Skyrim

From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)12 Nov 2011 13:25
To: sinkywinky 69 of 773
You look very glam.

I love the salmon thing. I saw them doing that in mine, so I jumped in and tried to join in :Y
From: Mouse12 Nov 2011 22:03
To: ALL70 of 773
I have a question, how many hours before I would get to grips with this? I can maybe afford to spend 4 or 5 hours a week playing it, do is require a marathon of effort for it to be a good game? It sounds ace.
From: MrTrent12 Nov 2011 22:22
To: ALL71 of 773
A story about dragons.

I went off to the city of Windhelm to see what i get get up to. I spoke to the Jarl's steward and he gave me a quest to kill a dragon. This was in the "miscellaneous" quest page, so basically a generic 'go to this location and KILL' quest, but with a dragon.

Very well, i thought, and off i went. On my way to the quest dragon, a random dragon turned up and started attacking some farm. There were a couple of gaurds around the farm who launced a few arrows at it, i hit it with a bit of magic, but it wasn't really taking much damage and it wasn't landing so i couldn't get my sword in to play. Then, all of a sudden the dragon veered off and landed a fair distance away. I ran to catch up and saw that the dragon had apparently been distracted by agiant and had swooped down the burn the fucker. The giant proceed to twat the dragon on the head with his hammer. The dragon then died.

I then went off the kill the dragon i was being paid to kill, which was too easy and actually a bit boring. It was the first dragon i'd actually had to take on by myself and i thought it'd be more complicated. I thought i'd have to wekan it with ranged magic or somehow force it to land before i could start chacking away at it, but instead he very kindly landed right next to me almost immediately and allowed me to hit him with my sword.

Admittedly i did have to run away and heal a couple of times but at no point did i feel in any real danger. Not like when i was fighting a bear about half an hour ago, which actually killed me three times before i took him down.

MrTrent is officially disapointed in the dragons. Except when they get killed by giants.
From: MrTrent12 Nov 2011 22:25
To: Mouse 72 of 773
4-5 hours a week would not be enough. Maybe if you just wanted to work through the quests one after the other you could get quite a bit done in 4 hours, but that would be to miss the whole point.
From: Manthorp12 Nov 2011 22:31
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 73 of 773
You know you can catch them and turn them into salmon meat, don't you?
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)12 Nov 2011 23:02
To: Manthorp 74 of 773
Aye but I've found food is a bit pointless when one has a heal spell. So I heal them instead, to repay them for all the tasty meat.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)12 Nov 2011 23:26
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 75 of 773
haha, what in tarnations did you do?
From: MrTrent12 Nov 2011 23:33
To: ALL76 of 773
Is anyone playin as an Argonian, or interacted with many Argonians? I ask because i've just come across a few and the lizard skin texture isn't showing, just a bright purple. I don't know if that's just me or not.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)12 Nov 2011 23:34
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 77 of 773
I was doing a puppet show for that dude with a troll skull. He didn't seem impressed though.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)12 Nov 2011 23:35
To: MrTrent 78 of 773
I've interacted with (killed) some. Their textures were fine. Are you sure it's not a bright purple Argonian? :Y
From: MrTrent12 Nov 2011 23:45
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 79 of 773

I've just been doing a bit of googling and have only seen one other mention of missing textures like this. (EDIT: having re-googled with the correct spelling of "texture", i've seen quite a lot more mentions of it.) Oh well. I've seen surprisingly few bugs so far*, so i'll let it off.

 

*Although one of them was a pretty annoying one. When you escape the dragon in the opening sequence then get tasked to go to the little town and speak some woman, the woman didn't have the conversation option to advance the quest. I had to use the developer console to tell the game that i'd spoken to her otherwise the main quest would have been unaccessible.

EDITED: 12 Nov 2011 23:46 by MRTRENT
From: MrTrent12 Nov 2011 23:58
To: MrTrent 80 of 773
Hmm. I just left the area to go and threaten someone, went back to tell teh Argonian and collect my payment, and the textures were working fine. Oddness.
From: Matt13 Nov 2011 00:05
To: MrTrent 81 of 773
Hey, it wouldn't be a Bethesda game if it didn't have such gameplay breaking bugs.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)13 Nov 2011 00:25
To: Matt 82 of 773
(giggle)
From: MrTrent13 Nov 2011 18:02
To: ALL83 of 773
The Dark Brotherhood armour makes my Orc look really, really gay.
From: patch13 Nov 2011 19:16
To: ALL84 of 773
Oh God, your companions can die. I feel so guilty about running away and leaving Lydia (awful name, though) to face that bastard thing alone.
From: Some call me... (PSYCHO_GEEZER)13 Nov 2011 19:58
To: MrTrent 85 of 773
Pics!
From: MrTrent13 Nov 2011 20:29
To: Some call me... (PSYCHO_GEEZER) 86 of 773
I'd take a pic but i don't know how to take a screenshot.
From: Manthorp13 Nov 2011 20:31
To: Some call me... (PSYCHO_GEEZER) 87 of 773
Just discovered this place:
Attachments:
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)13 Nov 2011 20:34
To: MrTrent 88 of 773
quote: some page found after putting "skyrim screenshot key" into a search engine
In addition to the Steam screenshot function (F12), Skyrim actually has its own screenshot key, mapped to "Print Screen" by default.
EDITED: 13 Nov 2011 20:34 by BOUGHTONP