Skyrim

From: Chris (CHRISSS) 9 Jan 2012 21:06
To: Dave!! 656 of 773
Ah, that's what I thought, I misread your post. I thought you meant you have to look for word walls in dungeons with unreachable ledges. I see what you meant now. Most of the ones I've seen have been at the end of dungeons in a big room with a boss dude to kill.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)11 Jan 2012 22:15
To: patch 657 of 773
Just reached Blackreach. What an awesomely bizarre place. Love this game :)
From: Manthorp12 Jan 2012 00:28
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 658 of 773
Me too. Mental, but not Shivering Isle mental.
From: MrTrent12 Jan 2012 00:35
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 659 of 773
I spent ages just wondering around Blackreach taking screenshots. Awesome place.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)12 Jan 2012 02:42
To: MrTrent 660 of 773
Just wondering what?
From: MrTrent12 Jan 2012 09:10
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 661 of 773
Just wondering how to spell wandering, clearly.
From: af (CAER)12 Jan 2012 10:55
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 662 of 773
There's a secret dragon in Blackreach, apparently.

Use a full-power Unrelenting Force on the big orange ball thing.

I've not tried it myself yet so I dunno what happens.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)12 Jan 2012 11:17
To: af (CAER) 663 of 773
I accidentally read that about that last night. You don't need full power force to do it. The big dome makes a chime /gongy noise and a dragon flies across from somewhere, one with a name. fairly tough bugger who managed to kill me once
From: Chris (CHRISSS)12 Jan 2012 22:52
To: ALL664 of 773
Haha. I just went back to the Throat of the World after getting the scroll, went up to dragon wotsit, stood under him and as he talked his neck bent under to follow me trapping me between his legs :D
From: Manthorp12 Jan 2012 23:30
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 665 of 773
harharhar, you've been perved by a dragon!
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)13 Jan 2012 01:04
To: Manthorp 666 of 773
Haven't we all?
From: Manthorp13 Jan 2012 06:10
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 667 of 773
True. Penetrated by its points.
From: Manthorp18 Jan 2012 13:31
To: ALL668 of 773
I could only admit how much time I've spent on Skyrim to a closed session of sympathetic, self-confessed addicts. Like here, now I come to think of it.

189 hours...
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)18 Jan 2012 13:34
To: Manthorp 669 of 773
Well you could at least take it to a nice round number! Just another three hours of your life to waste on it...
EDITED: 18 Jan 2012 13:35 by BOUGHTONP
From: Radio18 Jan 2012 13:54
To: ALL670 of 773

Where is it you see this number of hours? I've not bothered to actually look, I've been far too engrossed in the game.

 

Oh, actually on thinking about it, the steam library page will tell you, won't it? I put a desktop shortcut for it instead so haven't visited the page. At most I'd say I've done about 30 hours though since Christmas, only at level 23.

 

Just started the Thieves' Guild quests, and enjoying my sneaking skills being OK. I shot a guy in the back with a bow, then hid in a corner. He runs straight past me, stops in front of me and I started to panic. Then he states to his friends that it must have been nothing and wanders back to his friends, with an arrow still sticking out of his neck.

 

Rinse and repeat.

 

Unfortunately this means that bringing Lydia along is a no-no, she's far too trigger happy and willing to charge into action. I miss the extra carrying capacity she brought to the table though.

From: DrBoff (BOFF)18 Jan 2012 14:45
To: Manthorp 671 of 773
I'm well bored of it. Might go back to Morrowind again.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)18 Jan 2012 14:55
To: DrBoff (BOFF) 672 of 773
w3rd.
From: Matt18 Jan 2012 17:18
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I still haven't played it. Well, tell a lie, I've started it, sat through the intro, went with the captive and not the guard, followed him to his Sister's house. And that's it.

(Really not been in a game playing mood at all recently. Work is being rather intense at the moment and I often just want to collapse when I get home, have some food, watch some TV and go to bed)
From: MrTrent18 Jan 2012 18:32
To: Manthorp 674 of 773
Steam says 113 hours for me. I don't know how accurate that is though.

So far that's nothing compared to the total time i've spent in Oblivion. I haven't actually touched it in a year but last time i did i added up the time clocks from all my saved characters and it was over 450 hours. That's not including a few characters i got bored with and deleted. Must be a good 500 hours in total.
From: Radio18 Jan 2012 18:49
To: MrTrent 675 of 773
Just checked, I wasn't far off, 33 hours.

Has anyone installed any mods? I'm tempted by SkyUI, described a bit, here