The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Elder Scrolls General

EDIT: Bottompaged.

Edited by rmctagg09 on Jun 12th 2023 at 12:31:02 PM

Thank you.

I'm not normally that big into this game, but this came out on Youtube and I feel like it deserves to be posted here.

Basically the most hardcore anthem to The Guards Must Be Crazy I've ever heard. Granted, the only such anthem I've ever heard, but it goes way harder than it has any right to. Also, the sheer absurdity of what happens, ending with Tullius and Ulfric looking on in exasperation as both their armies just stop fighting and rock out.

Edited by Cronosonic on Aug 14th 2023 at 4:15:42 AM

I got an ich to start playing this game again!I'm currently fighting the hag at orphan rock

God the early game is hell

I keep dying to spriggans because of their health draining ablity.

I still feel bad for giants when I have to kill them

I simply refuse to at this rate. Mammoths too.

If I need Grand Souls, I'll go look for a wild Dragon Priest

I only killed that one giant in the cave because I really wanted the loot and he was stopping me from leaving,other then that I try not to attack them

Oh yeah, fair. I defend myself if I accidentally agro one, but I'm happy to leave them entirely alone if I can. I'm really delighted that the game GIVES me that option. Not many open world games really do.

I prefer Black Soul Gems for enchanting anyway. Sure that's its own ethical quandary, but bandits are everywhere.

Only problem is, without the "Gallows Hall" Creation Club content (included in the Anniversary Edition), Black Soul Gems are considerably harder to come by than Grand Soul Gems. Granted, there's also the Black Star, but then you have to trap and burn humanoid souls one by one rather than Soul Trap an entire dungeon's worth of bandits, vampires, Silver Hand, Stormcloaks, Thalmor, Markarthians, etc. before running home to craft enchanted gear with them.

Thankfully, with "Gallows Hall", you can convert Grand and Greater Soul Gems into Black Soul Gems via a profane ritual, for all of your evil, necromantic needs. True, the lightning attractors in Dawnguard also allow you to do so, but then you have to make a huge detour into the Soul Cairn and figure out where they are, and you spawn in hostile Bonemen and Wrathmen every single time you use one. The altar at Gallows Hall is much more convenient.

And the ethical quandary isn't that big a deal anyway. I'm already eating dragon souls to power myself up. So it's a little late to be worried about stealing souls of sapient beings for power.

Skyrim is also really bad at making you feel like your ethics actually matter, so I have very little issue with hitting up the occasional mammoth for an easy grand soul. That 100 Enchanting skill doesn't happen by itself, yah know.

Edited by Kayeka on Oct 31st 2023 at 8:10:17 PM

XP gain from enchanting doesn't actually depend on the value of what you make. You're better off enchanting iron daggers with petty souls.

Yeah, I forgot. Been a while. Man, so many daggers.

Had one of my first skyrim crashes just now,it crashed so hard I could'nt even bring up task manger so I had to log out

I genuinely cursed the game when that happened.

skyrim not have the option to alt tab out of the game is a major pain years later

Gah, leveled items annoy me so much... Going through a tough fight, earning something cool, just to realize it's going to be forever inferior because you got it too early...

Mods that increase unique item levels with you (or give you items to do it) are basically a necessity.

Is there really no way to hide the HUD on the PS4 for a sort of "photo mode"?

Edited by wooden-ladybug93 on Mar 20th 2024 at 11:13:45 AM

I'm not sure if there is one for this though. The Dawnfang sword is a creation, isn't it?

I'll probably just reload an earlier save. I at least caught this one early so I won't be losing any real progress other than getting the sword itself.

Been playing the Honeystrand Meadery mod. Pairs well with the drunken dragon store mod you can produce your own alcohol, get passive income from sales, then sell the ones on the racks in your store. Portals of Skyrim means a quick way to get between the two without fast travelling.

Poor Narfi though, I think my increased about of time spend in Ivarstead meant a bear spawn near and killed him. Only found out about it from the inheritance letter. No body at his house and a bear lurking around.

Edited by MCE on Apr 5th 2024 at 4:01:56 AM

I'm more surprised someone's still playing Oldrim in 2024, given that even the most recalcitrant Skyrim players are at the very least on SSE 1.5.97.

578 mods (counting inactive mods) and 395 ES Ps... I don't have a problem, I swear.

If there a way to transfer my saves to special edition? Got used to the high level character. Also, Don't fancy finding and installing every mod I would want for special edition, not sure if all of them even have a special edition version.

> I'm more surprised someone's still playing Oldrim in 2024, given that even the most recalcitrant Skyrim players are at the very least on SSE 1.5.97.

some of us even played with little or minimal mods!