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cianha

2,165 posts

196 months

Thursday 25th September 2014
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You mean TESVI? biggrin

Jasandjules

69,787 posts

228 months

Thursday 25th September 2014
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cianha said:
You mean TESVI? biggrin
Well, pretty much...

FourWheelDrift

88,337 posts

283 months

Thursday 25th September 2014
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Jasandjules said:
Anyone know when Skyrim II will be out on the PS4?!!?!?
Probably after Sony release the PS5

DMN

2,978 posts

138 months

Thursday 25th September 2014
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Another vote for UnBound.

Started in Falkreath prison and broke the only lock-pick....

Pick-pocketed the guard for the key and he detected me and attacked. So went for plan b: Leg it.

Managed to escape only because a Dragon attacked the Town and distracted everyone.

Squirrelofwoe

3,181 posts

175 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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DMN said:
Started in Falkreath prison and broke the only lock-pick....
hehe

It's amazing how much fun the random starts are. I've left all of the Dragonborn stuff disabled for the moment so no main quest, no dragons etc. I'm up to level 30ish at the moment and it's felt like a vastly different game to vanilla, currently doing some of the Dawnguard stuff.

The crossbows are just so satisfying.

On a Skyrim related note has anyone else watched The Senile Scribbles: Skyrim Parody on Youtube? 11 animated episodes (of around 4-5min each) picking up on various aspects of the Skyrim mechanics & certain quests. Really high quality production and (in my opinion) seriously funny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv3ScKLD1Vc&li...

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Right folks, could do with some advice.

I've only recently started playing this (despite owning it for nearly a couple of years!) and I'm not sure if I'm going about it the right way.

Basically, from when you very first start and escape the place where the dragon attacks, I've found some standing stones (can't remember what I selected) and a woman in a hut (I may have give her what for with an axe). So now it seems I own a hut. I then wandered into a village, then headed to a bigger town. Spoke to the head man who put me onto a monk-like bloke. Anyway, he wanted something from a cave up in a mountain so I went there, got the stone, found a golden claw, killed a load of zombies then shouted at a wall for some reason. I then went back to the village, gave the claw to a bloke in a shop, flogged him some tat I'd found from a keep up on the mountain then headed back to the big town. Spoke to head man again, then went and killed a dragon. Did a bit more shouting then headed back to the town. Head man gives me a chick who follows me round (and carries stuff which is handy) and tells me I can buy a place to live. Trouble is, I've only got about 1000 gold, and the only house I can buy is 5000.

So to sum up, should I just keep doing the missions I keep getting, or should I just wander about a bit?

I've never really played a game like this so have no idea about levelling up etc but all the same it's quite enjoyablesmile

CBR JGWRR

6,518 posts

148 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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northwest monkey said:
Right folks, could do with some advice.

I've only recently started playing this (despite owning it for nearly a couple of years!) and I'm not sure if I'm going about it the right way.

Basically, from when you very first start and escape the place where the dragon attacks, I've found some standing stones (can't remember what I selected) and a woman in a hut (I may have give her what for with an axe). So now it seems I own a hut. I then wandered into a village, then headed to a bigger town. Spoke to the head man who put me onto a monk-like bloke. Anyway, he wanted something from a cave up in a mountain so I went there, got the stone, found a golden claw, killed a load of zombies then shouted at a wall for some reason. I then went back to the village, gave the claw to a bloke in a shop, flogged him some tat I'd found from a keep up on the mountain then headed back to the big town. Spoke to head man again, then went and killed a dragon. Did a bit more shouting then headed back to the town. Head man gives me a chick who follows me round (and carries stuff which is handy) and tells me I can buy a place to live. Trouble is, I've only got about 1000 gold, and the only house I can buy is 5000.

So to sum up, should I just keep doing the missions I keep getting, or should I just wander about a bit?

I've never really played a game like this so have no idea about levelling up etc but all the same it's quite enjoyablesmile
Do whatever you like. smile

Seriously. There is really no wrong way to play Skyrim, an Elven warrior is just as valid as an Orc Mage, both in and out of universe. There are no classes unless you chose to confine yourself to a class, and every playstyle can be made to work.



Just bear in mind you will only experience that feeling of discovery once per event, and if you look stuff up before hand it does spoil it a little...

Cotty

39,336 posts

283 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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northwest monkey said:
So to sum up, should I just keep doing the missions I keep getting, or should I just wander about a bit?
You could do both, have a wonder around and do the odd mission as you find them on the road. But buy a horse as walking everywhere takes ages,

cianha

2,165 posts

196 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Finished the Eye of Magnus missions last night with my "magical" char, took me bloody ages to figure out how to defeat Ancamo back at Winterhold

Squirrelofwoe

3,181 posts

175 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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northwest monkey said:
Right folks, could do with some advice.

I've only recently started playing this (despite owning it for nearly a couple of years!) and I'm not sure if I'm going about it the right way.

Basically, from when you very first start and escape the place where the dragon attacks, I've found some standing stones (can't remember what I selected) and a woman in a hut (I may have give her what for with an axe). So now it seems I own a hut. I then wandered into a village, then headed to a bigger town. Spoke to the head man who put me onto a monk-like bloke. Anyway, he wanted something from a cave up in a mountain so I went there, got the stone, found a golden claw, killed a load of zombies then shouted at a wall for some reason. I then went back to the village, gave the claw to a bloke in a shop, flogged him some tat I'd found from a keep up on the mountain then headed back to the big town. Spoke to head man again, then went and killed a dragon. Did a bit more shouting then headed back to the town. Head man gives me a chick who follows me round (and carries stuff which is handy) and tells me I can buy a place to live. Trouble is, I've only got about 1000 gold, and the only house I can buy is 5000.

So to sum up, should I just keep doing the missions I keep getting, or should I just wander about a bit?

I've never really played a game like this so have no idea about levelling up etc but all the same it's quite enjoyablesmile
As others have said play it however you want. One thing to keep in mind though, the world is pretty vast and the main quest line will only take you to certain parts of it.

Feel free to wander off and just explore the place- you'll find so much doing this, and will invariably end up being given an absolute ton of side quests to do. Then as you do these side quests you will find even more locations and be given even more side quests...

Don't feel like you have rush through the main quest line, there is so much more to the game.

As an example of just how vast it is I am currently playing through the game with a mod running that actually completely disables the main quest line (so no dragons / shouting etc). I'm about 90 hours into that (at level 43) and have still only seen half the map at most. With a journal showing about 30-odd quests that I've been given but yet to start...

As someone who has a pretty strict mentality of 'finish one thing before moving on to the next' I've found Oblivion / Skyrim / Fallout 3 / New Vegas to be absolute organisational nightmares!! hehe

Epic fun though.

Squirrelofwoe

3,181 posts

175 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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cianha said:
Finished the Eye of Magnus missions last night with my "magical" char, took me bloody ages to figure out how to defeat Ancamo back at Winterhold
Ditto, I reloaded many times trying to figure that one out!

The college missions were some of my favorites so far, despite the fact I always end up playing through the game basically ignoring magic altogether hehe

cianha

2,165 posts

196 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Ditto, previous char was all sneak/bow, no magic. Decided to go the other way with this one.

It's the long, non-skippable, introductory bits that annoy me the most.

MarkRSi

5,782 posts

217 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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northwest monkey said:
a woman in a hut (I may have give her what for with an axe)..
hehe


you'd think she'd be grateful I found evidence of witchcraft in her basement, sheesh! smile Have you heard back from her friends yet...? wink



Yeah, play as you want smile As well as my original 'sneaky bd' character (who ended up joining the assassins), I've got a mage character (College quests), a smash-through-everything Orc, a Stormcloak etc. with different skill sets to focus on and a group/faction to join (although you could just join every faction with one character asides from Imperials/Stormcloaks.

Don't think I'm even half way through the main questline with any of them hehe

Edited by MarkRSi on Wednesday 29th October 12:59

DMN

2,978 posts

138 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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cianha said:
Ditto, previous char was all sneak/bow, no magic. Decided to go the other way with this one.

It's the long, non-skippable, introductory bits that annoy me the most.
Thats why you need the UnBound Mod with its random starts.

FourWheelDrift

88,337 posts

283 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Or just make a clean save with no mods activated when outside Helgen to reuse. Or download someone else's save. Then just do showracemenu to change your character.

Ikemi

8,436 posts

204 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Jasandjules said:
Anyone know when Skyrim II will be out on the PS4?!!?!?
I reckon Fallout 4 will be released before a further Elder Scrolls game ...

BrewsterBear

1,503 posts

191 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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Ikemi said:
I reckon Fallout 4 will be released before a further Elder Scrolls game ...
It had bloody better be.

cianha

2,165 posts

196 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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DMN said:
Thats why you need the UnBound Mod with its random starts.
Have it, love it! It's the walk'n'talk around Winterhold College when you get there that I was referring to. wink

Spiritual_Beggar

4,833 posts

193 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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cianha said:
Have it, love it! It's the walk'n'talk around Winterhold College when you get there that I was referring to. wink
Can you not just 'Wait' that out? Skip forward an hour?

cianha

2,165 posts

196 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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