SMILEWITHSTYLE'S PROFILE

Lucky you, I am only up to Blood dragons on my main save, hoping to find some new kinds soon. Then again I am only level 27, and did only a small part of the main quest.

But I once had to fight TWO blood dragons at the same time, mixed in with a pesky spriggan. Now that was a fight, I chugged down most of my plentiful healing potions that I've been saving, just to bring one of the dragons down.

I also met a dragon priest with my lvl 13 mage. Killed a dragon on top of a mountain, and I am like, "OMG, I am so badass, now let's go get the word from the wall. What's that, something is rising from the coffin. Probably some stupid Draugr or whate-"

3 fireballs later, I was dead. Had to retry quite a few times to bring the priest down, so much HP on that bastard, and he fired those fireballs like a machine gun. Also my flame atronach kept turning on me during the fight. The fact that the last patch bugged the fire resistance on the atronach (in other words, removed it) didn't help much.

author=Jude
Surprising number of console players. Elder Scrolls always screams "get it on PC" at me.

And that screams "get a PC that can actually run it smoothly", which currently is not an option for me, ufortunately. Probably also true for some other people.

I would LOVE to play it on PC, aiming with spells, and especially bows, is HARD on the PS3, and PC has more hotkey buttons, while PS3 only has 2... Plus the mouse/WASD feels natural. Plus the better graphics (I don't care much for graphics in games, but the more beautiful world of Skyrim, the better I guess :P ).... Also, mods.

Damn you people with PCs strong enough to run Skyrim. My breton is so roasting you with her chain-lightning... or maybe she will just "Fiii" you stone cold and then dual-cast a fire rune right under you..... Did I mention that playing a mage is so much fun? I did? .... Well, it's true!

EDIT: Found some patch notes, here : http://www.lensoftruth.com/skyrim-patch-2-01-notes-now-live-on-ps3/

author=harmonic
4) I hate the character creation system, but again, par for the course with Bethesda.

I wonder why there are so few options in the char creation system, compared to Oblivion. Sure, most characters would turn out butt-uggly, but at least you could create so many different things with all the sliders.

In Skyrim, it's just a bunch of presets that you put together, and there isn't even that many of them. Some more hair styles, color sliders for hair, or more options for eyes/face shape/mouth shape would be welcome. Most of the mouth shapes are just horrible, for example.

But at least the characters look human this time, so there's a small victory...


Anyways, rolled a breton mage (again), wanted to give magic a (second) chance. So far, level 7, survived a fight with a dragon AND an ice troll, at the same fucking time. And got a new shout I never encountered before as a reward. Sweet... I love this game.

Now I'm going to attempt a foot trip to Winterhold, to join the college. My character is a mage after all, hungry for power.

The apprentice stone will be the death of me though, can't imagine how the battle with that evil necromancer would have turned out without the breton magicka resistance to help ease the pain.

Adept difficulty seems just right for me, I still meet enemies that rape me, enemies that I rape, and enemies that I struggle a little against. The enemy hp and damage isn't too high to be frustrating, or too low to be a cakewalk. It really feels just right. Might pump it up higher later, but right now there is no reason whatsoever to do so, still having fun.

It's "interesting" playing melee only versus some mage enemies. Particularly enemies with slowing cold spells and wards. They just kite the hell out of me in open areas, and when I try to stun them with my shout, they sometimes pop a ward to nulify it, just to piss me off (and make it that more satisfying to finally kill them).

Also, lvl 3 Unrelenting Force.... oh my gosh so much fun. And a little overpowered. But fun. I can get some types of enemies in a complete stun-lock, just shout them, run up to them, hit them till they get up, then shield-bash, attack, shield-bash, attack, kill, evil laugh, rinse and repeat.


The bugs in this game kinda piss me off... For example, I killed the dragon near Falkreath, took it's soul, learned the word he was guarding. Then I get to Falkreath, get a quest to kill a dragon at the same place, go there, the dragon is there again, so I kill it, but his corpse just lies there, no soul absorbed. At least the chest there was refilled, but I wanted the soooouuuul. Damn you Bethesda and your bugs.

But overall the game is still way too awesome for me to care too much about such minor issues. The PS3 FPS issues on the other hand.... annoying, hope it gets fixed soon. There is a patch coming that will hopefully fix this, sometime after November 24th.

EDIT: Dawnbreaker.... hell yes.

author=benos
I must have a glitch in mission in action, because I saved Thorald along with his brother tagging along, and went to the arrow icon and nothing happens, I guess I missed out something at the prison.

Well, it's still a Bethesda game, so quest-related glitches happen, unfortunately.
While I completed this quest with no problems (aside from taking it on alone and having to kill all the people in that fort...ouch), on my first save, Reyda's corpse for the quest in Ivarstead didn't spawn, so I couldn't complete it , while on my current character it did, no problem.


Anyways, blood dragons, woooooot, I wasted almost all of my health potions on one of those (I constantly keep running out of health potions, damn). Not to mention all the other higher-level enemies I encountered so far with my epic shield character.

Like for example....


Mage-based enemies really put the hurt on me, I can shrug off most melee attackers, but some of those spells... damn.