Skyrim

[Kleves]

Can you marry multiple people? What if your first wife has an "accident" and you suddenly become single again?

[The Brain]

Wrong thread.

[Octavian]

Lol I killed Lydia by accident while fighting some stormcloacks last night. It was a glorious battle so it was worth it.

[grumbler]

Lol I killed Lydia by accident while fighting some stormcloacks last night. It was a glorious battle so it was worth it.

She does have a knack for stepping right into the line of fire when you are about to release an arrow.  When she dies, it's her own fault.

[Octavian]

Lol I killed Lydia by accident while fighting some stormcloacks last night. It was a glorious battle so it was worth it.

She does have a knack for stepping right into the line of fire when you are about to release an arrow.  When she dies, it's her own fault.

Indeed. Although to be fair she was kneeling down having been matched by a stormcloak. I rushed forward killed the stormcloak saw a figure kneeling and before thinking about it cut the figure down. Then I saw it was her.

Then I looted the corpse.

Still her own fault.

[grumbler]

It took me a while to get "into" this game, but I am hooked, now.

I played through my first character, a Nord warrior, until gaining level 32.  I don't think I've ever taken my first toon that far in a BethSoft game before.  Now, I am trying a Breton mage.  I like the flamethrower spells - they let me play in third person.

Some of the radiant quests are just so-so, but a lot of the designed quests show that the BethSoft writers were paying attention to what the Obsidion writers did in FONV. 

The interface is shockingly bad, but the game mechanics are actually quite good.  Combat in interesting, the item creation/modification system works and seems balanced, and the perk system is a big step up from what was released just last year in FONV.  I especially love the alchemy system; you get to play the detective to find the plants with the characteristics you desire, but there are books and whatnot to help cut down on the waste.

The lock picking minigame is fun, and all the unfun minigames are gone.  Stability is amazing; not just for a BethSoft game (and that's always been a weakness of theirs) but for any kind of computer game.

They really did get this one right.  After The Witcher II turned out to be such a suckfest I feared that good game design was going to be eclipsed by gimmicks like the massively annoying QTEs.  Skyrim is about playing a character, not twitching on the right buttons in the right order.  I'd write more, but I need to get back to my game.

[The Brain]

It took me a while to get "into" this game, but I am hooked, now.

I played through my first character, a Nord warrior, until gaining level 32.  I don't think I've ever taken my first toon that far in a BethSoft game before.  Now, I am trying a Breton mage.  I like the flamethrower spells - they let me play in third person.

Some of the radiant quests are just so-so, but a lot of the designed quests show that the BethSoft writers were paying attention to what the Obsidion writers did in FONV. 

The interface is shockingly bad, but the game mechanics are actually quite good.  Combat in interesting, the item creation/modification system works and seems balanced, and the perk system is a big step up from what was released just last year in FONV.  I especially love the alchemy system; you get to play the detective to find the plants with the characteristics you desire, but there are books and whatnot to help cut down on the waste.

The lock picking minigame is fun, and all the unfun minigames are gone.  Stability is amazing; not just for a BethSoft game (and that's always been a weakness of theirs) but for any kind of computer game.

They really did get this one right.  After The Witcher II turned out to be such a suckfest I feared that good game design was going to be eclipsed by gimmicks like the massively annoying QTEs.  Skyrim is about playing a character, not twitching on the right buttons in the right order.  I'd write more, but I need to get back to my game.

I agree with grumbler.

[Valmy]

Really looking forward to playing it then Grumbler 

[The Brain]

Really looking forward to playing it then Grumbler 

Don't bother with grumbler. Needs patching.

[grumbler]

Really looking forward to playing it then Grumbler 

Don't bother with grumbler. Needs patching.

+1

[MadBurgerMaker]

SkyUI has been released: http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863

g, another one you might want to try (although I wasn't too fond of it) is called QD Inventory: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=667

The font in the screenshots is just the one he chose to use, and doesn't come with it (note #1).   Which reminds me, a new font pack thing that I'm about to install as well: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=667  I'm currently using one called "Centaur," but I want to give that Fhaarkas one a shot (I'm not entirely sure if SkyUI and this will play nicely together though. edit:  they don't).

SkyUI requires SKSE (1.4.1 is out now too btw), so get that if you don't have it.  Also wrye bash is cool and is easy to install and all that (it has an autoinstaller thing now). 

[grumbler]

SkyUI has been released: http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863

g, another one you might want to try (although I wasn't too fond of it) is called QD Inventory: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=667

The font in the screenshots is just the one he chose to use, and doesn't come with it (note #1).   Which reminds me, a new font pack thing that I'm about to install as well: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=667  I'm currently using one called "Centaur," but I want to give that Fhaarkas one a shot (I'm not entirely sure if SkyUI and this will play nicely together though. edit:  they don't).

SkyUI requires SKSE (1.4.1 is out now too btw), so get that if you don't have it.  Also wrye bash is cool and is easy to install and all that (it has an autoinstaller thing now). 

My problem isn't with the layout - that was easy to fix from the start.  My problem is that the interface is "stupid."  In pretty much every game since the dawn of time (including all previous BethSoft games), if you want to switch items between a container and your inventory, you activate the container, and then click on items in the container to move them to inventory, and click on items in inventory to move them to the container.  Not in Skyrim; in Skyrim, if you open a container and click on an item in inventory, you consume it. 

The game has a lot of these kinds of little counter-intuitive mechanical changes.  It doesn't ruin the game, but it makes you wonder what the developers where thinking.

I hadn't been following the fonts development, though.  Thanks for pointing those out.

[The Brain]

Max von Sydow.

[MadBurgerMaker]

My problem isn't with the layout - that was easy to fix from the start.  My problem is that the interface is "stupid."  In pretty much every game since the dawn of time (including all previous BethSoft games), if you want to switch items between a container and your inventory, you activate the container, and then click on items in the container to move them to inventory, and click on items in inventory to move them to the container.  Not in Skyrim; in Skyrim, if you open a container and click on an item in inventory, you consume it. 

Yeah that is extremely irritating.  As a matter of fact, I just reminded myself about that by drinking a rather huge quantity of dwarven oil when I was trying to put it away.  Just an automatic reaction: click on the thing to put it in the container. *gulpgulpgulpgulpgulpgulpgulpgulp* "Fuck"

The game has a lot of these kinds of little counter-intuitive mechanical changes.  It doesn't ruin the game, but it makes you wonder what the developers where thinking.

I wonder if it was something with designing it to use with a controller.  I don't know why they would change things like that for a controller, but that's seriously the only thing I can come up with. 

I hadn't been following the fonts development, though.  Thanks for pointing those out.

Sure thing.

[Octavian]

It took me a while to get "into" this game, but I am hooked, now.

I played through my first character, a Nord warrior, until gaining level 32.  I don't think I've ever taken my first toon that far in a BethSoft game before.  Now, I am trying a Breton mage.  I like the flamethrower spells - they let me play in third person.

Some of the radiant quests are just so-so, but a lot of the designed quests show that the BethSoft writers were paying attention to what the Obsidion writers did in FONV. 

The interface is shockingly bad, but the game mechanics are actually quite good.  Combat in interesting, the item creation/modification system works and seems balanced, and the perk system is a big step up from what was released just last year in FONV.  I especially love the alchemy system; you get to play the detective to find the plants with the characteristics you desire, but there are books and whatnot to help cut down on the waste.

The lock picking minigame is fun, and all the unfun minigames are gone.  Stability is amazing; not just for a BethSoft game (and that's always been a weakness of theirs) but for any kind of computer game.

They really did get this one right.  After The Witcher II turned out to be such a suckfest I feared that good game design was going to be eclipsed by gimmicks like the massively annoying QTEs.  Skyrim is about playing a character, not twitching on the right buttons in the right order.  I'd write more, but I need to get back to my game.

I agree with grumbler.

Me too

Killed another companion a few days ago. Used the force shout on a polar bear which caused it to fly into my companion killing him. I looted his corpse and threw him down a mountain side.

Good times!