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Gideon Zhi
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 Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:50 am |
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| But I did, I think...? At least for the Frost one, I know I killed a dragon and then walked up to some runes and absorbed the shout. For the Dismay shout I didn't fight any dragons, but absorbed it from runes on a wall just the same — and it's confusing, because they're listed under my shouts just like the ones I can use, can be added to my favorites and hotkeyed, etc. So it doesn't seem to make any sense. |
Absorbing the shout is only half of it. That just teaches you the word, but in order to actually use it you have to spend a dragon soul on it to unlock it, unless it's given to you as part of the story (as with Unrelenting Force.)
I'm not sure whether I want to support the Imperials or the Stormcloaks in the civil war. On one hand, the Imperials are invaders in a foreign land, and they tried to cut my head off. That makes me mad! On the other, I managed the lengthy hike up to the Stormcloak captial of Windhelm (on my way to Winterhold for the mage people) and the first thing I see when I get in are some douchebag Nords sexually harassing a dunmer. So now I'm torn :(
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Gideon Zhi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:52 am |
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Protip: Dragon corpse pieces are heavy! I didn't realize this until after killing my second dragon on the way to High Hrothgar. I ended up fast-traveling back to my house in Whiterun and deposited my dragon crap in the chest - it was nearly half my encumbrance, ugh.
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Gideon Zhi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:19 am |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
| Gideon Zhi wrote: |
| I'm not sure whether I want to support the Imperials or the Stormcloaks in the civil war. |
Always vote Septim. Always. |
Except the Empire isn't controlled by a Septim anymore, is it? I though that bloodline died off with Martin at the end of Oblivion.
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Gideon Zhi
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Gideon Zhi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:46 pm |
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This game is kind of gorgeous.
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You know, that's one thing that strikes me about this game. Normally I see graphics as a means to an end. Something like FF13 or Mass Effect or something comes out, and my first reaction is "Wow, that sure is pretty" but after an hour or so I've ceased to notice the graphics and am totally focused on the gameplay. I probably dropped ten hours into Skyrim yesterday, and even late in the day I kept stopping just to stare at it. It's one thing for a game to be pretty, it's another for it to be continually pretty. Sure okay it has a few rough edges here and there, but goddamn. Stand on a rock outcropping inside the courtyard at High Hrothgar and tell me that the view isn't just fucking incredible.
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Gideon Zhi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:32 pm |
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I was thinking about the stat removal thing last night. It's an interesting approach, certainly, and keeps the game from being breakable in hilarious ways, like Morrowind's Potion of Fortify Intelligence 23,103,664 Points for 30Mo 26d 15h 24m 46s. But on the other hand, it keeps the game from being breakable in hilarious ways, and it was always kind of fun finding those ways. I liked being able to break an unbreakable Bound Sword over Vivec's head in one attack 'cuz I was too strong to wield it without it breaking :(
The problem with perks is that if you make a bad decision, you're basically stuck with it (unless there's a way to reset your perks, which would be *really* nice, even if it's expensive or only doable on a per-constellation basis.) Of course, this was a problem with traditional stats and leveling too to some extent, but at least with that you could almost always fix your screw-ups by enchanting your equipment, frequently in multiple ways. When I leveled in Oblivion I could drop a few points into a stat that would increase my aptitude with MULTIPLE things, not just one. That kind of bugs me with this.
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Gideon Zhi
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 1:36 am |
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Yeah, I think I've decided to side with the Imperials. The whole nord racist dark elves (black people) thing just stinks a little too much of neonaziism. Torture bugs me, nearly getting my head cut off bugs me, but blatant racism like that just pisses me right the fuck off.
Edit: To clarify, torture for political/tactical reasons is not okay, but it's better than torture/rape just because someone's a dunmer she must be a spy oh god let's get her.
Edit: However I'm still siding with the Grey-Manes, 'cuz the Battle-Borns are just dicks. Except for Lars.
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Gideon Zhi
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:59 pm |
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| Saw two dragons after the tutorial one. The first was when I was trying to infiltrate a fort filled with elemental adepts during night so I didn't want to start a ruckus with them close by. |
If this is where I think it is, do NOT get anywhere near the dragon mound before killing the dragon. Approaching the mound causes this hard-as-fuck dude to spawn, and you do not want him slinging 30-point explosive fireballs at you while you're trying to fight a dragon. Killing him got me a great little item that improves archery, alchemy, and lockpicking by 20% each when it's equipped, but holy hell the guy was a bastard to kill. It got to the point where my game was chugging something fierce, playing for a few seconds then freezing for a few seconds. The fight took a good ten minutes, and I'd burned through a LOT of health and magicka potions before it was over, as well as a full level up. I think I'd used maybe two health potions prior to the fight.
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Gideon Zhi
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 5:02 pm |
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So rumor has it that if you turn off clipping and, well, walk out of Skyrim to the south, you'll end up in a blandly-textured but still full-sized Cyrodiil. Or if you head off in another direction, you'll end up on Morrowind. This just makes me go "holy fuck what"
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