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2/24/2012 11:30:09 AM

i havent fought that guy but i read up on him and everything i read said he had way more health and stamina than you'd expect...i bet me and Barbas could fuck him up though on Pussy difficulty level

2/24/2012 1:10:43 PM

I am DONE with this game. Finished it, finished all the guilds, and mopped up all the achievements.

Jesus fuck I am so glad I will never turn it on again. It sucked close to 100 hours out of my life. Next up, Fallout 3

2/24/2012 1:39:29 PM

prepare to have all the FO3 songs stuck in your head for months!

2/24/2012 1:40:26 PM

[Edited on February 24, 2012 at 1:42 PM. Reason : ]

2/24/2012 1:41:35 PM

wow im nearly 100 hours in but nowhere near completed.

but im a tard.

2/24/2012 1:48:35 PM

i'd feel like i'd wasted my money if i only got 100 hours of this game

2/24/2012 1:52:18 PM

the fuck?

becuase like fifty cents an hour for entertainment is a rip off

2/24/2012 1:59:15 PM

Fun question...
How far did everyone get before you figured out fast travel via map? (as opposed to using the cart guy to move you around). I only ask because of people having wildly different play-times vs completion.

After playing Morrowind so long ago, I was just assuming I'd hoof it everywhere. I was probably 10 hours in or so before someone told me.

2/24/2012 2:08:35 PM

After playing Oblivion, Fallout 3, & New Vegas I was fast traveling right off the bat.

I still spent a retarded number of hours on that game.

2/24/2012 2:16:11 PM

Don't know why you'd quit now; Bethesda always put out quality DLC

2/24/2012 2:27:44 PM

Quote :

"the fuck? becuase like fifty cents an hour for entertainment is a rip off"

your opinion is, like, your opinion, man

i got (i think) 200 hours of out of oblivion (and probably just as much from morrowind)...to get half that would make me sad

i'm sure there's someone out there who got in a solid 20 hours and is happy with their purchase...i'm glad i have higher standards

2/24/2012 2:30:27 PM

I think playing a game for 20 hours vs 200 would be infinitely better for every other aspect of your life.

2/24/2012 2:54:02 PM

Here we go again....

2/24/2012 3:04:33 PM

^^ in what way?

marriage going well...check
job going well...check
school going well...check

do you know something i don't know? yeah, didn't think so

this wasn't meant to be an argument...all i said is that i'd feel like i'd wasted my money if i got half the entertainment out of skyrim that i got out of oblivion and morrowind

i couldn't care less how many hours a person does or doesn't play...i'm just glad that i CAN get 200 hours of entertainment out of it, instead of half that

*shrug*

2/24/2012 3:18:30 PM

I just think spending 200 hours on something that produces no tangible end product is silly. But thats me.

2/24/2012 3:21:08 PM

Quote :

"yeah, didn't think so"

BOOM

2/24/2012 3:22:14 PM

Quote :

"I just think spending 200 hours on something that produces no tangible end product is silly. But thats me."

so the entirety of the internet is silly, eh?

retarded interesting philosophy you have there

2/24/2012 3:23:13 PM

Quote :

"I just think spending 200 hours on something that produces no tangible end product is silly. But thats me."

you could extend this to anything.

watching tv/movies
going to an ncsu game
playing magic the gathering online
masturbating
etc

[Edited on February 24, 2012 at 3:33 PM. Reason : ]

2/24/2012 3:31:47 PM

We can do this all day. But seeing as how I'll probably never go back to school, get married or spend the equivalent of eight days on a video game, we might as well just agree to disagree.

2/24/2012 3:33:59 PM

masturbation produces a tangible end product

i'm just sayin

2/24/2012 3:42:31 PM

i'm just sprayin

2/24/2012 3:43:38 PM

Quote :

"Fun question... How far did everyone get before you figured out fast travel via map?"

about four hours.

recently, i've been trying to not use fast travel.

just to kind of extend play. but there's some boring ass shit around.

also, when using fast travel so much it feels like 65% of the time i'm playing i'm sitting on a loading screen. fast travel to city, enter building in 15 steps, wait again... blergh.

2/24/2012 3:57:12 PM

^^^

2/24/2012 4:01:16 PM

i figured out fast travel pretty quickly...though obviously you have to discover the places to be able to fast travel (though the horse and carriage will take you to any of the main cities, and you can go into jarl's castles and click on the flags on the maps on the table to add forts and stuff)

sometimes i like just wandering around looking for new shit, usually finding bears that attack me, but i'll be damned if i'm gonna ride a horse or run from Riften to some city on the far west side of the map just to deliver a book or something

also how come i'm some Imperial Legion badass with the utmost respect from General Tullius, but when a few imperial foot soldiers are walking some worthless stormcloak prisoner and I get within 50 feet, they don't even recognize my gangster

2/24/2012 4:04:35 PM

Wandering around the wilderness on a horse can be pretty chill. Like Pilgrim said earlier, loading screen after loading screen gets old quick.

2/24/2012 4:08:47 PM

riding on a horse is all fine and well until a couple wolves come up, you have to get off the horse to fight them, and one of them kills your horse

and when I pick up my horse hide from the dead horse's inventory...i'd rather have John Marsten skin him on some heh heh, hold still

2/24/2012 4:15:48 PM

Quote :

""Fun question... How far did everyone get before you figured out fast travel via map?""

Oh god.

It took me atleast 5 hours before I realized you could sprint.
Then fast travel after I had already run between Whiterun and Riverwood 5 times. Probably 10 hours.

2/24/2012 4:22:59 PM

shit man i didnt know horses could die

i use shadowmere as bait for dragons that keep getting distracted by mudcrabs or some shit.

except i accidentally jumped off the college of winterhold's walkway riding shadowmere once. that was... awkward.

prolonged falling sequence, followed by splattering and my guy getting stuck in some precarious position.

[Edited on February 24, 2012 at 4:32 PM. Reason : e]

2/24/2012 4:30:42 PM

i've had a horse get killed and then come back to life somehow

i fast traveled somewhere and my horse was waiting...but i didnt ride him there, he just appeared

then a dragon appeared soon after, killed my horse in the course of battle, but the next time i fast traveled somewhere he was back

maybe since i didn't interact with him after fast traveling? i dunno...at least i'm at the point now where 1,000 coins isn't shit and i don't care if my horse dies

also where do you get Shadowmere? i read about him early on in the game but never came across him, i did have that horse i stole from that Letrush guy but he died

2/24/2012 4:34:58 PM

in the dark brotherhood quests

2/24/2012 4:46:29 PM

i haven't bothered to google it, but i assume shadowmere can't die

you know, because it's fucking shadowmere

2/24/2012 5:29:52 PM

maybe not by a dragon, but that guy can't take a fall onto jagged rocks from hundreds of feet for shit

2/24/2012 5:33:51 PM

haha

2/24/2012 5:40:33 PM

why is it so many games give such shitty rewards for long-ass quests.

like collecting the stones. tracking down all 24 takes a good long while. by the time i got around to finishing it off, i was lvl 62 with 300k in the bank

so the rewards is a shit ton of gems to be found in chests and the like? oh goody - i can spend even MORE time traveling around to find merchants to sell shit to (even though i've maxed out the speech tree on the merchant side) for money i don't need

give me some uber piece of gear or some great stat boost. i doubt anyone needs the money by the time they're done with the quest

2/24/2012 6:58:05 PM

i've got either 22 or 23 of them...i was told earlier ITT to curb my enthusiasm for the quest reward, but i just figure if i'm searching every nook and cranny of a dungeon or castle or wherever, i'm gonna find em anyway and eventually get it done...i have over 100k and am level 50-something so yeah, dont really need it either

one time though i found one and when i took it, some dude in the room acted like i had stolen something from him...i did think that was pretty weak

2/24/2012 7:39:41 PM

I got lucky with Kvenel... ran past him into that spot behind the coffin and he followed me and got stuck. went around the room and killed his other dudes and by the time I got back, Breylanna had fucked him up for me already.

speaking of which, she was following me and now somehow she's not. I went into this stupid Sightless Pit without her and she's gone. now I can't get out of this place without going through the Temple of Xrib which I really don't feel like doing. hopefully she'll pop up back in Skyrim, she was carrying a ton of shit for me.

2/24/2012 8:28:03 PM

some missions/buildings dont allow followers, they end up meeting you outside when you're done...not sure about the quest you're talking about, but unless the follower died, its possible its just a quest you have to do alone

2/24/2012 8:34:13 PM

Tip #1 for getting Proudspire Manor for free: Pickpocket the Fletcher in Solitude for his Solitude Fletcher Key. Open backdoor to PM. Profit.

Tip #2 for getting Proudspire Manor for free: Stand between Falk Firebeard and the cabinet behind him. Start the dialogue to purchase PM. Purchase it, and CANCEL the conversation, quickly turn around and put your money in the cabinet. Wait for key to drop in inventory. Take money back out of cabinet.

Tip #2 also works on all upgrades to PM.

I imagine you could do that to the other houses in Skyrim, provided close proximity to cabinets.

2/26/2012 8:36:02 PM

You can do #2 for all houses as far as I know.

You will never ever ever run out of money in that game though, so I don't see the point other than doing it for the first time in Whiterun.

2/26/2012 8:42:49 PM

I use to try and exploits like you... then I took glitches to the face and have the corpses of the Companions gliding above the ground following me and forcing dialogue. Gonna do a final playthrough... gonna do it by the books. No glitches. Going to get my 15 daedric artifacts achievement and retire until DLC. No more flying talking corpses.

2/26/2012 10:24:14 PM

finally got dual enchanting.

wilin' out with some dragon armor.

2/27/2012 9:26:00 AM

2/27/2012 4:17:37 PM

[Edited on February 27, 2012 at 4:45 PM. Reason : oh nevermind]

[Edited on February 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM. Reason : http://h.images.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/15307679.jpg ok maybe so]

2/27/2012 4:40:50 PM

^ meh...kinda

got sky rim in nov...surgery dec 8th...mw3 for christmas...waited a month to play it straight through in one sitting...went back to sky rim...waiting on my Turtle Beach Ear Force DSS2 so I could use my headphones with my new TV...arrives this week

that's too big to put on a photo

2/27/2012 4:45:29 PM

in the 8 or so hours of gameplay since completing the stones collection quest, i have acquired:

7 Amethyst
10 Diamonds
9 Emeralds
5 Flawless Amethyst
5 Flawless Diamonds
10 Flawless Emeralds
10 Flawless Garnet
4 Flawless Rubies
7 Flawless Sapphire
18 Garnet
10 Ruby
10 Sapphire

Retail price: 41,490g

and they're just going to collect in an end table in Breezehome, because fuck trying to travel around and sell that shit every time my inventory fills up

2/27/2012 11:07:52 PM

ha...if i have like 27 flawless amethysts, i will sell like 7 of them...CAUSE I JUST MIGHT NEED THE OTHER 20

2/27/2012 11:43:05 PM

You guys don't use those to make jewelry?

2/28/2012 11:49:28 AM

why?

2/28/2012 11:54:30 AM

Well, I have tons of iron ore I was able to transmute into silver or gold so why not?

I'd rather have the rings / necklaces lying around instead of the raw materials. Vanity I guess?

[Edited on February 28, 2012 at 11:56 AM. Reason : I enchanted my own rings/amulets so I made matching sets.]

2/28/2012 11:55:42 AM