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At 11/21/11 11:42 PM, POTaTOS wrote: I agree with all of this. Except for the Breton part. A Bosmer's connection with the wild would be ideal for a druid. Focusing on conjuration magic would be ideal, since you can conjure animals and animal spirits. And maybe Spriggans. I'm not sure though.

I always think of druids as being more magic based than most Bosmer which is why I suggested the Breton since any spell the Bosmer can do a Breton can do better. I'm not that big a fan of the mer in general and usually play as either an Argonian or a Breton.

Where's the best place to find deer and/or elk? I can almost never find any when I'm hunting.

At 11/21/11 11:57 PM, POTaTOS wrote: Where's the best place to find deer and/or elk? I can almost never find any when I'm hunting.

Beyond the mountain south of Marthal I found a wooded area with a large group of deer and elk.

At 11/22/11 12:02 AM, djack wrote:

At 11/21/11 11:57 PM, POTaTOS wrote: Where's the best place to find deer and/or elk? I can almost never find any when I'm hunting.

Beyond the mountain south of Marthal I found a wooded area with a large group of deer and elk.

Yeah, I see a good amount of deer here. Now I can finally get some leather.

Fancy that, I also saw a giant, red mudcrab.

At 11/22/11 01:05 AM, Gagsy wrote: Going to restart this game soon. I didn't get too far originally but I feel I'll enjoy it more when focusing on stats and attributes that I actually prefer to play with.

If you want to hack and slash, play a Redguard, Orc, or Nord.

I always play a Redguard. (black man) And then I beat everyone's face in with a warhammer who looks at me the wrong way. Did I mention I steal everything that's not bolted down?

So for the past 40 hours I had this Hjalti's Sword stuck in my inventory after I randomly picked it up somewhere. It was marked as a quest item so I couldn't drop it, and because it was a quest item, I didn't want to remove it using the console.

Then I went to sleep in some random inn, and a ghost appeared and was all like "Hjalti, gimme your sword" and I was like "OH THANK AKATOSH I CAN FINALLY GET RID OF THIS THING"

Please Bethesda, please tell me you're using this for the best DLC ever!

At 11/22/11 07:12 AM, iMini wrote: Please Bethesda, please tell me you're using this for the best DLC ever!

If that's true, then it's awesome news. There's no way they'd include all that if they didn't plan on doing something with it. As if I didn't already think Skyrim was the best game ever, this will blow everything else clean out the water!

I play the Skyrim theme while I shit.

At 11/22/11 08:24 AM, simon wrote: I just got this game, I put 500 hours into Oblivion.. will I like this?

Definitely. It really does feel like they took Oblivion and made it a hell of a lot better. It's just a superior game in every way. I guess my one niggle is the map. Obviously it's Skyrim so I expected snowy mountains and stuff, but it can feel a little bland at times.

At 11/22/11 08:24 AM, simon wrote: I just got this game, I put 500 hours into Oblivion.. will I like this?

No, you will probably hate it and sell it.

At 11/22/11 08:47 AM, Jolly wrote: The guild quest seem a lot less fun to me.

Actually, I'll agree with you there. I miss the style of having a Fighters Guild and Mages Guild in every city. It made the quest line for each of them seem to last longer. You can bash through all the guilds in Skyrim pretty quickly. Well, I still have the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood to finish, but if The Companions and The College were anything to go by, it wont take me long at all.

Speaking of the 'cities', they're also less impressive than Oblivion yet they seem to fit with the Nord setting. Some of them just fell really quite small, but still have all the same functionality.

At 11/22/11 09:58 AM, simon wrote: No need to be sarcastic, some people would argue Morrowind is the best Elder Scrolls game out there but I didn't like that and couldn't get into it, whereas I got into Oblivion. And I was hearing Skyrim is a combination of both of the games so obviously I'm going to have some second thoughts about this game.

I hated Morrowind, loved Oblivion, and WORSHIP SKYRIM. It's almost like they took the best parts of every game style I've ever liked, put it into one game, and created Skyrim. The only thing that truly upsets me is the fact that there's no arena.

Can anyone imagine how incredible the game would have been if it created an arena with these graphics?? If they caught a Dragon for you and there was an opportunity to fight one as final quests for the beast challenges? That's probably the only thing I could complain about. Maybe a DLC? Who knows.

At 11/22/11 08:47 AM, Jolly wrote: The guild quest seem a lot less fun to me. Mainly the Dark Brotherhood. The Dark Brotherhood was WAY too easy. In Oblivion you had to try to loosen an animal head onto somebody without either his servent or him seeing you.. Kill each person at a party without the others seeing you do it... etc. Nothing like that in Skyrim.

The side quest seem a lot better though.

I agree mostly except for one thing,
SPOILER
Killing a woman in broad daylight at her own wedding with a loose gargoyle and then later posing as a chef so that you can stand next to the guy whose food you just poisoned tops anything you did in Oblivion for a bonus from the Dark Brotherhood. The latter part of that actually led to an awesome fight experience for me as I'm a fan of the literal trailers by Tobuscus and managed to nod at the hawk in Solitude just before the guy finished talking and tried to send the guards after me causing me to slaughter my way out of the city.

At 11/22/11 01:37 AM, MercatorMapV2 wrote: Redguard. (black man)

They're not really black people as much as they are Arabs.

Khajiit are closer to your stereotypical black guy.

At 11/21/11 05:28 PM, Dean wrote: Yea. For the most part it's a case of time rather than effort. I think the only achievements that I might struggle with are the one that included pickpocketing 50 times

Wasn't even aware of this achievement. I've been pickpocketing the shit out of everyone since it's fairly easy to level up.

I think i'll create a new character soon. I'll probably be a pure sneak khajit. After hearing what someone else did in this thread where they had a low levelled character but with a really high pickpocketing skill, i've been wanting to try it out for myself.

At 11/22/11 12:28 PM, warshark wrote: Wasn't even aware of this achievement.

Thief - 30G
Pick 50 locks and 50 pockets

It's pickpocketing that will take me some time. Checked my stats earlier. 100+ locks picked but zero pockets picked.

That news about the whole of Tamriel being in the game is pretty cool, but I doubt they're literally going to give us all of it. Sure it would be unbelievably awesome to the point of being the single greatest thing of all time, but it would also end the series and make every other instalment redundant. TES is Bethesda's biggest money maker at the moment and Tamriel is still partially unexplored, I doubt they would throw away 3-4 potential games just to make this one better.

A Morrowind or a Hammerfell/High Rock expansion seems quite likely, to me anyway, but you shouldn't get your hopes up.

Although that been said there are other continents on Nirn, and most fans already know what to expect from most of Tamriel. If they did do this it would mean a completely new, unexplored continent and a fresh slate for the series in the next game. That would kick ass.

At 11/22/11 10:10 AM, Bahamut wrote: I originally dismissed Morrowind mainly for the combat system. I am willing to give it a second chance at a later point providing I can settle with how combat works in Morrowind.

That turned me off at first too. Thankfully there's a mod that changes the combat to more of an Oblivion style so you wont miss 9 out of 10 swings when you're a low level. The game is almost unplayable to me without it.

At 11/22/11 12:41 PM, Dean wrote: It's pickpocketing that will take me some time. Checked my stats earlier. 100+ locks picked but zero pockets picked.

It doesn't literally mean 50 pockets though, each individual item counts as picking a pocket, so you can get 50 really fast. Took me literally 5 minutes of running around Whiterun to get 50, and I had a really low pickpocket skill at the time too.

At 11/22/11 01:01 PM, Jackho wrote: It doesn't literally mean 50 pockets though, each individual item counts as picking a pocket, so you can get 50 really fast.

Ah, that sounds much better. I never really play as stealthy characters on any games, which would explain why I still haven't picked a picket.

Also, how much junk do you guys hoard in game? If I open one of the chests in my house there must be well over 100 items that I know I'm never going to use and cant be arsed to sell because of all the trips to and from stores that would be required. Worst thing is, I still keep adding more useless shit to it!

At 11/22/11 12:41 PM, Dean wrote: Thief - 30G
Pick 50 locks and 50 pockets

It's pickpocketing that will take me some time. Checked my stats earlier. 100+ locks picked but zero pockets picked.

Other way around for me. I hardly ever pick locks. Spent around 3 hours Sunday night just picking the pockets of everyone in Whiterun so i'm sure i've already got over 50.

At 11/22/11 01:16 PM, Dean wrote: Also, how much junk do you guys hoard in game? If I open one of the chests in my house there must be well over 100 items that I know I'm never going to use and cant be arsed to sell because of all the trips to and from stores that would be required. Worst thing is, I still keep adding more useless shit to it!

I've got a chest for my useless crap i'll never need, a chest for useless crap i've stolen and a chest for all my smithing items which i'll probably never get around to using.

I have a chest full of Dragon Scales and Dragon Bones that I can't sell because the merchants are all poor as fuck.