My friend was on about the lich that comes out after you kill a dragon, I’ve not seen it yet. My characters an expert archer and alchemist, I like using poisoned arrows from afar. Enchanted all my armour and rings to suit that style of play.

GlitterGary, I think Fallout 3 has to be one of the most atmospheric games ever made. New Vegas was good too and took it to the next level, but i think I will remember 3 more for atmosphere as it was the first free roaming game of that genre done so well. STALKER was ok but it often felt more like operation flashpoint set in a wasteland with crap monsters.

Happened a few times to me tonight, seems random if you get chomped, as i was at 3/4 health but still got eaten!

I finally managed to get some time with Skyrim tonight. I’m currently full destruction (fire in the right hand, sparks in the left), and nauseatingly good. Unlike Mr Toast, who spends hours robbing people blind with his lizard wizard. Well, he’s not really a wizard, but ‘stealthy roguey archer type’ doesn’t rhyme with lizard.

I’m having too much fun playing Skyrim.

How do you go about adding more letters to your shouts though? I’ve been with the greybeards and improved my pushing-people type one but really want my firey shout to be better.

Also, as a bunch of left-leaning Guradian readers, are we all Stormcloaks or has anyone sided with the Empire?

I’m struggling to care about it any more and am only lvl 14 :p I can’t get over how weak a destruction mage seems to be, unless I resort to healing my companion (or tanking and chain healing myself whilst the companion does damage) I really struggle. Occasionally I’ll 1-shot a bandit or some other weak thing but usually in dungeons I do about 10-15% dmg per hit and die if I get hit more than a couple of times.
It’s a bit naff you can seemingly buy all the spells from the start to so as a mage only have armour to look forward to (assuming no one bothers much with staves).
The rag-doll stuff is annoying to if you’re fighting on a mountain, I must have run miles chasing corpses rolling down them.

Yes, they are life stealers. Thankfully I’m full on with everything else in my life right now so only get to play the odd session late at night. Twas different in my 20s.

FW, I’ll probably get bored of it in a few days/weeks too. I’m kind of expecting to, but at the same time the non-linearity does mean you have huge variety in what you do and how you do it. Everyone playing the game is probably taking an entirely different path. And it does look damn fine. A much better experience that the Fallout series and other RPGs.

I sided with the Imperials, but kind of by accident as there were people talking in the room and I just picked the first option without realising what I was being asked. 😛

Loved the Cracked article! 😀

I keep dying really easily and I’m only at level 7.

I’m not doing any magic things yet, should I be? I just try and block and fight, but then I almost always have to leg it from a fight. 🙂

Am I just rubbish?

I’m not doing any magic things yet, should I be? I just try and block and fight, but then I almost always have to leg it from a fight.

Am I just rubbish

Depends what you’re trying to focus on – if you want to be a warrior type character, you need to be using heavy armour, two handed swords, etc. If you want to be a roguey character, you need to sneak around a lot in leather (let’s face it, we’ve all done it) with a bow. If you want to be a caster, you need the clothie stuff (as it normally has magicka regen or lower cast cost for certain schools of magic). The more you use something, the higher your skill in it.

Also, what are you putting your points into? If you’re being a melee character and you’re dying a lot, you might want to bunt some points into health to increase your max pool.

Same here Fuzzy – I’ll put maybe 10-15hrs (these days) into what I think is a good game and then that’s it. Tis a good thing though.

I reckon SR could easily pull a lot of people into it though. If I had absolutely nothing to do for a week I could play it a lot. But thankfully I have a life.

Its because you can’t. They’ve used console commands to make the crab bigger.

Just like this 3X bigger dragon.

Ooh nude female textures.

Holy thread resurrection, Batman!

Just got Skyrim. Anything I need to know before I roll a character?

I’ve gone down the imperial warrior mage route, mix of companions and winterhold quests, with some smithing and plenty of enchanted weapons with soul trap to keep everything charged.

Search every room, drawer, cupboard etc… there are plenty of skills books to be found to give good boosts to skills.

Cougar – was the naming of your Wood Elf a nod to ‘Bored of the Rings’?

‘… rolling a Rogue type character’ Are you a proper ‘pencil and manuals’ RPG’er!?

But, yeah. “Warrior” classes never held much appeal to me. I’ve always subscribed to the Mr Myagi school of gaming; “best defence, no be there.” Archer / spellchucker / sniper etc.

That cat thing was tempting, that was my second choice. Y’know, Cougar.

I’m starting to get grumpy with the lag time issue

Ps3 by the way and level 11
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