Eileen borrowed Skyrim for the ps3 and I was surprised by the load times as well.
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Eileen borrowed Skyrim for the ps3 and I was surprised by the load times as well.
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I thought my 189 hours was too many.
That said, my favorite TES experience as yet has been the Shivering Isles DLC for Oblivion, I could play that shit for hours just wandering around.
Mine has got to be being able to jump over half of Morrowind with super potions.
There is a part near the beginning where a guy just falls out of the sky while your in a swamp. He has some enchanted scrolls for crazy jumps that ultimately kill you.
But yeah the spells in morrowind were awesome. mark/set, and jump made transportation awesome
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Yep, scrolls of Icarian flight I think, combined with feather, they could work.
Also, being a vampire in Morrowind was both way more inconvenient and awesomely powerful at the same time.
I guess you guys never played a mage in morrowind.
Levitation was a real spell. It had a heavy cost in mana but pretty much allowed full flight. Popping 30 feet up in the air made daedric fights simple.
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Yes, I'm aware, but jumping and doing the same was even cooler IMO.
High mana cost was also easily overcome by super potions.
well jump with slowfall were awesome enchantments for fast traveling. levitation was really just a waste IMO, usually just kept a couple potions for the rare time it was needed to get somewhere. i face my fights like a boss
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I have a hard time playing a mage in ANYTHING. I'll set out, like, THIS TIME I'm totally going to do the magics or whatever. Or even ranged weapons- I say "I'll be a sneakthief and only use bows" and then no. Every time I just end up this giant heavy armor battleax smashing Nord bitch (or whatever is the equivalent melee character for a non-TES game). I'm not skilled enough to do ranged stuff, I like melee because I can kind of click aimlessly (and frantically) and still connect with the foe.
Now that I've leveled up a bunch in my Skyrim character, though, I'm trying to branch out into some of the other stuff, since I'm not as likely to get killed right away if I fuck it up
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I have a hard time playing a mage in ANYTHING. I'll set out, like, THIS TIME I'm totally going to do the magics or whatever. Or even ranged weapons- I say "I'll be a sneakthief and only use bows" and then no. Every time I just end up this giant heavy armor battleax smashing Nord bitch (or whatever is the equivalent melee character for a non-TES game). I'm not skilled enough to do ranged stuff, I like melee because I can kind of click aimlessly (and frantically) and still connect with the foe.
Now that I've leveled up a bunch in my Skyrim character, though, I'm trying to branch out into some of the other stuff, since I'm not as likely to get killed right away if I fuck it up
One of my favorite things about skyrim is the ability to change directions after your character is pretty decently fleshed out, then still end up a badass in another direction
I have a hard time playing a mage in ANYTHING. I'll set out, like, THIS TIME I'm totally going to do the magics or whatever. Or even ranged weapons- I say "I'll be a sneakthief and only use bows" and then no. Every time I just end up this giant heavy armor battleax smashing Nord bitch (or whatever is the equivalent melee character for a non-TES game). I'm not skilled enough to do ranged stuff, I like melee because I can kind of click aimlessly (and frantically) and still connect with the foe.
Now that I've leveled up a bunch in my Skyrim character, though, I'm trying to branch out into some of the other stuff, since I'm not as likely to get killed right away if I fuck it up
This is how I roll in basically every game in the genre. I'm basically a shadow that spits flaming death poison ice arrows of doom.
I have a hard time playing a mage in ANYTHING. I'll set out, like, THIS TIME I'm totally going to do the magics or whatever. Or even ranged weapons- I say "I'll be a sneakthief and only use bows" and then no. Every time I just end up this giant heavy armor battleax smashing Nord bitch (or whatever is the equivalent melee character for a non-TES game). I'm not skilled enough to do ranged stuff, I like melee because I can kind of click aimlessly (and frantically) and still connect with the foe.
Now that I've leveled up a bunch in my Skyrim character, though, I'm trying to branch out into some of the other stuff, since I'm not as likely to get killed right away if I fuck it up
I used to be this way, but the opposite. I was, ever since PnP DnD 2nd edition, a finger wiggler type. BG2, I tried to be a warrior once. Hated it. EQ - Mage or wizard, WoW, I was a full mage, with both a max leveled undead, and then a max leveled human. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, all magic. It wasn't until Skyrim that I got into the sneak/bow type, and I wound up loving it. I did make a Protection Paladin in Wow, basically, not even a DPS type, but instead a full out main tank. Turns out I was pretty damn good with it. Any time I would log in, I'd have people whispering me saying 'dude, let's run some instances'... Luckily, I had some great training on how to be an instance tank with a pali.
On a similar note, tried out wow again recently, thanks to a hack attempt and a renewed trial by the hacker. They have changed everything. Talent trees are fucking depressing now. A character build matters for shit, as anything can be swapped on the fly. The entire concept of building a character is pointless. WoW has become so dumbed down, I tried a druid. Litterally, I put this level 1 worgen druid in the middle of a field full of yellow (won't agro until hit) mobs, and spammed wrath. 10 minutes later, without ever running out of mana, or mobs, or health, I was level 7. Just by repeatedly spamming a single level 1 spell.
so lame.
Fucking Time Stop with Multiple Trigger in end game BG2 was unbeatable. I'd have a room cleared before they could even look up and go 'oh shit, Duke's here'.
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in the TES games, Ive always been the thiefy stealth guy using bows with some supplemental magic
In skyrim I got to where my bow was pretty much a one shot kill, and only two on giants
Plus I could steal the shit out of everything, so cash was rarely a problem
In skyrim I got to where my bow was pretty much a one shot kill, and only two on giants
Plus I could steal the shit out of everything, so cash was rarely a problem
Do yous guys play FPS games fairly frequently? I think that might be one of the big differences, skill-wise, that makes you decent at that sort of thing. I've played a few here and there, but never anything extensively (or particularly well), so accuracy is just not there for me, and I get too frustrated to improve it
Yeah, I tried Ghost's stealth archer build in skyrim. It was so overpowered it was ridic. crouch, fire arrow, get stealth multiplier one shot kill, don't bother with a rinse, just repeat until the end of the cave.
Then again, I went back in, with a few mods to fix magic, and as a pure cloth only wearing mage, balancing illusion and conjuration, skyrim also became easy mode. Invis up, cast AoE hostility spell. As all the dudes are killing each other, drop a flame atronach into the middle. Laugh all the way to the bank.
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I used to, but I haven't played any new FPS games other than TES/Fallout for a few years now.
I absolutely hate talking, so online multiplayer is no longer fun since everyone chats like schoolgirls these days, and I quickly get bored with non-open ended world systems
I absolutely hate talking, so online multiplayer is no longer fun since everyone chats like schoolgirls these days, and I quickly get bored with non-open ended world systems
Do yous guys play FPS games fairly frequently? I think that might be one of the big differences, skill-wise, that makes you decent at that sort of thing. I've played a few here and there, but never anything extensively (or particularly well), so accuracy is just not there for me, and I get too frustrated to improve it
I've tried. I've got Bad Company, crysis 2, a few others. Once I got into MMO's back in the late 90's, I lost all interest in FPSes. I've always been more of a RTS person though, starting back with Dune.
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