GAMING: Skyrim

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So who else is loving this game as much as me? Picked it up on release day, and have not been able to stop playing all weekend. I’m addicted. Badly. My wife is addicted. Badly. 😃

I’ve been playing the Elder Scrolls games since Arena, and love them all. Been waiting on Skyrim since putting WAY more time into Oblivion than a 40 year old should be allowed too, and here we go again!!!

I haven’t done much in the game yet other than explore the early areas, and learn the game mechanics, but I have a feeling I’m not going to be spending much time with any other game for a very long time!
 
My husband and son stayed up until 2am Saturday morning. I think they started playing around 7pm Friday.

Yes, they love it.
 
I tried holding off, but I couldn’t resist! I haven’t gotten a new game the first weekend in a long time, and I wanted to feel like I was a little kid again.

I just started the game, and I’m so excited to see what all it has to offer! I’m still experimenting around with what type of character I want to play. I was thinking mage, but I was wondering about the ethics of pretending to be a conjuror by raising the dead, and having them fight with you. Would that be a sin? I know throwing fireballs is fine, since that kind of magic is fake.

I’m also considering being an archer. I don’t know. There’s just so much to do! I’ll try all the weapons, and choose my perks once I decide what I want to do.

Oh, and the game is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen!
 
I’m not a gamer but my housemate is and he’s been playing it pretty much straight since it was released. He won’t stop going on about how awesome it is. Since his X-box is in the living room I’m watching him play - my (name removed by moderator)ut so far was getting upset when a talking dog walked into a fire (but it was okay!). 😃
 
I want this game so bad! I can’t afford it right now, so I’ll have to wait till christmas. I guess it’s probably a good thing, it’ll give me time to finish oblivion.
 
Hehe, glad to see I’m not the only Skyrim\Elder Scrolls fan out here.

Like I said, I’m loving it so far. I decide to go a different route than with Oblivion, and recently Dragon Age, and go pretty much all out warrior. My last two big RPG’s, I’ve gone more mage as I wanted to try out a lot of the spells I normally veer away from in these games.

I’ve built out a male Redguard and so far, I’m liking him. What’s nice about the character system in this game, is that race\class doesn’t really seem to matter. Your character grows\adapts to what it is you do the most, and use the most. I can see many a cold winter night spend adventuring long after the kids have gone to bed with this one! 😃
 
My husband just bought this game for himself–he’s been waiting and waiting for it. He’s decided to leave it under the tree for Christmas, though. I’m excited to see him play through it. I loved Oblivion myself.
 
You’re right Rotlex. Maybe I should throw out my preconceived notions of character class, and just do whatever I feel like doing at the moment. I can use a different tactic for each dungeon! Today, I will use nothing but a 2 handed hammer. Now I will use magic in one hand, and a dagger in the other.

I wonder how fun/practical it would be to try to raise all my skills evenly? That could be a challenge all on it’s own!
 
Gah! I ordered my copy from Newegg a few months ago when they had a pre-order sale for $48 (for 360). Of course, the trade off for saving that $12 is that it won’t be delivered until tomorrow… I rented it from Redbox on release day just to get a taste, but that might have just made the remaining wait harder.

I rolled a Bosmer at first, but hand to hand combat proved so entertaining that I rerolled a Redguard. I think I’ll be focusing on one-handed and blocking, with some magic for special occasions. Smithing seems potentially excellent as well, so I’ll doubtless be doing some of that.

I never got very heavily in to Morrowind or Oblivion, but Skyrim feels… different. I don’t know why exactly I find it so much more appealing, but tomorrow can’t come fast enough.
 
SummerSmiles said:
My husband just bought this game for himself–he’s been waiting and waiting for it. He’s decided to leave it under the tree for Christmas, though. I’m excited to see him play through it. I loved Oblivion myself.
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My wife loved Oblivion too. We played through most of it together\as a team really, with her taking notes, helping out, and me handling the controller. 😃 Love gaming as a couple!
 
I’m still at the beginning, (I haven’t even killed my first dragon) But I had so much fun killing a mammoth. It took like half an hour of shooting it with arrows and fire from a small mountain!
 
This is so funny. I would actually usually be ashamed to admit that my entire household is either playing skyrim or any number of other games. I don’t play them but I do pay for them. Thanks for posting this. I know longer feel guilty about my families gaming. If they are talkimg about it on caf, it’s ok.
Jen 🙂
 
I am looking forward to playing Skyrim, and have been playing since Morrowind. Bethesda always seem to make some of the best games, Fallout 3 etc. What I wanted to ask is if anyone can recall Oblivion, the last game where you had churches where you went in and could receive blessings from Gods etc. And also as someone else has mentioned - Raising the Dead. As Catholic’s, should we be really playing these type of games?
 
My husband is really excited about skyrim, but because we are broke, he is going to wait several months so they can fix all the bugs in the pc version. Since they don’t really do expansions and stuff for the console versions, he prefers the pc version.
 
ok Thanks… I see you also have Fallout New Vegas, I had it on Xbox 360 and was very glitchy but a great game nonetheless. Do you know if the Game of the year edition has the bugs fixed?
 
Looks like a great game! I would buy it, but I only have Macs (and I don’t have a PS3 or Xbox)…so it looks like I am out of luck for the time being. =/
 
jilly4ski said:
My husband is really excited about skyrim, but because we are broke, he is going to wait several months so they can fix all the bugs in the pc version.
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Beth is working on fixing things. I just visited the official forums, and the first patch (1.1) was announced the day before the game was released. :o

The second patch (1.2) is in the works and is expected to be released the week after Thanksgiving. The PS3 and Xbox versions are already certified, and the PC patch is almost ready.
forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1278698-update-on-the-skyrim-12-patch/

Like your husband, I think I will wait a bit longer. I’m in no hurry, although I am looking forward to playing it.
 
I am left handed too, but I have always used the mouse in my right hand. (I should mention that I am somewhat ambidextrous so maybe it is is easier for me). I used to work with a gentleman who would put the mouse on the left side of the keyboard and I never understood it, but he was an older gentleman so maybe it is just more difficult for them to adapt. 😛

When my husbands last computer died he was so excited to get one with a video card that would support Oblivion on its highest resolutions (to be able to see the individual blades of grass, the leaves on the trees, etc). But now he is a little disappointed because he is going to have to run Skyrim on a low resolution even on his relatively new computer. (One of the reasons we won’t get it for xbox is that we have the very basic version (it was free with my laptop) and there is not much memory).
 
👍 That’s good, I will have to look that up for my husband for Christmas. I personally, am really disappointed with the game selection of the x box, for me, the causal lighthearted gamer who gets motion sick at a lot of first person shooter action. A lot of the kinect games look fun, but I am not willing at this point to invest in both the kinect and the games at the price they are and how little I would use it. Maybe when the kids get older (I am sure they will have 2 more generations of game systems out by that time. :p).
 
The game looks great but I am hesitant to give it my support since they put gay marriage in the game, though I guess its hard to find a game that doesn’t put something immoral in it.
 
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