The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - out now on Switch and PSVR!

mcjihge2 wrote:

Luke_25 wrote:Are you supposed to get a mask off of every Dragon Priest, you know the ones that have actual names? I think I've killed two but I've not got a mask off any of them.

You should have, did you loot thier bodies? thier mask items are called the same name as the dragon preist.

Yeah I looted the bodies, got some gold and bone meal.

One of them I encountered on the White Phial quest, that is a Dragon Priest yes?

There are the hard dudes at the end of dungeons, but Dragon Priests are something else completely. Hardest enemies in the game.

Jaxley wrote:There are the hard dudes at the end of dungeons, but Dragon Priests are something else completely. Hardest enemies in the game.

No, at a high enough level, end of dungeon Dreugh Overlords are sometimes replaced with non-masking-wearing Dragon Priests. I killed one this pm and he had no mask, so I wiki'ed him - no mask to be had, just a levelled up boss.

Luke_25 wrote:One of them I encountered on the White Phial quest, that is a Dragon Priest yes?

That's the one I killed. No mask to be had.

Just been doing the Dwemer Ruins in Markath. Was doing my usual stealthy archer shtick- fired through a hole into another part of the place to kill a Falmer, missed...and all of a sudden the compass is swarmed in Red Dots. A minute later, 10 Falmer and a Spider turn up to kick my arse all in one group. Survived, but I lost my third companion in the ensuing melee.

Can't help but laugh.

Haven't played this for about a 2 weeks now as I've between moving house. Bringing my 360 from my mum's to my new place tomorrow though.

[Markath Related Spoiler]

So. I've become a Cannibal.

Also, The Forsworn Conspiracy. Brilliant quest. Fantastic ending to it, too.

Trying to get into this at the moment, but its just not doing it for me at all. I like the setting and it looks the part, but just so many things are pissing me off with it. First off, how gloriously pompous and grandiose it all it. THOU ART THINE YE OLDE DRAGONBORNE, with the power to shout peoples heads off. Whoopdy strawberry floating gooseberry fool. Maybe you could ask your court wizard to write a ye olde story that doesnt suck cocks next time bethesda. And all the horribly self indulgent books detailing the folklore of the world. You can tell Bethesda have an absolute strawberry floating hard on for their world and probably consider it Tolkien tier fantasy when its pretty much Krull grade forgettable.
I hate being stopped in my tracks in the middle of a dungeon to solve a spinning block puzzle, or a pull a levers in sequence puzzle. Seriously, strawberry float off with that gooseberry fool. Dark Souls proved you can have incredible level design without the need to throw in a single block spinning puzzle so why the strawberry float and i sitting here spinning blocks in a dwarven dungeon when i could be killing things?? It just takes you out of the action and adds pointless padding.
And speaking of killing things, the combat. Its so inept. Its just a case of who can swing their sword fast enough until the other dies. Theres no skill involved at all. I think ive just been spoiled by Dark Souls in that respect but the combat in this just feels so poor and so limited by comparison.

What's stopped this becoming an absolute classic for me is the fact that Bethesda were obviously so concerned that the world they were building was the finest ever in a game that they forgot to create any interesting characters or quests. Apart from Lydia and Ulfric I really struggle to remember anyone's name at all, and there hasn't been a single quest to rival any of Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood plots.

Fallout 3 and Oblivion were full of quirky characters, interesting quests and locations that had a story behind them, even if they weren't part of a quest. Skyrim is completely lacking these features.

Dark Ritual wrote:[Markath Related Spoiler]

So. I've become a Cannibal.

I've recently started that one. Not sure I want to continue with it. I have to go and bring the priest to the cave the lady is in for the cannibal ritual. I'm tempted just to kill her but I don't like failing...

Tafdolphin wrote:What's stopped this becoming an absolute classic for me is the fact that Bethesda were obviously so concerned that the world they were building was the finest ever in a game that they forgot to create any interesting characters or quests. Apart from Lydia and Ulfric I really struggle to remember anyone's name at all, and there hasn't been a single quest to rival any of Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood plots.

Fallout 3 and Oblivion were full of quirky characters, interesting quests and locations that had a story behind them, even if they weren't part of a quest. Skyrim is completely lacking these features.

....what? They didn't forget, they have no skill with story or characters or interesting quests, Oblivion and Fallout 3 are proof of that. Locations though? Fallout 3, Oblivion and Skyrim are proof that Bethesda have great points of interest in their games.

Try out New Vegas, that's a game with great story telling and characters.

I know who Bethesda are and where their talents lie. I know that Oblivion and Fallout 3 are not the pinnacle of storytelling in games. However, from what I've seen of it so far, Skyrim is worse than either of those two in this regard. Fallout 3 was able to rely on humour, and Oblivion was far more varied in its tasks than Skyrim, from what I've seen so far.

Got bored of my main character and spammed the Oghma Infinium glitch for 20 minutes.

Now I'm 100 in every skill - like a boss.
Now to go and strawberry float some gooseberry fool up.

I suppose when you are writing that kind of volume of content it can be difficult to keep things interesting. It would be good if they could hire one specific writer for each main quest line, with him/her doing all the characterisation and such for those involved. It would keep things focused in a game that is very spread out.

How the dick is Lydia a memorable character?

She's about as much of a non entity as you can get in Skyrim.

Loved New Vegas btw. Played it for some 100+ hours and as great as its characters/dialogue/missions were (though I can hardly remember any of the side missions, same goes for characters -but then I do have a pretty naff memory) the game just cannot compete with Skyrim when it comes to the random moments leaving you speechless and gawking in amazement stakes. In that sense Skyrim is just on another level compared to Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

Saint of Killers wrote::lol: How the dick is Lydia a memorable character?

She's about as much of a non entity as you can get in Skyrim.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FireForgedFriends

Memento Mori wrote:

Saint of Killers wrote::lol: How the dick is Lydia a memorable character?

She's about as much of a non entity as you can get in Skyrim.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FireForgedFriends

She's basically a bag with legs, that makes the game too easy. Terrible.

I have never liked the companion characters in Obsidian games, though, aside from increasing your carry capacity, I've never seen the point.

Saint of Killers wrote:Loved New Vegas btw. Played it for some 100+ hours and as great as its characters/dialogue/missions were (though I can hardly remember any of the side missions, same goes for characters -but then I do have a pretty naff memory) the game just cannot compete with Skyrim when it comes to the random moments leaving you speechless and gawking in amazement stakes. In that sense Skyrim is just on another level compared to Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

O that's true, for sure. I won't even try to refute that, I actually agree with that. It's just that there's a huge blackhole in my gameplay experience of it because I just don't feel as involved in the gameworld due to the things it does lack.

I'm still playing it, I feel I can only play it in small short bursts though before I get bored. Games like Kotor 2 and The Darkness, where they have a shitload of technical flaws or just plain annoying gameplay elements, their story, characters, dialogue, quests and plotlines went a looooooooooooong way for it to overcome those flaws and deliver an amazing game on the whole.

Skyrim is still exceptional, an exceptional 8/10 game, and it misses out on a 10 because of what it lacks. I'm loathe to uninstall it in the fear that I may actually miss a good plotline or quest, and I have to say that 1 out of every 15 quests I've done, has actually been pretty great.