You need to do up to your first dragon kill in the main questline for dragons to appear in the world

At 11/13/11 03:12 PM, Makeshift wrote:

At 11/13/11 02:59 PM, Xarnor wrote: Does anyone know if you can find any dragons without doing the main storyline? I've been exploring a lot and looking for dragons but I can't find any, so I'm guessing that they don't just show up randomly like other creatures.

No, they come randomly. I've seen about 8 and fought 5 of them.

I've also seen Dragons flying around me and not doing anything. I was ready to fight but didn't have any good range attacks to hit it so I was just waiting for it to attack but never did. Kinda wanted to though since I've discovered so many shouts.

At 11/13/11 03:14 PM, Xarnor wrote:

At 11/13/11 03:12 PM, Makeshift wrote:

At 11/13/11 02:59 PM, Xarnor wrote: Does anyone know if you can find any dragons without doing the main storyline? I've been exploring a lot and looking for dragons but I can't find any, so I'm guessing that they don't just show up randomly like other creatures.

No, they come randomly. I've seen about 8 and fought 5 of them.

So was this in a certain area, or all over the map? Perhaps I have to be a higher level before dragons start showing up. I should really Google it.

They seem to spawn more frequently at higher levels with higher level shouts, but one dragon that attacked me when I was level 6 did almost no damage to me and I took it down in two minutes, but I got attacked at level 14 and he killed me in one shout.

Picked up a pan, put it on a shopkeepers head. They did nothing. On a side note, my character is looking rather BLUE! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

At 11/13/11 02:59 PM, Xarnor wrote: Does anyone know if you can find any dragons without doing the main storyline? I've been exploring a lot and looking for dragons but I can't find any, so I'm guessing that they don't just show up randomly like other creatures.

I think there's like an actual quest in the main story that activates them randomly showing up. I sort of wandered off on my own once the guy told me to join the legion, and I haven't seen any dragons either.
I'm gonna do a few more main story quests so dragons start showing up.

At 11/13/11 10:34 AM, Makeshift wrote: I can't join the thieves guild because the guy I'm supposed to meet at the Ragged Flagon is stuck in the market where he stands to distract the townsfolk as you do a favour for him. He's stuck there at every time of the day. I guess I'll join them in my next playthrough.

Try waiting or sleeping for an hour. I think doing that makes the game predict where he would be if he followed the right path for a game hour, then puts him there, which should get him unstuck. It usually works for me when people are being retarded.
Or try sprinting and running into him, that knocks them back a little and might also get him unstuck. It doesn't make him mad or anything, he'll just say "Hey watch out" or something, and continue doing whatever.

Totally forgot to include this part in my last post.

Tried the bucket-on-head method in a Dark Brotherhood quest. Shit worked perfectly.

I felt bad and reloaded, though.

I was attacked by two dragons at once. In Riverwood.

I just watched that shitty little town where the thieves guild is based, which is pretty much Bravil get attacked by the damn Imperial army. I was just about to enter, and about 20 Imperials appeared out of nowhere and started killing the guards, who were continuously appearing out of the main gate. I have no idea what happened, but the loot was sick.

Guards won btw. And then told me off for littering AGAIN.

At 11/12/11 09:25 AM, Makeshift wrote:

At 11/12/11 09:12 AM, kiljoy96 wrote: So how overhyped would you say this game is? I haven't played it, but from what I've seen, I'm severely disappointed in how dumbed down it seems.

"dumbed down"?

I don't understand why it being easier to get into makes it "dumbed down". I don't think the game is overhyped at all. It's severely underhyped because there's still people out there who don't have it.

"Making it easier to get into," in this case, equals, "getting dumbed down". It's true that it's dumbed down a lot, but not to death. They've added things, but they've subtracted much more. This is what is known as, "dumbing down". For real, they're the same thing in my opinion and obviously his as well.

No, I'd say it's over hyped. I mean, by a big margin. I was lead to believe that a lot more things would be in here than there are, just by reading this thread from time to time.

You guys post far too much when you should be playing the game.

We've not told any lies here, personally I don't see any dumbing down that has made it any worse, the core of the game is still the same.

At 11/13/11 07:11 PM, Tramps wrote: Rahmemhotep do you ever stop bitching?

When people enjoying something there will always be bitching.

At 11/13/11 06:25 PM, Rahmemhotep wrote: You guys post far too much when you should be playing the game.

If you don't post actual arguments instead of vague suggestions that something about the game is bad I'll ban you.

Consider this your only warning/

I think Skyrim gets really laggy the longer you have a console on. I've heard that it's due to overheating or some shit. Well, that's ironic. The game you need to play ten or more hours straight has lag issues IF you play ten or more hours straight.

36 hours played and I'm only level 22, I have a list of about 15 side quests, 20 miscellaneous quests, and I've only done 7 main quests. I had completed every quest in Fallout 3 in only 35 hours.

Oh yeah, thanks Cole, nudging him with sprint worked.

Damn it, I can not find a character I am truly happy with. I've played a bit with characters of all 3 main classes and all of them ended up boring me. I can't make ANOTHER new character can I? I love you Skyrim, but you're frustrating me right now. This is actually the same thing I did with Oblivion, I went through plenty of characters before finding one I truly loved and stuck with. It just makes the entire weekend feel like a waste of time if I start over again. Quality over quantity I suppose.

Neighbors thought Skyrim had ugly graphics and compared it to Modern Warfare 3. Showed them this on my PC and they were quiet.

Are there any negatives to being a werewolf?

At 11/13/11 08:41 PM, Cootie wrote: I don't like mages being able to wear heavy armor and enchant it and have their spells not effected. I mean damn, what is the point in using smithing to improve your armor if you can fucking enchant it. I get wanting people to play their own way, but you should have consequences and pros to cons on certain actions.

For one, it's 'affected'. Secondly, can't you smith to improve it then enchant it having two benefits? I don't know much about enchanting, but from what I've seen, all the enchants are beneficial for magical characters only.

At 11/13/11 08:32 PM, mrpwnzer wrote: Neighbors thought Skyrim had ugly graphics and compared it to Modern Warfare 3. Showed them this on my PC and they were quiet.

You should of showed them the Aurora Borealis. Now that's gorgeous.

so any one deep into smithing? so far i can craft dwarven and im loving the skill, plus with my sword and sheild attacking im hella armored, but i want to know, can you get dendric instead of dadric? idk if you can get both or is just dadric in the game? anyone care to help me? also what is true silver and moon whatever used in? are there rare recipes for smithing?

I randomly stumbled onto a dead bandit in the woods today who had left his horse without an owner. Yeah, that's right. Free horse.

Why are dragon priest more powerful then a dragon? I killed a dragon in like 8 mins then a priest appeared and about 30 mins into the battle with it I die.... fucking gay as hell.

Gaiz I'm a werewolf, but I'm in my human form. I can't use first
person camera. Is this normal. I'm doing the quest inwhich you become a werewolf BTW.

I kinda want to get this game. How welcoming is the gameplay to someone who's never played the series? I don't want to get it and be absolutely lost and die every 5 minutes.

At 11/14/11 05:04 AM, Corpus-Delicti wrote: I kinda want to get this game. How welcoming is the gameplay to someone who's never played the series? I don't want to get it and be absolutely lost and die every 5 minutes.

I wouldn't say that the "tutorial" for this game was as good as Oblivions. It outlines a few basic things, but it doesn't explain how a lot of stuff works. Even so, it's generally not all that hard to work out. I'm sure the instruction manual will tell you most of what you need to know, although I still haven't referenced it yet.

I find myself dying a lot more than I did on Oblivion as well, but if things get too challenging for you, you can always lower the difficulty.

At 11/14/11 04:53 AM, ModernPatriot wrote: Gaiz I'm a werewolf, but I'm in my human form. I can't use first
person camera. Is this normal. I'm doing the quest inwhich you become a werewolf BTW.

NVM gaiz. It fixed itself.

At 11/14/11 05:04 AM, Corpus-Delicti wrote: I kinda want to get this game. How welcoming is the gameplay to someone who's never played the series? I don't want to get it and be absolutely lost and die every 5 minutes.

It's fairly simple you shouldn't have a problem

At 11/13/11 09:38 PM, letiger wrote: from what I've seen, all the enchants are beneficial for magical characters only.

Not true at all, I've got enchantments to improve sneaking, pickpocketing, and lockpicking on my armor.
My Blade of Woe steals health when I attack with it, but I don't really keep it charged much.
I have the ability to enchant my armor to improve all kinds of other skills, but I don't use most of them since I'm mainly sneaky.
Maxes out sneak plus the 15x backstab damage perk plus a double backstab damage enchantment on my gloves = one hit sneak kill on motherfucking everything.
I've only run into one enemy that didn't die on the first attack.

Also, I'm having a lot of fun with the push shout. I love luring a bandit to the edge of a cliff then shouting him over the edge. Also it's very useful when running from snow sabre cats and shit.