Correct, but I don't fast travel.

If you do use fast travel, it will save you even more time.

Started playing Dragonborn DLC last night. Pretty cool stuff. Played through a couple side quests already, interested in this new kind of ore.

You couldn't do that in Oblivion

You gave up on Dark Souls, didn't you?

Not at all, I restarted with another character. I couldn't kick that knight guy off the ledge. But Elder Scrolls trumps everything else. I'll go back to Dark Souls when I finish up Dragonborn.

OK, I'm sick and not quite 100 percent here. I've been staring (and kinda giggling) at this for about 3 minutes now. And I'm still not sure what you mean.

lol. "Oh Skyrim trumps all, eh? Mmmmmhmmmmm"


I'm just messing with you.

Haven't even finished the original storyline yet.

Today I'm gonna pound it out.

The smile in the last second of the .gif is what was throwing me off. ROFL

When are you going to get around to finishing the original storyline?

Today I'm gonna pound it out.

It won't be worth it. The meat of the game is the Dark Brotherhood, Civil War, and Daedric quests... and mods.

Oh, OK. I misunderstood the first time.

Wow... so I guess I finished the main quest last night. It came rather abruptly, and I was expecting quite a bit more. I guess I should have focused on the side quests a lot more...

Uhhh can't you keep playing?

Well yes, but I am still disappoint....

Yup.

Heh, I got every single achievement...this game made me OCD.

Now I have two new DLCs....see you guys in about three months. ;)

Why do all that? You're going to have way more money than you're going to know what do with, aren't you?

Thats some serious OCD there Parker.

Seriously. You get to a point where you don't even bother picking up loot anymore, and by focusing on blacksmithing and enchanting you can make far better armor and weapons than you'll find anywhere in the game. The one skill tree I never bother to upgrade is bartering.

Yeap. And the best way to make cash (if you ever need it) is to double-enchant jewelry and sell it to rich merchants. Picking up and carrying heavy objects is just silly.

Of course by the time you learn to double-enchant, you probably won't need any cash so it might be a moot point.

Either way, Bethesda needs to introduce armor sets and rare epic items that could be farmed ala Blizzard and the gaming universe will be complete. Throw in multiple playthroughs that increase in difficulty (and serve as a good way to try all the different branching storylines) and no new games will be needed after that. Like ever.

Must have mods?

Right now I've got:

1. Arrowsmith
2. Faster Horses
3. Improved death cam
4. Jump higher

What else. Playing this on an i7 3820 with a 670 GTX so load me up with graphical mods.

I was asking for mod advice forever and nobody responded. :(

I'm running the improved gameplay mods, added monsters mods, LOTR weapons, gore, and a few others.

You use via Steam or Nexus?

Steam

Same.

They've got a lightsaber mod on there that might be of interest to you...

These are the mods I use for Skyrim. I haven't played in a few months, so I haven't checked out any new ones recently.

Unfortunately, I think one of these ****s with Dawnguard, because I've never been able to transfer into vampire lord form. Could just be a twitchy Bethesda thing, too. I may start a new character at some point and give it another shot - perhaps the problems been fixed with a patch.

High Resolution Texture pack by BETHESDA - steam://install/202485/
Skyboost - http://alexander.sannybuilder.com/?c...e=skyrim_boost
SkyUI - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863
Realistic Water Textures - http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=711
Glowing Ore Veins 300 - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=193
Vurts Skyrim Flora Overhaul - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=141
Quality World Maps (with roads) - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads...d=4929#content
Enhanced Night Skyrim - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads...?id=85#content
Better Blood Splatter - http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=727
Xenius Character Enhancement - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2356

You're welcome, you ****ers.

^^^ :)


Merci

Well **** me, I haven't learned how to use the nexus mods. Are most of these available on steam?

It's pie. Just download the nexus mod manager - http://skyrimnexus.com/content/modmanager

It's so easy GoChiefs could do it. If you can't figure it out - there are plenty of youtube guides for this. You're on your own now... dovahkinn

ROFL

Just downloaded a mod that supposedly fixes all the bugs in Dawnguard.

Well shit, I guess this means I have to start a new character now.

Now starting hour 730..... :)

OCD

I don't use enchanting. I am a Nord that has an extreme hatred of magic.

I am playing on master with no enchantments and limited smithing.

Is your character's name Daboll by any chance? :D

Played in 2560x1440 last night. I came.

FPS? What mods?
Any screenshots?

What are the Daedric quests? I feel like I've done it but just wanna make sure. Also, I'm an idiot and just killed the leader when the Dark Brotherhood kidnapped me :doh!:

Haven't applied any mods yet but I'll take a few screens. Was getting about 30 fps outdoors and 60 inside. Probably gonna disable FSAA because I'd rather have the framerate boost.

You go to shrines, the daedric lords talk to you and send you on quests to get shit mostly.

Ohh ok yeah, I've done a few of those. Which reminds me, does that star you get from one actually do anything?

Azura Star? I don't remember if it serves a real purpose.. It's just really valuable and is a throwback to the same Oblivion item, IIRC.

Disable FSAA and keep your resolution high.. Also download a few of those cosmetic mods I posted last page. Have a change of pants ready.

Playing this again, I'm reminded how much I hate the leveling system. I wish somebody would come up with a mod that changes it to something more like Fallout.

It's a refillable grand (or black) soul gem. Use it over and over.

I'm sure there are tons of mods. They had mods for levelling in Oblivion

I'll have to check on that.

Am I missing something or does this game have a pretty shitty UI? I know there are a few hotkeys available, but to have access to a wider variety of spells, potions, weapons, shouts and scrolls, do you really need to drill down through one of the inventory-like screens to select it before the action can resume?

I use the categorized favorites menu mod.

Thanks. I haven't tried any mods yet, but I'll look for that one.

The mods add a lot to the game, but they can also make it twitchy, so be warned.

Something in the combo of mods I use really screwed with the Dawnguard DLC. At first it simply wouldn't allow my character to turn into a vampire lord, but in my last go-around it created a glitch where one of the Dawnguard guys keeps attacking all the rest of the Dawnguard members, and the quest has just completely stalled. I'm going to have to go back to my last manual save point, which will cost me a couple of days of game time, and hope I can find a way to work past it. Assuming I even bother.

and now for something completely new...

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download it here...

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/24709/

http://www.bethblog.com/2013/01/18/t...dawnguard-too/

50% off during launch week for PSN? That's a good start, if the ****ing thing actually plays!

No matter -- I've already switched to PC for this game.

wonder when the GOTY edition is going to be available with all the add-ons will come out

Any dates for PS3 set yet?

New Elder Scrolls Online trailer.

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If Bethesda finally gets the loot system right, this could be an epic game.

I really hate that they're making this, because Bethesda shits gold for me, and if they follow their gold-shitting pattern, my life is going to be ruined because of this.

JUST MAKE A NEW FALLOUT HURRY

Was a rumor they're working on one for next gen.

Saw the trailer earlier, it looks like every bethesda game I've played for the last five years: really pretty, no substance. I'll sign up for the beta anyway, cause I like free.

Hey, just out of curiosity how do you rank your top 5 RPGs (MMOs or SP)?

Are all 5 made by BioWare?

I can't just list 5, these are basically all equally favorite, with Torment, BG and KoTOR being the top and the rest being a notch below.

1) Planescape: Torment - Black Isle
2) Baldur's Gate 1/2 - Bioware
3) Knights of the Old Republic 1/2 - Bioware/Obsidian
4) Fallout 1/2 - Interplay
5) System Shock 2 - Irrational Games
6) Mass Effect 1/2/3 - Bioware
7) Deus Ex - Ion Storm
8) Icewind Dale 1/2 - Black Isle
9) TES 3: Morrowind - Bethesda
10) Neverwinter Nights 1/2 - Bioware/Obsidian

I haven't always been anti-bethesda. I played the living shit out of Morrowind. Hundreds and hundreds of hours. Oblivion and Fallout 3 both lost me between 20 and 30 hours in. I've been told Skyrim is worth playing, maybe someday when it's really cheap. I think as I get older, though, open world games interest me less and less, I need story over character building and grinding, so I don't expect I'll get into it.

I think the best trailer I saw today was for Heart of the Swarm (the opening cinematic for the SC2 expansion, it was pretty awesome).

That's a kickass list, man. I enjoy a good rat-race grind myself but those don't come close to a story like say KOTOR or Mass Effect for me. Anyway, maybe one day someone will be able to come out with a game that incorporates both, but that might require a prohibitively long development, so probably not. :)

I am planning on giving ES Online a go though, because I always seem to enjoy Bethesda games right up to the point when my character stops progressing (I've discussed this too many times before). The trailer itself was pretty epic, almost up to par with Blizzard.

SWTOR should probably go on that list, as much as I've played it. I just finished my 6th character arc (bounty hunter) and started the last two, sith warrior and sith inquisitor, this week.

Unfortunately (so far) my fear for that game has come to fruition, as they've added absolutely nothing to it story-wise in the year since release, with the exception of the quest for HK-51, which can be done in a day. Everything they're added has been raiding and PvP (well, and cartel market). Which was just adding more grinding to an endgame that was already nothing but grinding.

And I've actually done a fair bit of it, mainly dailies, space missions (they introduced new ones a month ago that have black hole comm rewards) and hard mode fps. I still haven't done any raiding yet.

The story part of it has been great for me. Playing through all the class stories, I'm online as much now as I was a year ago (which is bad, really...). I don't know how the expansion's going to be. I worry that it's going to be less than a week of new stuff and then back to the endgame grind. They've already announced there's no class story aspect to it, and everybody's chapter 4 is a faction-wide story arc, which is a disappointment, if not a surprise. There's enough to keep my sub going for another 6 months, but after that? Not sure.

Anyway, I got sidetracked, the main point was that I'm okay with a certain amount of grinding, too. There's a calming aspect to turning your brain off like that. But I don't know that Bethesda can give me enough interesting stuff outside of that to keep me invested.

I need a cheap gaming computer for ESO..

PC finally gets Dragonborn on the 5th.

PS3 DLC release dates finally announced:
Dragonborn - Feb. 12th.
Hearthfire - Feb. 19th.
Dawnguard - Feb. 26th.

Perfect timing. Dragonborn will hit about the same time I max my smithing skill, allowing me to use some of those bones I have been saving.

I checked this morning for shits and grins - I have 175 hours in right now and I am about half done with clearing the map.

It's not actually being done by Bethesda. It's being done by Zenimax Studios.

Have you ever tried playing an MMO?

I've got a couple hundred hours in the basic game now and I've decided that I probably played it wrong. I focused early on smithing, alchemy and enchanting. I ended up making better equipment for myself than anything I can find in the game. It really drained any suspense out of the battles when even the most powerful bad guys have trouble hurting me and die to a quick flurry of strikes or a couple of arrow hits.

I went about it the other way...I focused on destruction magic and archery skills. I'm only just now going back and doing smithing so I can level up. Destruction archery and sneak are all above 90, but I'm only level 52.