boy!!! I've absolutely got to recommend becoming one just from a game play standpoint. There are very few drawbacks to being one, you are in complete control of when you shift, and other than getting no rest bonus from sleep you are essentially a killing machine. I'ts great to have in OH gently caress I'M GONNA DIE situations because you can just launch people across the room with your power swipe. Not to mention humanoid characters will cower in fear of your roar 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 16:37 |
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I was chasing the giant White Stag for a quest. It's a fast, elusive Well anyway, around we go and I chase the stag into the water. I'm thinking "gently caress yeah it's gonna swim so I can maybe put two shots into it and kill it while it thrashes around water slowly." Nope. Motherfucker runs in the water, occasionally diving. And it's a big lake. So here I am, chasing this giant moose in water who swims faster than fish and sticks his head out occasionally when I come near it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCtQmwJ1WAY
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Two moments have given me a laugh upon realising what was going on in a dungeon/cave. The first is the Haunted tomb in Istvaan with the ghost telling you to turn back. Upon looting the corpse of the 'ghost' and seeing the potion that gives you spectral form, I put two and two together and chuckled, further so when I saw his sweet room with fireplace. The other is some random cave somewhere I don't remember, walking in to find a letter from the leader of the smugglers about some guy offloading some crates for them to deliver somewhere. Getting curious they cracked open the crates and find dead bodies, they are understandably pissed off so they decide to loot the corpses and to hell with the guy who contracted them. I was then interrupted by the sound of people and turn around to see two guys getting out of bed. After killing them I realise they are Vampires and there are smuggler corpses everywhere, with blood and bones etc. After they looted the corpses, during the night the vampires got up out of their coffins, killed everyone and then slept in their beds. I thought that was pretty hilarious.
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LAWLandMine posted:I've absolutely got to recommend becoming one just from a game play standpoint. There are very few drawbacks to being one, you are in complete control of when you shift, and other than getting no rest bonus from sleep you are essentially a killing machine. I'ts great to have in OH gently caress I'M GONNA DIE situations because you can just launch people across the room with your power swipe. Not to mention humanoid characters will cower in fear of your roar This isn't really discussion material for the thread, but after the first time I have not been able to get the transformation to work. I don't know if it's bugged or what. Could you send a PM or something, let me know your process for going into beast mode? Do I need to not wear clothes or some dumb thing? I just often don't remember I have it (like shouts, whoops!), but there are a couple of times I really wanted to use it and couldn't trigger it. vvv Oh wait, so I'd be using it in place of a shout? I'm on PC, so I made it a favorite and assigned it to a quickslot. When I mashed the button, whole lot of nothing happened. So if I use the Shouts button it'll trigger? That's not obvious at all. 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 17:03 |
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Badfinger posted:This isn't really discussion material for the thread, but after the first time I have not been able to get the transformation to work. I don't know if it's bugged or what. Could you send a PM or something, let me know your process for going into beast mode? Do I need to not wear clothes or some dumb thing? I just often don't remember I have it (like shouts, whoops!), but there are a couple of times I really wanted to use it and couldn't trigger it. Should be Powers:Beast Mode and then just activate it in game (RB with Xbox controller).
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I find if you don't mind playing on the low (or even lowest) difficulty setting you can get away with dressing however you want. Want to take on the world in barbarian rags and an ancient Nord battleaxe? Well, you can!
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