Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[El Oso Blanco]

Decided to try playing legendary difficulty with my old level 66 character. I have to say...if you plan on battling 2 giants and 5 mammoths on legendary, you're gonna have a bad time. I know I did, especially since I made my Heavy Armor skill legendary.

 

I gotta say, I love the idea of removing the level cap, but it's kind of pointless to reset your skills at level 60+ considering how bloody difficult it is to level certain combat skills on higher difficulties. I'd much rather prefer to see the limit of 100 on each skill removed...

 

 

[Twang.]

legendary difficulty

Is that sh*t on 360 yet? I kinda wanna respec my mage. I forget, is there some sort of requirement before you can do that?

[CryptReaperDorian]

Can you only "legend" a skill once? If so, then I believe the hard level cap would still be there (probably level 162), but it would take a while to get to.

 

Sadly, Bethesda had to fix the bug for that Daedric book. I was thinking of exploiting it for a little while now (please don't kill me). My brother, who did exploit it, won't be very happy now.

 

Also, I'm still waiting for a fix to the "Glory to the Dead" quest. Being the person that instantly loots people and creatures as soon as they die, I'm now stuck with two Amulets of Talos in my inventory. Well, at least now I can get rid of that stupid flute.

Edited April 9, 2013 by CryptReaperDorian

[mrpain]

Created a new character. I think I went too far into over-sexualizing her character. Oops. She's a Temptress Mage. Really love playing as her as it provides me a challenge. Without any armor and only dependent on magic spells, she's a real tough chick.

 

 

 

There was a random battle between Stormcloaks and Imperials. My character was happily strutting her booty along.

 

 

I apologize in advance. I saw the beautiful sky and was bare naked at the time. I couldn't resist this good screenshot opportunity.

[JOSEPH X]

You dirty old (lucky) man. She reminds me of Lara Croft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Shteeve McClaren]

EDIT: Nevermind, wrong topic.

Edited April 9, 2013 by Luigi's

[El Oso Blanco]

 

legendary difficulty

Is that sh*t on 360 yet? I kinda wanna respec my mage. I forget, is there some sort of requirement before you can do that?

Yes. Legendary is out for both consoles now. As far as respecing your mage, any skill can be made legendary once it reaches 100. It returns the skill to 15 and refunds all perks, though. My advice is to keep at least 1 skill at level 100 so your character isn't completely gimped, if you're over level 60 that is.

 

 

Can you only "legend" a skill once? If so, then I believe the hard level cap would still be there (probably level 162), but it would take a while to get to.

 

As far as I know, you can legend them more than once. If you look under the enchanting skill tree in this screenshot:

http://cdnstatic.bethsoft.com/bethblog.com...3/legendary.jpg ) , the "legend" icon has a number beside it, so I believe it means that the skill has been made legendary more than once.

[Secura]

Some pics of my brand new character, I've decided to go for a play-style that's going to hurt, it's going to damn near kill me but boy will it be fun to play. This guy's called Maxwell, he's a travelling bard who came to Skyrim to practice at the Bard's college (he's a Nord who was born in High Rock) however he soon learns that there's far more too Skyrim then simply bardic knowledge.

 

He decided to come to his homeland to gain inspiration and to write about the Great War between the Stormcloaks and the Empire. Seeing as he's really neutral in the affairs of the war he's decided to join a group of bandits to keep himself safe from harm and also to get a little more inspiration, as if living among bandits would teach him something new about life.

 

Joseph you said wanted some combat pictures from us PC guys ? Well here's your lucky day because there's a plethora of them here just ready to be posted. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the rather boring and repetitive intro sequence but almost every other interesting thing in Maxwell's adventures I've tried my best to capture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Damn that's a great view ...

 

[JOSEPH X]

Brace yourselves...I've got some bad news!

 

From Bethesda's latest blog it looks like there will be no more DLC coming to Skyrim:

 

 

Skyrim has been a labor of love for us since we started designing it in 2006. We never imagined it would become the phenomenon it has. And that is because of you, the fans. It was all of you who made it a success. We can’t thank you enough for embracing the game, spreading the word, and making it your own.

 

For the last year and a half we’ve been working on new content for Skyrim; from the game updates, Creation Kit, Steam Workshop, Kinect support, to DLCs. Parts of our team have also been in pre-production on our next major project, and that game is at the point where it requires the studio’s full attention to make it our biggest and best work yet.

 

Even though we’re moving on, we’ll still have minor updates to Skyrim as needed. We’ve invested so much of ourselves into Skyrim and will never truly say goodbye to it.

 

We loved hearing your stories, your in-game triumphs, and your suggestions. One thing stuck out to us through those emails, letters, and postings. And that is – video games matter. They’re as important to you as they are to us. It’s not just about entertainment, it’s about your time. And you chose to spend it with our game.

 

Thank you again for all your support. We hope you stay engaged in the gaming community here and elsewhere. Keep spreading the word. Games are the world’s best entertainment because they can do what other forms cannot – fill you with the wonder of exploration and the pride of accomplishment. We look forward to sharing our next adventure with you.

 

Until next time,

 

Bethesda Game Studios

 

http://www.bethblog.com/

 

So it sounds like only minor updates and not a major DLC, which is a bit of a disappointment. I felt like there was much more to come from the Thalmor and the civil war - its a loose end what with all the dialogue from Tullius & Ulfric at the end.

 

Personally, I think they tried to make Redguard but they just couldn't get it to work and shelved it - hence the lack of an announcement on Dragonborn being the last DLC. Pretty shambolic from bethesda, but not surprising considering the amount of bugs in the game.

 

Enough glumness!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Knife]

I'm not surprised there won't be further content, the game is 1.5 years old now. Looking forward to what I assume will be Fallout 4.

[Secura]

I'm not surprised there won't be further content, the game is 1.5 years old now. Looking forward to what I assume will be Fallout 4.

Yeah Fallout 4 sounds good and all but ... who's up for some VI discussion?

[OysterBarron]

Is there any word on a DLC bundle, iv'e been putting off playing this since relase and plan on starting again with all the DLCS?

[Master of San Andreas]

I'm not surprised there won't be further content, the game is 1.5 years old now. Looking forward to what I assume will be Fallout 4.

Yeah Fallout 4 sounds good and all but ... who's up for some VI discussion?

I'm pretty sure the next TES will be released after Fallout 4, Like in another 2 more years.

 

Also it isn't surprising there isn't a DLC, The game is pretty old and I'm pretty sure Bethesda are focusing more

on Fallout 4.

[JOSEPH X]

I'm not surprised there won't be further content, the game is 1.5 years old now. Looking forward to what I assume will be Fallout 4.

Yeah Fallout 4 sounds good and all but ... who's up for some VI discussion?

I'm pretty sure the next TES will be released after Fallout 4, Like in another 2 more years.

 

Also it isn't surprising there isn't a DLC, The game is pretty old and I'm pretty sure Bethesda are focusing more

on Fallout 4.

It'll be more like 5 years before we see TES VI. They've been teasing us with more content coming messages since Dragonborn, but today was deadline day when the team had to move on to Fallout 4, I guess. If the DLC wasn't finished by this point then it would have to be sh*tcanned.

 

 

[darthYENIK]

Hopefully ESVI will be Elder Scrolls VI: Tamriel. But I'll be willing to accept Hammerfell and/or Highrock.

[Secura]

I'm not surprised there won't be further content, the game is 1.5 years old now. Looking forward to what I assume will be Fallout 4.

Yeah Fallout 4 sounds good and all but ... who's up for some VI discussion?

I'm pretty sure the next TES will be released after Fallout 4, Like in another 2 more years.

 

Also it isn't surprising there isn't a DLC, The game is pretty old and I'm pretty sure Bethesda are focusing more

on Fallout 4.

It'll be more like 5 years before we see TES VI. They've been teasing us with more content coming messages since Dragonborn, but today was deadline day when the team had to move on to Fallout 4, I guess. If the DLC wasn't finished by this point then it would have to be sh*tcanned.

Hardly, it's already been nearly two years since Skyrim's initial release date, even if they were to add another year of development to the game (I'm assuming that they've had a small team working on it since around about Dawnguard's release) We'd still only be looking at four years at the very most.

 

Though if I'm honest I'd prefer it if they didn't release another game for a fairly substantial period of time, I'm talking Valve time. So perhaps if Bethesda waited a little maybe two to three years after Fallout 4's initial release then we may see the game pop up, I know it sounds rather strange to wish for the game to be held back but with Bethesda's games it's always been about the depth, and more time = more depth.

 

Not to mention that when the next Elder Scrolls comes around it's highly likely that it'll be on the next, next generation of systems, if of course they give it the time I think that it deserves. The main issue with Skyrim's that everything's prescripted in a sense, there's no real sense of randomness because instead of the game giving you elements and then allowing them to combine and shape in an infinite amount of ways everything's far too predictable.

 

From the way that a bandit'll die when you kill him to how you'll get from A to B it all becomes monotonous. The next Elder Scrolls should try and focus on a much more seamless dynamic road where random events will occur, well randomly. The reason I think that Bethesda decided not to go down that route is because the current generation hardware simply cannot handle a game of that size and scale so when the next generation or perhaps even the next generation after that comes out, we'll have an Elder Scrolls game worthy of winning GOTY.

[Master of San Andreas]

I'm not surprised there won't be further content, the game is 1.5 years old now. Looking forward to what I assume will be Fallout 4.

Yeah Fallout 4 sounds good and all but ... who's up for some VI discussion?

I'm pretty sure the next TES will be released after Fallout 4, Like in another 2 more years.

 

Also it isn't surprising there isn't a DLC, The game is pretty old and I'm pretty sure Bethesda are focusing more

on Fallout 4.

It'll be more like 5 years before we see TES VI. They've been teasing us with more content coming messages since Dragonborn, but today was deadline day when the team had to move on to Fallout 4, I guess. If the DLC wasn't finished by this point then it would have to be sh*tcanned.

Hardly, it's already been nearly two years since Skyrim's initial release date, even if they were to add another year of development to the game (I'm assuming that they've had a small team working on it since around about Dawnguard's release) We'd still only be looking at four years at the very most.

 

Though if I'm honest I'd prefer it if they didn't release another game for a fairly substantial period of time, I'm talking Valve time. So perhaps if Bethesda waited a little maybe two to three years after Fallout 4's initial release then we may see the game pop up, I know it sounds rather strange to wish for the game to be held back but with Bethesda's games it's always been about the depth, and more time = more depth.

 

Not to mention that when the next Elder Scrolls comes around it's highly likely that it'll be on the next, next generation of systems, if of course they give it the time I think that it deserves. The main issue with Skyrim's that everything's prescripted in a sense, there's no real sense of randomness because instead of the game giving you elements and then allowing them to combine and shape in an infinite amount of ways everything's far too predictable.

 

From the way that a bandit'll die when you kill him to how you'll get from A to B it all becomes monotonous. The next Elder Scrolls should try and focus on a much more seamless dynamic road where random events will occur, well randomly. The reason I think that Bethesda decided not to go down that route is because the current generation hardware simply cannot handle a game of that size and scale so when the next generation or perhaps even the next generation after that comes out, we'll have an Elder Scrolls game worthy of winning GOTY.

The next TES will definitely be Next-Gen, We could also see a highly unlikely Wii U release if that's possible.

 

Let's compare the release period between Oblivion and Skyrim:

 

Oblivion - March 2006 - Skyrim - 2011 - 5 Year difference.

 

Morrowind - Oblivion - Morrowind Release Date - 2002 - 4 Year Difference.

 

Fallout 4 (Est release date) - Early 2014.

 

TES: IV - 2015/2016 - Next-Gen only.

 

So TES: VI will definitely be in the next 2 years, IMO. Even if you look at the gap between Daggerfall's and Morrowind's release It's like 5-6 years.

[JOSEPH X]

The reason I think that Bethesda decided not to go down that route is because the current generation hardware simply cannot handle a game of that size and scale so when the next generation or perhaps even the next generation after that comes out, we'll have an Elder Scrolls game worthy of winning GOTY.

They had so much trouble getting it to work on the PS3, that they didn't have the time to make the final DLC.

 

Well at least GTA V is just around the corner

[nightwalker83]

TES: IV - 2015/2016 - Next-Gen only.

 

I doubt that! If would get rid of modding because I don't think you can mod on consoles?

[pizza guy]

Hopefully ESVI will be Elder Scrolls VI: Tamriel. But I'll be willing to accept Hammerfell and/or Highrock.

You really think while Elder Scrolls Online is under development that there would be a second Elder Scrolls game to be made to come out with all of Tamriel just for consoles? Really?

[CryptReaperDorian]

Not to mention that when the next Elder Scrolls comes around it's highly likely that it'll be on the next, next generation of systems, if of course they give it the time I think that it deserves. The main issue with Skyrim's that everything's prescripted in a sense, there's no real sense of randomness because instead of the game giving you elements and then allowing them to combine and shape in an infinite amount of ways everything's far too predictable.

 

From the way that a bandit'll die when you kill him to how you'll get from A to B it all becomes monotonous. The next Elder Scrolls should try and focus on a much more seamless dynamic road where random events will occur, well randomly. The reason I think that Bethesda decided not to go down that route is because the current generation hardware simply cannot handle a game of that size and scale so when the next generation or perhaps even the next generation after that comes out, we'll have an Elder Scrolls game worthy of winning GOTY.

I'd say my main problem with Skyrim is the "monotonous" and "easily predictable" events. For the first three times, it's cool to raid some tomb, fight some powerful boss at the end, and then get some nice loot from a chest in the same room as the boss fight. However, it gets rather boring and irritating after going through like twenty Draugr infested tombs. All of the tombs have the exact same formula (walking around it for well over an hour before fighting some "boss" at the end).

[Chunkyman]

Odd that they did so little DLC work, and no expansion.

 

Shame, really. I love expansion packs.

[GrandMaster Smith]

The number one thing that kills Skyrim for me is the damn loading screens (360).. It just kills the action having to wait 30 seconds just to enter a store so I can wait 30 more seconds when I leave, then 30 more to exit the city..

 

I would probably still be playing skyrim as much today as I used to when I first got the game if the loading screens didn't slow things down so much.. like seriously I can be on the highest mountain in the game and see all the way to the edges of the map in every direction, but they can't load the interior of a house or city seamlessly as well?

[Majestic81]

Well that sucks. lets hope that their next big project is TES VI and not Fallout. i'm being a bit unfair to the Fallout fans though.

[Sami Uso]

I really wish this game would drop in price soon, seriously? This game has been 60 bucks for 2 years in a row over here. I know the price will probably never drop at this point. But I think GS has it for like 40 bucks right now, but it says online only. I'm talking about the Console versions in case you are wondering.

[Barry Spock]

The number one thing that kills Skyrim for me is the damn loading screens (360).. It just kills the action having to wait 30 seconds just to enter a store so I can wait 30 more seconds when I leave, then 30 more to exit the city..

 

I would probably still be playing skyrim as much today as I used to when I first got the game if the loading screens didn't slow things down so much.. like seriously I can be on the highest mountain in the game and see all the way to the edges of the map in every direction, but they can't load the interior of a house or city seamlessly as well?

This is the biggest problem for me too. The only way to make it bearable is to have the laptop next to me and be surfing for pr0n at the same time, during the many, many transitions.

 

I just got Hearthfire. I know it's the least liked of the DLCs, but I'm kind of liking it. Started building the house in Falkreath province. Really nice spot. It'd have been cool to have this dlc installed at the beginning of the first playthrough. The cost of everything would make the money-chasing more relevant. Plus it's awesome to have everything in one spot -- a forge in the basement? -- outrageous!

[Chukkles]

Odd that they did so little DLC work, and no expansion.

 

Shame, really. I love expansion packs.

Dragonborn is a full expansion.

 

[nightwalker83]

Odd that they did so little DLC work, and no expansion.

 

Shame, really. I love expansion packs.

Dragonborn is a full expansion.

I think he is referring to the amount of things to do in the DLCs compared to that of Skyrim itself.

[Barry Spock]

I just wanted to say that eventhough I don;t usually like that kind of music, the title song when the game starts up, has really grown on me. It's really well done.

 

I've been over on Solstheim. The southern part of the island reminds me a bit of the fallout series, eventhough I've played very little of fallout 3.

I kind of wish they'd put all three dlc on a disc and sold it that way. For a while today my ps3 hard drive was really slowing down and I was losing a lot of frames.

 

I've been spending a lot of coin on traveling back and forth to skyrim. I wanted to finish the house near Morthal but the f*cken steward/housecarl guy won't show up. I did a radiant quest for the jarl (sorli) but then she's not giving me the option to assist the people. I guess I;ll go back there and give it another try tomorrow.

 

I don;t want to spoil it too much by looking it up -- but can someone give me a yes/no answer to this? Can you buy a house on Solstheim?

[paul]

I don;t want to spoil it too much by looking it up -- but can someone give me a yes/no answer to this? Can you buy a house on Solstheim?

Yes, kinda, you can't actually buy it, it'll be given to you.