So any tips? Is there any particular playstyle that will have you ending up a demigod? Should I get that hi-res texture thing I heard about a while ago?

Any dos and don'ts that I need to know to get the maximum experience out of the game?

Any good DLC?

All of them wind up with you being a god eventually. It doesn't matter though, because enemies level up alongside you so you just wind up finding random MASTER NECROMANCERs in the forest who two hit you while you're trying to level your onehanded or something.

Is there a mod similar to the OOO mod for Oblivion that gets rid of the enemy level scaling? I remember I hated that crap, and when I played it with the mod it made the game 50x better to be able to smite goblins and daedric dudes with farts later in the game, when they otherwise would have been just as challenging when I had become supposedly godlike.

I dunno, I don't keep up on Skyrim mods. Play Stalker with mods instead.

i played skyrim - its a good game. Wouldn't worry too much about mods.

i got it when it just cam out and had almost finished it when the 1st mods were released and i didn't notice any shattering improvements in stuff that was modded like texture packs - but my PC is good and i had max settings pretty much any way.

get the high rez stuff anyway its not like a huge d/l but thats about it

making iron daggers is good for leveling points. same as standing in a puddle of water like the ramp leading into a lake and spam casting underwater breathing to boost illusion. traps that just do damage are good for getting resto up.

This game really didn't do it for me at all.

well i suggest just play the game and make the char u want and do what u want and not play doing stupid stuff trying to buff points or get levels - just play and you will enjoy yourself more and u will still level up

What are these stalker mods you speak of Joaby? Worth a reinstall?

as far as scandanavian hiking simulators go, skyrim isn't bad. Just watch out for the **** textures.

Where's xeper? He was raving about the high texture pack. Does it hit the performance? Much of a difference?

The HD texture pack is an official release from the Skyrim team. Unofficial graphics mods include, new water effects, lighting, and exterior/interior building texture detail upgrades, you can also find mods that will increase the gore.

The mods that add armour sets from Game of Thrones or give you a cool user generated houses to stay in is what I went for to begin with, a lot of mods are just for people who have finished the game and have nothing to do.

When you first play you will find yourself in awe of the immersion and environments but if you dont find something to do quickly (such as completing a huge quest for a faction) you will end up closing the game in a few hours and will find it hard to play again later.

wont effect performance, the original textures are for X-Box.

i would use this HD texture pack Chero

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/607

better than the bethesda hd one

I didn't spend a lot of time staring at floors and rocks, I have to admit...

Suffice to say, you just play it, man. Like Joaby said, everything ends up being over powered in the end, doubley so if you upgrade your Smithing and Enchanting... You'll be killing dragons with a single power blow of an enchanted two handed sword and trying to think back on the time when Giants were scary. You'll be allllll gewd. Just play the way you want.

Oh... Except mage. Being a mage is "wrong".

Even though I wasn't really into fantasy type games it was agood open world explorer type game with a few good story paths.Do the side quest stuff first, once I finished the main story I lost interest.You'll have to play hundreds of hours to max out all your skill pathways, stick to the combat ones, I went with one handed weapons and shield,light armour and archery.
I got 193 hours up on skyrim but I lost interest after about 170 but had no ther games to play.

if you want a challenge, play a mage on a console (I got it on ps3 and PC) - hard to aim that ****.

played a mage on pc - was good

So I have a hard copy I bought. I install it off the disc, then realise it's linked to steam. I get the official high-res texture pack from steam, and get ready to play it today - steam tells me it's "updating"... at 110kb/s... currently on 3% for the last 5 minutes... Y U NO LET ME PLAY SKYRIM?!

its not that good

lol your game is now ready to play.
It took nearly 3 weeks to install a game when i was on wireless still 110 kb/s depending on the size of the packet could take a day or a week or you could time out and never get to install the game.

I remember when it broke street date but **** gay steam wouldn't let anyone play.

You have **** taste in things, so I'll just assume the opposite of what you say is true.

You'd be right!

It is pretty good fun... That being said, the part I enjoyed most was wandering alone in the beautiful countryside, discovering lost places and clearing tombs eniterly unrelated to the main storyline.

i started out really liking it then it just seemed to get really dull as a played on and you dont get much stronger cus they scale with you and when you have dont all the lines and your master of everything you just get stuck doing really boring **** things

It's a damn good game, it wasn't considered the best game of 2011 because it was ****, now I know why people think bieltanman is retarded around here.

i thought that deus ex was way way better

Do you mean Deus Ex human revoultion? that game was pretty good but skyrim had so much more in terms of story ,long term playability, graphical beauty, an open world, almost infinite skill upgrades etc etc.
Dues Ex hr= 20-30 hours, skyrim 150-infinity hours.
Side note, I'm downloading mass effect 3 for my non DayZ gaming, I actually started to replay Deus Ex HR today but it felt too bland, like watching the same movie again and again.

yeah I hate when I put 500 hours into a game only to realise it's ****.

See that? That's clever.

I did that with BF3... With that 500 hours I could have learning metalworking and crafted myself a really nice ****.

I really enjoyed Skyrim, until I completed it. Then, like Joaby, I realised the game wasn't actually that good..

SPOILERS -

I put about 60 odd hours into the game, and really did enjoy wondering around finding caves, dungeons etc etc killing everything on site, but I was disappointed in the "ending"..

I had played as a sneaky archer for the most part, with a little bit of 2 x 1 handed melee combat. Now, I was no demigod, my archery was around 75-80, 1 handers around 55-60, no Deadric or Dragon gear, when I got to Alduin, I just made him land, stood at his side swung my axes a few times and he was dead. NO epic battle, no epic cutscene, nothing, the game just continues on... Big let down. I'd have prefered a poorly conceived ME3 ending over this....

It was also then that I really realised the fighting mechanic in the game was actually pretty p1sspoor too.

I have all the best equipment in the game courtesy of mining and making iron daggers for however long.

Now I have a game with a huge open world and no reason to explore it... great. Fallout4 better have a different item system because this one is freaking stupid.

This game is amazing. Looks incredible, the atmosphere is borderline jizztastic, and the combat is fun as hell. Just about shat a brick when I discovered the dual spell wielding and charged my first bandit shooting **** fire and lighting from either hand. Holy **** this game is going to be a time vampire.

Looks like Joel isn't going to rush out and get a day job any time soon. /mother rant

that's a common reacton, but there's something about the gameplay that isn't quite as enthralling as oblivion.. could never really pin it down so it could just be me.

But for certain, the world isn't as open as oblivion. There's a series of relatively small grassed/hillock areas surrounded by mountains and there's only ever one or two ways through these mountains.. so when you find yourself needing to get from homebase to any destination, there's generally only one way to get there and it's always by a well-trodden path. So I find myself fast travelling a lot more than in oblivion which I reckon undermines one of the best aspects of these games (exploring or just travelling in an open world).

The game had a few stages for me.

i believe when i 1st started playing it was difficult to log out. Would play for hours on end and when i did log out to id want to play again right away.

But as time went along (well tbh a lot of time - many many hours of gameplay) i found i didn't want to play as much and by the end it was doing quests/ chores just to get **** done and finish the game.

The only reason why i think i lasted longer then most is because i never farmed xp/ points/ levels to beef my stats. Doing that tends to lead to people dissatisfied by the game and saying "im maxed level god stats and im having to save cats from trees and help old ladies across the road on the way to destroy a deamon thats about to incinerate half the world wtf"

I respect a different opinion, but I don't agree.

I enjoyed the open world and exploring and never once felt like I was just going back over old steps. While there is often only one or two ways into mountain areas, I enjoyed leaping from rock to rock to find other ways, or finding the slope that you could climb and digging through hidden ruins and caves.

I -do- agree that the things in the caves and ruins feel less interesting then Oblivion. I often felt like there were little stories I was only just uncovering in Oblivion, while Skyrim reguarly just has "Cave with bears" or "Ruins with blind guys" and not as much of the "Looks like this tower might have belonged to a wizard, and here's his corpse, and now there's ghosts everywhere, but if I take this relic they all go back to the grave".

To be honest, the Skyrim caves feel much more individual. Probably owing more to the detail in each dungeon. In vanilla Oblivion, they were all just one blueprint, slightly shuffled around, and there were virtually no surprises for me until I played it through with the OOO mod.

I haven't played enough of Skyrim yet though, so I'll see you all in ten hours.

That's a good point too. Oblivion caves/ruines were all taken from the same clay, but I often felt like I was getting into more of a story in exploring them... Thou it pays to note that there were 367 locations in Oblivion and 719 in Skyrim, which means I might be coming entierly out of left field.

I get a sense that the locations in Skyrim, maybe due to their number, are less driven, however... More expansive and less generic, for sure, but there's not often any real essence to them. Some zombies, a wolf, a dragon word.

Never mind, it's hard to expand on. Just a feeling, nothing that can be supported with evidence.

Can you do this in Deus EX?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... -hKxOhOQ3U

They had a thing on good game last night about the new dlc for skyrim. They said it sucked ****.

A couple of things:

Melee becomes very powerful as you progress, I recommend dual wield with the doubleswing perks. by level 28 my first chracter was was 1-2 shotting most enemies, even minor bosses. A bow is good backup for casters though.

Being a caster can be very tough at the early levels. You will likely need to pick and choose quests to avoid getting rolled continously. Potions help a lot.

Avoid leveling crafting skills too early, you will outlevel the content without appropriate gains in chracter stats. This leads to starting the game again.

You know, I don't think that Giant thing is a glitch... I think it's the physics engine giving the only rational amount of "bounce" a body could get when slammed into the ground with that much physical force! It has, however, lead me to some amazingly confusing situations...

... I was on the road once, looking at a road sign to figure out where the road I wanted to follow was, when a dead horse fell from the sky. I was fortunate enough to have a save just before I reached the cross roads, so I loaded it up and looked up... Sure enough, dead horse, falling from a distance so great that I couldn't see it until it had already hit terminal velocity, drops from the heavens, bounces off the road and down the mountain side.

A little investigation later and I had worked a Sherlock like explination into what happened. There were several dead guys near a pair of giants in one of those "painted rocks and giant fire" style areas, one was carrying a torch and the other didn't have weapons drawn. I figure the giant smashed horse guy and he flopped to the earth, but his horse was shot off into the ozone layer, creating a hole that will melt the Throat Of The World and force the Greybeards to become the Greengills.

As good as it looks, skyrim was designed to be playable on hardware released in 2005-2006...

And yet it still looks pretty as hell.

I'm not having any difficulty so far from investing in crafting early. Trying to get my smithy skills up so I can craft dragon things. At the same time focussing on sword in one hand, destructive spell like sparks or lighting in the other. I'm levelling up dual spell casting too for dragons and trolls etc. Gonna have a warrior/mage combo.

I agree.

what do you mean? crafted stuff becomes too powerful??

no ur running around in god armour on level 50 and u barely know which is the pointy end of your sword