The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Catch-All

I agree with that line of thinking, particularly in cases like this. That quest line starts off as a Miscellaneous quest, when in fact it is not. And Lod dies incredibly easily, to the point that it's an explicit footnote on his Wiki page that he frequently dies in dragon attacks, and you should protect him.

Oh wow, is that Red Mountain in the distance as well? Such a tease, since I think we'll be cordoned off to Solstheim!

I don' t know, but they've also released some images that sure as Oblivion look like Ald-Ruhn.

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Citizen86 wrote:
Duoae wrote:

Shouldn't that be: Conan O'Brien "Reviews" Skyrim?

yes, but still hilarious.

Mr. Buttons

Wait, I changed my mind. It should be:"Conan O'Brien" Reviews Skyrim,

tanstaafl wrote:

I don' t know, but they've also released some images that sure as Oblivion look like Ald-Ruhn.

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That's probably Fort Frostmoth the traditional dark elf style homes are likely due to refugees from Morrowind.

Yeah, the island actually belongs to Morrowind fully legally and with the support of the Nords now after the eruption/explosion of Red Mountain that destroyed almost all of Vvardenfall. Supposedly most of Morrowind is just fire and ash and devastation now, so I'll be curious to see if there is any mention of Nords possibly wanting it back now with the Aldmeri Dominion going nuts and pissing off all of the non-elven/non-beast races.

muttonchop wrote:

I'm looking forward to seeing Morrowind's crazy critters again, they were fun. Except Cliff Racers.

They can even annoy you in your dreams

Here's to hoping these tweets of PC and PS3 additional content being forthcoming are accurate/timely. Little irritating that my choice of 6 year old system has still kept me away from being able to acquire dragonbone weapons (really? How did that not get into the base smithing?), or build a castle dedicated to my greatness.

Either way, after finishing AC3 and maybe playing some Final Fantasy Tactics, I think I will then come back to this to play as my sword and board orc warrior. Gotta get him into the Imperial Legion next, I think.

Weird moment in Skyrim tonight.

I walked up to High Hrothgar for the first time in a really long time, since before I beat Alduin (which occurred around December 20th of 2011) because I think I am going to try and gather up all the words of power. Without using fast travel I feel like this will probably take awhile. Apparently the news of Alduin's demise had not reached them. So I ended up informing them of something that felt like was ages ago, a year in "real time", and who knows how long in Skyrim time. But really, in the technological age that Skyrim takes place in, probably not that inaccurate.

I had a really proud moment today. Sitting on the couch with my almost 4 year old girl watching one of her cartoon shows. She suddenly says to me, "Dad, can we play Skyrim?"

So awesome. I mean mostly it's just wandering around a villiage shouting at the sky as some of the other stuff is a little not safe for her eyes yet. But damn it's still awesome!

Yeah the kid thing is funny. I'll play even ostensibly violent games at times with my four year old so long as it's a really gamey game. At that point it's easy to explain the object of the game and that monsters are just the way the game represents pieces of the puzzle. But once the gore factor appears or it moves into the first person I get a lot more careful. With Skyrim I think she'd be upset if I had to kill a bear or wolf, but other than that she'd probably really enjoy wandering around the surface and looking at stuff.

complexmath wrote:

...but other than that she'd probably really enjoy wandering around the surface and looking at stuff.

...until a bandit group attacks you and you set them on fire or chop off a few heads. The things you see when you're 4 years old these days

I started up a mage tonight. Not pure mage, mind you, as I'm still going to be using light armor (supplement with oakflesh and the like, but I hate robes) and some smithing and such.

But it's interesting so far. Went with Dunmer for the boost to destruction and such... but kind of missing that extra 50 mana that comes with being an Altmer instead.

Never been to Falkreath (sp?) so I decided to walk there from Helgen just to see the road and what was along the way. Found a small abandoned (destroyed by a dragon house) with a note for the authorities on the location of a dragon... So of course I had to go avenge this poor couples demise... then kept on going and found a nice house... with a secret door behind a bookshelf... notes everywhere about bandit type stuff. Turns out it was a major operation and quite a large bandit hideout... I mopped up the scum and looted a lot. I'm sure I would have gotten a quest for this at some point if I hadn't randomly found it. My bags were full so I had to go back to town and I looked at the map... not even halfway to Falkreath.

I love the detail and just the shear amount of stuff. I am bordering on 200 hours (3 characters so there is some overlapping content) and still havent come close to doing every non- randomly generated quest. I have barely even started the civil war quest lines and have only been thane of 3 different cities.

manta173 wrote:

Never been to Falkreath (sp?) so I decided to walk there from Helgen just to see the road and what was along the way. Found a small abandoned (destroyed by a dragon house) with a note for the authorities on the location of a dragon... So of course I had to go avenge this poor couples demise... then kept on going and found a nice house... with a secret door behind a bookshelf... notes everywhere about bandit type stuff. Turns out it was a major operation and quite a large bandit hideout... I mopped up the scum and looted a lot. I'm sure I would have gotten a quest for this at some point if I hadn't randomly found it. My bags were full so I had to go back to town and I looked at the map... not even halfway to Falkreath.

I love the detail and just the shear amount of stuff. I am bordering on 200 hours (3 characters so there is some overlapping content) and still havent come close to doing every non- randomly generated quest. I have barely even started the civil war quest lines and have only been thane of 3 different cities.

That bandit house, if it is what I think it is, is part of the Thieves Guild's quests later... I suspect your adversaries there will all miraculously heal to provide you with a new challenge when you go back.

Demosthenes wrote:
manta173 wrote:

Never been to Falkreath (sp?) so I decided to walk there from Helgen just to see the road and what was along the way. Found a small abandoned (destroyed by a dragon house) with a note for the authorities on the location of a dragon... So of course I had to go avenge this poor couples demise... then kept on going and found a nice house... with a secret door behind a bookshelf... notes everywhere about bandit type stuff. Turns out it was a major operation and quite a large bandit hideout... I mopped up the scum and looted a lot. I'm sure I would have gotten a quest for this at some point if I hadn't randomly found it. My bags were full so I had to go back to town and I looked at the map... not even halfway to Falkreath.

I love the detail and just the shear amount of stuff. I am bordering on 200 hours (3 characters so there is some overlapping content) and still havent come close to doing every non- randomly generated quest. I have barely even started the civil war quest lines and have only been thane of 3 different cities.

That bandit house, if it is what I think it is, is part of the Thieves Guild's quests later... I suspect your adversaries there will all miraculously heal to provide you with a new challenge when you go back. :D

Never finished that line either... geez so much to do... wish I had more time for gaming. Between this and minecraft I don't have enough time anymore.

Head bandit was a woman named Rilgen or something like that in full steel plate. Had notes about a treasure room and a silver candle mold... I might have sold it but I think I saved it since it was odd.

manta173 wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:
manta173 wrote:

Never been to Falkreath (sp?) so I decided to walk there from Helgen just to see the road and what was along the way. Found a small abandoned (destroyed by a dragon house) with a note for the authorities on the location of a dragon... So of course I had to go avenge this poor couples demise... then kept on going and found a nice house... with a secret door behind a bookshelf... notes everywhere about bandit type stuff. Turns out it was a major operation and quite a large bandit hideout... I mopped up the scum and looted a lot. I'm sure I would have gotten a quest for this at some point if I hadn't randomly found it. My bags were full so I had to go back to town and I looked at the map... not even halfway to Falkreath.

I love the detail and just the shear amount of stuff. I am bordering on 200 hours (3 characters so there is some overlapping content) and still havent come close to doing every non- randomly generated quest. I have barely even started the civil war quest lines and have only been thane of 3 different cities.

That bandit house, if it is what I think it is, is part of the Thieves Guild's quests later... I suspect your adversaries there will all miraculously heal to provide you with a new challenge when you go back. :D

Never finished that line either... geez so much to do... wish I had more time for gaming. Between this and minecraft I don't have enough time anymore.

Head bandit was a woman named Rilgen or something like that in full steel plate. Had notes about a treasure room and a silver candle mold... I might have sold it but I think I saved it since it was odd.

If the mold was there, save it. Interesting though in that it really should not have been available until you got the quest.

http://imgur.com/a/CT8ZX
Some screenshots of Skyrim modded.
Will link one here:
IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/InYzGh.jpg)

That's purdy, but where's the snow?!

Demosthenes wrote:

If the mold was there, save it. Interesting though in that it really should not have been available until you got the quest.

Quest items are usually pre-placed. What would happen is he'd pick up the mold, try to sell it, and the game wouldn't allow the sale. You see this a lot with Dragon Claws that are part of quest dungeons, you can't drop/sell them (Coral Dragon Claw for example).

@Sparhawk - HOLY NUTBALLS! I really want a computer that can make Skyrim look that good, and to know what mods are being used. Some of those images look photo-realistic, notably this one:

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EDIT: Aha, here's the original post with more details about how he made this - http://www.asot.es/2001/09/skyrim-mo...

Looks like he uses most of the same stuff STEP does. Sadly he won't give a complete list, but I'd bet good money running everything STEP recommends will result in visuals close to this.

Sparhawk wrote:

http://imgur.com/a/CT8ZX
Some screenshots of Skyrim modded.
Will link one here:
IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/InYzGh.jpg)

What mod(s)?

I edited in a link to the creators original post, he gives a partial list there. It's pretty much STEP.

ahrezmendi wrote:

I edited in a link to the creators original post, he gives a partial list there. It's pretty much STEP.

I see it now, thanks. I was posting at the same time, so I didn't catch it.

I need computer advice. Anyone able to comment on this one for price/functionality (gaming)?

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Please just PM me if you have some suggestions.

Dakuna wrote:

I need computer advice. Anyone able to comment on this one for price/functionality (gaming)?

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Please just PM me if you have some suggestions.

The video card is low-end. It'll run games, but not very well

ahrezmendi wrote:

Looks like he uses most of the same stuff STEP does. Sadly he won't give a complete list, but I'd bet good money running everything STEP recommends will result in visuals close to this.

I'm hoping it does. But getting the latest version of STEP set up takes a long time. Also, Skyrim Nexus is slow as hell, which doesn't help when you have to D/L a lot of mods.

tboon wrote:
ahrezmendi wrote:

Looks like he uses most of the same stuff STEP does. Sadly he won't give a complete list, but I'd bet good money running everything STEP recommends will result in visuals close to this.

I'm hoping it does. But getting the latest version of STEP set up takes a long time. Also, Skyrim Nexus is slow as hell, which doesn't help when you have to D/L a lot of mods.

He does say that for those screens he was using ~100 mods, which is exactly what you said you were up to about a week ago.

It is annoying to that Nexus is slow, but I think it's a small price to pay for having the manager for installing/uninstalling mods, especially some of the big overhaul mods that STEP uses.

ahrezmendi wrote:
tboon wrote:
ahrezmendi wrote:

Looks like he uses most of the same stuff STEP does. Sadly he won't give a complete list, but I'd bet good money running everything STEP recommends will result in visuals close to this.

I'm hoping it does. But getting the latest version of STEP set up takes a long time. Also, Skyrim Nexus is slow as hell, which doesn't help when you have to D/L a lot of mods.

He does say that for those screens he was using ~100 mods, which is exactly what you said you were up to about a week ago.

It is annoying to that Nexus is slow, but I think it's a small price to pay for having the manager for installing/uninstalling mods, especially some of the big overhaul mods that STEP uses.

True. Except STEP sometimes only prescribes parts of certain mods, so you have to get in and get messy sometimes. And there was one mod that I cannot remember the name of, which took parts of three big graphics overhaul mods + pieces of a bunch of others (and a bat file too) to make the "mod". That was a pain. I did finally spring for a 30 day Nexus membership to get stuff to download faster.

The set up work is time consuming but the end result will be glorious.

I hope.

"Yes? What did you need? Yes? What did you need? Yes? What did you need? Yes? What did you need?"
You know what I need, Serana? I need you to STOP TALKING. I went to do the first Greybeard quest, and throughout the whole Fus Ro training segment she stood beside me and repeated that over and over.
I'm enjoying Dawnguard so far but I really dislike having a mandatory companion forced on me. Especially one who won't shut up, constantly blocks my line of sight, and keeps raising my kills before I can loot them. I really wish I could just kill her and steal her Elder Scroll.

muttonchop wrote:

Especially one who won't shut up, constantly blocks my line of sight, and keeps raising my kills before I can loot them. I really wish I could just kill her and steal her Elder Scroll.

I re-kill them when my companion of choice (Illia) does this. Sometimes I also accidentally hit the shock elemental she summons and have to kill that too.