Skyrim: kicking dragon ass

[Calrid]

Technically a saga seeing as how Assassins Creed 2 has 3 parts, AC2, AC Brotherhood and AC Revelations.

Ah right, thanks for the info. I've been eyeing the Creed games for some time, I'll have to do some research.

[PavlovianModel146]

Can you guys go back to more Skyrim stuff, please?

I've never played the game, have no intention to do so, but I've enjoyed this thread, for some reason.

[Stoic Guardian]

I used to (in a way I still do) research games i never got to play, yet it was interesting just learning the lore an such.

I don't know where should the discussion lead without me just mindlessly droning on, I guess I could talk about the mods I'm trying out or somethin.

[Calrid]

I finally have the full suit of Daedric armour, Armour is 920, smithing is nearly 99 now so the only way to get that up is probably to get better smithing magic items.

I felt bullet proof earlier which brings me on to my day, basically reported in to the Night Mother who gave me another helpless victim to brutally murder. When I left I had to fight an ancient dragon near Dawnstar; "right now to test the Armour I thought" running gallantly into battle, placing my faith in the Dragon rend shout and my heals and legendary Dragonbane sword. He breathed on me and I died straight away. Lol. Ahhhhhhhhhh I'm on fire!!!! Not a bad way to go I suppose, you can at least be sure people in Dawnstar will be talking about the Dragon born going flying as a dragon breathed a furnace at his lifeless body. Anyway I decided to approach the Night mother from the other entrance to avoid the dragon as dragons in towns are a colossal pain sometimes. Incidentally one of the masks that gives a defence bonus to frost, fire and lightning is actually Daedric and can be improved with ebony to the same level as the ordinary helmet, and since its Daedric it's a matched set. Which is nice, pity it doesn't say what the defence bonus actually is, odd that.

Still I then went with Vilkas to kill another dragon (this one was a blood dragon fortunately, they are not the easiest but they are much, much easier than ancients). Most Dragon lairs have Shout power words somewhere close, so after the dragon was sliced and reaped I went to look for it. Found it and it was bloody haunted by some undead dragon priest. Now I don't mind fighting the guys as they usually yield nice Daedric stuff. But this guy floated backwards faster than I can run and continuously shot fireballs at my horse, cause I couldn't get near the bugger. Shadow was magnificent though, didn't do much damage but boy that Nazgul style horse can take some punishment. Eventually I trapped him against a cliff and jumped and slashed him until he croaked, git had at least 500 health I reckon. Daedric type mask, although light armour, Improves 3 skills, not bad but I'll not wear it in battle most likely, save it for making potions and stuff.

I now have 20 dragon shouts, few of which I actually use but meh, I really want the last word of the shout for flame breath but I never seem to find it so I usually go with the three word frost breath instead which slows enemies down, unless facing dwarven robots. Anyhoo killed a gaint for the bounty, planning on picking up another power word later, and then ending the war against the Empire. Ho hum that's life I guess. I Don't particularly like what will be the new high king and would gladly assassinate him. I actually tried once but he's unkillable, I beat him down to 0 hps 5 times and then gave up, all the guards could be killed but not him and his Steward. Bahh..

Bounty God alone knows, probably more than 30k. Mwahahahaha being evil is great fun.

Later dudes.

[Calrid]

Cool I finally discovered the Smithing potion, which increases my smith skill by 60 percent, armour is now nearly 1200 and my axe does around 160 atm, and sucks out your soul mwahahahaha. I'm looking to get some more grand souls atm, so although my Daedric weapon of the Vampire sucks out 15 health and gives it to you and is thus slightly more damaging, I'm using the axe.

I'm looking to die in this suit so my next 3 perks will be enchantment +20%, so that I can enchant these items. Probably +x one handed skill on boots and gloves, + health on armour. If I do chose to remove the helmet for a plain Daedric one I will probably put some sort of resistance to shock, fire or some such on it. Who knows maybe I'll get the double perk thing, one step away, Enchantment 74...

Earlier I got a really nice Daedric mask from a place where I went to find a shout word. I'm 52nd atm, I reckon I might stop playing around 60 or so. Oh and now The Imperials have been kicked out of Skyrims holds.

One thing I really like about the game is the dungeon areas which are all very different, a lot of work went into keeping them fresh, and the "Dwarven" dungeons are quite fun, with the robots and the steam driven death traps (incidentally the Dwarves are actually Elves apparently, stunty one's I presume: they enslaved the Snow Elves, which eventually rebelled and became the Falmer, a blind and evil race, that you kind of feel sorry for given their history of persecution). I would of preferred more monsters in the game but meh, it's a minor gripe. The bestiary is hardly understocked.

Ogmund's house, how do I rob the place, the map shows extra areas but there's no access to them... Hmmm... Curious... I figure he owes me his chalice for saving him from a Falmer dungeon; I can always justify my actions no matter how illegal or immoral.

Edit: I love the fact that you can die in even the most benign situations on master, especially if your mixing up your skill sets; Light armour for me can often be a death sentence so I need a different approach as I basically have no perks. And even if you aren't mixing the skill sets up then you need so much more than just the ability to kill quickly. For example I hit a final area today, now usually one Druagar Lord can be a challenge, I had 3 and one of them scourges that cast magic, magic I use is basically wasted atm even at high level, it will kill, but it's kinda disappointingly meh, not sure why my magic is gash but I guess it's because I don't specialise in it, even though I have all the perks, no idea, but then you pays your money you takes your chance. Anyway very hard to kill all four, you had to keep moving so that they wouldn't hit you, and when two struck make sure you had your shield up, 3 and you were dead almost instantly. I had to use far more healing/stamina/magicka potions than I was comfortable with and far more restoration spells, which are at least not crap at expert. But I did it first time, hook or by crook it was a nightmare, I'm about 70/30% on hard situations usually, so I have at least some skill I like to think.

I kinda like the way the game just makes it so hard so quickly at master level. Just when you think you've got it all down, they throw a curve ball, the algorithms for levelling and skilling up are superb. Unless of course you're an exploit merchant who basically only gets a thrill if everything is made too easy, and you don't even wait until you get bored to use cheats, you use them from the start because nothing says I am finding it too hard diddums like wasting your time being beatable, because you can't play the game very well and you are a girl.

This game is my game of the year. Even better than the MMORPG LotR expansion and Deus Ex. I seldom find a game that's once in a decade but I think this is it. Don't buy it though, sincerely, if you have a life you might lose it!

[Calrid]

An addendum Dragon armour is heavy, but you can find light versions of dragon scale armour. Interesting I guess, you can have both a suit of heavy and light armour that beats everything else in the game. I used a skill perk to get the heavy, and then went back and used it for enchantment after the fact. Well I have Daedric with a few perks and a half now, I guess the dragon stuff can wait. 1300ish armour with a shield, +51 health bonus, +66% weapon damage and +51 magicka on the helm. Quite sweet. I haven't murdered anyone today, in fact I rescued a few people. Is that wrong?

Some Falmer 1 hit killed me with an arrow today, I was wearing light armour but still, enemies critically hitting me, now that's fair, but it aint cricket.

Well I have bought the Assassins creed first 3 games (cost me £15, bargain), so when this game begins to wear thin I can continue with the murder. Do love this game though, 2 months of playing probably at least 200 hours, for the price it is cheap.

Incidentally I don't work for these guys, but if push comes to shove I will go on an advert and say this game is cool, for the right amount of money obviously.

[Stoic Guardian]

You play Skyrim on P.C. Calrid?

[Calrid]

You play Skyrim on P.C. Calrid?

Yes I now play Assassins Creed on PC too (I got the first three thanks for the recommendation), apparently it's better than the console versions. I would reserve judgement, without actually having tried both, cynical as I am.

That said I gave up consoles for PC's a while back, as much as I loved them, PC has always been more versatile. I kinda miss the N64, Golden Eye will always hold a place in my heart, as will analogue sticks, which were considered magic back in Ye olde times. Of course you can get PC versions of analogue pads, but meh retrospect is always much better than the present. For example the best game I ever played was Manic Miner, but then I was 11. Back then blocky graphics and 2D wasn't just magic it was a miracle, in 10, 10, note, colours! Jesus be praised.

Still playing Skyrim. I can't put it down. I think I should probably form Skyrim Anonymous. That said the quests are wearing a little thin, and I'm usually only getting quests from finding shouts atm. Even so the fact the map is still vaguely empty in parts will mean I will be coming back to it for a while.

[Stoic Guardian]

I burned out on Skyrim a while ago seeing as how I got it on Day one an played it for about 2 months straight and then some.

I've been trying to play Napoleon/Shogun 2: Total war except NTW constantly crashes on me all the time, Shogun 2 less so but it still does it.

I got Star wars The Old Republic recently and have been playing that. I still want to play Deus Ex and the Witcher 2 but I'm pretty much broke at the moment so it'll have to wait a while longer.

[Calrid]

I burned out on Skyrim a while ago seeing as how I got it on Day one an played it for about 2 months straight and then some.

I've been trying to play Napoleon/Shogun 2: Total war except NTW constantly crashes on me all the time, Shogun 2 less so but it still does it.

I got Star wars The Old Republic recently and have been playing that. I still want to play Deus Ex and the Witcher 2 but I'm pretty much broke at the moment so it'll have to wait a while longer.

Aye it does last about 2 months.

Deus Ex is superb, too immersive and some might say it isn't long enough but it is one of those games that you will waste 9 hours playing without noticing it. the plot is superb, if you haven't played any of the other series, of which this is a kind of prequel, you will be loving the twists to the end, even the obvious ones. It has many ways to play, kinda unusual, 4 endings, and many ways to get there. I suggest you try it out when it's extremely cheap, it wont disappoint you. Hell it's even philosophical, what ending you chose will tell you a lot about philosophy and morals. Sounds pretentious but wait until you get to the end and have 4 choices.

[Stoic Guardian]

I Played it till after I did a few missions in Hong Kong but didn't get any further (wanted too but I was borrowing the game).

[fuse]

Okay, I got to Sovngarde and defeated Alduin. Did I beat the game? Is there anything left of the main quest? I've gotten a little tired of Skyrim and haven't been playing very often, but since I put in so many hours it would be nice to have completed the damn game.

[Stoic Guardian]

You should frame that with a spoiler, any ways yes that is the end of the Main quest.

[fuse]

You should frame that with a spoiler, any ways yes that is the end of the Main quest.

Bah, I think you can anticipate facing Alduin from the beginning of the game. It seems like they should have had some kind of special sequence or something to mark the end of the main quest line.

[Calrid]

You should frame that with a spoiler, any ways yes that is the end of the Main quest.

Bah, I think you can anticipate facing Alduin from the beginning of the game. It seems like they should have had some kind of special sequence or something to mark the end of the main quest line.

They don't and if anything the dragons become more frequent in attacking you. So much for progress.

untab

The end sequence in as much as credits don't roll, fireworks don't go off, you don't get multiple blow jobs etc, for me was on the big mountain with that elder dragon dude taking over the reigns. Yours may differ depending on how you played out the game.

I'm playing Assassins creed atm, Just started memory block 5, It's suddenly ramped up the difficulty level, with guards everywhere and regular patrols of 5 or so, which means I spend a lot of time atm fighting guards, which I have to admit I kinda enjoy. Hard work now, anybody would of though there'd been a murder or somit.

Assassins creed two next, then brotherhood. Will get back to Skyrim at some point.

[Stoic Guardian]

I want to play Mass effect 3 but my xbox broke (the 4th goddam one) and it's coming out in 3 days.

[Calrid]

I want to play Mass effect 3 but my xbox broke (the 4th goddam one) and it's coming out in 3 days.

I know a guy who literally buys every console platform that comes out, and he owns a top notch PC he upgrades every couple of years. Bastard. Wish I could afford to do that. Certainly would be one solution to your woes.

Assassins creed is pissing me off, 5 assassinations in 5 minutes without being spotted trying to knife them once. Shazbat. And the pick pocket job is in the middle of the entire "Syrian" army. Well not quite but since it's patrol central you have to wait 10 minutes just for a slim chance at a pickpocket. I don't mind hard, I've rethought my strategy, I'm going to kill all the patrols and bullying guards. At least that way when I start it I wont have to wait four years to get the info. There's a certain fun to be had throwing the nut cases and beggars about in this game. Is that wrong.

By the way I'm not an expert swordsman but a master swordsman unless he had the element of surprise and a lot of luck would be hard pressed to kill 5 competent guards, let alone 7 at once. That's not realistic. As much as the combat is easy and intuitive (aside from the counter strike, strike and repost instant kill which rarely seems to come off for me) seven guards would more effectively wolf pack you than they do, constantly keeping you shifting by attacking in patterns that are unpredictable and constant. I think you'd have to be the greatest living swordsman to survive seven at once, without any other advantage and in an open space.

[Stoic Guardian]

There's a certain fun to be had throwing the nut cases and beggars about in this game. Is that wrong.

Well I believe there is an achievment for it.

[PavlovianModel146]

Calrid,

I don't know if they hire for such positions on-line, but you really should look into being a video game reviewer. Hearing you talk about these games makes me want to play every one of them. I have little time for video games, though, and increasingly find myself (on the occasions I do have time) trying to become the greatest in the world on Mario Kart Wii.

[Stoic Guardian]

Angryjoe already does that.

[Calrid]

Calrid,

I don't know if they hire for such positions on-line, but you really should look into being a video game reviewer. Hearing you talk about these games makes me want to play every one of them. I have little time for video games, though, and increasingly find myself (on the occasions I do have time) trying to become the greatest in the world on Mario Kart Wii.

I'm too old. I've seen adverts a few times, and it's always 18-30. Sad really apparently as soon as you hit 30 you lose all that valuable gaming experience you had and become too old to possibly relate to today's y00t.

Thanks though.

I think I might try this assassination with just 4 information missions of 6, I don't usually but the last two missions are causing me serious problems. Oh well one last try...

EDIT: incidentally I gave up on those two missions, utter gits, went for the kill. Got it. Wasn't too bad, although I actually failed the second assassination for the first time because I fell in the water, Altaír cannot swim even in light armour. So anyway all's well now, the second guy on memory block five was much easier despite my inability to swim, although more of a chase, at least the information challenges were doable to some extent, only missed one this time, the stupid assassinate 3 Teutonic knights thing: did it the first time got two, jumped over a wall, and some guy who has X-ray vision pegged me as an Assassin of a person he couldn't even see! Gah. I was not even visible to myself when I killed him let alone anyone else, the alert level was green! German's very easy to kill, I must of been a psycho in a previous life.

Anywho now on the last mission, kill the Frenchman, for some reason I find killing French people soothing on the soul, must be my English genetic memory.

I should probably review this game at some point, it's possibly too short, and the Assassinations are way too easy, but I think it's a damn fine game all the same.

[Calrid]

Good God I tried playing Skyrim today, after a hefty week long session of Assassin's Creed. Even after a week of forbearance from the game I was playing like an amateur, pressing the wrong buttons forgetting the right things. That said I kept on the master level, but it wasn't easy, I had to even make potions between times to keep up, use every trick in the book and survive on a knife edge. Good Jesus our lord, the magic users would often cast spells that would do 400 damage, and if I wasn't on full health I would die instantly. I love this game, Assassin's Creed gets hard later on, but it's not as hard as Skyrim. Skyrim is a man (or woman's) game, not for kids. Said it before but game of the decade, I don't think anything can touch it atm. We shall see...

[Tab]

Think I'll buy this for the summer hols.

[PavlovianModel146]

Calrid,

You should just write a lengthly review and send it in to a few different gaming magazines, or websites. You could even do a few Reviews, but send them in to all of them and see if any of them make you an offer. The way you describe the games is highly engaging, I would think that age-related application requirements would go out the window when they see what you can bring to the table.

[Calrid]

Calrid,

You should just write a lengthly review and send it in to a few different gaming magazines, or websites. You could even do a few Reviews, but send them in to all of them and see if any of them make you an offer. The way you describe the games is highly engaging, I would think that age-related application requirements would go out the window when they see what you can bring to the table.

I'll think about it.