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Skyrim

Akira-R said:
I just started a quest line in solitude where i'm in some alternate dimension. And my weapon is a wabbajack....
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Heh, that thing's actually kinda fun to fuck around with in combat. There's like 20 different things it'll do randomly to whomever you hit it with.

Known effects:

-Fireball
-Thunderbolt
-Frost Rune effect explosion
-Heals
-Disintegrate
-Transformation effects (effect canceled on hit): Chicken, Rabbit, Dremora Lord, Sweetroll, Spectral, Mud Crab, Coin (However extremely rare).
-Invisibility on Target
-Summoning Dremora to fight for target
-Cloning of Target
-Instant Kill
-Ice Spike
-Flee
-Summon Effects: Mudcrab, Daedra Kyndroth.
-Drain Stamina
-Can move enemy armor from equipped to inventory.
-Absorb health
-Change NPC gender (Extremely rare)
-NPC explodes in a fountain of gold
-Teleport short distances
 
after starting out this game as a sneak, sneak, *thwap!* type char i changed it up along the way as i sorted out what i like to do.

now i like to use *skin and *cloak and then cast an atronauch to fight with me. if possible i set up a trap and pull mobs over it. i usually keep a heal spell or atronauch summon ready in the off hand.

imagine my surprise when the priest with the mask for 20% to archery, lockpicking, potions kept taking control of my atronauch and turning it against me! i was like, wtf mate? :laughing

luckily i carry around a shield with 40% fore protection so the priest and atronauch fireballs didn't hurt too much. i was dissapointed in my mate, though. :rofl
 
Whats peoples take on the replayability of the game..?

do you
1. Max out your first character so he's good at everything
2. finish a character, (ex. a warrior) then replay as a new specialization after beating the game.
3. simultaneously play different characters so that the end of the main quest is still somewhat a surprise.

I usually am a #1 guy especially in morrowind but in Skyrim I went with warrior, and it seems strange to even have him join the theives guild with his 2-hander hanging off his back lol. But I don't want to just not ever do those quests... :nerd
 
i got my first character to 100 skill with every skill, so i guess im a #1. i wouldnt say hes good at everything though, hes a stealth/archer/1h build, so his magic is pretty crap without the correct equipment
 
I dunno. I think even after maxing out, there's plenty of side quests to do. I'd say it all depends on how much side questing vs main quest line you completed. I tend to avoid the main quest like the plague until it either coincides with a location from a side quest or until I get tired of the mundane quests and want to further the story along. Problem is, there's tons of side quests that can actually be harder/more fun/just as challenging as the main quests.

In other news, is it just me or does everyone else get attacked by dragons within 30 seconds of stepping foot outside a city (and sometimes just as soon as you step outdoors)? Seriously WTF. I remember reading an article that said they were scripted to be random and wouldn't always attack. I've killed at least 15 now, have a stockpile of bones and scales numbering around 30-40 each, and have 3x more souls saved than I have shout powers to unlock or use them on. They're fucking EVERYWHERE! I've been attacked IN the following cities:

-Whiterun
-Winterhold
-Winterhold Mage College
-Solitude
-Windhelm
-Helgen (went back just to see what was left after the initial start of the game, and guess what? Dragon.)

and I've been attacked outside pretty much everywhere else. It's to the point where I fast travel as much as possible to avoid having to kill another one, not because I can't fight them but because I'm already loaded down on loot and can't carry any more. I can go toe-to-toe with dragons and dual wield chillrend + mace of molag bal and win without popping a potion. They're just fucking ANNOYING.
 
I used to get attacked by dragons everytime I stepped outdoors, then I took an arrow in the knee.
 
started the game over, and got 100 sneak before i got out of jail during the first dragon attack.
:laughing

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THIS IS SPARTA!

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Ducky_Fresh said:
Looks like this game could be a good bang for the buck and not suck??
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If you liked playing games like Fallout or Red Dead Redemption, and like swords/dragons/magic/fantasy style stuff, then absolutely yes. 60 bucks for a couple hundred hours of game play? Easy.
 
fire dragon: bonk! ded
frost dragon: bonk! ded
regular dragon: bonk! ded
blood dragon: bonk! ded

elder dragon..... :wtf
(snaps my head off and tosses my corpse aside in one hit)
 
from the FML web site

Today, I was out clubbing, when some bloke at the bar started trying to pick fights with everyone. Trying to defuse the situation with humour, I said, "I used to be a tough guy like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee." The next thing I know, I have a broken nose. FML
 
mikev said:
60 bucks for a couple hundred hours of game play? Easy.
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More hours than that if you wander around randomly and ignore the quests until forced upon you. When I finally made it to Whiterun, they were like "you go do quest and find Dragonstone" and I was like "U MEAN THIS?" and whipped out Dragonstone. :laughing

So sick of hauling that 25-lb thing around too.
 
Zerox said:
More hours than that if you wander around randomly and ignore the quests until forced upon you. When I finally made it to Whiterun, they were like "you go do quest and find Dragonstone" and I was like "U MEAN THIS?" and whipped out Dragonstone. :laughing

So sick of hauling that 25-lb thing around too.
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This is the first RPG game I have ever played where just the idea of the sheer volume of things to do and how they interact with each other is really overwhelming!

It would be different too if it was just a laundry list of stuff... but everything you do once you've been in the game for a while requires thought as to who it might piss off, or make happy, and even if your "life" in the game isn't so complicated already that adding another layer or faction would make it a political nightmare!

I could see hundreds upon hundreds of hours being easily done over many months of playing, even years if character development was a priority...

This isn't even counting the interest generated by the gorwing list of mods and the inevitable new content that will be released by Bethesda in the near future...
 
Feanor said:
I could see hundreds upon hundreds of hours being easily done over many months of playing, even years if character development was a priority.
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Yup, but too bad they used what seems like only three voice actors for the whole damn game. :laughing
 
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