TES5: Skyrim

posted on December 1st, 2011, 5:47 pm

Ive been playing skyrim for the last couple of weeks and wow is it a blast. Does anyone else play? im going to post a picture of my nord because i figured out how to use the free camera.

posted on December 1st, 2011, 5:52 pm

Yeah I play, I love it  60 hours in and still finding things to do, having only done a little of the main quest 

posted on December 1st, 2011, 5:55 pm

Unmodded TES are typically not too good...

posted on December 1st, 2011, 6:11 pm

i'm surprised skyrim hasnt been brought up much yet on this forum, the rest of the internet went batshit crazy for skyrim. personally i dont play rpgs.

posted on December 1st, 2011, 7:04 pm

I dont have the rig to play Skyrim - but in about half a year, I will buy a new one. Then the first add-ons are out and all the mods are in a state of "developed" so its not that bad to wait for it. If I had a PS3 oder a XBox I would cry out loud, but viewed from this perspective, the best on pc-gaming is: Modding!

I hope everything goes as planned. Rig should be:
Radeon HD 7990 (I'd love to use gcn... fft via shaders -> Nice!)
I7 Sandy-E or Ivy-E
3 SSDs (one for each OS)
Rampage IV extreme
about 32 Gig RAM

THEN also Fleetops will run faster D

[Dircome]

posted on December 2nd, 2011, 1:16 am

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It doesnt really take that much to play skyrim i play it on my year old laptop and it really runs pretty good. O yeah i had problems with the pictures from earlier but here they are.

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[MrXT]

posted on December 2nd, 2011, 3:31 pm

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yes i play i am level 37 nord and have completed the main quests so i think its time i gave it a rest before it completely destroys my social life.

I played it on my 360 so i could use my tv.

You should train up your smithing, iv made everything there is to make, deadric armour and weapons to dragon bone and dragon scale armour. Unfortunately they didnt add dragon weapons only armour, so i dual wield enchanted deadric swords.

posted on December 21st, 2011, 4:27 am

I also upped my smithing the whole way, and added some gems to boost it even further. I have light dragon armor, a great daedric sword, and a daedric bow with added enchanments. I agree that it would be nice to have some dragon weapons, unless you have any idea what I can do with all the dragon bones i've collected? I'd rather not just sell them.

posted on December 21st, 2011, 4:45 am

Yeah i have my smithing to 100 and i just got enchanting to 100 im working on alchemy now i was wearing that armor because i liked the way it looked but i made dragon scale armor and i liked it better so i went with that. Id give all your followers dragon armor if you are stuck on what do with it.

posted on December 21st, 2011, 9:03 am

the game looks much better on pc then it does on  ps3 or 360

posted on December 23rd, 2011, 10:52 pm

agreed, that's why I hook my computer up to an hdmi and play on my 43 inch plasma!!:>

posted on December 24th, 2011, 12:38 am

lol ya same but i play on a 46" lcd tv

posted on December 25th, 2011, 2:01 am

You've definitely got me beat with that, though I still say plasma is better then LCD:>

[Nebula_Class_Ftw]

posted on January 3rd, 2012, 4:47 am

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I've played 90 hours of it so far.

Very buggy, terrible interface, certain skill trees require grinding to be of any use.
It's a great game, it just needed a lot more refinement. Maybe the next patch will finally balance out Destruction, fix bugs, and perhaps even make enchanting and smithing level to usefulness without requiring tons of grinding. And if we're really, really lukky, they might actually recompile with optimizations turned on so that certain areas (Markarth and icy caves mainly) don't utterly kill my framerate due to functions not being inlined (there's a mod that partially fixes this, but it can't fully optimize of course, and it causes game-breaking bugs.)
Bugs are inevitable, but there are so damn many, maybe they should hav delayed a bit. Three 11s wasn't exactly that impressive as a release date.

posted on January 3rd, 2012, 5:58 am

I adore the interface. It annoyed me at first, but when everything clicked, it became much more navigable than Oblivion's. The 3d views are a nice touch, especially since their inclusion doesn't actually harm functionality.