ITT you discuss Skyrim

[milk experiment]

Sorry, I may be extra spoiler-sensitive after having one of the early surprises in the Companion quest line spoiled before I got there.

[Searcher]

level 25 almost 80 hours ... now a vampire and I have 3 black soul gems in my home and can't get to them i am so annoyed so freaking annoyed ... had to start over

[Random Wanderer]

Interesting. I reloaded an earlier save the one time I accidentally became a vampire. Why can't you get back to your house?

I'm at 122 hours so far, split across... hmm... seven characters, I think. There may be one or two more than I lost track of.

[Adamas]

Searcher, if your vampirism is that apparent, Try finding a sleeping bandit to feed on. It resets your vampirism to stage 1 where they might look at you funny but not attack you. Or become a werewolf. But if you go that way, I hope you like having people comment on you smelling like a wet dog and the fur growing out of your ears. (This one is Khajit. This one always has fur growing out of one's ears. )

[Random Wanderer]

If people have issues with me being a werewolf, people can shove them.

I do wish werewolves could jump better, though. That was one of the most fun things about them in Morrowind. Getting on top of buildings and walls... traversal became a whole new game once you became a werewolf. But in Skyrim everybody and everything has the exact same jumping height. Disappointing.

[Adamas]

yeah. I just find it funny that I'm a felinoid , and only have people remarking after my furry ears when I turn in a dog-man

[milk experiment]

Well, now I know why everyone's so annoyed at the Blades. I think my next play-through will have to be with the revenge-obsessesed Bosmer I have waiting in the wings. She'll have no trouble agreeing with Esbern that Paarthurnax needs to die. I'm kind of curious to find out what happens if you go through with it.

Has anyone else who's collected Sanguine's Rose had trouble getting it to work properly? I'm not sure if it's a bug or bad luck, but the dremora it summons always seems to turn against me.

[sanzo]

So, just getting started out in Skyrim. Not sure what I should go with, so I made 3 characters: A High Elf, for mage, a Nord, for warrior, and a Khajit, for rogue. Figure I'll get some practice in with each of them, then decide which one I want to use

Also: Mods! Gonna take me forever to go through all of em, since there appear to be like 5 new ones each day. Gotta love the nexus

[Tenjen]

How does the pc compre to the Xbox version?

I played fallout and the others on my laptop but dont have it working right now.

[milk experiment]

There are three main things you'd be missing out on by going with the Xbox version, but they may not be big things depending on your priorities:

• Mods -- The Xbox version is unmodable, so if there's some great mod that changes how the game plays in ways you might like you'd miss it. I've been pretty happy with the vanilla game, honestly. Skyrim provides a better out-of-the-box experience than Oblivion did.
• Fan Bug Fixes -- You could technically consider this a subset of mods, but the aim here is to fix bugs Bethesda misses rather than to change the game itself. Fans fixed a bevvy of major and minor issues in Oblivion with the "Unofficial Oblivion Patch" and similar mods for Bethesda's DLC and expansions. I have yet to encounter anything but minor bugs in Skyrim, however, so again this might not be a big deal.
• Performance Improvements -- I haven't seen or played the Xbox version, but I understand draw distance and load times are both much better on a recent PC. If the computers you have access to for playing Skyrim are more than a couple of years old or don't have very powerful graphics cards, you may actually have a better experience on the Xbox.

[Tenjen]

So in this box...

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So I got the Xbox collectors edition

a plastic thread parchment map. A thick 12 By 8 inch book of game ..

OH AND THIS WAS IN IT TOO.

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[Tenjen]

Double post.

[Adamas]

I'm going bare-knuckle brawler this time around. Withe the fist of steel perk I'm doing more damage with my fists then with an ebony battleaxe There's just something about punching out a dragon.

[Random Wanderer]

Doesn't work so well when your armor gets taken away, though. My warrior who used two-handed weapons got thrown into a dungeon/mine as part of a quest, and had to break back out. You can either work together with a group of pretty bad people in the prison and all get out together, but suffer the consequence of making everyone in the city it's a part of really dislike you; or you can kill their leader, take his key to the hidden exit, and break out on your own, armed only with pickaxes, shivs, and whatever magic and dragon shouts you may have. I consider the second one to be the good option, but killing the leader without any real one-handed skill or magic is very difficult. No armor, so fists of steel does nothing. Also, the way out is through a Dwemer ruin that still has working sphere guardians ready to bludgeon you to death.

It's very tough trying to fight your way through a dungeon without your gear. It's a disturbing reminder of how dependent a character is on having good equipment.

[Tenjen]

So guess what I am in skyrim