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DMN said:
Started in Falkreath prison and broke the only lock-pick....
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...
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 enjoyable
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 enjoyable
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 enjoyable
Do whatever you like. 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 enjoyable
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...
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 enjoyable
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.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 enjoyable
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!!
Epic fun though.
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
northwest monkey said:
a woman in a hut (I may have give her what for with an axe)..
you'd think she'd be grateful I found evidence of witchcraft in her basement, sheesh! Have you heard back from her friends yet...?
Yeah, play as you want 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
Edited by MarkRSi on Wednesday 29th October 12:59
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