Elder Scrolls General

Also,skyrim has radiant quests (aka randomly generated quests) which any NPC can give you

Oh waow. I just spent two hours banging my head against the wall because skyrim was giving me a Crash to desktop for no obvious reason (no new mods installed between two launches) at the screen title, and after Using every single cleanup tool in existence, it was because the .ini file stored in my documents decided to switch languages and the game crash if the language of the game is mismatched with the one on steam. And obviously it was in the one folder I forgot to check for an hour and a half.

I've seen pretty stupid things happen when trying to get that game to boot, but that one's new. Sometimes getting that game to work is a national sport, I swear.

Edited by Yumil on Jul 19th 2018 at 2:16:54 PM

That still doesn't answer. What quest do I pick. Where do I go. I have literally zero direction.

Edited by Twentington on Jul 19th 2018 at 2:02:52 PM

... It's not a zero sum game - you pick ANY quest. And your main quest is a good start - it LITERALLY gives you a direction - go talk to the Jarl. And then from there you'll get sent somewhere else.

I mean, what do you want to get out of the game? Combat? Walk in any direction until you see an icon on the compass and walk towards it, then fight the monsters.

Story? Follow the main quest - it'll send you to enough areas.

Exploration? Walk around whiterun and talk to every person you see - some will have little quests for you to do. Do those. They will give you gold. Use said gold to buy things like weapons, crafting stuff...

Crafting? Go to the smithy, or to the alchemy story. Play with those systems.

I know I kept beating this drum back before, but it's an open-world sandbox RPG. Not having one confirmed direction is pretty much the point of the game, its main appeal. I can't tell you what, definitively, to do. None of us can. You have to decide on your own.

My recommendation would be to go to the Companions in Whiterun and try out their questline for a bit.

Skyrim is a Quicksand Box game. It drops you in the middle of everything and says "Do whatever you want." Some players love the lack of railroading, others want some structure.

Here's a few things to do.

1) Join the Companions in Whiterun. There is no quest this locks you out of, and you get some pretty bitchin' werewolf powers pretty early on into their questline. You also get access to some good melee/ranged allies and tutors.

2) Do the main quest. You get access to Shouts like Fus Ro Dah, Whirlwind Sprint, and Dragonrend that make dragons a lot less of a nuisance. You will also unlock Lydia as a follower (she's great at tanking and standing in front of doors you need to pass through, and has the added bonus of being sworn to carry your burdens) and be able to purchase Breezehome (which is rather small, but is cheap and great for stealing the Dragon Bones and Scales that will pile up really quickly).

3) Progress the Civil War. Go to either Windhelm or Solitude and join up. If you don't really like your picked side, you have the option to change that a couple of quests in, but once you get the Jagged Crown, you're locked in. They make you do a quick quest to prove your mettle, but neither is terribly difficult at a low level. they give you some free armor, and if you complete the Civil War, you get a nice Elven Sword of Lifesteal either as a gift from Tullius or off his dead body.

4) As a mage, join the College of Winterhold. A nice way to practice and advance magic., get a pretty bitchin' staff (and access to several magic followers and tutors and stuff), access to plenty of books to read for levels, and so on.

5) Head to Riften and join the Thieves Guild. Easy money (though you get pretty easy money no matter what you do), thieving levels, the lady who lets you change up your character's look, some great stealth powers by the end, and several Thief-skill tutors.

Edited by Rytex on Jul 20th 2018 at 8:54:33 AM

I can't seem to make even the slightest dent with anything other than melee. Bows take a billion years and require you to be pixel perfect, and magic does literally nothing.

It never seemed to last time. I just spent a billion years in Whiterun.

I did, and I never found anything but gold.

I never found the ingredients to craft with anywhere.

How do I make things happen? It just feels like I'm wandering around aimlessly. The game gives me no goals, no direction, no anything. I am literally just walking in a barren forest for ages.

Bows get bonuses from being in stealth. Well, all weapons do, but since bows are at range that means you can attack people without being seen after a while. You can buy stronger magic spells for gold from, e.g. court mages, and at the College of Winterhold (a mage college).

Loot things, especially creatures. You can pick up certain plants, and grab butterflies.

You can make thing happen in a few way. Primarily by doing quests for people.

The game does give you direction. Talk to innkeepers and they'll tell you rumours. When you enter new major towns scripted events will happen, usually leading you to a quest if followed up on. If you go to the carriage in the Whiterun Stables and take a trip to Markarth, that's a fun one. Numerous people, including almost all inkeepers, will point you to the College of Winterhold, which has a whole questline about magic, and numerous people in Whiterun point you to the Companions over in their town, who similarly have their own developed questline.

But you keep refusing to listen to any of it! You just roam around like a muppet, then complain here about it! Then you yell at us 'What should I do? TELL ME'. You have options presented to you! We've listed them multiple times! Pick one at random, or, if you prefer definitive linear structure to an open-world sandbox and if reading up on in-game systems to exploit doesn't appeal to you, that's fine! Perfectly fine! But you can't expect Skyrim to offer that.

Edited by Lavaeolus on Jul 27th 2018 at 9:33:00 AM

Wow, I've never seen anyone miss the point of Skyrim this hard. I mean, I don't like the point of Skyrim, the whole "you're in this world, go and do whatever you want" kind of thing, but I still get it. You can do basically anything. I you want to, you go into a dungeon, you clear it, sell the stuff you don't need, move on, rinse and repeat until you're basically god. Or do some quests, which generally send you to dungeons anyways. But geez, it's like you're doing this intentionally.

If you don't like the way Skyrim does things, great. Move on, go to another game. No game is for everyone. I certainly don't like Skyrim all that much. I prefer my stories to be more linear and structured, and Skyrim's way of handling story is far too loose for me, so I generally don't play it much. Because, you know, it didn't work for me. But I didn't come here to complain about it, I just moved on.

Edited by TheLovecraftian on Jul 27th 2018 at 11:45:42 AM

I have never seen a single one.

The only things I ever get from looting creatures are gold and weapons far weaker than what I already have.

I also can't find the metal or whatever I need to craft weaponry, either.

No one I've talked to in Whiterun has given me a single quest, and I've picked clean every person I can find.

At this point I have to assume you're trolling.

All your problems can be solved by fighting giants

( I've assumed this for awhile now,it's a wonder he's still at it)

~~Twentington

Ok to be frank I think if you're not having any fun with Skyrim regardless of what you do then it's clearly not the game for you, which is fine. Not everyone likes Skyrim (and some are quite vocal about it).

I would just advise you to uninstall Skyrim and play something you actually like because there's only so much incredibly basic advice we can give before it gets tiring and trite.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Jul 28th 2018 at 9:31:43 AM

I am starting to believe he has a very short attention span, or maybe even some sort of cognitive issue going on, because one thing is not liking a game, and another is spending months complaining about not getting instant gratification (by the way, if you spoke to everybody in Whiterun, you'd be given a sword to send to the Jarl's Steward by the blacksmith, who has shop RIGHT NEXT TO THE ENTRANCE).

Turn on subtitles if anything.

If you'd actually spoken to everyone in Whiterun, you'd have gotten the following quests:

• Find Andurs' Arkay Amulet in the Catacombs
• Steal the Argonian Ale from the Inn
• Deliver the sword to the Jarl's Steward
• "Dragon Rising" (Main Story; kill the dragon attacking the watchtower outside town)
• "In My Time of Need" (Find the Redguard fugitive)
• "Missing in Action" (Find out what happened to the Graymanes' son)
• "The Blessings of Nature" (Find the magic dagger "Nettlebane")
• "Take Up Arms" (Join the Companions)

And probably a few others I'm missing. You'd have also met a court mage, which you claim not to have done, despite having earlier claimed to have completed the Dragonstone quest, which you get from the court mage. At this point you're either trolling or literally don't know how to play a videogame.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Jul 28th 2018 at 7:52:44 AM

So, I've been playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the past few days. It's a pretty decent game so far. It's not as good as Skyrim but I think there's quite a bit to appreciate.

Anyways, I managed to do a bit of the main quest in Oblivion. I got all four Mythic Dawn Commentaries and gave them to the female Argonian mage to study in order to find their hideout. I also completed the Pilgrim sidequest and found all Nine wayshrines of the divines. Finally, I went to an underwater temple and found one of the artifacts of the divine crusader.

Young Scrolls just reminded me that he exists, which in turn got me wondering you fellas' opinions on him.

What about the latest DLC to ESO, Wolfhunter? It's worth to buy a subscription for a month?

I am thinking about come back. If it is worth where is the best place to buy sub? Only official store? And also is this site legit for buy ESO Gold https://www.sellersandfriends.com/the-elder-scrolls-online/na/gold after I register?

Edited by cab22 on Sep 3rd 2018 at 5:26:05 AM

Ever wanted someone to make Dawnbreaker IRL?

A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE— oh, wait, sword, not beacon. Sorry.

Oblivion is quite good. It was mindblowing back in its heyday and while kind of funny looking in terms of age is still perfectly playable with a lot of charm. I think Shivering Isles is still the pinnacle of ES expansions. It might be Bethesda's best DLC TBH.

I was watching some Bloodmoon gameplay last night and while I remember liking it a lot when I played it, the last quest for its main story is extremely unfair and poorly designed. You have to navigate this gauntlet maze with like 15-20 werewolves, all of whom are Lightning Bruiser and damage sponges which if you're unlucky can aggro multiple of at once. Oh and they can sneak attack you for what will likely result in a 1HKO. The whole thing just feels brutal to the point of feeling cheap not to mention tedious due to how many werewolves you're fighting and how much damage they do and can take. I remember having to lower the difficulty down for this quest(something I almost never do for Bethesda games) and the werewolves still being a threat in their damage. The guy I watched had to lower the difficulty as well. Like while I understand finding skyrim or Oblivion "too easy" at the same time I'm glad they never had the gall to do something on the level of bloodmoon's last quest again because it felt like the wrong kind of difficult.

Edited by Vertigo_High on Sep 23rd 2018 at 12:48:11 PM

The Youtuber Indigo Gaming recently released an almost 3½ hours interview with designer and writer Ted Peterson, one of the original creators of the Elder Scrolls series, who was responsible for writing down quite a bit of the series' lore. It can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzjvWQCND54

Indigo Gaming also made an interview of similar length with another one of the series' other original creators, programmer Julian Jensen (aka Julian LeFay) a while back. It can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGLGi5RK8V8

If you're interested in the story behind the Elder Scrolls series (and the corporate culture of the gaming industry in the late 80's/early 90's), I recommend watching both of these. It is rather fascinating stuff.

Edited by TheAmazingBlachman on Oct 4th 2018 at 6:10:27 PM

And so Skyrim Grandma is immortalized.

Reviving this thread since it doesn't quite fit in the Skyrim thread — as promotion for the upcoming ESO expansion set in Elsweyr, Bethesda published a free pen & paper adventure set in the province, apparently written by their Netherlands branch.

Except, surprise! It's plagiarized from a D&D adventure published in 2016. And not plagiarized in the "has the exact same plot" sense, plagiarized in the "literally copy-pasted with all the D&D words replaced with Elder Scrolls words" sense.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on May 9th 2019 at 9:06:40 AM