[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Skyrim (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/7/2014 10:16:24 PM EDT
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Alright gamers, what are your favorite play styles, game moments, and mods? Post pics of your favorite character in all his/her pimped out glory. |
| I could never stay interested in it long enough to finish the game, but the time that I was the most successful I was what you would consider a "tank" I guess. I duel wielded swords, and would switch to healing in my left hand when need be, or a destruction spell when I wanted some range. |
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Skyrim was the first game I played on PC. Thought it was stupid. Sure was pretty and all. But that's about it.
Console > master race for me. You computer dudes have your thing and if it works for you it's all good. I'm a tech dummy, so console is the place for me. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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My favorite style is sneak archer (sniper). There's nothing more satisfying than killing an entire group of bad guys without them ever laying eyes on you. My most useful all around mod is one that lets you smelt down the metals from looted armor and weapons. You can max out your smithing skill easily by making iron daggers exclusively. The only drawback is you can't reuse the leather in a weapon/armor. So, I fast travel to the cities and buy all the leather I can get my hands on. I can max out my smithing in a few hours. Enchanting is another story. |
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Tough question. I really like playing as a one or two handed weapon, heavy armor character in all of the Elder Scrolls games, including Skyrim. A close second would be a stealthy archer.
I lean towards heavy armor, two handed, restoration, smithing, enchantment. |
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http://content.bethsoft.com/bsw_cms_asset/22110_2_1.jpg I prefer a good plasma rifle and some power armor over an old sword and a rotting wolf pelt any day. Kharn First poll failed miserably, and I really like Fallout. |
| once you hit level 81 you can fuck everything up pretty easy anyway, The restoration/enchantment stacking exploit made me a god, able to leap off of the highest mountain unscathed, and allowing me to take a dump without pausing the game while fighting a legenday dragon and then one hit killing him when I got done. |
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I've tried spell slinging and melee weapons, but just never really enjoyed those play styles. I prefer to use a bow and kill people at extreme long distance. Yeah...while it is better than the previous elder scrolls, Skyim doesn't have what I would consider overly impressive melee combat. I just have never enjoyed the whole bow and arrow thing with any game really (other than it being something to use on the side, like in Zelda.) But when you look at some games which have really nice combat mechanics such as dodging and parrying, etc...the whole get next to your enemy and click your mouse button as fast as you can so his health runs about before yours is just...IDK, kind of dated feeling. I have even done the sword and board thing as well, which is what my first character was, but it just doesn't feel very fluid. If the combat mechanics of skyrim was done with the same amount of care as the rest of the game is, I really think it would be a damn near perfect game. |
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Agreed on the melee combat. Where Skyrim nailed it was exploration and atmospheric caves, forts, dungeons, etc. Yep. I also wish it wasn't so many fetch quests, and go here and kill them/that. Maybe it is just because I prefer the core gameplay of games like Zelda, but I think it would be great if they added more puzzle solving/intricate dungeon elements to the game. I LOVE the fact that you can make your character in any way you want, play the game in any combat style you want, and that it has a vast, open world, etc. etc...but I can just never stay interested in that type of game. That formula works for me for fallout, which is your survivor game with firearms, but just not really for elder scrolls, which feels exactly the same but in your midevil type setting. |
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Never was a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls games. They sacrifice too much story to have all the open world elements... and melee combat from the first person perspective is always clunky.. Only one game ever got it correct (Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast) and that switched to 3rd person for melee. And Fallout 3 is not Fallout.... It's Elder Scrolls with guns. Fallout 2 was one of the best PC games of all time, and they had to turn it into an FPS.
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Never was a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls games. They sacrifice too much story to have all the open world elements... and melee combat from the first person perspective is always clunky.. Only one game ever got it correct (Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast) and that switched to 3rd person for melee. And Fallout 3 is not Fallout.... It's Elder Scrolls with guns. Fallout 2 was one of the best PC games of all time, and they had to turn it into an FPS.
If you like that style of game you should try Wasteland 2. It is a great game, in that perspective, and not for the faint of heart just like the games of old used to be. I am personally not a fan of having to make that many game altering decisions before the game even starts, but I know a lot of people are into that. I kind of cheated: I played a little, then created my real party after I saw how the game played. |
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http://content.bethsoft.com/bsw_cms_asset/22110_2_1.jpg I prefer a good plasma rifle and some power armor over an old sword and a rotting wolf pelt any day. Kharn New Vegas is better in every way. It's like Fallout 3 was a proof of concept. |
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First go around I was an assassin. Maxed out sneak and dagger skills. Almost got a dragon one hitter quitter by sneaking up on him and poking him with a legendary dagger. Second go around, I went for the unarmed badass. Played as a cat with extra damage because of claws. Then maxed out smithing to make the best armor. Ended up running around with Daedric and Dragon armor and just punching things to death including dragons  There's a great YouTube video by a Swedish(?) Guy that gave me the idea. "Dental appointment, bitch!"
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Quoted: I'm a bad ass elf archer. My bow skills are so high I'm nearly invincible. Coolest thing I witnessed in the game was when I was walking down a trail and came across guards transporting a prisoner. They came under seige by wizards. Next thing I knew they crossed paths with mammoths and Giants and a huge melee broke out. Then a nearby dragon joined in, and then a second dragon after that. Things were so balls out crazy I had to jump in the middle of the insanity and throw caution to the wind. So much fun.
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First poll failed miserably, and I really like Fallout. Quoted:
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http://content.bethsoft.com/bsw_cms_asset/22110_2_1.jpg I prefer a good plasma rifle and some power armor over an old sword and a rotting wolf pelt any day. Kharn First poll failed miserably, and I really like Fallout. If the PS3 versions weren't so buggy as to be unplayable, it would be my all time favorite franchise. What pissed me off is 3 and NV played great until about halfway through. Get you hooked then down comes the hammer. |
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The first time through, I was a Khajiit assassin / archer. I could one-shot damn near anything with a dagger or kill it from a distance from the shadows.
The second time through, I was an Altmer Destruction mage. At the end, I could cast continuous fireballs for zero magicka. I'm currently playing as a level 1 Orc, using no spells. |
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I'm running about 40-50 mods on Skyrim, I JUST started replaying it again (4th or 5th time). I'm very much a sneak 
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New Vegas is better in every way. It's like Fallout 3 was a proof of concept. Quoted:
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http://content.bethsoft.com/bsw_cms_asset/22110_2_1.jpg I prefer a good plasma rifle and some power armor over an old sword and a rotting wolf pelt any day. Kharn New Vegas is better in every way. It's like Fallout 3 was a proof of concept. New Vegas was terrible compared to 3 
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First go around I was an assassin. Maxed out sneak and dagger skills. Almost got a dragon one hitter quitter by sneaking up on him and poking him with a legendary dagger. Second go around, I went for the unarmed badass. Played as a cat with extra damage because of claws. Then maxed out smithing to make the best armor. Ended up running around with Daedric and Dragon armor and just punching things to death including dragons
There's a great YouTube video by a Swedish(?) Guy that gave me the idea. "Dental appointment, bitch!" Robbaz, aka King of Sweden. |
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Quoted: Robbaz, aka King of Sweden. Quoted: Quoted: First go around I was an assassin. Maxed out sneak and dagger skills. Almost got a dragon one hitter quitter by sneaking up on him and poking him with a legendary dagger. Second go around, I went for the unarmed badass. Played as a cat with extra damage because of claws. Then maxed out smithing to make the best armor. Ended up running around with Daedric and Dragon armor and just punching things to death including dragons There's a great YouTube video by a Swedish(?) Guy that gave me the idea. "Dental appointment, bitch!" Robbaz, aka King of Sweden. That's the guy! |
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I kept getting killed when I first started and decided to put all my skills into conjuration. All I had to do was sit back and let my dremora lords kill everyone.
After I got up to higher levels though, I was strong enough to fight enemies myself. Now I'm basically a tank character. |
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Skyrim was the first game I played on PC. Thought it was stupid. Sure was pretty and all. But that's about it. Console > master race for me. You computer dudes have your thing and if it works for you it's all good. I'm a tech dummy, so console is the place for me. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile You do realize Skyrim is a console game, right? I mean, it came out on PC too, but pretty much everything wrong with it, from the dumbed down default UI to the gutted skill trees, were made to simplify console gameplay. Man, I really hope the Xb1 and PS4 keep flopping and just kill off consoles altogether. You could have a lot of fun in skyrim, but you really needed to mod the shit out of it. That game was bare bones as fuck out of the box. But, with the right mods and some HD textures, its pretty fantastic. |
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Yeah...while it is better than the previous elder scrolls, Skyim doesn't have what I would consider overly impressive melee combat. I just have never enjoyed the whole bow and arrow thing with any game really (other than it being something to use on the side, like in Zelda.) But when you look at some games which have really nice combat mechanics such as dodging and parrying, etc...the whole get next to your enemy and click your mouse button as fast as you can so his health runs about before yours is just...IDK, kind of dated feeling. I have even done the sword and board thing as well, which is what my first character was, but it just doesn't feel very fluid. If the combat mechanics of skyrim was done with the same amount of care as the rest of the game is, I really think it would be a damn near perfect game. Quoted:
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I've tried spell slinging and melee weapons, but just never really enjoyed those play styles. I prefer to use a bow and kill people at extreme long distance. Yeah...while it is better than the previous elder scrolls, Skyim doesn't have what I would consider overly impressive melee combat. I just have never enjoyed the whole bow and arrow thing with any game really (other than it being something to use on the side, like in Zelda.) But when you look at some games which have really nice combat mechanics such as dodging and parrying, etc...the whole get next to your enemy and click your mouse button as fast as you can so his health runs about before yours is just...IDK, kind of dated feeling. I have even done the sword and board thing as well, which is what my first character was, but it just doesn't feel very fluid. If the combat mechanics of skyrim was done with the same amount of care as the rest of the game is, I really think it would be a damn near perfect game. While I agree on gameplay, that sort of action RPG combat has just never been a TES thing. It's always been immersion, lore, exploration, and seeing how completely you can abuse and break the game. |
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I enjoyed playing a Breton werewolf who eschewed all armor, all weapons, and nearly all magic in favor of shouts or his werewolf form. Absolutely no enchanted equipment other than an Amulet of Talos. Clothing consisted of ragged trousers.
His primary skills were: 1. Alchemy (used the potions fortify restoration to supercharge the Lady or Apprentice stones and the Blessing of Talos) 2. Alteration (to gain magic resistance and absorption) - trained with his only spell [telekinesis] and the Secret of Arcana power 3. Lockpicking (chosen because I love exploring and hate locked doors) 4. Sneak (made it easier to stay alive without weapons, armor, or magic) 5. Speech (a silver tongue to accompany my wolfish grin) I would normally use a trainer to level up Illusion for the Quiet Casting perk so that I could lob a Rii Vaa Zol or Gol Hah Dov from a shadowy corner of the room. Leveled fatigue (stamina) up to 200 and put the rest of the points into health to increase regeneration (with the Lady) and survivability. I'm too busy to play nowadays, but I always wanted to try playing a character with maxed block and only an unenchanted staff coupled with high health/fatigue and a fist or shouts (maybe a silver sword). |
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Alright gamers, what are your favorite play styles, game moments, and mods? Post pics of your favorite character in all his/her pimped out glory. I enjoyed being a sneaky assassin dual welding daggers. It became a tough fighting class after it was properly leveled, even against longswords and shields. |
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Bethesda is announcing something possibly relevant soon, likely Dec 5 at the VGAs. Quoted:
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I just want Fallout 4 already. Bethesda is announcing something possibly relevant soon, likely Dec 5 at the VGAs. God I hope so. I've had my hopes dashed a few times already. |
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I'm running about 40-50 mods on Skyrim, I JUST started replaying it again (4th or 5th time). I'm very much a sneak
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I'm running about 40-50 mods on Skyrim, I JUST started replaying it again (4th or 5th time). I'm very much a sneak
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http://content.bethsoft.com/bsw_cms_asset/22110_2_1.jpg I prefer a good plasma rifle and some power armor over an old sword and a rotting wolf pelt any day. Kharn New Vegas is better in every way. It's like Fallout 3 was a proof of concept. New Vegas was terrible compared to 3 New Vegas's story sucked compared to Fallout 3, but the game engine was much more stable (plus improved in several significant areas) and the environment felt much more massive. There's a mod to play 3 using the NV engine. Kharn |
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http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26215019295718659/7AB6A287E552B5E535759460533AF8FFB4E9E91C/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385249980916/2AF1549C6CD6AD7561218422FC057726E5AC8AAA/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385256842699/FC29DB8280225CC115C7CF4F1C07605C3FE6417B/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26215019296200993/ACFC1C66CC09341CF39AC6029D8ADBBF18CEA305/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385256835183/DD354A7568A5BDA12EED5DCA89B90C004D3AB385/ Hope those came out right. Those are screenshots I took in game. Runs like that with no lag. OMFG, that's beautiful. I'm still running vanilla code. Is that DLC, mods, or does my computer just suck? |
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OMFG, that's beautiful. I'm still running vanilla code. Is that DLC, mods, or does my computer just suck? Quoted:
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http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26215019295718659/7AB6A287E552B5E535759460533AF8FFB4E9E91C/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385249980916/2AF1549C6CD6AD7561218422FC057726E5AC8AAA/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385256842699/FC29DB8280225CC115C7CF4F1C07605C3FE6417B/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26215019296200993/ACFC1C66CC09341CF39AC6029D8ADBBF18CEA305/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385256835183/DD354A7568A5BDA12EED5DCA89B90C004D3AB385/ Hope those came out right. Those are screenshots I took in game. Runs like that with no lag. OMFG, that's beautiful. I'm still running vanilla code. Is that DLC, mods, or does my computer just suck? Looks like texture mods to me, plus the Enhanced Blood mod and the Ultimate Followers Overhaul mod. I've seen a bunch of mods that REQUIRE a high end $3,000 PC. |
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Looks like texture mods to me, plus the Enhanced Blood mod and the Ultimate Followers Overhaul mod. I've seen a bunch of mods that REQUIRE a high end $3,000 PC. Quoted:
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http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26215019295718659/7AB6A287E552B5E535759460533AF8FFB4E9E91C/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385249980916/2AF1549C6CD6AD7561218422FC057726E5AC8AAA/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385256842699/FC29DB8280225CC115C7CF4F1C07605C3FE6417B/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26215019296200993/ACFC1C66CC09341CF39AC6029D8ADBBF18CEA305/ http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26214385256835183/DD354A7568A5BDA12EED5DCA89B90C004D3AB385/ Hope those came out right. Those are screenshots I took in game. Runs like that with no lag. OMFG, that's beautiful. I'm still running vanilla code. Is that DLC, mods, or does my computer just suck? Looks like texture mods to me, plus the Enhanced Blood mod and the Ultimate Followers Overhaul mod. I've seen a bunch of mods that REQUIRE a high end $3,000 PC. I have a ton of mods running. Probably close to 3 or 4 dozen or more. My pc cost about $1100 back in 2011 and all I've upgraded since then is the ram to 12gb. |