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[Reiina]

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Wow, that is disappointing. What good is it to have a free-roam game when the quests are not built for the player finding stuff "out of turn" when he is roaming free? What if a player (like I did originally) suspect the Owner of being the killer and goes to look in his house themselves (like I didn't - I disregarded my quest-savvyness (because seriously, the proprietor of the House of Strange Things not being the perp? Unheard of ) and followed the rails instead) and finds it? Why should he not be able to tell the steward immediately and accuse the right guy the first time? Seriously, Beth really need to get new writers. I'm not even asking for better - dramaturgically - writers this time, just people who understands the format of the game they are making, for gods sake.

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Hmm I listened to what the museum guy had to say and not convinced I spoke to the mage before talking to the stewart. He told me when the next murder would probably happen, I just went outside, followed the quest pointer and the museum guy killed someone in the middle of the market, in plain daylight, lol(even though the quest said to roam the streets at night). Anyway, I was able to accuse him directly...after having killed him while he was fleeing.

But yeah, all the quests lack a bit of depth I think. Even the dungeons are pretty much all linear: enemies=>simple puzzle=>more enemies=>boss=>big chest of awesome loot(+word sometime)=>exit. And there is never really any real choice(why did I have to arrest him when I could have helped him just to see what would happen? That could have been fun...).

[Glowcat]

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Hmm I listened to what the museum guy had to say and not convinced I spoke to the mage before talking to the stewart. He told me when the next murder would probably happen, I just went outside, followed the quest pointer and the museum guy killed someone in the middle of the market, in plain daylight, lol(even though the quest said to roam the streets at night). Anyway, I was able to accuse him directly...after having killed him while he was fleeing.

That part was just weird.

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He went up to his victim in broad daylight... in the middle of a busy market. And they haven't caught this clown yet? *BUG ZAP* No more butcher, victim-to-be doesn't even thank me, guards don't come rushing to investigate. It's these little touches (or the lack of) which made the task of catching a serial killer feel more like a simple kill-quest.

[Cthulhu]

Just did the quest to

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Kill Anoriath, for the Dark Brotherhood.  It said he occasionally goes hunting in the fields outside Whiterun, and as a vampire and an assassin my need to hunt the most dangerous game was overwhelming.  I waited.

And waited.

I waited 17 fucking days.  Wake up in the morning, see where he is, wait three hours, check, wait, check, wait, check, when he goes to bed sleep until he gets up, wait, check, wait, check, wait, check, go drink blood from Whiterun Stables, repeat.

He never went hunting.  I know hunting is about patience but come the fuck on.

I guess I'll have to fulfill my need to hunt two-legged game on bandits and Stormcloak camps.  That's not sporting though.  Last time I did it only one guy actually saw me.  Just as he did he took an arrow in the gut and I had to finish him off with my knife.  So close, try again next time.

[irbis]

going for some destruction training aka giants spot near by Whiterun. gone there to find out that the giants and mamoths nicely respawned. killed all of them = raised Dest +2. then started running around for herbs. Blam - a dragon jumped into sky from bushes near by be (!!!). then he targeted the bandits (who also respawned) in the cave behind Whiterun. preety much killed them all and continiued roaming the land with me running behind him trying to hit his damn scaled ass with my lighting bolt aka railgun. then shit hit the fan. remember that bandit fort north of Whiterun? Dragon targeted them. and gues what - a randomly generated giants caravan (O_O) came near the fort. I almost heard the bandits crying when they had been launched to the moon or BBQ-ed. Dragon get bored of bandits and for some crazy ass reason focused on a mudcrabs in the streem... he landed and i finaly was able to bash him. ive seen giant gone inside the fort with his maul n the air. next sec i see bodies flying over the fort walls. but back to dragon. i kept pumping him with spark and lightining bolt and gues what - the mudcrab had the final strike. even more - when he kicked that dragon butt and aparently felt strong he targeted me. this is where his life ended thought. just two screenshots - sorry. i was just standing there with my jaws wide open brainlessly looking at this unique show the game has served me. it was at the same time epic and hilarious.

[Reiina]

Just did the quest to

Spoiler: Not a big spoiler, no bearing on the plot, but a spoiler nonetheless (click to show/hide)

Kill Anoriath, for the Dark Brotherhood.  It said he occasionally goes hunting in the fields outside Whiterun, and as a vampire and an assassin my need to hunt the most dangerous game was overwhelming.  I waited.

And waited.

I waited 17 fucking days.  Wake up in the morning, see where he is, wait three hours, check, wait, check, wait, check, when he goes to bed sleep until he gets up, wait, check, wait, check, wait, check, go drink blood from Whiterun Stables, repeat.

He never went hunting.  I know hunting is about patience but come the fuck on.

I guess I'll have to fulfill my need to hunt two-legged game on bandits and Stormcloak camps.  That's not sporting though.  Last time I did it only one guy actually saw me.  Just as he did he took an arrow in the gut and I had to finish him off with my knife.  So close, try again next time.

17 days? Omg you're patient :p. I waited one full day(by little steps of 2 hours) then decided "screw it", and just went to kill him while he was sleeping :p.

Btw, on an unrelated note, after playing for quite a while it seems every container in the solitude house is safe, even those 2 dubious barrels in the basement.

[Rose]

Also after playing a while, I think I can conclusively say that the chest in front of the greybeards' place is also safe, and can be accessed rather easily.

[SalmonGod]

Had an interesting fight with a frost dragon lastnight.  Lydia had just recently died, and I didn't feel like reloading to get her back... so I was without a companion to decoy for me.  The dragon attacked just outside of Windhelm, where there was tons of stuff for it to attack all over the place.  At one point, it even dived into the river and disappeared for a while.  I assume it was encasing some fish in ice for the lulz.  This was a problem, because I couldn't keep up with the damn thing.  It was always flying off somewhere really far away to attack random villagers and wildlife, and lifting off again by the time I caught up.  The only time I could get close enough to even shoot it with arrows, is when it was attacking me.  Every time it attacked me, I had to take a resist frost potion and at least 2 healing potions.  I barely had enough to finish the fight (after several tries).  But the crowning moment of hilarity is when it attacked some goats at a nearby farm, who then went berserk and started mobbing me.  So here I am running around frantically chasing this dragon, while being chased by four angry goats.  Every time I catch up with the dragon and stop to shoot at it, the goats catch up with me and start headbutting me furiously.  I'm not really going anywhere with this.  I eventually beat it.  It was just WTF enough that I had to share.

[Flying Carcass]

Y'know, sometimes I think skyrim should've included "yakety sax" in its soundtrack... 

[Azkanan]

Question:

Why hasn't there been a Tamriel Mod, yet? As in, map out the entire game-world? Surely its possible... Especially this edition.

To-do list: Tamriel Mod.

[Mephisto]

Dwemer traps. Hell yes.

Remember the bit at the end of Ravenholm in Half-Life 2? The mine cart? Yeah.

It's part-way into the quest to retrieve the

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Elder Scroll

from where they dug too deep.

Speaking of which,

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The Dwemer mysteriously disappeared a long time ago. I haven't researched my Tamriel history yet, but I'm betting it was around the time the Nords used an Elder Scroll to rid themselves of Alduin. Something I read said that the use of this Elder Scroll froze Mundus at its current scientific level or some such. The Dwemer were far ahead of everyone else. What's the likelihood that the Dwemer were somehow, for some reason, sent along with Alduin to reappear at a date even farther downstream than Alduin's?

[nenjin]

Why hasn't there been a Tamriel Mod, yet? As in, map out the entire game-world? Surely its possible... Especially this edition.

Have fun populating it. Or would you just port over 90% of what Oblivion has?

[Cthulhu]

Plans when the construction set comes out:

A bookstore

An ultimate stealth dungeon.  Maybe a dwemer ruin, maybe something else.  Point is, it would be set up so you have to be stealthy, and if you fail you die.  Up the damage on traps so getting hit by a poison dart actually means something (It means you're gonna die), throw in a room where you have to sneak past some kind of highly alert enemy that'll fuck you up if you fail (I'm thinking some kind of upgraded steam centurion with near-instadeath steam blast).  Stuff like that.  A challenge that's insurmountable for a low level rogue or a non-rogue, and seriously taxing for a rogue.

If they succeed, some kind of artifact.  I'm thinking a light armor head piece, since most rogue headpieces are lack luster.  My current idea is a hangman's hood (There are three of them in the room where you first meet the Dark Brotherhood.  I'm deliberately avoiding spoilers) with toggleable night vision and life sense.  Maybe paint an eye on the front of it.

Darker nights and dungeons.  The darkness is so not dark right now that night vision is useless.



Mephisto:

This is a Morrowind spoiler, but Morrowind is ten years old so I'm not putting this in spoilers.  Look away if you don't want to see it.  The Dwemer disappeared when Kagrenac attempted to siphon power from the Heart of Lorkhan.  What exactly happened to them is unknown.  They may have been destroyed, they may have been sent to another plane, they may have apotheosized into some kind of collective consciousness.  Nobody knows.  The dunmer say they were punished by the gods for sciencing too much.


Tamriel mod: 

There was, and presumably still is, work on a mod for Morrowind that adds the rest of Morrowind (Morrowind itself only containing the Vvardenfell province).  It's using a weird development strategy where people can apply for a volunteer "job" and if they prove their content creation skills they can claim a section of the map to work on.  It's very slow going and I doubt much will come of it.  There's already quite a bit done and playable but it's very buggy and missing a lot of the actual meat.

[Mephisto]

Mephisto:

This is a Morrowind spoiler, but Morrowind is ten years old so I'm not putting this in spoilers.  Look away if you don't want to see it.  The Dwemer disappeared when Kagrenac attempted to siphon power from the Heart of Lorkhan.  What exactly happened to them is unknown.  They may have been destroyed, they may have been sent to another plane, they may have apotheosized into some kind of collective consciousness.  Nobody knows.  The dunmer say they were punished by the gods for sciencing too much.

My bad. I seem to have forgotten half of the lore I learned while playing Morrowind.

[Onlyhestands]

So

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Destroying the Dark Brotherhood was an unexpected but awesome quest

[lordcooper]

Is it possible to be both a vampire and a werewolf at the same time?