Some of these Pillar puzzles drive me *** crazy.. Took me 10-15 mins to figure out this last one
You talking about the puzzle at the door where there are reels, and you try to do the combination, and after you "think" you got it, you place the dragon claw on the key pad, and it either works or it shoots a trap at you?
If so, look in your inventory at the dragon claw, and rotate it around, on the paw you will see the combination.
well i got a good pic of my char on my phone... now lets see how well i can do it with my webcam.. (i've been having problems bluetoothing pics between my phone and comp lately)
I want to be summoning massive fireball explosions with egregious particle effects, with interesting and different range-based mechanics, etc. The Elder Scroll games seem to be much more "either run at the baddie or have them run at you, then spam click your button" and hitting people with point-blank fire over and over just doesn't do it for me. At that point it's kinda just "why." I'll just hit them in the face with a sword if I'm gunna be in that position instead. Maybe it's better in Skyrim than it was in the other two, but given the spell selection at Step 1, (hit them in the face with fire), I figured it was more of the same.
Personally, for Morrowind I never casted anything offensive, it was never really worth it to me considering my char class was a "sam" class, thus it didnt normally rely on casting(even so the casting never did anything for me personally)however in skyrim I find myself casting spells more often than not(it could be the fact that I can swing and cast now too~)esp since some of the enemies with shield tend to block alot(everyone has an ochain these days) and afaik shields dont block magic? outside of spec. shields and perks.
Just went to Markarth for the first time and my god...I was blown away.
But on another note...Skyrim is depressing me a little. When I played Oblivion it was in high school and I devoted a whole month of summer vacation to it. I lived in Cyrodiil from the time I got up until I went to bed for weeks. It was amazing.
But now I'm an adult and I really don't have the time this game deserves to give. And then I realized I'll never have a summer vacation again. T_T
Just finished getting all my light armor perks. Grand total on my dragon skin armor is now 867. Would have been higher, but I decided to re-make the body/head for different enchantments. Might remake the gloves too. Also worth mentioning that I have -100% mana cost on both destruction and restoration :3
As a testament to just how much time I spent walking around looking at scenery and generally exploring, dying, and reloading; I made a new character last night, and was able to get almost as far in 5 hours as I did 30 hours last weekend(minus 3 dozen little side quests). Awesome and sad at the same time.
First thing I did after exiting the intro sequence, run to Riverfell(sp), sell all the junk I got from killing imperials in the escape, spam Smithing(make leather strips, buy iron ingots), unlock steel smithing perk, make an Exquisite Steel weapon, and start looting nearby dungeons. Exquisite steel weapons were dropping bandits in maybe two hits. I was level 15 wearing full orc armor in no time(made an orc and was curious what the armor looked like).
completed, way to easy. Good graphics don't make a game (ffxiv)
just sayin
And you most likely missed out on 95% of the game. Just sayin'.
ES games aren't the kind you just blow through in a day and beat. I can beat Oblivion start to finish in one sitting on a weeknight. Didn't stop me from playing the game for 3 years.
Game companies put those in there so they can widen their audience. If your on normal you are probably looking at it being scaled to a little more then a casual gamer.
I did run into one issue last night I didn't notice before. My new character dual-wields maces, so I had two identical Exquisite steel maces in my inventory, favorited, so I could swap out the left one for a healing spell, and swap the mace back.
Problem is, the game stacks identical items into the same line with a (x) showing how many you have. As soon as I would swap out to a healing spell, it would stack the maces into one line, and I couldn't equip them via favorite list. Only fix for this I've seen on console is either have the maces be of different quality, so the game sees them as different items, or to enchant and name them differently. Still, kind of annoying.
Bethesda Softworks just announced the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series and the sequel to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be called Skyrim. And it'll be out next year.
Bethesda's Todd Howard introduced the game with a brief teaser showing a stone dragon and a dramatic narration that sets up the story of the next big role-playing game in the Elder Scrolls series. That teaser also dates Skyrim for November 11, 2011.
I cannot bloody wait. I've always loved the Elder scrolls series since Daggerfall.